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General
We gather user information to provide you with a
customized experience on our site. Your user information helps us tailor
the content, services, goods and advertising to your current and future
needs. For this reason, we may ask you to register or to provide
personal information when you post comments, enter a contest, order
products, subscribe to a newsletter and/or visit certain areas of our
site. If you choose not to register you may not have access to areas
that require personal identification.
If you register with our site or purchase products from us, from time to
time we may e-mail you with messages about our services or third party
products and services we believe may be of interest to you, such as new
products, features, services, special offers and updated information.
The newsletters may contain code that enables our database to track your
usage of the newsletters, including whether the e-mail was opened and/or
what links (if any) were clicked. We will combine that information with
other information we have about you and may use that information to
improve your site experience and/or provide customized e-mail
communications to you. In addition, if you register with our site or
purchase products you may automatically receive e-mails confirming your
registration and/or purchase and providing you with necessary
information relating to the access or use of your registration and/or
purchase. With the exception of the e-mails described in the preceding
sentence which are necessary to provide customer support and deliver
products and services to you, you may opt-out of receiving e-mail from
us as described below.
Use of Information
When you register, we ask for your e-mail address, a
unique nickname selected by you and other information. Once you are a
registered user you can update your profile and may be able to provide
additional preferential information.
For contests, we collect information from users in order to register
them for the contest and to provide for payment. We may use an order
form for users to request information, products and services. For that
order form, we collect a user's contact information (e-mail address) and
necessary financial information to process the order (i.e. credit card
number). Contact information from the order (including e-mail) may be
used to deliver digital products and information. We may use third
parties to accept and process orders and credit card purchases for
merchandise and products, including software.
In order to purchase products or services from us, we require that you
provide us with certain personally identifiable information. The types
of personally identifiable information that may be collected at this
site include: name, address, e-mail address, mobile phone number and
MSISDN (mobile station integrated services digital network number),
credit card and billing information, download history, customer
generated content and/or information about your interests in and use of
various products, programs, and services.
We may use your personally identifiable information to
contact you regarding your use of our Web Site or changes to our privacy
notice, Terms of Service, or other policies or terms that affect you and
your use of our Web Site. In addition, we may use information collected
about our users to improve the content and navigation of our Web Site,
or for other internal purposes.
We may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect from
you with outside records (e.g., information we obtain from other
companies, including wireless providers) to enhance our ability to serve
you, to tailor our content to you, and to offer you opportunities to
purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
To fulfill your requests for products and services (e.g., provide you
with content via your mobile phone), we may share the personally
identifiable information you provide with your mobile phone service
provider or their partner and subcontractor companies. Our privacy
policy does not cover such entities use of information. To learn more
about your provider's privacy practices, you should consult its privacy
policy. From time to time, we may share personally identifiable
information with unrelated third parties to enable them to provide you
with opportunities to learn of products or services in which you may be
interested.
We may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is
sponsored by another company. To qualify for entry in that contest or
promotion, we may ask you to provide personal information. If we plan to
share that information with the sponsor(s) or with others, we will
provide a statement to that effect in the contest or promotion terms.
All communication on the Internet takes place between pairs of IP
Addresses. Our Web servers will log the IP address that any connection
is made from. We may use these IP addresses to help diagnose technical
problems or prevent abuse of our systems or other site users. Your IP
address may also be used to gather aggregate demographic data and target
advertisements accordingly.
Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice
when a cookie is sent. A “cookie” is a small line of text that is stored
with your Web browser for record-keeping purposes and to help us provide
better service to you. We use cookies to save your password (in an
encrypted format) on your machine so you don’t have to re-enter it each
time you visit our site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific
to your interests and track your downloads and purchases from our site.
Our site contains links, including banner and other ads, to other
Websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of such Websites. Our site may also link to Websites that
feature our trademarks and names along with trademarks and names of
other companies. You should look at the privacy policy on that
co-branded Website, as the co-branded Website may not be under our
control.
For reasons such as improving member experience and providing customized
communications to our users, we may receive information about you from
third party sources and our web logs and add it to the information that
we have received from you. Web logs automatically record anything a web
server sees, which may include e-mail addresses you enter into a form or
pages viewed by a user at a particular IP address.
Information Sharing
We will not share your personally identifiable
information with third parties, aside from entities that perform
services for us, such as fulfilling orders or processing payment, that
either are bound to comply with our privacy policy or have privacy
policies that protect your information unless you have “opted-in” to
such sharing. If you have previously opted-in to such sharing under a
prior privacy policy version, you are still considered to have opted-in
under this privacy policy. As stated, and whether or not you have
opted-in, we may use third parties to accept and process orders for
merchandise and products, including software, and such third parties may
get access to your personal information for the purposes of providing
services or products to you on our behalf. In addition, if you opt-out,
we may share that information with third parties who send e-mails on our
behalf so that they do not e-mail you.
However, we may disclose information you provide if required to do so by
law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to
(1) comply with the law or with legal process served on us; (2) protect
and defend our rights or property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect
someone’s safety.
We may request demographic information from you (for example, your age,
education level or household income) from time to time. We will not
share that information in a manner that identifies you as an individual
with any other entity, unless we let you know that at the time of
collection or we have your permission. When we share demographic
information with third parties, we will give them aggregate information
only.
In the event that we acquired by another company, your personal
information may be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring
party.
Opt-Out
If you provide us with your e-mail address, and do not
opt-out of receiving e-mail from us, we may e-mail you with information,
including information about selected third parties. If you do not want
to receive information from us, you may decline to receive it (or
“Opt-Out”) either when you provide personal information to us or you may
update your profile. You may also choose to Opt-Out from certain types
of e-mail by following the unsubscribe instructions that appear on each
newsletter. You may also contact us as provided below. Please note that
there might be a brief delay between when you submit your request to
opt-out and when it is processed and reflected in our systems;
accordingly you might continue to receive e-mails from us for a few days
after you unsubscribe. We maintain records of those users who opt-out of
specific e-mail options so that we do not e-mail them with respect to
those types of e-mails, and we may share this information with third
parties who send e-mails on our behalf so that they do not e-mail you;
this information may also be contained in web logs (see above).
Children Under 13
Our site is not directed to children under the age of
13. We assume products purchased through credit card means are purchased
by adults. We respect the privacy of parents and children and are
committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
(COPPA). On those areas of the sites that ask for age, we do not collect
personal information from individuals who identify themselves as under
the age of 13 except in those limited circumstances where we believe
that such collection is permitted under COPPA.
If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal
information to us, he or she can contact us via e-mail or postal mail as
listed below. We will promptly delete the information upon learning that
it relates to a child under the age of 13. Please note that it is
possible some of this information may remain archived in web logs and
back-up archives after we delete the information from its active
database (see above regarding web logs, and below regarding archived
information).
We believe that parents should supervise their children’s online
activities and consider using parental control tools available from
online services and software manufacturers that help provide a
kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children
from otherwise disclosing online their name, address and other personal
information without parental permission.
Profile
You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of your
profile by notifying us when you change your address, title, phone
number, or e-mail address. If at any time you wish to update your
information, sign in and then select ‘update your profile’.
Binding Agreement
Your use of our site, including any dispute concerning
privacy, is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. By
using our Site, you are accepting the practices set out in this Privacy
Policy and our Terms of Use. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy
Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. |
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