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Privacy Policy
The
Privacy Policy of ImpulseLeads.com., Hitjokes.com and Top10dir.com (hereafter
referred to as "the Company") demonstrates our deep commitment to full disclosure
regarding privacy issues. Since we gather certain types of information about
our subscribers, we want subscribers to fully understand the terms and conditions
surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement
discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
1.
Information the Company Gathers and Tracks
2. Sharing of Information
3. Delete / Deactivate Policy
4. Notification of Changes
5. Security Policy
If
you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact
the Company at privacy@hitjokes.com.
1. Information
the Company Gathers and Tracks
"Subscription" occurs when an
end-user registers for the Company's services, either via registration at our
website, via opt-in or opt-out co-registration at a marketing partner's website,
or via an opt-out permission pass / opt-out mailing. The Company collects personally
identifiable information about our subscribers, based on: information gathered
at the time of registration, subscriber interaction and response to subsequent
electronic mailings and website use, information provided by marketing partners,
and information appended from data aggregators. Information collected may include,
but is not necessarily limited to: name, email address, postal address, gender,
birth date, telephone number, activity, interests, and other demographic information.
This information enables us to better tailor our content to subscribers' needs
and to help our clients to promote and sell their products and services.
The Company gathers subscriber information using some or all of the following
processes:
Cookies: The Company minimizes the use of cookies to only those necessary to
properly route subscribers, and customize the subscriber's experience. The Company
provides links to advertiser and partner websites. These sites may choose to
use cookies to better promote their products and services.
Usage Tracking: The Company tracks information related to the electronic mailings
and web pages viewed by subscribers, as well as the hyperlinks clicked by subscribers,
while viewing our emails or visiting our websites.
Third
Party Advertising
We use BUDS INC and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when
you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your
name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this
and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other
sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would
like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not
having this information used by these companies, please click
here
Third
Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser
may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
Log Files: Log files are used to track and monitor subscriber usage.
Subscriber Feedback/Inquiries: Subscribers
have the ability to contact the Company to provide us with their feedback. The
Company uses this information to respond to the subscriber and analyze customer
service issues.
2. Sharing
of Information
All information provided to
the Company about a subscriber, as well as any additional information we may
lawfully collect regarding a subscriber, may be used to support our services
and data sharing with marketing companies, advertising agencies, compilers,
and data companies. The Company does not control the practices of our advertisers
or third party marketers, who may further disseminate personally identifiable
information, including demographic and lifestyle data.
Subscription status, unsubscribe request activity, and personally identifiable
information is made publicly available for the purpose of checking subscription
status and for investigating subscription issues.
Company emails and websites contain links to external websites. Subscribers
will be taken to external websites if they click on these links. The subscriber's
information may be passed from the Companyís database to the external website,
and/or external database, for the convenience of the subscriber (e.g. subscriber
information may be used to pre-fill a form at a destination website). The Company
is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any external website
owner. We encourage all subscribers to review the privacy policy of any website
they visit.
3. Delete/Deactivate
Policy
Subscribers may unsubscribe
to our electronic mailings at any time by following the instructions contained
within our electronic mailings, or by unsubscribing via the Company's website.
Currently, the Company does not offer subscribers a means by which to completely
delete personal information from our databases. Instead, subscription status
is set to "unsubscribed" to suppress inclusion from future Company electronic
mailings.
The Company's unsubscribe process impacts only the future delivery of electronic
mailings disseminated by the Company on its own behalf. Former Company subscribers
may still be shared with third parties for use in offline marketing, data appends,
including email appends and email directory lookup services.
Company subscribers should also note that unsubscribing from Company electronic
mailings will not automatically unsubscribe the subscriber's information from
any third-party associates and licensees of the data. Since third-party associates
and licensee partners maintain separate databases from the Company, subscribers
will need to unsubscribe from each source individually, if desired. This allows
the end-user the freedom to pick and choose which subscriptions to maintain
and which to discontinue.
4. Notification
of Changes
The Company's privacy policy
and use of personally identifiable information is subject to change at any time
without notice. The current version of our Privacy Policy will be posted at
Hitjokes.com.com.
5. Security
Policy
The Company has created security
guidelines to protect the loss or alteration of company database information.
For questions or comments, please
contact the Company via e-mail at privacy@hitjokes.com.
Last updated: Jan 13 2004
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