USE
OF THIS WEB SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR UNDERSTANDING
AND AGREEMENT TO COMPLY WITH THE ENTIRE PRIVACY
POLICY STATEMENT
MyToneCreator™.com is
committed to safeguarding your privacy online.
Please read the following Privacy Policy ("Privacy
Policy") to understand how your personal
information will be treated as you make full use
of our many offerings. As MyToneCreator™.com
reserves the right to amend this Policy from time
to time, please check back periodically.
As part of the operations of
MyToneCreator™.com and its related companies,
we gather certain types of information about our
users through our Web site. This Privacy Policy
explains the types of information we gather, what
we do with it and how you may correct or change
the information that we may collect.
1. Kinds of Information. There
are two kinds of information we can obtain about
you:
a) Personal Information: Personal
Information is any information that personally
identifies you. It can be your first and last
name, your home address, your telephone number,
age, gender or your e-mail address. Personal information
is collected when users voluntarily register for
purchases and services. Sometimes this Personal
Information is needed to receive announcements
regarding our Web site and projects, enter contests
and participate in other promotional opportunities
provided on our Web site. We may also collect
e-mail addresses from users who send us support
mail or request technical or other help. This
information enables us to improve our Web site
in order to make your online visits more productive
and enjoyable.
b) Aggregate Information: Aggregate
Information is anonymous data that we use to diagnose
problems on our Web site's servers, administer
our Web site, and to help improve the quality
of our Web pages. It may be your IP address (a
number that's automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you're surfing the Internet), browser
type (e.g., Netscape or Internet Explorer), and
domain (e.g., XYZ.com"). We do this in the
background so it does not interrupt your cruising
speed. We may share Aggregate Information with
third parties. None of this information is connected
with Personal Information. So, when you enter
our site, you are anonymous and will remain that
way unless you choose otherwise.
2. Use of Information. We may
use the Personal Information we collect to improve
the content of our Web site; to customize the
content and/or layout of our Web site for each
individual user; to notify users about updates
to our Web site or promotional offers or opportunities
that we believe will be of interest to users;
and to investigate violations of our terms and
conditions of use. We may also share Personal
Information with consultants and related companies
for internal business or research purposes. With
user permission, we may access Personal Information
on behalf of third parties for marketing or promotional
purposes. We will always request permission to
share such information with third parties. You
may elect not to participate by clicking or not
clicking, as applicable, the appropriate on-screen
button. In some situations, we may share your
Personal Information with third parties who perform
a particular service on our behalf. These parties
are not allowed to use Personal Information except
for the limited purpose of providing the particular
service on our behalf. In addition, we may receive
personal usage and demographic information from
third parties based on our users Personal Information
and their visits to our Web site, and use this
information to improve our products and services.
We may post the name of a user
(for example, a contest winner) on our Web site.
We will notify you of this possibility when you
provide your information.
We may also divulge Personal
Information if such information is subpoenaed,
or if we believe that membership has been used
to commit unlawful acts, or acts that may endanger
the health or safety of another user or of the
general public.
We may share the Aggregate Information
we collect with third parties for advertising
and promotional purposes. We may use a third-party
company to serve ads when you visit our Web site.
This company may use Aggregate information about
your visits to our Web site in order to provide
advertisements on our Web site about goods and
services of interest to you. For this purpose,
the third-party company and we may track and note
some of the pages you visit on our Web site.
3. Cookies. A cookie is a small
data file that Web sites store on your hard drive
when you visit them. Cookies allow us to determine
which areas and features of our Web site are most
popular by measuring user activity, and to improve
your user experience by remembering your passwords
and viewing preferences, which allows you to visit
various parts of our Web site without re-registering.
We may also use cookies when we conduct polls,
surveys, chat rooms and contests to limit multiple
responses and registrations. We will never use
cookies to retrieve information from your computer
that was not originally sent by us to you in a
cookie. We do not use information transferred
through cookies for any promotional or marketing
purposes.
You may occasionally get cookies
from our advertisers. We do not control these
cookies, and these cookies are not subject to
our Privacy Policy.
Most browsers are set to accept
cookies. If you prefer, you may set your browser
to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies
are being sent. However, it is possible that some
parts of our Web site, such as the polls, surveys,
contest, and game areas, will not function properly
if you choose not to accept cookies.
4. Search Terms. As a measure
of user interest, we may track search terms that
are entered into our Web site's search features.
Search data and user-provided information help
to improve the relevancy of search results by
learning user preferences and prioritizing search
results accordingly. The intended result is a
more efficient search feature for visitors to
our Web site.
5. Surveys and Registration Forms.
Our Web site may post surveys and registration
forms in which we ask for Personal Information.
We may use this information to send you information
about our Web site and programs, and to give to
our third parties who may send you information
about their products and services and promotional
material.
6. Sweepstakes and Contests.
We may from time to time run sweepstakes and contests
in which we ask for Personal Information such
as your name, e-mail address or telephone number.
That's so we can let you know if you win. Sometimes
we request additional Personal Information such
as your age and gender. And once in a while we
require this additional information in exchange
for allowing you to enter the contest. We may
use the contest entry information that we collect
to notify you if you are a winner, send you information
about our Web site and programs or give to third
parties who may send you information about their
products and services and promotional material.
Your participation in any such sweepstakes or
contest will be subject to the official rules
and regulations of such sweepstakes or contest.
If you win one of our sweepstakes
or contests, we will not publish your name, hometown,
or other Personal Information on our Web site
unless you give us your permission.
7. Electronic Newsletters. We
may offer free, electronic announcement(s). You
will only receive a newsletter if you agree to
receive it during registration to our Web site
or directly from our newsletter sign-up form.
We will not divulge your membership in a newsletter
mailing list to any third parties, including advertisers
or partners, if you request that we not do so
when you register. If you subscribe to one of
our e-mail newsletters, and then decide you do
not want to continue receiving such e-mail newsletter,
please contact MyToneCreator™ and tell us
that you no longer want to continue receiving
such e-mail newsletter.
8. Opt Out. If we ask you for Personal Information,
we will tell you if we intend to share it with
others. We will provide you with a way to tell
us that you don't want us to share the information
or if you do not want to receive promotional and/or
marketing information about products, services,
and offerings from us and/or any third parties.
Let us know and we will use your name and address
only to tell you if you win a contest or sweepstakes.
9. Children And Privacy. We
encourage parents and guardians to spend time
with their children On-line, and to be familiar
with the sites their children visit. At various
places on our Web site, we ask you for your age
and/or date of birth. We rely on our users to
be truthful in responding to these questions.
a) Individuals Under 13: No information should
be submitted to or posted on our Web site by users
under the age of 13. Individuals under the age
of 13 are not allowed to become registered users
of our Web sites or participate in any sweepstakes
or contests.
b) Individuals 13 through 17:
If an individual between the ages of 13 and 17
submits or posts information to our Web site,
we may collect such information (including personally
identifying information). This information may
be used for marketing and promotional purposes
by us and may, with the user's permission, be
shared with pre-screened third parties. If a user
or his/her parent or guardian changes his/her
mind with respect to such use, that user, parent
or guardian may stop that use either by e-mail
request or by modifying his/her registration information
On-line.
10. Subpoenas and Law Enforcement
Agencies We reserve the right to cooperate with
government and law enforcement agencies engaged
in investigations of activities that are, or which
we believe may be, illegal. Further, we may share
your Personal Information with such agencies if
we believe that a crime or any act that endangers
the health and safety of others may have been
or may be committed. We may also share your Personal
Information in response to an appropriate subpoena.
11. Links To Other Sites. When
you visit our site, you may be directed to other
sites outside our service. These sites may not
follow the same privacy policies that we do. These
other sites may send their own cookies to users,
collect data, or solicit Personal Information
in such a way that may be inconsistent with our
privacy policy. These other sites are not subject
to our privacy policy and we are not responsible
for the privacy policies for these other sites,
nor for the use of any information that these
sites may collect. We do not control the content
that appears on these sites. Such sites may contain
information that content providers independent
of us have created, maintained, published, posted
or otherwise made available. The use of any information
or materials that you may access at these external
sites is purely voluntary. You should not rely
on their content without independent and thorough
review of the accuracy, completeness, effectiveness,
timeliness and correct sequencing. These external
sites may also refer to specific commercial products,
processes, or services by trade name, trademark,
service mark, manufacturer or otherwise. Unless
we have provided explicit authority, such references
in no way indicate our endorsement, recommendation
or preference.
12. Deleting or Modifying Your
Information If you've given us Personal Information
in the past and want to delete or update it, please
send an e-mail to contact MyToneCreator™
and put "Delete Information" in the
subject matter line and then tell us in the body
of the e-mail that you want your information deleted;
or Put "Update information" in the subject
matter line and then provide your updated information
in the body of the your e-mail.
Although it is not always possible
to remove or modify information in the databases,
we will make reasonable efforts to do so. If you've
given us information for one of those third parties
we mentioned above and we've already passed it
on, we cannot delete or change the information.
13. Security of Private Information.
Any Personal Information you give us is kept in
secure files. Access is limited to the few employees
who have a need to know. We would like to tell
you that your information is as safe with us as
it is in your head, but, as crackers/hackers have
proved worldwide, no transmission of data over
the Internet is guaranteed to be completely secure.
It may be possible for third parties who are not
under our control to intercept or access transmissions
or private communications unlawfully. While we
strive to protect your Personal Information, we
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information
you transmit to us. Any such transmission is done
at your own risk. The most any Web site can do
is make reasonable efforts, which is what we do,
to protect your information from theft, misuse
and alteration.
Under no circumstances, including but not limited
to negligence, shall we be liable for any special,
incidental or consequential damages that result
from the use of the information or materials on
our Web site, even if we (or an authorized representative
of ours) have been advised of the possibility
of such damages.
14. Feedback and E-mail Our
Web site has a link to a "feedback"
e-mail form so you can comment, complain, make
suggestions, and ask questions. Your e-mail address
is required on this form so we can answer your
questions, and we want your name, too, so we can
address our answer in a mannerly way. We may also
track your browser type and referring URL to better
diagnose technical issues you may be having. We
do not share this information with third parties
and we will use it only to answer your correspondence.
We take your electronic privacy seriously.
We reserve the right to change
this Privacy Policy at any time. Any such changes
will be posted online and it is up to Web site
users to remain informed of the most current policy. |