Communications from
Us: Service Updates, Special Offers
In order to best serve our customers, we may send updates that contain
important information about our sites and services. For example, we send new
members a welcoming message, and verify password and username for our
password-protected sites. We may also communicate with a user to provide
requested services and for account-related issues via e-mail, phone or regular
mail.
We
offer our users the option to receive information about our company, related
products, services and special deals. Users can choose not to receive these
communications, as set forth in our Permission section below.
Automatic Data
Collection
At this time we use temporary cookies to help subscribers on our site. We
currently do not use permanent cookies to obtain information from our users,
however this may change in the future if we feel it will help us deliver a
better site for our subscribers and users.
Our web sites have
features that automatically collect information from users, to deliver content
specific to users' interests and to honor their preferences. This information
assists us in creating sites that will serve the needs of our users.
We use out temporary
"cookies," a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing
information about the user. Cookies benefit the user by requiring login only
once, thereby saving time while on our site. If users reject the cookies, they
may be limited in the use of some areas of our site.
Some of our business
affiliates use cookies on our site in ads or promotions. However, we have no
access to or control over these business affiliates' cookies; we urge users to
read their privacy policies for information.
For our internal
purposes, we gather date, time, browser type, navigation history and IP
address of all visitors to our site. This information does not contain
anything that can identify users personally. We use this information for our
internal security audit log, trend analysis and system administration, and to
gather broad demographic information about our user base for aggregate use.
We
may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber at registration
with site usage data to provide general profiles, in aggregate non-personally
identifiable form, about our users and their preferences in the content of the
site and advertising. We may share this composite information with our
advertisers and business affiliates to help them better understand our
services.
WITH WHOM YOUR
INFORMATION IS SHARED
When we have co-branded, customized, private label, powered by or sponsored
products and services, or when we join with other parties to provide specific
services, we may share (provide and receive) personal information with them.
We do not share credit card information with such third parties.
On occasion, we may
provide targeted lists of names and offline and online contact information for
marketing purposes to third parties, subject to our Permission policies, as
described below. We give users the option of not having their name or contact
information disclosed to third parties, as set forth in the Permission section
below.
Other than as set forth
above, we do not share personally identifiable information with other
companies; apart from those acting as our agents in providing our
product(s)/service(s), and which agree to use it only for that purpose and to
keep the information secure and confidential. Also, our subsidiary and
affiliate companies, entities into which our company may be merged, or
entities to which any of our assets, products, sites or operations may be
transferred, will be able to use personal information. We will also disclose
information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in
response to a court order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response
to a law enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when we have reason
to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact
or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or
interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or
property. Users should also be aware that courts of equity, such as U.S.
Bankruptcy Courts, might have the authority under certain circumstances to
permit personal information to be shared or transferred to third parties
without permission.
