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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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