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Q1.
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What information does this Privacy Policy
cover?
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A1.
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Except as specifically described below in A2 and
A6, this Privacy Policy applies only to
personally identifiable information collected on
the Web sites where this Privacy Policy is posted
and does not apply to any other information
collected by DigiPowers Inc. through any other means.
As used in this Privacy Policy, "DigiPowers Inc.
" refers to DigiPowers Inc. and its subsidiary and affiliated
entities, singly or together.
In keeping with the traditions of DigiPowers, we
refer to individuals who purchase or use products
or services of DigiPowers Inc. as "guests." When this Privacy
Policy uses the term "personally identifiable
information," we mean information that identifies
a particular individual, such as the individual's
name, postal address, e-mail address, and
telephone number. When other information (such
as, for example, consumer product preferences or
number of children) is directly associated with
personally identifiable information, this other
information also is treated as personally
identifiable information for purposes of this
Privacy Policy. Personally identifiable
information does not include screen names (also
known as member names, usernames or other online
aliases) provided by our guests in the course of
registering with or using any of our Web sites,
except in circumstances in which we request that
guests provide their e-mail addresses as their
screen names. Personally identifiable information
is sometimes referred to in this Privacy Policy
as "personal information." Finally, the terms of
this Privacy Policy are subject to all applicable
laws.
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Q2.
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What types of personally identifiable information
do we collect about our guests?
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A2.
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We collect several types of personally
identifiable information about our guests.
Information You Provide to Us
Much of the personally identifiable information
we receive comes directly from guests who are
interested in obtaining various products and
services from us or another member of DigiPowers
Inc. . Typically, this information includes the
guest's name, postal address, e-mail address, and
telephone number. We may also collect other types
of information such as gender, age, number of
children, and personal interests, which we may
associate with personally identifiable
information. If you purchase products or services
from us or another member of DigiPowers Inc. ,
we'll note, for example, credit card information,
the type of services or products ordered or
purchased, and the date of the order or purchase.
You may also provide us photographs or other
video materials, which may contain personal
information. We may collect personal information
when you register on, log on, or visit our Web
sites, including when you participate in
activities on our Web sites, such as sweepstakes,
contests, games, and informational and
promotional offers, and when you provide
information to our customer service
representatives. Finally, our Web sites may offer
message boards, conversation pages, chat rooms,
social community environments, profile pages, and
other Public Forums (as defined in the Terms of
Use governing our Web sites (the "Terms of
Use")), as well as other features in which you
may provide us with User Submissions (as defined
in the Terms of Use). If you provide personal
information when you use any of these features,
that personal information may be publicly posted
and otherwise disclosed without limitation as to
its use by a third party. Our rules regarding
User Submissions are described in the Terms of
Use, including in the "User Submissions," "Public
Forums and Communication" and "House Rules"
sections of the Terms of Use.
Information Collected Through
Technology
We collect information through technology to make
our sites more interesting and useful to you and
for various purposes related to our business. For
instance, when you come to one of our sites, we
collect your IP address. An IP address is
associated with the access point through which
you enter the Internet, and is typically
controlled by your Internet Service Provider
(ISP), your company, or your university. Standing
alone, your IP address is not personally
identifiable. We may use IP addresses to collect
information regarding the frequency with which
our guests visit various parts of our sites, and
we may combine IP addresses with personally
identifiable information.
Our Web sites collect information through a
variety of technical methods, including cookies
and Web beacons. Cookies are pieces of
information that a Web site sends to your
computer while you are viewing the Web site. Web
beacons are small pieces of data that are
embedded in images on the pages of Web sites.
Cookies, web beacons and other technical methods
may involve the transmission of information
either directly to us or to another party
authorized by us to collect information on our
behalf.
We may use the information collected through
these technical methods for many purposes,
including delivering content, tracking and
enhancing our guests' experience on our Web
sites. For example, when you return to one of our
Web sites after logging in, cookies provide
information to the site so that the site will
remember who you are. We also may use technical
methods to analyze the traffic patterns on our
Web sites, such as the frequency with which our
users visit various parts of our Web sites, and
third party Web sites, such as the frequency with
which our users visit other Web sites. In HTML
e-mails that we send our guests, we may use
technical methods for a number of purposes,
including: to determine whether our guests have
opened or forwarded those e-mails and/or clicked
on links in those e-mails, to customize the
display of banner advertisements and other
messages after a guest has closed the e-mail, and
to determine whether a guest has made an inquiry
or purchase in response to a particular e-mail.
These technical methods may enable us to collect
and use information in a form that is personally
identifiable.
Many advertisements are managed and placed on our
Web sites by third parties. These companies are
called "network advertisers." Network advertisers
who place advertisements on our Web sites may use
cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally
identifiable information about your visits to our
Web sites and other Web sites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of
interest to you. If you would like to obtain more
information about the practices of some of these
network advertisers and to make choices about
their use of your information. Finally, please
keep in mind that if you click on an
advertisement on one of our Web sites and link to
a third party's Web site, then our Privacy Policy
will not apply to your personally identifiable
information collected on that third party's Web
site and you must read the privacy policy posted
on that site to see how your personally
identifiable information will be handled.
Information That We Collect from
Others
We may update and supplement personally
identifiable information that we have collected
directly from our guests with other information
that we obtain from third parties and other
members of DigiPowers Inc. . In addition, we may
obtain personally identifiable information about
individuals who are not yet users of our Web
sites or guests of DigiPowers Inc. . In addition,
when we associate information that we obtain from
third parties or other members of DigiPowers Inc.
with personally
identifiable information that we have collected
under this Privacy Policy, we will treat the
acquired information like the information that we
collected ourselves and, except as permitted by
this Privacy Policy, the information will not be
shared with third parties.
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Q3.
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How is your personally identifiable information
used and shared?
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A3.
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As described in detail below, DigiPowers Inc.
may use your
personally identifiable information in many ways,
including sending you promotional materials, and
sharing your information with third parties so
that these third parties can send you promotional
materials. (By "promotional materials," we mean
communications that directly promote the use of
Web sites, or the purchase of products or
services.) As outlined below in A4, you may "opt
out" of certain uses of your personal
information.
General Provisions for Sharing and Use by
DigiPowers Inc. , Licensees and Co-Branding
Participants
Personally identifiable information collected
under this Privacy Policy is shared among and
used by DigiPowers Inc. for many purposes. For example,
DigiPowers Inc. may
use your personal information to send you
promotional materials about goods and services
(including special offers and promotions) either
offered by DigiPowers Inc. or offered by third parties.
These promotional materials may be sent to you by
postal mail, e-mail or other means. You may opt
out of receiving these communications as provided
in A4 below. Please keep in mind, however, that
when you purchase or request products or services
(or information about products or services) from
a particular member of DigiPowers Inc. ,
promotional materials about goods and services
offered by another member of DigiPowers Inc.
and/or by a third
party may accompany delivery of the product,
service or information that you have requested.
We refer to sending you promotional materials in
these circumstances as "Fulfillment Uses" of your
personal information. Because these promotional
materials accompany products, services or
information that you have requested, your
opt-outs for Individual
DigiPowers
Inc. websites and
Third Parties under A4 below will not apply to
any of these Fulfillment Uses.
DigiPowers Inc. may
also use your personal information for many
purposes other than sending you promotional
materials. (We refer to all of these types of
uses of your personal information that do not
involve the sending of promotional materials as
"Operational Uses.") For example, we may use your
information to complete transactions requested by
you (such as your purchase of a product or
service offered on our Web sites), or to send you
administrative communications either about your
account with us or about features of our Web
sites, including any future changes to this
Privacy Policy. As another example of Operational
Uses, we may share your personal so that the
reservations center operators are able to respond
immediately to your questions or requests when
you call, rather than asking you to provide your
information a second time. Because these uses of
your personal information do not involve sending
you promotional materials, your opt-outs under A4
below will not apply to any of these Operational
Uses.
In addition to using your personal information
within DigiPowers Inc. , DigiPowers Inc.
may share your
personal information with companies that offer
products and/or services under brand names or
using characters or other intellectual property
of DigiPowers Inc. . These companies are called
"licensees." For example, a company that
publishes and sells books under the DigiPowers
brand would be such a
licensee. DigiPowers Inc. may also share your personal
information with companies that offer products
and/or services that are co-branded using brand
names of DigiPowers Inc. . These companies are
called "co-branding participants." When
DigiPowers Inc. shares personal information with
third parties acting as licensees and co-branding
participants, these licensees and co-branding
participants are restricted by contract from
using the personal information for any marketing
or promotional purpose that is not related to a
licensed or co-branded product or service.
Finally, to further protect your privacy, these
licensees and co-branding participants' use of
personal information shared with them under this
Privacy Policy is subject to the same opt-out
rights (and limitations upon those rights) that
apply to use of personal information by members
of DigiPowers Inc. under A4 below.
Finally, DigiPowers Inc. may take your personally
identifiable information and make it
non-personally identifiable, either by combining
it with information about other individuals
(aggregating your information with information
about other individuals), or by removing
characteristics (such as your name) that make the
information personally identifiable to you
(de-personalizing your information). Given the
nature of this information, there are no
restrictions under this Privacy Policy upon the
right of DigiPowers Inc. to aggregate or de-personalize
your personal information, and DigiPowers Inc.
may use and/or share
with third parties the resulting non-personally
identifiable information in any way.
Non-Registered Transactions with DigiPowers
Inc.
You may engage in some transactions on our Web
sites without registering and logging on the Web
sites. These transactions may include purchasing
products and services, entering contests and
sweepstakes, and requesting special promotional
materials such as catalogs, vacation planning
kits, coupons and reminder e-mails. These
transactions may be either with us or with other
members of DigiPowers Inc. . (We refer to all of
these transactions that you engage in without
registering and logging on our Web sites as
"Non-Registered Transactions.") An example of a
Non-Registered Transaction would be when you
purchase items from partner shopping sites
without registering and logging on that Web site.
The following paragraphs of this "Non-Registered
Transactions with DigiPowers Inc. " section
describe the special provisions of this Privacy
Policy that apply to Non-Registered
Transactions.
When you engage in a Non-Registered Transaction
with a member of DigiPowers Inc. : (a) personal
information that you provide during your
transaction will not be shared with any third
party, and (b) you will have the opportunity to
opt out (as described in A4 below) of allowing
personal information that you provide during your
transaction to be used by members of DigiPowers
Inc. to send their
promotional materials to you. If you permit
members of DigiPowers Inc. to send you promotional
materials, you may withdraw the permission (i)
during a subsequent Non-Registered Transaction.
If you withdraw a permission and subsequently
engage in another Non-Registered Transaction, you
again may grant permission at the time of that
transaction to allow members of DigiPowers Inc.
to send their
promotional materials to you. In some instances,
if you grant a permission and subsequently
withdraw that permission within 30 days (or you
withdraw a permission and subsequently grant a
new permission within 30 days), your subsequent
action may be disregarded. Therefore, to be
certain that any modification of your permission
status will be effective, please wait 30 days
before making any such modification.
If you withdraw a permission by following the
procedures described in the previous paragraph,
it may take up to thirty (30) days (unless a
shorter time period is required by applicable
law) for members of DigiPowers Inc. to stop sharing your personal
information for promotional purposes with other
members of DigiPowers Inc. . In addition, it may
take up to ninety (90) days (unless a shorter
time period is required by applicable law) for
members of DigiPowers Inc. to stop using your personal
information for promotional purposes. Finally,
please keep in mind that, if you have not
consistently used the same postal and email
addresses on our Web sites, or if you have used a
general change of address process (such as the
change of address process offered by the U.S.
Post Office) after providing address information
on our Web sites, systems maintained by members
of DigiPowers Inc. may have varying contact
information for you. Accordingly, it may not
always be possible to match your new opt-out
choices with your personal information that you
previously have provided.
In addition, please note that A4 of this Privacy
Policy describes various exceptions that apply to
opt-out choices you may make, and these
exceptions apply to any choices that you make
regarding the use of your personal information
that you provide during Non-Registered
Transactions.
Finally, please remember that the opt-out choices
that you make during Non-Registered Transactions
will not affect the opt-out choices that you make
while registered and logged on to our Web sites,
and the opt-out choices that you make while
registered and logged on to our Web sites will
not affect the opt-out choices that you make
during Non-Registered Transactions.
Third Parties Offering Promotions, Products,
or Services
Subject to your opt-out choices (see A4 below),
DigiPowers Inc. may
share your personal information with selected
third parties so that they can send you
promotional materials about goods and services
(including special offers and promotions) offered
by them. (We call this type of sharing
"promotional sharing" or sharing for "promotional
purposes.") When sharing your information for
promotional purposes, DigiPowers Inc.
attempts to select
only reputable companies that offer high quality
products and services. Moreover, DigiPowers Inc.
will not share your
e-mail address with third parties for promotional
purposes, except when you consent to such sharing
in the course of your participation in a
Sponsored Activity as described below. When
DigiPowers Inc. shares your personal information
with a third party under any circumstance
described in this "Third Parties Offering
Promotions, Products, or Services" section, your
personal information will become permanently
subject to the information use and sharing
practices of the third party, and the third party
will not be restricted by this Privacy Policy
with respect to its use and further sharing of
your personal information.
In addition to the promotional sharing that is
subject to your opt-out choices under A4 below,
DigiPowers Inc. may
also share your information when you engage in
certain activities on our sites that are
sponsored by third parties, such as purchasing
products or services offered by a third party,
electing to receive information or communications
from a third party, or electing to participate in
contests, sweepstakes, games or other programs
sponsored in whole or in part by a third party.
DigiPowers Inc. may
also share your personal information when you
respond to promotional materials from DigiPowers
Inc. and authorize a
third party to use your personal information for
purposes such as, for example, sending you
additional promotional materials, providing you a
product or service, or entering you in a contest,
sweepstakes or game. (We refer to all of these
activities and requests as "Sponsored
Activities.") When you participate in Sponsored
Activities, you will either be required or
requested to agree that the sponsor or business
associate may use your personal information
(including, in some cases, your e-mail address)
in accordance with the sponsor or business
associate's privacy practices. Since you will
have consented to this specific instance of
sharing of your personal information, the opt-out
choice for "Third Parties" described in A4 below
will not apply.
Companies That Facilitate Communications and
Transactions with You
Sometimes DigiPowers Inc. hires companies to help provide
products or services, like a shipping company
that delivers a package or a company that helps
fulfill prizes for a sweepstakes. In those
instances, there is a need to share your
information with these companies. Sometimes
DigiPowers Inc. also
works with other companies who help either gather
your information or communicate with you, such as
a company that helps to provide customer service.
Your opt-out choices under A4 below will not
apply to sharing by DigiPowers Inc. of your personal information with
any of these companies. Nonetheless, except as
separately permitted by other provisions of this
Privacy Policy, these companies are allowed to
gather, receive, and use your information only
for the purposes described in this paragraph or
to facilitate compliance with laws.
Purchase or Sale of Businesses
From time to time, we may purchase a business or
sell one or more of our businesses (or portions
thereof) and your personally identifiable
information may be transferred as a part of the
purchase or sale. In the event that we purchase a
business, the personally identifiable information
received with that business would be treated in
accordance with this Privacy Policy, if it is
practicable and permissible to do so. In the
event that we sell a business, we will include
provisions in the selling contract requiring the
purchaser to treat your personally identifiable
information in the same manner required by this
Privacy Policy (including any amendments to this
Privacy Policy). In light of this protection,
your opt-out choices under A4 will not affect our
right to transfer your information to a purchaser
in these circumstances. The provisions of this
paragraph will also apply in the event that one
or more businesses of any other member of
DigiPowers Inc. are
sold and personal information subject to this
Privacy Policy is transferred to a purchaser of
those businesses.
Disclosures to Comply With Laws and
Disclosures to Help Protect the Security and
Safety of Our Web Sites, DigiPowers Inc.
and Others
Regardless of any opt-out choices that you make
under A4, DigiPowers will disclose personal
information when it believes in good faith that
such disclosures (a) facilitate compliance with
laws, including, for example, compliance with a
court order or subpoena, or (b) will help to:
enforce our Terms of Use; enforce contest,
sweepstakes, promotions, and/or game rules;
protect your safety or security, including the
safety and security of property that belongs to
you; and/or, protect the safety and security of
our Web sites.
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Q4.
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What choices do you have about the collection,
use, and sharing of your personally identifiable
information?
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A4.
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With regard to personal information that you have
provided under this Privacy Policy, there are
three separate opt-out choices available to you.
These opt-out choices are the means by which you
give us, or decline to give us, your consent to
use your personal information for the purposes
covered by these opt-out choices. Some of our
partner Web sites may not present you all opt-out
choices described below. Please be assured,
however, that if any one of these opt-out choices
is not presented to you on a Web site, then
personal information collected from you on that
site will not be used for the purposes covered by
that opt-out choice. There are several methods by
which you can exercise your opt-out choices: (a)
during the registration process on our Web sites;
(b) after registration, by logging on our Web
sites, clicking on our Privacy Policy links,
going to a site's Guest Services center
(sometimes called a site's "Member Services" or
"Preference" center), and following the opt-out
directions; and (c) as described below in A6.
Each of these opt-out choices is subject to the
exceptions described further below in this
A4.
Your opt-out choices are:
Third Parties: You may choose to opt out
of receiving promotional materials from third
parties. If you do not choose this opt-out,
DigiPowers Inc. may
share your personal information so that third
parties can send you these promotional materials.
Your opt-out choices for third parties generally
are specific to the particular Web sites where
you make these choices. Thus, if you want to opt
out of all uses of your personal information
covered by the "Third Parties" opt-out, you must
consistently elect that opt-out at each of our
Web sites either when you register or when you
log in and visit that Web site's Guest Services
center. If you want to make a change in your
"Third Parties" opt-out choices, you will need to
make that change at each of our Web sites where
you previously made a different choice. Please
bear in mind that this opt-out choice for "Third
Parties" will not apply to the licensees and
co-branding participants described above in
A3.
In addition, any time that we send you
promotional materials that you have consented to
receive under one of the previously described
opt-out choices, we may accompany those materials
with promotional materials covered by the other
opt-out choices. We may do so even if you have
opted out of receiving promotional materials
covered by those other opt-out choices. For
example, if you consent to receive promotional
materials from partner shopping sites then those
materials may be accompanied by promotional
materials from another member of DigiPowers Inc.
or a third party,
even if you have opted out of receiving
promotional materials from that member of
DigiPowers Inc. or
from third parties. Any such additional
promotional materials, however, will constitute
only a minor part of any particular communication
with you.
Finally, if you do not exercise your opt-out
choices upon registration or initial log-in at
our Web sites, it may take up to ninety (90) days
for your opt-out choices to be fully effective.
Our systems require time to update, and
promotional mailings using your personal
information shared before your opt-out may
already be in process. Finally, please keep in
mind that, if you have not consistently used the
same postal and email addresses on our Web sites,
or if you have used a general change of address
process (such as the change of address process
offered by the U.S. Post Office) after providing
address information on our Web sites.
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Q5.
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What kinds of security measures do we take to
safeguard your personally identifiable
information?
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A5.
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The security and confidentiality of your
information is extremely important to us. We have
implemented technical, administrative, and
physical security measures to protect guest
information from unauthorized access and improper
use. From time to time, we review our security
procedures in order to consider appropriate new
technology and methods. Please be aware though
that, despite our best efforts, no security
measures are perfect or impenetrable.
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Q6.
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How can you update your contact information and
opt out choices?
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A6.
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You can access and update the contact information
you gave us during registration (that is, your
postal address, e-mail address, or any other
information that would directly enable us to
contact you), or modify your opt-out choices, by
going to our member services centers. Please
include information in the e-mail that will help
us identify your account so we can assist you
with your request. We may also provide you an
opportunity to update your contact information
and/or modify your opt-out choices by sending you
an e-mail or other communication that invites
your response. Finally, you may unsubscribe from
certain e-mail communications by clicking on
unsubscribe links in those e-mails.
In some cases, your account may expire or be
terminated under our Terms of Use. If so, you may
contact Member Services at the address in A7
below to update your information and opt-out
choices (to the extent that we still retain
them).
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Q7.
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How can you ask questions, or send us comments,
about this Privacy Policy?
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A7.
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If you have questions or wish to send us comments
about this Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail
with your questions or comments to
support@DigiPowerscorp.com
Please be assured that any personal information
that you provide in communications to the above
e-mail and postal mail addresses will not be used
to send you promotional materials, unless you so
request.
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Q8.
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How will you know if we amend this Privacy
Policy?
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A8.
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