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.
We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm
commitment to privacy and security. This Privacy Policy describes how our
company collects information from all end users of our Internet services (the
"Services")-those who access some of 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 the Service ("Members")-what we do with the
information we collect, and the choices Visitors and Members have concerning the
collection and use of such information. We request that you read this Privacy
Policy carefully.
Personal Information Our Company Collects and How
It Is Used
Introduction. Our company collects information in
different ways from Visitors and Members who access the various parts of our
Services and the network of Web sites accessible through our
Service.
Registration: Members may be asked to provide certain personal
information when they sign up for our Products or Services including name,
address, telephone number, billing information (such as a credit card number),
and the type of personal computer being used to access the Services. The
personal information collected from Members during the registration process is
used to manage each Member's account (such as for billing purposes). This
information may be shared with third parties, as stated herein, or in special
circumstances.
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 the 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.
If you order services or products directly from our company, we use
the personal information you provide to process that order. We do share this
information with outside parties that we do business with.
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.
Responses to
Email Inquiries: When Visitors or Members send email inquiries to our company,
the return email address is used to answer the email inquiry we
receive.
Voluntary Customer Surveys: We may periodically conduct both
business and individual customer surveys. We encourage our customers to
participate in these surveys because they provide us with important information
that helps us to improve the types of products and services we offer and how we
provide them to you.
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.
Additionally,
personally identifiable information may be collected when you order products,
enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one
of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our
online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information
that may be collected at these pages include but may not be limited to: name,
address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information,
and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs,
and services. Our sponsors or third parties may send you material that relates
to our company's services, products or activities.
Special Cases: It is
our company's policy to use or share the personal information about Visitors or
Members in ways described herein without additional notice or means to opt out
or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
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.
Notice of Compliance to California Residents – Your California Privacy Rights
Under The California Online Privacy Protection Act and the California Business
and Professions Code
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.
Our company does not maintain a process for an
individual consumer who uses or visits our commercial Web site or online service
to review and request changes to any of his or her personally identifiable
information that is collected through our Web site or online service.
See
the section below entitled "Revisions To This Policy" for a description of the
process by which our company notifies consumers who use or visit our commercial
Web site or online service of material changes to our company'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 "personally identifiable
information" may be collected, in addition to information set forth in other
sections of this document.
The term "personally identifiable information"
means individually identifiable information about an individual consumer
collected online by our company from an individual and maintained
by our
company 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
shared information about you
or your family for their marketing purposes
during the previous calendar year, and a
description of the categories of
personal information shared. To make such a request,
please send an email to
helpdesk@timbekker.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
Company Uses Them. A "cookie" is a small data file that can be placed on your
hard drive when you visit certain Web sites. Our company may use cookies to
collect, store, and sometimes track information for purposes stated herein as
well as for statistical purposes to improve the products and services we provide
and to manage our telecommunications networks.
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.
Our Company 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: Please remember that any information you may
disclose in any Member Directory, or other public areas of our Web sites or the
Internet, becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding
to disclose personal information in these public areas.
Our Company's
Commitment to Data Security: Services and Web sites we sponsor have security
measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information
under our control. While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and
security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security
measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this
information.
Where to Direct Questions About Our Privacy Policy: If you
have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein,
you may contact us through the contact information provided on this Web
site.
Revisions to This Policy: Our company reserves the right to
revise, amend, or modify this policy, our Terms Of Service agreement, and our
other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner, by updating this
posting. Your use of this site after such changes are implemented constitutes
your acknowledgement and acceptance of these changes. Please consult this
privacy statement prior to every use for any changes.
Last
updated: November 17th, 2008
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please email us at helpdesk@TimBekker.com
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