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PRIVACY POLICY
Our Commitment To Privacy
This Privacy Policy is designed to assist you
in understanding how we collect and use your personal information in
connection with our advertising, content, e-commerce, promotional
and service programs and other business activities (the
“Program”) and to assist you in making informed decisions when
using our site and our products and services and the sites of our
advertisers.
What Information We Collect
When you visit our site we may collect two
types of information: (a) personal information you actively choose
to disclose and (b) information about you that is collected
automatically by our servers or obtained from third parties in a way
not visible to you.
(a) Information you actively choose to
provide. By choosing to participate in our Program, you must become
a Member by disclosing the following information, such as: your
email address, name, address, phone number and birth date. During
the process of registering on our site, participating in various
offers, completing surveys, or sending us emails or correspondence,
we collect additional information that you may disclose, including
for example mobile telephone number, fax number, payment information
(e.g., credit card number and billing address), credit information,
social security number, health information and personal preferences
regarding lifestyle, products or services.
(b) Passive information collected
automatically by our servers or obtained from third parties. We
collect some information about you simply by virtue of you
connecting to our web site. Our servers automatically identify your
computer by its internet protocol (”IP”) address, a unique
string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your internet
service provider. In addition, to participate in our program you
must allow cookies to be active on your system. Cookies are a
feature of web browser software (Internet Explorer, Netscape
Navigator, etc.) that allows web servers to recognize which computer
is used to access a web site. Cookies simplify subsequent
interactions on our site and streamline your transactions on related
web pages. Information collected through cookies may include the
date and time of your visits, the site pages you viewed, the time
spent at each page, and the web sites you visited just before and
just after our site. You can disable the cookie function by
following the instructions in the “help” section of your
browser. However, doing so will likely make it impossible for our
system to properly recognize you when you visit our sites, and
consequently may make your participation in our program more
difficult or impossible. In addition to the information you provide
or that is collected automatically from our system, we may obtain
information about you from our marketing partners or other third
parties, and we combine that information with the information you
actively provide or that is automatically collected by our servers.
The term “Information” is used in this
policy to refer to both types of information described above, as
well as any Information that you provide to us directly by phone
(including any phone number displayed via caller ID), text or SMS
message, U.S. mail or through any other written or oral
communication with us.
How We Use And Share The Information Collected
We use your Information to administer our
business activities, provide customer services such as technical
support, distribute information about changes to our site, and send
you, and enable others to send you, information about products and
services that may be of interest to you and to contact you or use
your Information for any other purpose. We send communications to
you ourselves, and your Information also is shared with other
organizations that may contact you for any purpose by email, phone,
text message, U.S. mail or any other means of communication.
OPT-IN NOTICE: By Participating, You Expressly
“Opt In” To Receive Information And Grant Us Permission To Share
Your Information
By signing up for our Program you expressly
opt in to receive future information about products and services
from us and from a variety of advertisers to whom we may provide
your Information. We will share your personal information with third
parties, including our advertisers, for any reason we choose,
including without limitation for the following purposes: (1) to
operate our Program (including the transfer of the information to
advertisers or to third parties who maintain on our behalf a list of
persons having registered with our Program), (2) to permit
advertisers or other third parties to use your Information for any
purpose such as contacting you by email, phone, text message, U.S.
mail or any other means of communication for any purpose, (3) to
confirm you have completed all of the necessary steps to receive
your gift, and (4) as we are required to do by law, including to
notify the IRS that you received your gift. As a result, we will
transfer your Information to third parties whose privacy policies
and practices are beyond our control.
In addition, in the event we consider a
transaction involving the purchase or sale of our assets or stock,
other companies may review our records, including your Information,
to make business decisions about the transaction. Likewise, your
Information may be transferred to third parties in the event of the
sale or acquisition of our company or any of its assets. The parties
who perform services for us (credit card processors, merchant banks,
our internet service provider, etc.) also may have access to your
information in performing their services.
Special Note About Information You Provide
Directly To Our Advertisers.
You are able to access certain advertiser’s
sites through our site. When you opt to receive information or sign
up for an offer from an advertiser, you may be doing so through
third party sites and with other companies over which we have no
control. You should read those sites’ privacy policies to make
sure you agree to them before using such sites. If you wish to opt
out of those advertisers’ mailings, you must do so directly with
such advertisers or as otherwise provided on or through their sites.
Security Of Your Information.
We use reasonable technical efforts to prevent
unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction
of Information. However, nearly all Internet transmissions pass
through many servers not controlled by us, and therefore we cannot
guarantee that any information you provide us or we collect will not
be intercepted or altered in that process. Also, as noted above,
your Information is shared with third parties whose privacy policies
and practices are beyond our control.
How You Can Choose To “Opt Out” Of
Receiving Further Information About Products Or Services
Or by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in
our newsletter emails.
We will promptly update our records upon
receiving your clear instructions to opt-out, but it may take up to
ten (10) business days from our receipt of your request for the
change to be fully effective. If you later give us a clear statement
that you want to receive emails from us or our advertisers after
such date, then that opt-in statement will supersede any earlier
opt-out request. If we have already provided your email address or
other information to an advertiser or other third party before we
receive your opt-out request, we cannot prevent them from sending or
continuing to send you information or emails and you will need to
contact such third party directly.
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