Privacy Policy of The information collection, use, and dissemination practices of (the "Company") are discussed in this policy. This policy applies to Company's information collection (a) on Company's websites, (b) on various third party websites, and (c) to Company's other information collection, including the purchase of customer lists from third parties. 1. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION. 1.2 Third Party List Information. The Company collects information from individuals when an individual provides information to a third party, and the Company subsequently purchases, licenses, or otherwise acquires the information from the third party (the "Seller"), or when the individual is on a Seller's site and elects to be linked to the Company's site and consents to the provision of the individual's information to us from the Seller's site. Such information may include, but is not limited to, an individual's name, email address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital status, occupation, industry of employment, personal and online interests, and such other information as the individual may have provided to the Seller (together, "Third Party List Information"). When acquiring Third Party List Information, the Company seeks assurances from the Seller that the Seller has a right to transfer the Third Party List Information to the Company and that the Seller has a right to provide offers from advertisers to the individuals whose personal information is included on the Seller's list. 1.3 Other Information. Other occasions when the Company obtains information from individuals include (1) when an individual is making a claim for a prize or seeking to redeem an incentive offered by the Company or by a third party, (2) when an individual requests assistance through Company's customer service department, (3) when an individual voluntarily subscribes to a Company service or newsletter, and (4) when an individual is otherwise linked to our site from a third party site (together, "Other Information"). 1.4 Cookies, Webbugs, and Other Information Collected Using Technology. The Company currently uses cookie and webbug technology to associate certain Internet-related information about an individual with information about the individual in our database. Additionally, the Company may use other new and evolving sources of information in the future (together, "Technology Information").
1.5 Outside Information. The Company may receive information about individuals from third parties or from other sources of information outside of the Company including information located in public databases ("Outside Information"). 1.6 Individual Information. As used herein, Individual Information means Survey Information, Third Party List Information, Other Information, Technology Information, and Outside Information, and any other information the Company gathers or receives about individuals. 1.7 No Information Collected from Children. The Company will never knowingly collect any personal information about children under the age of 13. If the Company obtains actual knowledge that it has collected personal information about a child under the age of 13, that information will be immediately deleted from our database. Because it does not collect such information, the Company has no such information to use or to disclose to third parties. The Company has designed this policy in order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). 1.8 Credit Card Information. The Company may in certain cases collect credit card numbers and related information, such as the expiration date of the card ("Credit Card Information") when an individual places an order from Company. The Company will use the Credit Card Information for purposes processing and completing the purchase transaction, and the Credit Card Information will be disclosed to third parties only as necessary to complete the purchase transaction. 2. USE OF INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION. 2.2 Email. The Company uses Individual Information to provide promotional offers by email to individuals. The Company may maintain separate email lists for different purposes. If email recipients wish to end their email subscription from a particular list, they need to follow the instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe from the particular list. To unsubscribe from all Company email lists, a person must visit and follow the instructions provided at insert unsubscribe link.
2.3 Targeted Advertising. The Company uses Individual Information to target advertising to an individual. When an individual is using the Internet, the Company uses Technology Information (see also Section 2.5 below) to associate an individual with that person's Individual Information, and the Company attempts to show advertising for products and services in which the person has expressed an interest in the Surveys, indicated an interest by means of Technology Information, and otherwise. The Company may, at its discretion, send advertising which is not targeted by using email, direct mail, telephones, cell phones, and other means of communication to provide promotional offers to all or a subset of the names on a list provided to or otherwise acquired by the Company, which list may include your name. 2.4 Direct Mail and Telemarketing. The Company uses Individual Information to advertise, directly or indirectly, to individuals using direct mail marketing or telemarketing using telephones and cell phones. 2.5 Use of Technology Information. The Company uses Technology Information (1) to match a person's Survey Information and Third Party List Information to other categories of Individual Information to make and improve profiles of individuals, (2) to track a person's online browsing habits on the Internet, (3) to determine which areas of Company's web sites are most frequently visited. This information helps the Company to better understand the online habits of individuals so that the Company can target advertising and promotions to them. 2.6 Profiles of Individuals. The Company uses Individual Information to make a profile of an individual. A profile can be created by combining Survey Information and Third Party List Information with other sources of Individual Information such as information obtained from public databases. 2.7 Storage of Individual Information. The Company stores the Individual Information in a database on Company computers. The Company cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent the Company computers from being illegally accessed, and the Individual Information on them stolen or altered. 2.8 The Company does not endorse, nor is the Company responsible for the accuracy of the privacy policies, terms and conditions of any of the advertisers marketed by the Company or the products and/or services promoted/offered by such advertisers in their advertisements. The entities that advertise with the Company are independent third parties and are not affiliated with the Company. 3. DISSEMINATION OF INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION. 3.2 Order Fulfillment. The Company will transfer Individual Information to third parties when necessary to provide a product or service that a person orders from such third party while using Company web sites or when responding to offers provided by Company. 3.3 Legal Process. The Company may disclose Individual Information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, and other legal process, or for other means in the Company's sole discretion, including but not limited to when the Company believes that the individual has violated or might be deemed to have violated contractual or legal obligations. 3.4 Summary Data. The Company may sell or transfer non-individualized information, such as summary or aggregated anonymous information about all persons or sub-groups of persons. 4. PRIVACY PRACTICES OF THIRD PARTIES. 4.2 Links. The Websites and email messages sometimes contain hypertext links to the web sites of third parties. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other web sites. 4.3 Affiliated Companies. The Company may disclose, transfer, and sell Individual Information to entities affiliated with Company in Company's discretion. 6. UNSUBSCRIBE PROCEDURE. 7. YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS |
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