Privacy is an important matter and we care about it as much as you do. It’s important to use that your experience on the Internet is safe and enjoyable. As you use the Internet, you should feel secure in drawing from the vast amount of details, tools and experiences available online.

This Privacy Policy is our attempt to show that we are as concerned as you are about the privacy and security of your personal details. In this Privacy Policy, you’ll see the details of our business’s approach to collection details from users of our online Content (the “Content”), people who access the site without sign uping for an account (“Guests”) and those who may purchase Products or pay a Membership or service fee to subscribe to our Content (“Participants”). This policy will describe how we handle the details that are being collected. It will also detail what decisions Guests and Participants can make that will affect the collection and use of the details.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Personal Details – How Our Business Collects Them and How They Are Used

Our business gathers details in several different ways from Guests and Participants who visit different parts of our Content and the various Web sites that are linked through our Content.

Registration: Participants might be required to enter pieces of personal details when they sign up for the Products and Content on this site. These personal details may include, but is not limited to, name, address, telephone number, billing details (credit card number) and details about the computer they are using to access the Internet and the website. These details are used to manage the account of each Member. It may be lent with third parties, in the manner stated herein, or in other special circumstances.

In instances where the website and a partner jointly promote the Content of this website, we may on occasion provide personal details of our Participants with the partner. These details can include the name, address and username of people who have subscribed with the Content as a direct result of the joint promotion. This is done for the purpose of offering a product or service that is related to the Content of this site.

In this instance, we do not release personal details to the partner for any other reason. This site may also create non-identifying and aggregate profiles from the personal details of Participants, based on the details provided during the registration of the member. For example, this site may share the total number of Participants, without names or identifying details. This is explained in more detail below and its role in selling advertisements that will appear in the Content section of the website.

In addition, with purchases, we will provide the member’s contact details to business partners. These partners will use these details to contact the member by phone after the purchase to complete the transaction and collect the sales proceeds. We may also supply companies with some contact details in order for Participants to receive mail offers that are in line with their preferences and that our business believes that will be of interest to Participants. We may also send an advertisement for a third party product. In this case, we will collect sales proceeds from Participants and then transfer the details to the third part for a completion of the transaction.

Our Business Partners and Sponsors: Certain products and content may be offered to Guests and/or Participants. These products or content may have been presented participating with an affiliate, an unique seller or a non-affiliated partner. The partner in presenting these products may require the collection of personal details from our Participants.

Online Shopping: At certain Web sites, Guests and Participants will be able to buy products and Content or sign up to accept materials (like a newsletter, catalog, or service updates). In some cases, you may be asked to enter personal contact details, like your name, address, e-mail address, phone number and payment details.

If you purchase an online gift card or any other type of purchase for someone else, you may have to provide details about the person you are buying for. This may include the person’s name, address and phone number. These details are gathered in order to deliver the gift properly. We have no say in what the third party website will do with these personal details. Please check the Privacy Policy of that business’s website for details on how those details will be handled.

If you get products or Content from our business directly, we will utilize those personal details to process the order. We may share these details with outside companies that we are partnered with.

Online Advertising: You may see online advertisements when you are using our Content that is from our business. We will share demographic details about our Guests and Participants in order to display advertising that is appropriate. We collect these details through registration and online Polls.

In some cases, these details are used to customize the ads that are displayed on the site. For example, if an advertiser shares details about the audience that they want to reach, we will look through our Visitor and Member details that we have collected and will explain to the advertiser how our Membership meets their needs. We do not share personal details with these companies; we just share the demographic details that let them know their advertising will reach the intended audience.

Responses to E-mail Inquiries: When you as a Member or Visitor contact out business with an inquiry, we use the return e-mail address that your e-mail service provides.

Voluntary Customer Polls: From time to time, we may host business and/or individual Polls for our Guests and Participants. We ask that you participate in these Polls. They give us details that help us make the site a better resource for you and fulfill your needs as a Visitor or Member.

We may take the information we receive from people responding to our Customer Polls and add it to the information of other participants we may have to improve our polls and add more depth to the future polls. This may include making the polls more detailed and moving away from the broad responses that may be a part of these polls. These polls are then used to create better quality Content for our Guests and Participants. This collected non-personally identifying information might be lent to other companies.

Advertising Campaigns:  Our business may offer Advertising Campaigns that are suggested by or dually offered by other companies not related to our company. You may be added to the participant list for these promotions by purchasing something from our company, or by adding your personal details to our Web site. Due to our company’s relationship with other non-related companies, the other company may get some of your personal data that you have voluntarily submitted to our system. Our company does not have control over the other company’s use of this personal data.

Also, this personal data will be gathered when you order items from the site, participate in contests, add your feedback to surveys or otherwise participate in the site. It will also be added if you subscribe to our newsletter, forum or other form of community on our Web site. The data collected in these areas may include, but is not limited to: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, information on your preferences and your participation with our Content. The other companies that we are affiliated with may send you content based on your preferences and your participation. They may also contact you about information that relates to our Web site.

Additional cases: It’s our company’s policy to utilize and/or distribute an individual’s data that is collected from Guests or Participants in a method that are described herein. This may be done without extra notification or a way for users to opt out of the sharing of the information.

In addition, we may share an individual’s data or data regarding a Guests or Participants use of the Web site, if our business deems it reasonable to share this information. This may include but is not limited to collection firms, credit firms, companies that maintain databases, the police or to other government agencies. In most cases, this sharing is done in order to comply with laws such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Child Online Privacy act or other laws that pertain to online usage. In these instances, the sharing is necessary to give identification or contact information that is required to bring legal action against people who may be breaking the Acceptable Use policy and the terms of Service of this company and the company’s website.

Special Notice to People Living in California: There specific rules for the California Privacy Rights listed beneath the California Online Privacy Protection Act and the California Business and Professions Code.

This privacy statement states which parts of your personal information our business gathers throughout the company’s Web site and other web sites owned by the company. We also collect information on people who utilize the site’s functions and/or just visit the site. This data may be forward to other businesses that we share a commercial interest with, either through an affiliate program or other type of lead sharing situation.

Our company doesn’t have a specific system for collecting people’s individual information when the person uses or visits the site to change his or her personal data that is gathered by our Web site.

View the section below called “Revisions To This Policy” to gain details on how our company lets Guests and Participants to our Web sites or online service of any changes to our business’s privacy policy for this Web site or online service.

See the section below entitled "Revisions To This Policy" for a description of the process by which our business notifies consumers who use or visit our commercial Web site or online service of material changes to our business's privacy policy for this Web site 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, in our commercial Web site or online service, the following "personal data" may be collected, in addition to data that is explained other portions of this policy.

The term "personal data" means individually identifiable information about an individual consumer collected online by our business from an individual and maintained
by our business in an accessible form, and may include any of the following:

(1) A first and last name.
(2) A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town.
(3) An e-mail address.
(4) A telephone number.
(5) A social security number.
(6) Any other identifier that permits the physical or online contacting of a specific individual.
(7) Information concerning a user that the Web site 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 lent information about you 
or your family for their marketing purposes during the previous calendar year, and a 
description of the categories of personal information lent. 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 Business Uses Them. A "cookie" is a small data file that can be placed on a visitor’s hard drive when they come to a Web site. Our business may use cookies to collect, store, and occaionally track information for purposes stated herein as well as for statistical purposes to improve the products and Content we provide. 

Our affiliate advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies to track consumer information. Our business has no control over how the third parties use cookies and we cannot control the use of them or the removal of them.

Our Business 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 CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (COPPA) AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.

Public Forums and Message Boards: Keep in mind that any personal data or other types of information shared on public forums and message boards are not secure or safe. These items become public information and are available to anyone who has access to these parts of the site. You need to use these portions of the site with caution and you alone are responsible for holding onto your personal information.

Our Business's Commitment to Data Security:  Content and Web sites that we have under the banner of our company all have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Our company takes great pains to protect your private information in addition to the other parts of our systems and Web sites. We take steps to prevent “hackers” from getting this information.

For further information on the Privacy Policy: If you have any inquiries that you need to forward to our company regarding the Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us. You can use the contact form provided on the Web site.

Revisions to This Policy: Our business can revise, update, amend or modify the privacy policy, our Terms of Service agreement, and any other policies and agreements on the website at any time. We reserve the right to update the site without express notification of our members. Please refer back to this privacy policy from time to time to insure that you are up to date on all the issues. When you use this site after the changes are made, you are tacitly acknowledging that you accept and agree to the changes herein.

Page last edited on: Feb 13, 2009