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Interad Concepts, Inc.
WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY
Interad Concepts,
Inc., (referred to in this document as "COMPANY" or "We"), is
concerned that its reputation, and the responsibilities that come
with using it, always remain of paramount importance in all of
Interad Concepts, Inc.'s activities. To that end, in addition to
certain conditions and restrictions that you will find under the
Terms of Use Agreement [insert hyperlink here] and our Legal
Disclaimer [insert hyperlink here] on our Internet Web Site, the
information and links to other web sites provided below explain
Interad Concepts, Inc.'s policy about privacy, options you can use
to limit the use of information about you both here and elsewhere on
the internet, valuable information about the internet generally,
public policy issues about the internet and internet privacy as well
as other information about rights and responsibilities concerning
privacy in a variety of non-internet areas.
We believe your business is no one else's. Your privacy is important
to you and to us. So we'll protect the information you share with
us. To protect your privacy, Interad Concepts, Inc. follows standard
principles in accordance with worldwide practices for
Customer/Member privacy and data protection.
PRIVACY POLICY
Interad Concepts, Inc.'s policy is to respect the privacy of all of
our visitors, so the following policy statement tells you about what
information we may receive, send or ask of you, what its used for
and ways you can control its use.
Generally, anyone can
come to visit InteradConcepts.com, and Interad Concepts, Inc. will
not keep information about these visits except for a record of how
many total visits have been made to the Web Site and its various web
pages altogether (not how many times any single person has visited).
However, if you become a Customer/Member (see our Terms of Use
Agreement [insert hyperlink here] for a detailed explanation), which
requires giving identifying information to Interad Concepts, Inc.
(together referred to in this document as a "Customer/Member "),
Membership records will be started according to information you give
us or that we receive from or send to your computer.
SECURITY
Interad Concepts, Inc. has taken strong measures to protect the
security of your personal information and to ensure that your
choices for its intended use are honoured. We take strong
precautions to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized
access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Your Personal
Information is stored on secure servers that are not accessible by
third parties. We provide you with the capability to transmit you
Personal Information via secured and encrypted channels if you use a
similarly equipped web browser.
These security
measures are in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of
the information that we obtain from you, but we make no assurances
about our ability to prevent any such loss, misuse, to you or to any
third party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration.
In the event of unauthorized use of your credit card, you must
notify your credit card provider in accordance with its reporting
rules and procedures.
Interad Concepts, Inc. strictly protects the security of your
personal information and honours your choices for its intended use.
We carefully protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized
access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
Your personal
information is never shared outside the company without your
permission, except under conditions explained above. Inside the
company, data is stored in password-controlled servers with limited
access. Your information may be stored and processed in the USA or
any other country where Interad Concepts, Inc., its subsidiaries,
affiliates or agents are located.
You also have a significant role in protecting your information. No
one can share these see or edit your personal information without
knowing your user name and password, so do not with others.
NOTICE CONCERNING CHILDREN AND TO PARENTS
We adhere to the Children's Privacy Act. You must be 18 years of age
to join or use InteradConcepts.com or any of the recommended or
linked sites. This site follows the guidelines, policies and laws of
the Federal Trade Commission (www.ftc.gov). We retain the right to
refuse anyone membership in any of our sites. If we learn or have
reason to believe that a User is underage according to the
guidelines, policies and laws of the Federal Trade Commission, we
will promptly revoke that User's account and delete any personal
information.
ENFORCEMENT
If for some reason you believe Interad Concepts, Inc. has not
adhered to these principles, please notify us at: info@interadconcepts.com
or by certified mail, return receipt requested, to PO Box 4026,
Fairview Heights, IL 62208. We will do our best to determine and
correct the problem promptly. Be certain the words Privacy Policy
are in the Subject line.
ELECTRONIC PRODUCT REGISTRATION
When you buy and install a new product, we may ask you to register
your purchase electronically. When you do, we merge your
registration information with any information you've already left
with us (we call that information your personal profile). If you
haven't previously registered with us, we create a personal profile
for you from your product registration information. If you ever want
to review or update that information, you can click on Update
Profile, and edit any of the Personal Information in your profile.
If you haven't already created a membership, we will ask you to do
so. This ensures that only you can access your information.
CUSTOMER OR MEMBERSHIP PROFILES
As mentioned above, every registered customer or member has a unique
personal profile. Each profile is assigned a unique personal
identification username, which helps us ensure that only you can
access your profile.
When you register,
you create your profile, your username and password. It is your
passport to seamless travel across your member area, allowing you to
download software and order more plug-in modules without having to
fill out registration forms with information you've already
provided. Even if you switch computers, you won't have to
re-register - just use your Registration ID to identify yourself.
WHAT WE DO WITH
THE INFORMATION YOU SHARE
When you join us, you provide us with your contact information,
including your name and email address. We use this information to
send you updates about your order, questionnaires to measure your
satisfaction with our service and announcements about new and
exciting services that we offer. When you order from us, our 3rd
party payment processors such as PayPal and 2checkout.com will ask
for your credit card number and billing address. They use this
information only to bill you for the product(s) you order at that
time.
We occasionally hire
other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including
programming, answering Customer/Member questions about products or
services, sending email and processing event registration. We will
only provide those companies the information they need to deliver
the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for
any other purpose.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, Interad
Concepts, Inc. will not share your personal information with any
third parties without your consent.
Interad Concepts, Inc. will disclose your personal information,
without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good
faith belief that such action is necessary to:
i. Conform to the
edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Interad
Concepts, Inc. or the site;
ii. Protect and defend the rights or property of Interad Concepts,
Inc. and its family of Websites;
iii. Enforce our Terms of Use Agreement [insert hyperlink here]; or
iv. Act under exigent circumstances to protect the safety of the
public or users of the Site.
If your information is lost or stolen, you must promptly notify us
if your credit card, user name, or password is lost, stolen, or used
without permission. In such an event, we will remove that credit
card number, user name, or password from your account and update our
records accordingly.
The Site contains links to other websites. We are not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We also
make email services, bulletin board services, chat areas, news
groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, photo
albums, file cabinets and/or other message or communication
facilities designed to enable User to communicate with others (each
a "Communication Service" and collectively "Communication Services")
available to you. Please understand that any information that is
disclosed in these areas becomes public information. We have no
control over its use and you should exercise caution when deciding
to disclose your Personal Information.
PERSONAL
INFORMATION-WHY AND HOW "IP ADDRESSES" ARE USED
An IP address is a basic element of the way the Internet functions.
It is a number that identifies your computer according to its IP
address, and IP numbers are assigned to web sites automatically. IP
addresses may also be identified in "header" information on emails.
There may also be other services and occasions when IP addresses
will appear. Always look carefully at what information may be
displayed about you, including your IP address, and if you are
unsure or uncomfortable about the appearance of your IP address, do
not use that service.
In addition to being an important part of how computers communicate
with each other correctly, IP addresses can be used for other
things, as well. In Interad Concepts, Inc.'s case, IP addresses are
collected for smooth operation in administrating our Web Site
system, for purposes of collecting the non-personal "grouping"
information for use by Interad Concepts, Inc. and certain third
parties, as discussed above, and to generally monitor the use of
InteradConcepts.com. IP addresses are exchanged many times when you
are surfing the web, so, for example, if you select a web page or
link within Interad Concepts, Inc., the IP address is recorded by
the server by which Interad Concepts, Inc.'s Web Site is connected
to the internet.
For most purposes, your IP address will not be connected with
personally identifying information, only the fact of that access to
a given place on our web sites gets noted, but who you are
individually will be anonymous, even to Interad Concepts, Inc..
However, as with certain information discussed in other parts of
this document, IP Address information will be used to help us
identify a person if Interad Concepts, Inc., in good faith, believes
it important for ensuring proper compliance with our rules and
policies, if it appears to be necessary to comply with laws and to
protect Interad Concepts, Inc., our members and customers or other
third parties.
PERSONAL
INFORMATION-OPTING OUT
Interad Concepts, Inc., our affiliates or selected third parties may
use personal information you give Interad Concepts, Inc. for
marketing and promotions. You do not have to let us use this
information in that manner. This is called "opting out," and it
means you can tell us not to use your personal information for these
purposes:
i. Listing you in any
Customer/Member directory,
ii. Receiving information from us about Interad Concepts, Inc. and
our services and products, or
iii. Receiving information from third parties selected by us
because, for example, your interests seem to match services or
products they offer. To opt out, contact info@interadconcepts.com,
modify your personal information or cancel your Membership.
In addition, there may be specific opt-out processes available when
you enter certain areas of our Web Site, join groups, use services
or when other merchandise is offered. When you see such opt-out
notices, read them for information on how to opt out at that time.
Also, some promotions may ask if you'd like additional information.
Choosing to ask for additional information may require transfer of
your email address, but if more personal information than that is
required, you will be notified prior to such information being
transmitted and may opt out by cancelling the request at that time.
OTHER IMPORTANT
COMPANY PRIVACY ISSUES
A "Cookie" is a small file sent to and stored in your computer to
keep accurate records and customize certain services. In fact, it's
become so common that you can almost always expect cookies to be
sent to your computer from a wide variety of Internet sites.
For Interad Concepts,
Inc., cookies are designed to try to make your visits more personal
and helpful according to the ways you use our Web Sites. They tell
us the name that a Customer/Member uses at Interad Concepts, Inc.
and can tailor things like greetings, e-cards and so-forth to make
your use of Interad Concepts, Inc. feel like you're right at home.
They can also tell us, for example, that you focus on particular
types of information you need as a Customer/Member, and the cookie
may automatically see to it that when you log in you get a message
about some new feature in your areas of interest or about other
services that fit the way you use Interad Concepts, Inc.. Also,
sometimes when messages are sent to certain Interad Concepts, Inc.
destinations, like "customer service," a cookie may be used to help
process your message more efficiently and accurately.
However, cookies at
Interad Concepts, Inc. are never used for storing or accessing
important personal information that you alone should control the use
of-like your password or your credit card number.
Even though cookies
are usually thought to be helpful to web sites and their users
alike, not everybody wants them being put in their computer. That's
okay, but there are two things you need to know: if you don't have
cookies, not everything on your Interad Concepts, Inc. visits may be
accessible, as efficient or as personable; and, stopping cookies is
something we can't do, instead you have to do it in your own
computer.
Stopping cookies
shouldn't be difficult; however, because cookies are so commonly
used and welcomed today, most browsers are set to automatically
accept them. Even so, if you look through the settings in your
browser, often in "preferences," "setup" or "configuration," you
should be able to find a place where you can change the cookies
setting, either to tell your browser never to accept cookies, or to
tell your browser to notify you if a cookie is about to be sent and
give you a chance to accept it or not. In the latter case, you
should know that cookies are often just numbered or use some kind of
computer term that will not be helpful for you to identify what the
cookie is actually for so that you can make a clear choice, but the
option is yours.
SPECIAL CONCERNS ABOUT HYPERLINKS
In this document, there are buttons or underlined words and phrases
that you can click on. You will find these all over our Web Site and
nearly every other web site you visit throughout the Internet, too.
Some of them link to other parts of the same web site, but others
will send you to another site unrelated to the web site you were at.
This kind of link is called a hyperlink and could send you to a web
page a block away or on the other side of the world.
When we use
hyperlinks at Interad Concepts, Inc., we try to make sure they are
updated and accurate links and that they are compatible with the
kinds of visitors we have. However, Interad Concepts, Inc. has no
control over the business, operations or representations of these
hyperlinks to unrelated web sites-and any hyperlinks included on
them-and what the destination web pages may contain. Interad
Concepts, Inc.'s Privacy Policy does not cover other such
destinations. You should always be careful at other web sites about
how they operate and how information is being used. They may have
their own policies that differ from Interad Concepts, Inc.'s, they
may send different kinds of cookies and they may gather and use
information in very different ways than Interad Concepts, Inc..
We can take no
responsibility or protect you on other web sites, so always be
careful-not just about things like opting out on advertising, but
also about safety and security. Once again, carefully protect
personal information about yourself, and be wary of who might get
such information, especially the public through chat-rooms, bulletin
boards or by email. Not being careful about this can be risky, and
because Interad Concepts, Inc. can't control these hyperlinked sites
or users, and because our own policies and rules don't apply, the
risk is on you to decide how, and how not, to use them.
DO YOU ACCEPT OUR
PRIVACY POLICY?
By using this Web Site, you are verifying that you agree to, and
will abide by, the terms of the Interad Concepts, Inc. Privacy
Policy.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE
TO DO SO, STOP VISITING OUR WEB SITES.
Second, check our
privacy policy every once in a while. Certain things may change over
time, and we may include new information and privacy policies that
will be placed in this document. If you continue to visit Interad
Concepts, Inc. after any such changes, you will again be verifying
that you agree to, and will abide by, the current privacy policy, as
it then exists.
UPDATES AND
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to,
change, update, or modify this Privacy Policy, simply by posting
such change, update, or modification on the Site and without any
other notice to you. Any such change, update, or modification will
be effective immediately upon posting on the Site.
QUESTIONS &
COMMENTS?
Interad Concepts, Inc. is always ready to review your questions and
comments and we will attempt to give you our best responses.
Remember, we have a lot of Customer/Member s and other visitors to
respond to, as well, but we will try to reply as promptly and
thoroughly as possible. To contact Interad Concepts, Inc. about our
privacy policy, send an email to info@interadconcepts.com.
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