
PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is very important to us. We want to make your experience on the
Internet as enjoyable and rewarding as possible, and we want you to use the
Internet's vast array of information, tools, and opportunities with complete
confidence.
We have created
this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and security.
This Privacy Policy describes how MSquaredMarketing (“our
Company”) collects
information from all end users of our Internet services (the
"Services")-those who access some of our Services but do not have
accounts ("Visitors") as well as those who may purchase Products
and/or pay a monthly service fee to subscribe to the Service
("Members"). This Policy also explains what we do with the
information we collect, and the choices Visitors and Members have concerning
the collection and use of such information. We request that you read this
Privacy Policy carefully.
Personal
Information Our Company Collects and How It Is Used
Introduction
Members may be
asked to provide certain personal information when they sign up for our
Products or Services including name, address, telephone number, billing
information (such as a credit card number), and the type of personal computer
being used to access the Services. The personal information collected from
Members during the registration process (or at any other time) is used
primarily to provide a customized experience as you use our Products and
Services. Your information will never be licensed or sold to any third party.
However, we may make limited disclosure of personal information under the
specific circumstances described in the "Disclosure" section below.
Disclosure
We may disclose
Member and Visitor information to the following third parties, under the
following circumstances:
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Companies who work on our behalf: We contract with other companies to perform
business support functions on our behalf, which may involve limited access
to your personal information. We require these companies to use the
information only to provide the contracted services; they are prohibited
from transferring the information to another party except as needed to
provide those services. Some examples of these business support functions
include order fulfilment, coupon fulfilment, award and rebate fulfilments,
customer survey execution and information systems management. We also may
make aggregate non-personal information available to select service
providers.
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Subsidiaries and joint ventures: A subsidiary or a joint venture is an
organization in which we own at least a 50% interest. If our Company
shares your information with a subsidiary or joint venture partner, our
Company will require that they not transfer your information to another
party for marketing purposes or use your information contrary to your
expressed choices. If you have indicated that you do not want to receive
any marketing information from our Company, we will not share your
information with our subsidiary or joint venture partner for their
marketing purposes.
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Co-branded and Partner Pages: Our Company may share information with partner
companies who jointly present special offers or promotions on co-branded
pages within our site. You will be notified of this sharing when you are
asked to furnish personal data on such a page. The partner's use of any
information you submit will be governed by the partner's own privacy
notice, which you can review before submitting your information.
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Business Transfers: Our Company reserves the right to transfer your
personal information in connection with the sale or transfer of all or a
portion of our business or assets. If the business is sold or transferred,
our Company will give you an opportunity to tell us not to transfer your
personal information. In some cases, this may mean that the new organization
will not be able to continue providing to you the services or products
that our Company provided.
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Law Enforcement: Our Company may disclose personal information
to third parties without your consent for any of the following reasons: to
comply with any law, regulation or court order, to cooperate with
Government investigations, to help prevent fraud or to enforce or protect
the rights of our Company or its subsidiaries.
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With Your Consent: In all other cases, our Company will obtain
your express consent before sharing your information with third parties.
For example, our Company may conduct a joint offer or contest with a third
party and you will be asked whether your personal information should be
shared with that third party.
Online
Shopping
If you order
services or products directly from our Company we will use the personal
information you provide only to process that order. We do not share this
information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete
that order.
If you complete an
order for some other company(ies) that may be linked to our Site, such as an
online gift order sent directly to a recipient, you may be asked to provide
information about the recipient, such as the recipient's name, address, and
phone number. Our company has no control over the third parties' use of any
personal information you provide when placing such an order. Please exercise
care when doing so. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the Privacy
and Terms of Use policies of any other company(ies) whose web sites you may
access from our site.
Online
Advertisements
Our company may
display our online advertisements. In those cases we share aggregated and
non-identifying information about our Visitors and Members collected through
the registration process as well as through online surveys and promotions with
these advertisers.
Additionally, in
some instances, we use this aggregated and non-identifying information to
deliver tailored advertisements or joint ventures. For instance, an advertiser
or joint venture company tells us the audience they want to reach and provides
us an advertisement tailored to the audience. Based upon the aggregated and
non-identifying information we have collected, we may then display or send the
advertisement to the intended audience. Our company does not share personal
information about its Visitors or Members with these advertisers or joint
venture companies. Information about how to opt-out of online advertisements
you may receive from our Company will be contained in the ads themselves.
Responses
to Email Inquiries
When Visitors or
Members send email inquiries to our company, the return email address is used
to answer the email inquiry we receive. Our company does not use the return
email address for any other purpose and does not share the return email address
with any third party.
Voluntary
Customer Surveys
We may periodically
conduct both business and individual customer surveys. We encourage our
customers to participate in these surveys because they provide us with
important information that helps us to improve the types of products and
services we offer and how we provide them to you. Your personal information and
responses will remain strictly confidential, even if the survey is conducted by
a third party. Participation in our customer surveys is voluntary. Information
about how to opt-out of surveys will be contained in survey communications.
We may take the
information we receive from individuals responding to our customer surveys and
combine (or aggregate) it with the responses of other customers we may have, to
create broader, generic responses to the survey questions (such as gender, age,
residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry sector, or other
demographic information). We then use the aggregated information to improve the
quality of our services to you, and to develop new services and products. This
aggregated, non-personally identifying information may be shared with third
parties.
Automatic
Collection of Information
Cookies: Our
Company may use "“Cookies" to collect information. Cookies are small
pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive, at
a web site's request. Our Company Cookies do not contain any personal
information, but are used primarily as follows:
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to keep track of temporary information. For
example, Cookies allow us to keep track of the pictures you upload and
download;
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to register you in special programs. Cookies
allow us to remember you when you login to the places on our site that
require Membership;
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to remember your country and language
preferences;
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to help us understand the size of our audience
and traffic patterns;
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to collect and record information about what you
viewed on our Web site and what you viewed in our e-mail;
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to manage and present site information and the
pictures displayed on your computer, and
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to deliver information specific to your
interests.
Web
Beacons: We may also place
small "tracker gifs" or "beacons" on many of the pages on
our website, in online advertising with third parties, and in our email. We use
these beacons, in connection with Cookies, to collect non-personal data on the
usage of our site including but not limited to the date and time of the visit,
the pages visited, the referring web page, the type of browser (e.g., Internet
Explorer, NetScape), the type of operating system (e.g., Windows, Linux, or
Mac), and the domain name of the visitor's Internet service provider (e.g.,
AOL). This information is collected about thousands of site visits and analyzed
as a whole. This information is useful in, for example, tracking the
performance of our online advertising such as online banner ads and to
determine where to place future advertising on other web sites.
Disabling
Cookies and Beacons : If you
are uncomfortable with the collection of such information through the use of
Cookies and Beacons, we recommend disabling these features through your browser
preferences, though please understand this will limit the performance and
functionality of our Company's Web site. Your browser documentation should
provide specific procedures for disabling cookie and beacon support.
Child
Privacy
Protecting the
online privacy of children is especially important, and those under the age of
13 are protected by law. For that reason, our Company does not knowingly permit
children under the age of 13 to become registered members of our sites, or to
buy goods and services on our sites, without verifiable parental consent. Our
Company does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information about
children under 13, except with their parent's express consent.
If we ever include
children under the age of 13 as part of our intended site audience, those
specific web pages will, in accordance with the provisions of the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), be clearly identified and provide an
explicit privacy notice; and we will provide processes to obtain parental
approval, provide access to information and allow parents to request removal of
their children's personal information.
Our Company
encourages parents and guardians to spend time with their children online and
to participate in their interactive activities and interests.
Public
Forums
Some parts of our
site may enable you to participate in public services such as discussion
boards, chats, and live events. Please use discretion when posting personal
information about yourself when using these services. Be aware that when you
disclose personal information at these sites, such as your name, member name,
email address, etc., the information may be collected and used by others to
send unsolicited email. The services are open to the public, and what you post
there can be seen by anyone and is not protected. We cannot control the
comments that you may receive while you participate in these services. You may
find other people's comments to be offensive, harmful or inaccurate.
Our
Company's Commitment to Data Security
We implement a
variety of administrative, managerial, and technical security measures to help
protect your personal information. Our Company has various internal control
standards which relate specifically to the handling of personal information.
These include certain controls to help safeguard the information we collect
online. Our employees are trained to understand and comply with these controls
and we communicate our Privacy Notice, practices and guidelines to our
employees. However, while we strive to protect your personal information, you
must also take steps to protect your information. We urge you to take every
precaution to protect your personal information while you are on the Internet.
Services and Web
sites we sponsor have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse,
and alteration of the information under our control. While we make every effort
to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot
guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party
"hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.
Where to
Direct Questions About Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact us through the contact information provided on this Web site. Revisions to This Policy Our Company reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy, our Terms Of Use & Service agreement, and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner, by updating this posting.
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