PRIVACY POLICY Our Commitment To Privacy and Restrictions on Use of Our Site Our Site may not be used by persons under eighteen (18) years of age, or persons who are not residents of the United States. Persons in these categories must not disclose any information to us, or use this Site. We do not knowingly solicit or collect information from persons under eighteen (18) years of age or who are not United States residents. We define "United States" as the fifty (50) states, plus U.S. territories, including the Midway Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau and Guam. The Information We Collect The types of personal identifying information ("personal information") we collect include: • First and last name We also collect non-personally identifiable information. Non-personally identifiable information is information collected in the normal course of operating our business that does not reveal the specific identity of the consumer. This data records a consumer's activity either on this Site or within this Site-initiated email. The types of non-personally identifiable information collected include: • Internet protocol ("IP") address Cookies and Clear gifs Our Site utilizes cookies to collect information about how our Site is used. Information gathered from cookies may include the date and time of visits, the Site pages viewed, time spent at our Site and the websites that you visited just before and just after your visit to our Site. If you do not wish to transmit "cookie" information about yourself, you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser. Please consult the "Help" section of your web browser in order to correctly turn off or disable the cookie functions. However, turning off or disabling the cookie functions on your web browser may prevent our system from properly recognizing you when you visit our Site, and consequently may make your participation in our Program more difficult or invalid. Our Site's servers also automatically identify your computer by its IP address, which is a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider. IP addresses are automatically logged by web servers, collecting information about a user's traffic patterns. While the IP address does not identify an individual by name, it may, with the cooperation of the ISP, be used to locate and identify an individual using the Internet. Your IP address can, however, reveal what geographic area you are connecting from, or which ISP you are using. Your IP address may be used to address problems with our server, administer our Site and/or to gather broad demographic information about our Members. Finally, the other websites that you visit have IP addresses, and we may collect the IP addresses of those websites and their pages, as well. In addition, for the purpose of formatting and delivering future campaigns, we may employ pixel tags (also known as clear gifs) to track: 1) the pages that our users visit on affiliate and/or partner websites; and 2) user openings of, and clicks on, our targeted email advertising. We reserve the right to employ user source information, including applicable category and interest(s), for the marketing of targeted email messages. This source information may be shared with our third party marketing partners. We reserve the right to retain cookie and pixel tag data indefinitely. The Way We Use Information Any information that you submit at the Site remains your property. However, by submitting that information to us, you grant to us the right: (1) to share your information with third party individuals and entities that we employ directly, or as contractors or agents at our direction; (2) to share your information with third party advertisers and marketers; (3) to use your information for purposes of administering our business activities, including the operation of the Program; (4) to use your information for purposes of providing customer service, such as support; and (5) to use your information in order to send you information about products and/or services that we, and/or our third party advertisers and marketers, think may be of interest to you. In addition, we may use the information that you provide to us to contact you about changes to our Program or Site, the services, features or products that we or our third party advertisers and marketers offer and/or other information that we believe that you may find valuable. If, at any time, you do not wish to receive such information, you may chose to "opt-out" through the instructions contained in the section entitled "Choice/Opt-Out" below. We reserve the right to share, sell, rent, lease and/or otherwise distribute any and all information with/to any third party for any and all uses permitted by this statement and applicable law. These third parties may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation, and email marketing. We may also use your information for any Program related purpose, and/or marketing and survey purpose, on our own behalf and on behalf of our affiliates and subsidiaries. Information may be shared automatically when you complete a third-party registration form. We may disclose information to third party agents and independent contractors that help us operate the Program. You agree that we may contact you at any time with updates and/or any other information that we may deem appropriate for you to receive in connection with your continued use of the Site. By submitting your email address at the Site, you agree to receive email marketing materials from us and our third party advertisers and marketers whose materials we post on the Site. We, and our third party advertisers and marketers, may maintain separate email lists for different purposes. If you wish to end your email subscription to a particular list, you must follow the instructions contained in each email correspondence that you receive from us, the applicable third party advertiser or marketer, to unsubscribe from that particular list. Please follow the instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe from the particular list. To unsubscribe from all of our email lists, please follow the instructions set forth in the "Unsubscribe/Opt-Out" section below. We only send email marketing to individuals who that have agreed to receive email from us. We also reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, when legal process is served on our Site, if our assets are sold or acquired, or if our company is sold or acquired, or when we otherwise deem it necessary or appropriate. By agreeing to this statement, you consent to disclosure of any record or communication to any third party when we, in our sole discretion, determine the disclosure to be appropriate. Data Collection Practices by Third Party Advertisers and Marketers We do not endorse, nor are we liable for the accuracy of, the privacy policies and/or terms and conditions of each of the third party advertisers and marketers that may advertise or post promotional items at the Site. Entities that may advertise, promote goods or services, and/or place banner ads at the Site, including these third party advertisers and marketers, are independent third parties and are not affiliated with us. You should read the privacy policies of such third party websites to make sure that you agree to their terms before using such websites. If you wish to opt out of receiving mailings from such third party advertisers and/or marketers, you must do so directly with such third party advertisers and/or marketers, or as otherwise provided on or through their respective websites. Right to Contact Via Telephone Group Aggregate Data Security Currently, we do not require any payments for access to our Members' Area, and therefore do not protect or secure credit card or other payment transactions. We may provide links to independent third party sites that require such payments, but we do not accept any liability for the security of credit card or other data transmitted to such third parties. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Children's Privacy How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information Unsubscribe/Opt-Out To stop receiving future commercial communications directly from us, please Click Here and enter your email address in our unsubscribe system. Please note, however, that when you select this option, we will still send you emails and other communications regarding the Program and/or any transactions that you entered into by and through the Site for as long as you are a Member. We may maintain separate email lists for different purposes. If you wish to end your email subscription from a particular list, you need to follow the instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe from the particular list. To unsubscribe from all of our email lists, a you must Click Here and enter your email address in our opt-out system or you may send a written request to our Customer Service Manager at the following address: Customer Service Manager We process all unsubscribe/opt-out requests promptly, but it may take 48 hours for the change to be fully effective. Unsubscribing from one list may not remove the consumer from all marketing lists. Similarly, unsubscribing from one advertiser will not prevent the consumer from receiving all advertisers' emails. Because third parties maintain their own unsubscribe/opt-out lists, email recipients who wish to end their email subscription from a particular third party must follow the instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe from that specific list. We do not control third party mailing lists and cannot process unsubscribe/opt-out requests if the message does not come directly from us. Your California Privacy Rights Policy Changes How To Contact Us Customer Service Manager |
