PWUnleashed.com and all
of it's websites want to help you make the most of your visit to
our web sites, and that includes helping to protect your
personal privacy. Most of the features on our web sites are
offered without collecting any Personal Information from you.
You can surf PWUnleashed.com’s web sites and view much of our
content anonymously. For those areas of our web sites and
services that do require us to collect Personal Information,
this Privacy Policy will tell you what you need to know to make
good decisions for yourself and your family.
This Privacy Policy
discloses when and how we collect, use, share, and safeguard
information from this web site. The Personal Information we
collect depends on what you do when you visit our sites or use
the various products or services we offer. This Privacy Policy
also explains what to do if you do not want to provide Personal
Information when you visit our web sites, and how to correct or
change information you have already provided to us.
By using this web site,
you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy, as posted
in this area of the site. If you do not agree with any terms or
practices described in this Privacy Policy, please do not use
our web sites.
As used in this Privacy
Policy, “Personal Information” means personally identifiable
information, such as your name, street address, telephone
number, date of birth and e-mail address. When Personal
Information is collected, you will know because you will have to
fill out a form on the web site. When you make a purchase, or
sign up for a paid service, a third party website (PayPal.com)
handles credit card transactions. You can view PayPal's Privacy
Policy by clicking here.
Children
PWUnleashed.com is
committed to providing special protection for the privacy of
children who may visit our web sites. PWUnleashed.com is also
committed to fully complying with the Children’s Online
Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). We encourage parents to
spend time online with their children, become familiar with the
features of our web sites and participate in the activities
offered on our web sites. Our protections for the privacy of
children include the following:
We do not knowingly
collect, use or retain any Personal Information, for any
purpose whatsoever (including internal or external marketing
or promotional purposes), from visitors to this web site who
are age 12 or younger. In addition, we will delete any
records of such Personal Information that come to our
attention.
Since we do not
knowingly collect any Personal Information from visitors to
this web site who are age 12 or younger, we do not disclose
or transfer any such information to third parties.
We do not request
any visitor to provide any information about their family
members, friends or other persons.
We do not allow
visitors who are age 12 or younger to be listed in any
directory of registered users, to participate in any of our
chat services, to register for contests, sweepstakes,
promotions, or newsletters, or to receive direct marketing
from PWUnleashed.com or from our third-party affiliates or
service or product providers.
Special Note to
Parents
If you become aware
that your child has provided us with Personal Information at one
of our web sites, we invite you to notify us so that we may
delete the information from our records and discontinue any
related features or services (see Opt-Out below). We appreciate
your cooperation in assisting us to provide a safe and enjoyable
online experience for your children.
Collection of Personal
Information
PWUnleashed.com
collects Personal Information from visitors to our web sites in
the following ways:
Subscriptions to our
newsletters.
Participation in
contests and sweepstakes.
Registrations to
receive free downloadable desktop applications (e.g.,
screensavers).
Registrations to
participate in chat services, message boards etc.
Registrations to
send electronic greeting cards.
Purchases of
merchandise (including subscriptions).
E-mail transmitted
via various links on our web sites.
The use of any of these
services is entirely optional and voluntary; however, if you do
not provide the Personal Information requested, we may elect to
not make the related services available for your use. If you
send us an e-mail in which you disclose Personal Information, we
will use it to discuss the subject of your correspondence and,
if appropriate, share it with other interested parties (such as
manufacturers of merchandise you have purchased from a web
site).
Cookies
In order to track your
use of the site, "cookies" may be employed. Cookies
are pieces of information that are sent by web sites and stored
in your computer's hard drive, which provide you a service by
allowing us to recognize your computer to save you from having
to re-enter the same data every time you visit our web sites.
They also allow us to learn how visitors use our web sites. This
user data is aggregated for tracking purposes primarily by
tallying pages viewed throughout our web sites and logging
Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses and browser types.
Aggregated usage data
enables us to tailor our content to our visitors’ interests
and to help our advertisers better understand the preferences of
our audience. Providing such usage data to advertisers is
essential to keeping as many of our services free to visitors as
is reasonably possible. This information does not reveal your
identity although, in some cases, we may have to combine this
non-identifiable information with Personal Information to
enforce compliance with our Terms of Service or to protect our
service, web sites, visitors or others.
In the course of
serving advertisements to the site, our third-party advertisers
may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
If you do not want to
receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject them.
However, if you turn cookies off, you will not have access to
some PWUnleashed.com features and services.
Visitors From Outside
the United States
All Personal
Information collected at our web sites is collected and stored
in the United States. By submitting Personal Information to this
web site, you are consenting to the storage of your Personal
Information in the United States.
How We Use Your
Information
We limit the manner in
which your Personal Information is used. We use Personal
Information to provide you the products and services you want,
to better understand and serve the needs of the PWUnleashed.com
community, and to provide news and information to community
members on new content, products and features of the web sites
via direct e-mail. If you have registered with us and do not
want to be contacted in the future by PWUnleashed.com or our
advertising partners, please see Opt-Out below.
If you order a product
or service from us or register for one of our contests,
promotions, or interactive services, PWUnleashed.com may share
Personal Information with service providers, suppliers and other
third parties (for example, sweepstakes sponsors or delivery
services) that assist us in operating the web sites or providing
the products or services. When we share your Personal
Information with third parties, they may use your Personal
Information to send you information on their additional products
or services, but PWUnleashed.com does not allow them to sell or
transfer your Personal Information to others. We do not
otherwise sell or provide your Personal Information to third
parties.
Finally, please note
that we will release your Personal Information if required to do
so by law, or by search warrant, subpoena or court order.
Links to Third Party
Web Sites
Please be advised that
this web site contains certain hyperlinks to other web sites,
some of which may display PWUnleashed.com’s logos or other
PWUnleashed.com content. These web sites may have privacy
policies; however, all of these web sites and their privacy
policies are independent of our web sites or this Privacy
Policy. PWUnleashed.com is not responsible for compliance with
other web sites’ privacy policies or data collection
practices. You should review these privacy policies carefully
before providing any Personal Information to these web sites.
Third Party Ad Servers
The ads appearing on
this Web site are delivered to you by ValueClick, or in certain
instances, by other third party advertising companies, our Web
advertising partners. Information about your visit to this site,
such as number of times you have viewed an ad, date/time at
which the ads were shown, the advertisers' cookies, and IP
address (but not your, address, or other personal information),
is used to serve ads to you on this site. In addition, we share
web site usage information about visitors to our sites with
these companies for the purposes of managing and targeting
advertisements, measuring their effectiveness, and for market
research analysis on our site and other sites. For these
purposes, we and our third-party advertising company may note
some of the pages you visit on our site through the use of 1x1
pixel tags (also called clear gifs). For more information about
ValueClick or cookies, please visit their website by clicking here.
Limitations on Use of
Personal Information
We will only use or
retain your Personal Information in accordance with the terms of
this Privacy Policy, and only for so long as is needed to
fulfill your requests, support the services you have requested,
process your orders, or comply with the law.
Security of Personal
Information
We take reasonable
precautions to keep your Personal Information secure, including
the use of Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) technology to protect
credit card information and other Personal Information you
provide in connection with purchases, paid subscriptions or
other similar transactions.
Opt-Out
Any feature on our web
sites requiring registration allows you to opt-out from
receiving any newsletters, product offers, or other
correspondence from either us or our business affiliates. In
addition, if after registering, you would no longer like to
receive any such materials or correspondence, send an e-mail by
clicking here.
Indicate your preference to “unsubscribe,” and we will
promptly remove you from our list. Please be sure to include
your name and e-mail address in the e-mail. You will need to
send separate e-mails if you are registered for more than one of
our features or services.
If you want to prevent
a third party advertiser from setting and/or reading cookies on
your computer, currently you may either visit each ad network's
web site individually and opt-out or visit the NAI gateway
opt-out site to opt-out of all network advertising cookies.
Click here
for the NAI gateway opt-out site. This site will also allow you
to review the third party advertising companies' privacy
policies.
If you believe your
child (age 12 or younger) has provided us with Personal
Information and/or is receiving access to certain features or
services, including marketing communications, we invite you to
notify us via e-mail by clicking here.
We will delete this Personal Information and/or discontinue your
child’s access to the related features or services.
Changes in This
Privacy Policy
PWUnleashed.com
reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If
we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those
changes here and we will change the “Last Updated” date at
the top of this page. We encourage you to visit this area
frequently to stay informed.
