Collection of Your Personal Information
We ask you to provide personal information, such as your e-mail address, name,
home or work address, or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information,
such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose
to make a purchase or sign up for a paid subscription service, we will ask for additional
information, such as your credit card number and billing address, which is used to create
a billing account. In order to access some services, you may be asked to sign in with an
e-mail address and password. As part of creating your credentials, you may also be requested
to provide questions and secret answers, which we use to help verify your identity and assist
in resetting your password, as well as an alternate e-mail address. Some services may require
added security, and in these cases, you may be asked to create an additional security key. We may
collect information about your interaction with the site. For example, we may use website analytics
tools on our site to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the
search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our site, the pages you view within our site, your
browser add-ons, and your browser's width and height. We may also use technologies, such as cookies
and web beacons (described below), to collect information about the pages you view, the links you
click and other actions you take on our sites and services. Additionally, we collect certain standard
information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type
and language, access times and referring Web site addresses. We may also deliver advertisements and
provide Web site analytics tools on 3rd party sites and services, and we may collect information about
page views on these third party sites as well.
Use of Your Personal Information
We may supplement the information we collect with information obtained from other companies.
For example, we may use services from other companies that enable us to derive a general geographic area
based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic area. We also use your
personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory service communications such as
welcome letters, billing reminders, information on technical service issues, and security announcements.
We may also occasionally send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform you of other products
or services available. Personal information collected may be stored and processed in the United States or
any other country in which service providers maintain facilities.
Security of Your Personal Information
We value our customer’s privacy and make every effort to earn and keep your confidence.
We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use
a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal
information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store
the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which
are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information
(such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet, we protect it through
the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. If a password
is used to help protect your accounts and personal information, it is your responsibility
to keep your password confidential. Do not share this information with anyone. If
you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always log out before leaving
a site or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.
Use of Cookies
This site uses "cookies" to enable you to sign in to our services and to help
personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed
on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies contain information that can later
be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot
be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. One of the primary
purposes of cookies is to store your preferences and other information on your computer
in order to save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information
and to display your personalized content and appropriate advertising on your later
visits to these sites. Cookie allow you to move from page to page at the site without
having to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, security cookies are deleted
from your computer. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web
browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting
to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not
be able to sign in or use other interactive features of this site and other services
that depend on cookies, and some advertising preferences that are dependent on cookies
may not be able to be respected. If you choose to accept cookies, you also have
the ability to later delete cookies that you have accepted. Refer to you brower
documentation to refer to the specifics of deleting cookies. If you choose to delete
cookies, any settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising
preferences, will be deleted and may need to be recreated.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our services
and customer feedback. If there are material changes to this statement or in how
will use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting
a notice of such changes prior to implementing the change or by directly sending
you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to be
informed of how your information is protected.