Your privacy is very important to us. We
want to make your experience on the Internet as enjoyable and rewarding as
possible, and we want you to use the internet’s vast array of information,
tools, and opportunities with complete confidence.
Introduction Our company collects
information in different ways from Visitors and Subscribers who access the
various parts of our Services and the network of web sites accessible through
our Service.
We have created this Privacy Policy to
demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and security. This Privacy Policy
describes how our company collects information from all end users of our
Internet Services (the “Services”) – those who access some of our Services but
do not have accounts (“Visitors”) as well as those who may purchase Products
and/or pay a monthly service fee to subscribe to the Service (“Subscribers”) –
what we do with the information we collect, and the choices Visitors and
Subscribers have concerning the collection and use of such information. We
request that you read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Although we take appropriate measures to
safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you
that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed
in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Registration Subscribers may be asked to
provide certain personal information when they sign up for our Products or
Services including name, address, telephone number, billing information (such
as a credit card number), and the type of personal computer being used to
access the Services. The personal information collected from Subscribers during
the registration process is used to manage each Subscriber’s account (such as
for billing purposes). This information may be shared with third parties, as
stated herein, or in special circumstances.
However, in instances where our company and
a partner jointly promote our Services, we may provide the partner certain
personal information, such as the name, address, and username of persons who
subscribed do the Services as a result of the joint promotion for the purpose
of offering you other products and services.
In this instance, personal information may
not be used by the partner for any other purpose. We may also generate
non-identifying and aggregate profiles from personal information Subscribers
provide during registration (such as the total number, but not the names, of
Subscribers). As explained in more detail below, we may use this aggregated and
non-identifying information to sell advertisements that appear on the Services.
Also, with purchases, we supply our
member’s contact information, to our business partners, who then may contact
the member by telephone after the member purchase. Sales proceeds are collected
by the business partner company. We also may supply other companies with
contact information, for mail offers we believe would be of interest to our
Subscribers, with or without compensation from those companies. At times we may
send and advertisement for a third party product, where we collect the sales
proceeds, and forward the purchaser’s information to that third party.
Our Company Partners and Sponsors Some
products and services may be offered to Visitors and Subscribers in conjunction
with an affiliate, independent contractor seller or non-affiliated partner. To
provide Visitors and Members some of these products and services, the partner
may need to collect and maintain personal information.
Online Shopping At some web sites, you can
purchase products and services or register to receive materials, such as a
newsletter, catalog or new product and service updates. In many cases, you may
be asked to provide contact information, such as your name, address, email
address, phone number, and credit/debit card information.
If you complete an order for someone else,
such as an online gift order sent directly to a recipient, you may be asked to
provide information about the recipient, such as the recipient’s name, address,
and phone number. Our company has no control over the third parties’ use of any
personal information you provide when placing such an order. Please exercise
care when doing so.
If you order services or products directly
from our company, we use the personal information you provide to process that
order. We do share this information with outside parties that we do business
with.
Online Advertisements Our company may
display our online advertisements. In those cases we share information about
our Visitors and Subscribers collected through the registration process as well
as through online surveys and promotions with these advertisers.
Additionally, in some instances, we use
this information to deliver tailored advertisements or joint ventures. For
instance, an advertiser or joint venture company tells us the audience they
want to reach and provides us an advertisement tailored to the audience. Based
upon the information we have collected, we may then display or send the
advertisement to the intended audience. Our company does share personal
information about its Visitors or Subscribers with these advertisers or joint
venture companies.
Responses to Email Inquiries When Visitors
or Subscribers send email inquiries to our company, the return email address is
used to answer the email inquiry we receive.
Voluntary Customer Surveys We may
periodically conduct both business and individual customer surveys. We
encourage our customers to participate in these surveys because they provide us
with important information that helps us to improve the types of products and
services we offer and how we provide them to you.
We may take the information we receive from
individuals responding to our Customer Surveys and combine (or aggregate) it
with the responses of other customers we may have, to create broader, generic
response to the survey questions (such as gender, age, residence, hobbies,
education, employment, industry sector, or other demographic information). We
then use the aggregated information to improve the quality of our services to
you, and to develop new services and products. This aggregated, non-personally
identifying information may be shared with third parties.
Promotions Our company may offer polls,
contests, sweepstakes, drawings, games, content, or other promotions that are
sponsored by or co-branded with third parties. You may be entered in a
sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion, simply by making a purchase from us
or by providing us with personally identifiable information for some other
reason or purpose. Due to these third party relationships, the third parties
may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit
to our company. Our company has no control over third parties’ use of this
information.
Additionally, personally identifiable
information may be collected when you order products, enter contests, vote in
polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our Services such as
our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or
communities. The types of personally identifiable information that may be
collected at these pages include but may not be limited to: name, address,
e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and
information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and
services. Our sponsors or third parties may send you material that relates to
our company’s services, products or activities.
Special Cases It is our company’s policy to
use or share the personal information about Visitors or Subscribers in ways
described herein without additional notice or means to opt out or otherwise
prohibit such unrelated uses.
Also, we may disclose personal information
about Visitors or Subscribers, or information regarding your use of the
Services or web sites accessible through our Services, for any reason if, in
our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including:
credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant database agencies, law
enforcement, or to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy
Act, the Child Online Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or legal
requests for such information; to disclose information that is necessary to
identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating
our Terms of Use and Service, or other user policies; to operate the Services
properly; or to protect our company and our Subscribers.
Browser Level Information Freedom Factory®,
Inc. web servers may automatically collect information about a site user’s IP
address, browser type and the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is
on the website or not) and which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on the
website or not) by reading this information from the user’s browser
(information provided by every user’s browser). This information is collected
in a database and used – in an aggregated, anonymous manner – in our internal
analysis of traffic patterns within our website. This information is
automatically logged by most websites. Freedom Factory®, Inc. may also use a
third party to collect information, including through the use of web beacons.
Notice of Compliance to California
Residents: Your California Privacy Rights Under the California Online Privacy
Protection Act and the California Business and Professions Code This privacy
policy identifies the categories of personally identifiable information that
our company collects through our web site or online service, about individual
consumers who use or visit our company’s commercial web site or online service
and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom our company may
share that personally identifiable information.
Our company does not maintain a process for
an individual consumer who uses or visits our commercial web site or online service
to review and request changes to any of his or her personally identifiable
information that is collected through our web site or online service.
See the section below entitled “Revisions
to this Policy” for a description of the process by which our company notifies
consumers who use or visit our commercial web site or online service of
material changes to our company’s privacy policy for this web site or online
service.
The effective date of this privacy policy
is listed at the end of this privacy policy under the heading, “Last updated.”
For the purposes of this policy and
California compliance the following definitions apply:
Depending on the visitor’s activity, in our
commercial web site or online service, the following “personally identifiable information”
may be collected, in addition to information set forth in other sections of
this document.
The term “personally identifiable
information” means individually identifiable information about an individual
consumer collected online by our company from an individual and maintained by
our company in an accessible form, and may include any of the following:
A first and last name.
A home or other physical address, including
street name and name of a city or town.
An e-mail address.
A telephone number.
A social security number.
Any other identifier that permits the
physical or online contacting of a specific individual.
Information concerning a user that the web
site or online service collects online, from the user, and maintains in personally
identifiable form, in combination with an identifier described within this
privacy policy.
Under California Law SB 27, California
residents have the right to receive, once a year, information about third
parties with whom we have shared information about you or your family for their
marketing purposes during the previous calendar year, and a description of the
categories of personal information shared. To make such a request, please send
an email to support@freedomfactory.com and please include the phrase
“California Privacy Request” in the subject line, the domain name of the web
site you are inquiring about, along with your name, address and email address.
We will respond to you within thirty days of receiving such a request.
“Cookies” and How Our Company Uses Them A
“cookie” is a small data file that can be placed on your hard drive when you
visit certain web sites. Our company may use cookies to collect, store, and
sometimes track information for purposes stated herein as well as for statistical
purposes to improve the products and services we provide and to manage our
telecommunications networks.
Most website browsers automatically accept
cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning
before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to
disable the receipt of cookies from our website, you may not be able to use
certain features of the site. Visit www.aboutcookies.org to learn about how to
delete and control cookies using the mail browser types.
Advertisers and partners may also use their
own cookies. We do not control use of these cookies and expressly disclaim
responsibility for information collected through them.
Our company may use Remarketing with Google
Analytics, Adroll, and Facebook to advertise online.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may
show our ads on sites across the Internet.
We, along with and third-party vendors,
including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie)
and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform,
optimize, and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website.
We may also use data from Google’s
Interest-based advertising or 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender and
interests) with Google Analytics, to create educational and marketing content
geared toward the demographics and interests of our visitors.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics for
Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using Google’s Ads
Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. You can also use Google’s
Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Our Company Commitment to Children’s
Privacy Protecting children’s privacy is especially important to us. It is our
policy to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and
all other applicable laws. Therefore we restrict our web site to persons
eighteen years or older.
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO
ACCESS THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT
PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS
FOR USE OF THIS WEB SITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEB SITE FALLS WITHIN
THE CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO.
Public Forums Please remember that any
information you may disclose in any Subscriber Directory, or other public areas
of our web sites or the internet, becomes public information. You should
exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these public
areas.
Our Company’s Commitment to Data Security
Services and websites we sponsor have security measures in place to protect the
loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. While we
make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and
systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent
third-party “hackers” form illegally obtaining this information.
In the Event of Sale or Bankruptcy The ownership
of Freedom Factory®, Inc. may change at some point in the future. Should that
occur, we want this site to be able to maintain a relationship with you. In the
event of a sale, merger, public offering, bankruptcy, or other change in
control of Freedom Factory®, Inc. your information may be shared with the
person or business that owns or controls this site. Opting out of receiving
information from third parties will not affect our right to transfer your
information to a new owner, but your choices will continue to be respected
regarding the use of your information.
Where to Direct Questions about Our Privacy
Policy If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices
described herein, you may contact us through the contact information provided
on this web site.
Revisions to This Policy Our company
reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy, our Terms of Use
and Service, and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any
manner, by updating this posting. Your use of this site after such changes are
implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of there changes.
Please consult this privacy statement prior to every use for any changes.