PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is very
important to us. We want to make your experience on the Internet
as enjoyable and rewarding as possible, and we want you to use
the Internet’s vast array of information, tools, and
opportunities with complete confidence.
We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm
commitment to privacy and security. This Privacy Policy
describes how our company collects information from all end
users of our Internet services (the “Services”), including those
who access some of our Services but do not have accounts
(“Visitors”) and those who may purchase Products and/or pay a
monthly service fee to subscribe to the Service (“Members”).
This Policy also explains what we do with the information we
collect, and the choices Visitors and Members have concerning
the collection and use of such information. We request that you
read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Personal Information Our Company Collects and How It Is Used
Introduction
Members may be asked to provide certain personal information
when they sign up for our Products or Services including name,
address, telephone number, billing information (such as a credit
card number), and the type of personal computer being used to
access the Services. The personal information collected from
Members during the registration process (or at any other time)
is used primarily to provide a customized experience as you use
our Products and Services. Your information will never be
licensed or sold to any third party. However, we may make
limited disclosure of personal information under the specific
circumstances described in the “Disclosure” section below.
Disclosure
We may disclose Member and Visitor information to the
following third parties, under the following circumstances:
- Companies who
work on our behalf: We contract with other
companies to perform business support functions on our
behalf, which may involve limited access to your personal
information. We require these companies to use the
information only to provide the contracted services; they
are prohibited from transferring the information to another
party except as needed to provide those services. Some
examples of these business support functions include order
fulfillment, coupon fulfillment, award and rebate
fulfillments, customer survey execution and information
systems management. We also may make aggregate non-personal
information available to select service providers.
- Subsidiaries
and joint ventures: A subsidiary or a joint venture
is an organization in which we own at least a 50% interest.
If our Company shares your information with a subsidiary or
joint venture partner, our Company will require that they
not transfer your information to another party for marketing
purposes or use your information contrary to your expressed
choices. If you have indicated that you do not want to
receive any marketing information from our Company, we will
not share your information with our subsidiary or joint
venture partner for their marketing purposes.
- Co-branded
and Partner Pages: Our Company may share
information with partner companies who jointly present
special offers or promotions on co-branded pages within our
site. You will be notified of this sharing when you are
asked to furnish personal data on such a page. The partner’s
use of any information you submit will be governed by the
partner’s own privacy notice, which you can review before
submitting your information.
- Business
Transfers: Our Company reserves the right to
transfer your personal information in connection with the
sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or
assets. If the business is sold or transferred, our Company
will give you an opportunity to tell us not to transfer your
personal information. In some cases, this may mean that the
new organization will not be able to continue providing to
you the services or products that our Company provided.
- Law
Enforcement: Our Company may disclose personal
information to third parties without your consent for any of
the following reasons: to comply with any law, regulation or
court order, to cooperate with Government investigations, to
help prevent fraud or to enforce or protect the rights of
our Company or its subsidiaries.
- With Your
Consent: In all other cases, our Company will
obtain your express consent before sharing your information
with third parties. For example, our Company may conduct a
joint offer or contest with a third party and you will be
asked whether your personal information should be shared
with that third party.
Online Shopping
If you order services or products directly from our Company
we will use the personal information you provide only to process
that order. We do not share this information with outside
parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
If you complete an order for some other company(ies) that may
be linked to our Site, such as an online gift order sent
directly to a recipient, you may be asked to provide information
about the recipient, such as the recipient’s name, address, and
phone number. Our company has no control over the third parties’
use of any personal information you provide when placing such an
order. Please exercise care when doing so. We recommend that you
familiarize yourself with the Privacy and Terms of Use policies
of any other company(ies) whose web sites you may access from
our site.
Online Advertisements
Our company may display our online advertisements. In those
cases we share aggregated and non-identifying information about
our Visitors and Members collected through the registration
process as well as through online surveys and promotions with
these advertisers.
Additionally, in some instances, we use this aggregated and
non-identifying information to deliver tailored advertisements
or joint ventures. For instance, an advertiser or joint venture
company tells us the audience they want to reach and provides us
an advertisement tailored to the audience. Based upon the
aggregated and non-identifying information we have collected, we
may then display or send the advertisement to the intended
audience. Our company does not share personal information about
its Visitors or Members with these advertisers or joint venture
companies. Information about how to opt-out of online
advertisements you may receive from our Company will be
contained in the ads themselves.
Responses to Email Inquiries
When Visitors or Members send email inquiries to our company,
the return email address is used to answer the email inquiry we
receive. Our company does not use the return email address for
any other purpose and does not share the return email address
with any third party.
Voluntary Customer Surveys
We may periodically conduct both business and individual
customer surveys. We encourage our customers to participate in
these surveys because they provide us with important information
that helps us to improve the types of products and services we
offer and how we provide them to you. Your personal information
and responses will remain strictly confidential, even if the
survey is conducted by a third party. Participation in our
customer surveys is voluntary. Information about how to opt-out
of surveys will be contained in survey communications.
We may take the information we receive from individuals
responding to our customer surveys and combine (or aggregate) it
with the responses of other customers we may have, to create
broader, generic responses to the survey questions (such as
gender, age, residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry
sector, or other demographic information). We then use the
aggregated information to improve the quality of our services to
you, and to develop new services and products. This aggregated,
non-personally identifying information may be shared with third
parties.
Automatic Collection of Information
Cookies: Our Company may use ““Cookies” to collect
information. Cookies are small pieces of information stored by
your browser on your computer’s hard drive, at a web site’s
request. Our Company Cookies do not contain any personal
information, but are used primarily as follows:
- to keep track of
temporary information. For example, Cookies allow us to keep
track of the pictures you upload and download;
- to register you in
special programs. Cookies allow us to remember you when you
login to the places on our site that require Membership;
- to remember your
country and language preferences;
- to help us understand
the size of our audience and traffic patterns;
- to collect and record
information about what you viewed on our Web site and what
you viewed in our e-mail;
- to manage and present
site information and the pictures displayed on your
computer, and
- to deliver
information specific to your interests.
Web Beacons: We may also place small “tracker gifs” or
“beacons” on many of the pages on our website, in online
advertising with third parties, and in our email. We use these
beacons, in connection with Cookies, to collect non-personal
data on the usage of our site including but not limited to the
date and time of the visit, the pages visited, the referring web
page, the type of browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, NetScape),
the type of operating system (e.g., Windows, Linux, or Mac), and
the domain name of the visitor’s Internet service provider
(e.g., AOL).
This information is collected about thousands of site visits and
analyzed as a whole. This information is useful in, for example,
tracking the performance of our online advertising such as
online banner ads and to determine where to place future
advertising on other web sites.
Disabling Cookies and Beacons : If you are uncomfortable with
the collection of such information through the use of Cookies
and Beacons, we recommend disabling these features through your
browser preferences, though please understand this will limit
the performance and functionality of our Company’s Web site.
Your browser documentation should provide specific procedures
for disabling cookie and beacon support.
Child Privacy
Protecting the online privacy of children is especially
important, and those under the age of 13 are protected by
federal law. For that reason, our Company does not knowingly
permit children under the age of 13 to become registered members
of our sites, or to buy goods and services on our sites, without
verifiable parental consent. Our Company does not knowingly
collect or solicit personal information about children under 13,
except with their parent’s express consent.
If we ever include children under the age of 13 as part of
our intended site audience, those specific web pages will, in
accordance with the provisions of the Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act (COPPA),
be clearly identified and provide an explicit privacy notice;
and we will provide processes to obtain parental approval,
provide access to information and allow parents to request
removal of their children’s personal information.
Our Company encourages parents and guardians to spend time
with their children online and to participate in their
interactive activities and interests.
Public Forums
Some parts of our site may enable you to participate in
public services such as discussion boards, chats, and live
events. Please use discretion when posting personal information
about yourself when using these services. Be aware that when you
disclose personal information at these sites, such as your name,
member name, email address, etc., the information may be
collected and used by others to send unsolicited email. The
services are open to the public, and what you post there can be
seen by anyone and is not protected. We cannot control the
comments that you may receive while you participate in these
services. You may find other people’s comments to be offensive,
harmful or inaccurate.
Our Company’s Commitment to Data Security
We implement a variety of administrative, managerial, and
technical security measures to help protect your personal
information. Our Company has various internal control standards
which relate specifically to the handling of personal
information. These include certain controls to help safeguard
the information we collect online. Our employees are trained to
understand and comply with these controls and we communicate our
Privacy Notice, practices and guidelines to our employees.
However, while we strive to protect your personal information,
you must also take steps to protect your information. We urge
you to take every precaution to protect your personal
information while you are on the Internet.
Services and Web sites we sponsor have security measures in
place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the
information under our control. While we make every effort to
ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we
cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent
third-party “hackers” from illegally obtaining this information.
Where to Direct Questions About Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the
practices described herein, you may contact us through the
contact information provided on this Web site. Revisions to This
Policy Our Company reserves the right to revise, amend, or
modify this policy, our Terms Of Use
& Service
agreement, and our other policies and agreements at any time and
in any manner, by updating this posting.
