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special cases described below.
Registration: Members may be asked to provide certain
personal information when they sign up for our Products
or Services including name, address, telephone number,
billing information (such as a credit card number), and
the type of personal computer being used to access the
Services. The personal information collected from
Members during the registration process is used to
manage each Member’s account (such as for billing
purposes). This information is not shared with third
parties, unless specifically stated otherwise or in
special circumstances.
However, in instances where our company and a partner
jointly promote our Services, we may provide the partner
certain personal information, such as the name, address,
and username of persons who subscribed to the Services
as a result of the joint promotion for the sole purpose
of allowing us and the partner to assess the results of
the promotion.
In this instance, personal information may not be
used by the partner for any other purpose. We may also
generate non-identifying and aggregate profiles from
personal information Members provide during registration
(such as the total number, but not the names, of
Members). As explained in more detail below, we may use
this aggregated and non-identifying information to sell
advertisements that appear on the Services.
Our Company Partners and Sponsors: Some products and
services may be offered to Visitors and Members in
conjunction with an affiliate, independent contractor
seller or non-affiliated partner. To provide Visitors
and Members some of these products and services, the
partner may need to collect and maintain personal
information. In these instances, you will be notified
before any such data is collected or transferred and may
decide not to use that particular service or feature.
Additionally, our partners may have advertisements or
co-branded Web Pages that are cosponsored by an
affiliate, independent contractor seller, or
non-affiliated partner. Our company may share
non-identifying and aggregate information (except as
described above), but not personal information, with
such partners in order to administer the co-branded
products or services offered.
Unsubscribe: At anytime you may unsubscribe from our
email or contact list by calling the number on our
website or sending an email to potty@thepottytrainer.com
with the words unsubscribe in your email. Online
Shopping: At some Web sites, you can purchase products
and services or register to receive materials, such as a
newsletter, catalog or new product and service updates.
In many cases, you may be asked to provide contact
information, such as your name, address, email address,
phone number, and credit/debit card information.
If you complete an order for someone else, such as an
online gift order sent directly to a recipient, you may
be asked to provide information about the recipient,
such as the recipient’s name, address, and phone number.
Our company has no control over the third parties’ use
of any personal information you provide when placing
such an order. Please exercise care when doing so.
If you order services or products directly from our
company we will use the personal information you provide
only to process that order. We do not share this
information with outside parties except to the extent
necessary to complete that order.
Online Advertisements: Our company may display our
online advertisements. In those cases we share
aggregated and non-identifying information about our
Visitors and Members collected through the registration
process as well as through online surveys and promotions
with these advertisers.
Additionally, in some instances, we use this
aggregated and non-identifying information to deliver
tailored advertisements or joint ventures. For instance,
an advertiser or joint venture company tells us the
audience they want to reach and provides us an
advertisement tailored to the audience. Based upon the
aggregated and non-identifying information we have
collected, we may then display or send the advertisement
to the intended audience. Our company does not share
personal information about its Visitors or Members with
these advertisers or joint venture companies.
Responses to Email Inquiries: When Visitors or
Members send email inquiries to our company, the return
email address is used to answer the email inquiry we
receive. Our company does not use the return email
address for any other purpose and does not share the
return email address with any third party.
Voluntary Customer Surveys: We may periodically
conduct both business and individual customer surveys.
We encourage our customers to participate in these
surveys because they provide us with important
information that helps us to improve the types of
products and services we offer and how we provide them
to you. Your personal information and responses will
remain strictly confidential, even if the survey is
conducted by a third party. Participation in our
customer surveys is voluntary.
We may take the information we receive from
individuals responding to our Customer Surveys and
combine (or aggregate) it with the responses of other
customers we may have, to create broader, generic
responses to the survey questions (such as gender, age,
residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry
sector, or other demographic information). We then use
the aggregated information to improve the quality of our
services to you, and to develop new services and
products. This aggregated, non-personally identifying
information may be shared with third parties.
Special Cases: It is our company’s policy not to use
or share the personal information about Visitors of
Members in ways unrelated to the ones described above
without also providing you an opportunity to opt out or
otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
However, we may disclose personal information about
Visitors or Members, or information regarding your use
of the Services or Web sites accessible through our
Services, for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we
believe that it is reasonable to do so, including:
credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant database
agencies, law enforcement, or to satisfy laws, such as
the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Child
Online Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or
legal requests for such information; to disclose
information that is necessary to identify, contact, or
bring legal action against someone who may be violating
our Acceptable Use Policy or Terms Of Service, or other
user policies; to operate the Services properly; or to
protect our company and our Members.
“Cookies” and How Our Company Uses Them. A “cookie”
is a small data file that can be placed on your hard
drive when you visit certain Web sites. Our company may
use cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track
information for statistical purposes to improve the
products and services we provide and to manage our
telecommunications networks.
If you are a Visitor or Member we may use a cookie to
save your settings and to provide customizable and
personalized services. These cookies do not enable third
parties to access any of your customer information.
Additionally, be aware that if you visit other Web sites
where you are prompted to log in or that are
customizable, you may be required to accept cookies.
Advertisers and partners may also use their own
cookies. We do not control use of these cookies and
expressly disclaim responsibility for information
collected through them.
Our Company Commitment to Children’s Privacy.
Protecting children’s privacy is especially important to
us. It is our policy to comply with the Children’s
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other
applicable laws. Therefore we restrict our Web site to
persons eighteen years or older.
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS
THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE,
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY
REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEB
SITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEB SITE, FALLS
WITHIN THE CHILD ONLINE PRIVACY ACT (COPA) AND IS NOT
MONITORED AS DOING SO.
Public Forums: Please remember that any information
you may disclose in any Member Directory, or other
public areas of our Web sites or the Internet, becomes
public information. You should exercise caution when
deciding to disclose personal information in these
public areas.
Our Company’s Commitment to Data Security: Services
and Web sites we sponsor have security measures in place
to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the
information under our control. While we make every
effort to ensure the integrity and security of our
network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our
security measures will prevent third-party “hackers”
from illegally obtaining this information.
Where to Direct Questions About Our Privacy Policy:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or
the practices described herein, you may contact us
through the contact information provided on this Web
site.
Revisions to This Policy: Our company reserves the
right to revise, amend, or modify this policy, our Terms
Of Service agreement, and our other policies and
agreements at any time and in any manner, by updating
this posting.
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