Service Provider uses personally identifying information you supply
through the Website to provide you with the service you have
requested. For example, if you subscribe to any of our services,
we may use your e-mail address to send you a confirmation notice
and your mailing address to send you a publication. Similarly, if
you enter an online sweepstakes, we will use this information to
notify you if you are a winner. We may also use the information to
communicate with you about new features, products or services,
and/or to improve the services that we offer by tailoring them to
your needs.
Unless otherwise specified on the Website, Service Provider may sell or
share personally identifying information with our affiliates and
with carefully selected companies who we think can offer you
services and products of interest to you. If you do not wish to
have your personally identifying information shared, write to us
at the street address set forth at the end of this document. If
you've registered on any part of the Website, please use the
mechanism on the Website that allows you to change or update your
member preferences or information, if available, to keep all such
date accurate and up-to-date.
We also allow access to our database by third parties that provide us
with services, such as technical maintenance or forums and job
search software, but only for the purpose of and to the extent
necessary to provide those services. And if you choose to purchase
items through features on the Website, we may forward your
information to third parties for services such as credit card
processing and order fulfillment. There are also times when you
provide information about yourself to us in areas of the site that
may be managed or participated in by third parties, such as
auction services or shopping areas. In such cases, the information
may be used by us and by such third party(ies), each pursuant to
its own policies. We may also provide your information to our
advertisers, so that they can serve ads to you that meet your
needs or match your interests. While Service Provider will seek to
require such third parties to follow appropriate privacy policies
and will not authorize them to use this information except for the
express purpose for which it is provided, Service Provider does
not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of third
parties. We may also provide access to our database in order to
cooperate with official investigations or legal proceedings,
including, for example, in response to subpoenas, search warrants,
court orders, or other legal process.
In addition, we reserve the right to use the information we collect
about your computer, which may at times be able to identify you,
for any lawful business purpose, including without limitation to
help diagnose problems with our servers, to gather broad
demographic information, and to otherwise administer our Website.
While your personally identifying information is protected as outlined
above, we reserve the right to use, transfer, sell, and share
aggregated, anonymous data about our users as a group for any
business purpose, such as analyzing usage trends and seeking
compatible advertisers and partners.
In addition, as our business changes, we may buy or sell various
assets. In the event all or a portion of the assets owned or
controlled by Service Provider, its parent or any subsidiary or
affiliated entity are sold, assigned, transferred or acquired by
another company, the information from and/or about our Website
users may be among the transferred assets.