PrivateEye.com
PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: August 17, 2007
PrivateEye.com respects the privacy of our users and we have
developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting
your privacy. This Privacy Policy is intended to describe for you
our treatment of personally identifiable information that you provide
to us as a user of PrivateEye.com or our services, or otherwise
provide to us through other means such as e-mail marketing from us
or our partner web sites, the information we collect, how that information
may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such
uses and disclosures.
We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using
our web site or services or transacting business with us. By using
our web site, including, without limitation, signing up for offers
and/or continuing to receive information from PrivateEye.com,
you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy,
and you are acknowledging that we are not providing you with a consumer
report, and are certifying that you will not use the information
obtained from us for any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting
Act (15 U.S.C. §1681, et seq.).
If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer
to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact
us.
1. Information we collect about you
In General. We may collect personal information that can
identify you, such as your name and e-mail address, and other information
that does not identify you.
- Information you provide. We may collect, sell,
or share any personal information you enter on our web site or
provide to us in some other manner, including through e-mail
marketing by us, and our partners and affiliates. This includes
identifying information, such as your name, address, e-mail address,
and telephone number, and, if you transact business with us,
financial information such as your payment method (valid credit
card number, type, expiration date or other financial information)
(Please see "How we protect your personal information", below).
- Information from other sources. We may also
periodically obtain both personal and non-personal information
about you from our partners and affiliates, and other third parties,
and add it to our account information or other information we have
collected.
Use of cookies and other technologies to collect information.
We use various technologies to collect information from your computer
and about your activities on our web site.
- Information collected automatically. We automatically
collect information from your browser when you visit our web
site. This information includes your IP address, your browser
type and language, access times, the content of any undeleted
cookies that your browser previously accepted from us (see "Cookies", below),
and the referring web site address.
- Cookies. We may employ "cookies" to
help customize your access to our web site, and also for the delivery
of targeted advertisements. A cookie is a piece of data stored
on your hard drive containing information about you. Through the
use of a cookie, we may automatically collect information about
your online activity on our web site, such as the web pages you
visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our
web site. Cookies have many benefits to enhance your experience
at our web site and to facilitate the receipt of targeted advertisements.
For instance, by setting a cookie on our web site, you do not have
to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while
on our web site. Even in the case where you reject a cookie, you
may still use our web site. We use cookies to track, monitor and
target the interests of our users to further enhance the experience
on our web site, and for subsequent advertising and/or delivery
purposes. To find out more about cookies, please visit http://www.cookiecentral.com/.
- Other Technologies. For the purpose of formatting
and delivering future marketing or sales campaigns (either electronic
or direct), we may employ pixel tags (also known as clear gifs)
to track: 1) the pages that our users visit on affiliate and/or
partner web sites; and 2) user opens of, and clicks on, our targeted
e-mail advertising. We reserve the right to employ user source
information, including applicable category and interest(s), for
the marketing of targeted e-mail messages on behalf of our clients.
This source information may be shared with our third party marketing
partners, and we reserve the right to retain cookie and pixel tag
data indefinitely.
- Information collected by third-parties. We may
also work with other businesses to bring select retail opportunities
to our users from us, our partner web sites, or our marketing partners,
including affiliated third party advertisers. These e-mail campaigns
may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information
about users who view or interact with the e-mail marketing material.
Users may remove themselves from a specific mailing list by utilizing
the unsubscribe options that are present at the end of each e-mail
we send on behalf of the list owner. Unsubscribing from one list
will not automatically unsubscribe a user from all lists.
2. How we use the information we collect
In general. We may use information that we collect about
you to:
- Deliver the products and services that you have requested;
- Manage your account and provide you with customer support;
- Perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest
in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or
content offered by others;
- Communicate with you by e-mail, postal mail, telephone and/or
mobile devices about products or services that may be of interest
to you either from us, our partners and affiliates, or other third
parties;
- Develop and display content and advertising tailored to your
interests on our web site and other sites;
- Enforce our terms and conditions;
- Manage our business; and
- Perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time
of collection.
Financial information. We may use financial information or
payment method to process payment for any purchases made on our web
site, to pre-qualify you for credit card and other offers that you
might find of interest, to protect against or identify possible fraudulent
transactions, and otherwise as needed to manage our business.
Job applicants. If your personal information is submitted
through our web site when applying for a position with our company,
the information will be used solely in connection with considering
and acting upon your application. We may retain your personal information
for a period of time, but only for the purpose of considering your
application for current or future available positions. This information
may be shared with our partners and affiliates for the purpose of
evaluating your qualifications for the particular position or other
available positions, as well as with third-party service providers
retained by us to collect, maintain and analyze candidate submissions
for job postings.
Please review "Your choices about collection and use
of your information," below.
3. With whom we share your information
We want you to understand when and with whom we may share personal
or other information we have collected about you or your activities
on our web site or while using our services.
Personal information. We do not share your personal information
with others except as indicated below or when we inform you and give
you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information
shared. We may share personal information with:
- Authorized service providers: We may share
your personal information with our authorized service providers
that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may
include sending direct and electronic mail, removing duplicate
information from user lists, analyzing data, providing marketing
analysis, and supporting our web site functionality. These
service providers may have access to personal information needed
to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or
use such information for any other purposes.
- Business partners: We may collect, sell, or
share any personal information you enter on our web site or provide
to us in some other manner, including via e-mail marketing. We
may also work with other businesses to bring select retail opportunities
to our users via e-mail marketing campaigns by us, or our partner
web sites/co-brands, or our marketing partners, including affiliated
third party advertisers. The other businesses we work with may
include: (a) providers of direct marketing services and applications,
including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and
validation; (b) e-mail marketers; and (c) telemarketers. When you
open, preview or click on the advertising portion of our e-mails
and/or those of our marketing partners and/or affiliates, you have
agreed to the terms set forth in our Privacy Policy, and agree
that as a function of opening, previewing or clicking on the advertising
portion of our e-mails, you will receive new or additional marketing
communications from us, our marketing partners and/or affiliates.
These e-mail campaigns may use tracking technologies, such as cookies,
to collect information about users who view or interact with the
e-mail marketing material. There are a number of places on our
web site and in e-mail campaigns where you may click on a link
to access other web sites that do not operate under this Privacy
Policy. These third-party web sites may independently solicit and
collect information, including personal information, from you and,
in some instances, provide us with information about your activities
on those web sites. We recommend that you consult the privacy statements
of all third-party web sites you visit by clicking on the "privacy" link
typically located at the bottom of the webpage you are visiting.
- Direct mail partners. From time to time we may
share our e-mail/postal mailing list with selected providers of
goods and services that may be of interest to you.
- E-mail lists. Users may remove themselves
from a specific mailing list by utilizing the unsubscribe options
that are present at the end of each e-mail we send on behalf
of the list owner. Unsubscribing from one list will not automatically
unsubscribe a user from all lists.
- Other Situations. We also may disclose your
information:
- In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand,
a court order, or a request for cooperation from law enforcement
or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal
rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required
by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection
or right available to us.
- When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with
efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding
illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect
and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our
users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law
or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our web site
terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.
- In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such
as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation,
or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy. The personal
information which you provide to us is an asset of the company
and may be included in the assets transferred in the event of
a substantial corporate transaction.
- When we deem it necessary or appropriate including, without
limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third-parties
for suppression purposes in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act
of 2003, as amended from time to time, the Federal Trade Commission’s
enabling regulations, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. §1681 et
seq.).
Any third parties to whom we may disclose personal information may
have their own privacy policies which describe how they use and disclose
personal information. Those policies will govern use, handling and
disclosure of your personal information once we have shared it with
those third parties as described in this Privacy Policy. If you want
to learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage you to
visit the web sites of those third parties. These entities or their
servers may be located either inside or outside the United States.
Aggregated and non-personal information. We reserve the right
to provide aggregate or group data about PrivateEye.com users
for lawful purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes
the demographics, usage, or characteristics of PrivateEye.com
participants as a group, without disclosing personally identifiable
information. By opening a PrivateEye.com account, you agree to
allow PrivateEye.com to provide such aggregate data to third parties.
By agreeing to these terms, you hereby consent to the disclosure
of any record or communication to any third party when PrivateEye.com,
in its sole discretion, determines the disclosure to be appropriate.
4. Third-party reports
The information contained in our reports comes from proprietary
sources and third party suppliers, and is beyond our control to edit,
modify, or change. You acknowledge and agree that we shall
not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage
or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use
of or reliance on any such information.
5. How you can access your information
If you have an online account with us, you have the ability to review
and update your personal information online by logging into your
account http://PrivateEye.com/Acc_Records.asp.
You can also review and update your personal information by contacting
us. More information about how to contact us is provided below.
6. Your choices about collection and use
of your information
You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that
may result in you being unable to use certain features of our web
site because such information may be required in order for you to
have personalized recommendations presented to you; register as a
user; purchase products or services; ask a question; or initiate
other transactions on our web site.
At any time you can choose to no longer receive commercial or promotional
e-mails or newsletters from us by unsubscribing. In every marketing
e-mail communication we send, there is an unsubscribe hyperlink that
allows the recipient to unsubscribe from that specific marketing
program by simply clicking the hyperlink provided and following the
instructions provided. We attempt to process all such unsubscribe
requests in a prompt fashion. However, after unsubscribing, we cannot
guarantee that you will never receive another marketing mailing from
us, because we may obtain your e-mail address in the future through
a different e-mail marketing program that you have opted into. We
can guarantee, however, that if you should ever receive another e-mail
marketing communication from us, you will be able to remove your
e-mail address via the unsubscribe hyperlink. Unsubscribing from
one marketing list will not automatically unsubscribe a user from
all marketing lists. We may send you other types of transactional
and relationship e-mail communications, such as service announcements
and administrative notices, without offering you the opportunity
to opt out of receiving them.
7. How we protect your personal
information
We take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic
and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information
from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, only authorized
employees are permitted to access personal information, and they
may do so only for permitted business functions. When users submit
information at our web site, their information is protected both
online and offline. The privacy of your personal information is very
important to us and access to your information is strictly limited,
and not accessible to the public. The servers in which we store personally
identifiable information are kept in a secure physical environment.
We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and
alteration of personal information under our control. Currently,
we use Secure Socket Layer Software ("SSL") to protect
data and to secure any transactions. SSL encrypts information, including
credit card numbers, names and addresses as they are transmitted
over the Internet. Please be advised that, although we take every
reasonable technological precaution available to protect your data,
no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. Therefore, we cannot warrant that your information will be
absolutely secure and any transmission of data at or through our
web site is at your own risk.
Please refer to the Federal Trade Commission's web site at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm for
information about how to protect yourself against identity theft.
To the extent that user credit card-specific information (or alternate
user payment method information, such as PayPay, Google Check-Out,
etc.) is collected by us and/or any of our partners and affiliates,
this information will be kept in confidence and will not be shared
with any third parties (other than consumer credit agencies) without
the user's prior informed consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
PrivateEye.com, our partners and
affiliates reserve the right to share with third parties the fact that we have credit card information
on file for specific users but we will not share the specific credit
card information with third parties without the user's prior informed
consent.
To the extent that user credit card-specific information (or alternate
user payment method information, such as PayPay, Google Check-Out,
etc.) is collected by PrivateEye.com and
any of its partners and affiliates, this information will be kept in confidence and will
not be shared with any third parties (other than consumer credit
agencies) without the user's prior informed consent. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, PrivateEye.com and
its affiliates and/or subsidiaries reserve the right to share with third parties the
fact that we have credit card information on file for specific users but we will not
share the specific credit card information with third parties without
the user's prior informed consent.
We value your privacy and, upon request, can block your records
from being shown in many, but not all, of our search results. To
do so, you should contact us by writing a letter giving us your:
- First name
- Last name
- Middle initial
- Aliases and A.K.A.'s
- Complete current address
- Complete former addresses going back 20 years
- Date of Birth - including month, day, and year
It is also very helpful to include a print out of the records that
you wish to have suppressed.
Please send this letter to:
Opt-Out/PrivateEye
1821 Q Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
This information will be kept confidential and is used to ensure
complete suppression of your records.
8. No Rights of Third Parties
This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third
parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating
to users of the web site.
9. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes
in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Privacy
Policy, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top
of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion,
to change, modify, add, and/or remove portions of this Privacy Policy
at any time. All Privacy Policy changes will take effect immediately
upon their posting on the PrivateEye.com web site. We
recommend that you check our web site from time to time to inform
yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other
policies. Your continued use of the PrivateEye.com
web site or acceptance of our e-mails following the posting of changes
to these terms will mean that you accept these changes and agree
to continue receiving e-mails from us.
10. How to contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact
us at or
in writing at:
PrivateEye.com
Customer Service
1821 Q Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
11. Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of California, in addition to the rights set
forth above, you have the right to request information from us regarding
the manner in which we share certain categories of personal information
with third parties and our partners and affiliates for their direct
marketing purposes. California law gives you the right to send us
a request at a designated address to receive the following information:
- The categories of information we disclosed to third parties
for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar
year;
- The names and addresses of the third parties that received
that information; and
- If the nature of the third party's business cannot be determined
from their name, examples of the products or services marketed.
We will try to respond to your queries in a timely fashion.
