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Importance of Your Privacy. At econfidant, your privacy is of great importance
to us. We understand that you entrust us with your private information to provide
various services described at the web site located at www.econfidant.com
(the "Web site"). In exchange for your trust, you expect and deserve our commitment
to treat your information with respect and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Rest assured that we protect your privacy. Under no circumstances will econfidant
sell or share any personal information about you to or with any person or organization
except (i) as authorized by you, (ii) with licensors, (iii) as may be required by
law or court order, or (iv) as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. The Privacy
Policy below describes the standards we adhere to in handling information about
you and any personal information you submit through the Web site.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING ANY OF ECONFIDANT'S SERVICES.
BY USING ANY SUCH SERVICES YOU ARE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND
THIS POLICY AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO
BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, SIMPLY EXIT THIS PAGE WITHOUT ACCESSING
OR USING OUR WEB SITE OR ANY OF OUR SERVICES.
Collection of Information
Important Categories of Information for you to Know:
1. Who we are
2. Information we may collect at the Web site
3. How your information is used
4. Altering the information you submit through the Web site
1. Who We Are. econfidant owns and operates the Web site, the purpose
of which is to serve as a resource for soliciting and receiving dating and relationship
advice. Depending on the products or services selected by you, we may make information
submitted by you at the Web site available to (i) licensors to the extent the service
you have selected involves use of intellectual property owned by such licensors,
(ii) "relationship experts" and other third parties involved in providing services
to you, and (iii) third party vendors to the extent you have purchased any services
or products from such vendors through the Web site.
2. Information We Collect. There are several areas on the Web site
where you may be asked to enter both personal and non-personal information. We DO
NOT sell or share any personal information about you to or with any person or organization
except (i) as authorized by you, (ii) as set forth herein, or (iii) as may be required
by law or court order.
(a) Information we receive from you. To use certain of econfidant's services,
when you come to the Web site you'll need to provide personal information such as
your name, phone number, e-mail address and other information.
(b) Technical information we collect. In order for econfidant to ensure that
we are providing the best possible consumer experience on the Web site, we collect
and track certain user information. When you visit the Web site, our Web server
sends a cookie to your computer. This cookie stores a limited amount of information
about your site visit. The cookie tracks aggregate information on how our site is
being used, including session counts, navigation patterns, pages visited, etc. These
cookies, however, do not store any personally identifiable information such as your
name, email address or phone number as you browse the site.
When you submit an inquiry or RFQ, we store your cookie identification in our system.
This cookie allows our site to recognize you when you return. econfidant may also
utilize Web Logs to track aggregate information about how our site is being used.
Web Logs track anonymous user information, including the number of visitors to the
Web site, operating systems, Internet Provider addresses (if publicly available),
and browser type. Unlike cookies, Web Logs are maintained only on econfidant servers
and do not store or place anything on the user's computer. If you come to the Web
site from an online banner ad, an anonymous identification number may be passed
to the Web site. This information cannot be used to gather any personally identifiable
information about you. It will only allow us to track the overall effectiveness
of our online advertising, marketing and banner advertisement campaigns.
(c) Information from surveys. You may have the option of completing an online
survey at the Web site from time to time. Participation in surveys is completely
voluntary and it is your choice whether or not you wish to disclose your personal
information to us in connection with any such survey.
(d) Information from the "Contact Us" section of the Web site. You may contact
econfidant through the "Contact Us" feature. Participation in this area is completely
voluntary and it is your choice whether or not you wish to disclose your personal
information to us.
(e) Information collected on other sections of the Web site. econfidant may,
from time to time, make various resources available to you at the Web site. At times
we may collect personal information in connection with providing such services.
3. How your information is used. We use the information you provide
us to provide services to you as described throughout the Web site. econfidant may
also share certain aggregated data with third parties for general marketing and
demographic purposes; however, this data does not include any of your personal identifying
information. Some of our services may be offered in conjunction with partner companies,
affiliates or other companies or web sites with which we work. In order for us to
provide these services to you, it may be necessary for us to share your personal
information with one of such entities. These parties are not allowed to use personally
identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services. If
you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer
by not using that particular service.
In addition, econfidant may disclose account or other personal information when
we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference
with econfidant's rights or property, other Web site users or anyone else that could
be harmed by such activities.
4. Altering Information You Submit Through an econfidant Web Site.
You may be able to review and change personal information you have submitted to
econfidant at the Web site. If you are unable to complete this online, you may contact
our customer care department at team@econfidant.com.
(a) Deleting your information. Federal and state regulations may require
that we store your information for various periods of time. In order to comply with
these regulations, we may be unable to delete information from our databases.
(b) Request to stop receiving emails from us. Periodically, econfidant may
send you emails to alert you to tips or special offers. If you do not wish to receive
any of these offers, please send an e-mail to team@econfidant.com to remove yourself
from our mailing list.
Security
econfidant uses extensive and sophisticated secure technology to protect your data
and transmissions between you and econfidant. Transmission between browsers and
our web server is implemented using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. This
technology requires an SSL-capable browser. Our database is physically separated
from our web server and is protected by a physical firewall. Although econfidant
has taken these reasonable and appropriate measures to ensure that your personal
information is delivered and disclosed only in accordance with your instructions,
econfidant cannot and does not guarantee that the personal information you provide
will not be intercepted by others and decrypted.
Changes to Privacy Policy
If we make a change to our Privacy Policy in the future that will affect how we
treat your information, we will notify you by e-mail of the change to the extent
such change is material. Otherwise, we will post such change at the Web site, and
such change will be deemed to be effective 10 days from the date of such posting.
In that case, your ability to opt out of the new policy will be determined by applicable
laws.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 28, 2005.
PLEASE PRINT AND RETAIN A COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT FOR YOUR RECORDS.
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