Consumer Privacy and Security Policy
This Website understands your concerns with privacy and the use of your personal information. When you browse through our Website, we assure you that we are committed to protecting your personal privacy.
This privacy policy covers any website owned by our company as linked on the about us pages as applicable (individually, a “Website”). We encourage you to read this Policy carefully before providing any personal information on our Website. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy, you should contact us by clicking the Contact link.
Information Collected and How We Use It
Personal information collected on our Website is used to improve the content of our Website, customize the content or layout of our Website for individual users, provide services requested, notify users of updates to the Website, respond to any questions, problems or complaints, or request feedback and, subject to the limitations set forth below, to develop new products and services and to contact consumers for marketing purposes.
We collect email addresses of consumers who communicate with us or through our authorized vendors via email. We also collect information about web pages visited and other information that is provided by consumers either on our Website or in response to email communications from us.
We also collect information provided to us by consumers in purchase requests submitted through our Website or our authorized vendors’ websites (“Purchase Request Information“). Purchase Request Information typically includes name, address, and phone numbers, email address.
We may also collect other types of information during registration or in connection with your other activities on our Website, such as demographic information and information about or contained in postings you make in forums, blogs or any other interactive areas of our Website; your answers to surveys, your participation in sweepstakes, contests, games and promotional offers; and in any email request you send us for any reason (such as to request customer service or provide us with comments or feedback).
All information provided by consumers in any of the above-listed ways or otherwise becomes the property of our company once received by us and may be used and disclosed as permitted in this Policy.
Invite/Email-A-Friend
If you choose to use our Website to tell a friend about our Website, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Website. We use this third party information (email, name) for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our invite program.
Browsing on our Website
If you browse through our Website without entering any personal data, we will gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and cannot be linked back to you unless you decide at some point to identify yourself.
Personalization
Our Websites offer our users the advantage of personalization on our Website by using Cookies. Personalized services are offered in designated areas of our Website to users who register with us. We may track consumer interest in goods and services marketed to users who are members of our on-site personalization areas. This information is used solely by our company and its affiliated companies for business purposes.
Special Sections of Our Website
We offer forums and blogs on our given Websites. Any information you disclose in these forums and blogs is available to all registered members and may increase the risk of receiving “spam” or unsolicited email from other parties. Be careful and use discretion when disclosing information online.
Other Uses
We share your personal information with third parties in order to identify products or services in which you may have interest, to improve our user experience and generally to engage in market research and for other internal business purposes. We may also aggregate your personal information with others’ information and prepare reports on Website usage, purchase history or other factors for sale or distribution to others. Those reports are aggregated and include no personally identifying information. In addition, personal information provided on our Website may be linked together or merged with other personal information we obtain about you so that we may better understand your needs and inform you about our products or services and those of third parties with which we have a business relationship. Also, if we receive personal information from third parties with whom we have business relationships, we may combine this information with the other personal information we maintain about you. In either case, this Policy governs our use of this information. Finally, we may use your personal information to send you communications regarding products or services offered by us or by third parties in which we think you may be interested unless you have declined to receive these third party communications.
Third Parties That May Receive Your Personal Information
In addition to our own internal uses of your personal information, we may provide your personal information to non-affiliated third parties under one or more of several circumstances:
- To provide you with services or products that you have requested;
- To our advertiser clients solely to assess the effectiveness of ad campaigns we have provided for them;
- To contractors or service providers who may provide services or perform functions on our behalf, in which case those service providers may use your information only for the purposes provided and not disclose it to any third party except upon our direction;
- To enforce our rights or as required by law or order of a court or government agency; and
- On occasion, and only as permitted to other third parties who may wish to send you email or postal mail regarding services or products that you may find of interest or for other reasons that are disclosed to us and that we believe to be appropriate and consistent with our commitment to prevent abuse of your personal information.
In addition, we may release personal information when we believe release is appropriate to protect our users or others from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of our Website or its services; to protect our rights or property; to enforce policies or contests, sweepstakes, promotions, or game rules; or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical, economic or other harm to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay.
Purchase Request Information
Purchase Request Information is used to transmit to third parties requests for products or services. Typically, in either case the information is transmitted to partners or fulfillment entities, as applicable, who may be in a position to respond to your request. As part of the request process, we may verify the information you provide, or obtain omitted address or other contact or demographic information, from third parties.
Right To Decline Communications
We provide our users with the ability to choose whether to receive certain communications from us and whether to permit their information to be disclosed to third parties for marketing or related purposes.
Users who come directly to our Website will not receive those communications or have their information disclosed to third parties for marketing or related purposes unless they affirmatively consent or are already receiving such communications.
Users whose purchase or other requests are submitted through third-party websites and are referred to us will receive those marketing communications and their information will be shared with other third parties unless they elect to opt out of those communications and disclosures.
In addition, we provide you the opportunity to indicate your preferences as to what types of offerings of products or services you wish to receive from third parties or – subject to the exceptions below.
Those third parties who receive your personal information prior to your opt-out will remain able to send you communications, subject to their privacy policies and practices.
In each case, even if you decide not to receive offers or other product or service information, our fulfillment third-parties and other referral services, may use a phone number, mailing address or email address that you have provided to contact you regarding a request or content that you have submitted or in connection with other administrative matters, such as operation of our Website. Additionally, phone numbers may be used to conduct customer surveys regarding individual experiences with our websites. Phone numbers are made available only to our company, its affiliates and member referral services who receive your request.
The submission of a request itself is permission for us to submit your Purchase Request Information to third parties to fulfill your request. If you request to opt-out of receiving emails from us and subsequently submit a purchase request (either directly or submitted through third-party websites and are referred to us), we will assume that you wish to reinstate your relationship with us and we will use your information as set forth herein, unless you subsequently request to opt-out. Each time you submit a purchase request, this process will restart.
Security
No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We cannot guarantee protection of all information against interception, misappropriation, misuse, or alteration, or that your information may not be disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or by the unauthorized acts of others. Furthermore, we have no control over the security of other websites you might visit.
Your registration information is accessible online only through the use of a password. To protect the confidentiality of personal information, you must keep your password confidential and not disclose it to any other person. You are responsible for all uses of the Website by any person using your password. Please advise us immediately if you believe your password has been misused or otherwise misappropriated.
We restrict access to personal information about you to our employees and third parties who need to know that information in order to manage your account or provide you with services or information you requested. We review our safeguards from time to time, and strive to maintain them in a manner consistent with applicable regulations, if any, that may be in effect from time to time. Any of our employees who violate these policies and procedures are subject to disciplinary action.
Children
We do not intend, and the Website is not designed, to collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 years old, you should not register with or otherwise provide personal information to our Website.
Cookies
We offer users the convenience of online personalization by using Cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your website browser. When this information is stored on your hard drive, our system is able to recognize your browser and in turn customize web page content for you.
Cookies cannot be used to retrieve data from your hard drive, obtain your email address or obtain personal information about you. When a Cookie is set, your browser will check it for length, an expiration date, and where it originated.
We also use a third party tracking service that sets cookies on our Website to track visits, page views and click stream behavior. The third party tracking service reports this data to us in aggregate so we can better understand our users and to improve our Website. This information is not tied to any individual user. We have no access to or control over these third party tracking utilities.
If you prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will explain how to disable cookies under the help portion of the toolbar or notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, if you choose to disallow cookies on your hard drive, our Website will not be able to provide personalization services.
We may use third party network advertising providers to serve the advertisements on our Website. Network advertising providers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to this Website and other sites you have visited. Although the advertising providers do not have access to the Website cookies, they may set and access their own cookies on your computer if you choose to have cookies enabled in your browser. Cookies allow the ad providers to show you advertisements or content in which you might be interested. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one.
Google Advertising
Google and the DoubleClick DART cookie:
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
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Business Transfers and Other Transactions
Information about our users and our Website is a business asset of our company. As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy websites, subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, personal information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing privacy policy. Also, in the event that our company or substantially all of its assets are acquired, personal information will of course be one of the transferred assets. In addition, personal information will be disclosed as part of any creation of a separate business to provide our Website, or to provide other services or fulfill products; debt financing, sale or pledge of company assets, or insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the acquirer of our users’ personal information respects the provisions of this Policy, although this may not be possible in certain legal settings (such as bankruptcy).
Changes to This Policy
If we are going to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated in this Policy at the time of collection, we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not to allow us to use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices, we will revise this Policy and update the date displayed at the top of this Policy to reflect that the policy has been changed. In some cases we will also email users who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
Disclaimer
We take our commitment to protection of your privacy, as set out in this Policy, seriously. Nevertheless, NOTHING IN THIS PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY IS INTENDED TO CREATE OR PROVIDE ANY RIGHT OF ACTION FOR VIOLATION.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND THIS WEBSITE
This Website is offered to you, the user, conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions and notices contained herein. Your use of this Website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions and notices.
INFORMATION
The information on this Website is being provided for educational purposes only. This Website is designed to enable users to obtain information from industry news providers, Any product quotes are estimates only and exclude state and local taxes, as well as any state and local governmental charges, including without limitation, license fees, software fees, etc. On occasion, unintentional, but material, errors may occur in the data that forms the basis of such quotes furnished through this Website. In such an event, this website will not honor such quotes. This website, in its sole discretion, will make the determination as to whether a quote is materially inaccurate as a result of unintentional data entry errors.
DISCLAIMERS
This website is not responsible for statements made by others on web pages or websites not controlled by us. This website is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness for a particular purpose or completeness of information provided by third parties that are available on or through the website.
PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION
This Website is for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from this Website. The content available through this Website is the sole property of this Website or its licensors and is protected by patent, copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. Except as otherwise explicitly agreed in writing, owned content received through this Website may be downloaded, displayed, and printed for your personal, non-commercial use only. Content owned by affiliate licensors may be subject to additional restrictions. You agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate the content received through this Website to anyone, including but not limited to others in the same company or organization without our express prior written consent.
LIABILITY DISCLAIMER
ALL CONTENT PROVIDED ON THIS WEBSITE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT IN ANY MANNER CREATE A LEGAL CONTRACT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED BETWEEN THIS WEBSITE AND YOU. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES PUBLISHED ON THIS WEBSITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY MADE TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. THIS WEBSITE AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THIS WEBSITE AT ANY TIME. THIS WEBSITE AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THIS WEBSITE AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THIS WEBSITE AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES.
NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
As a condition of your use of this Website, you warrant to our company that you will not use this Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
This Website may contain hyperlinks to Websites operated by parties other than this Website. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference only. This Website does not control such Websites, and is not responsible for their contents. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such Websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such Websites.
MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS AND DISCLAIMERS
We reserve the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which this Website is offered at any time without notice.
GENERAL
This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Travis County, Texas, USA in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of this Website. Use of this Website is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and our company as a result of this agreement or use of this Website. This website’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of our right to comply with law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of this Website or information provided to or gathered by our company with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of this agreement shall continue in effect. This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and our company with respect to this Website and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and our company with respect to this Web site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
