TEL3Advantage PRIVACY POLICY
TEL3Advantage's policy is to respect and
protect the privacy of our users. We want our Internet users
to be comfortable using our site. This policy statement tells
you how we collect information from you and how we use it. The
following policy only applies to online activities on
TEL3Advantage Website, not to offline activities.
REGISTRATION
The TEL3 Advantage online registration form requires You to
provide contact information (such as name), unique identifiers
(address and email address) and demographic information (age),
all of which is user profile information. Contact information
is used to communicate with You for purposes such as gathering
survey information, billing for requested value-added
services, notification of service upgrades, and changes to
existing services. Unique identifiers (such as e-mail and
street addresses) are used to verify Your identity and to set
up record system accounts. Additionally, if You choose to
purchase products or services You may be asked to provide
financial information such as credit card numbers for billing
purposes. All financial information is kept confidential. A
third party financial institution will be used to process
credit card orders.
USE OF PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
TEL3Advantage will
not disclose your personal information to third parties
without your consent. However, certain personal information
that is required to provide the services may be shared with
TEL3Advantage's partners. Also, TEL3 Advantage may disclose
user information in special cases when we have reason to
believe that disclosing this information is necessary to
identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who
may be causing injury to or interference with (either
intentionally or unintentionally) TEL3Advantage's rights or
property, other TEL3 Advantage users, or anyone else that could
be harmed by such activities. TEL3Advantage may disclose user
information when we believe in good faith that the law
requires it.
TEL3 Advantage shares aggregate
information (data that does not contain personally
identifiable information) about our users with advertisers,
business partners, sponsors and other third parties.
Opt-In
If you become a registered user of TEL3Advantage and choose
to "Opt-In" to receive promotional information, we may send
you information about exciting new products or services. This
information may come from TEL3Advantage, its partners, or
other interested and selected third parties. In order to help
identify and deliver these special promotional offers to you,
if you have opted in to receive promotional information and
offers, TEL3 Advantage may share the personal information you
have provided us with third parties who are offering such
opportunities. In addition, the personal information may be
combined with other personally identifiable information (such
as demographic information and past purchase information)
available from our records and other sources.
REVISING YOUR PROFILE
In case you
change your mind about your opt-in decision(s) or if some of
your personal information changes (such as your zip code), we
will provide a way to correct, update or remove the personal
data you give us. You can do this at the member information
page or by contacting our Customer Support organization at
webmaster@tel3advantage.com.
USE OF IP
ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number that is
automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are
surfing the Web. Web servers automatically identify your
computer by its IP address.
TEL3Advantage collects IP
addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report
aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit the use
of our site. When guests request pages from TEL3Advantage.com
site, our servers log the guests' IP addresses. We do not
normally link IP addresses to anything personally
identifiable, which means that a user's session will be
logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. We can and will
use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is
necessary to enforce compliance with our house rules or terms
of service or to protect our service, site, You or others.
USE OF COOKIES
Cookies are
pieces of data that a website transfers to an individual's
hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make
Web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while
you are at our site. We never save passwords or credit card
information in cookies. The use of cookies is an industry
standard.
By showing how and when guests use a site,
cookies help us see which areas are popular and which are not.
Many improvements and updates to the site are based on such
data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This
information is most easily tracked with cookies. We use the
information from cookies to provide services better tailored
to our users needs.
TEL3Advantage primarily uses
cookies to track user trends and patterns. This helps us
better understand and improve areas of the TEL3Advantage
service that our users find valuable. While this activity
depends on the use of a "cookie," visitors toTEL3Advantage
always have the option of disabling cookies via their browser
preferences. Information from cookies is sometimes attached to
messages sent to our Customer Service department.
Most
browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset
your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie
is being sent. However, note that some parts of the
TEL3Advantage service will not function properly if you refuse
cookies.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers if
you "click" on an advertisement that takes you from
TEL3Advantage to the advertiser's website. TEL3Advantage does
not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent
by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
In the
course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party
advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your
browser.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Users should be aware that when you are on
TEL3Advantage, you could be directed to other sites that are
beyond our control. There are links to other sites from
TEL3Advantage pages that take you outside our service. For
example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement or a
TEL3Advantage search result, the "click" takes you off the
TEL3Advantage.com site. This includes links from advertisers,
sponsors and partners that may use TEL3Advantage logo as part
of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their
own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal
information.
Please keep in mind that whenever you
give out personal information online that information can be
collected and used by people you don't know. While
TEL3Advantage strives to protect its user's personal
information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of
any information you disclose online and you do so at your own
risk.
TEL3Advantage 's policy does not extend to
anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet,
and therefore beyond TEL3Advantage's control, and is not to be
applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or
governmental regulation.
SECURITY
The importance of
security for all personally identifiable information
associated with You is of utmost concern to us. We exercise
great care in providing secure transmission of Your
information from Your PC to our servers.
TEL3Advantage's site has security measures in place to
protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information
under our control. Normally, we require our users to transmit
credit card information for the purpose of sign up or to make
changes to their credit card information. In these cases, we
transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format using
SSL (secure socket layer), the industry-standard. However,
e-mail should not be considered as a secure means of
communication even when encrypted. The information can only be
as secure as the encryption method.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive
to protect Your personal information, TEL3Advantage cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information You transmit
to us or from our online products or services, and You do so
at your own risk. Once we receive Your transmission, we make
our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Your TEL3Advantage Account is password protected so that
only You can access it and view information relevant to Your
account. We recommend that You do not divulge Your password to
anyone. TEL3Advantage will never ask You for Your password in
an unsolicited phone call or email. Ultimately, You are
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of Your passwords and
any account information.
Remember to sign out of Your TEL3Advantage account and
close your browser window when You have finished Your work.
This is to ensure that others cannot access Your personal
information and correspondence if Your computer is accessible
to others or if You share a computer with someone else or are
using a computer in a public place like a library or internet
café. YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using this site, you signify your assent
to the TEL3Advantage Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to
this Policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued use
of the TEL3Advantage sites following the posting of changes to
these terms will mean you accept those changes.
If you
have questions regarding this statement should be directed to
the webmaster by email at TEL3Advantage: 16550 NW 10th
Avenue Miami , FL 33169 mailto:Privacy@tel3.com |