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PRIVACY POLICY
Our Commitment To Privacy
This Privacy Policy is designed to assist you
in understanding how we collect and use your personal information in connection with our
advertising, content, e-commerce, promotional and service programs and other business activities
(the “Program”) and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products
and services and the sites of our advertisers.
What Information We
Collect
When you visit our site we may collect two
types of information: (a) personal information you actively choose to disclose and (b) information
about you that is collected automatically by our servers or obtained from third parties in a way
not visible to you.
(a) Information you actively choose to
provide. By choosing to participate in our Program, you must become a Member by disclosing the
following information, such as: your email address, name, address, phone number and birth date.
During the process of registering on our site, participating in various offers, completing surveys,
or sending us emails or correspondence, we collect additional information that you may disclose,
including for example mobile telephone number, fax number, payment information (e.g., credit card
number and billing address), credit information, social security number, health information and
personal preferences regarding lifestyle, products or services.
(b) Passive information collected
automatically by our servers or obtained from third parties. We collect some information about you
simply by virtue of you connecting to our web site. Our servers automatically identify your
computer by its internet protocol (”IP”) address, a unique string of numbers that is assigned to
your computer by your internet service provider. In addition, to participate in our program you
must allow cookies to be active on your system. Cookies are a feature of web browser software
(Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) that allows web servers to recognize which computer
is used to access a web site. Cookies simplify subsequent interactions on our site and streamline
your transactions on related web pages. Information collected through cookies may include the date
and time of your visits, the site pages you viewed, the time spent at each page, and the web sites
you visited just before and just after our site. You can disable the cookie function by following
the instructions in the “help” section of your browser. However, doing so will likely make it
impossible for our system to properly recognize you when you visit our sites, and consequently may
make your participation in our program more difficult or impossible. In addition to the information
you provide or that is collected automatically from our system, we may obtain information about you
from our marketing partners or other third parties, and we combine that information with the
information you actively provide or that is automatically collected by our
servers.
The term “Information” is used in this policy
to refer to both types of information described above, as well as any Information that you provide
to us directly by phone (including any phone number displayed via caller ID), text or SMS message,
U.S. mail or through any other written or oral communication with us.
How We Use And Share The Information
Collected
We use your Information to administer our
business activities, provide customer services such as technical support, distribute information
about changes to our site, and send you, and enable others to send you, information about products
and services that may be of interest to you and to contact you or use your Information for any
other purpose. We send communications to you ourselves, and your Information also is shared with
other organizations that may contact you for any purpose by email, phone, text message, U.S. mail
or any other means of communication.
OPT-IN NOTICE: By Participating, You
Expressly “Opt In” To Receive Information And Grant Us Permission To Share Your
Information
By signing up for our Program you expressly
opt in to receive future information about products and services from us and from a variety of
advertisers to whom we may provide your Information. We will share your personal information with
third parties, including our advertisers, for any reason we choose, including without limitation
for the following purposes: (1) to operate our Program (including the transfer of the information
to advertisers or to third parties who maintain on our behalf a list of persons having registered
with our Program), (2) to permit advertisers or other third parties to use your Information for any
purpose such as contacting you by email, phone, text message, U.S. mail or any other means of
communication for any purpose, (3) to confirm you have completed all of the necessary steps to
receive your gift, and (4) as we are required to do by law, including to notify the IRS that you
received your gift. As a result, we will transfer your Information to third parties whose privacy
policies and practices are beyond our control.
In addition, in the event we consider a
transaction involving the purchase or sale of our assets or stock, other companies may review our
records, including your Information, to make business decisions about the transaction. Likewise,
your Information may be transferred to third parties in the event of the sale or acquisition of our
company or any of its assets. The parties who perform services for us (credit card processors,
merchant banks, our internet service provider, etc.) also may have access to your information in
performing their services.
Special Note About Information You Provide
Directly To Our Advertisers.
You are able to access certain advertiser’s
sites through our site. When you opt to receive information or sign up for an offer from an
advertiser, you may be doing so through third party sites and with other companies over which we
have no control. You should read those sites’ privacy policies to make sure you agree to them
before using such sites. If you wish to opt out of those advertisers’ mailings, you must do so
directly with such advertisers or as otherwise provided on or through their
sites.
Security Of Your
Information.
We use reasonable technical efforts to
prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of Information.
However, nearly all Internet transmissions pass through many servers not controlled by us, and
therefore we cannot guarantee that any information you provide us or we collect will not be
intercepted or altered in that process. Also, as noted above, your Information is shared with third
parties whose privacy policies and practices are beyond our control.
How You Can Choose To “Opt Out” Of Receiving
Further Information About Products Or Services
If at any time you do not wish to receive
further information about products or services from us and wish us you may chose to “opt-out” by
clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in our newsletter emails.
We will promptly update our records upon
receiving your clear instructions to opt-out, but it may take up to ten (10) business days from our
receipt of your request for the change to be fully effective. If you later give us a clear
statement that you want to receive emails from us or our advertisers after such date, then that
opt-in statement will supersede any earlier opt-out request. If we have already provided your email
address or other information to an advertiser or other third party before we receive your opt-out
request, we cannot prevent them from sending or continuing to send you information or emails and
you will need to contact such third party directly.
How To Correct, Delete Or Access Your
Information
If you wish to access, delete or correct the
information you have provided to us through this site, please contact us through the Contact Us
section of our site or through written request sent by U.S. mail to the Customer Service Manager at
the address listed above.
Special Rights For Residents Of Certain
States
If you are a California resident or another
state with specific laws relating to the collection and use of Information, you may have specific
rights not set forth in this policy. For example, California residents have the right to receive:
a) information identifying any third party company(ies) to whom we may have disclosed, within the
past calendar year, personal information pertaining to you and your family for the company’s direct
marketing purposes; and b) a description of the categories of personal information disclosed. To
obtain such information you must make a request in writing. Your request must include your name
registration (email address), the site name you visited and a return address or it will not be
processed. We will not honor such requests more than once per calendar year. Requests made via
email will not be accepted. Please mail your request to Customer Service Manager at the address
listed in the footer of this site or the Contact Us page.
PLEASE CHECK THIS PRIVACY POLICY PERIODICALLY
FOR CHANGES AS WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REVISE THIS PRIVACY POLICY. SUCH REVISIONS TO THE PRIVACY
POLICY SHALL TAKE EFFECT WHEN POSTED. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR SERVICES THROUGH ANY COMMUNICATION
CHANNEL FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF ANY CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF
SUCH CHANGES.
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