1. Your Personal Information
2. What organization is collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. The choices available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information
6. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information

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A Segmented Service

Our site's registration systems have been designed to instantly calculate the age of a customer so that we can make appropriate decisions regarding information collection and service offerings. When a customer registers for services available on our site, we ask the customer to provide both Personally Identifiable Information (PII) (i.e. full name, physical address, email address) in order to better serve the user community.

Children Under the Age of 18

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), our site will never knowingly collect PII from anyone under the age of 18.

While we will not target services to those under 18 without using the safeguards listed above, we recognize that some children will attempt to register and use the services on our Web sites. If a customer registers with us and the birth date they supply indicates an age below 18, we will immediately discard all PII without collecting, using, storing, or disclosing the PII to third parties.

In addition to these protections, we will never list Personally Identifiable Information, or information that would allow for the online or offline contact of a child under age 18 in any member directory.

Regrettably, all of us are victims of this behavior. We do not condone these activities and are active in pursuing solutions, including supporting the development of new laws and regulations to stem email Spamming. We are not responsible for this unfortunate activity, and largely cannot stop it from occurring when it originates from domains off of the ecadent network. Sending Spam from any ecadent domain is a serious breach of our Terms of Service that can lead to immediate closure of the sender's account.

Finally, we do occasionally send outbound email communications to our customers - and we hope you never think of it as Spam. To ensure that this is the case, we have strong policies in place that allow our customers to control the delivery of this content, or to prevent it altogether if that is your preference.

In our effort to provide personalization and opportunities for prizes and services, we may at times ask you to submit information such as your name or email address, or to share your interests and hobbies with us. You never have to answer these questions, and you can decline this exchange of information on any site on the Internet - not just ours - at any time. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with some of the services dependent upon the collection of this information, such as the purchase and shipment of products and prizes to people who visit our network.

When you surf the Internet, your Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator® or Microsoft Internet Explorer) automatically transmits some information to us every time you access content on one of our sites. Examples of such information include the URL of the Web page you were just on (known as the "Refer"), the IP (or Internet Protocol) address of the computer you are using, or the browser version you are using to access our site. All of this information is collected by us and is used to help improve our offerings to you. For instance, from this information we determined that few of our customers use older browser versions. Because of this we recently decided to enhance the quality of content available to all of our customers by using the advanced features of HTML that cannot be accessed from those older browser versions. All of the information that is automatically submitted to us by your browser is considered Anonymous Information.

To enable many of the features available within the ecadent network, we will assign "cookies" to your Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer). A cookie is a small text file that contains a unique identification number stored on your computer. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. This unique identification number automatically identifies your browser - but not you - to our computers whenever you interact on one of our Internet domains. When you visit our site, a cookie in effect says to our server computers "Hello, I'm browser #3.

There is a lot of confusion about cookies, how they are used, and what they can do. Cookies only contain information that the server computer "knew" in the first place, and can only be read by the serving domain that placed them. For instance, Yahoo! utilizes cookies, but our servers can't read their contents nor can Yahoo!'s servers read ours. Cookies are an essential part of how the Internet works today, and allow server computers to recognize your computer's browser when you return. If you have ever gone to a Web page that automatically provides personalized content without you having to "sign in," such as your own stock portfolio, this is almost certainly being accomplished with a cookie. Since cookies are only text files, they cannot "run" on your computer and have no ability to search your computer for other information, or transmit it to anyone.

Cookies are part of the technology implemented by your Web browser. But don't just take our word for it - read what the companies who wrote the browsers have to say!

For Netscape, please visit: http://www.ufaq.org/navcom/lyncookie.html

For Microsoft, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.mspx

Our services have been designed to enable us to provide personalized content to those customers who wish to receive it. Our ability to provide enhanced services and content to our customers is dependent on our ability to provide venues for our advertising partners that reach specific demographic segments of our customer base. Our advertising partners have the need to reach customers who share common demographic characteristics such as a specific gender or age range. For instance, certain products are more often purchased by men then by women and therefore when advertising those products, in this example the advertiser would prefer to target their messages just to men. The better job we do in providing a mechanism for advertisers to reach specific sub-segments of our users, the more revenue we can generate from advertising and that ultimately is what allows you the consumer to get to the wealth of free content that is available on ecadent's network. Importantly, at no time is your Personally Identifiable Information used to determine what advertising you receive nor do we use it to determine what type of advertising any other customer of ours will receive.

Below is a description of the uses of the information that we collect and how our visitors and advertisers benefit from these action:

1. We provide personalized content to our Members.
2. We pay attention to what our customers do and do not use on our service and modify our content appropriately.
3. Through our email service, we will send registrants of the ecadent Network outbound email communications on information we think they will find useful, including information about new products and services from selected partners. It is our policy to never send messages to Members who have asked us not to do so, either at initial registration or later through an unsubscribe process. In every email from any company or Web site of the ecadent network, we will remind you of your option to change your preferences regarding receipt of future email communications.
4. Finally, if we believe that this site's property, ecadent's property or an individual's safety or security is at risk, we will disclose this information to proper court or law enforcement agencies.

If you are providing us Personally Identifiable Information, it will only be used within the ecadent network unless you choose to allow third party data sharing (by opting in for such distribution during the registration process). Should you choose to provide your information to third parties, we will share aspects of your information with our valued partners. Some of these transactions will include financial payment to us for the information and services provided, but are only undertaken with companies whose privacy practices are consistent with the principles established within this policy and with whom we believe that a product that truly benefits our customers can be promoted. Although unlikely, we may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information the appropriate governmental authorities. If requested by law enforcement or judicial authorities, we will provide this information upon receipt of the appropriate documentation.

Other companies that place advertising on our site may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising or content through the use of cookies (using the same techniques as described above). Due to the way the Internet technically operates, we cannot control this collection of information - but we can control which companies are allowed to place such advertising on our site. It should be noted that anyone placing advertising on our Web sites can only collect Anonymous Information about you unless you actively provide Personally Identifiable Information to them.

And finally, the ecadent network does not control the information collection and distribution policies on Internet domains other than those that are part of the ecadent network itself.

We do offer you the ability to control the email communications we make to you. It is our intention to give you as much control over our relationship as possible.

First, as mentioned earlier, the consumer always has the final word on whether we - or any Internet company - knows who you are. It is your choice to share Personally Identifiable Information with us and we encourage you to consider only sharing information with any site on the Internet if you receive true value in exchange for that information transfer and if you respect the privacy practices of the firm.

If you do choose to share Personally Identifiable Information with us, you can control whether we contact you or share the information with third parties, either through declarations you make at the time you share information with us, or through updates to your information.

At times, the ecadent network may enter into cobranding arrangements with other companies, and if so, an opt-in question may be present for contact from these firms as well. Their opt-out features are specific to each organization, but you should never receive email from these organizations unless you have indicated that it is acceptable. All email from the ecadent network, or from cobrand partners who gain your permission to send you commercial email, will include an opportunity to opt out of future communications.

We reserve the right to send a one-time registration confirmation email, and infrequent Service Alert messages to its customers to inform them of specific changes that may impact their ability to use a service they have previously signed up for, regardless of email contact opt-in status. An example of a Service Alert message would be notification of the impending closing of an account that is believed to be abandoned. We also reserve the right to contact you if compelled to do so as part of a legal proceeding or if there has been a violation of our Terms of Service. We retain these rights because in limited cases we feel that we may need the right to contact you as a matter of law or regarding matters which will be important to you. These rights do not allow us to contact you to market a new or existing service if you have asked us not to do so, and issuance of these types of communications are rare.