PRIVACY
POLICY
Last Modified:
05/27/10
1. Introduction.
Thank you for
visiting The Activators' ("THE ACTIVATORS") website ("Site").
This Privacy Policy details certain policies governing THE ACTIVATORS'
use of personally identifiable information about customers, potential
customers, and users provided to THE ACTIVATORS via this Site.
PLEASE READ
THIS PRIVACY POLICY BEFORE USING THE SITE.
By accessing the Site, using the Site or by clicking on a box that states
you accept or agree to this Privacy Policy, you are agreeing to comply
with and be bound by the following Privacy Policy. If you are
under the age of 18 years old, please make sure to have your parent
or legal guardian review and discuss this Privacy Policy with you as
well as THE ACTIVATORS' Terms of Use,
Personal Video Messages' Privacy Policy
, and any other legal notices posted on this Site.
If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not view, access,
or otherwise use this Site.
The terms "THE
ACTIVATORS" or "us" or "we" or "our"
refers to The Activators, LLC, the owner of the Site, and any of its
subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, agents, attorneys, officers, directors,
and employees. The terms "you" or "your"
refer to the user or viewer of the Site and/or parent or legal guardian
of the user or viewer. The terms "use" or "using"
in this agreement refers to any time when an individual (a "user"),
directly or indirectly, (a) accesses or attempts to access, displays,
views, prints or copies from the Site, (b) receives, transmits or exchanges
data with the Site or with the Site's users, (c) signs up for THE
ACTIVATORS' newsletter, or (d) in any way utilizes, benefits from,
or interacts with any feature, function, service of the Site for any
purpose.
2. Privacy
Policy Updates.
Due to the Internet's rapidly evolving nature, THE ACTIVATORS may need
to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. THE ACTIVATORS reserves
the right to change, modify, or otherwise alter our Privacy Policy at
any time and at our sole discretion without specific notice to you.
THE ACTIVATORS will post any updated Privacy Policy on our Site so you
are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may
collect and how we may use this information. THE ACTIVATORS encourages
you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued
use of this Site and/or continued provision of personally identifiable
information to us will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy
Policy and shall constitute your acceptance and acknowledgement of the
then-current Privacy Policy.
3. Information
Collection and Use.
You can generally visit our Site without revealing any personally identifiable
information about yourself. We do not collect any personal information
unless the user voluntarily provides us with this information.
In certain
sections of this Site, we may invite you to submit questions or comments
or request information, subscribe to newsletters or Personal Video
Messages, and participate in surveys, questionnaires,
promotions, sweepstakes or contests. Due to the nature of some
of these activities, we may ask that you complete and submit an online
form with personally identifiable information such as your name, username,
email address, address and other contact information. THE ACTIVATORS
will not require you to disclose more information than is reasonably
necessary to participate in an online activity or service. You
may refuse to submit any personally identifiable information through
the Site in which case you can still view certain aspects of the Site
but will not be able to participate in certain services offered by the
Site.
Your personally
identifiable information will not be used except to deliver certain
services, products or information you have requested, send you notices
for products and/or services that you have used or that may be of interest
to you, send you newsletters, and improve the content and general administration
of the Site.
You should
not provide any personally identifiable information, transmit emails,
videos or any other such content, subscribe to newsletters or
Personal Video Messages, or participate
in surveys, questionnaires, promotions, sweepstakes or contests unless
you are at least 13 years of age or you are under 13 years of age
and have your parent or legal guardian's consent.
4. Children
Under 13 Years of Age.
THE ACTIVATORS recognizes the privacy interests of children and is committed
to protect those interests. We encourage parents and guardians
to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests.
THE ACTIVATORS does not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable
information from children under the age of 13 without the consent of
his/her parent or legal guardian. See Section 5 below for additional
information regarding parental consent.
If you are
under 13 years of age, you should not submit personally identifiable
information that would be transmitted to us or any user via the Site.
Only your parent or legal guardian may submit your personal information
to us.
In the event
we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under
13 years of age via the Site without the consent of that child's parent
or legal guardian, we will delete the information as soon as possible.
We do not share
the personal information of children under 13 years of age with any
third parties.
If you believe
we have collected any such information from or about a child under the
age of 13 years old, please contact us immediately by email at: info@theactivators.net.
5. Consent
from a Parent or Legal Guardian.
A child under
13 years of age cannot participate in any online feature or service
that requires the collection, retention, submission or use of personal
information, without consent from that child's parent or legal guardian.
Only the parent or legal guardian may submit personal information of
a child under 13 years of age to us. After this information has
been submitted, we will send an email to this parent or legal guardian
requesting confirmation of his or her consent to the collection, use
and/or disclosure of this personal information as well as the acknowledgement
of The Activators' information and collection practices and consent
to those practices.
THE ACTIVATORS
realizes that some children may not understand some of the information
on the Site. Please discuss this Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and any other legal notices or information on this Site
with your children.
If you have
any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or anything else
on this Site, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at: info@theactivators.net.
6. Cookies.
We may use small text files called cookies or similar technologies to
improve overall Site experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored
on the web browser of a user's hard drive. Cookies do not store
or contain personally identifiable information. Cookies enable
us to "relate" a user's activities on and visits to our Site.
Cookies must be enabled for you to use certain areas of the Site.
Third party
advertisements on the Site may also contain cookies. THE ACTIVATORS
do not control these cookies. Users should review the privacy
policy of the third party to determine whether and how the third party
advertisers use cookies.
Users can program
their web browsers to warn them every time a cookie is sent. Users
can also program their web browsers to refuse cookies. Please
note that without cookies users may not have access to certain services
or content on the Site.
7. Aggregate Information.
The Site may track the total number of visitors to our Site, the number
of visitors to each page of our Site, IP addresses, External Websites
linked to, and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in
the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed
in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable
information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends,
administer the Site, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use.
8. Disclosure.
We may disclose your personally identifiable information that we collect
and the data generated by cookies to our parent, subsidiary or affiliate
entities within our corporate family, our franchisees, third party partner
entities and the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to
assist us. For example, we may provide your personally identifiable
information to an organization in order to complete a service (e.g.,
process payments). Such third party entities will be restricted from
further distributing your personally identifiable information and may
be obligated to a written confidentiality agreement that is at least
as protective of your personally identifiable information as the terms
of this Privacy Policy and they will not be permitted to further distribute
your personally identifiable information. However, such third party
entities may use your personally identifiable information to send you
marketing or promotional materials. We also will disclose your personally
identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to
do so by law, regulation or other government authority. We may also
disclose your personally identifiable information to enforce the
Terms of Use, Personal Video Messages Policy, or to protect the safety and security of our users.
We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any other
company or organization except we may transfer your personally identifiable
information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other
corporate reorganization in which THE ACTIVATORS participate or to a
purchaser of all or substantially all of THE ACTIVATORS' assets to
which this Site relates.
9. Links to Third Party Sites.
The Site may provide links to other websites or resources operated by
other companies over which THE ACTIVATORS does not own, operate or control
("External Websites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement
by THE ACTIVATORS of those External Websites. You acknowledge and agree
that THE ACTIVATORS is providing these links to you only as a convenience,
and further agree that THE ACTIVATORS is not responsible for the content
of such External Websites. Your use of External Websites is subject
to the Terms of Use and privacy policies located on the linked to External
Websites. You should review the privacy policies and terms of
use of any External Websites to determine how these websites collect
and/or use your personally identifiable information.
10. Security.
We may employ procedural and technological measures, consistent with
industry practice. Such measures are reasonably designed to help protect
your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access,
use, disclosure, alteration or destruction. THE ACTIVATORS may use firewalls,
internal restrictions, password protection and other security measures
to help prevent unauthorized access to or disclosure of your personally
identifiable information.
11. Consent.
Your use including,
without limitation, to your provision of personally identifiable information
constitutes your consent to our collection and use of your personal
information in this Privacy Policy.
12. Correction/Updating Personally Identifiable Information.
THE ACTIVATORS provides you with the ability to review, correct and
delete any of the personally identifiable information that you have
provided to us. If you wish to review or correct any information you
have provided to us, you may contact us by email at: info@theactivators.net.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact
us via email at: info@theactivators.net.