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PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: August 22, 2004
thelanguageoffamilies.com strives to offer its visitors the many
advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive
and personalized experience. We may use Personally Identifiable
Information (your name, e-mail address, street address,
telephone number) subject to the terms of this privacy policy.
We will never sell, barter, or rent your email address to any
unauthorized third party. Period."
How we gather information from users
How we collect and store information depends on the page you are
visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and
the services provided. For example, you may be asked to provide
information when you register for access to certain portions of
our site or request certain features, such as newsletters or
when you make a purchase. You may provide information when you
participate in sweepstakes and contests, message boards and chat
rooms, and other interactive areas of our site. Like most Web
sites, thelanguageoffamilies.com also collects information automatically
and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent
to our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your
Internet Service Provider or use cookie technology to recognize
you and hold information from your visit. Among other things,
the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you
from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or
may control the number of times you encounter a particular
advertisement while visiting our site. As we adopt additional
technology, we may also gather information through other means.
In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with
information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to
accept cookies, but if you do you may be unable to access
certain portions of the site or may be asked to re-enter your
user name and password, and we may not be able to customize the
site’s features according to your preferences.
What we do with the information we collect
Like other Web publishers, we collect information to enhance
your visit and deliver more individualized content and
advertising. We respect your privacy and do not share your
information with anyone.
Aggregated Information (information that does not personally
identify you) may be used in many ways. For example, we may
combine information about your usage patterns with similar
information obtained from other users to help enhance our site
and services (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or
what features are most attractive). Aggregated Information may
occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business
partners. Again, this information does not include any
Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to
identify you individually.
We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on
thelanguageoffamilies.com to communicate with you about your
registration and customization preferences; our Terms of Service
and privacy policy; services and products offered by
thelanguageoffamilies.com and other topics we think you might find of
interest.
Personally Identifiable Information collected by
thelanguageoffamilies.com may also be used for other purposes, including
but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting,
processing of e-commerce transactions, administration of
sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you.
Certain third parties who provide technical support for the
operation of our site (our Web hosting service for example) may
access such information. We will use your information only as
permitted by law. In addition, from time to time as we continue
to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with
other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user
information may be among the transferred assets. We may also
disclose your information in response to a court order, at other
times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by
law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to
us, and/or to law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it
appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you
with notice prior to disclosure in such cases.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements
thelanguageoffamilies.com expects its partners, advertisers and
affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware,
however, that third parties, including our partners,
advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible
through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection
policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our
site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a
thelanguageoffamilies.com page, certain content that is actually created
or hosted by a third party. Also, through
thelanguageoffamilies.com you
may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web
sites, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other
parties. thelanguageoffamilies.com is not responsible for the actions or
policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable
privacy policies of those third parties when providing
information on a feature or page operated by a third party.
While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or
other third parties may use cookies or other technology to
attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve
information about you. For example, some of our advertising is
served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the
advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular
advertisement before. Other features available on our site may
offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or
other technology to gather information.
thelanguageoffamilies.com does
not control the use of this technology by third parties or the
resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or
policies of such third parties.
You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose
Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat
areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be
collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and
may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or
third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of
thelanguageoffamilies.com and this policy.
Children
thelanguageoffamilies.com does not knowingly collect or solicit
Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under
13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received
any information from a child under 13 in violation of this
policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you
believe thelanguageoffamilies.com has any information from or about
anyone under 13, please contact us at the address listed below.
Contacting Us.
We can be reached by contacting:
thelanguageoffamilies.com
Email: privacy@thelanguageoffamilies.com
Changes to this Policy
thelanguageoffamilies.com reserves the right to change this policy at
any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your
continued use of our site following the posting of changes to
these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information
collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used
according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the
information was collected.
Governing law
This policy and the use of this Site are governed by PA law. If
a dispute arises under this Policy we agree to first try to
resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in
the following location: Mavlern, PA. Any costs and fees other
than attorney fees associated with the mediation will be shared
equally by each of us.
If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory
solution through mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to
binding arbitration at the following location: Mavlern, PA,
under the rules of the American Arbitration Association.
Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be
entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.
thelanguageoffamilies.com is controlled, operated and administered
entirely within PA. This statement and the policies outlined
herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or
other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. |
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