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.
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.
Personal Information
Our Company Collects and How It Is Used
Introduction.
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.
Registration: 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 may be shared with third parties, as
stated herein, or in
special circumstances.
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 purpose of offering you other
products and
services.
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.
Also, with
purchases, we supply our member's contact information, to our
business partners,
who then may contact the member by telephone after the
member purchase.
Sales proceeds are collected by the that business partner
company.
We also may supply other companies with contact information, for
mail offers we
believe would be of interest to our members, with or
without compensation
from those companies. At times we may send an
advertisement for a
third party product, where we collect the sales
proceeds, and
forward the purchaser's information to that third party.
Our Company Partners
and Sponsors: 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.
Online
Shopping: 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.
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.
If you order
services or products directly from our company, we use the
personal information
you provide to process that order. We do share this
information with
outside parties that we do business with.
Online
Advertisements: Our company may display our online
advertisements.
In those cases we
share information about our Visitors and Members
collected through
the registration process as well as through online
surveys and
promotions with these advertisers.
Additionally, in
some instances, we use this 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
information we have
collected, we may then display or send the
advertisement to the
intended audience. Our company does share personal
information about
its Visitors or Members with these advertisers or joint
venture companies.
Responses to Email
Inquiries: When Visitors or Members send email
inquiries to our
company, the return email address is used to answer the
email inquiry we
receive.
Voluntary Customer
Surveys: 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.
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.
Special
Cases: It is our company's policy to use or share the
personal
information about
Visitors or Members in ways described herein without
additional notice or
means to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated
uses.
Also, 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.
Notice to California
Residents – Your California Privacy Rights
Under California Law
SB 27, California residents have the right to
receive, once a year, information
about third parties with whom we have shared information
about you or your family for
their marketing purposes during the previous calendar
year, and a description of the
categories of personal information shared. To make such
a request, please send an email
to Privacy@PrivacyRequest.com and please include the
phrase "California Privacy
Request" in the subject line, the domain name of the
Web site you are
inquiring about, along with your name, address and email
address. We will
respond to you within thirty days of receiving such a
request.
"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
purposes stated herein as well as for statistical purposes
to improve the
products and services we provide and to manage our
telecommunications
networks.
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.
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.
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.
Public
Forums: 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. You should exercise caution when
deciding to disclose
personal information in these public areas.
Our Company's
Commitment to Data Security: 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.
Where to Direct
Questions About Our Privacy Policy: 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.
Revisions to This
Policy: 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. Your use of
this site after such changes are implemented
constitutes your
acknowledgement and acceptance of these changes. Please
consult this privacy
statement prior to every use for any changes.
Last updated: June
30, 2006
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2006 Knowledge-Spot.com