Privacy Statement
Please
note
that "We", "Us" and "Our" as used throughout this policy statement
refer to JointVentureGifts.com. At
JointVentureGifts.com your privacy is important. We want to make
your experience using our website enjoyable, educational, and rewarding.
We want you to know how information is collected about your
and how it is used while you are visiting the site, after you have
left the site, made a purchase, or subscribed to a newsletter or
requested or allowed further contact. CHILDREN:
The Terms of Use for this website prohibit its use
by persons under 18 years of age. Child privacy
provisions of the Children's Online Protection Act (COPA) of 1988
are, therefore, not applicable. See below
for additional information. If you are under
18 years of age and are reading this page, you must exit this site
immediately. The contents of this website are
not lawfully available to you. By
using this website, you agree to the collection and use of personally
identifiable information. Depending on whether
you are a casual visitor, or order a product or service, or become
a member, affiliate, or joint venture partner as the result a visit
to this website, various types of information are collected that
may include your name, your email address, street address, telephone
number, credit card information, shipping information, as well as
internal information about your computer, including internet service
provider routing information. Here
is how we use this information and how you authorize us to use this
information by using this website and how this website interacts
with your computer. Personal
Information That JointVentureGifts.com
Collects
and How It Is Used Introduction.
JointVentureGifts.com collects information in different ways
from Visitors and Members who access the various parts of our Services
and the network of Web sites accessible through our Service. A service
is considered to be rendered if Visitors and Members read, copy
or download any information from the website. Registration:
Members 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 Members during the registration
process is used to manage each Member'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 JointVentureGifts.com and a partner jointly promote
Services, we may provide the partner certain personal information,
such as the name, address, and username of persons who subscribed
to 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 Members provide during
registration (such as the total number, but not the names, of Members).
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 may supply our member's contact information,
to our business partners, who may then contact the member by telephone
or mail after the member purchase. Sales proceeds may be collected
by that business partner. We also may supply other companies
with contact information for mail offers we believe would be of
interest to our members, with or without compensation from those
companies. At times we may send an advertisement for a third
party product, where we collect the sales proceeds, and forward
the purchaser's information to that third party. Our
JointVentureGifts.com Partners and Sponsors: Some products and
services may be offered to Visitors and Members 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. JointVentureGifts.com 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 JointVentureGifts.com,
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 website may display our online advertisements.
In those cases we share information about our Visitors and Members
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
partner 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. JointVentureGifts.com does
share personal information about its Visitors or Members with these
advertisers or joint venture companies. Responses
to Email Inquiries: When Visitors or Members send email inquiries
to our website, 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 responses
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. Special
Cases:
It is JointVentureGifts.com's policy to use or share
the personal information about Visitors or Members 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 Members,
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 Acceptable Use Policy or Terms
Of Service, or other user policies; to operate the Services properly;
or to protect JointVentureGifts.com and our Members. "Cookies"
and How JointVentureGifts.com Uses Them.
A "cookie" is a small data file that can be placed on your hard
drive when you visit certain Web sites. JointVentureGifts.com
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. 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
Web Sites’ 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 CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA) AND IS NOT MONITORED
AS DOING SO. Public
Forums:
Please remember that any information you may disclose in any Member
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. JointVentureGifts.com's
Commitment to Data Security:
Services and Web sites 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" from illegally
obtaining this 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:
The JointVentureGifts.com reserves the right to revise,
amend, or modify this policy, our Terms Of Service agreement, and
our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner,
by updating this posting. Please check this page periodically
for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting
of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. JointVentureGifts.com
is owned and operated by: Kim Haas. Last updated: 30 May, 2007 |
