Consumerland LLC, a Texas limited liability company (Consumerland), has created this Privacy Policy (Policy) in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of your personal information. The following discloses our general policies relating to information gathering and dissemination practices for this website (the Site). This Policy tells you, among other things, what information we gather from you through our Site, how we may use or disclose that information, and our efforts to protect it.
Notice of Information Collected and Disclosed
We may request such information from you when you register to use our Site or make a purchase through our Site or one of our affiliates. Additionally, we collect information you post to user or discussion community so that this information is shared with our other users. In connection with your use of our Site, we may collect the following information: > The domain name and/or IP address > The e-mail addresses of users who communicate with us via the Site or via e-mail. > Aggregate information on what pages on our Site users access or visit. > Information volunteered by the user, such as information provided if they register with the Site which may include name, address, email, phone, username, password, e-mail address, language of use, time zone, update requests, information posted if you provide product reviews, and general requests for information and other personal information as indicated on forms throughout our Site. > Information about your transactions with us. Providing the voluntary data described above is at your sole discretion. If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Site, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Site. We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Site and to create new features, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user preferences and trends. Consumerland is the owner of the information collected on this Site. Except as provided in this Policy, we do not disclose any nonpublic personal information about you to anyone except as permitted by law, however, we may choose to disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other similar companies with whom we have joint marketing agreements. Your information may be disclosed to companies that provide support services to us in relation to those services, such as payment processors, data processors, technical systems consultants and programmers and advertising firms we use to promote our Site. Additionally, this information may be shared with some Consumerland partners. Consumerland may share aggregate information about our users with advertisers, sponsors and other third parties, though such summary information will not identify any specifics directly related to your identity. We may also provide analysis based on the information we collect, to our strategic alliance partners and other risk sharing partners. We may use the personal identifying information you provide to administer Site usage and monitor traffic-levels, and to contact you regarding improvements we can make to our Site and our services, if necessary. We also may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the Site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell some or all of our assets and, depending on the transaction, your personally identifiable information may be one of the transferred assets. In the event that we are acquired by another company, your personal information may be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party. Similarly, if Consumerland should ever file for bankruptcy or merge with or be acquired by another company, we may sell the information you provide to us to a third party or share your personal information with any entity resulting from such transaction. We may use your e-mail address to assist you if you forget your log-in information or if you subscribe to a topic you will be notified by e-mail when a reply is posted to that topic. We may also use your e-mail address to contact you directly regarding services, products or information that we believe might interest you. Only Consumerland (or agents working on behalf of Consumerland and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings. If you do not want to receive such mailings, you can easily opt-out of receiving further marketing from Consumerland as provided in Choice/Opt Out below. You authorize us to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, violation of obligations to us under our Terms and Conditions or any other agreement or policy, or other illegal activity. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.Disclosure Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Site, in which case Consumerland may not be able to provide certain services to you. To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before creating your user account. The user that created the account for a user is responsible for maintaining the secrecy of a users unique password and account information at all times.Public Forums
This Site may utilize public forums, which may include blogs, forums, message boards and other interactive features. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas is not protected as confidential and becomes public information. You are solely responsible and should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information in these areas.Collection and Use of IP Addresses
We may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the Site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.Cookies
We use cookies (a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them), log files, clear gifs or web beacons (known as action tags or single pixel gifs) information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information such as the services you subscribe to; and (c) to assess the popularity and effectiveness of the material posted on the Site. We may also use web beacons or similar technology in connection with e-mails sent to users, to let us know whether and when the e-mail was opened. (d) as required by our affiliates for their tracking and records. When you register at the Site, Consumerland uses a cookie to store a unique, random user ID. We do not store passwords or any personal information about you. We may use this information to identify you anonymously in our database and to track information while you are on our Site. Cookies also enable you to enter the Site as a registered user without having to log on each time. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use the Site. However, if you turn off cookies, then you may not be able to utilize certain features of the Site.Confidentiality of Transmissions
Please remember that transmissions on the Internet are not always confidential. You are transmitting this information at your own risk. Please see Security below for more information.State Specific Disclosures
For California residents: Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as Senate Bill 27, if you are a California resident and Consumerland has an established business relationship with you, you have the right to request information from Consumerland, free of charge, regarding the manner in which Consumerland shares certain categories of your personal information with third parties (whether collected online or offline), for the third party's direct marketing purposes. California law provides that you have the right to submit a request to Consumerland at its designated address and receive the following information: 1) the categories of information Consumerland disclosed to third parties for the third parties direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year; 2) the names and addresses of third parties that received such information; and 3) if the nature of a third party's business cannot be reasonably determined from the third party's name, examples of the products or services marketed, subject to certain exceptions. You are entitled to receive a copy of this information in a standardized format and the information will not be specific to you individually. For purposes of this paragraph: Consumerland means the Site, and Third Party means: a business that is outside the Consumerland family, and affiliates of Consumerland. This same California law permits Consumerland to provide you, in response to your written request, with a cost-free means to choose not to have your information shared rather than providing the above described information. Consumerland's designated email address for such requests is webmaster@icpainc.org. You may also request this information by writing to: 17300 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1035, Dallas, TX 75248. Additionally, you may request that Consumerland not share your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing use by following the Choice/Opt-Out procedures outlined below. For Vermont residents: Vermont law places additional limits on sharing information about Vermont residents. As long as a user remains a resident of Vermont, we will not share information we collect about Vermont residents to companies outside of Consumerland or to Consumerland affiliates, except: To companies that perform marketing or other services on our behalf; Contact information (like name and address), and transaction information (such as your payment history) with which we have joint marketing agreements; With the authorization or consent of the Vermont resident; or As permitted or required by law. For Nevada residents: We do not share your Customer Information with nonaffiliated third parties for purposes of their offering products and services to you. You do not need to take any action to limit this kind of information sharing. Nevada law requires that we provide you with the following contact information if you desire for Consumerland to include you in our internal do not call registry: Consumerland LLC 17300 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1035 Dallas, TX 75248 Bureau of Consumer Protection Office of the Nevada Attorney General 555 E. Washington Street, Suite 3900 Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 Phone: (702) 486-3132 Email: BCPINFO@ag.state.nv.us In addition, if other states in the future adopt privacy restrictions more restrictive than those under Federal law we will comply with those applicable provisions.Abuse of Terms and Conditions
We have the right to share your name and contact information with our attorneys and law enforcement officials, if needed, in the event we believe you have breached our Terms and Conditions.Choice/Opt Out
If you prefer that we not disclose nonpublic personal information about you to nonaffiliated third parties, you may opt out of those disclosures; that is, you may direct us not to make those disclosures (other than disclosures permitted by law). If you receive communications from us that you do not want to receive, you can opt out from receiving these communications, by specifically telling us to stop sending them to you. We will generally be able to give effect to your withdrawal on 30 day's notice. If you wish to opt out of disclosures to nonaffiliated third parties, you may email your request to Consumerland at legal@consumerland.com.Onward Transfer (Transfers to Third Parties)
We will apply the Notice and Opt-out policies discussed above in the event we propose to disclose your information to a third party.Security
This website takes every reasonable precaution to protect our user's information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. For your security, our credit card processing vendor encrypts sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our order forms using secure socket layer technology (SSL). In order for SSL to work, though, you must have a browser that supports SSL technology. While on a secure page, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers, such as Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just surfing. To learn more about SSL, follow this link: http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2005/ssl.asp. Information you elect to post on this Site, e mails and other information you send to us, except that which you send us on a secure page, is not encrypted and such transmissions cannot be considered a secure means of transmitting sensitive information. Consumerland will never ask you to submit your financial data, such as your credit card account numbers, via e-mail. IF YOU RECEIVE AN EMAIL REQUESTING THAT YOU FORWARD INFORMATION OF THIS NATURE BY EMAIL, PLEASE CONTACT US DIRECTLY AT legal@consumerland.com. DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THE EMAIL. Please click here to find out more information regarding internet scams of this nature often referred to as phishing. You should be aware of the limitations of security, authentication, encryption, and privacy measures used in connection with the Internet and that any information you transmit through the Site may be damaged, corrupted, "sniffed" and/or accessed by another person without your permission. Finally, the servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment, with access restricted. Regardless of the precautions taken by you or by us, perfect security does not exist on the Internet. Third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private. We cannot ensure or warrant the ultimate security of any information you transmit.Linked Sites And Third Party Vendors
The Site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that Consumerland may not be responsible for content or the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site and recommend that they read the privacy statements of each and every website they visit. This Policy applies solely to information collected by this Site. It should be noted that Consumerland may utilize third party vendors for commercial transactions. Please review the policies of these vendors carefully before you disclose any personal information.Age Restrictions; Children's Privacy
This Site is not directed at children under the age of 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If Consumerland obtains actual knowledge that it has obtained personal information about a child under the age of 13, that information is immediately and permanently deleted from our records.Changes to Privacy Policy
We may occasionally change this Privacy Policy. If we do, we will post the changes on the Site. The changes will take effect as soon as posted.Correct/Update
Consumerland provides users the following options for changing and modifying information previously submitted. > You can send email to legal@Consumerland.com. > You can send mail to the following postal address: Consumerland LLC 17300 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1035 Dallas, TX 75248Contact Information
If you have a comment, question or request, or if you need to contact Consumerland for any other reason, there are two easy ways to do so. (a) E-mail: You can e-mail at legal@consumerland.com. (b) U.S. Mail: Send mail to Consumerland at: Consumerland LLC Attn: Legal 17300 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1035 Dallas, TX 75248Acceptance of Privacy Statement
Your use of our website, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this Policy and our Terms and Conditions. BY USING OUR SITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. The changes take effect as soon as posted. Your continued use of any portion of our Site following posting of the updated privacy statement will constitute your acceptance of the changes.