Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy
May 1st 2008
We recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies to all ofthe products, services and websites offered by this website oraffiliated companies.If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free tocontact us through the contact link at the index page of this website.

Information we collect and how we use it

We offer a number of services that do not require you to register foran account or provide any personal information to us. In order toprovide our full range of services, we may collect the following typesof information:

Information you provide - When you sign up for a User Account orother service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you forpersonal information (such as your name, email address and an accountpassword). For certain services we may also request credit card orother payment account information which we maintain in encrypted formon secure servers. We may combine the information you submit under youraccount with information from other of our services or third parties inorder to provide you with a better experience and to improve thequality of our services. For certain services, we may give you theopportunity to opt out of combining such information.

Our cookies - When you visit our website, we send one or morecookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to yourcomputer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies toimprove the quality of our service by storing user preferences andtracking user trends, such as how people browse our site. Most browsersare initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browserto refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.However, some of features and services we offer may not functionproperly if your cookies are disabled.

Log information - When you use our website and, if offered,services, our servers automatically record information that yourbrowser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs mayinclude information such as your web request, Internet Protocoladdress, browser type, browser language, the date and time of yourrequest and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify yourbrowser.

User communications - When you send email or other communicationto us, we may retain those communications in order to process yourinquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Affiliated sites - We offer some of our services in connectionwith other web sites. Personal information that you provide to thosesites may be sent to us in order to deliver the service. We processsuch information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sitesmay have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read theirprivacy policies.

Links - We may present links in a format that enables us to keeptrack of whether these links have been followed. We use thisinformation to improve the quality of our website and, if offered,services.

Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies this web site only. Wedo not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results orlinks from within our various services. These other sites may placetheir own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data orsolicit personal information from you. We only processes personal information for the purposes described inthe applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specificwebsites and, if offered, services. In addition to the above, suchpurposes include:

• Providing our products and services to users, including the display of customized content and advertising;
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our website and services;
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
• Developing new websites and, if applicable, services.

We process personal information on our servers in the United States ofAmerica and in other countries. In some cases, we process personalinformation on a server outside your own country. We may processpersonal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we mayprocess personal information on behalf of and according to theinstructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners. Choices for personal information When you sign up for a particularservice that requires registration, we ask you to provide personalinformation. If we use this information in a manner different than thepurpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consentprior to such use. If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other thanthose described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices,we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personalinformation for those other purposes. We will not collect or usesensitive information for purposes other than those described in thisPolicy and/or in the specific service notices, unless we have obtainedyour prior consent. You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services,in which case we may not be able to provide those services to you.

Information sharing

We only shares personal information with other external companies or individuals in the following limited circumstances:

• We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
• We provide such information to all of our businesses, affiliatedcompanies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose ofprocessing personal information on our behalf. We require that theseparties agree to process such information based on our instructions andin compliance with this Policy and any other appropriateconfidentiality and security measures.
• We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation ordisclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfyany applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceablegovernmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service,including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect,prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or
  (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety ofthis website, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
• If we engage in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of someor all of our assets, we will provide notice before personalinformation is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacypolicy.
• We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated,non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched fora particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on aparticular advertisement. Such information does not identify youindividually.

Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorizedaccess to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction ofdata. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storageand processing practices and security measures, as well as physicalsecurity measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems wherewe store personal data. We restrict access to personal information to our employees,contractors and agents who need to know that information in order tooperate, develop or improve our offerings. These individuals are boundby confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline,including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meetthese obligations.

Data integrity

We process personal information only for thepurposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policyor any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our datacollection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we onlycollect, store and process the personal information needed to provideor improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that thepersonal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, butwe depend on our users to update or correct their personal informationwhenever necessary. Accessing and updating personal information When you use our websiteand, if applicable, services, we make good faith efforts to provide youwith access to your personal information and either to correct thisdata if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if itis not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimatebusiness purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves andthe information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed beforeprocessing such requests, and we may decline to process requests thatare unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionatetechnical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would beextremely impractical or for which access is not otherwise required. Inany case where we provide information access and correction, we performthis service free of charge, except if doing so would require adisproportionate effort.

Enforcement

We regularly review our compliance with this Policy. Please feel freeto direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or ourtreatment of personal information by contacting us through the contactlink on the index page. When we receive formal written complaints atthis address, it is our policy to contact the complaining userregarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriateregulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, toresolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data thatcannot be resolved between us and an individual.

Changes to this policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Wewill not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicitconsent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, wewill post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes aresignificant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, forcertain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each versionof this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by itseffective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this PrivacyPolicy in an archive for your review. If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy,please feel free to contact via the contact link on the index page.