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eTurboNews, Inc (eTN)
publishes
this Internet Privacy Policy to inform you of our practices concerning
the collection and use of information you provide us through
interactions with this website and the other eTN-affiliated websites.
This policy is not applicable to information gathered by other methods
or controlled by other agreements.
How We
Collect Information
eTN collects
personal information in a variety of ways, including when you register
with eTN on this website, when you subscribe to eTN services
through this website, when you use eTN products or services via the
website, when you visit eTN websites or the websites of certain eTN
partners, and when you enter Internet-based promotions or sweepstakes
sponsored or administered by eTN.
User
Registration
When you
register on our website, we ask for and collect information such as your
name, email address, zip code, and industry. For some products and
services we may also ask for your address and information about you or
your business’s assets or income. Once you register with eTN and sign in
to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
e-letters
Users may
elect to participate in a variety of eTN e-letters (email services),
ranging from daily news to supplier hot specials. eTN collects personal
information in connection with the registration for and use of such
services.
Contests
Users may
elect to participate in promotions and/or promotional contests that eTN
conducts from time to time on behalf of its clients. eTN collects
personal information in connection with user registration for and
participation in such promotions and contests.
Educational Programs and Seminars
Users may
elect to participate in educational programs and seminars that eTN
conducts from time to time. eTN collects personal information in
connection with user registration for and participation in such
programs.
Cookies
“Cookies”
are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your
computer’s hard drive. eTN or its advertisers may send a cookie to your
computer through your browser. eTN uses cookies to track page requests
and the duration of each user’s visit and the use of cookies allows us
to provide a user’s browser with information tailored to the visitor’s
preferences and needs and to also streamline the user’s visits to our
website. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the
settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all
cookies or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent.
If you choose not to accept cookies, your experience at our website and
other websites may be diminished and some
features may not work as intended.
IP
Addresses
eTN
automatically receives and records information on our server logs from
your browser, including your IP address, eTN cookie information, and the
website page you request. eTN uses this information to help diagnose
problems with our servers, for system administration, and to examine our
website traffic in aggregate. The information may be collected and used
to improve the content of our Web pages and to customize content and/or
layout for each user.
Purchases
If you are
purchasing something from an eTN website, we need to know personally
identifiable information such as your name, email address, mailing
address, credit card number, and expiration date. This allows us to
process and fulfill your order and to notify you of your order status.
This information may also be used by eTN to notify you of related
products and services. Credit card information will not be shared or
sold to unaffiliated third parties for any purpose without your express
permission, except as necessary to process the transaction.
Use of
Information
If you elect
to provide us personal information, we use it primarily to deliver the
service you requested. eTN may use personal information in a variety of
ways including the following:
o
eTN may use personal information to collected
through its website to send out targeted email promotions on behalf of
its advertisers and industry partners.
o
eTN may combine information about you that we have with
information we obtain from business partners or other companies in order
to better deliver products and services that may be of interest and
benefit to you.
o
eTN may use personal information to contact users regarding
renewing subscriptions to eTN services and products.
o
eTN may use personally identifiable information to send
notification of eTN’s or our partners’
products and services by such methods as email and/or postal mail.
o
If you provide financial information, we use that information
primarily to verify your credit and collect payments for your purchases,
orders, subscriptions, etc.
o
eTN may send product announcements or special edition e-letters
to online registrants.
o
If you participate in an eTN educational program, seminar, or
other time-sensitive program, we may contact you to remind you of
upcoming deadlines or additional information concerning these programs.
o
eTN occasionally conducts subscriber and/or user surveys to
better target our content to our audiences. The aggregated information
collected is sometimes shared with our advertisers,
however, we will do not share specific individual information with a
third-party.
o
eTN operates several websites featuring its travel-related
content and services. eTN may share personal information collected from
users of its websites internally across these websites to better serve
its users.
eTN has
numerous products and services and therefore numerous email and
promotion lists. In an effort to allow users to tailor their
participation in eTN services and promotions, eTN provides users the
ability to choose specific lists or products of interest and opt-out
options are product and use/list specific. All email promotions sent
from eTN provide an opt-out link at the bottom of the email pursuant to
which users can opt-out of specific products and promotions. If you
receive one of these emails and wish to unsubscribe please follow the
instructions given in each email or contact
subscription@eturbonews.com
From time to
time we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not
previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information practices
change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our
website.
Sharing
of Information Collected With Third Parties
In general,
eTN does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with
other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or
services you have requested, when we have your permission, or under the
following circumstances:
o
We may provide personal information about our users to trusted
partners and vendors who work on behalf of or with eTN under
confidentiality and similar agreements prohibiting such parties’ further
use of the information. These companies may use your personal
information to help eTN communicate with you about offers from eTN and
our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any
independent right to use or share this information.
o
When you register for an educational program, contest, or other
promotion that is sponsored by a third party, the third party will be
provided personally identifiable information unless otherwise posted in
connection with the promotion.
o
eTN may from time to time share personal
information such as email addresses with trusted third parties who
deliver content that is likely to be of interest to the user and subject
to opt-out obligation on the part of such third party.
o
We may share personal information where we have a good faith
belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial
proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on eTN, or to
establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
o
We may share such information where we have a good faith belief
that it is necessary in order to investigate (or assist in the
investigation of), prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical
safety of any person, violations of eTN's
terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
o
If eTN is acquired by or merged with another company, we will
transfer information about you to this other company in connection with
the acquisition or merger.
Discussion Groups
Email
discussion groups are available for our users on some of our websites.
Participants should be aware that information disclosed in these
discussion lists is made available to all members and thus becomes
public information. We suggest that you exercise caution when deciding
to disclose any personal information in such discussion groups.
Security
This website
takes commercially reasonable precautions to protect your personal
information. When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive
information such as credit card and payment information, we re-direct
users to industry standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encrypted servers.
As a result, sensitive data you submit to our website such as credit
card and payment information is transmitted securely over the Internet.
Disclaimers
eTN is not
responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third
parties that receive the information. eTN also links to a wide variety
of other sites and contains advertisements of third parties. We are not
responsible for their privacy policies or how they treat information
about their users.
About
Children's Privacy
This eTN
website is not intended for use by children and eTN does not knowingly
collect information from children. You must be 18 years old to access or
use this site.
Update/Change Your Data
To update
your email address or change your email preferences please contact
subscription@eturbonews.com
Changes
to this Privacy Policy
eTN reserves
the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or
modify this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update or
modification on the website. Any such change, update or modification
will be effective immediately upon positing on the website. Users will
be informed of changes to this Privacy Policy via the “updated as of”
link on the eTN website.
What Else
Should I Know About My Privacy When Online?
The eTN
website contains many hyperlinks to other websites. The eTN website also
contains advertisements of third parties. eTN is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such third party websites or
advertisers. eTN does not share any of the individual personal
information you provide eTN with the websites to which eTN links, except
as stated elsewhere within this Privacy Policy, although eTN may share
aggregate data with such websites (such as how many people use our
Site).
Please check
with those third party sites to determine their privacy policy. When eTN
embeds third party content into one of it's
eTN web pages, eTN will use reasonable efforts to advise our users that
they have exited an eTN operated website and are entering a third party
controlled website. Customers/users should read and understand any
privacy policy noted on all third party websites.
Please keep
in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information
online - for example through email, discussion lists, or elsewhere -
that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you
post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you
may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately,
you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal
information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.
Your California Privacy Rights
Under a
provision of California law, a California resident who has provided
personal information to a business with whom he/she has established a
business relationship for personal, family, or household purposes
("California customer") is entitled to request information about whether
the business has disclosed personal information to any third parties for
the third parties' direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, the law
provides that if the company has a privacy policy that gives either an
opt-out or opt-in choice for use of your personal information by third
parties for marketing purposes, the company may instead provide you with
information on how to exercise your disclosure choice options.
Because
this Site is intended for use on a business-to-business basis, this
provision of California law will not apply, in most cases, to the
information collected.
To the
extent an California resident using this Site for personal, family, or
household purposes seeks information covered the law, this Site
qualifies for the alternative option. As stated in our Privacy Policy,
users of the Site may opt-out or opt-in to the use of your personal
information by third parties. Therefore, we are not required to maintain
or disclose a list of the third parties that received your personal
information during the preceding year for marketing purposes. To prevent
disclosure of your personal information for use in direct marketing by a
third party, do not opt-in to such use when you provide personal
information on the Site. Please note that whenever you opt-in to receive
future communications from a third party, your information will be
subject to the third party's privacy policy. If you later decide that
you do not want that third party to use your information, you will need
to contact the third party directly, as we have no control over how
third parties use information. You should always review the privacy
policy of any party that collects your information to determine how that
entity will handle your information.
California residents who utilize this Site for personal, family, or
household purposes may request further information about our compliance
with this law by e-mailing
subscription@eturbonews.com
You
should put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the subject
field of your email. Please note that we are only required to respond to
one request per customer each year, and we are not required to respond
to requests made by means other than through this email address.
Your
Consent To This Policy
By using our
website, you consent to the collection and use of information by eTN as
specified in this policy. Please also note that your use of the website
is governed by the eTN Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to the
terms of the Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions, please do not
use the website, products and/or services.
Please send
any questions about eTN's Privacy Policy to
publisher@eturbonews.com
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