PRIVACY POLICY Your Privacy Is Important To Us The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to demonstrate our strong commitment to the privacy and security of our visitors and members. This Privacy Policy describes how our company collects information from all end users of our services by those who access our services but do not have accounts ("Visitors") as well as those who may purchase Products and/or pay a monthly service fee to subscribe to our services ("Members"), what we do with the collected information and the choices available to Visitors and Members with respect to the collection and use of such information. Please read this policy carefully. How the Company Collects and Uses the Personal Information It Collects There are different ways our company collects information from Visitors and Members who access the various parts of our Services and the Web sites accessible through our Service. Our primary use of this information is to improve and customize the experience as our Visitors and Members make use of our products and services. We use this information primarily to provide a customized experience as you use our Products and Services, and generally, do not share this information with third parties. We may however disclose personal information collected if you have given your permission beforehand or in very special situations or circumstances, such as when we believe that disclosure of such information is required by law or according to other special situations described in further detail below. During the registration or sign up for our products or services, members and visitors may be asked to provide some personal information including name, address, telephone number, billing information (such as a credit card number), browser preference and the type of computer(s) being used to access the services, products or web sites. The personal information we collect from Members and Visitors is used to manage the Member’s account (such as for password recovery, billing purposes and customer service). Unless specifically stated otherwise or in special circumstances, this information is not shared with third parties. In situations where our company and high quality partner decide to jointly promote our services, we may provide to that partner certain personal information, such as username/userid, the name, the address and other necessary information of persons who have subscribed to the services as a result of this joint promotional effort for the simple and sole purpose of allowing the same high quality partner and our company to evaluate the results of the joint promotion. In this situation, the personal information will not be used by the partner for any other purpose. From time to time we may sell advertisements that appear on our websites, in our products or in connection with our services. To that end, we may also create aggregate profiles from the personal information provided by Members and Visitors during visits or registration. These aggregate profiles and non-identifying and include information such as the total number, but not the names of Visitors or Members. More on how this aggregate and non-identifying information is used to sell advertisements is explained below. Additionally, some or all of our high quality partners may have certain co-branded Web pages or advertisements which are cosponsored by an affiliate partner, a non-affiliate partner or an independent contractor seller. In order to administer the co-branded services or products offered, our company may find it necessary to share aggregate and non-identifying (except as described above), non-personal information with such partners. Our Online Advertisements From time to time, our company may conduct voluntary customer surveys or requests for Feedback of individuals and businesses. Because these types of surveys and requests help us to customize and improve our products and services, as well as how we deliver them to customers, we invite and encourage our customers to participate when we send them. The personal information and responses provided in the process of responding to these surveys or requests will remain strictly confidential, even should the survey be conducted by a third party. Though very helpful to our company, participation by Members and Visitors in these periodic surveys and feedback requests is voluntary. It is the strict policy of our company to not share personal information about our Members and Visitors beyond what has been described above, without allowing you the opportunity to disallow or “opt-out” of these unrelated uses. There are certain situations where we may disclose Members and Visitors personal information, information regarding the use of the services, products, web sites associated with the company or its services. We will only do this if, for any reason, in our sole discretion we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including but not limited to, credit and collection agencies; merchant database agencies; federal, state or local law enforcement; to satisfy laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act or the Child Online Privacy Act; any regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information; to disclose and make use of information that is necessary to identify, contact, find or bring legal action against someone who may be in violation of our Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy or other Member, Visitor, Customer or user policies we have in place; to satisfy our need and desire to operate our services, products and associated web sites properly; or to protect our company, employees, Members and visitors. When you visit a web site, the provider of the site may place a small data file called a "cookie" on your computer’s hard drive. It may be necessary for our company make use of “cookies” in order to collect, store, and at times track information for statistical purposes for the purpose of improving Member and Visitor experiences, our products and services provided and to better manage our communications network. We may use a cookie to save the setting and provide personalized or customized services to our Members, Visitors and general customers. These small data files (“cookies) do not enable third parties to access your customer information. You should be aware however that as you visit other Web sites that customize their experience for you or prompt you to enter information (such as a log in), these sites may require you to accept cookies. It is especially important to us to product the privacy of children and it is our commitment and policy to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Our Web site is restricted to people eighteen (18) years or older for this reason. Any information that you choose to disclose in a Public Forum, any Member or Visitor Directory or other public are of our Web sites becomes public information. Please remember this and use caution and judgment in your decision to disclose any and all personal information into such public areas on this Web site, or the Internet in general. Our Company reserves the right to revise, update, amend, or otherwise modify this policy, our Terms Of Service agreement, and any of our other agreements or policies in any manner and at any time by updating this posting.
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