Full Online Privacy Policy
Full
IncreaseOnlineProfits.com Privacy
Policy
October 19,
2009
Social
Mastermind Corp., D/B/A IncreaseOnlineProfits.com, recognizes the
importance of
protecting the privacy of certain information collected about the users
and
visitors ("user," "you" or "your") of Company's
website ("Site" or "Website"). The following privacy and information
practices policy discloses and describes what Personal Information
Company may
gather about you, how Company may use such Personal Information, and
how you
can correct or change such information ("Privacy Policy" or "Policy").
This Policy
applies to all of the products,
services
and websites offered by Social
Mastermind Corp. or
its subsidiaries (collectively, "Company") or affiliated companies
("Partners").
You should
print a copy of this Privacy Policy for your records. Please note,
however,
that Company may update and amend this Privacy Policy from time to time
as
Company deems necessary in its sole discretion. Certain capitalized
terms used
in this Privacy Policy may be defined in Company's separate Terms of Use
If you have any
questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our
Web form or write to us at
Privacy Policy, c/o Social Mastermind
Corp., 355 S. Citrus Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036.
Why We Collect
Personal Information
We collect
Personal Information to ensure that you, the customer, have a superior
experience when visiting our sites.
Personal
Information
We Collect And How We Use It
As used in this Policy,
"Personal Information" means any
of the
following types of information:
- Information you provide - When you sign up for a
IncreaseOnlineProfits.com account or other service or promotion that
requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as
your name, email address and an account password). For certain goods
and services, we also request credit card or other payment account
information which is maintained in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the
information you submit under your account with information from other
Company services or third parties in order to provide you with a better
experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may
give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
- IncreaseOnlineProfits.com cookies - When you visit
IncreaseOnlineProfits.com, we send one or more cookies to your computer
that uniquely identifies your browser. We
use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user
preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search our
site. Most browsers
are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser
to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, some Company features and services may not function properly
if your cookies are disabled. Company
never saves passwords or credit card information in its cookies.
- Log information - When you use Company
services, our servers automatically record information that your
browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may
include information such as your search request, Internet Protocol
address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your
request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. With respect to Internet
Protocol addresses, Company collects them for the following purposes:
(1) helping Company diagnose and resolve problems with its main
computers; (2) administering its systems and this Website; (3)
reporting aggregated anonymous information to its business partners and
network service providers; and (4) auditing the use of this Website.
- User communications - When you send e-mail or other
communication to Company, we may retain those communications in order
to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our
services.
- Affiliated sites - We may offer some of our
services in connection with other web sites.
Personal information that you provide to those sites
may be sent to Company in order to deliver the service. We process such
information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may
have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their
privacy policies.
- Links - Company may present links in
a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been
followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search
technology, customized content and advertising.
- Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies
to websites and services that are owned and operated by Company. We do
not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or
links from within our various services. These other sites may place
their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or
solicit personal information from you.
Company only
processes personal information for the purposes described in the
applicable
Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In addition
to the
above, such purposes 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 services;
- Ensuring the technical
functioning of our network; and
- Developing new services.
Company
processes personal information on our servers in the United States of
America
and in other countries. In some cases, we may process personal
information on a
server outside of the United States. We may process personal
information to provide
our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on
behalf
of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our
advertising
partners.
Your Choices For
Personal Information
When you sign
up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to
provide
personal information. If we use this information in a manner different
than the
purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent
prior to
such use.
If we propose
to use personal information for any purposes other than those 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 personal information for those other
purposes. We
will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than
those
described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, unless
we have
obtained your prior consent.
You can stop
the delivery of future promotional e-mail from Company by following the
specific
instructions in the e-mail you receive.
You
may also have the option of proactively making choices about the
receipt of
promotional e-mail, telephone calls, and postal mail from particular
Company
sites or services by clicking Account Preferences.
You can decline
to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case
Company
may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
Company only
shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside
of Company
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
our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or
persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our
behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information
based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any
other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that
access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is
reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation,
legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce
applicable Terms of
Use,
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 of
Company, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If Company
becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some
or all
of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is
transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Categories
of 3rd Parties
Subject to the
exceptions below, we will not share your personal information with 3rd
parties without your approval.
We may share
with third parties certain pieces of aggregated,
non-personal information, such
as the number of users
who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users
clicked on a
particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you
individually. Company
also displays targeted advertisements
based on personal information but does not provide any personal
information to
the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad.
Categories of 3rd
parties with whom Company may share your Personal Information include
parties contracted
to provide some Services on our sites. In connection with those
Services, you
are deemed to consent to us sharing your information with 3rd parties who provide
Services such as
processing of credit card transactions, customer service, promotion
administration, or order fulfillment, as applicable.
Third parties
who provide, or participate in, Services on Company sites are
prohibited from
using our customers' Personal 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 3rd
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 3rd
party who
participates in a Service on one of our sites, do not opt in to such
use by
that 3rd party when you register to participate
in the Service.
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 unauthorized access to or
unauthorized
alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These
include internal reviews of our data
collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as
well as
physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to
systems
where we store personal data.
We restrict
access to personal information to Company employees, contractors and
agents who
have a need to know that information in order to operate, develop or
improve
our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality agreements
and may
be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal
prosecution, if
they fail to meet these obligations.
Data Integrity
Company
processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was
collected
and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific
privacy
notice. We review
our data collection,
storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store
and
process the personal information needed to provide or improve our
services. We take
reasonable steps to ensure that the
personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but
we
depend on our users to update or correct their personal information
whenever
necessary.
Accessing And
Updating Personal Information
When you use
Company
services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your
personal information and either to correct this data if it is
inaccurate or to
delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be
retained
by law or for legitimate business purposes. We
ask individual users to identify themselves
and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed
before
processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that
are
unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate
technical
effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely
impractical
(for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup
tapes), or
for which access is not otherwise required. In
any case where we provide information
access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except
if doing
so would require a disproportionate effort. Some
of our services have different procedures
to access, correct or delete users' personal information. We provide
the
details for these procedures in the specific privacy policies or FAQs
for these
services.
How Can You
Control the Use of Information?
In the event
that you decide that you want to opt out from Company's use of any
Personal
Information that you previously provided to (and/or authorized for use
by) Company,
or if any of your Personal Information that you previously provided
(such as
your zip code or e-mail address) changes, Company will use reasonable
efforts
to provide you with a way to correct, update or remove such Personal
Information. Company makes repeated efforts to verify the accuracy of
your
Personal Information and to correct and update its databases based on
the
information available to Company. In
the
event that you believe that any Personal Information held by Company is
inaccurate or outdated, Company, upon notification and sufficient time
for
verification, will take all reasonable steps to correct any inaccuracy
or
update outdated Personal Information of which it is made aware. You may contact Company at:
Member Services
Social Mastermind
Corp.
355 S. Citrus Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
90036
You may also
write us using our Web
form.
Changes to this
policy
Please note
that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not
reduce your
rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect
most such
changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on
this page
and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent
notice
(including, for certain services, email notification of Policy
changes). Each
version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its
effective date, and we will also keep prior
versions of this Privacy Policy
in an archive for
your review.
If you have any
questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our
Web form or write to us at
Privacy Policy, c/o Social Mastermind
Corp., 355 S. Citrus Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036.
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