Personal Information We Collect And How We Use It
"Personal Information" means any
of the following types of information: (1) information that you
provide, such as your name, email address and an account password;
(2) cookies, i.e., small text files placed on your hard drive which
indicate your preferences; (3) log information such as your Internet
Protocol address; (4) user communications (e-mail); (5) Personal
Information given to affiliated sites; and (6) whether links to
other sites or places within Company’s site have been followed.
Your Choices For
Personal Information
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.
Important
Information
This Policy is governed by Company’s
Terms of Use.
How To Contact
Us
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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IncreaseOnlineProfits.com Privacy Policy
March 12, 2008
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Providing our products and
services to users, including the display of customized content
and advertising;
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Auditing, research and analysis
in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
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Ensuring the technical
functioning of our network; and
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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:
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We have your consent. We
require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal
information.
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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.
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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.
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.
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
c/o 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
