Privacy Policy For DigestiStart
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
TheDigestiStart, 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. The
DigestiStart, Inc. may also use a third party to collect information,
including through the use of web beacons.