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PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: 12/13/04
Your privacy is very important to BurningAngel. The following Privacy
Policy explains how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide
to us through the joannasangels.com web site and its related features and
functions.
THE GRETA TANWOOD CO. (“Company” or “we”), the owner and
operator of ELEGANTANGEL.COM, its web site and associated computer functions
(hereafter the “Site”), is committed to respecting and safeguarding your
privacy online, as set forth in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy sets
forth the policies and practices of the Company with respect to information
and other data that is received or gathered regarding visitors to, and
members, subscribers and other users of, the Site and services provided by or
related to the Site. The use of the terms “visitor”, “member”, “subscriber”
and “Site user” shall, depending on your status shall mean and otherwise
refer to you. The term “Third Party Program Participants” shall mean
merchants, advertisers, promoters, content providers and others that the
Company contracts with to provide goods and services via programs and Offers
(as that term is defined below) available to Site users.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS TWELVE (12) NUMBERED PARAGRAPHS.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN OR CONTINUE TO USE THE SITE , OR ANY SERVICES OR
FUNCTIONALITY PROVIDED BY OR THROUGH THE SITE, PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THIS
PRIVACY POLICY. THIS PRIVACY POLICY CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION. IT IS
ALSO VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND OUR POLICY BECAUSE BY YOUR USE
OR CONTINUED USE OF THIS SITE OR ANY OF ITS RELATED SERVICES YOU WILL BE
EXPRESSLY SIGNIFYING THAT YOU AGREE TO THIS POLICY IN ITS ENTIRETY AND THAT
YOU AGREE TO THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION THAT YOU SUPPLY OR THAT IS
COLLECTED ABOUT YOU, INCLUDING PERSONAL INFORMATION, AS DETAILED IN THIS
POLICY STATEMENT.
ONLY ADULTS ARE AUTHORIZED TO USE THIS SITE. AUTHORIZED ACCESS AND USE OF THE
SITE, ITS DATABASES AND FUNCTIONALITY IS LIMITED TO PERSONS OVER THE AGE OF
EIGHTEEN YEARS, AND SUCH ACCESS AND USE IS LIMITED BY OUR TERMS
AND CONDITIONS. THE COMPANY DOES NOT KNOWINGLY SEEK OR COLLECT ANY
PERSONAL INFORMATION OR OTHER DATA FROM ANY PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN
YEARS.
IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR DO NOT EXPRESSLY AGREE WITH ALL OF THE TERMS OF
THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS
AND CONDITIONS YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIS SITE OR THE SERVICES OFFERED OR
OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY OR THROUGH THIS SITE.
1. Information Security
joannasangels.com is dedicated to the protection of Site users’ information.
To prevent unauthorized access to information provided to us, the Company uses
a number of generally accepted industry standard procedures designed to
effectively safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information. These
procedures include secure server location, controlled access to data and
equipment, robust redundant firewall software, network monitoring, adaptive
analysis of network traffic to track and prevent attempted network intrusions
and other network abuse and appropriate employee training in the area of data
security. We shall continue to take reasonable steps to provide effective
data protection at all times, however, because no security technology can
provide invulnerability to information compromise, the Company cannot, and
does not, guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us
or to any third party affiliated with the Site.
2. Visitor, Subscriber, Member and User Information
When you visit or use this Site, including, for example, when you click on
any of our links, we will collect and store in one or more of our databases,
one or more of the following types of information (“Data”): your IP address
(the domain name or other locator indicating your access to Internet); the IP
address of the Website from which you linked to our site operating system;
browser data; email address data; the date and time you access our Site and
its functions, and any other accessible online user, biometric or device
information. We will often collect Data at several points throughout the
Site, its links and through related functionality.
We use Data to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of
our Site, to help us make our site more useful to visitors, to measure the
amount of traffic generated through our affiliate network, to generate usage
statistics, to ensure email reaches intended destinations, to generate
special offers and advertisements which we may present to you, to provide our
marketing partners, affiliates, licensees, purchasers and successors in
interest with accurate Data and to prevent fraud.
Sometimes, we will ask you to provide, on a strictly optional basis,
“Optional Information,” such as your name, username, address, zip code or
telephone number or other personal information. For example, such information
may be requested, on an optional basis, for participation in special
promotions or other Offers (See Paragraph 7 below).
The only personally-identifying information we collect and store about you is
the information you, voluntarily choose to provide to us, such as your name,
e-mail address, address, zip code, telephone number, etc., in response to a
specific prompt that requires you to initially enter the information. In
addition, we, our agents, affiliates, Third Party Program Participants and
others may ask you to voluntarily provide additional personal information for
billing, shipping and other similar purposes.
When a visitor, member, subscriber, or other Site user, requests web pages
from the Site’s server, clicks on banners or other links or otherwise uses
the Site’s services or other functionalities, we or our agents may
automatically collect some information or data about the user and the user’s
Site use, including the IP address from which the Site is being accessed, the
pages or links that were requested, the special preferences or requests of
the user and cookie information received from the computer of the user. You
agree that all such information and other Data may be collected and used by
the Site and its agents.
When any Site user signs-on as a member or subscriber of this Site or related
services, that person will be required to provide certain personal as well as
demographic information. Such Optional Information, may include, but is not
necessarily limited to, the subscriber’s name, address, birthday, e-mail
address, gender, marital status, occupation, education, credit card number
and expiration date of the credit card, username and password, and special
interests or affiliations. This Site, the Company and its agents, may collect
any and all such Optional Information and include it in its databases with
Data and other information.
If a visitor, member, subscriber or other Site user sends any personal
communication or correspondence, by any means, to the Site, the Company or
any of its employees, agents or representatives, we may collect, in databases
and otherwise, and use, any and all such information and other Data regarding
that communication, consistent with this privacy policy.
3. Cookies
We may use cookies for your convenience. For example, we use session cookies
to make it easier for you to navigate and otherwise use our Site. Cookies are
small pieces of data that are stored by a user's Web browser on the user's
hard drive. Cookies can be used to “remember” what information a user
accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web
site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's
transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move
between and interact with Web pages and to complete commercial transactions
over the Internet. The Site also uses cookies to store and sometimes track
information to make your online experience easier and more personalized and
for other purposes related to your use of the Site and related services. For
example, because a cookie can be linked to information you have inputted or
which has otherwise been collected, the need to repetitively enter certain
information, such as your username or email address, can be eliminated. The
use of cookies also assists us in acquiring important Site usage Data. Cookies
can also assist us in tracking and targeting the interests, preferences and
desires of our Site users to present the most appropriate messages, offers
and other communications to our users, and to generally enhance their
experience at our Site.
Currently, there are two general types of cookies commonly used in
association with typical Web sites including our Site: “session” cookies and
“persistent” cookies. A session or “session ID” cookie is functional only
during the current “session” use of your browser, i.e., it ceases to function
when you close you browser. A “persistent” cookie remains on your hard beyond
the current browser session. You can remove persistent cookies by following
directions provided in your Internet browser's "Help" file. We use
both session cookies and persistent cookies.
Also, some Site use rewards and other benefits tied to Site usage use session
cookies to track your Site usage and give you proper credit. We also use
persistent cookies to track the actions of our users to enhance the
experience on our site, other web sites and to more effectively communicate
Offers, promotional data and other useful information to you. At the present
time, we intend to also adopt and use helpful future cookie technology, and
similar types of technologies, as they become available. We may implement any
and all such new technologies and similar improvements to Site functionality
without notice.
We may also track special offers, promotions and other advertising delivered
by us, and your responses to them, by using cookies. This helps us reduce the
number of offers that might not be interesting to you. We also use cookies to
help us credit persons who referred or introduced you to us.
The Site may also automatically collect traffic and click-through data as
well as information regarding the online behavior of subscribers and other
Site users by the use of cookies or other programming means. Any and all
information about Site users collected by the Company, or its agents or
affiliates via the Site or otherwise, through the use of cookies or other
programming means may be freely included in our databases and used in a
manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Some of our Third Party Program Participants, advertisers, agents and others
use cookies on or in association with our Site. We have no access to or
control over these cookies. We may also allow third-party service providers
to deliver special offers or services to Site users and to control the use of
their cookies on your computer. Since such providers may set , access and
otherwise control their cookies on your computer, we urge you to consult
their privacy policies as they pertain to use of their cookies and the data
collected from such use.
Most major Web browsers are set up so that they will initially accept
cookies, but you may modify your computers preferences to issue you an alert
when a cookie is downloaded, or to disable the ability of third parties to
download a cookie to you. If you choose to reject cookies, or disable your
computer’s ability to receive or process them, there are areas of this Site,
other related web sites and related services that may not function properly.
For example, you may not be able to view or interact with parts of the Site
or access some of the services or offers otherwise available on the Site.
Also, if you disable or reject cookies, you may not be credited for actions
required for certain gifts and other benefits, and therefore may not receive
such benefits.
You may obtain further information about “cookies” and how they function at:
http://www.cookiecentral.com or http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm.
4. Clear GIFs (“Web Beacons”)
Clear GIFs, otherwise known as “web beacons”or “single-pixel GIFs”, are very
small web page graphics that contain a unique digital identifying means. They
function like cookies, in that they are often used to track and measure
online actions taken by web site users. In contrast to cookies, which are
stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded into the
graphics, text or other components of Web pages, including pop up windows, or
in other digital documents that can support them, like email messages. We may
also use Web Beacons to optimize search engine functionality. Clear GIFs are
nearly invisible and are often only the size of small dot, such as a period
at the end of a sentence. Also, like cookies, Clear GIFs, help us and our
Third Party Program Participants measure and improve Site efficiency and
effectiveness. For example, we may use web beacon technology to access your
personally identifiable information or compile aggregated statistics about
overall Site usage.
Many of our Third Party Program Participants and advertisers also employ
Clear GIFs on our Site and in related sites.
5. Log Files
The Company and Third Party Program Participants, through the functionality
of the Site, related sites and related services, gather Data and other
information regarding Site navigation and Site use from cookies, clear GIFs
and other means and store such information in log files and other databases.
This Data and similar information includes date and time recordation data,
Internet protocol (IP) addresses, Internet service provider (ISP) data,
referring or exit pages, your computer’s operating system and components,
such as your browser type, and other data. While this information generally
does not directly identify individual users, it does provide us with Data and
other broad demographic information. We use this information for a number of
purposes including Site usage analysis, analysis of Site navigation by users,
determining and analyzing overall user preferences and user trends, Site
administration, and general improvement and optimization of Site efficiency
and effectiveness and user communications, including promotions to users. We
may also provide third parties with some or all such information and other
Data collected
6. Use of Personal Information and Disclaimer
We will use information collected from you to send your free gift and
fulfill Offers you have accepted. We will also use the information to verify
identity, protect against fraud, update and service your account, target and
personalize future Offers that we may display on or in association with the
Site and in our communications with you. We will use your physical mailing
address for mailing of your free gift, fulfilling Offers you have accepted,
to improve our ability to provide you with more accurate and appropriate
marketing and for other communications with our Company.
By your use or continued use of the Site and/or its services, you expressly
agree that the Company, via the Site and otherwise may use any and all Data,
Optional Information and all other information that it or its agents gather
or collect directly or indirectly pertaining to you, including, without
limitation, any personal information that has been provided by you, your
computer or other device, or information provided by a third party, for any
and all technical, administrative, research, development, customer assistance,
age verification, marketing, promotion and advertising uses, for the
transmission of communications of every kind, including, without limitation,
email communications of every kind, for the sending of products, for
fulfillment purposes, and for compliance with any and all terms and
conditions. Furthermore, you agree that the Company may share, disclose,
lease, license, sell and otherwise provide any and all of such information,
including personal information to its affiliates, agents, assigns, successors
in interest, licensees, clients, customers, Third Party Program Participants
and other third parties who have been authorized or permitted to use the
information by the Company, its successors, assigns and licensees.
By your use or continued use of the Site and/or its services, you agree that
the Company is not responsible or liable for the use of any information that
you or any other visitor, member, subscriber or other Site user may provide
to any other person or entity, or that is gathered by any third-party,
including, without limitation, any Third Party Program Participant, by any
means. This Site does not control, monitor or endorse the information
gathering practices or Privacy Policies of any third-party, and you
acknowledge that such third-parties and their web sites may, and probably do,
have privacy policies that are different from this Privacy Policy. Whenever
applicable, you and all other visitors, members, subscribers and other Site
users are strongly advised to read the Privacy Policy of any and all
third-party web site providers that have one or more advertising banners, or
links on the Site, or on the web site of any Third Party Program Provider,
and of any entity that provides goods or services at, through or in direct or
indirect association with the Site.
All Members, visitors and Users of this Site should consider any information
provided to or collected by the Site as non-confidential, and consequently
the Site assumes no liability or responsibility if any information relating
to any Member, visitor or User is intercepted and/or used by an unintended
recipient.
7. Offers, Special Promotions, Opinion Polls, Surveys, Contests,
Special Events and Service Alert Emails
There may be occasions when a visitor, subscriber, member or other Site user
will be presented with special offers either from the operators of the Site,
their agents, affiliates or from other third-party offerors, that may include
the presentation of one or more options for a Site user to consent to receive
e-mail solicitations, communications, newsletters or commercial advertising,
or to participate in other promotions or special events, including without
limitation, contests, opinion polls or surveys (collectively referred to as
“Offers”). Offers might be made by the Company, its agents, affiliates, Third
Party Program Participants or other third-parties making such Offers. Site
users may be asked to provide certain information in order to participate in
such Offers. Information requested may include, without limitation, contact
information (such as name and address) and demographic information (such as
zip code, area code, age level, occupation, etc.). Participation in such
special events and special offers is completely voluntary and Site users may
elect whether or not to provide the requested information. Information
collected will be used for the purposes of winner notification, prize
awarding, monitoring and improving Site usage and user satisfaction,
providing additional relevant offers, promotions and other communications to
Site users via electronic mail and other means, and other purposes consistent
with this Privacy Policy.
“OPT-IN” Acceptance of Offers. Some Offers may be presented
to you with the option to express your preference by either clicking or
entering “accept” (or alternatively, for example, “yes”) or “decline”
(alternatively “no”) or “consent” or by indicating your preference regarding
participation or non-participation by some other recordable means. By
selecting accept, yes, consent, or some other affirmation of participation,
you shall be deemed to agree that such action(s) shall constitute an “OPT-IN”
to the Offer related to the action and that the you thereby agree and assent
that your personal information, Data, Optional Information and other information
in the Site's databases may be disclosed to the Company, the Company’s
affiliates, agents, Third Party Program Participants and other third-parties
offerors.
“OPT-OUT” Rejection of Offers Otherwise Accepted. Some
Offers may be presented with a pre-selected preference or choice. If you do
not deselect the pre-selected preference of choice (i.e. “OPT-OUT” of the
Offer) then the Site may transfer your personal information to the Company,
its affiliates, agents, Third Party Program Participants, and any other third
party making the Offer. If you deselect the pre-selected preference (i.e.,
reject the Offer) then no personal information relating to the Offer in the
Site's database may be disclosed to a third party offeror of that particular
Offer with respect to that particular Offer. Nothing herein shall limit
information collection or transfer that you have previously authorized or
subsequently authorize, including, without limitation any authorization
regarding the third party offeror with respect to another Offer.
The Company may also send new members, subscribers, visitors or other Site
users a welcoming email and occasionally send information on products,
services, and special deals from Third Party Program Participants, and other
third parties. If you don't want to receive such email or other email
messages from us, please follow the directions for unsubscribing or
“opting-out” contained in the email message you receive from us. We reserve
the right to contact you, however, with non-commercial relationship and other
advisory email messages, such as communications of changes or updates to our
software, changes to our Terms and Conditions, changes to Offers you have
accepted, changes to programs you have elected to participate in, notice of
termination of any Offer, program or service or changes to this Privacy
Policy.
We may provide you with links in our email communications. These links may
include one or more special tracking codes, unique to you or some other
identifying feature (such as geo-location). These codes assist us in
formulating, selecting and distributing content, promotions, Offers,
advertisements and other communications to you which are more appropriately
targeted to your likely preferences. We may share this data in aggregate form
or in individual form.
The Company and/or Third Party Program Participants may offer you
participation in one or more “rewards” programs in which you can earn money
or other benefits for participating in such programs. The Company and/or
Third Party Program Participants may provide information collected from you
as a result of your participation in such program(s) to the program sponsor
to assist the sponsor in delivering entitled benefits to you and for other
marketing, promotional and other purposes. If you participate in any of the
Company’s own reward or incentive programs, we will track your activity using
your email address or other identifying means and share your email address
and other identifying means with affiliated reward sponsors, if any, and any
third parties involved with fulfillment of the rewards or other benefits.
The Company does not provide a process to update or modify a Site user's
personally identifiable information. If you no longer desire to use one or
more of our services, you must, as relevant, opt-out of our mailings,
unsubscribe, cancel membership, remove Company, Third Party Program
Participant and/or other third party distributed software from your computer,
and/or discontinue the use of the Site and services.
8. Revocation of Consent Procedure (Revocation “Opting-Out”)
The Site also offers to you a procedure for “Opting-Out” if you subsequently
choose to revoke or withdraw any consent to accept or receive Offers. To
revoke or withdraw a consent to accept or receive Offers, send an e-mail to contact@joannasangels.com,
clearly stating that you have revoked or withdrawn consent to receive any
future Offers.
If you decide to cancel a subscription, membership or other Offer and later
wish to resubscribe, rejoin or recommence receiving a previously cancelled
Offer, you may not always be able or entitled to do so, and you many not be
entitled to receive credit towards benefits offered by the Company or a third
party. We reserve the right at all times to terminate or suspend any
subscription, membership, Offer, service or account at any time with or
without notice.
9. Third Party Program Participants and Others
We may send you offers on behalf of Third Party Program Participants.
Acceptance of some Offers through the Site may require you to provide
personal information to Third Party Program Participants. These Companies may
also independently send you Offers. If you would like to opt-out or cancel any
such Offers or prevent Third Party Program Participants from independently
communicating with you, you will need to inform them separately pursuant to
their process for doing so.
The Company shares aggregated demographic and Site navigation information, Data,
Optional Information and other information with Third Party Program
Participants, advertisers, analysts and others. We may also sell access to
our mailing lists, including email lists, and other information to brokers
and third party advertisers and we may transfer your information to such
third parties. We may transfer some or all of your information to a purchaser
of all or part of our Company or any successor in interest in the Company or
the Site. We may also hire contractors or other third parties to perform any
Company, Site or Site service function with or without notice to you. The
Company and its agents may also aggregate demographic and other information
about you and other Site users in databases and disclose, license or sell
such information to Third Party Program Participants and other parties.
By your use or continued use of the Site or acceptance of any Offer
associated with the Site, you expressly agree that this Privacy Policy, all
Data, Optional Information and other information collected by the Company,
its agents, affiliates, Third Party Program Participants and all other third
parties associated with the Company or the Site, all contractual rights and
all rights arising under the Terms
and Conditions may be freely and unconditionally transferred, assigned,
sold, leased or licensed to any person or entity and that all Offers are
subject to change and may be terminated by the Company or any third party initiating
the Offer, with or without notice.
10. Disclosure
The Company will not disclose or use any of your personally identifiable
information except to the extent set forth in this Privacy Policy, or under
special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law
requires it, or when we have reason to believe that disclosing this
information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against
someone who may be violating the Site’s Terms and Conditions, defrauding the
Company or any third party, including any Third Party Program Participant.
The Company will disclose your personal information, without notice, to a
party unrelated to the Company if required to do so by law or in the good
faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with the law, legal
process served on the Company or a Third Party Program Participant, to
protect the rights or property of the Company or a Third Party Program
Participant, or in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users
of the Site or the public at large.
All unsolicited information provided to the Company or any affiliated party,
including, without limitation, any Third Party Program Participant, entirely
on the initiative of a person providing the information or that person’s
agent, or any information which is provided independently of any request by
the Company or its affiliates shall be deemed to be public information
regarding which neither the Company nor any other person or entity has any
duty to the information provider or any other person, and as such, the
Company may use such unsolicited information in an unlimited manner.
11. Protection of Children
The Company and Third Party Program Participants do not publish any content
or Offers on the Site that are targeted to children. We do not specifically
collect information about children. The Company and Third Party Program
Participants do not solicit and do not knowingly accept subscriptions,
memberships, or acceptances of Offers from persons under the age of eighteen
years. If minors have access to your computer or email, we ask that you take
appropriate measures to prevent such minors from accessing or using the Site
or any of our Company’s services as they are exclusively offered and
restricted to, and only authorized for, adults over the age of eighteen
years.
12. Revisions to this Privacy Policy
The Company reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to
revise, amend, modify or revoke this Privacy Policy at any time and in any
manner. Changes to this Policy will be effective by posting revisions on the
Site. In some circumstances you might be required to actively
"accept" or “agree” to a new Privacy Policy or to new or modified
provisions in the Privacy Policy in order to continue using the Site or
services provided by the Company or Third Party Program Participants. Such
assent or agreement to revisions to this Privacy Policy may be effectuated
via an Opt-In or Opt-Out procedure (as those procedures are discussed above).
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