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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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