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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at: Ingenious Dreams Media Group, LLC P.O. Box 6906 Frankfort, KY 40602
Effective Date: December 1, 2008
INGENIOUSDREAMS.COM is committed to taking all reasonable steps to protect the privacy of our members, and has created this privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy tells you what information we collect at our web sites and how we use it. If you choose to visit any of the Ingenious Dreams Media Group's web sites, your visit is subject to this privacy policy, and you agree to the terms of it. About INGENIOUSDREAMS.COM INGENIOUSDREAMS.COM (the "Site") is a retail Internet based service that allows individuals to purchase merchandise. The Site is owned by Ingenious Dreams Media Group, LLC. (the "Owner"). Information Collected We gather four types of information: public, private, communicative, and automatic. Public: Definition: Public information will include that information available for registered members to view, or demographic information. This includes your demographic information such as gender, user name, age, birth date, purchase history information, browsing history information, appearance, religion, occupation, zip code and geographical location. Purpose: Your demographic information is used to: personalize your experience; allow other members and other third parties to find you through a search result and to communicate with you; compose your personal profile, which is associated with an identity you have created; and to deliver targeted advertising and promotional offers to you if you choose to receive them. Private: Definition: Private information is information that can personally identify you such as your real name, email address or credit card number. Purpose: When you register to use any Site service, you will be asked for some general identifying information to enable us to provide you with this individualized service. We gather contact information (such as your email and mailing address) and, if you choose to purchase merchandise, credits or other services, financial information (such as your credit card number and expiry date). Credit card transactions may be processed by the Site via its third party intermediary/financial institution, or by a professional payment authorization service chosen for security and reliability. In either case, only the purchase price and the credit card information provided by the customer will be supplied, and such information will be maintained in their database for accounting and billing purposes. However, information from these transactions is not released to other third parties. This information is encrypted via a secure server to ensure that others cannot read it. Once on the secure server your credit card information is sent to a third party intermediary for processing. You will know you are in secure mode when the tiny padlock icon - located at the bottom right of your browser - appears "locked". We will only use this information in the course of providing our service to you. Except as permitted herein, the specific information we collect is not rented, sold, or shared with any third party, except to the third party intermediary that processes your transaction or where required by law. Communicative: Definition: Communicative information is exclusive between the Site and parties involved in some form of communication through the Site. Information such as your internal messaging conversations, instant messages, email messages to our service personnel, submission of answers to surveys, and participation in contests are considered communicative information. Purpose: We store your messages for the purpose of our anonymous internal messaging system. Just like email, messages must be stored somewhere in order to deliver them. We allow you to utilize our internal messaging system so that you may remain anonymous by not giving up your email address to other members. Our Messenger works much the same way. We acquire information from our surveys so that we can better understand our members and continually improve our service. Contest information (such as your contact information) is collected so that we may contact our contestants with information regarding the contest. Except as permitted herein, the specific information we collect is not rented, sold, or shared with any third party without your explicit consent and is only ever disclosed in situations where required by law. Automatic: Definition: Automatic information is information that we collect that is not personally identifiable such as your IP address, site usage and purchase behavior, browser type, browser activity, and browser settings. Purpose: We use your IP and/or Mac address to avoid fraudulent registrations, and monitor site usage demographics and dynamics. Information that we may obtain regarding your browser and browser settings may be used to ensure that our site's technical features are available to you. Except as permitted herein, the specific information we collect is not rented, sold, or shared with any third party without your explicit consent and is only ever disclosed in situations where required by law. Sharing of Information As a member of the Site, you are also able to access other components of the site that non-members may not access. While data from all member sites is maintained in a common database, only the public information located in your profile will be shared. Private information such as your real name, email address or credit card number is never shared with others without your explicit consent. All member sites adhere to a consistent set of privacy policies and therefore follow the same principles outlined in this privacy policy. Except as permitted herein, the Owner does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with any third party, except to the third party intermediary or financial institution that processes your transaction or where required by law. However, we may use demographic information to tailor the Site and communications to your interests, and we may share demographic information with advertisers or other third parties on an anonymous and aggregated basis such that individual private information or behavior may not be determined (i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). Our sharing of demographic information is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell which particular users are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement and give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group. In the event the Owner goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, selling all or a portion of its assets, or enters bankruptcy, members' personal information will, in most instances, be part of the operations or assets transferred. You agree that we or our successors may do so without your further express consent, and you agree that the successor may continue to possess and use the information conveyed in accordance with the terms of this policy. If as a result of the business transition, the members' personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection members will be given choice consistent with our "Changes to our Privacy Policy" section below. We also may disclose your personal information or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or financial information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information. To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us. Changing/Suspending/Removing your Information To make changes to your profile, suspend your account, or remove your account completely, you may do so at any time by logging in to your account and editing your settings in the "My Profile" section of the site. We also give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify personal information or demographic information you have provided to us, to the public users of the Site, at anytime by going to the “My Profile” section of the Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the Site. We thank you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your information through the "My Profile" section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications, will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Site and for managing future communications from the Site. These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or information that we may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided in this privacy policy. Security The Owner reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor all services used on the Site. This includes but is not limited to the materials posted in the public areas as well as the contents of communications transmitted while engaging in chat, email, or other means of communication. We limit the access to your personal information to employees who we believe need to come into contact with that information to provide services to you or to do their jobs. The Owner shall have the right to remove any material that violates, or is alleged to violate, the law or our terms of usage. Information may be released when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to: (1) comply with applicable law or to assist governmental or legal requests; (2) operate the service properly or enforce or apply the terms of any of our user terms, conditions and agreements; or (3) protect the rights, property or safety of our users and/or any third parties. We have several different safeguards to protect your information, which include physical, technical (such as firewalls and industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions), and procedural methods. All of these comply with federal regulations and responsible business practices. Cookies The Owner may use cookies on our Site. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from the site you are visiting and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are very common and completely normal throughout the Internet. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. Cookies do not harm your computer nor can they access information stored on your computer. The primary purpose of cookies is to maintain your customized settings on a site. Members that do not accept cookies will not be able to properly use all features of the site. Third Party Cookies: The Site may elect to engage Omniture, a third party, to track and analyze non-personally identifiable usage and volume statistical information from visitors to the Site to help us administer the Site and in order to constantly improve Site quality. Omniture uses cookies to help track visitor behavior and sets cookies on behalf of the Site. Omniture does not use cookies to relate website visitors to any personally identifiable information and provides the Site with information about site usage that reflects individual behavior of visitors, but not their identity. All data collected by Omniture on behalf of the Site is used only to provide information on Site usage and is not shared with any other third parties, except as permitted herein. Omniture's privacy practices have been certified by TRUSTe and may be found at www.omniture.com. Single-Pixel Gifs The Owner and its advertisers may use single-pixel gifs (also known as web bugs, web beacons, or tracking pixels) on the Site. The purpose of these single-pixel gifs is to verify and count web page accesses and gather some statistical information. These single-pixel gifs gather usage and demographic information, but do not gather any personal information. Our site provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving different types of communications (except system communications, or communications required for account maintenance), and each email that we send out has a method for opting-out located at the bottom of the message. Opt-Out and CAN-SPAM Act You may choose to provide our Site with your email address, personal information, or any other information for the purposes of opting-out of receiving email solicitations in respect of the Site. In that event, you agree that we may use and disclose that information for this purpose, in such manner as we deem appropriate. Such use and disclosure shall be carried out in order to allow compliance with our internal and Site policies, and to take all steps we deem necessary in order to ensure compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. As such, and without limiting the foregoing, email addresses or any other information you provide may be compiled into a suppression list or other database, and may be provided to third party publishers, advertisers or otherwise for the purposes of ensuring such third parties do not provide email solicitations in respect of the Site to opted out persons. However, the Site shall not be responsible for the consequences of any release, use or abuse of the information which has been provided to the third party in furtherance of the effecting the opt-out requests, whether such release, use or abuse by that third party was is in breach of any confidentiality agreements or otherwise. Children DATA COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN We strive to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from U.S. children under 13 without appropriate parental notice and consent. Sites that are directed to children where personal information is collected should have a Children's Privacy Policy setting forth our COPPA-compliant practices. At many sites, we actively screen-out children from data collection and/or use of interactive or community features. We are committed to protecting children's privacy. NOTICE: Visit www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy for information from the Federal Trade Commission about protecting children's privacy online.
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