Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy only covers information
collected by PossessionPoints.com, and does not cover any information collected
at any other web site. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to disclose to you
what information we may collect, how we may collect it, with whom we may share
it, and certain other matters related to such information, including the choices
you may have regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of such information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. In
addition, please review our Terms of Use, which
govern your use of PossessionPoints.com.
TYPES OF INFORMATION THAT MAY BE COLLECTED
The following are the types of information
we may collect:
Usage Information & IP Address
We may receive and store certain types of
web site usage information whenever you visit the Web Sites. For
example, we may collect the page served, the time, the source of the
request, the type of browser making the request, the preceding page
view, other similar information and your IP address. An IP address is a
number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you
access the Internet, and our computers identify your computer by its IP
address. We may associate your IP address with the personal information
you provide. When analyzed, web site usage information helps us
determine how visitors arrive at the Web Sites, what type of content is
most popular, and what type of visitors are interested in particular
kinds of content and advertising.
Information You Provide Us
When you register for our member area and
newsletter subscription we will ask you to provide us with a userid,
e-mail address, and security question and answer. The e-mail address
must be a valid address, the security question and answer can be
anything you the user chooses. Do not use your real name or the name of
any other actual person as your user name.
HOW INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED
Cookies
PossessionPoints.com
uses standard technology called
"cookies," which are small data files that are transferred to your
computer when you visit PossessionPoints.com and allow your browser to
accept cookies. Cookies automatically identify your web browser whenever
you visit, and may make navigating and using PossessionPoints.com easier
for you. Cookies may also allow third parties of PossessionPoints.com to
present to you advertising that may be of interest to you as well as
limit how often you see certain ads that may detract from your user
experience. If you do not want to allow information to be collected
through the use of cookies, you can generally opt out of providing this
information by setting your browser to reject cookies.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED
The information you provide to us may be
used to:
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Send you newsletters and/or other e-mail communications for which
you have registered;
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Contact you about PossessionPoints.com, including, without
limitation, in our discretion to notify you of changes to this
Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, or other policies that affect your use
of PossessionPoints.com;
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PossessionPoints.com does not sell or otherwise knowingly disclose
e-mail addresses of members to any third party. E-mail addresses
recorded by our credit card processor are used consistent with their
privacy policy and are not governed by this agreement;
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Confirm or fulfill an order you have made;
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Customize the advertising and content you see;
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Comply with and monitor compliance with our Terms of Use and other
applicable agreements and polices; and
Please note that information submitted to
PossessionPoints.com via a "subscriptions”, "info" or other similar
e-mail address or form will not necessarily receive a response. We will
not use the information provided to these e-mail addresses or forms to
contact you for marketing purposes unrelated to your request.
THIRD-PARTY AD SERVING & AUDIENCE AND TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT
SERVICES
PossessionPoints.com may use third party network advertisers to serve
advertisements on its web pages and may use a traffic measurement
service to analyze traffic on those pages. Network advertisers are third
parties that display advertisements based on your visits to
PossessionPoints.com and other web sites you have visited. Third-party
ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you for products and
services in which you might be interested. The advertisers, the
sponsors, and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and
access their own cookies on your computer if you choose to have cookies
enabled in your browser. These third party cookies are set to, among other things, help deliver
advertisements to you that you might be interested in, to prevent you from
seeing the same advertisements too many times and to conduct research regarding
the usefulness of certain advertisements are to you. Note that any images (or
any other parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third
party cookies may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out
the previously described activities. Third party cookies and web beacons are
governed by each third party's specific privacy policy, not this one.
Google is one of the sources of ads on our
site:
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site.
- Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads
to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the
Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content
network privacy policy.
CORRECTING/UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
PossessionPoints.com may in the future contain
web pages through which you can change your e-mail subscriptions. Currently if
you wish to change the e-mail address associated with your userid you must
contact us via e-mail at
subscriptions@possessionpoints.com. You may change or recover your password
on-line.
CONSENT TO TRANSFER
PossessionPoints.com is operated in the United States. If you are located in
the European Union, Canada
or elsewhere outside of the United States,
please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to
the United States.
By using PossessionPoints.com or providing us with your information, you consent
to this transfer.
SECURITY
PossessionPoints only collects userid’s and e-mail
addresses but it incorporates reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure
even that information. However, no data transmission over the Internet or
electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please
note that PossessionPoints.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
information you transmit to PossessionPoints.com via its Web Sites, and you do
so at your own risk.
NOTE FOR PARENTS CONCERNING PRIVACY
PossessionPoints.com is a general audience web site.
Credit card purchase is required for membership, we do not knowingly collect any
information from children younger than the age of thirteen (13) on the Web Sites
and we will delete any userid later determined to have been generated by a user
younger than thirteen (13).
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES AND YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVACY
POLICY
By using PossessionPoints.com, you acknowledge your
agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy. From time to time,
PossessionPoints may update this Privacy Policy. However, PossessionPoints will
use your personal information in a manner consistent with the Privacy Policy in
effect at the time you submitted the information, unless you consent to the new
or revised policy.