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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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