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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:
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. |