DebtSettlement2010.com Privacy Policy
We realize the sensitive nature of the information you provide to us. This site
describes how we collect and use your personal information to deliver targeted marketing
campaigns that match your interests. Here is a brief overview of Datachamps’ privacy
practices:
- Datachamps provides a clear notice of the purpose for which we collect and use personal
information.
- Individuals agree to receive advertising messages (opt-in) when they complete a
survey form at one of Datachamps’ websites or when they sign-up with a party
that has contracted with Datachamps. Individuals control the email they receive
and maintain the opportunity to unsubscribe from our email offers at anytime.
- Security measures, such as firewalls and limiting employee access to customer data,
are in place to protect against loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information
contained in our database.
PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated January 1st, 2009
PLEASE NOTE: OUR PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES FROM TIME TO TIME. PLEASE CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY
FOR UPDATES. TO BE NOTIFIED OF PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES VIA EMAIL, PLEASE CLICK HERE.
The information collection, use, and dissemination practices of Datachamps LLC.
(the "Company") are discussed in this policy. This policy applies to Company’s
information collection (a) on Company’s websites (EFinancialFreedom.com) (b) on
various third party websites, and (c) to Company’s other information collection,
including the purchase of customer lists from third parties.
1. Collection of Information.
1.1 Survey Information. The Company collects information from individuals when an
individual voluntarily completes a Company survey, order form, or a registration
page either online or offline, or by means of online or offline surveys, order forms,
or registration pages operated by third parties (collectively, a "Survey").
(As used herein, "online" means using the Internet, including the Websites,
and related technologies, and "offline" means by methods other than online,
including in person, in the postal mail, using telephones and cell phones, and other
similar means.) In the Surveys, the Company or a third party (a "Third Party")
may ask an individual to provide various information to the Company, which may include
his or her name, email address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including
cell phone numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, education and
marital status, occupation, employment information, personal and online interests,
and such other information as may requested from time to time (together, "Survey
Information"). Company or third party may also collect information such as
what browser you are using and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address.
Completing the Surveys is completely voluntary, and individuals are under no obligation
to provide Survey Information to the Company or Third Party, but an individual may
receive incentives from the Company or a Third Party in exchange for providing Survey
Information to the Company.
1.2 Third Party List Information. The Company collects information from individuals
when an individual provides information to a third party, and the Company subsequently
purchases, licenses, or otherwise acquires the information from the third party
(the "Seller"). Such purchased information may include, but is not limited
to, an individual’s name, email address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers
(including cell phone numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, education
and marital status, occupation, industry of employment, personal and online interests,
and such other information as the individual may have provided to the Seller (together,
"Third Party List Information"). When acquiring Third Party List Information,
the Company seeks assurances from the Seller that the Seller has a right to transfer
the Third Party List Information to the Company and that the Seller has a right
to provide offers from advertisers to the individuals whose personal information
is included on the Seller’s list.
1.3 Other Information. Other occasions when the Company obtains information from
individuals include (1) when an individual is making a claim for a prize or seeking
to redeem an incentive offered by the Company or by a third party, (2) when an individual
requests assistance through Company’s customer service department, and (3) when
an individual voluntarily subscribes to a Company service or newsletter (together,
"Other Information").
1.4 Cookies, Web beacons, and Other Information Collected Using Technology. The
Company currently uses cookie and web beacon technology to associate certain Internet-related
information about an individual with information about the individual in our database.
Additionally, the Company may use other new and evolving sources of information
in the future (together, "Technology Information").
(a) Cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data stored on the hard drive of the
individual’s computer that allows Company to identify the individual with his or
her corresponding data that resides in Company’s database. You may read more about
cookies at www.cookiecentral.com. Individuals who use the Websites need to accept
cookies in order to use all of the features and functionality of the Websites.
(b) Web beacons. A web beacon is programming code that can be used to display an
image on a web page (by using an programming function -- see www.www.org for more
information), but can also be used to transfer an individual’s unique user identification
(often in the form of a cookie) to a database and associate the individual with
previously acquired information about an individual in a database. This allows Company
to track certain web sites an individual visits online. Web beacons are used to
determine products or services an individual may be interested in, and to track
online behavioral habits for marketing purposes. For example, Company might place,
with the consent of a third party website, a web beacon on the third party’s website
where fishing products are sold. When Joe, an individual listed in Company’s database,
visits the fishing website, Company receives notice by means of the web beacon that
Joe visited the fishing site, and Company would then update Joe’s profile with the
information that Joe is interested in fishing. Company may thereafter present offers
of fishing related products and services to Joe. In addition to using web beacons
on web pages, Company also uses web beacons in email messages sent to individuals
listed in Company’s database. If you wish more information about web beacons, you
may wish to visit http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_beacon.html
(c) New Technology. The use of technology on the Internet, including cookies and
web beacons, is rapidly evolving, as is Company’s use of new and evolving technology.
As a result, Company strongly encourages individuals to revisit this policy for
any updates regarding its use of technology.
1.5 Outside Information. The Company may receive information about individuals from
third parties or from other sources of information outside of the Company including
information located in public databases ("Outside Information").
1.6 Individual Information. As used herein, Individual Information means Survey
Information, Third Party List Information, Other Information, Technology Information,
and Outside Information, and any other information the Company gathers or receives
about individuals.
1.7 No Information Collected from Children. The Company will never knowingly collect
any personal information about children under the age of 13. If the Company obtains
actual knowledge that it has collected personal information about a child under
the age of 13, that information will be immediately deleted from our database. Because
it does not collect such information, the Company has no such information to use
or to disclose to third parties. The Company has designed this policy in order to
comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA").
1.8 Credit Card Information. The Company may in certain cases collect credit card
numbers and related information, such as the expiration date of the card ("Credit
Card Information") when an individual places an order from Company. When the
Credit Card Information is submitted to Company, such information is encrypted and
is protected with SSL encryption software. The Company will use the Credit Card
Information for purposes processing and completing the purchase transaction, and
the Credit Card Information will be disclosed to third parties only as necessary
to complete the purchase transaction.
2. Use of Individual Information.
2.1 Discretion to Use Information. THE COMPANY MAY USE INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION FOR
ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN COMPANY’S SOLE DISCRETION. The following paragraphs
in Section 2 describe how the Company currently uses Individual Information, but
the Company may change or broaden its use at any time. As noted below, the Company
may update this policy from time to time. The Company may use Individual Information
to provide promotional offers to individuals by means of email advertising, telephone
marketing, direct mail marketing, online banner advertising, and package stuffers,
among other possible uses.
2.2 Email. The Company uses Individual Information to provide promotional offers
by email to individuals. The Company may maintain separate email lists for different
purposes. If email recipients wish to end their email subscription from a particular
list, they need to follow the instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe
from the particular list.
2.2(a) Content of Email Messages. In certain commercial email messages sent by Company,
an advertiser’s name will appear in the "From:" line but hitting the "Reply"
button will cause a reply email to be sent to Company. The "Subject:"
line of Company email messages will usually contain a line provided from the advertiser
to Company. The subject line will not usually contain phrases such as "ADV:"
or "ADVERTISEMENT". Company’s commercial email messages will contain information
how an individual may unsubscribe from that particular list.
2.2(b) Solicited Email. Company only sends email to individuals who have agreed
on the Websites to receive email from Company or to individuals who have agreed
on third party websites to receive email from third parties such as Company. Company
does not send unsolicited email messages. As a result, statutes requiring certain
formatting for unsolicited email are not applicable to Company’s email messages.
2.3 Targeted Advertising. The Company uses Individual Information to target advertising
to an individual. When an individual is using the Internet, the Company uses Technology
Information (see also Section 2.5 below) to associate an individual with that person’s
Individual Information, and the Company attempts to show advertising for products
and services in which the person has expressed an interest in the Surveys, indicated
an interest by means of Technology Information, and otherwise. The Company may,
at its discretion, target advertising by using email, direct mail, telephones, cell
phones, and other means of communication to provide promotional offers.
2.4 Direct Mail and Telemarketing. The Company uses Individual Information to advertise,
directly or indirectly, to individuals using direct mail marketing or telemarketing
using telephones and cell phones.
2.5 Use of Technology Information. The Company uses Technology Information (1) to
match a person’s Survey Information and Third Party List Information to other categories
of Individual Information to make and improve profiles of individuals, (2) to track
a person’s online browsing habits on the Internet, (3) to determine which areas
of Company’s web sites are most frequently visited. This information helps the Company
to better understand the online habits of individuals so that the Company can target
advertising and promotions to them.
2.6 Profiles of Individuals. The Company uses Individual Information to make a profile
of an individual. A profile can be created by combining Survey Information and Third
Party List Information with other sources of Individual Information such as information
obtained from public databases.
2.7 Storage of Individual Information. The Company stores the Individual Information
in a database on Company computers. Our computers have security measures (such as
a firewall) in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the
information under Company’s control. Notwithstanding such measures, the Company
cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent the Company computers from
being illegally accessed, and the Individual Information on them stolen or altered.
2.8 Email Notification of Privacy Policy Changes. Individuals who have their information
stored in a Company database are eligible to receive notification emails from Company
when there are material changes in the terms of this Privacy Policy. Click here
for details or to sign-up to receive such notices.
3. Dissemination of Individual Information.
3.1 Sale or Transfer to Third Parties. THE COMPANY DOES NOT SELL OR TRANSFER EMAIL
ADDRESSES TO THIRD PARTIES.
3.2 Order Fulfillment. The Company will transfer Individual Information to third
parties when necessary to provide a product or service that a person orders from
such third party while using Company web sites or when responding to offers provided
by Company.
3.3 Legal Process. The Company may disclose Individual Information to respond to
subpoenas, court orders, and other legal process.
3.4 Summary Data. The Company may sell or transfer non-individualized information,
such as summary or aggregated anonymous information about all persons or sub-groups
of persons.
4. Privacy Practices of Third Parties.
4.1 Advertiser cookies and web beacons. Advertising agencies, advertising networks,
and other companies (together, "Advertisers") who place advertisements
on the Websites and on the Internet generally may use their own cookies, web beacons,
and other technology to collect information about individuals. The Company does
not control Advertisers’ use of such technology and the Company has no responsibility
for the use of such technology to gather information about individuals.
4.2 Links. The Websites and email messages sometimes contain hypertext links to
the web sites of third parties. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of such other web sites.
4.3 Affiliated Companies. The Company may disclose, transfer, and sell Individual
Information to entities affiliated with Company in Company’s discretion.
5. Opt-Out/Choice
Our website provides visitors the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications
from us, our partners, or third parties at the point where we request information
about the visitor. This website gives the users the following options for removing
their information from our database to not receive future communications:
- Go to www.DebtSettlement2010.com/unsubscribe/unsubscribe.htm
and submit your email address.
- Send an email to info@debtsettlement2010.com with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
- Send a letter to: ATTN: DebtSettlement2010.com, 3219 E Camelback Rd. #225,
Phoenix, AZ 85018.
6. More Information. For more information about protecting your privacy, you may
wish to visit www.netcoalition.com, and www.privacyalliance.org. If you have questions
about this policy, please contact us at privacy.com. THE COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT
TO UPDATE THIS POLICY FROM TIME TO TIME, SO YOU SHOULD REVIEW THIS POLICY FREQUENTLY.