AFFILIATEFUEL.COM
PRIVACY POLICY
Revised: June 30, 2006
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 .
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 United State of America or in any other country
in which We or Our agents maintain facilities. By using Our
Web site, you consent to any transfer of Information outside
of your country, should We find it necessary.
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.
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