Privacy Policy
PRIVACY
POLICY
Effective
Date: December 8th, 2009 – V1.3
PLEASE READ. YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS
SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICY AND THE WEBSITE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS.
I.
Notice
II.
Personally Identifiable
Information That We Collect
III.
E-mail Newsletter Subscriptions
IV.
User Accounts
V.
Special Promotions and
Purchases; Submission of Content to be Published
VI.
Information Collected by Other Means or Media
VII. Information
About Other People
VIII. Customer Service
IX.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information That We Collect
X.
Cookies and Related Technology
XI.
Special Notice Regarding Children Under 13
XII. Use,
Disclosure, and Sharing of Information
a. Non-Personally Identifiable
Information
b. Personally Identifiable
Information
XIII. Our Commitment
to Data Security
XIV. Hyperlinks To and
From Other Sites
XV. Consent to
Processing in the United States
XVI. Contact Us
Regarding Privacy
XVII. Notification of
Changes
____________________________________________________________________________
I. Notice
The “Website” refers to the website at www.infomillionaire.com and www.infomarketingmonthly.com, its
sub domains, and related domains such as http://www.infomillionairesupport.com.
This Website is owned or operated by Secret Headquarters, Inc., a Georgia
Corporation and/or its subsidiary companies in the United States of America
(collectively, "COMPANY"). This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy")
applies to information that you provide to COMPANY via this Website, and/or by
use of other services (collectively, the "Services") that may be
provided by other means or media, including as set forth below and as defined
in the applicable Terms
and Conditions or other terms.
This Privacy Policy is intended to provide you
notice of COMPANY's information management practices, including the types of
information gathered, how it is used and safeguarded, and the degree to which
you may control the maintenance and sharing of your information. Your use of
any COMPANY Service or Website constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy
and any other applicable terms. This Privacy Policy is part of and incorporated
by reference into the Terms and
Conditions for this Website.
II. Personally Identifiable Information That We
Collect
COMPANY respects your privacy and is committed
to protecting personally identifiable information that you provide in
connection with your use of its Websites and Services. Such personally
identifiable information collected includes your name, shipping address,
billing address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and payment information
such as your credit card number.
III. E-mail Newsletter Subscriptions
To subscribe to our e-mail newsletters, if any,
you will need to provide your e-mail address. You may also be asked for other
information when you subscribe.
IV. User Accounts
In order to use our chat rooms, message boards,
and certain other Services, you will need to register and create a user account
("User Account"). There is no cost to create a User Account in most
cases. You may be asked to choose a user name, screen name, or member name
(each, a "User Name") and password. Please do not use your real name
or the real name of another person when selecting a User Name. You will also be
asked to provide certain personally identifiable information and other information
about yourself, such as your first and last name, date of birth, address,
telephone number, and e-mail address.
Please note that your User Name will be
available to the Internet's general public while you participate in some
Services, like chat rooms, forums or message boards, so you should exercise
discretion when using these Services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any
information you may disclose publicly in such Services. In some instances, you
may choose to create a "Public Profile" that will be available to
others on the Internet. Public Profiles are managed entirely by you, and you
are solely responsible for your Public Profile's content and its
"public" or "private" status. The Company bears no
responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any
information that users may disclose in user forums or other public areas of
this Website. You are also responsible for maintaining and updating the
registration information in your User Account with current and complete information.
You may access, edit or remove your Public Profile by signing in to your User
Account and following the directions there. You can also send an e-mail to privacy@infomillionaire.com
to request deactivation of your User Account.
Please review our restrictions on use and
guidelines for user forums in the “Terms and Conditions” for the
Website.
You can unsubscribe from receiving
commercial e-mail from the Website by clicking the link contained within such
e-mails sent to you. You should be aware that it is not always possible to
completely remove or modify information in our databases. In addition, we may
institute a policy in which user information is deleted after a certain amount
of time, and therefore, your user information may no longer exist in the
COMPANY's active database(s). In addition, even if you choose to unsubscribe or
otherwise modify your User Account settings, the COMPANY reserves the right to
contact you regarding your account and your use of this Website.
V. Special Promotions and Purchases; Submission
of Content to be Published
To participate in some Services such as
sweepstakes, contests and surveys ("Special Promotions"), or to make
online purchases ("Purchases"), you will need to provide personally
identifiable information, such as name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone
number, and date of birth. Your information may be collected by COMPANY or by a
third party, such as a co-sponsor or a vendor involved in, or providing
services in connection with, a Special Promotion, or an e-commerce partner in
the case of a Purchase.
If you make a Purchase or enter a sweepstakes
or other Special Promotion on one of our sites or through our Services, COMPANY
will collect your personally identifiable information, and you are deemed to
consent to us providing your information to third parties who provide certain
services such as processing of credit card transactions, customer service,
promotion or sweepstakes administration, order fulfillment and/or prize
delivery, as applicable. (As more fully described below in “Use, Disclosure,
and Sharing of Information - Personally Identifiable Information”, these third
parties are prohibited from using this information for their own marketing purposes
and/or from sharing, selling, or otherwise distributing any personal data of
our customers, unless you choose to opt in for such additional uses and/or
disclosure by the third parties, under their respective privacy
policies.). Also, by entering a sweepstakes or other Special Promotion,
you are agreeing to the official rules that govern that sweepstakes or other
Special Promotion, which may contain specific requirements of you, including,
except where prohibited by law, allowing the sponsor(s) of the promotion to use
your name, voice or likeness in advertising or marketing associated with the
promotion.
If you make a purchase or enter a promotion
(such as a sweepstakes) in which COMPANY is participating on a third party's
website (or through some other means or medium), we will collect your
information from the third party only if you opt-in to receive additional
communications from us, or we are required to fulfill some function in relation
to your activity (e.g., to send your order or deliver a prize).
If you submit to the Website a comment,
photograph or other content to be published, online or offline (including
on-air, in a DVD, or any other format), we may publish your name or other
personally identifiable information in connection with publishing the content
and you are hereby deemed to give us permission to do such.
VI. Information Collected by Other Means or
Media
In some situations, we may also collect
personally identifiable information and other information about you through
other means, directly or indirectly. For example, if you access any COMPANY
content, or purchase such content via your wireless carrier or through another
third party, the COMPANY may collect information directly from you or through
the third party. Likewise, if you use our software, or provide information to
other companies who share information about their customers, we may collect
additional information about you. In each of these cases, the COMPANY will
apply this policy to any personally identifiable information.
VII. Information About
Other People
Some COMPANY Websites and Services may ask you
to submit personally identifiable information about other people. If you
provide us with personally identifiable information of a friend, or your friend
provides personally identifiable information about you, to e-mail a feature
from the Website, the e-mail addresses you or your friend supply us for those
activities will not be used to send you or your friend other e-mail
communications unless disclosed at the time you provide the information. A
record of that transaction will be maintained as allowed and/or required by
law.
VIII. Customer Service
Some Services may offer support and technical
assistance through customer service centers via telephone, online chat, or
e-mail. Whenever you communicate with customer service, you do so with the
understanding that an operator may view and make changes to the information in
your User Account in order to provide the assistance that you need.
IX. Non-Personally Identifiable Information
That We Collect
As part of the registration process for some
Services, you may be asked to provide information that does not personally
identify you. For example, you may be asked to provide information concerning
your personal preferences, purchasing habits, and the like. This information is
generally optional but may be included in your User Account profile. COMPANY
requests this information to understand you better and to also bring to your
attention new services, programs, or offers that may be of interest to you.
In many cases, COMPANY will automatically
collect certain non-personally identifiable information about your use of its
sites and Services. COMPANY might collect, among other things, information
concerning the type of Internet browser or computer operating system you are
using, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your "click
path" through the COMPANY sites or "click-through" from an
e-mail, the Website or advertisement that was linked to or from the COMPANY
site when you visited, and your IP address. To do this, COMPANY may use cookies
and other technology (see below). If you are using our wireless Services, we
may also automatically collect information such as the type of wireless device
you are using, your mobile identification number (assigned by your
telecommunications carrier) and telecommunications carrier. Your use of our
Websites and Services, and information provided through these technologies,
will be anonymous unless you provide us with personally identifiable
information or have provided such information in the past.
X. Cookies and Related Technology
This Website's pages or e-mail messages may
contain cookies, web beacons (also known as clear gifs), or similar
technologies as they become available. Cookies are information files that this
Website may place on your computer to provide extended functionality. The
COMPANY may use cookies for a number of purposes, such as tracking usage
patterns on the Website, measuring the effectiveness of advertising, limiting
multiple responses and registrations, facilitating your ability to navigate the
Website and as part of a verification or screening process. Most browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies. Most browsers will allow you to erase
cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive
a warning before a cookie is stored. You should refer to your browser
instructions, "Help" screen, or similar such resource to learn more
about how to manage cookies and possibly reset your browser to refuse all
cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent by indicating this in the
preferences, options, or similar such menu in your browser. However, it is
possible that some parts of this Website will not operate correctly if you
disable cookies and you may not be able to take advantage of some of this
Website's features. You should consult with your browser's
provider/manufacturer if you have any questions regarding disabling cookies.
The COMPANY’s web pages may include
advertisements for third parties and their products, and those third-party
advertisements may include a cookie or web beacon served by the third
party. The COMPANY does not control cookies in such third party ads, and
visitors are encouraged to check the privacy policies of advertisers and/or ad services
to learn about their use of cookies and other technology. The COMPANY's Privacy
Policy does not cover the use of information collected from you by third party
ad servers. These companies may use information (not including your name,
address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to this and
other Websites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites
about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
A web beacon is a small graphic image that
allows the party that set the web beacon to monitor and collect certain
information about the viewer of the web page, web-based document or e-mail
message, such as the type of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address
of the computer that the web beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon was
viewed. Web beacons can be very small and invisible to the user, but, in
general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or e-mail, including
HTML based content, can act as a web beacon. The COMPANY may use web beacons to
count visitors to the web pages on the Website or to monitor how our users
navigate the Website, and the COMPANY may include web beacons in e-mail
messages in order to count how many messages sent were actually opened, acted
upon or forwarded.
XI. Special Notice Regarding Children Under 13
COMPANY recognizes the sensitivity of
personally identifiable information concerning children under the age of 13 and
therefore provides this special notice. COMPANY is committed to complying with
all applicable laws and regulations regarding children, including the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). Except in limited
circumstances allowed by COPPA, COMPANY will not knowingly collect, maintain,
or disclose any personally identifiable information from a child under 13
without first obtaining consent from that child's parent or legal guardian.
If you are a parent or guardian who has
discovered that your child under the age of 13 has submitted his or her
personally identifiable information without your permission or consent, COMPANY
will make reasonable efforts to remove the information from its active list, at
your request. To request the removal of your child's information, please send
an e-mail to privacy@infomillionaire.com
and be sure to include in your message the same User Name and password and/or
e-mail address that your child submitted.
COMPANY encourages parents and guardians to
spend time online with their children to become familiar with the types of
content available on the COMPANY Web sites and the Internet generally.
XII. Use, Disclosure, and Sharing of
Information
a.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
From time to time, COMPANY may use and share
with third parties aggregate, non-personally identifiable user information to
show general demographic and preference information among users of the COMPANY
Web sites. When you visit or download information from this Website, our
web servers may automatically collect website usage information. Website usage
information is non-personally identifying information that describes how our
visitors use the Website. It can include the number and frequency of visitors
to each web page and the length of their stays, browser type, referrer data that
identifies the web page visited prior and subsequent to visiting the Website,
and IP addresses (see below for more information on IP addresses). COMPANY may
use IP addresses for a number of purposes, such as system administration, to
generally determine your computer's server location, to report aggregate
information to our business partners or to audit use of the Website. We also
may determine your screen resolution and the technology available in order to
serve you the most appropriate version of a web page, e-mail or similar
service.
b. Personally Identifiable Information
COMPANY uses information about you to deliver
the Services that you request, to keep you informed about changes affecting our
Services or your account, to inform you of other Services or offers in which
you might be interested, and to improve and enhance our sites and Services. If
you provide COMPANY with personally identifiable information, we will take all
reasonable and appropriate steps to protect it from unauthorized disclosure.
If you opt in to receive e-mail from us, you
can always opt out of future marketing messages by following the directions in
each message to "unsubscribe”. However, if you choose to opt out of
marketing messages, we reserve the right to contact you regarding your account
status, technical support, product information, changes to account terms, and
any other matter that might affect our service to you and/or any products you
purchased from us or registered with us, as applicable.
As stated in the Terms and Conditions, you will
be deemed to have consented to the disclosure to, and use by, a subsequent
owner or operator of a COMPANY Website or Service, of any information about you
contained in the applicable COMPANY database, if COMPANY or one of its
companies assigns its rights and obligations regarding any of your information
at the time of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or substantially all of
COMPANY's or such COMPANY company's assets related to the applicable site or
Service to a subsequent owner or operator. In the event of such a merger,
acquisition, or sale, your continued use of the Website or any related Service
signifies your agreement to be bound by the Terms and Conditions, California
Privacy Policy and Privacy Policy of the Website's or Service's subsequent
owner or operator.
The COMPANY and its companies may work together
in order to provide portions of the COMPANY Websites and some Services (e.g.,
to fulfill prizes won in a sweepstakes, or to provide other support for a
Service). These companies will handle your personally identifiable information
in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
As stated above in “Personally Identifiable
Information That We Collect - Special Promotions and Purchases; Submission of
Content to be Published”, COMPANY may also work with third parties to
provide some Services on our Websites. In connection with those Services, you
are deemed to consent to us sharing your information with third parties who
provide services such as processing of credit card transactions, customer
service, promotion administration, order fulfillment and/or prize delivery, as
applicable. Third parties who provide, or participate in, Services on COMPANY
Websites are prohibited from using our customers' personally identifiable information
for marketing purposes and/or from sharing, selling, or otherwise using such
information, unless you choose to opt in to marketing, sharing, or other uses
by the third parties. If you do not want your information to be used for
marketing (or other purposes unrelated to the provision of COMPANY Services) by
a third party who participates in a Service on one of our sites, do not opt in
to such use by that third party when you register to participate in the
Service.
Please note that whenever you opt in to receive
future communications from a third party, your information will be subject to
the third party's privacy policy. If you later decide that you do not want that
third party to use your information, you will need to contact the third party
directly, as we have no control over how third parties use information. You
should always review the privacy policy of any party that collects your
information to determine how that entity will handle your information.
COMPANY
will not share, sell, rent, or disclose any personally identifiable information
that we have collected except as stated herein, or in the following instances; 1) where we supply companies we have associations with, with your
information in order to offer you services we feel may be of interest to you
and who may then contact you by telephone or direct mail (unless you have opted
out of their marketing programs under the procedures set forth by them – See
our California
Privacy Policy for more information); 2) where we are required by law, legal
process, or court order to disclose;
3) where disclosure is necessary to identify,
contact, or bring legal action against someone who may cause or be causing harm
to, or interference with, the COMPANY's rights or property, other COMPANY
Website users, or anyone else; or 4) to respond to an inquiry, request or
complaint that you have made. COMPANY may also use IP addresses it collects in
cooperation with Internet service providers, to identify users if we deem it
necessary to comply with law, to enforce compliance with this Privacy Policy or
our Terms and Conditions, or to protect our sites, customers, or others.
XIII. Our Commitment to Data Security
While COMPANY takes reasonable and appropriate
precautions to protect your personally identifiable information from
unauthorized disclosure and to prevent possible security breaches in our
Websites, Services, and customer databases, no website, Internet transmission,
computer system, or wireless connection is completely secure. Consequently,
COMPANY cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other
breaches will never occur. Your use of the COMPANY Websites and Services is at
your own risk. COMPANY urges you to take steps to keep your information safe by
memorizing your password or keeping it in a safe place (separate from your
account information), logging out of your User Account, and closing your Web
browser.
Whenever you give COMPANY sensitive or
confidential information (for example, credit card numbers for Purchases),
COMPANY will take commercially reasonable steps to protect the information by
establishing a secure connection with your Web browser. COMPANY employs a
security technology known as a secure-socket-layer ("SSL") to protect
the transmission of payment information to the site. Unless otherwise specified
herein or on the Website where you make a Purchase, credit card numbers are
used only for payment processing and are not retained for marketing purposes.
XIV. Hyperlinks To and From Other Sites
COMPANY sites may frame, and/or contain links
to, or advertisements about, non-COMPANY Web sites. Other sites may also
reference, advertise, or link to COMPANY Websites. COMPANY does not endorse or
sponsor other websites, is not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of non-COMPANY sites, expressly disclaims any statements or assertions
made on such websites, and denies and disclaims all liability associated with
your use of, and the content on, such other sites and advertisements.
XV. Consent to Processing in the United States
By providing any personally identifiable
information to COMPANY, all users, including, without limitation, users in the
member states of the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent
to this Privacy Policy and to the collection, storage, and processing of such
information in the United States of America.
XVI. Contact Us Regarding Privacy
COMPANY is dedicated to protecting your
personally identifiable information and welcomes comments and questions on this
Privacy Policy. You may e-mail your questions or comments to:
Please note that information submitted to the
Website via a "contact us," "help" or other similar e-mail
address or form will not necessarily receive a response. We will not use the
information provided to these e-mail addresses or forms for marketing purposes
unrelated to your request.
XVII. Notification of Changes
COMPANY reserves the right to change this
Privacy Policy and its Terms and Conditions at any time. In case of any
material change to the Privacy Policy, we will replace the "Privacy
Policy" link on the home page of our sites with a link entitled
"Updated Privacy Policy" for no less than 30 days. All changes to the
Privacy Policy and/or Terms of Service will be effective when posted, and your
continued use of any COMPANY Website or Service after the posting will
constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.