| We
are committed to protecting your privacy. The following
information is designed to help you understand how we
collect, use, disseminate and safeguard the information you
provide to us while accessing and using our Site. By
accessing and using our Site, you signify your assent to
this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our
information practices, please do not access or use our
Site. As provided below, we reserve the right, at our
discretion, to change, add or remove portions of this policy
at any time by posting such changes to this page. Such
changes will be effective upon posting. The Sites request
that you read this Privacy Policy carefully and consult it
regularly.
Information Collection and Use
In
certain areas of the Site, we may request that you provide
us with certain personally identifiable information such as
your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address,
birthdate, personal opinions, and personal preferences. We
reserve the right to identify which informational items are
mandatory and which are optional. We log all user's
information when signing onto or using the Site, including
but not limited to IP address, URL of the Web page user was
on before visiting the Site, user's browser version, user's
registration forms, surveys, cookie data, and communications
transmitted through applications on the Site. We reserve the right to use this
information to find ways to improve sales to a group of Site
members, to increase the users experience according to their
interests, or to formulate statistical models to accomplish
the Site, goals through surveys or contests. We are the
sole owner of the information collected on the Site. We
will not sell, share, or rent this information to others
without your express consent
.
Cookies
A
cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive
containing information about the user. We will use cookies
to track affiliate sales and referring URL's. In the future,
we may use cookies to personalize services for members, to
track browsers, to identify the most popular areas of our
Site, and to determine the effectiveness of our promotional
activities. Please note that some of our business partners
may also use cookies on our Sites (for example,
advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over
these cookies.
Sharing
We do
not currently sell or otherwise make available personally
identifiable information about our users to third parties.
Nevertheless, we reserve the right to make such information
available to third parties in the future in order to enhance
and personalize our products and services to benefit users,
or in the case of bankruptcy, sale of an asset, business or
division, a merger or acquisition, or similar change of
ownership.
Law
Enforcement
We
will cooperate with law enforcement authorities,
private-party litigants, and others seeking information
about our end users to the extent required by applicable
law. Examples of such cooperation include compliance with
discovery requests, subpoenas, court orders and writs.
Links
This
Site may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that
we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices
of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware that
when they leave our Sites they should read the privacy
statements of each and every site that collects personally
identifiable information.
Security
We
agree to use commercially reasonable efforts to protect the
information you have provided to us from unauthorized access
by using encryption and other security measures. We use SSL
encryption on all billing and membership transactions. We do
not and will not in the future keep sensitive billing
information on our local
servers. The billing processors will keep this information.
We encourage you to contact us if you are interested in
learning more about our security measures.
Children
Our
Sites are not intended for children under the age of 18 or
21, depending on the age of majority in your jurisdiction.
Our Sites do not target children, nor do we solicit data, or
knowingly collect personally identifiable information from
them. We encourage parents and legal guardians to spend time
online with their children and to participate in the
interactive activities offered on the sites their children
visit.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a
user's personally identifiable information changes or if a user no longer desires our services, you should
contact us to correct or update your information.
Information Retention
We
retain all users' information in a secure database
indefinitely.
Choice
From
time to time, we may send our users e-mail, e-mail
newsletters, Site news updates, or other notices regarding
new services, promotions, or other information which may be
of general interest. Users who no longer wish to receive
materials from us may opt-out of receiving these
communications by choosing a "do not contact" option or by
contacting us. We will comply with all requests for removal.
Notification of Changes
We
reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time
by posting such changes on our Sites. Any changes to this
Privacy Policy will become effective upon posting such
changes. If you access or use our Sites, you are required to
periodically check our Privacy Policy for any changes. If
you continue to access or use our Sites after we have
changed our Privacy Policy, you manifest your assent to the
changes to our Privacy Policy.
If we
decide to use your personally identifiable information in a
manner materially different from that stated in the Privacy
Policy at the time that such information was collected, we
will attempt to notify you of such changes. You agree that
if we send you an e-mail to the e-mail address reflected in
our records, such e-mail will constitute acceptable notice
to you of the change in our policy. The notice will provide
you with an opportunity to "opt-out" so that we may not use
your personally identifiable information in a manner which
is different from the manner described at the time that you
provided us with such information. If you do not
affirmatively "opt-out" pursuant to the instructions
provided to you in the notice, then you agree that we may
use your personally identifiable information in the manner
described in the notice. (If we have no e-mail address for
you, or if we do not have a current e-mail address for you,
then you agree that adequate notice of the change in our
policy will be effected by posting such a change onto our
Privacy Policy, which shall also disclose information about
how you may "opt-out" so that we may not use your personally
identifiable information in a manner which is materially
different from the manner described at the time that you
provided us with such information. If you do not
affirmatively "opt-out" pursuant to the instructions posted
within the time period specified, then you agree that we may
use your personally identifiable information as described in
the posted notice).
Contact Information
If you
have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you
otherwise need to contact us regarding your personally
identifiable information, contact us by sending an e-mail.
Please provide us with your name, mailing address, telephone
number and e-mail address so we can service you quicker.
Please
send your e-mail to:
info@southerncrossvision.com
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