Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement
1. Purpose
Rhymes with Snitch has adopted this Privacy Statement in order to inform you of its policies with respect to information collected from this website. Your use of this website constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Statement and your consent to the practices it describes.
2. Automatic Collection of Anonymous Information
When you visit Rhymes with Snitch website, like when you visit most other websites, certain anonymous information about your visit is automatically logged, which may include information about the type of browser you use, the server name and IP address through which you access the internet, the date and time you access the site, the pages you access while at Rhymes with Snitch's website, and the internet address of the website, if any, from which you linked directly to Rhymes with Snitch site. This information is not personally identifiable.
This Site is affiliated with Publisher First, Inc. dba Freestar ("Freestar") for the purposes of placing certain advertising on the Site, and Freestar will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Freestar’s data usage, click here.
3. Personally Identifiable Information
Personally Identifiable Information is any information that concerns you individually and would permit someone to contact you, for example, your name, address, telephone number, email address or any information you submitted to rhymeswithsnitch.com that identifies you individually.
Rhymeswithsnitch.com will not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you provide it. Therefore, if you do not want rhymeswithsnitch.com to obtain any personally identifiable information about you, do not submit it. You can visit and browse Rhymes with Snitch’s website without revealing personally identifiable information about yourself. You may also choose to disclose personally identifiable information about yourself, which may be maintained as described below.
Rhymeswithsnitch.com may collect personally identifiable information about you from its website by methods such as the following:
4. Registration Forms
If you are offered the opportunity to enter a promotion or to become a registered user of Rhymes with Snitch’s website, you must apply by filling out the registration form on the site. This form requires certain personally identifiable information that may include, without limitation, your name, email address, postal address, telephone number and/or a unique individual password.
5. Transactions and Activity
If you become a registered user or if you conduct transactions through Rhymes with Snitch’s website, it collects information about the transactions you engage in while on the website and your other activity on the site. This information may include, without limitation, areas of the website that you visit, transaction type, content that you view, download or submit, transaction amount and payment information.
6. Email and other voluntary communications
You may also choose to communicate with Rhymes with Snitch through email, via our website, by telephone, in writing, or through other means. We collect the information in these communications, and such information may be personally identifiable.
7. Information Use
Rhymes with Snitch may use the personally identifiable information collected through its website primarily for such purposes as:
a) helping to establish and verify the identity of users;
b) opening, maintaining, administering and servicing users' accounts or memberships;
c) processing, servicing or enforcing transactions and sending related communications;
d) providing services and support to users;
e) improving the website, including tailoring it to users' preferences;
f) providing users with service updates, promotional notices and offers, and other information about Rhymes with Snitch;
g) responding to your questions inquiries, comments and instructions;
h) maintaining the security and integrity of its systems.
Rhymes with Snitch uses the anonymous browsing information collected automatically by its servers primarily to help it administer and improve its website. Rhymeswithsnitch.com may also use aggregated anonymous information to provide information about its website to potential business partners and other unaffiliated entities. Again, this information is not personally identifiable.
8. Disclosure of Information
Rhymes with Snitch does not provide personally identifiable information to unaffiliated third parties for their use in marketing directly to you. Rhymes with Snitch may use unaffiliated companies to help it maintain and operate its website or for other reasons related to the operation of its business, and those companies may receive your personally identifiable information for that purpose. Rhymes with Snitch may also disclose personally identifiable information about you in connection with legal requirements, such as in response to an authorized subpoena, governmental request or investigation, or as otherwise permitted by law. Finally, as Rhymes with Snitch’s business develops, it may sell or buy corporate assets, and in such transactions customer information may be one of the transferred business assets. If Rhymes with Snitch, its internet businesses, or substantially all of its assets, is acquired, customer information may be one of the assets transferred.
9. "Cookies" and Advertisers
Rhymes with Snitch website's server, or the servers of companies that are used to operate this site, may place a "cookie" on your computer in order to allow you to use the website and to personalize your experience.
A "cookie" is a small piece of data that can be sent by a web server to your computer, which then may be stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Cookies allow rhymeswithsnitch.com to recognize your computer while you are on its website and help customize your online experience and make it more convenient for you. Cookies are also useful in allowing more efficient log-in for users, tracking transaction histories and preserving information between sessions. The information collected from cookies may also be used to improve the functionality of the website.
The advertisers and/or other content providers that may appear on this website may also use cookies that are not sent by Rhymes with Snitch’s website. Such ads or content may contain cookies that help track and target the interests of users of this website in order to present "personalized" advertisements or other messages that the user might find interesting. Rhymes with Snitch is not responsible for any such cookies.
Most web browser applications (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer) have features that can notify you when you receive a cookie or prevent cookies from being sent. If you disable cookies, however, you may not be able to use certain personalized functions of this website.
10. Security
Rhymes with Snitch maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to help guard personally identifiable information. If transactions are offered on the site, transaction information is transmitted to and from rhymeswithsnitch.com in encrypted form using industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections to help protect such information from interception. Rhymes with Snitch restricts authorized access to your personal information to those persons who have a legitimate purpose to know that information to provide services to you and those persons you have authorized to have access to such information. Please be aware, however, that any email or other transmission you send through the internet cannot be completely protected against unauthorized interception.
Notice Regarding Online Behavioral Advertising. We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our Web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org.
13. Changes to this Privacy Policy
Rhymes with Snitch reserves the right to modify or supplement this policy at any time. If a material change to the terms of this policy is made, Rhymes with Snitch will post a link to the new policy on its website.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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