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PersonalsTrainer.com Privacy Policy
We at Personals Trainer, LLC ("we" or "PersonalsTrainer.com") have created this
privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your personal
information and informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only
applies to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered,
on the PersonalsTrainer.com Website, and email communications between
PersonalsTrainer.com customers and employees (collectively, the "Site") but
does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between
PersonalsTrainer.com, or any other company, and consumers. Please review this
privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This privacy
policy was last revised on September 22, 2003. Each time you visit the Site or
provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices
described in this privacy policy at that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically
collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to
administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our
Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad
demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and
other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We may also
use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your
password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information
so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site. Third party
advertisers on the Site may also place cookies on your browser. If you wish to
disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will
tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not
be able to access certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about products
or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal
information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly
(without using the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or
email address), "financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords)
or "demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that we
collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information; this
may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender,
username, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history
information, searching history information, registration history information,
and the content of communications between you and other members over the Site),
subject to the rest of this paragraph.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other parties. Some
of these other Websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other
intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links
and visit these other Websites, regardless of whether or not they contain our
brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware
that we do not control these other Websites or these other Websites’ business
practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other Websites.
Consequently, the operators of these other Websites may collect different kinds
of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in
different ways than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you
to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible
for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to help us
efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your
transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not limited to,
confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with
PersonalsTrainer.com). These types of communications, are known as "Operational
Communications." In some cases, Operational Communications may also contain
commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.
We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers
and other promotional materials for PersonalsTrainer.com’s or third parties’
goods or services. We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such
as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. The Site provides
you with options to decline to receive communications from PersonalsTrainer.com
(other than those contained in Operational Communications). Some of these
options may only be for a certain category of communications; others may be
more general.
To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your
activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents,
representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with
support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email
origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management
services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We
require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services
offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive
communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to
participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount or
rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, you
consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties.
Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their
own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct
them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal
information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all
such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which
we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us.
In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with another
company in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages
of the Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these companies
are known as "Co-Branded Companies." If the page on which you submit
information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a
Co-Branded Page, then we may share your personal information with the
associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal
information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to
contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly regarding your
preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you
agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such
Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and
disclose any other information you submit to us. Some Co-Branded Pages may
contain an action tag (also known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel .gif file) that
a third party, such as the advertising company Avenue A, may use to read
cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on your browser at other
(non-PersonalsTrainer.com) web sites before your visit to PersonalsTrainer.com.
This technology is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements on such
other Websites that promote Co-Branded Pages. Further, Avenue A, or such other
third parties, may use the information collected through this technology to
learn more about your visits to this Site and other Websites in order to
provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is
authorized to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual
arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy
policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not
responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact
you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for
the use of your personal information by them.
Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases in which we
Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may
share your personal information.
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for
products and services and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and
similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase,
or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial
information, on the Site, you consent to our providing your financial
information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine
are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as well
as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may
include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and
support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making
reservations for, products or services of third parties offered on the Site, or
by participating in programs offered on the Site that are administered by third
parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use
them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those
third parties. Additionally, if the page on which you submit information is a
Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page,
then we may share your financial information with the associated Co-Branded
Company. Any of these various third parties (including Co-Branded Companies)
may be authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our
contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their
own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are
not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Additionally,
you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to
such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and
disclose any other information that you submit to us. Please read the
information below under the heading "Special Cases in which we Share Personal
and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your
financial information.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third
party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We
may also disclose personal information or financial information when we
determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to
cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of
PersonalsTrainer.com or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your
personal information or financial information to our subsidiary and parent
companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses
with whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information
or financial information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also
disclose your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis.
All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that
receive your personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous
demographic information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy
policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to
communicate with you. We may use demographic information to tailor the Site and
communications to your interests. We may also share demographic information
with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without telling
the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do this is to
increase the likelihood that our advertisers’ goods and services will appeal to
PersonalsTrainer.com’s users, so that we may target specific ads at specific
demographic groups. Our sharing of demographic information with advertisers is
anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular
PersonalsTrainer.com users are members of which demographic groups), subject to
the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however,
we ask you to remember that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic group
and you decide to give the advertiser your personal information, then the
advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic
group. Please also be aware that when we disclose your financial information or
personal information to a Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also
disclose to that Co-Branded Company your demographic information, other than
the content of one-on-one communications between you and other members. Please
also be aware that we may disclose your demographic information on a
non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph titled "Special Cases
in which we Share Personal and Financial Information." Also, to read further
details about how we may use your public information, see our Terms of Use .
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control. Our secure server software
(SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for
secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and financial
information as it travels over the Internet and we store your financial
information on our servers in encrypted form. Your information may be
transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside
of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you
reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are
located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or
jurisdiction.
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