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CARSEY-WERNER-MANDABACH
LLC
PRIVACY
POLICY STATEMENT
USE
OF THIS WEB SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND
AGREEMENT
TO COMPLY WITH THE ENTIRE PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT
As part of the operations of Carsey-Werner-Mandabach
LLC and its related companies, we gather certain types of information
about our users through our Web site (including, but not limited to,
www.cwm.com, www.carseywerner.com, www.that70sshow.com, www.3rdrock.com
and www.groundedforlife.com). This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy")
explains the types of information we gather, what we do with it and
how you may correct or change the information that we may collect.
1.
Kinds of Information
There are two kinds of information we
can obtain about you:
a) Personal
Information: Personal Information is any information that personally
identifies you. It can be your first and last name, your home address,
your telephone number, age, gender or your e-mail address. Personal
information is collected when users voluntarily register for membership
services. Sometimes this Personal Information is needed to receive announcements
regarding our Web site and projects, enter contests and participate
in other promotional opportunities provided on our Web site. Other
times, we may collect this information to help target advertising and
marketing. We may also collect e-mail addresses from
users who send us support mail or request technical or other help. This
information enables us to improve our Web site in order to make your
On-line visits more productive and enjoyable. The choice is yours
- you do not have to register. If we are asking for optional information,
we will mark it with an asterisk (*) so you know you can skip it if
you want, and on that same page we will give you a way to "opt
out" of being contacted by us and any third parties.
b) Aggregate
Information: Aggregate Information is anonymous data that we use
to diagnose problems on our Web site's servers, administer our
Web site, and to help improve the quality of our Web pages. It may be
your IP address (a number that's automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you're surfing the Internet), browser type (e.g., Netscape
or Internet Explorer), and domain (e.g., "XYZ.com").
We do this in the background so it does not interrupt your cruising
speed. We may share Aggregate Information with third parties.
None of this information is connected with Personal Information. So,
when you enter our site, you are anonymous and will remain that way
unless you choose otherwise.
2.
Use of Information
We may use the Personal Information
we collect to improve the content of our Web site; to customize the
content and/or layout of our Web site for each individual user; to notify
users about updates to our Web site or promotional offers or opportunities
that we believe will be of interest to users; and to investigate violations
of our terms and conditions of use. We may also share Personal Information
with consultants and related companies for internal business or research
purposes.
With user permission, we may access
Personal Information on behalf of third parties for marketing or promotional
purposes. We will always request permission to share such information
with third parties. You may elect not to participate by clicking or
not clicking, as applicable, the appropriate on-screen button.
In some situations, we may share your Personal Information with third
parties who perform a particular service on our behalf. These parties
are not allowed to use Personal Information except for the limited purpose
of providing the particular service on our behalf. In addition,
we may receive personal usage and demographic information from third
parties based on our users Personal Information and their visits to
our Web site, and use this information to improve our products and services.
We may post the name of a user (for
example, a contest winner) on our Web site. We will notify you
of this possibility when you provide your information.
We may also divulge Personal Information
if such information is subpoenaed, or if we believe that membership
has been used to commit unlawful acts, or acts that may endanger the
health or safety of another user or of the general public.
We may share the Aggregate Information
we collect with third parties for advertising and promotional purposes.
We may use a third-party company to serve ads when you visit our Web
site. This company may use Aggregate information about your visits to
our Web site in order to provide advertisements on our Web site about
goods and services of interest to you. For this purpose, the third-party
company and we may track and note some of the pages you visit on our
Web site.
3.
Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that Web
sites store on your hard drive when you visit them. Cookies allow us
to determine which areas and features of our Web site are most popular
by measuring user activity, and to improve your user experience by remembering
your passwords and viewing preferences, which allows you to visit various
parts of our Web site without re-registering. We may also use
cookies when we conduct polls, surveys, chat rooms and contests to limit
multiple responses and registrations.
We will never use cookies to retrieve
information from your computer that was not originally sent by us to
you in a cookie. We do not use information transferred through cookies
for any promotional or marketing purposes.
You may occasionally get cookies from
our advertisers. We do not control these cookies, and these cookies
are not subject to our Privacy Policy or Terms of Use.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies.
If you prefer, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert
you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts
of our Web site, such as the polls, surveys, contest, and game areas,
will not function properly if you choose not to accept cookies.
4.
Search Terms
As a measure of user interest, we may
track search terms that are entered into our Web site's search features.
Search data and user-provided information help to improve the relevancy
of search results by learning user preferences and prioritizing search
results accordingly. The intended result is a more efficient search
feature for visitors to our Web site.
5.
Surveys and Registration
Forms
Our Web site may post
surveys and registration forms in which we ask
for Personal Information. We may use this information to send you information
about our Web site and programs, and to give to our third parties who
may send you information about their products and services and promotional
material.
6.
Sweepstakes and Contests
We may from time to time run sweepstakes
and contests in which we ask for Personal Information such as your name,
e-mail address or telephone number. That's so we can let you know if
you win. Sometimes we request additional Personal Information
such as your age and gender. And once in a while we require this
additional information in exchange for allowing you to enter the contest.
We may use the contest entry information that we collect to notify you
if you are a winner, send you information about our Web site and programs
or give to third parties who may send you information about their products
and services and promotional material. Your participation in any
such sweepstakes or contest will be subject to the official rules and
regulations of such sweepstakes or contest.
If you win one of our sweepstakes or
contests, we will not publish your name, hometown, or other Personal
Information on our Web site unless you give us your permission.
7.
Membership Services
When you register to use membership
services, we may share your registration information with third parties.
For instance, the Personal Information that you provide to bulletin
boards may be shared with the companies that provide those services
in order to retrieve your password when you want to log on to use such
services (see Cookies). You do not have to register your Personal Information
with our Web site, but if you choose not to, certain services will not
be available to you.
8.
Electronic Newsletters
We may offer free, electronic announcement(s).
You will only receive a newsletter if you agree to receive it during
registration to our Web site or directly from our newsletter sign-up
form. We will not divulge your membership in a newsletter mailing
list to any third parties, including advertisers or partners, if you
request that we not do so when you register. If you subscribe
to one of our e-mail newsletters, and then decide you do not want to
continue receiving such e-mail newsletter, please send an e-mail to
webmaster@cwm.com and
tell us that you no longer want to continue receiving such e-mail newsletter.
9.
Opt Out
If we ask you for Personal Information,
we will tell you if we intend to share it with others. We will provide
you with a way to tell us that you don't want us to share the information
or if you do not want to receive promotional and/or marketing information
about products, services, and offerings from us and/or any third parties.
Let us know and we will use your name and address only to tell you if
you win a contest or sweepstakes.
10.
Children And Privacy
We encourage parents and guardians to
spend time with their children On-line, and to be familiar with the
sites their children visit. At various places on our Web site, we ask
you for your age and/or date of birth. We rely on our users to be truthful
in responding to these questions.
a)
Individuals Under 13: No information should be submitted to or posted on
our Web site by users under the age of 13. Individuals under the
age of 13 are not allowed to become registered users of our Web sites
or participate in any sweepstakes or contests.
b)
Individuals 13 through 17: If an individual between the ages of 13 and
17 submits or posts information to our Web site, we may collect such
information (including personally identifying information). This information
may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by us and may, with
the user's permission, be shared with pre-screened third parties. If
a user or his/her parent or guardian changes his/her mind with respect
to such use, that user, parent or guardian may stop that use either
by e-mail request or by modifying his/her registration information On-line.
11.
Subpoenas and Law Enforcement Agencies
We reserve the right to cooperate
with government and law enforcement agencies engaged in investigations
of activities that are, or which we believe may be, illegal. Further,
we may share your Personal Information with such agencies if we believe
that a crime or any act that endangers the health and safety of others
may have been or may be committed. We may also share your Personal Information
in response to an appropriate subpoena.
12. Community Areas
Information posted to bulletin boards
is available to the general public. Please use caution when posting
any such information and be particularly careful not to provide any
personally identifying information while using bulletin or message boards.
Users of bulletin and message boards must follow acceptable standards
of behavior when posting messages online. We reserve the right
to, but are not obligated to, refuse or delete any content that in our
sole discretion is considered inappropriate.
13.
Links To Other Sites
When you visit our site, you may be
directed to other sites outside our service. These sites may not follow
the same privacy policies that we do. These other sites may send their
own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit Personal Information
in such a way that may be inconsistent with our privacy policy. These
other sites are not subject to our privacy policy and we are not responsible
for the privacy policies for these other sites, nor for the use of any
information that these sites may collect. We do not control
the content that appears on these sites. Such sites may contain
information that content providers independent of us have created, maintained,
published, posted or otherwise made available. The use of any information
or materials that you may access at these external sites is purely voluntary.
You should not rely on their content without independent and thorough
review of the accuracy, completeness, effectiveness, timeliness and
correct sequencing. These external sites may also refer to specific
commercial products, processes, or services by trade name, trademark,
service mark, manufacturer or otherwise. Unless we have provided explicit
authority, such references in no way indicate our endorsement, recommendation
or preference. This section should be read in conjunction with the full
Terms
of Service .
14.
Deleting or Modifying Your Information
If you've given us Personal Information
in the past and want to delete or update it, please send an e-mail to
webmaster@cwm.com and
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Put "Delete Information" in the subject matter
line and then tell us in the body of the e-mail that you want your information
deleted; or
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Put "Update information" in the subject matter
line and then provide your updated information in the body of the your
e-mail.
Although it is not always possible
to remove or modify information in the databases, we will make reasonable
efforts to do so. If you've given us information for one of those third
parties we mentioned above and we've already passed it on, we cannot
delete or change the information.
15. Security of Private Information
Any Personal Information you give us
is kept in secure files. Access is limited to the few employees who
have a need to know. We would like to tell you that your information
is as safe with us as it is in your head, but, as crackers/hackers have
proved worldwide, no transmission of data over the Internet is guaranteed
to be completely secure. It may be possible for third parties who are
not under our control to intercept or access transmissions or private
communications unlawfully. While we strive to protect your Personal
Information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information
you transmit to us. Any such transmission is done at your own risk.
The most any Web site can do is make reasonable efforts, which is what
we do, to protect your information from theft, misuse and alteration.
Under no circumstances, including but
not limited to negligence, shall we be liable for any special, incidental
or consequential damages that result from the use of the information
or materials on our Web site, even if we (or an authorized representative
of ours) have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
This section also should be read in
conjunction with the full Terms
of Service .
16.
Feedback and E-mail
Our Web site has a link to a "feedback"
e-mail form so you can comment, complain, make suggestions, and ask
questions. Your e-mail address is required on this form so we can answer
your questions, and we want your name, too, so we can address our answer
in a mannerly way. We may also track your browser type and referring
URL to better diagnose technical issues you may be having. We do not
share this information with third parties and we will use it only to
answer your correspondence.
We take your electronic privacy seriously.
Questions regarding this statement or our practices should be directed
to the webmaster@cwm.com.
We
reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Any
such
changes
will be posted online and it is up to Web site users to
remain
informed of the most current policy.
© 2001 Carsey-Werner-Mandabach
LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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