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AMPERE MEDIA LLC PRIVACY
POLICY
Ampere Media LLC operates
various web sites. Some of our web
properties include: www.MyFree.com,
www.PopularLiving.com, www.HandCraftersVillage.com, and www.CouponLiving.com.
Ampere Media LLC has created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment
to your privacy and the protection of your personally identifiable information
at the websites we operate (the "Website").
As part of our business,
we collect and, in some instances, may disclose information about you - but
only as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our
personal information collection and use practices and the choices that you
can make concerning the use of your personal information. This Privacy Policy also applies to individuals that have agreed
to receive e-mail marketing from PopularLiving.com or one of our advertising
partners, whether at the Website, via e-mail, on third-party websites or otherwise.
Information Collected and
Use of Your Information
For each visitor to the
Website, our servers automatically recognize only the visitor's domain name,
but not the e-mail address (unless requested and supplied by the visitor as
a part of registration).
When visitors elect to
become members of one of our sites such as PopularLiving.com, we request that
they provide additional, personally identifiable information. This includes name, address, e-mail address,
telephone number, age bracket, day and month of birth. All registrants may receive e-mail confirming
their registration, and subsequent correspondence. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us
in the future, please let us know by using the unsubscribe option on the bottom
of every email. Certain information,
such as your e-mail address, is collected in order to, among other functions;
verify your identity in the future within our database. When you select to receive information about
offerings from a third party company during the registration process, we will
share your personal information with that third party company to carry out
your information request. Ampere Media
LLC may also use such information to directly market certain offers to you
(via e-mail, direct mail and/or telemarketing), to monitor compliance with
our Terms and Conditions and for content improvement and feedback purposes. We may sell the personal information that you
supply to us and we may join together with other businesses to bring selected
retail opportunities to our members. These
businesses may include, but are not limited to: (a) providers of direct marketing services and
applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression
and validation; (b) e-mail marketers; and (c) telemarketers.
We may also employ other
companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples
include sending direct and electronic mail, removing duplicate information
from customer lists, analyzing data, and providing marketing analysis. These agents have access to our members' personal
information as needed to perform their functions for Ampere Media LLC, but
we do not permit them to use our members' personal information for other purposes.
Ampere Media LLC reserves
the right to release current or past member information in the event Ampere
Media LLC believes that the membership is being or has been used in violation
of the Website's terms and conditions, or to commit unlawful acts, if the
information is subpoenaed, if Ampere Media LLC is sold or acquired, or when
Ampere Media LLC deems it necessary or appropriate. By agreeing to these conditions, you hereby consent to disclosure
of any record or communication to any third party, when Ampere Media LLC,
in its sole discretion, determines the disclosure to be appropriate including,
without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third-parties for
suppression purposes in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended
from time to time, and Federal Trade Commission enabling regulations.
In addition, by registering
at the Website, you agree that such act constitutes an inquiry and/or application
for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR §310 et seq.),
as amended from time to time (the "Rule"). Notwithstanding that your telephone number may
be listed at the Federal Trade Commission's Do-Not-Call List, we retain the
right to contact you via telemarketing in accordance with the Rule.
From time to time, we may
receive personal information about you from outside sources and add it to
your existing registration information on file at the Website. We do this
to improve personalization of our services (for example, providing better
newsletter content, advertising and/or special offers that we think may be
of interest you).
We may also collect other
information such as your IP address, domain names, access times and referring
third party website addresses. Ampere Media LLC uses this information for
the operation of the Website, to maintain the quality of our offerings, and
to provide general aggregate statistics regarding web sites we operate such
as PopularLiving.com. Such information
is not personally identifiable.
We also collect information
such as the identification of the server that your computer is logged onto
and whether you opened an e-mail message delivered to you by Ampere Media
LLC. We also may compare our member
list to various lists received from other third party companies, in an effort
to avoid sending identical or similar e-mail messages to our members.
When you obtain any product
or service directly from Ampere Media LLC or a web site we operate, we collect
certain financial information, such as your credit card number, credit card
expiration date and billing address. Financial
information that you disclose to our company or web sites we operate is used
to confirm your age and to bill you for shipping our products and services.
To the extent that customer credit card-specific information is collected
by our company or a web site we operate, said information will be kept in
confidence and will not be shared with any third parties (other than consumer
credit agencies) without your prior informed consent.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Ampere Media LLC reserves the right
to share with third parties the fact that we have credit card information
on file for specific customers but we will not share the specific credit card
information with third parties without your prior informed consent.
Information Collection
Processes
Ampere Media LLC may employ
"cookies" to help customize your access to the Website and for the delivery
of targeted advertisements. A cookie
is a piece of data stored on a your hard drive containing information about
you. Cookies have many benefits to
enhance your experience at our Website and to facilitate the receipt of targeted
advertisements. For instance, by setting
a cookie on our Website, a member would not have to log in a password more
than once, thereby saving time while on our Website. Even in the case where a member rejects a cookie,
they may still use our Website. The
only drawback to this is that the member will be limited in what he/she can
access in some areas on our Website, much like visitor-level access.
We occasionally use cookies
to anonymously track and target the interests of our members to further enhance
the experience on our Website and for advertising, tracking and/or delivery
purposes. To find out more about cookies,
please visit www.cookiecentral.com. To disable and reject cookies, click here. At no time will we share cookie-related and/or
data with third parties.
In addition to cookies,
our Website pages and/or e-mails may contain electronic images known as "pixel
tags" (also knows as clear gifs) to track the pages that visitors and/or members
visit at the Website for purposes of formatting future campaigns and upgrading
visitor information used in reporting statistics.
Our Website may also contain
pixel tags placed there by third parties to help determine the effectiveness
of a joint promotional or advertising campaign.
Security
Ampere Media LLC has security
measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal
information under our control. Currently Ampere Media LLC uses on some web
sites we operate Secure Socket Layer Software (SSL) to protect data and secure
any transactions. SSL encrypts information, including credit card numbers,
names and addresses as they are transmitted over the Internet. Please be advised
that, although we take every reasonable technological precaution available
to protect your data, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. Therefore, Ampere Media LLC cannot warrant that your information
will be absolutely secure. Any transmission of data at or through our Website
is at your own risk. However, access
to your information is strictly limited, and not accessible to the public. Our employees are dedicated to ensuring the
security and privacy of all Ampere Media LLC user information. Employees not adhering to our firm policies
are subject to disciplinary action.
Minors
Individuals under 18 years
of age are not permitted to participate in obtaining products and/or services
at Ampere Media LLC or any web site we operate. No information should be submitted to, or posted
at, any web site we operate by visitors under 18 years of age without the
prior consent of their parent or guardian.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, children 13 years of age and younger
are not permitted to access any web site we operate for any reason and we
do not knowingly collect personal information from such children. We encourage parents and guardians to spend
time online with their children and to participate and monitor the interactive
activities of their children.
Third-Party Links
Ampere Media LLC does not
endorse, nor is Ampere Media LLC responsible for the accuracy of, the privacy
policies and/or terms and conditions of each of the advertisers and/or third
parties accessible through the web sites operated by Ampere Media LLC.
The entities that advertise and/or place banner ads on web sites operated
by Ampere Media LLC are independent third parties and not typically affiliated
with our company.
Acceptance of this Privacy
Policy
By using this Website
including, without limitation, signing up for offers and/or continuing to
receive information from any web site operated by Ampere Media LLC, you agree
to the Ampere Media LLC Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, and/or
remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. All changes will take effect immediately upon their posting on
our Website. Please check this page
periodically for changes. Your continued use of Ampere Media LLC websites or
acceptance of our e-mails following the posting of changes to this Privacy
Policy will mean that you accept any and all such changes and agree to continue
receiving directing marketing from us and other third party companies. If you do not agree to the terms of this
Privacy Policy, please unsubscribe by visiting: http://www.popularliving.com/
j/cp/cp.php. If you have any questions
about this Privacy Policy, the practices of a website we operate, or your
dealings with this Site, please visit us at http://www.myfree.com/feedsend.php
or by sending a letter to: Ampere Media LLC, 3400 Dundee Road, Northbrook, IL
60062.
