AFFILIATEFUEL.COM
PRIVACY
POLICY
Revised:
This Privacy Policy covers this AffiliateFuel.com Web site, which is owned and operated by Affiliate Fuel Corp. ("Affiliate Fuel," "We," "Us," or "Our").
Before you submit any information to Our Web site, please read this Privacy Policy for an explanation of how We will handle your information. By using any part of Our Web site, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use Our Web site.
WHAT
IS OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU?
We are sensitive to your privacy concerns, and
are committed to letting you know what Information is being collected on Our
Web site, how the Information is being used and what choices you have regarding
the collection and use of the Information. Please take a moment to review this
Privacy Policy and contact Us with any questions at 
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PRIVACY
POLICY CHANGES
We reserve the right to change this Privacy
Policy at any time. You agree to this Privacy Policy, and any changes to the
same, by visiting this Web site. Therefore, We encourage you to review this Web
site from time to time to review changes to Our Privacy Policy.
WHAT TYPES OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND WHY?
We gather personally identifiable
information that you expressly provide when you enter information into a form
on Our Web site including, without limitation, your name, mailing address, e-mail
address, and other unique personal identifiers (e.g., date of birth) (“Personal
Information”). If you choose not to provide the requested Personal Information,
We may not be able to offer you personalized services that require such
information.
We also collect
anonymous information, which includes any information that is not tied to your Personal
Information, such as your IP address (“Anonymous Information”). You are not
required to register on Our Web site in order for Us to collect Anonymous
Information about you. In addition, We may
receive information about you from other sources including, but not limited to,
service providers for tracking and marketing purposes (“Source Information”). Source
Information may consist of referral data or the Web site you were previously
visiting prior to visiting Our Web site; and information related to the browser
and/or platform you are using to access Our Web site. Personal Information,
Anonymous Information, and Source Information are collectively referred
hereinafter as “Information.”
In addition to the Information
that you provide to Us or that We obtain about you, We will also collect
certain information arising out of your use of Our Web site, or augment the
data We collect with other information from other online or offline sources. We
use “cookies" and the Information to enhance your experience and present
you with personalized offers. Likewise, We may use third-party advertising
companies to serve and track advertisements appearing on Our Web site. Such
third-party companies may employ cookies and action tags to measure advertising
effectiveness. To learn more about “cookies,” please see the section below
titled “Cookies and Web Bugs.”
We collect Information
about you to (a) provide products, programs, and services that you have
requested; (b) operate and improve the features, offerings and content
presented to you by Us and Our affiliated companies, successors, and assigns; (c)
personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; (d) communicate
with you and respond to your inquiries; (e) conduct research about your use of
the features, offerings and content from Us, Our parent or sister companies and
partners; (f) provide product improvement; (g) “pre-populate” forms; (h) provide
you with advertising targeted to your preferences; and (i) help offer you other
products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you. We also reserve
the right to collect and reuse Information about you for marketing purposes.
We reserve the right to
collect Information about you and store it in connection with other online or
offline information We may possess or obtain about you. Such information may
include, without limitation, information about the different sites that you
visit on the Internet, the time and frequency at which you visit them, and the
content that you transmit or post on other Web sites.
WITH
WHOM WILL THE INFORMATION BE SHARED?
We may share Information about you with other
people or nonaffiliated companies or for particular purposes including, without
limitation, the purposes described below. In all cases, you may opt-out of
sharing your Information with such providers by choosing not to use or register
for that service or content. Please see “Offering You Choices-Marketing
Options” below for information on how to opt-out of sharing your Information.
Products or Service Requests - If you submit a request for a product or service on Our Web site, We will share Information about you contained in the request form with Our business partners to process and fulfill your request. Our business partners may contact you by telephone, e-mail, or mail based on the Information you provided to Us, even if you have opted into the National Do Not Call List administered by the Federal Trade Commission, any state equivalent Do Not Call List, or the Do Not Call List of a specific company. If one of Our business partners contacts you by telephone and you wish not to be contacted again by that business partner with respect to your inquiry, then you should specifically make a request to that partner not to contact you again.
Service Providers - We may disclose Information
about you to companies that host certain services for Us, such as marketing
distribution or credit card processing services. Our service providers use the Information
received from Us solely for the purposes of providing you with the products you
requested.
In select circumstances, We may also share aggregate order information with
third parties and business partners.
Sweepstakes
or Promotions:
We may run promotions and/or sweepstakes. Such promotions and sweepstakes may
be sponsored or co-sponsored by third-party companies. Information about you
collected during a promotion or sweepstakes is shared with the sponsor or
co-sponsor unless you opt-out of sharing Information with such parties. Please
see “Offering You Choices-Marketing Options” below for information on how to
opt-out of sharing your Information.
Subsidiaries,
Parent, or Sister Companies: We may share Information about you with Our
subsidiaries, sister companies, parent company, successors, and assigns unless you
opt-out of sharing Information with such parties. Please see “Offering You
Choices-Marketing Options” below for information on how to opt-out of sharing
your Information.
Non-Affiliated Companies: We do not share Information with any non-affiliated third parties except: (1) in select circumstances when Our business partner refers you to Us and you give Us permission to share specific Information, such as your name and email address, with such business partner on your order form, or (2) when Our business partner provides a product or service that We feel may be of interest to you.
Required by Law: We may also share Information about you as permitted or required by law including, without limitation, inquires by law enforcement or to comply with Federal laws including, without limitation, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (“CAN-SPAM Act of 2003”).
OFFERING
YOU CHOICES - MARKETING OPTIONS
You have choices when it comes to learning about
new offers or services. If you do not wish to receive offers of products or
services from Us, Our sister companies, or partners, here are the methods you may
employ to opt-out:
E-mail Opt-out Options: Each marketing e-mail We send includes instructions and an opt-out link.
Refusing
Cookies:
Subject to the section below pertaining to cookies and web bugs, you have the
ability to prohibit being served an advertisement based on cookie technology.
We utilize reputable third-party vendors to serve advertisements. If however,
you are not comfortable with cookies, you can adjust the settings within your
browser to further prohibit being served a cookie. Please see the browser’s
instructions to perform this task.
The National Advertising Initiative (NAI) has
developed an opt-out tool with the express purpose of allowing consumers to
"opt-out" of the targeted advertising delivered by its member
networks. You can visit the NAI opt-out page and opt-out of this cookie
tracking. Please visit: http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
Other Options: If you would
like to opt-out of Our promotional marketing, and would like to contact Us,
please send Us an e-mail at .
Please note that suppressed contact information will not be used for any other purpose except to ensure compliance with your opt-out request and to comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and any other applicable state and/or Federal laws regarding your choices when it comes to commercial marketing.
COOKIES
AND WEB BUGS
A cookie is a small piece of information that
many Web sites use to help make shopping online easier. The information is
stored on your computer’s hard drive and provides a number of conveniences for
you. We may set and access cookies on your computer to provide you with
customized content and to assist in providing the services that you have
requested. Most cookies are "session cookies," which automatically
delete themselves from your hard drive after each session. Like many Web sites,
We may automatically track information based upon your behavior on Our Web sites.
We may combine information that We obtain through the use of cookies with
Personal Information, other aggregate or anonymous data, including a unique ID We
may assign you. As described above, We use this information for research
purposes to better understand, protect and service Our customers. The
information We track may include such information as browser type, Internet
service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp,
IP address and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer Our Web sites,
track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use.
If you want to prevent a third-party advertising
network from setting and/or reading cookies on your computer, you may wish to
alter the cookie settings within your browser. Please see “Offering You
Choices-Marketing Options” above for information on how to opt-out of sharing
your Information.
DOES
THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY TO OTHER WEB SITES?
Our Web site may contain links to non-Affiliate Fuel Web sites. We believe such other Web sites share a similar commitment to consumer privacy and urge you to review their privacy policy when visiting their Web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of other Web sites.
HOW
DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
We maintain electronic and procedural safeguards
designed to protect your Information. We protect Information about you over the
Internet by using a secure web server, which allows web browser programs (such
as Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer) to interact with Our web server via
an encrypted session. We employ a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection that
provides an encrypted connection between your computer and Us. The 128 bit
encrypted connection scrambles ordinary text or data into cyphertext to
safeguard sensitive information during its journey across the Internet. The
information is decrypted, or put back into a readable format, when it reaches
its intended destination. Depending on which browser you use, you will know you
are in secured area by "https" or a lock appearing in the lower right
hand corner of your browser window. When you visit Our Web site, you may move
in and out of secured areas.
TRANSFERABILITY
OF INFORMATION
Information collected in accordance with this
Privacy Policy by Us may be stored and processed within the
In the event that We are acquired or merge with
another company, or upon a sale of all or portion of Our assets, Information about
you will be among the assets transferred to the new company. The new company
may handle such Information in accordance with its own policies and procedures
and not in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
A
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING PEOPLE UNDER 18 YEARS OLD
Individuals under the age of eighteen (18) should
not send any Information to Us. Each time you access Our Web site or purchase a
product or service from Us, or provide Information about yourself or anyone
else, you are representing to Us that you are eighteen (18) years or older.
CONTACTING AFFILIATE FUEL. If you have
questions about Our Privacy Policy, please contact .