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Privacy
Policy
PRIVACY
POLICY
-- IMPORTANT --
PLEASE READ
This
Privacy
Policy
describes the terms of our commitment to
your privacy.
PERSONS
OR PARTIES COVERED
This
Privacy Policy is intended to
cover all visitors to this website, all subscribers to lists or
newsletters whether paid or unpaid, all members or affiliates whether
paid or unpaid, and all customers. Persons who visit or view this
website, whether intentionally or unintentionally, whether solicited or
unsolicited, are described herein as "Visitors" and are parties to this
Privacy Policy. Subscribers to lists or Newsletters are referred to
herein as "Subscribers" and are parties to the Privacy Policy. Persons
who join an organization or marketing endeavor (e.g. "affiliates")
promoted by this website are called "Members" herein and are covered by
this Privacy Policy. Finally, anyone who orders, attempts to order, or
receives a product sold (recipients) or advertised on or delivered from
this website, even at no cost, is called a "Customer" herein and is
subject to this Privacy Policy not only by passive acceptance, but by
virtue of the Purchase Agreement contract. The website, its agents,
owners, operators, and employees are referred to collectively herein as
"Website," "Site," and/or "Seller".
PERSONS
EXCLUDED FROM THIS
WEBSITE ARE STILL COVERED
In
the event that a person
excluded from this website because
of the Terms of Use or from denial of service by the website, who
nonetheless unlawfully views this site, that person remains subject to
the terms of this Privacy Policy and is in violation of the Terms of
Use.
PERSONS
UNDER 18 YEARS OF
AGE ARE EXCLUDED FROM THIS WEBSITE
This
website is not lawfully
accessible to persons under the
age of 18 or who are otherwise covered by the provisions of the Child
Online Privacy Act of 1998 (COPA). If you are under the age of 18 you
must leave this site immediately. Fraudulent use of this website may
make you subject to civil or criminal sanctions.
VIEWING
AND/OR USE AND/OR
COMMUNICATION IS CONSTRUED AS
ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY
Acceptance
of the terms of
this Privacy Policy is a portion of
the consideration required for your right to visit the website. If you
do not accept these terms, you have no right to visit this site and you
are fraudulently using this site.
A
NOTE TO CALIFORNIA
RESIDENTS (ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT
OF 2003 --OPPA)
It
is the intent of the
Privacy Policy to comply with the
California Act. Various provisions throughout this Privacy Policy
address requirements of the act. In summary, you must presume that we
collect electronic information from all visitors. This is not usually
personally identifiable. If you purchase a product or service via this
website (and thereby become covered by the Act), the purchase agreement
you electronically sign prior to purchase allows the website to collect
and archive all the personal information you provide and to transmit
and/or transfer that personal information to third parties. There is no
way you can modify this information and you have no right to do so.
Under the terms of the purchase agreement, you have no right to view or
receive any information about our database. In the event that the
website, under advice of counsel agrees to divulge information, the
requesting party must submit whatever information is demanded by the
website in insure that the website is releasing information to the
correct party. Other provisions of the OPPA may exempt this website
from complying. While we take measures to ensure that outside parties
do not have access to any information we have about you, we do not
warranty that outside parties will not breach our system and thus have
access to your information. (You should know that merchant service
providers do not allow us access to your credit card information.) This
Privacy Policy also is subject to change without notice. You are
required to read it prior to using the website. By interacting with the
website you agree to the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy. By
using the website or purchasing a product through this website, you
waive the right to use state or federal court systems to address
complaints and, instead, agree to use the American Arbitration
Association located in a city and county specified herein.
ABOUT
THE PERSONAL
INFORMATION THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND HOW
IT IS USED
This
website routinely
collects information about its
visitors, subscribers, members, and customers. This information is
obtained in various ways, such as: Registrations, Memberships,
Subscriptions, Purchases, Surveys using webpage submission forms, the
use of pop-ups, one time offers, cookies, IP Addresses of the visitors.
VISITOR,
SUBSCRIBER, MEMBER, OR CUSTOMER INFORMATION
OBTAINED
FROM 'REGISTRATION'
Registration
means that the
Visitor, Subscriber, Member or
Customer takes active, positive steps to communicate information to
this website. This can include pages or 'pop ups' where you register
for a newsletter or subscribe to a mailing list; it can include your
participation in visitor surveys; it can include requesting information
from the website via email, mail, or courier; it may be from joining an
affiliate program or other membership organization, paid or unpaid; it
may be from ordering a product.
Occasionally
complete credit
card information may be provided
to the website via fax or a fill-in form rather than regular secure
merchant service processing. This information is kept at the highest
level of security and is never divulged to anyone except the merchant
service provider or for the purpose of communication with the customer.
ONLINE
ORDERING
Online
ordering via SSL
encrypted communication provided by
shopping cart services supporting merchant service companies like Visa
and Master Card provides information to the website but does not
provide complete credit card numbers. In the process of online
ordering, the customer provides, name, address, city, state, email
address, phone number, CVV2 (back of card) number, and, occasionally a
member password. You should consider all this information available to
the website. This information is used to deliver the product, but under
the Purchase Agreement you also approve its use for general
solicitation purposes.
VISITOR
EMAIL INQUIRIES
Website
visitors who wish to
communicate with the website do
so under two conditions: one, they give their permission for contact by
the website; two, they are subject to any ‘submission' provisions of
the Terms of Use, Purchase Agreement, or this Privacy Policy. While
your email address may or may not be used to solicit you, it is added
to the website's general solicitation database.
CUSTOMER
EMAIL OR
TESTIMONIALS
If
you are a customer and
send an email to the website, or if
you communicate with the site by phone or mail, the website collects
information about your communication and by communicating with the site
you give your permission to collect, archive, retrieve, and otherwise
use any information collected as the site sees fit.
Any
communication which, in
its sole discretion, the site
deems to be a testimonial, may be publicized for commercial purposes.
INFORMATION
OBTAINED FROM
VISITOR INTERACTION WITH BANNERS,
POPUPS, OR SITE ADVERTISERS
Visitors
clicking on banners
or pop-ups or hyperlinked
advertising, appearing on this website must assume that information is
being collected about them. This site is not responsible for the use of
information collected in such a fashion. Visitors must assume that (1)
information will be collected, (2) that ‘cookies' will usually be
placed on their hard drive, (3) that website does not have any control
over what happens with this information, (4) that website takes no
responsibility over the accuracy or content of advertisers, (5) that
website is not responsible for downloads from third party advertisers
that contain viruses or worms or other computer code that causes their
computer or software harm, and (6) that website assumes no
responsibility for the data that is garnered from the click itself or
that the advertiser collects.
INFORMATION
OBTAINED FROM
REFERRING EMAIL OR REFERRING URLS
If
you send a friend an
email from this site or if you send
the url or one of our web pages to a friend, you must assume that some
data is collected about your IP address or your email address and that
of your friend. You must assume that referred emails or web pages may
appear to come from your email. You must accept fully responsibility
for referring pages or email to a friend and agree to indemnify this
site for any damage, intentional or unintentional that results from
said referrals.
INFORMATION
OBTAINED FROM
VOLUNTARY VISITOR, SUBSCRIBER,
MEMBER OR CUSTOMER SURVEYS
Unless
otherwise specified
in the survey, you must assume that
any information provided to the website as part of a survey in which
you participate may be used for general solicitation for commercial
purposes and that such information will be shared with joint venture
partners, affiliates, marketing organization or used by the site itself
for product design or solicitation purposes.
INFORMATION
OBTAINED FROM
ELECTRONIC MEANS AND 'COOKIES'
Many
websites, including
this one, collect information about
your computer, your email address, your IP address. You must assume
that your web-viewing or web-use activity is monitored, tracked, and
information collected. This information is not usually of a personal
nature, but it may help define your viewing habits and product
preferences even though the website may or may not have any idea who
you are.
"Cookies"
is web jargon for
bits of computer code placed on
your hard drive. Websites use this to keep you 'logged in', to keep
track of search criteria, to monitor use, to password protect use of
the site or use of products sold by the site. Cookies can also be used
to obtain information about your computer configuration or your use of
your computer.
Cookies
can be used to
electronically gather information about
you. Again, it may or may not be personal information, but it is
information and by using this site you are expressly giving permission
to use 'cookies' and to use the information gathered from their use to
benefit you. You also give permission to collect, archive, retrieve,
and use any information collected for product design, product offers to
you, and general commercial solicitation purposes by this site or joint
venture partners, affiliates, and marketing organizations.
SPAM
By
providing to
this website information that forms
the basis of communication with you, such as an email address, you
waive all rights to file complaints concerning unsolicited email or
spam from this website since, by providing such information, you agree
to receive communication from us or other marketing organizations.
However, all email communication with you shall contain an
'unsubscribe' link where you may notify the website that you no longer
wish to receive solicitations or information from the website and your
name will be removed from the general solicitation database.
DATA
SECURITY
This
website takes measures
to protect its data that contains
information related to you. However, as a consideration for viewing
this site or interacting with this site in any manner, you waive all
claims of any nature against this site concerning the loss, alteration,
or misuse of information. You must assume that it is possible for your
personal data to be obtained by others, such as "hackers," and used in
an inappropriate manner that may cause you harm and that you agree that
the site is not responsible for damages to you.
QUESTIONS,
COMMENTS, OR
REPORT OF INCIDENTS
You
may direct questions,
comments or reports to: Helpdesk
REVISIONS
TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
WITHOUT NOTICE
This
Privacy Policy is
dynamic. It will continually change.
You may not assume that it remains the same and you agree to check the
policy each time you visit the site for changes. Unless, in the sole
opinion of the website, this policy changes so drastically as to
suggest a posted notification on the site or via email, you will
receive no notification of changes to this Privacy Policy nor, under
any circumstances, does this site promise notification. Your continued
use of this site always evidences your acceptance of the terms this
Privacy Policy or any modifications.
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