Awempty.com Privacy StatementThis is the official privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) for Awempty.com (”Site,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), an Internet website. This Privacy Policy governs information collection and use on www.awempty.com. Information Collection & UseRegistrationIn order to use the message board feature of this website, you must first complete the registration form and create a user name and password. During registration you are required to give your email address. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest and/or for usage statistics to improve the site.
You have the option to provide demographic information (such as age, gender, and location) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.
After registration, you have the option to opt in or out of website emails.
Awempty.com is the sole owner of the information collected on www.awempty.com. Awempty.com collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
OrdersIf you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
We may also send out periodic email announcing new products if you choose to opt in.
Surveys or ContestsFrom time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this information to notify contest winners and/or improve the site through anonymous information collected in surveys as well as to promote the site.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
Tell-A-FriendIf you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Awempty.com may store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at support (at) awempty (dot) com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Uses of InformationAwempty.com collects anonymous usage data to improve the site. Optional personal information submitted in the message board is used in order to provide more relevant advertising.
Communications from the SiteSpecial Offers and UpdatesWe will occasionally send you information on contests, merchandise, or news. You can sign up for these emails from us on our message board.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”
NewslettersIf you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section. Service-related AnnouncementsWe will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. You may opt-out of these communications. Please see “Choice and Opt-out.”
Customer ServiceBased upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
ProfileWe store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a “profile” of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, but not your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
We do not share your profile with other third parties unless you specifically opt to do so.
Information Sharing and Disclosure Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. The information is used with our advertising partners to provide more relevant advertisements.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information: We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties
Any personally identifiable information will be provided by you optionally in your message board profile.
Agents
We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Service Providers
We use Brightcove and Blip.tv to provide user submissions on our site. When you sign up for Brightcove or Blip.tv, you must separately provide information as necessary for the third party to provide that service.
These third parties have their own privacy policies which are viewable upon registration.
Other Third Parties
We use third party services to provide a store and process orders. Financial information collected by them is NOT shared with Awempty.com.
Legal DisclaimerWe reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
Choice/Opt-outAll email subscriptions are from the message board section of our site. You may opt out of any subscriptions from your account profile there. We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at unsuscribe (at) awempty (dot) com.We offer an opportunity to opt-out of certain communications on your message board profile page, or you may contact us at 248-635-0451 or support (at) awempty (dot) com to opt-out.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
Log FilesAs is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to prevent abuses to the message board and our site.
We use a third-party tracking service called Google Analytics that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate usage statistics to improve the site and provide more relevant advertisements.
CookiesA cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and/or persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site and prevent abuse to our website. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
Delete cookies in Internet Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 Delete cookies in Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/psm/help_21/using_priv_help.html
Cookies are used to track login sessions. We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, or the message board, will be limited. Our store is provided by a third party and so they have a separate policy on cookies.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by www.awempty.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. See the “Third Party Advertisers” section.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.
To learn more about our advertising company’s use of clear gifs, please go to www.adbrite.com or www.google.com/adsense.
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see “Choice and Opt-out.”
Third Party AdvertisersThe ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Adbrite.com and Google Adsense, our advertising partners. We share Web site usage information about users with them for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.
For more information about our third-party advertiser, or to learn more about the choices available to you regarding this anonymous information, please click here for Google and here for Adbrite.
Links to Other SitesThis Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Awempty.com. Please be aware that we, Awempty.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Co-branded sites Awempty.com utilizes a co-branded upload form provided by Brightcove in order to accept user submissions. A separate privacy policy may be found on that page.
Message Board If you use the message board on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. We reserve the right to terminate your account at any time for any reason.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at support (at) awempty (dot) com or by contacting us by telephone or fax at the contact information listed below. Phone: 248-635-0451 Fax: 248-680-9569 SecurityThe security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link SSL.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at support (at) awempty (dot) com.
Business TransitionsIn the event Awempty.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email (if you have opted in to email announcements) and/or by prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy StatementIf we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact UsIf you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: 248-635-0451 (phone) 248-680-9569 (fax) chris (at) awempty (dot) com (email) |