Thank you for visiting
PARTYSEARCH247.com. Your privacy is important to us. To
better protect your privacy, we provide this statement
explaining our online information practices and the choices
you can make about the way your information is collected and
used at this website.
The Information We Collect
On the PARTYSEARCH247.COM website,
you can 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: 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.
You can also submit
information about other people. For example, you might
submit a person's name and e-mail address to send an
electronic greeting card and, if you order a gift online and
want it sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the
recipient's name and address. The types of personally
identifiable information that may be collected about other
people at these pages include: recipient's name, address,
e-mail address, and telephone number.
At certain parts of
PARTYSEARCH247.COM, only persons who provide us with the
requested personally identifiable information will be able
to order products, programs, and services or otherwise
participate in the site's activities and offerings.
We also may collect
certain non-personally identifiable information when you
visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you
are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of
operating system you are using, (e.g., Microsoft Windows or
Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service
provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).
How We Use the Information
We may use the
information you provide about yourself to fulfill your
requests for our products, programs, and services, to
respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer
you other products, programs or services that we believe may
be of interest to you.
We sometimes use this
information to communicate with you, such as to notify you
when you have won one of our contests or when we make
changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request
by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about
your account with us.
We use the information
that you provide about others to enable us to send them your
gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this
information to offer our products, programs, or services to
them. The information we collect in connection with our
online forums and communities is used to provide an
interactive experience. We use this information to
facilitate participation in these online forums and
communities and, from time to time, to offer you products,
programs, or services.
If you choose to
submit content for publication (e.g., a letter to our
editors, a posting to a blog or a discussion board),
we may publish your screen name and other information you
have provided to us.
We sometimes use the
non-personally identifiable information that we collect to
improve the design and content of our site and to enable us
to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use
this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as
well as to offer you products, programs, or services.
We may disclose
personally identifiable information in response to legal
process, for example, in response to a court order or a
subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response
to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe
it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action
regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to the physical safety of any
person, violations of our terms of use, to verify or enforce
compliance with the policies governing our Web Site and
applicable laws or as otherwise required or permitted by law
or consistent with legal requirements. In addition, we may
transfer personally identifiable information about you if
we, or one of our business units, are acquired by, sold to,
or merged with another company. Agents and contractors who
have access to personally identifiable information are
required to protect this information in a manner that is
consistent with this Privacy Statement by, for example, not
using the information for any purpose other than to carry
out the services they are performing for us.
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 Statement.
PARTYSEARCH247.COM may
disclose personally identifiable information to companies
whose practices are not covered by this privacy statement
(e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers,
participatory databases, and non-profit organizations) that
want to market products or services to you. If a site shares
personally identifiable information, it will provide you
with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses either at
the point of submission of your personally identifiable
information or prior to any such disclosure.
We may on occasion
combine information we receive online with outside records
to enhance our ability to market to you those products or
services that may be of interest to you. If you have signed
up to receive our e-mails and prefer not to receive
marketing information from this site, follow the
"unsubscribe" instructions provided on any marketing e-mail
you receive from this site.
Finally,
PARTYSEARCH247.COM, covered by this Privacy Statement will
not use or transfer personally identifiable information
provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above
without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of
these unrelated uses.
Cookies & Web Beacons
To enhance your
experience with our sites, many of our web pages use
"cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your
computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by
themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other
personally identifiable information unless you choose to
provide this information to us by, for example, registering
at PARTYSEARCH247.COM. However, once you choose to furnish
the site with personally identifiable information, this
information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to
understand site usage and to improve the content and
offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to
personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to
recognize you by name when you return to our site), save
your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to
use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to
offer you products, programs, or services.
"Web beacons" or clear
.gifs are small pieces of code placed on a web page to
monitor the behavior and collect data about the visitors
viewing a web page. For example, web beacons can be used to
count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie
to the browser of a visitor viewing that page. We may use
web beacons on this site from time to time for this and
other purposes.
Collection of Information by
Third-Party Sites, Ad Servers, and Sponsors
PARTYSEARCH247.COM
contain links to other sites whose information practices may
be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other
sites' privacy notices as we have no control over
information that is submitted to, or collected by, these
third parties.
PARTYSEARCH247.COM,
covered by this Privacy Statement sometimes may offer
content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) that is
sponsored by or cobranded with identified third parties. By
virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain
personally identifiable information that visitors
voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. We
have no control over these third parties' use of this
information. The site will notify you at the time of
requesting personally identifiable information if these
third parties will obtain such information.
PARTYSEARCH247.COM,
covered by this Privacy Statement may use a reputable third
party to present or serve the advertisements that you may
see at its Web pages. These third party ad servers may use
cookies, web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies to
help present such advertisements, and to help measure and
research the advertisements' effectiveness. The use of these
technologies by these third party ad servers is subject to
their own privacy policies and is not covered by our privacy
statement.
Our Commitment to Security
We have put in place
appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures
to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain
data security, and correctly use the information we collect
online.
How You can Access or Correct
Information
Access to personally
identifiable information that is collected from our sites
may be accessible for a limited period of time from the
point of collection. For example, if you created a
password-protected account within our site, you can access
that account to review the information you provided.
You may also send an
e-mail or letter to the following e-mail requesting
access to or correction of your personally identifiable
information. For verification purposes please include your
first name, last name, e-mail address and the password you
use for said service.
E-mail Administration
PARTYSEARCH247.COM
email:
KNOWBEST@PARTYSEARCH247.com
Special Note for Parents
The site you are
visiting is one of our general audience sites. For more
information about our online privacy practices for
children's sites, consult the privacy notice at the
children's site in which you are interested.
How to Contact Us
If you have any
questions or concerns about the online privacy statement for
this site or its implementation you may contact us at
KNOWBEST@PARTYSEARCH247.com
Updates & Effective Date
From time to time, we
may update this privacy statement. We will notify you about
material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable
information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage
you to periodically check back and review this policy so
that you always will know what information we collect, how
we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
The Privacy Statement
posted on this site was updated on or about April 11, 2009.
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