Privacy Policy
At our website, accessible from this domain, safeguarding the privacy of our users stands as one of our fundamental priorities. This Privacy Policy outlines the various types of information that we gather and document, along with the manner in which we utilize such information.
We place great importance on your privacy. Our goal is to ensure that your online experience is both pleasant and valuable, enabling you to explore the wide range of information, resources, and opportunities available on the Internet with full assurance.
Please be aware that when you purchase our products, you will automatically be added to our mailing lists.
This Privacy Policy has been established to showcase our unwavering dedication to privacy protection and data security. It explains the methods by which our organization gathers data from all users of our online services (referred to as the "Services")—including those who browse our Services without accounts ("Visitors") and those who purchase Products and/or subscribe to paid services ("Members")—how we handle the collected information, and the options available to Visitors and Members regarding the gathering and utilization of such data. We strongly encourage you to review this Privacy Policy thoroughly.
Types of Personal Information We Collect and Their Usage
Overview: Our organization gathers data through various methods from Visitors and Members who utilize different sections of our Services and the network of websites accessible via our platform. This information is primarily utilized to deliver a personalized experience while you interact with our Products and Services. Generally, we do not distribute this information to external parties. Nevertheless, we may reveal personal information if we have obtained your prior consent or under exceptional circumstances, such as when we determine that disclosure is mandated by law or in other specific situations outlined below.
Account Registration: When Members register for our Products or Services, they may be required to supply specific personal details, including their name, address, phone number, payment information (such as credit card details), and the type of device used to access the Services. The personal data collected during registration is utilized to administer each Member's account (including billing functions). This data is typically not shared with third parties, except as explicitly stated or in particular situations.
In situations where our organization collaborates with a partner to jointly promote our Services, we may share certain personal details with the partner, such as the name, address, and username of individuals who subscribed as a result of the joint promotion, solely for the purpose of evaluating the promotion's effectiveness.
In such cases, the partner is not permitted to use the personal information for any other purposes. We may also create anonymous and aggregated profiles from the personal information Members provide during registration (for example, the total number of Members, without revealing their names). As detailed further below, we may utilize this aggregated and anonymous data to display advertisements on our Services.
Partnerships and Sponsorships: Certain products and services may be offered to Visitors and Members in collaboration with an affiliate, independent contractor seller, or unaffiliated partner. To deliver some of these products and services, the partner may need to gather and retain personal information. In these situations, you will be informed before any such data is collected or transferred, and you may choose not to utilize that specific service or feature.
Furthermore, our partners may feature advertisements or co-branded web pages that are jointly sponsored by an affiliate, independent contractor seller, or unaffiliated partner. Our organization may share anonymous and aggregated information (with the exceptions noted above), but not personal information, with such partners to facilitate the administration of co-branded products or services.
E-Commerce Transactions: On certain websites, you can buy products and services or register to receive materials such as newsletters, catalogs, or updates about new products and services. Often, you will be requested to provide contact details, including your name, address, email address, phone number, and credit/debit card information.
If you place an order on behalf of another person, such as an online gift order sent directly to a recipient, you may be asked to provide details about the recipient, including their name, address, and phone number. Our organization has no control over how third parties use any personal information you provide when placing such orders. Please use caution when doing so.
When you order services or products directly from our organization, we will use the personal information you provide solely to process that order. We do not share this information with external parties except as necessary to complete the order.
Digital Advertising: Our organization may display online advertisements. In such cases, we share aggregated and anonymous 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 cases, we use this aggregated and anonymous information to deliver targeted advertisements or joint ventures. For example, an advertiser or joint venture company specifies the audience they wish to reach and provides us with an advertisement tailored to that audience. Based on the aggregated and anonymous information we have gathered, we may then display or send the advertisement to the intended audience. Our organization does not share personal information about its Visitors or Members with these advertisers or joint venture companies.
Email Correspondence: When Visitors or Members send email inquiries to our organization, the return email address is used solely to respond to the inquiry we receive. Our organization does not use the return email address for any other purpose and does not share the return email address with any third party.
Customer Feedback Surveys: We may periodically conduct both business and individual customer surveys. We encourage our customers to participate in these surveys as they provide us with valuable insights that help us enhance the types of products and services we offer and how we deliver 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 entirely voluntary.
We may combine the information we receive from individuals responding to our Customer Surveys with responses from other customers to create broader, generalized responses to survey questions (such as gender, age, location, interests, education, employment, industry sector, or other demographic data). We then use the aggregated information to enhance the quality of our services and to develop new services and products. This aggregated, non-personally identifying information may be shared with third parties.
Marketing Promotions: Our organization may offer polls, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, games, content, or other promotions that are sponsored by or co-branded with third parties. In certain cases, our organization may need to provide personally identifiable information of winners to third parties. Our organization has no control over how third parties use this information.
You may be automatically entered into a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion simply by making a purchase from us or by providing us with personally identifiable information for another reason or purpose. When winning entries are selected, only the names and personally identifiable information of the winners are shared with the entity administering the sweepstakes or contest, so they can notify the winners.
Exceptional Circumstances: It is our organization's policy not to use or share personal information about Visitors or Members in ways unrelated to those described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prevent such unrelated uses.
However, we may disclose personal information about Visitors or Members, or information regarding your use of the Services or websites accessible through our Services, for any reason if, in our sole judgment, we believe it is reasonable to do so, including: credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant database agencies, law enforcement, or to comply with 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 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 organization and our Members.
California Residents' Privacy Rights – Compliance Notice Under The California Online Privacy Protection Act and the California Business and Professions Code
This privacy policy specifies the categories of personally identifiable information that our organization collects through our website or online service, about individual consumers who use or visit our organization's commercial website or online service, and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom our organization may share that personally identifiable information.
Our organization does not maintain a process for an individual consumer who uses or visits our commercial website or online service to review and request changes to any of his or her personally identifiable information that is collected through our website or online service.
Please refer to the section below entitled "Revisions To This Policy" for a description of the process by which our organization notifies consumers who use or visit our commercial website or online service of material changes to our organization's privacy policy for this website or online service.
The effective date of this privacy policy is listed at the end of this privacy policy under the heading, "Last updated."
For the purposes of this policy and California compliance, the following definitions apply:
Depending on the visitor's activity on our commercial website or online service, the following "personally identifiable information" may be collected, in addition to information set forth in other sections of this document.
The term "personally identifiable information" means individually identifiable information about an individual consumer collected online by our organization from an individual and maintained by our organization in an accessible form, and may include any of the following:
A first and last name.
A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town.
An e-mail address.
A telephone number.
A social security number.
Any other identifier that permits the physical or online contacting of a specific individual.
Information concerning a user that the website or online service collects online, from the user, and maintains in personally identifiable form, in combination with an identifier described within this privacy policy.
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, if any, and a description of the categories of personal information shared. To make such a request, please send us an email and include the phrase "California Privacy Request" in the subject line, the domain name of the website 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 Organization Utilizes Them. A "cookie" is a small data file that can be placed on your hard drive when you visit certain websites. Our organization 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.
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, please be aware that if you visit other websites where you are prompted to log in or that are customizable, you may be required to accept cookies.
Advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control the use of these cookies and expressly disclaim responsibility for information collected through them.
Our Organization's Commitment to Children's Privacy. Protecting children's privacy is of particular importance 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 website 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 CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (COPPA) 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 websites or the Internet, becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these public areas.
Our Organization's Commitment to Data Security: Services and websites we sponsor have security measures in place to protect against 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 website.
Revisions to This Policy: Our organization 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.
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