Last Updated on August 2011
Youclickwithlitclick.com Privacy Policy
Youclickwithlitclick.com (the “Web site”) is operated by Ms. Write, LLC. (“Youclickwithlitclick.com,” “we” or “us”). We have implemented this Privacy Policy to provide our Members and other visitors to this Web site (collectively “Users”) information regarding the collection and use of Information (as defined below) that you provide to us or which is otherwise collected in the course of using this Web site (the “Web site”), and/or any goods and/or services (the “Products and Services”) accessed or purchased through the Web site, so that you can make an informed decision about your use of the Web site. Definitions set forth in the Terms and Conditions of Use for this Web site also apply to this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise defined.
Changes
Youclickwithlitclick.com may modify this Privacy Policy at any time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by Ms. Write, LLC, on the Web site. When we post modifications to the Privacy Policy, you can obtain a copy of the old Privacy Policy at the “Legal Stuff” link on this site or by e-mailing us at LegalStuff@Youclickwithlitclick.com.
The Information We Collect
Youclickwithlitclick.com collects two types of information about you on this Web site: User Information and Technical Information. Each of these types of information is defined and explained below, and “Information” refers to anything within the definition of either term.
User Information:
From time-to-time, in the course of your becoming a Member or otherwise using this Web site and your utilization of any Products and Services offered on this Web site, we may ask you to provide your name, e-mail address, telephone number, and other personal identifying and/or demographic information (collectively, “User Information”).
You should not be using this Web site if you are under 13 years of age. Do not supply to us, or disclose on the Web site, any Information of any person under 13 years of age, as we do not intend to collect Information from anyone under age 13 or invite them to use this Web site. Please check our “Commitment to Children’s Privacy” in our Youclickwithlitclick.com Privacy policy below, regarding the protection of children.
Technical Information:
Youclickwithlitclick.com uses cookies and may also use Web beacons (also known as “clear gifs”—small single-pixel image files that can be used to recognize a user’s navigation through a Web site) to collect information for record-keeping purposes and to make it easier to navigate the Web site. Cookies are small text files that are stored on Users’ computers—for more information about these and Web beacons, please see www.allaboutcookies.org. Youclickwithlitclick.com uses both “session ID cookies” and “persistent cookies.” Persistent cookies stay on your computer from one session to the next and enable Youclickwithlitclick.com to recognize you when you return to the Web site. In addition, Youclickwithlitclick.com may allow third-party cookies to be placed on your computer. Third-party cookies are similar to our own cookies, but they come from servers controlled by third parties, such as our advertisers and other partners, and are used to collect information about your use of this Web site that is used by those third parties. We do not ordinarily use or otherwise have access to the information contained in these third-party cookies. You may choose to not receive cookies, whether coming directly from Youclickwithlitclick.com or from third parties, by following instructions in your Web browser’s “help” file, but this choice may make certain features of the Web site inaccessible to you.
Youclickwithlitclick.com also collects Users’ IP addresses and basic log file information (such as browser type and language, number of clicks, domain names of Web sites visited, pages viewed, the amount of time spent on particular pages, and the date and time of visits and page views). This information, including information about cookies, is referred to as “Technical Information” in this policy. Youclickwithlitclick.com may use Technical Information (and may combine it with User Information) to help locate potential problems with our server and to improve and customize your experience on the Web site, as well as for other purposes described in the “How We Use Your Information” section of the Youclickwithlitclick.com Privacy Policy below.
How We Use Your Information
User Information: If you provide User Information to us, then we use this Information to:
- operate, maintain, provide, and improve the features and functionality of the Web site (including User memberships)
- operate, maintain, provide, and improve the features and functionality of any Products and Services (including advertising services).
- protect the rights or property of Youclickwithlitclick.com or our users
Youclickwithlitclick.com will contact you using the e-mail address you have supplied in the course of providing a particular Youclickwithlitclick.com Service that you order or request on the Web site including, among other things, notices required by law. We will also use your User Information to manage your membership if you are a Member. We may also use your e-mail address to send you other messages, if you have agreed to receive them, including messages regarding advertising, information about changes to Youclickwithlitclick.com features, and special offers. You may subsequently opt out of certain specified types of these e-mails, or specified categories of e-mails if those types of e-mails are available, by following the “Opt-Out” option in the e-mail or by contacting us at Support@Youclickwithlitclick.com; however, if you do opt out of some types of e-mails, we may not be able to properly manage your membership or timely deliver certain Products and Services that you have requested.
Technical Information: We use Technical Information, such as Web site use data and IP addresses, to improve the quality and design of the Web site and to create new features and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing your preferences and trends. We may use such information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your current or subsequent visits to the Web site; (b) provide customized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and aggregate metrics, such as total number of visitors and traffic; (d) diagnose or fix technology problems; (e) serve our internal purposes; (f) market our Web site to advertisers and other third parties; (g) track users clicking through to this Web site from promotional e-mails and other marketing materials that include links to this Web site; (h) aggregate general User statistics, including demographic and geographic information; and (i) conduct other lawful purposes, so long as your personal identity is not revealed by such use.
Our Server uses WebTrends and Webalizer to track and analyze your preferences and trends. As part of this process Youclickwithlitclick.com may also use Google Analytics to provide it with aggregated Technical Information about how Users interact with the Web site, and we may set cookies and/or use Web beacons for this purpose. The Technical Information gathered by the Google Analytics software (including any personal information about you) will be sent to Google, where it will be stored and used by Google in accordance with its Privacy Policy. Please review the Google Privacy Policy http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html or contact Google for more information.
When We Share Information
Except as expressly described in this Privacy Policy, Youclickwithlitclick.com will not share your Information with advertisers or unaffiliated third parties without first obtaining your express permission.
We may provide Information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, subcontractors, vendors/owners/providers of Products and Services, and other third parties with whom we have entered into a co-marketing, partnering, or similar cooperative commercial or strategic arrangement, so that such parties can, among other things: (a) help us to provide or perform Products and Services and/or process such Information on our behalf; (b) use the Information to offer greater functionality and enhanced services through the Web site or to provide you with additional product and service opportunities; and (c) communicate these opportunities to you. When we do this, the recipients of your Information are bound by privacy requirements that are at least as restrictive as this Privacy Policy.
We share Technical Information (such as Web site use data) with third parties to assist them in understanding our Web site, including Users’ use of our Web site and Products and Services. The Technical Information provided will not identify you by name, however.
We may release your Information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with any applicable laws or to respond to a court order, subpoena, law enforcement or regulatory request, or search warrant. We reserve the right to collect and share any Information under the following circumstances: in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; as appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use or to investigate potential or actual violations of the Terms and Conditions of Use or this Privacy Policy; to take reasonable precautions against liability; to protect the security or integrity of our Web site; or to exercise or protect the rights, property, or the personal safety of Youclickwithlitclick.com and its affiliates’ personnel, Users, or others.
We may assign or transfer the Information we collect to a third party in the event that Youclickwithlitclick.com is acquired by, or merged with, a third-party entity or in the event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or similar situation.
Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important and is mandated by applicable law, including U.S. law. For these reasons, Youclickwithlitclick.com does not knowingly collect User Information on the Web site from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our Web site is directed to persons under age 13. If you are under 13 years of age, you must not use or access the Web site at any time or in any manner or provide any information to the Web site. If your child has submitted User Information to us, please contact us at LegalStuff@Youclickwithlitclick.com or send a regular letter to Youclickwithlitclick.com, Attn: Legal Stuff, P.O. Box 234, Ridgewood, NJ 07451-0234, so that we can arrange to remove your child’s User Information from our database. While we do not collect User Information from persons under 13, User Information may include information about persons under 13, so long as that information is required in connection with the provision of any Products and Services and is provided by a parent or other person lawfully permitted to provide such information to us.
International Users
The Web site is hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the Web site from outside the United States, you are transferring your Information to the United States, and you consent to that transfer.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES TREAT YOUR INFORMATION IN A MANNER THAT MAY BE SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT FROM, AND LESS PROTECTIVE THAN, THE TREATMENT REQUIRED UNDER THE LAWS OF OTHER COUNTRIES AND JURISDICTIONS. IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED TO THE UNITED STATES, YOU SHOULD NOT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH US, OR MAKE USE OF THIS WEB SITE.
TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY THE LAW OF THE COUNTRY IN WHICH YOU ARE LOCATED, YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT YOU MAY HAVE TO REQUIRE US TO TREAT YOUR IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ANY COUNTRY OR JURISIDICTION OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES. HOWEVER, THE FOREGOING WAIVER MAY NOT BE LEGALLY BINDING IN SOME COUNTRIES, SUCH AS THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. TO THE EXTENT THAT IT IS NOT LEGALLY BINDING IN THE COUNTRY IN WHICH YOU ARE LOCATED, THE FOREGOING WAIVER DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit User Information to the Web site, in which case you may not be able to utilize all of the features and functionality of this Web site and Youclickwithlitclick.com may not be able to provide certain Products and Services to you.
Passwords
We may assign to you, or ask you to select, a password and user name in connection with your use of certain features of the Web site, or for the provision of certain Products and Services to you. You can change your password at any time by going to your Profile page, after signing in. You also may contact us at Support@Youclickwithlitclick.com. If we assign a password to you, you should change that password as soon as possible to ensure that your password is something that you will remember and that is unique to you. You acknowledge that you are responsible for protecting your password and ensuring that you do not disclose your password to others. If your password is disclosed to others, they will be able to access your User Information and otherwise interfere with your use of this Web site and any Products and Services. If you become aware that your password has been improperly disclosed or used by others, you should immediately change your password. Contact us at Support@Youclickwithlitclick.com if you believe someone is, or has been, using your user name or password for unlawful or improper purposes.
Our Commitment To Data Security
We have implemented technical and organizational measures designed to secure your Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or access and use your Information for improper purposes. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU PROVIDE YOUR USER INFORMATION AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Compromise of Your Information
In the event that your Information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, Youclickwithlitclick.com will promptly notify you in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
Notification Procedures
It is Youclickwithlitclick.com’s policy to provide notifications relating to security breaches, as well as other notifications required by law, via e-mail notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notices on our Web site, as determined by Ms. Write, LLC, in its sole discretion. Similarly, to the extent you have authorized us to do so, we provide other notifications to Users using the same alternative means. Youclickwithlitclick.com reserves the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications required by law to our Users, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.
Contact Information
Please contact us at Support@Youclickwithlitclick.com with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or the Web site.