OUR COMPANY PRIVACY POLICIES
Our companies have created this privacy statement in order to reveal our firm
commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and
dissemination practices for all of our web sites.
THE INTERNET AND PRIVACY
The Internet contains a wealth of information; unfortunately, it may also
contain personal details about you that you don't want anyone to know. For
example, your real name (lots of people on the Internet use aliases, alter
egos, or nicknames), street address, phone number, or e-mail address. When
you go online, sites you visit may be gathering information about you
without your knowledge. At our sites we strive to help you and your
children protect their privacy while using our services.
OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Our policy is to respect and protect your privacy. This policy statement tells
you how we collect information from you and how we use it. Using the Internet
should be a fun experience and we want to help you make it that way.
Our other affiliated companies may share the information that you provide to
us. It is our goal to make your visits to our sites easy and enjoyable.
However, be assured that we will not disclose your personal information to
third parties without your consent. We may disclose user information in
special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information
is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who
may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or
unintentionally) our rights or property, other users, or anyone else that
could be harmed by such activities. We may disclose user information when we
believe in good faith that the law requires it.
Our companies may share total information about our users with advertisers,
business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. For example, we will
say our audience is x percent female and y percent male. This data is used to
customize our content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our
users.
There are cases where we may ask you for personal information such as your
name, e-mail address, and birth date. For example, we request personal
information when you send a Father's Day Message. We needs to collect this
information for send the message, fulfilling prizes, tracking/verifying
compliance with our policies as well as federal, state, and local laws, and/or
for editorial and feedback solicitation purposes.
In case you change your mind or some personal information changes (such as
your ZIP code), we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update, or
remove the personal data that you have given to us. You can do this by
sending an e-mail message to our Customer Support department at
fathers_day_cs@usa.com.
CHOICE/OPT-OUT
Our companies provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving
communications from us and our partners at the point where we request
information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for removing their information
from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive
our service.
1. To opt-out, please send an e-mail with the word 'REMOVE" in the
subject line to
fathers_day_cs@usa.com.
Information provided from an individual who is 13 years of age or over may be
used for marketing and promotional purposes by us, and our affiliates or
companies that have been prescreened by our companies. To keep you in control
of your personal information and the communications directed to you, we allow
you to opt out of the following services: sharing your information in our
member directory, receiving communications from our companies about new
features or services, and receiving communications about offers from
third-party companies that offer a product or service that we think would be
of value to you. If you object to such use for any reason, you may stop that
use; by send an e-mail message to our Customer Support department at
fathers_day_cs@usa.com.
Information provided when purchasing products from any of our online sites
may be used for marketing and promotional purposes and is subject to the
opt-out processes as described above.
POLICIES FOR KIDS (INDIVIDUALS UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE)
Our companies encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their
children and to participate in the activities offered on the sites. No
information should be submitted to or posted at any of our sites by individuals
under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.
Unless otherwise disclosed, our companies do not provide any personally
identifying information, regardless of its source; to any third party for any
purpose whatsoever from individuals less than 13 years of age. In addition,
when an individual under 13 gives us information, the individual is required
to provide the e-mail address of his/her parent or guardian and that parent
or guardian will be sent an e-mail alerting them to that information supplied
by the individual. No information collected from individuals under 13 years of
age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside
or outside our companies except as explicitly stated during entering any
contests or promotions (and in that case, the information collected is used
only for the specific contest or promotion).
Although individuals under 13 years of age may be allowed to participate in
some contests and promotions, if such an individual wins, notification and
prizes are sent to the parent or guardian identified in the initial entry
process. Publication of names, ages, or images for contest winners under 13
require parental or guardian consent.
We do not allow individuals less than 13 years of age to be listed in any of
our directories or to receive direct marketing communications from our
companies or to be sent third-party offers.
POLICIES FOR TEENS (INDIVIDUALS 13 TO 17 YEARS OF AGE)
Teens are required to provide the e-mail address of a parent or guardian and a
notification message is sent to the parent or guardian of all individuals who
are 13 to 17 years of age, which identifies the information supplied to us and
allows the parent or guardian to be aware of and participate in the teens
online experience.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you're surfing the Web. Web servers -- the big computers that
"serve up" Web pages -- automatically identify your computer by its IP address.
Our companies collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration,
to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our
sites. When individuals request pages from our sites, our servers log the
individual's IP addresses. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user
when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our house rules or
terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers, or others.
Some services within our companies, such as certain message boards, may display
IP addresses along with the message poster's name and message. Please review
each service prior to use and only uses those that disclose information you
are comfortable with sharing.
USE OF COOKIES AND IP ADDRESS
What are cookies? Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers
to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make
Web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you're at our site.
We never save passwords or credit card information in cookies. The use of
cookies is an industry standard -- you'll find them at most major Web sites.
By showing how and when individuals use a site, cookies help us see which
areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site
are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This
information is most easily tracked with cookies. We may use the information
from cookies to provide services better tailored to our users needs.
Our companies may use your IP Address to help diagnose problems with our server
and to administer our web sites.
Our companies may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to track user trends and patterns. This helps us better understand and improve areas of our service that our users find valuable. While some activities depend upon the use of a cookie, visitors to our sites always have the option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences. Information from cookies is sometimes attached to messages sent to our Customer Service department
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser
to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, note
that some parts of our services may not function properly or may be
considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you
will not be able to set personalized preferences or you may have difficulty
completing some transactions, entering contests, or playing games.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. Our companies do not
control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party
servers is standard in the Internet industry.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Users should be aware that when they are on our sites, they could be directed
to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites
from our company's pages that take you outside our service. For example, if
you "click" on a banner advertisement or a search result, the "click" takes
you off of our site. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors, and
partners that may use our companies name and logo as part of a co-branding
agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data,
or solicit personal information.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information
online --- for example, via message boards or chat --- that information can
be collected and used by people you don't know. While our companies strive to
protect their users' personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the
security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.
Our companies policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the
operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond our companies control, and is
not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental
regulation.
SECURITY
The importance of security for all personally identifiable information
associated with our visitors is of utmost concern to us. Unfortunately, no
data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a
result, while we strive to protect your personal information, our companies
can't ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and
you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best
effort to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information is
transmitted we use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
If you establish an account with one of our companies, and that account would
be password-protected, then only you or anyone who you might give the password
to can access it and view the information that is relevant to the account. We
recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Our companies will
never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or e-mail.
Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords
and any account information. Remember to sign out of any of our sites and
close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure
that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if your
computer is accessible to others or if you share a computer with someone else
or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using this site, you signify your assent to our company's privacy policy.
If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued
use of our sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you
accept those changes.
If you have questions or concerns regarding our company's privacy statement,
you should contact the company as follows: Privacy Policy Coordinator,
World Holding Group, 10490 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1902,
Los Angeles, CA 90024-4649.
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