SITEFORLESS PRIVACY STATEMENT
SITEFORLESS is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program.
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for www.siteforless.com.
TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build
users’ trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information
practices. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your
privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy
practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. By displaying the TRUSTe trustmark,
this web site has agreed to notify you of:
1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party
personally identification is collected from you through the web site
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution
of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the
loss, misuse or alteration of information under [SITEFORLESS] control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you feel that this company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy,
you should first contact John Oates-Larsen by EMAIL at john@siteforless.com.
If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not
been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/watchdog.html.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.
Information Collection and Use
SiteforLess is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We
will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from
what is disclosed in this statement. SiteforLess collects information from
our users at several different points on our website.
Registration
In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form.
During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such
as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about
the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. It is optional
for the user to provide demographic information (such as income level and gender),
and unique identifiers (such as social security number), but encouraged so we
can provide a more personalized experience on our site.
Order
We request information from the user on our order form. Here a user must provide
contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information
(like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing
purposes and to fill customer’s orders. If we have trouble processing an order,
this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information
about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable
information while on our site. Use of the cookie is strictly for security and
session purposes only. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply
terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not
have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site.
If a user rejects the cookie, they may not use our site.
Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers).
However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement,
and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are
not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers.
This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual
person.
We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing
company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain,
share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
We partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs
up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that
is necessary for the third party to provide these services.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we [SITEFORLESS]
are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements
of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information
such as name and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or
contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary
and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping
address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact
information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information
will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction
of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about
our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. [SITEFORLESS]
will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to visit the site.
[SITEFORLESS] stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this email.
The friend may contact [SITEFORLESS] at [support@siteforless.com] to request
the removal of this information from their database.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information.
When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is
protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information
(such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information
is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry
- SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the
bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer
becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also
do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our
users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted
in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific
job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are
granted access to personally identifiable information.
Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy
practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees
are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what
they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the
servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure
environment, behind a locked cage.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an
email to security@siteforless.com.
Supplementation of Information
In order for this website to properly fulfill its obligation to our customers,
it is necessary for us to supplement the information we receive with information
from 3rd party sources. This is done only to enhance our ability to tailor
our offerings to our customers.
Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username.
Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services,
special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users
we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see
our choice and opt-out below.
Site and Service Updates
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are
not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important
information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested
services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip
code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide
a way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us.
This can usually be done at the member information page or by emailing
our Customer Support. [Some sites may also provide telephone or postal
mail options for updating or correcting personal information].
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information
used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask
for the information. For example, our order form has an ‘opt-out’ mechanism
so users who buy a product from us, but don’t want any marketing material, can
keep their email address off of our lists.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials
from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying
to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us at support@siteforless.com
Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected
by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice
as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party,
or not.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on
our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how
we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point
we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from
that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an
email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information
in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy
policy under which the information was collected.
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