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Last updated: 02/03/2008
Thank you for visiting this website (the "Site") sponsored by Essay Match, LLC ("Essay Match" or the "Company" or "we" or "us" or "our"). Essay Match is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe online experience for all of our users. In order to allow you to evaluate our privacy procedures and make decisions regarding your use of the Site, we provide this Online Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy") explaining our online information practices. The Privacy Policy applies to information collected online through the Site. Please read the entire Privacy Policy (set forth below) and contact Essay Match if you have any questions regarding the matters addressed herein.
COLLECTION AND TRACKING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
In order that we can provide you with the most efficient and enhanced service, we request information about you. We collect personally identifiable information such as names, age, gender, ethnicity, email addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and credit card information as well as demographic information such as age, gender and zip code. We also may collect other information when you visit the Site such as your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring Web site address. This information is collected both during registration on a the Site and when the Site is visited.
WHAT WE DO WITH COLLECTED INFORMATION
We use such personal information to fulfill your requests for our products and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings and to offer you other products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. We also use collected information to evaluate and administer our services, respond to any problems that may arise, and to gauge user trends to determine what part of our services are most popular with users. We may, at times, produce reports for third parties based on our analysis of aggregate information about our users such as demographic, age, gender, ethnicity, and online usage information. We will not disclose personal information separately identifying any of our users in such reports.
We may also disclose personally identifiable information of persons accessing the Site ("Users") in response to legal process including, without limitation, in response to a court order or subpoena. We further reserve the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent as needed: (i) to satisfy any law or regulation; (ii) to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law; (iii) to protect the integrity of the Site and our property; (iv) to protect the safety of visitors to the Site or others; or (v) to ensure the Site is used in conformance with the terms and conditions set forth in the Membership Agreement. For example, we may share the personal information of Users with individuals or entities claiming infringement of their intellectual property rights by such Users as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of intellectual property infringement, piracy, fraud, or other unlawful activity. In such events, we will disclose name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number and email address only. Except as expressly stated herein, we will not reveal your personal information to any third party without your explicit consent.
USE OF COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
To enhance your experience on this Site, many of our Web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at the Site. However, once you choose to furnish the Site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in a cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on the Site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience on our Web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on the Site. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services.
"Web beacons" or clear .gifs are small pieces of code placed on a Web page to monitor the behavior and collect data about the visitors viewing a Web page. For example, web beacons can be used to count the users who visit a Web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page. We may use web beacons on the Site from time to time for this and other purposes.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION BY THIRD-PARTY SITES, AD SERVERS AND SPONSORS
The Site may contain links to other web sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Users should consult the other web sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these parties. The Site may use a third party to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at its Web pages. These third party ad servers may use cookies, web beacons, clear .gifs or similar technologies to help present such advertisements, and to help measure and research the advertisements' effectiveness. To the extent that Users provide information to such third party ad servers or visit their websites, Users should be aware that the Privacy Policy does not govern the use of such Users' personal information. Please be vigilant in reviewing the third party ad servers' privacy policies.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our employees are made aware of the Privacy Policy through periodic communications and training. We limit access to private and confidential data to those employees with a specific need to retrieve this information, and we store data on multiple service systems, in controlled, secure environments.
CHANGES IN CORPORATE STRUCTURE
In developing our business, we might sell certain assets of the Company, or parts of the Company, may be sold, merged or otherwise transferred. Users' information, whether personally identifiable or otherwise, may be one of the transferred assets in such transactions.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We will occasionally update the Privacy Policy as necessary to comply with a changing environment. We recommend that you check the Privacy Policy when you visit the Site to be sure you are aware of and understand the current Privacy Policy. We will not make changes in how we handle previously collected personal information that have retroactive effect unless legally required to do so.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please : Contact us
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