Privacy Policy
This privacy policy covers how we treat personal information that we
collect and receive. We do not intend to collect any personal information from
children under 13 unless we believe such collection to be permitted by law.
Please see below for our policy with respect to children under 13.
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.
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.
We use companies to serve the advertisements on some of our pages.
These companies and advertisers may place and access their cookies on your
computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy
policies, not ours. We may use your information or allow advertisers or
companies that serve advertisements access to your information to determine
which advertisements you will see. This information may include your
demographic information, geographic location, what content you access on our
site, how you rate various content, language contained in your comments and
other information.
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.
Applications you use or download from our site may contain third party
digital rights management systems ('DRMS') which may allow for communication
between your software and the third party and utilize security features (e.g.,
preventing distribution of or access to the applications in the event of
unauthorized use). These DRMS are subject to their own license agreements and
you agree that we shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort relating
to the use of the DRMS or your dealings with such third parties. The
applications may also contain DRMS produced by us which allow for communication
between the applications you use or download and our systems and which collect
information describing your computer system in order to prevent illegal or
unauthorized use of the applications.
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).
DoubleClick DART and Third-Party Vendors Vookies
We also may use DART and third-party vendors cookies for ad serving
through Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you
are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including
some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific
to you and your interests ("interest based targeting"). The ads
served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example,
if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas
hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about
hockey). DART cookies use "non personally identifiable information".
It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email
address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank
account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on
all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
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 we, 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.
Other
We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control. These include a firewall to
prevent unauthorized access to our systems and maintenance of registration
information in a separate database. Although we will exercise reasonable care
in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our
servers, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information
transmitted to us over the Internet and we accept no liability for any
unintentional disclosure. We will protect the transmission of credit card
information through industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
We may offer chat, user reviews, multi-player games, bulletin board, or
other public functions and any posting by you is considered public information
available to other users. Any posting is governed by our Terms of Use. You
should take care to not use personal information in your screen name or other
information that might be publicly available to other users.
If a user elects to use our site for informing a friend about our site
or particular features or content, we ask them for the friend's name and e-mail
address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them
to visit our site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending
this one-time e-mail.
Your personal information is password-protected, and you should take
appropriate measures to protect the secrecy of your password. If you use a
computer in a public place or share a computer with others, remember to sign
out and close your browser window when you finish a session with us in order to
prevent others from accessing your personal information.
We maintain archives of our web logs, database, and other systems and
information. Please note that it is possible some of this information may
remain archived after we delete the information from its active database (see
above regarding web logs). We maintain archives for disaster recovery, legal
and other non-marketing purposes.
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 or stop receiving
communication from us, sign in and then select "update your profile"
to change your newsletter preferences.
Contact
Please address comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy to
us by this form: Contact Us.
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. Please check the revision date at the bottom of this page
to determine if the statement has been modified since you last reviewed it.
Your continued use of any portion of our Site following posting of the updated
Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
