99¢entsIT, Inc Network's Privacy Policy
Overview
The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available
under the domain and subdomains of
www.99CentsIT.com
(the "Site").
By visiting this website you agree to be bound by the terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree please do not use or access our Site.
This Privacy Policy describes the information, as part of the normal
operation of our services, we collect from you and what may happen to
that information.
Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy
because we believe you should know as much as possible about 99¢entsIT
practices so that you can make informed decisions.
By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration,
you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of
the 99¢entsIT User Agreement.
This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance in registration for
new registering users, and is otherwise effective on December 1st, 2009 for
all users.
1. A Special Note About Children.
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use the Site
unsupervised and we ask that children do not submit any personal
information
to us. If you are under the age of 18, you may only use this Site in
conjunction with and under the supervision of your parents or
guardians.
2. Information We Collect.
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide
you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience.
This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet
your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience safer
and easier.
We only collect personal information about you that we consider
necessary for achieving this purpose.
In general, you can browse the Site without telling us who you are or
revealing any personal information about yourself.
Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to
us.
If you choose to use our services, we may require you to provide
contact and identity information, billing information, shipping
information and other personal information as indicated on the forms
throughout the Site.
Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields
are optional.
You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not
to use a particular service or feature.
Under some circumstances we may require some additional financial
information, such as, but not limited to: if you are registering using
an email account at a free email service.
We use your financial information, including credit card information to
verify the accuracy of your name, address, and other information prior
to shipping your order.
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on
the Site.
We use this information to do internal research on our users'
demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and
serve you.
This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether
this URL is on the Site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this
URL is on the Site or not), your computer browser information, and your
IP address.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of
the Site to help analyze our web page flow, measure promotional
effectiveness, and promote trust and safety.
"Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in
providing our services.
We offer certain features that are only available through the use of a
"cookie".
We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently
during a session.
Cookies can also help us provide information that is targeted to your
interests.
Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically
deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session.
You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits,
although in that case you will not be able to use certain features on
the Site and you may be required to reenter your password more
frequently during a session.
3. Our Use of Your Information.
We use your personal information to facilitate the services you
request.
We use your personal information in the file we maintain about you, and
other information we obtain from your current and past activities on
the
Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; measure consumer
interest
in our products and services, inform you about online and offline
offers,
products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and
protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce
our
User Agreement; and as otherwise described to you at the time of
collection.
At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or
resolve
disputes, and in particular we may examine your personal information to
identify users using multiple User names or aliases. We may compare and
review your personal information for errors, omissions and for
accuracy.
You agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our
marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our
content
and product offerings, and customize the Site's content, layout, and
services.
These uses improve the Site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so
as to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized
experience
while using the Site.
You agree that we may use your personal information to contact you and
deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your
interests,
such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product
offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site. By
accepting
the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive
this
information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we
encourage
you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications on the
notification
(link to email preferences). You may make changes to your notification
preferences at any time.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information.
As a matter of general policy, we do not sell but may rent some of your
personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes.
We may send you offers from third parties in cases where we, at our
sole discretion, believe the offer is both relevant and of substantive
value to you.
The following describes some of the ways that your personal information
may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide our
services.
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Advertisers.
We aggregate (gather up data across all user accounts) personal
information and disclose such information to advertisers and other
third parties for their marketing and promotional
purposes. Certain information, such as your password, credit card
number,
and bank account number, are not disclosed to these third parties.
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Other Corporate Entities.
We share much of our data, including personal
information about you, with our subsidiaries and joint ventures that
are
related services. To the extent that these entities have access to
your
information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they
treat
information they obtain from their other users. Our subsidiaries and
joint
ventures follow privacy practices no less protective of all users
than
our practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by
applicable
law. 99¢entsIT, its subsidiaries, its joint ventures, or any
combination
of such, will share some or all of your personal information with
another
business entity should we plan to, merge with, or be acquired by that
business
entity. Should such a combination occur, we will require that the new
combined
entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal
information.
If your personal information will be used contrary to this policy,
you
will receive prior notice in as provided in Section 7 ("Notice").
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Legal Requests. 99¢entsIT cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as
well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual
property
rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect you. Therefore, in
response
to a verified request by law enforcement or other government
officials
relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we
can
(and you authorize us to) disclose your name, city, state, telephone
number,
email address, User Name history, fraud complaints history without a
subpoena.
Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and
our
ability to keep 99¢entsIT free from bad elements we will not
otherwise
disclose your personal information to law enforcement or other
government
officials without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar
legal
procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure
of
information is necessary to: prevent imminent physical harm or
financial
loss; or report suspected illegal activity
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all
of your private communications and other personal information will
never
be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By
way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to
disclose
personal information to the government or third parties under certain
circumstances,
third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or
private
communications, or users may abuse or misuse your personal information
that they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we use industry
standard
practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should
not
expect, that your personal information or private communications will
always
remain private.
5. Control of Your Password.
You are responsible for all actions taken with your User Name and
password.
Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your 99¢entsIT
password
to any third parties. If you choose to share your User Name and
password
or your personal information with third parties, you are responsible
for all actions taken with your account and therefore you should review
that third party's privacy policy. If you lose control of your
password,
you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may
be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore,
if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should
immediately
change your password as detailed in Section 6.
6. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal
Information.
We offer you the ability to automatically review and change the
information
you submit to us by logging into the Site and entering in the new
information
yourself. Generally, we will not modify your personal information based
on your request because it is very difficult to authenticate your
account
manually. You can change your user Id, email address, contact
information,
shipping information and user preferences by going to the my account
link You must promptly update your personal information if it changes
or is inaccurate.
Upon your request, we will deactivate your account, contact
information,
shipping information, from our databases. To make this request, email
service@99CentsIT.com
Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible
based
on your account activity and in accordance with our deactivation policy
and applicable law.
We will retain in our files some personal information you have
requested
to remove to prevent fraud, collect any moneys owed, resolve disputes,
troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our User
Agreement and comply with legal requirements as is permitted by law.
Therefore,
you should not expect that all of your personal information will be
completely
removed from our databases in response to your requests. However, such
personal information will be deactivated and will only be available to
select 99¢entsIT personal.
7. Notice.
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amend terms
on the Site.
All amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they
are initially posted on the Site.
In addition, we will notify you in accordance with your Notification
Preferences.