(Amended
as of January 17, 2012)
PLEASE NOTE: OUR PRIVACY
POLICY CHANGES FROM TIME TO TIME. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES
This Web
site is not directed at persons under the age of 18. By registering on this
Site through the submission of the information requested, you agree that the
following terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy shall govern our use and
disclosure of your personal information. When you register with this website
you explicitly authorize us to share your information with third party partners
to contact you via email. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of
our Privacy Policy, please do not complete the information request form (i.e.,
do not register) or otherwise use or access this Site. If you have already
registered by completing the information disclosure forms, and you wish to
opt-out from receiving more information from us, please
click on this link
to "Opt-out."
Your e-mail address will be added to the suppression files associated with this
Site within ten (10) business days of your request. Thereafter, you should not
receive any email correspondence from us. However you will still receive
promotional communications from our third party partners with whom we have
shared your information. To stop receiving further communications from these
third parties you will need to contact them directly in order to opt-out.
Please note when you opt-out of receiving promotional communications from us,
we will no longer make your information available to our third party partners.
This
Privacy Policy describes in some detail the information that we collect from
you as part of the normal operation of our service, and what may happen to the
information we collect.
Your privacy is very
important to us
We
understand that some of the information that you might provide on our Site is
personal and private. By submitting your personal information, you are
entrusting us to handle information that you regard as private, for the
purposes and in the manner set forth in this Privacy Policy. In exchange for
your trust, you expect us to handle your personal and private information in a
professional manner that will be in keeping with your trust. Our Privacy Policy
explains what information we obtain on this Site, and how we use the
information disclosed to us to link you to our business affiliates who have
expressed a willingness to provide you with the products and services
associated with this Site.
Who We Are
We are an
on-line consumer service that introduces persons such as yourself to certain of
our business affiliates who have expressed a general willingness to review your
information and determine if they are willing to provide you with the services
or products that prompted you to visit our Site. When you visit our Site, you
will be requested to complete provide certain information that our business
affiliates request in order to perform a preliminary analysis of your
qualifications to receive the service or products. Based upon your consent, as
evidenced by your registering with us on this Site (i.e., your submission of
the requested information on the application), we will forward the information
that you provided to certain of our business affiliates.
In
addition, from time to time, we or our business affiliates may provide you the
additional service (the "Premium Service") of sending you e-mail you
or otherwise corresponding with you to inform you of additional opportunities
to receive special offers for other services and/or products that we believe
may be of interest. There are no fees for Premium Service, and you are under no
obligation to accept any service or product with any of our business affiliates
offered under the Premium Service.
Information We Collect
The
information that we collect is generally limited to personal information about
you that our business affiliates consider necessary for performing a
preliminary evaluation of your qualifications. To the extent that you can order
products, enter contests, express an opinion, or subscribe to a service(s), the
type of personally identifiable information that may be collected may include:
name; address; e-mail address; telephone number; fax number; credit card
information; information about your interests in and use of various products,
programs, and services; education level; educational interests; home owner
status; income; debt level; current mortgage; mortgage rate and the like. To
the extent that you are requested and you do submit information about other
people, such information will be limited recipient's name, address, e-mail
address, and telephone number.
We also
collect user information that can help us optimize and enhance your experience
on our Site; as well as provide you with an efficient, safe, smooth, and
customized experience. For example, if you came to this Site from an online
banner ad, pop-up or other advertisement, an anonymous identification number
may be passed to our Site. In some cases, we may place a cookie in your
browser. The aforementioned information cannot, by itself, be used to gather
any personally identifiable information about you, but it will allow us to
track the overall effectiveness of our online advertising campaigns. We also
automatically track certain information with respect to your behavior on the
Site through the forgoing cookie or identification number. This non personally
identifiable information may include the Internet address or URL that you just
came from and which URL you go to next; your computer browser information; and
your IP address. We use this non personally identifiable information in
conjunction with some of the information that you provided to us to do internal
research on our users' demographics and behavior; and to better understand how
to best serve other users of this Site. Third parties may also set cookies on
our sites to determine proper site usage and click count.
We also
utilize Web Logs to track aggregate information about how our site is being
used. Web Logs track anonymous user information, including but not limited to
the number of visitors to our site, operating systems and browser type. Unlike
cookies, Web Logs are maintained only on our servers and do not store or place
anything on the user's computer.
How We Use Your
Information
We collect
the information that you submit and which our business affiliates consider
necessary for performing a preliminary evaluation of your qualifications for
their products and services. Prior to sending your information to our business
affiliates, we attempt to validate it. For example, we may compare and review
your personal information for errors, omissions, and accuracy based upon past
usage and response; or compare your information against other publicly
available files; or validate some of the personal information submitted to
verify that the information inputted has a high probability of being valid
information.
After we
submit your information to our business affiliates, our business affiliates may
begin a separate and independent evaluation of the information you submitted
(the "Preliminary Application"). If our business affiliates find that
the Preliminary Application meets with their more specific acceptance
criterion, they may contact you directly by phone, mail or e-mail. For more
information on how our business affiliates will handle your personal
information, please visit our business affiliate's website, and review their
privacy policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content
of our business affiliates' Web sites.
Once you
have registered with us, you are automatically enrolled to receive our Premium
Service. We use the information you provided, along with other information
described below, to create a general user profile. This profile can be created
by combining your information with other sources of information such as
information obtained from public databases, or from your browsing habits
surrounding your visit to this Site.
We may use
personal information to provide the services you've requested, including wireless
services that display customized content and advertising. In addition to any
fee of which you are notified, your provider's standard messaging rates apply
to our confirmation and all subsequent SMS correspondence. You may opt-out and
remove your SMS information by sending "STOP", "END",
"QUIT" to the SMS text message you have received. If you remove your
SMS information from our database it will no longer be used by us for secondary
purposes, disclosed to third parties, or used by us or third parties to send
promotional correspondence to you.
Please note that we have the ability to retain any data that you provide on this website, even if you do not complete your [registration/transaction] by clicking [submit/next]. Such contact details and data may be used [state purpose(s) e.g. to contact you to inquire why you did not complete your [registration/transaction]
WE MAY USE INFORMATION
THAT WE HAVE COLLECTED FOR ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE, INCLUDING SELLING
OR TRANSFERING SUCH INFORMATION AT ANY TIME TO THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY LEGALLY
PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE.
For
example, we may share your personal information with select business affiliates
so that they can contact you and offer you products and or services that we
believe might be of interest to you. This may include e-mail advertising,
telephone marketing, direct mail marketing, and online banner advertising to
name a few. In addition, we may maintain separate e-mail, mailing or phone
lists for different purposes based on the information that you submitted and
that we maintain. For your information, our business affiliates have all agreed
to operate in accordance with federal and state laws and regulations relating
to the handling of your personal information. You may learn more about any of
our business affiliate's privacy policy by visiting our business affiliates'
Web sites at such times as such affiliate may contact you. We are not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of our business
affiliates' Web sites. If you wish to end any e-mail correspondence from us,
you will need to Opt-out from receiving further correspondence by advising us
of your decision to Opt-out by clicking a link in the e-mail to our Opt-out
procedures. Within ten (10) business days, your e-mail address will be placed
on a suppression list and we will no longer correspond with you by email or
resell or transfer your information to third parties. If you wish to end future
correspondence with any of our business affiliates, you will need to follow the
instructions at the end of any such each e-mail message from them to
unsubscribe from such business affiliate's e-mail. You are able to opt-out when
registering with us.
We may also
disclose your personally identifiable information in response to a subpoena,
court order, or other legal process; as well as the transfer or sale of
personally identifiable information pursuant to the sale of our business or
assets. Should such a combination or acquisition occur, we will require that
the new combined or acquiring entity follow this privacy policy with respect to
your personal information. If we transfer ownership of the site to another
company, we will notify you by email or by general notice on our site. In
addition to the forgoing, we may also sell, transfer or share
non-individualized information, such as summary or aggregated anonymous
information about all persons or sub-groups of persons visiting this site.
We cannot
ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information
will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
For example, third parties may unlawfully intercept personal data or access our
servers and obtain personal data. Therefore, although we use industry standard
practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, nor you should not
expect, that your personal information would always remain private.
Certain
sensitive information such as credit card numbers or other information such as
social security numbers and drivers licenses ("Financial
Information") collected on the site and associated data is encrypted and
protected with SSL encryption software from the time it is captured by our
application to the time it is transmitted to our servers. For more information
on the encryption and protection of your information, please see How We Protect
Your Privacy.
Application of this
Privacy Policy
This
Privacy Policy applies to consumers that have signed up on the website. We may
sell the personal information that you supply to us and we may work with other
third party businesses to bring selected retail opportunities to our members
via direct mail, email and telemarketing. These businesses may include
providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and
reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation and email marketing
How We Protect Your
Privacy
We protect
your privacy in a number of ways. As an initial matter, any Financial
Information transmitted to our servers via a secure server is encrypted using
SSL technology. SSL is a protocol that transmits your communications over the
Internet in an encrypted form. The protocol ensures that the information is
sent, unchanged, only to the server you intended to send it to.
Once your
information reaches our server, it is protected by a firewall. With a firewall
in place, your information is virtually inaccessible to third parties. In
addition to encryption and firewall protections, we have all of our business
affiliates agree to operate in accordance with federal and state laws and
regulations, including regulations relating to CAN-SPAM and rules promulgated
by the FTC. If we learn that any of our business affiliates are breaching our
agreement, and therefore your trust, we will take corrective actions
immediately or terminate our relationship with such business affiliate.
We follow
generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information
submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of
transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100%
secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable
means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute
security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can
mail us at the address indicated below in the Contact Us section.
Changes; Opting-Out
If you want
to change the information that you submitted, please do so by making another
request through our Site. We will not be able to change information that is
forwarded on to our business affiliates. Please contact the business affiliates
directly to change any of your information.
If you want
to request to be removed from further communication with this Site, including
our Premium Services, please Opt-out by clicking
on this link
to our Opt-out procedure. We will place your e-mail address on a suppression
file associated with this Site. Persons whose names appear on our suppression
file, will have their e-mail addresses checked against all correspondence to be
sent by us. Where there is a match, the planned email correspondence will be
withheld, and such person will receive no further email correspondence from us.
Your e-mail address will be placed on the suppression list associated with this
Site within ten business (10) days of your request. Once you have opted out, we
will no longer forward you email from this site but we are not responsible or
in control of the business practices of our business affiliates who have been
forwarded your information.
Notification of Changes to
Privacy Policy
We may
update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a new privacy policy on the
Site. Be sure to check the current terms of any privacy policy in effect by
visiting this Site. By checking the effective date of the policy, you will be
immediately alerted on whether the Privacy Policy has been updated. Please note
however, that the updated privacy policy will go into effect automatically 30
days after initial posting. From time to time, we may use your information for
new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. Please
note that if our information practices change at some time in the future, we
will use only data collected from the time of the new privacy policy amendment
forward for those new purposes. If we make material changes to this policy, we
will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.