Privacy Policy

We sincerely care about your personal privacy when using our online service(s). We believe you should be able to actively use the tools and access information on the Internet with complete confidence.

Therefore, we have created this Privacy Policy to express our commitment to your privacy and security. This policy will outline how our company collects your information, what we do with the information we collect and the choices you may have with regards to the collection and use of this information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

The effective date of this privacy policy will be listed at the end of the policy under the heading, “Last updated.”

The Information Our Company Collects and How It Is Used

Information will be collected in various ways from both visitors and members who access various parts of our site and the network of sites that are accessed through our service. If we have received your permission beforehand or in circumstances beyond our control, such as disclosure required by law, we may be required to disclose personal information. Beyond this, we will not share your information with any third party source.

Members may be asked to provide personal information upon signing up for our products or services. These may include name, email, home address, shipping address, telephone number, and billing information (such as a credit card number). This information is used to manage your individual account, such as for billing purposes, and is not shared with third parties with the exception of the situations mentioned above.

We may use the information you provide to contact you with important company updates, information, and occassional offers. The majority of communication from us will be by email if you have provided your email address.

Any information our company receives from orders for services or products will be used for the processing of that order. We will not share this information with any third party except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

If you send email inquiries to our company, the return email address will only be used to answer the email inquiry we receive and possibly for future contact. We will not share this address with any third party.

At times we may include non-identifying and cumulative profiles from personal information (such as our total number of members), that we have received during registration. This information may be used to sell advertisements or promote our services. However, please note, your personal name, email, home address, etc… will not be identified.

If our company partners with another organization to promote our services as a team, we may provide personal information to our partner company. Please be aware we will ensure this company is a reputable resource and respects our privacy policy as well as your personal information. In this situation, our partner company may not use your personal information for any further reason.

If the situation occurs where we offer products or services in conjunction with an affiliate, independent contractor seller or non-affiliated partner, the partner may require certain personal information. You will be notified and given the option of using or not using this particular service or feature before any data is transferred.

Our company may share non-identifying and cumulative information with affiliates, independent contractor sellers, or non-affiliated partners for advertisements or web pages that may require this information. Please note, again, your personal name, email, home address, etc… will not be identified for this purpose.

On certain sites, you can buy products or services, or sign up to receive newsletter, notifications, etc…. In these cases you will often be asked to provide your contact information, including your name, email address, home address, phone number and possibly your credit card information as well.

If you complete an order for someone else, such as a gift order, you will be required to provide the above information about the recipient. We do not have any control over a third parties’ use of personal information when the order is received. So, please exercise caution when doing so.

Our company may display in any online advertisements, non-identifying and cumulative information of those currently involved in our services. This would include the information collected during the registration process or through any online surveys or promotions. Please note, again, your personal name, email, home address, etc… will not be identified for this purpose.

Additionally, we may use this non-identifying and cumulative information to deliver customized advertisements or joint ventures. For example, if we are trying to reach a specific audience and have prepared material dedicated to that audience, we may send this information to the intended group only. We will not share personal information with any company assisting us with these marketing techniques.

Our company may at times conduct customer surveys. We appreciate your participation in these surveys as it provides us with valuable information that will help us improve our services, however, participation in these surveys is voluntary. Any information you do submit will remain strictly confidential, even if the survey is conducted by a third party organization.

Information that may be shared may include the following:

-   Information we receive in response to surveys may be combined with the responses of other customers we have to create a wider, generic response to our questions. Such as gender, age, area of residence, education, interests, etc… A cumulative sample of this information may be used to improve the quality of our services to you. Although this information may be shared with a third party, it will be non-identifying.

-   Our company may offer contests or promotions that are sponsored by a third party. We may have to provide the personal information of any winners of the contest to the third party. Please be aware of this when entering any contest. Once the third party has your information, we have no control over their use of said information.

-   If you are automatically entered into a sweepstake, contest or promotion simply by making a purchase from us, or signing up to our site for any other reason, only the personal information of the winners will be shared with the organization administering the contest so they can be notified.

-   It is not our policy to reveal information about our members in ways unrelated to the statements above. In most cases we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Personal Information may be disclosed about members or information regarding your use of the services or sites we make accessible to you, if in our sole discretion, we believe it is necessary to do so. This may include requests from law enforcement, credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant database agencies, 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.

At the current time our members cannot use our site to alter his or her personally identifiable information that we collect through our online service.

Certain web sites that you visit place a small data file on your hard drive called a “cookie”. We may use these cookies to collect, store and possibly track information for statistics. These may enable us to improve the services we provide.

Our company may use cookies to save your settings and provide you with personalized or custom services. Third parties do not have access to any of your personal information through this method. However, if our company partners or advertisers use their own cookies, we do not have any control over the use of their cookies. We therefore do not accept responsibility for information collected or distributed through them.

Protecting the privacy of children is of the utmost importance to us. It is our policy to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. We therefore restrict our site to persons eighteen years or older.

YOU MUST BE AT LEAST EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OF AGE TO SUBMIT INFORMATION TO THIS WEB SITE. DUE TO THIS RESTRICTION, NO INFORMATION OUR COMPANY RECEIVES FALLS WITHIN THE CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (COPPA) AND WE DO NOT MONITOR IT AS DOING SO.

Any information you may enter in any public directory on our web site does become public information. Please exercise caution when disclosing any personal information in locations available for public viewing.

Our company strives to ensure the security of our network and systems is of high quality. However, we cannot guarantee the total prevention of third party “hackers” from illegally gaining access to our systems.

We reserve the right to revise, alter or modify this policy and further company policies or agreements at any time. When we do so, the changes will be updated on this posting. In using our site after these modifications, you are accepting the new standards. Therefore, please review the privacy statement prior to every use to familiarize yourself with any changes.

If you have any questions concerning our Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us. You may do so through the contact information provided on this site.

Last Updated: November 24, 2009