Privacy Policy for The Herpafend,
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.
Please note, by purchasing
our product, you will be opted-in to our mailing lists.
We
have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm
commitment to privacy and security. This Privacy Policy describes
how 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”)-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:
Our company collects information in different ways from Visitors
and Members who access the various parts of our Services and the
network of Web sites accessible through our Service. We use this
information primarily to provide a customized experience as you
use our Products and Services, and generally, do not share this
information with third parties. However, we may disclose personal
information collected if we have received your permission
beforehand or in very special circumstances, such as when we
believe that such disclosure is required by law or other special
cases described below.
Registration: 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 is used to manage each Member’s account (such
as for billing purposes). This information is not shared with
third parties, unless specifically stated otherwise or in special
circumstances.
However, in instances where our company
and a partner jointly promote our Services, we may provide the
partner certain personal information, such as the name, address,
and username of persons who subscribed to the Services as a result
of the joint promotion for the sole purpose of allowing us and the
partner to assess the results of the promotion.
In this
instance, personal information may not be used by the partner for
any other purpose. We may also generate non-identifying and
aggregate profiles from personal information Members provide
during registration (such as the total number, but not the names,
of Members). As explained in more detail below, we may use this
aggregated and non-identifying information to sell advertisements
that appear on the Services.
Our Company Partners and
Sponsors: Some products and services may be offered to Visitors
and Members in conjunction with an affiliate, independent
contractor seller or non-affiliated partner. To provide Visitors
and Members some of these products and services, the partner may
need to collect and maintain personal information. In these
instances, you will be notified before any such data is collected
or transferred and may decide not to use that particular service
or feature.
Additionally, our partners may have
advertisements or co-branded Web Pages that are cosponsored by an
affiliate, independent contractor seller, or non-affiliated
partner. Our company may share non-identifying and aggregate
information (except as described above), but not personal
information, with such partners in order to administer the
co-branded products or services offered.
Online
Shopping: At some Web sites, you can purchase products and
services or register to receive materials, such as a newsletter,
catalog or new product and service updates. In many cases, you may
be asked to provide contact information, such as your name,
address, email address, phone number, and credit/debit card
information.
If you complete an order for someone else,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Promotions:
Our company may offer polls, contests, sweepstakes, drawings,
games, content, or other promotions that are sponsored by or
cobranded with third parties. In certain instances, company may
have to supply personally identifiable information of the winners
to the third parties. Our company has no control over third
parties’ use of this information.
You may be entered in
a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion, simply by making a
purchase from us or by providing us with personally identifiable
information for some other reason or purpose. When the winning
entries are chosen, only the names and personally identifiable
information of the winners are shared with the entity
administering the sweepstakes or contest, so that they can notify
the winners.
Special Cases: It is our company’s policy
not to use or share the personal information about Visitors of
Members in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also
providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such
unrelated uses.
However, we may disclose personal
information about Visitors or Members, or information regarding
your use of the Services or Web sites accessible through our
Services, for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe
that it is reasonable to do so, including: credit agencies,
collection agencies, merchant database agencies, law enforcement,
or to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy
Act, the Child Online Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or
legal requests for such information; to disclose information that
is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against
someone who may be violating our Acceptable Use Policy or Terms Of
Service, or other user policies; to operate the Services properly;
or to protect our company and our Members.
Notice of
Compliance to California Residents – Your California Privacy
Rights Under The California Online Privacy Protection Act and the
California Business and Professions Code
This privacy
policy identifies the categories of personally identifiable
information that our company collects through our Web site or
online service, about individual consumers who use or visit our
company’s commercial Web site or online service and the categories
of third-party persons or entities with whom our company may share
that personally identifiable information.
Our company
does not maintain a process for an individual consumer who uses or
visits our commercial Web site or online service to review and
request changes to any of his or her personally identifiable
information that is collected through our Web site or online
service.
See the section below entitled “Revisions To
This Policy” for a description of the process by which our company
notifies consumers who use or visit our commercial Web site or
online service of material changes to our company’s privacy policy
for this Web site or online service.
The effective date
of this privacy policy is listed at the end of this privacy policy
under the heading, “Last updated.”
For the purposes of
this policy and California compliance the following definitions
apply:
Depending on the visitor’s activity, in our
commercial Web site or online service, the following “personally
identifiable information” may be collected, in addition to
information set forth in other sections of this document.
The
term “personally identifiable information” means individually
identifiable information about an individual consumer collected
online by our company from an individual and maintained by our
company in an accessible form, and may include any of the
following:
A first and last name.
A home or other
physical address, including street name and name of a city or
town.
An e-mail address.
A telephone number.
A
social security number.
Any other identifier that permits the
physical or online contacting of a specific individual.
Information
concerning a user that the Web site or online service collects
online, from the user, and maintains in personally identifiable
form, in combination with an identifier described within this
privacy policy.
Under California Law SB 27, California
residents have the right to receive, once a year, information
about third parties with whom we have shared information about you
or your family for their marketing purposes during the previous
calendar year, if any, and a description of the categories of
personal information shared. To make such a request, please send
us an email and please include the phrase “California Privacy
Request” in the subject line, the domain name of the Web site you
are inquiring about, along with your name, address and email
address. We will respond to you within thirty days of receiving
such a request.
“Cookies” and How Our Company Uses
Them. A “cookie” is a small data file that can be placed on your
hard drive when you visit certain Web sites. Our company may use
cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track information for
statistical purposes to improve the products and services we
provide and to manage our telecommunications networks.
If
you are a Visitor or Member we may use a cookie to save your
settings and to provide customizable and personalized services.
These cookies do not enable third parties to access any of your
customer information. Additionally, be aware that if you visit
other Web sites where you are prompted to log in or that are
customizable, you may be required to accept cookies.
Advertisers
and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control use
of these cookies and expressly disclaim responsibility for
information collected through them.
Our Company
Commitment to Children’s Privacy. Protecting children’s privacy is
especially important to us. It is our policy to comply with the
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other
applicable laws. Therefore we restrict our Web site to persons
eighteen years or older.
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18)
YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN
YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR
ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEB SITE,
NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEB SITE, FALLS WITHIN THE
CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (COPPA) AND IS NOT
MONITORED AS DOING SO.
Public Forums: Please remember
that any information you may disclose in any Member Directory, or
other public areas of our Web sites or the Internet, becomes
public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to
disclose personal information in these public areas.
Our
Company’s Commitment to Data Security: 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 Service agreement, and our
other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner, by
updating this posting. Your use of this site after such changes
are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of
these changes. Please consult this privacy statement prior to
every use for any changes.
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