PRIVACY POLICY
Effective June 2010.
Section
1. Acknowledgement and Acceptance of Terms.
We are
committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy
Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with
regard to the information we collect when you or your
computer interact with our website. By accessing this
website, you acknowledge and fully understand our
Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information
collection and use practices described in this Website
Privacy Statement.
Section
2. Participating Merchant Policies
Related
services and offerings with links from this website,
including vendor sites, have their own privacy
statements that can be viewed by clicking on the
corresponding links within each respective website.
Online merchants and others who participate in our
services are encouraged to participate in industry
privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude
towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have
direct control over the policies or practices of
participating merchants and other third parties, we are
not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of
those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always
review the privacy policies of merchants and other third
parties before you provide any personal information or
complete any transaction with such parties.
Section
3. Information We Collect and How We Use It
Anyone
under the age of 18, may only use this site and its
services in conjunction with and under the supervision
of their parents or guardians, and with express
permission from us. For this reason, we ask that anyone
under the age of 18 should not submit any personal
information through our site. This website collects
certain information from and about its users three ways:
directly from our Web Server logs, information provided
by user, and with Cookies.
a. Web
Server Logs
When you
visit our Website, we may track information to
administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of
information we may track include:
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Your
Internet protocol address.
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The
kind of browser or computer you use.
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Number of links you click within the site.
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State or country from which you accessed the site.
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Date
and time of your visit.
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Name
of your Internet service provider.
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Web
page you linked to our site from.
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Pages you viewed on the site.
b. Use
of Cookies
This
site uses cookies to personalize or enhance your user
experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed
on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot
be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your
computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can
only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued
the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of
cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you
time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or
navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to
recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering
relevant content and eases site navigation by providing
and saving your preferences and login information as
well as providing personalized functionality. We reserve
the right to share aggregated site statistics with
partner companies. For more information about how our
third-party service providers may use cookies, please
see Section 4, below. You have the ability to accept or
decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept
cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting
to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing
your browser settings then be aware that this may
disable some of the functionality on our Website.
c. Use
of Personal Information
Visitors
to our website can register to purchase services. When
you register, we may request some personal information
such as name, address, email, telephone number or
facsimile number, account number and other relevant
information. If you are purchasing a service, we may
request financial information. Any financial information
we collect is used only to bill you for the services you
requested and/or purchased and any applicable fees that
are compliant with our Terms of Use. If you purchase by
credit card, the information may be forwarded to your
credit card provider. For other types of registrations,
we will ask for the relevant information. You may also
be asked to disclose personal information to us so that
we can provide assistance and information to you. For
example, such data may be warranted in order to provide
online technical support and troubleshooting. Under some
circumstances we may require some additional financial
information, including, without limitation, your billing
address, bank account information, and tracking
information from checks or money orders. We will not
disclose personally identifiable information we collect
from you to third parties without your permission except
to the extent necessary including:
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To fulfill your service requests for
services,
- To
protect ourselves from liability,
- To
respond to legal process or comply with law, or
- In
connection with a merger, acquisition, or
liquidation of the company.
Please
note that we will use your information and other
information we obtain from your current and past
activities on the site to resolve any disputes,
troubleshoot problems, collect fees owed, pay amounts
due you, or verify your account data. We employ many
different security techniques to protect any personal
data from unauthorized access by users inside and
outside the company, however please be aware that
"perfect security" does not exist on the Internet or
with any digital or physical data.
Section
4. Third Party Advertisers, Use of Web Beacons or GIF
Files
This
Website may contain electronic images known as Web
beacons, sometimes also called single-pixel gifs, that
allow us to count users who have visited those pages and
to deliver co-branded services. We may include Web
beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in
order to determine whether messages have been opened and
acted upon. Some of these Web beacons may be placed by
third party service providers to help determine the
effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email
communications. These Web beacons may be used by these
service providers to place a persistent cookie on your
computer. This allows the service provider to recognize
your computer each time you visit certain pages or
emails and compile anonymous information in relation to
those page views, which in turn enables us and our
service providers to learn which advertisements and
emails bring you to our website and how you use the
site. This information in addition to the web searches
you make while visiting this website and your web
surfing behavior on this site and other websites you may
visit is used to show you advertisements tailored to
your interests on other websites and other forms of
media. If you would like to know more about these
practices and your choices about not having this
information used to target ads to you, please click
here.
We prohibit Web beacons from being used to collect or
access your personal information.
5.
Accessing Web Account Information
We will
provide you with the means to ensure that personally
identifiable information in your web account file is
correct and current. You may review this information by
contacting us by sending an email to our support
attendant via our contact form.
6.
Changes to this Statement
We have
the discretion to occasionally update this privacy
statement. When we do, we will also revise the "updated"
date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you
to periodically review this privacy statement to stay
informed about how we are helping to protect the
personal information we collect. Your continued use of
the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy
statement and any updates.
