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| PRIVACY POLICY |
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| Your privacy is very important to
us. We want to make your experience on the Internet as enjoyable and
rewarding as possible, and we want you to use the Internet's vast array of
information, tools, and opportunities with complete confidence.
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| We have created this Privacy
Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and security. This
Privacy Policy describes how our company collects information from all end
users of our Internet services (the "Services")-those who access some of
our Services but do not have accounts ("Visitors") as well as those who
may purchase Products and/or pay a monthly service fee to subscribe to the
Service ("Members")-what we do with the information we collect, and the
choices Visitors and Members have concerning the collection and use of
such information. We request that you read this Privacy Policy carefully.
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| Personal Information Our Company Collects
and How It Is Used
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| Introduction: |
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| Our company collects
information in different ways from Visitors and Members who access the various parts
of our Services and the network of Web sites accessible through our Service. We use
this information primarily to provide a customized experience as you use our
Products and Services, and generally, do not share this information with third
parties. However, we may disclose personal information collected if we have
received your permission beforehand or in very special circumstances, such as when
we believe that such disclosure is required by law or other special cases
described below.
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| Registration: |
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| Members may be
asked to provide certain personal information when they sign up for our
Products or Services including name, address, telephone number, billing
information (such as a credit card number), and the type of personal
computer being used to access the Services. The personal information
collected from Members during the registration process is used to manage
each Member's account (such as for billing purposes). This information
is not shared with third parties, unless specifically stated otherwise
or in special circumstances.
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| However, in instances where our
company and a partner jointly promote our Services, we may provide the
partner certain personal information, such as the name, address, and
username of persons who subscribed to the Services as a result of the
joint promotion for the sole purpose of allowing us and the partner to
assess the results of the promotion.
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| In this instance, personal
information may not be used by the partner for any other purpose. We may
also generate non-identifying and aggregate profiles from personal
information Members provide during registration (such as the total number,
but not the names, of Members). As explained in more detail below, we may
use this aggregated and non-identifying information to sell advertisements
that appear on the Services.
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| Our Company Partners and Sponsors: |
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Some products and services may be offered to Visitors and Members in
conjunction with an affiliate, independent contractor seller or
non-affiliated partner. To provide Visitors and Members some of these
products and services, the partner may need to collect and maintain
personal information. In these instances, you will be notified before
any such data is collected or transferred and may decide not to use that
particular service or feature.
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| Additionally, our partners may
have advertisements or co-branded Web Pages that are cosponsored by an
affiliate, independent contractor seller, or non-affiliated partner. Our
company may share non-identifying and aggregate information
(except as described above), but not personal information, with such
partners in order to administer the co-branded products or services offered.
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| Online Shopping: |
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| At some Web sites,
you can purchase products and services or register to receive materials,
such as a newsletter, catalog or new product and service updates. In many
cases, you may be asked to provide contact information, such as your name,
address, email address, phone number, and credit/debit card information.
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| If you complete an order for
someone else, such as an online gift order sent directly to a recipient,
you may be asked to provide information about the recipient, such as the
recipient's name, address, and phone number. Our company has no control
over the third parties' use of any personal information you provide when
placing such an order. Please exercise care when doing so.
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| If you order services or products
directly from our company we will use the personal information you provide
only to process that order. We do not share this information with outside
parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
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| Online Advertisements: |
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Our company may display our online advertisements. In those cases we share
aggregated and non-identifying information about our Visitors and Members
collected through the registration process as well as through online
surveys and promotions with these advertisers.
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| Additionally, in some instances,
we use this aggregated and non-identifying information to deliver tailored
advertisements or joint ventures. For instance, an advertiser or joint
venture company tells us the audience they want to reach and provides us
an advertisement tailored to the audience. Based upon the aggregated and
non-identifying information we have collected, we may then display or
send the advertisement to the intended audience. Our company does not
share personal information about its Visitors or Members with these
advertisers or joint venture companies.
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| Responses to Email Inquiries: |
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When Visitors or Members send email inquiries to our company, the return
email address is used to answer the email inquiry we receive. Our company
does not use the return email address for any other purpose and does not
share the return email address with any third party.
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| Voluntary Customer Surveys: |
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We may periodically conduct both business and individual customer surveys.
We encourage our customers to participate in these surveys because they
provide us with important information that helps us to improve the types
of products and services we offer and how we provide them to you. Your
personal information and responses will remain strictly confidential,
even if the survey is conducted by a third party. Participation in our
customer surveys is voluntary.
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| We may take the information we
receive from individuals responding to our Customer Surveys and combine
(or aggregate) it with the responses of other customers we may have, to
create broader, generic responses to the survey questions (such as gender,
age, residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry sector, or other
demographic information). We then use the aggregated information to
improve the quality of our services to you, and to develop new services
and products. This aggregated, non-personally identifying information
may be shared with third parties
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| Special Cases: |
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| It is our
company's policy not to use or share the personal information about
Visitors of Members in ways unrelated to the ones described above without
also providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such
unrelated uses.
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| However, we may disclose personal
information about Visitors or Members, or information regarding your use
of the Services or Web sites accessible through our Services, for any
reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to
do so, including: credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant
database agencies, law enforcement, or to satisfy laws, such as the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Child Online Privacy Act,
regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information;
to disclose information that is necessary to identify, contact,
or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our
Acceptable Use Policy or Terms Of Service, or other user policies;
to operate the Services properly; or to protect our company and our
Members.
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| "Cookies" and How Our Company
Uses Them. A "cookie" is a small data file that can be placed on your hard
drive when you visit certain Web sites. Our company may use cookies to
collect, store, and sometimes track information for statistical purposes
to improve the products and services we provide and to manage our
telecommunications networks.
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| If you are a Visitor or Member
we may use a cookie to save your settings and to provide customizable and
personalized services. These cookies do not enable third parties to access
any of your customer information. Additionally, be aware that if you visit
other Web sites where you are prompted to log in or that are
customizable, you may be required to accept cookies.
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| Advertisers and partners may also
use their own cookies. We do not control use of these cookies and
expressly disclaim responsibility for information collected through them.
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| Our Company Commitment to
Children's Privacy. Protecting children's privacy is especially important
to us. It is our policy to comply with the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore we
restrict our Web site to persons eighteen years or older.
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| YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS
OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE,
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE
AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEB SITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY
THIS WEB SITE, FALLS WITHIN THE CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA) AND IS
NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.
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| Public Forums: |
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| Please remember
that any information you may disclose in any Member Directory, or other
public areas of our Web sites or the Internet, becomes public information.
se personal information in these public areas.
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| Our Company's Commitment to Data Security: |
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| Services and Web sites
we sponsor have security measures in place to protect the loss,
misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.
While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security
of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security
measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining
this information.
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| Where to Direct Questions About
Our Privacy Policy: |
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| If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy
or the practices described herein, you may contact us through the contact
information provided on this Web site.
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| Revisions to This Policy: |
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| Our
company reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy, our
Terms Of Service agreement, and our other policies and agreements at any
time and in any manner, by updating this posting.
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