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,
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To protect ourselves from liability,
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To respond to legal process or comply
with law, or
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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.
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