Privacy Policy
We recognize the
importance of protecting your
privacy
and our policy is
designed to assist you in understanding how we collect,
use and safeguard the personal information you provide to
us and to assist you in making informed decisions when
using our site.
What Information Do We
Collect?
When you visit this web site you
may provide us with two types of information: personal
information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected
on an individual basis and Web site use information collected
on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web
site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to
Provide
Registration
Information
When you
register for any of our products, services or newsletters you
will provide us information about yourself.
Credit Card
Information
If you choose to avail of our
services, you may need to give personal information and
authorization to obtain information from various credit
services. For example, you may need to provide the following
information:
-Name
-Mailing address
-Email address
-Credit card
number -Name on credit
card -Credit card billing address
-Business and home phone
number
Email
Information
If you choose to correspond with
us through email, we may retain the content of your email
messages together with your email address and our responses. We
provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the maintenance of information
received by mail and telephone.
2. Web Site Use
Information
Similar to other commercial Web
sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called
"cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web
server log files to collect information about how our Web site
is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server
logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed,
time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just
before and just after our Web
site.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to
Us? Broadly speaking, we use
personal information for purposes of administering our business
activities, providing the products and services you requested,
to process your payment, to monitor the use
of the service,our marketing and
promotional effortsand
improve
our content and service offerings, and customize our
site's content, layout, services and for other lawful
purposes. These uses improve
our site and better tailor it to meet your
needs.
Furthermore, such information may be shared with others on an
aggregate basis. Personally identifiable information or
business information will not be shared with parties except as
required by law.
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to
notify you about important changes to our Website, new
services, and special offers we think you will find valuable.
You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive
these offers by emailing us at the link provided on the
newsletter.
What Are
Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text
document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier.
When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your
computer for permission to store this file in a part of your
hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site
can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's
preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your
browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has
already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other
sites. Browsers are usually set to accept cookies. However, if
you would prefer not to receive cookies, you may alter the
configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose
to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some
areas of our site will not function as effectively when viewed
by the users. A
cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard
drive or pass on computer viruses.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from
Cookies?
As you visit and browse our Web site, it uses cookies to
differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use
cookies to prevent you from having to log in more than is
necessary for security.
Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow
us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web
site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps
us gather feedback to constantly improve our Web site and
better serve our clients. Cookies do not allow us to gather any
personal information about you and we do not intentionally
store any personal information that your browser provided to us
in your cookies.
Some advertisers may use the cookie technology when they
advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers
(such as Google through their Google AdSense program) some
information including your IP address, your ISP, and the
browser used when you visit our site.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve
ads on our site. This process is usually used for geo-targeting
purposes only and/or for showing relevant ads based on specific
topics that you as web user is searching.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to its
users, based on their interests (”interest based
targeting”).
What is DoubleClick DART
cookies DART cookies are used for ad serving
through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your
computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using
DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense
advertisements).
This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your
interests (”interest based targeting”) and the ads served will
be targeted based on your previous browsing
history.
DART uses
“non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT
track personal information about you, such as your name, email
address, physical address, telephone number, social security
numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.
You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this
advertising by visiting DART Ad-Serving and Search
Cookie Opt-Out
Users may also opt out of the use of the DART cookie by
visiting the Google ad and content
network privacy policy.
You
can further choose to accept or refuse cookies by changing the
settings of your browser.
Or, you can opt to be warned before a cookie is deposited on
your computer.
IP Addresses
IP addresses are used by your
computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP
address is a number that is used by computers on the network to
identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically
collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile
data known as traffic data so that data (such as the Web pages
you request) can be sent to you.
Sharing and Selling
Information
We do not share, sell, lend or lease any of the
information that uniquely identify a subscriber (such as email
addresses or personal details) with anyone except to the extent
it is necessary to process transactions or provide services
that you have requested.
How Can You Access and Correct Your
Information?
You may request access to all your
personally identifiable information that we collect online and
maintain in our database by emailing us at the usual
address.
What
About Legally Compelled Disclosure of
Information? We may disclose
information when legally compelled to do so, in other words,
when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for
the protection of our legal rights. We may also disclose
account information when we have reason to believe that
disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
violating our Terms of Service or to protect the safety
of our users and the Public.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web
Site?
We are not responsible for the
practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site
or the information or content contained therein. Often links to
other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information
on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web
site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website
to another web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect.
Your browsing and interaction on any other web site, including
web sites, which have a link on our Website, is subject to that
Web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules
and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent
to our collection and use of your personal information as
described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to amend
this privacy policy at any time with or without
notice.
Our Commitment To Data
Security: Please note that your
information will be stored and processed on our computers in
the United States. The laws on holding personal data in the
United States may be less stringent than the laws of your
Country of residence or citizenship. To prevent
unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure
the correct use of information, we have put in place
appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial
procedures to safeguard and secure the information we
collect online.
Choice/Opt-In/Opt-Out
This site allows visitors to unsubscribe so that they will not
receive future messages. After unsubscribing we will
discontinue sending the particular messages as soon as
technically feasible.
Surveys &
Contests From time-to-time our site requests
information from users via surveys or contests. Participation
in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the
user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this
information. Information requested may include contact
information (such as name and shipping address), and
demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact
information will be used to notify the winners and award
prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of
monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this
site.
A Special Note About
Children Children are not eligible
to use our services unsupervised and we ask
that children (under the age of 14) do
not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor,
you can use this service only in conjunction with permission
and guidance from your parents or
guardians.
Acquisition or Changes in
Ownership
In the event that the web site (or a substantial portion of its
assets) is acquired, your information would be considered part
of those assets, and may be part of those assets that are
transferred.
Policy
Modifications We may change this Privacy
Policy from time to time. If/when changes are made to this
privacy policy, we will email users who have given us
permission to do so. We will post any changes here, so be sure
to check back periodically. However, please be assured that if
the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the
personal information you have submitted to us under this
Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with
this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.
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