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PRIVACY
POLICY 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. 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 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. 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. 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. Promotions: Our company may
offer polls, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, games, content, or other
promotions that are sponsored by or cobranded with third parties. You
may be entered in a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion, simply by
making a purchase from us or by providing us with personally
identifiable information for some other reason or purpose. Due to these
third party relationships, the third parties may obtain personally
identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to our
company. Our company has no control over third parties' use of this
information. 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. This privacy policy identifies the
categories of personally identifiable information that our company
collects through our Web site or online service, about individual
consumers who use or visit our company's commercial Web site or online
service and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom
our company may share that personally identifiable information. 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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