Privacy Policy (9-24-2008)
Sites Subject to this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how mightgreenback.com. and its affiliates will treat the personal information received about you when you visit mightgreenback.com (hereafter referred to as the “Services”).
The Services also may include links to third party web sites, which also have their own privacy policies. Please remember that when you visit these other web sites, even from links located on the Services, this privacy policy does not apply.
Information We Collect
Surveys: We may conduct occasional surveys and other customer research. These are entirely voluntary and you may easily decline to participate.
Web Site Usage Information: We automatically collect IP addresses and web site usage information from you when you visit the Services. This information helps us, among other things, evaluate how you use and navigate our web sites.
How We Use Information Collected
We may use information in the following ways:
- For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information including, for example, to process, validate and verify your registration.
- To send you notifications about your accounts or transactions with us and to otherwise contact you with information that we believe will be of interest to you.
- To notify you about our products, services and special offers or those of our advertisers.
- To enhance or develop features, products and services.
- To provide advertisers and other third parties with aggregate information about our user base and usage patterns.
- To personalize the content and advertising that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences.
Except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your personally identifiable, unless we tell you otherwise when we collect the information or you “opt in” to having your personally identifiable information shared with a company that is not affiliated with us. Subject to the foregoing, we may allow select companies to send you materials about their products and services.
We may combine the information that we collect from you on the Services with information that you provide to us in connection with your use of our other products, services and web sites or information we collect from third parties.
We may hire other companies to perform services including, without limitation, facilitating some aspects of the Services, sending e-mail, fulfilling purchase requests, delivering ads, and auditing. These other companies may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf.
We may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce our Terms of Service and other rights (for example, when necessary to protect our intellectual property rights) or when we, in our sole discretion, believe it is necessary or appropriate in connection with or as the result of a change in ownership of all or a portion of the Services as the result of a merger, acquisition or transfer to another company. We also may disclose or use your personal information when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so.
Your Ability to Choose
We offer you the opportunity to choose whether to receive certain communications – both when you give us your personally identifiable information and as set out below. Please note that if you have registered more than one email address with us, you must update your preferences for each email address separately.
While we strive to process your requests as quickly as possible, please allow for reasonable time for us to process any updates to your preferences. Also, please note that we may send you certain communications relating to your membership accounts, such as transaction confirmations and other administrative messages, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
Review and Correction
You may review and update the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us by contacting Customer Service at customerservice@mightygreenback.com.
While we strive to process your requests as quickly as possible, please allow for reasonable time for us to process your updates.
Cookies
We may employ cookie technology to, among other things, allow you to move quickly through our Services, facilitate the login processes and allow you to personalize and store your settings. We may also use cookies to collect site usage information, estimate our total audience size and traffic, and help us improve our sites’ experiences by measuring which areas are of greatest interest to users.
You can turn off the ability to receive any of these cookies by adjusting the browser in your computer. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Without cookies you can visit our Services and read some articles, but you will not be able to use the products or services that require you to sign in and you may not be able to take full advantage of some of the useful and convenient features, such as saving and accessing your customized news and portfolio settings and other personalized options.
Other cookies that you may receive during your sessions here are from third-party service providers or third-party ad servers. Third-party ad servers collect and use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to the Services and other web sites in order to present advertisements that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice or to opt out of having this information used by third-party ad servers that are part of the Network Advertising Initiative to provide targeted ads, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp. Among the other ad servers who may serve ads on our site from time to time and whose sites you may visit are: Kanoodle, Unicast, Mediaplex, Pointroll, Eyeblaster, Unitedvirtualities, Eyewonder, Centerpoint.
Ads for the Services
When you view an ad for the Services on other sites, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. The Services and our advertising company may also use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) to note which pages you visit after viewing our ads. The information that is collected through the use of these images is not personally identifiable and is used only to track response to our advertising efforts.
Third Party Information
If you choose to use our service to send a story to a friend, we will ask you for your email address and your friend’s email address in order to fulfill your request and let the recipient know who sent the story.
Data Retention
We retain your information for as long as necessary to permit us to use it for the purposes that we have communicated to you and comply with applicable law or regulations.
Transfer to U.S. or Other Countries
Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country and by using the Services, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your country.
Policy Modifications
changes to this Privacy Policy may take place without notification. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy to review the most current version. The date of the most current revision will be posted at the top of the page.
Questions, Comments and Concerns
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us at customerservice@mightygreenback.com
