EZ4News Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Statement Introduction:
This, our privacy statement reflects our company and personal positions concerning peoples privacy, particularly as it relates to an open environment such as the Internet (Web). Our belief concerning privacy issues goes well beyond any privacy statement relating to Internet (Web) usage, and extends into our daily life at every level. As a result of our deep rooted position to protect our individual privacy, we have prepared the following statement. It enumerates our solid commitment to your privacy. It was designed to allow all readers to understand our position concerning your privacy and particularly the privacy of our children
Table Of Contents:Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
Children and Family Clean Website
Links to Other Websites
Our Commitment To Privacy
The Information We Collect
Information About You
Information About Other People
Cookies
The Way We Use Information
Your E-mail Address
Our Commitment To Data Security
Third Party Collectors of Information
Non-disclosure
Policy Changes and Updates
How To Contact Us
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, to the best of our ability, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13 without parental or guardian consent. Sections of our website structured to attract anyone under 13 is clearly identified as such.
Children and Family Clean Website:
Please see our commitment to provide a fun family clean internet website statement. O.K. I'd like to read it now .
EZ4News website may provide links to its partners
and affiliates and other Internet sites. These sites have separate data and
privacy practices independent of EZ4News, therefore EZ4News disclaims any
responsibility or liability for other websites policies or actions.
As
each of these websites should have their own privacy statements, we implore you
to read them. If you are uncomfortable with their statement please send them an
e-mail explaining your views, but before you do, be sure you have read their
entire statement, and understand it fully. Please do the same to ours (the one
you are reading now.) Note: You will find our e-mail address at the bottom of
this statement.
We respect that your privacy is very important to
YOU and as such we will make every effort to guard it as well. To better
protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our on-line information
practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is
collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on
our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may
be requested.
However, we collect and, in some cases, disclose
information about you as part of the normal operation of our site. This Privacy
Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to
that information as described below. Some of your personally identifiable
information may be disclosed to third parties and used by us and third parties.
By utilizing the features and links provided within the site you are accepting
the limitations expressed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, and you expressly
consent to such use and disclosure of your personally identifiable and other
personal information.
This notice applies to all information collected
or submitted within the EZ4News site. On some pages, you can order products,
make requests, and register to receive materials. The type of personal
information collected at these pages may be:
Name, Address, E-mail
address, Phone number, Credit/Debit Card information. etc.
In the
course of using our site and our services, we automatically track certain
information about you. This information may include the URL that you just came
from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to
(whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your
IP address. We use this information in the normal operation of the site and we
may disclose this information on an aggregated basis.
We may ask you to provide information when you use some features and services within EZ4News. For example, we may ask for your name, e-mail address, and location when you request to register for a specific facility for your use, or to write to us, or respond to a product review, or survey. We may collect additional information from surveys or other promotions sponsored by EZ4News or any of our affiliates and/or their promotional partners. We use your personal information to help operate EZ4News services, and to help identify you and gather broad demographic information. This information may include your name, gender, e-mailing address, phone number and e-mail address.
Information About Other People:
On some pages, you may be requested to submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift on-line and want it sent directly to the recipient, in order to facilitate your request, you may need to submit the recipient's Name, Address (possibly physical and/or e-mail), Phone number etc.
We use cookies on our site. Cookies are small pieces of information or files that are stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Cookies are generated by the Web server through a user's browser for record keeping purposes. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although you may miss out on some shortcuts, automation, special promotions and the like. The information in cookies can be retrieved to personalize, monitor, or regulate use of the site. Cookies allow websites to automate access and data entry functions of the site, such as login information, and to tailor the site to a user's preferences or interests. In addition, cookies allow websites to track usage of the site to determine those areas of the site that are useful or popular (and those that are not), thereby enabling websites to improve and update their services. Because most websites utilize cookies, it is important that you read and understand the Privacy Policy of each website you visit wherein you provide such website with personal information about yourself, your friends and associates.
It is the EZ4News policy to respect the privacy
of its visitors. Although we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable
information about you to any third party, we may, in certain cases where you
access our site from other third party sites, release your e-mail address to
such third party. EZ4News strive to protect your Personal Information. EZ4News
or any of their affiliates cannot guarantee the security of any information
that you transmit to EZ4News including website links from us. You are solely
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any PINs, passwords or other account
information. In the event we provide you with a PIN or password for access to
certain sections of our site(s), we will not nor will we disclose this
information at all.
We may aggregate personally identifiable
information and disclose such information to third parties in aggregate for a
number of business purposes, including demographic data, running and enhancing
the services, but in these situations we will not nor will we disclose to other
entities any information that could be used to personally identify you. We may
however, use information about you to provide you with advertisements or offers
from advertisers and other websites that we think may be relevant to you, but
in these cases we do not disclose any personally identifiable information about
you to third parties.
We use the information you provide about yourself
when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this
information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete
that order.
We use the information you provide about someone else when
placing an order for product only to ship the product and to confirm delivery.
We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent
necessary to complete that order. Occasionally we may use this information only
to promote our own website, or provide such persons with information we believe
to be useful to them.
We provide links for offers by which you can
personalize a product you order for another person such as gift-cards.
Information you provide to us to create personalized information is used for
that purpose, and it is only disclosed to the person receiving the gift.
Occasionally we may use this information only to promote our own website, or
provide such persons with information we believe to be useful to them.
We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. Such
are not shared with outside parties.
You can register with our website
if you would like to receive information about our site as well as updates on
our new products and services. Information you submit on our website will not
be used for any other purpose unless you indicate otherwise when you fill out
the appropriate registration form(s).
We use non-identifying and
aggregate information to better design our website and to share with
advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser or an affiliate company
that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y
number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, or survey
information, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify
those individuals.
EZ4News is an information source and generally
acts as a passive conduit and as a link to other sites. These other sites may
provide you with data and information either free or for a fee. Other sites
will also offer you goods and services for purchase. None of your activity if
known to or made available to EZ4News will be disclosed to any third party
unless required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on EZ4News; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of EZ4News; or
(3) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of its
visitors and members or the public.
We never use or share the
personally identifiable information provided to us on-line in ways unrelated to
the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out
or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
As part of our facilities and services, we may send to you periodic e-mails containing information about us, updates on our new service features and facilities, internet usage tips, browser updates, browser plug-in updates and information, general information about third party services that are likely to be of interest to you and satisfaction to your questions. We believe we will send about 3-4 such e-mail(s) per month (it may be more within any month, but generally not less than 3.) Such e-mailings are on an 'opt out' basis after you receive our first promotional e-mail, other than our 'tell-a-friend' feature. If you do not want to receive these e-mails, at any time you can inform us of such, by notifying us via e-mail to our support department of your request not to receive such e-mails from us.
Our Commitment To Data Security:
To protect the security of your Personal
Information, EZ4News limits access to user data to authorized EZ4News employees
on a need to know basis only. EZ4News will NOT disclose any Personal
Information except as described above or in its Terms &
Conditions.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and
ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate
physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the
information we collect on-line.
We use industry-standard efforts to
safeguard the confidentiality of your use of the EZ4News sites facilities (as
well as your personally identifiable information), such as firewalls and SSL
technology. These are the same technologies that most websites use to safeguard
credit card information and other personal information. However, you should be
aware that, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet or anywhere else,
for that matter.
If you send us correspondence, such as e-mails or
letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your
use of our services, we may collect such information into a file specific to
you. We use information in these files we maintain about you, and other
information we obtain from your current and past use of the service, to resolve
disputes, troubleshoot problems, etc.
Third Party Collectors of Information:
Our policy only addresses the use and disclosure
of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your
information to other parties, different rules may apply to their use or
disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them. To the extent that
we use third party advertisers, information and commerce sites via links from
our sites, they adhere to their own privacy customs and policies. Since we do
not control the privacy policies of third parties, we encourage you to ask
questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
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Unfortunately, Non-disclosure Cannot Be Guaranteed
(and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this privacy policy.) Due to
the existing regulatory and technical environment, we cannot guarantee that all
of your communications and other personally identifiable information will never
be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
As
an example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose
information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or
third parties may unlawfully intercept or access your transmissions or
communications.
EZ4News may disclose information about you if we have a
good faith belief that we are required to do so by law or legal process, to
respond to claims, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of EZ4News or
others.
Further, we can (and you authorize us to, by utilizing our sites
facilities) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other
government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or
appropriate. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect
your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your
personally identifiable information or communications will always remain
private.
Please note that this policy may be revised from
time to time, so please check it frequently. We will post notice of any changes
to this policy on our home page:
www.ez4news.com
Should you have other questions or concerns
about these privacy policies, please you can send us a message via:
e-mail to: privacy@EZ4News.com
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