Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
August 31, 2008
Our Commitment To Privacy
This Privacy Policy is designed to assist
you in understanding how we collect and use your personal information in
connection with our advertising, content, e-commerce, promotional and service
programs and other business activities (the “Program”) and to assist you in
making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services and
the sites of our advertisers.
What Information We Collect
When you visit our site we may collect two
types of information: (a) personal information you actively choose to disclose
and (b) information about you that is collected automatically by our servers or
obtained from third parties in a way not visible to you.
(a) Information you actively choose to
provide. By choosing to participate in our Program, you must become a Member by
disclosing the following information, such as: your email address, name,
address, phone number and birth date. During the process of registering on our
site, participating in various offers, completing surveys, or sending us emails
or correspondence, we collect additional information that you may disclose,
including for example mobile telephone number, fax number, payment information
(e.g., credit card number and billing address), credit information, social
security number, health information and personal preferences regarding
lifestyle, products or services.
(b) Passive information collected
automatically by our servers or obtained from third parties. We collect some
information about you simply by virtue of you connecting to our web site. Our
servers automatically identify your computer by its internet protocol (”IP”)
address, a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your
internet service provider. In addition, to participate in our program you must
allow cookies to be active on your system. Cookies are a feature of web browser
software (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) that allows web servers
to recognize which computer is used to access a web site. Cookies simplify
subsequent interactions on our site and streamline your transactions on related
web pages. Information collected through cookies may include the date and time
of your visits, the site pages you viewed, the time spent at each page, and the
web sites you visited just before and just after our site. You can disable the
cookie function by following the instructions in the “help” section of your
browser. However, doing so will likely make it impossible for our system to
properly recognize you when you visit our sites, and consequently may make your
participation in our program more difficult or impossible. In addition to the
information you provide or that is collected automatically from our system, we
may obtain information about you from our marketing partners or other third
parties, and we combine that information with the information you actively
provide or that is automatically collected by our servers.
The term “Information” is used in this
policy to refer to both types of information described above, as well as any
Information that you provide to us directly by phone (including any phone number
displayed via caller ID), text or SMS message, U.S. mail or through any other
written or oral communication with us.
How We Use And Share The
Information Collected
We use your Information to administer our
business activities, provide customer services such as technical support,
distribute information about changes to our site, and send you, and enable
others to send you, information about products and services that may be of
interest to you and to contact you or use your Information for any other
purpose. We send communications to you ourselves, and your Information also is
shared with other organizations that may contact you for any purpose by email,
phone, text message, U.S. mail or any other means of communication.
OPT-IN NOTICE: By Participating, You
Expressly “Opt In” To Receive Information And Grant Us Permission To Share Your
Information
By signing up for our Program you
expressly opt in to receive future information about products and services from
us and from a variety of advertisers to whom we may provide your Information. We
will share your personal information with third parties, including our
advertisers, for any reason we choose, including without limitation for the
following purposes: (1) to operate our Program (including the transfer of the
information to advertisers or to third parties who maintain on our behalf a list
of persons having registered with our Program), (2) to permit advertisers or
other third parties to use your Information for any purpose such as contacting
you by email, phone, text message, U.S. mail or any other means of communication
for any purpose, (3) to confirm you have completed all of the necessary steps to
receive your gift, and (4) as we are required to do by law, including to notify
the IRS that you received your gift. As a result, we will transfer your
Information to third parties whose privacy policies and practices are beyond our
control.
In addition, in the event we consider a
transaction involving the purchase or sale of our assets or stock, other
companies may review our records, including your Information, to make business
decisions about the transaction. Likewise, your Information may be transferred
to third parties in the event of the sale or acquisition of our company or any
of its assets. The parties who perform services for us (credit card processors,
merchant banks, our internet service provider, etc.) also may have access to
your information in performing their services.
Special Note About Information You Provide
Directly To Our Advertisers.
You are able to access certain
advertiser’s sites through our site. When you opt to receive information or sign
up for an offer from an advertiser, you may be doing so through third party
sites and with other companies over which we have no control. You should read
those sites’ privacy policies to make sure you agree to them before using such
sites. If you wish to opt out of those advertisers’ mailings, you must do so
directly with such advertisers or as otherwise provided on or through their
sites.
Security Of Your Information.
We use reasonable technical efforts to
prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of
Information. However, nearly all Internet transmissions pass through many
servers not controlled by us, and therefore we cannot guarantee that any
information you provide us or we collect will not be intercepted or altered in
that process. Also, as noted above, your Information is shared with third
parties whose privacy policies and practices are beyond our control.
How You Can Choose To “Opt Out” Of
Receiving Further Information About Products Or Services
If at any time you do not wish to receive
further information about products or services from us and wish us to cease
providing your Information to third parties, you may chose to “opt-out” through
the Unsubscribe/”Opt-Out” page of our site or by written request sent by U.S.
mail to our Customer Service Manager at the following address:
7210 Jordan Ave Suite A17.
Canoga Park CA 91303
Or by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in
our newsletter emails.
We will promptly update our records upon
receiving your clear instructions to opt-out, but it may take up to ten (10)
business days from our receipt of your request for the change to be fully
effective. If you later give us a clear statement that you want to receive
emails from us or our advertisers after such date, then that opt-in statement
will supersede any earlier opt-out request. If we have already provided your
email address or other information to an advertiser or other third party before
we receive your opt-out request, we cannot prevent them from sending or
continuing to send you information or emails and you will need to contact such
third party directly.
How To Correct, Delete Or Access Your
Information
If you wish to access, delete or correct
the information you have provided to us through this site, please contact us
through the Contact Us section of our site or through written request sent by
U.S. mail to the Customer Service Manager at the address listed above.
Special Rights For Residents Of Certain
States
If you are a California resident or
another state with specific laws relating to the collection and use of
Information, you may have specific rights not set forth in this policy. For
example, California residents have the right to receive: a) information
identifying any third party company(ies) to whom we may have disclosed, within
the past calendar year, personal information pertaining to you and your family
for the company’s direct marketing purposes; and b) a description of the
categories of personal information disclosed. To obtain such information you
must make a request in writing. Your request must include your name registration
(email address), the site name you visited and a return address or it will not
be processed. We will not honor such requests more than once per calendar year.
Requests made via email will not be accepted. Please mail your request to
Customer Service Manager at the address listed in the footer of this site or the
Contact Us page.
PLEASE CHECK THIS PRIVACY POLICY
PERIODICALLY FOR CHANGES AS WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REVISE THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
SUCH REVISIONS TO THE PRIVACY POLICY SHALL TAKE EFFECT WHEN POSTED. YOUR
CONTINUED USE OF OUR SERVICES THROUGH ANY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FOLLOWING THE
POSTING OF ANY CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH
CHANGES.