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LYNX ENTERPRISES PRODUCTIONS
INC. Privacy Policy
TABLE OF CONTENTS
· Introduction
· What Personal Information About You Do We Collect?
· Note to Parents/Children's Privacy
· Other Information We Collect
· How We Use the Information We Collect
· How to Access or Correct Your Information
· Ad Serving
· Third Party Content
· Data Security
· Consent to Transfer
· Acceptance
· Contact Us
INTRODUCTION
This web site ("Web Site") is operated by LYNX ENTERPRISES
PRODUCTIONS INC ("LEPI" or "we" or "us". This Privacy Policy
only covers information collected at our Web Sites, and does
not cover any information collected offline by LEPI (unless
specifically stated),. At LEPI, your privacy is important
to us. We provide this notice to explain our information collection
practices and the choices you have about the way your information
is collected and used. Click here for a list of
the web sites currently covered by this Privacy Policy. Your
use of this Web Site indicates to us that you have read and
accept our privacy practices, as outlined in this Privacy
Policy. In addition, please review our
Terms of Use that governs your use of this Web Site.
While on our Web Site, you may encounter links to other web
sites or online materials. For example,lynxenterprisesonline.com
contains links to web sites that may be published and maintained
by affiliates and/or related entities of LEPI, including TYKIE
FX, and FORGOTTEN WISDOM. You may also encounter links from
sponsors or partners, which linked web sites may include a
reference to LEPI or a LEPI logo as part of a co-branding
agreement. Those other web sites may set their own cookies,
collect data, and/or have their own privacy policies that
differ from this privacy policy. This Privacy Policy only
covers information collected by LEPI on this Web Site, and
we encourage you to review the privacy policy of any other
web site you visit.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any personally identifiable
information ("PII") you may disclose publicly in user forums
(such as chat rooms, message boards, or similar web pages).
PII is information that could reasonably used to identify
you personally (such as your name, address, or e-mail address).
You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose PII
on message boards, chat areas or other user forums, that information
can be collected and used by other people to send unsolicited
messages and marketing materials. Also, please be aware that
certain message boards (and similar user forums) may display
IP addresses along with the message poster's name and message.
We bear no responsibility for any action or policies of any
third parties who collect any information users may disclose
in user forums or other public areas of this Web Site.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU DO WE COLLECT?
Generally, you may browse our Web Site without providing any
PII. However, we may ask you to provide PII at various times
and places on this Web Site, such as when you register for
our services, enter a sweepstakes, subscribe to a newsletter,
complete a survey or participate in polls, message groups
or chat areas. We may also ask you to provide us with demographic
information or information regarding your interests, hobbies
or similar information. In some cases, if you chose not to
provide us with requested information, you may not be able
to access all of this Web Site or participate in all of its
features. We may combine the information we collect with information
available from other sources, including information received
from promotional partners or other third parties. We may also
provide you the opportunity to e-mail a friend an article,
electronic greeting card or other special feature from our
Web Site.
NOTE TO PARENTS/CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Protecting children's privacy is important to us. For that
reason, we do not collect or maintain information at our Web
Site from those we actually know are under 13, and no part
of our Web Site is targeted to attract anyone under 13. We
request that all visitors under 13 to our Web Site not disclose
or provide any PII. If we discover that a child under 13 has
provided us with PII, we will delete the child's PII from
our records.
OTHER INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Log Data: When you visit this Web Site, our web servers
automatically collect anonymous information that describes
how our visitors use and navigate our Web Site, and which
includes the number and frequency of visitors to each web
page and the length of their stays, as well as the anonymous
information automatically sent to us by your web browser,
such as browser type, referrer data that identifies the web
page visited prior and subsequent to visiting our Web Site,
and IP addresses. We also may determine what technology is
available through your browser in order to serve you the most
appropriate version of a web page. For example, we may determine
that you have installed a version of Flash, and we will then
send you the appropriate Flash version of the web page rather
than an HTML page.
IP Addresses: An IP address is a number that is assigned
to your computer or network when you are on the Internet.
When visitors request pages from our Web Site, our servers
log the visitor's IP address. We may collect IP addresses
for a variety of internal purposes, such as system administration,
to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to
audit the number of visits to different pages on our Web Site.
Cookies: Cookies are information files that our Web
Site may place on your computer to provide extended functionality.
We may use cookies for a number of purposes, such as tracking
usage patterns on the Web Site, measuring the effectiveness
of advertising, or limiting multiple responses and registrations
when we conduct polls and sweepstakes. We do not store any
PII in cookies, and we do not link the cookies to any PII
we collect. We will not use cookies to retrieve information
from your computer that was not originally sent by us to you
in a cookie. Advertisers or other third parties that are serving
content on some of our pages may set and access their own
cookies on your computer. Such third parties' use of cookies
is subject to their own privacy policies, which may differ
from this one. Such third parties do not have access to our
cookies.
You can, of course, disable cookies on your computer by indicating
this in the preferences or options menus in your browser.
However, it is possible that some parts of our Web Site will
not operate correctly if you disable cookies. You should consult
with your browser's provider/manufacturer if you have any
questions regarding disabling cookies.
Web Beacons: While you are on our Web Site, or while
you are otherwise viewing our content, you may encounter Web
beacons, which may come from LEPI or from third parties, such
as advertisers or content providers. A Web beacon, which is
sometimes also called a Web bug or "clear gif", is a small
graphic image in a Web page, a Web-based document or an e-mail
message, which generally allows the party that set the Web
beacon to monitor certain information about the viewer of
the Web page, Web-based document or e-mail message, and it
may allow access to certain cookies. Web beacons are usually
invisible to the user, because they are very small (generally
1-by-1 pixel). However, in general, any electronic image viewed
as part of a Web page, including an advertisement, can act
as a Web beacon. Web beacons typically collect the URL of
the page the Web beacon comes from, the type of browser requesting
the Web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the Web
beacon is sent to and the time the Web beacon was viewed.
Web beacons can also be linked to PII, but LEPI does not link
information gathered through Web beacons to PII. LEPI may
use Web beacons to count visitors to our Web pages and we
may include Web beacons in HTML-formatted e-mail newsletters
in order to count how many newsletters (or particular articles,
links, etc.) we sent were actually opened. We aggregate all
information we collect through Web beacons and we do not use
Web beacons to track any individuals' use of the Web Site.
LEPI does not have control over Web beacons used by third
parties and does not have access to whatever information they
may collect.
HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use the PII you provide about yourself to provide the information
or content you have requested, to contact you about our programs,
products, features or services or for other purposes disclosed
at the time of collection. For instance, we may send you an
email newsletter or send you information about an upcoming
promotion. If you do not wish to receive information about
our programs, products, features or services, you may update
your preferences at any time by returning to the registration
area of the Web Site or Web Sites for which you registered.
We may send you information from our corporate affiliates,
and its subsidiaries. If you do not wish to receive this information,
you may opt out of such use at any time by returning to the
registration area of the Web Site or Web Sites for which you
registered.
We use non-identifying information collected on our Web Site
in the aggregate to better understand your use of the Web
Site and to enhance your enjoyment and experience. For example,
we may use the information to improve the design and content
of our Web Site or to analyze the programs and services we
offer. We may also share non-identifying aggregate information
with third parties. For example, we may tell advertisers how
many individuals visit certain areas of our Web Site, or how
many men or women receive our newsletter.
We may share your PII with PPC and outside parties who sponsor
sweepstakes or other promotions on our Web Site. However,
we will not share your PII with outside parties unless you
specifically agree to a governing set of rules that allow
such disclosure or otherwise give us permission to do so.
We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions
on our behalf. For instance, we may use third parties to host
message boards or other user forums, to develop software applications
and databases or to send communications on our behalf. Our
employees, agents and contractors who have access to PII are
required to protect the information in a manner that is consistent
with this Privacy Policy.
We may provide access to your PII when legally required to
do so, to cooperate with police investigations or other legal
proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use
of our Web Site, to limit our legal liability and protect
our rights or to protect the rights, property or safety of
visitors of this Web Site or the public. In those instances,
the information is provided only for that purpose.
LEPI may also sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user information,
including PII, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation,
the sale of substantially all assets, or other fundamental
corporate change.
We will not share your PII in ways unrelated to those described
above without providing you with an opportunity to opt out
of such use or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
HOW TO ACCESS OR CORRECT INFORMATION OR MODIFY
YOUR CHOICES
If you visit our Web Site and volunteer PII, you may visit
the registration area of the Web Site where you will have
the opportunity to access certain of your PII, to correct
errors in such information, and to update your preferences
regarding what information you may receive from us. You will
be required to enter your user name and password before you
will have access to your information. It may take us up to
twenty-four hours to process your changes, but we will do
so as quickly as we can. You should be aware, however, that
it is not always possible to completely remove or modify information
in our databases. In addition, please be aware that your ability
to opt out from receiving marketing and promotional material
does not change our right to contact you regarding your use
of our Web Site or changes to our Privacy Policy, Terms of
Use, or other policy or terms that affect you or your use
of our Web Site.
AD SERVING
We may use a third-party advertising company to serve ads
when you visit our Web Site. This company may use information
(not including your name, address, email address or telephone
number) about your visits to our and other web sites in order
to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest
to you. We share web site usage information about visitors
to our Web Site with this company for the purpose of managing
and targeting advertisements and for market research analysis
on our Web Site and other web sites. For these purposes, we
or our third-party advertising company may note some of the
pages you visit on our Web Site through the use of Web beacons.
In the course of serving advertisements to our Web Site, our
third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie
on your computer. Our third-party advertiser's use of cookies
is subject to its own privacy policy, which may differ from
this one. Our third-party advertiser does not have access
to our cookies. If you would like more information about the
information collection practices of this third-party advertising
company and to know your choices about not having this information
used by this company, click here.
THIRD PARTY CONTENT
When you are on our Web Site, certain content may be created
or hosted by a third party. Such third parties may drop cookies
and/or use Web beacons, which may be used to identify some
of your preferences or to recognize you if you have previously
been to their web site or otherwise had contact with them.
We do not control the use of such technology by third parties,
the information they collect, or how they use such information.
We do not disclose your PII to third parties serving content
on this Web Site in connection with the serving of such content.
DATA SECURITY
We take physical, electronic and managerial steps to maintain
the security and accuracy of PII we collect, including limiting
the number of people who have physical access to our database
servers, as well as electronic security systems and password
protections that guard against unauthorized access. However,
no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to
be 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot ensure or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to us, and you do
so at your own risk.
CONSENT TO TRANSFER
This Web Site is operated in the United States. If you are
located in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the
United States, please be aware that any information you provide
to us will be transferred to the United States. By using our
Web Site, participating in any of our services and/or providing
us with your information, you consent to this transfer.
ACCEPTANCE
By using this Web Site, you accept the policies set forth
in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy, like the online
medium itself, is subject to change, so visitors are encouraged
to review this Privacy Policy from time to time. However,
we will only use the PII you provide to this Web Site in a
manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, unless you give
us your consent.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding
our Privacy Policy and/or practices, please contact us at
the following email address:
Privacy Policy.
This LEPI Privacy Policy was last updated on
January 1, 2005
© 2005 LYNX ENTERPRISES PRODUCTIONS INC All rights reserved.
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