Information Collection |
• Personally Identifiable Information
is information that can be used to locate
you, contact you, or determine
your specific identity. When other information
is linked to Personally Identifiable
Information, it also becomes
Personally Identifiable Information.
• CreativeSparks.com collects Personally
Identifiable Information from you in
several ways:
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When you register for the CreativeSparks.com
Service, we ask you for basic
registration information, such
as your name, company, address,
email address, where did you hear
about us and other basic contact
information ("Registration Information").
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When you place an order or subscribe
to a product through the CreativeSarks.com
service, we may collect the appropriate
billing information, including
your credit card number, expiration
date, and billing address ("Billing
Information"). This information
is associated with your Registration
Information in a database and
will be kept for future purchases.
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| 3.
When you submit voluntary personal
information at or when you provide
opinions, enter a contest or promotion,
or report a problem with the CreativeSarks.com
service our information may be
kept on file |
| 4.
will keep a record of a request
for information or Customer Service
report and the manner in which
it was processed. |
• We want to know
who our customers are so that we can
better understand our demographic and
service them better through the information
we gather. We track some information
including your IP address,
your computer's name, the type and version
of your web browser, referrer
addresses, and other generally-accepted
log information. We may also record
page views (hit counts)
and other general statistical and tracking
information. This is used solely for
our records to better understand our
customer. None of the information is
shared with 3rd parties.
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Limits on Information Collection |
• We must have your Personally Identifiable
Information in order for us to adequately
provide you with the CreativeSparks.com
service. Your information will not be
sold to mail list information
companies or any 3rd parties
• By limiting information collection,
CreativeSparks.com may not be able to
provide you the same functionality
or features as otherwise available.
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Cookies |
• A cookie is a small amount of data,
which often includes an anonymous unique
identifier, that is sent
to your browser from a web site's computers
and stored on your computer's hard drive.
Each web site can send its own cookies
to your browser if your browser's preferences
allow it, but (to protect
your privacy) most browsers only permit
a web site to access the cookies
that the same web site has already sent
to you, not the cookies sent to you
by other sites.
• CreativeSparks.com may use cookies
to identify you as a repeat customer.
CreativeSparks.com may set
and access our own cookies on your computer.
• CreativeSparks.com does not allow
other companies or individuals that
are presenting content on
our site to set and access your cookies..
We do not have access to any information
stored by third party advertisers
about you.
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Disclosure of Personally Identifiable
Information |
In general, we will not disclose your
Personally Identifiable Information
to unaffiliated third parties without
your express consent. If we seek your
consent to disclose your Personally
Identifiable Information to a third
party, we will do so unambiguously,
explaining precisely what information
we seek to disclose, the entity to whom
we wish to disclose it, and the purpose
for the disclosure.
There are, however, some limited circumstances
in which we may be need to disclose
Personally Identifiable Information
about a user, and we want you to know
about them:
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We may employ other companies
to perform functions on our behalf,
such as fulfilling orders, providing
customer service, sending mail,
processing credit card payments,
or other functions necessary to
our business. We may need to share
your Personally Identifiable Information
to these companies. However, we
will provide them with only that
information necessary to perform
their functions, and will not
allow them to use that information
for any other purpose. |
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We may reveal a user's identity
(or whatever information we know
about that individual) if we believe
that user is harming or interfering
with other CreativeSparks.com
users, anyone else, or violating
(either intentionally or unintentionally)
our Customer Agreement or infringing
any of CreativeSparks.com legal
rights. |
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CreativeSparks.com will reveal
information, including Personally
Identifiable Information, to the
extent it reasonably believes
it is required to do so by law.
If we receive legal process calling
for the disclosure of any of your
personally identifiable information
we will, if permitted by law,
attempt to notify you via the
e-mail address you supplied during
registration within a reasonable
amount of time before we respond
to the request. |
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CreativeSparks.com may transfer
information it collects, including
any Personally Identifiable Information,
in connection with a sale of all
or most of the assets of the company.
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Use and Disclosure of Anonymous Information
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• Anonymous Information is any information
collected from you or by the CreativeSparks.com
service, other than Personally
Identifiable Information, including
aggregate information derived
from Personally Identifiable Information.
• CreativeSparks.com may use Anonymous
Information to improve the CreativeSparks.com
website and service, to
monitor traffic and general usage patterns,
and for other general business
purposes.
• Anonymous Information will not include
any Personally Identifiable Information
and CreativeSparks.com will
not disclose any Personally Identifiable
Information except as expressly
stated elsewhere in this policy.
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Changing or Removing Information |
• CreativeSparks.com wants to ensure
that you have appropriate control over
your Personally Identifiable
Information. You can change your Registration
or Customer Information, by clicking
here.
• If at any time you would like to delete
your Registration Billing Information
you can send an e-mail request
to support@creativesparks.com. After
receiving your request, such information
will be deleted assuming
(i) you are current with all payment
obligations; (ii) CreativeSparks.com
does not believe it is reasonably necessary
to keep such information for any
pending legal action; and (iii) we are
under no other legal obligation to retain
such information. If such
information is deleted, however, any
unfulfilled subscriptions will be canceled
without refund and you will have to
re-register with CreativeSparks.com
in order to use the CreativeSparks.com
service.
• Since Anonymous
Information is by its very nature non-personally
identifying, we have no way
to locate Anonymous Information obtained
by your use of the service. In addition,
Anonymous Information is
often aggregated. Therefore, we cannot
remove Anonymous Information
obtained from you or as a result of
your usage of the website or service.
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Security |
• We employ reasonable and current security
methods to prevent unauthorized access,
maintain data accuracy,
and ensure correct use of information.
• Your personal data will be stored
within a database that is located behind
a firewall for added security.
The server housing the database is physically
protected at a secure, third party site
and is monitored by security
personnel twenty-four hours a day. Only
authorized personnel can
access the data center and the particular
server housing the database.
• No data transmission over the Internet
or any wireless network can be guaranteed
to be secure. As a result,
while we try to protect your personal
information, we cannot ensure or guarantee
the security of any information you
transmit to us, and you do so at your
own risk.
• We do not encrypt your normal web
sessions with the Service using SSL.
Any transmission to the
CreativeSparks.com website or service
of credit card information uses SSL
encryption.
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Children |
• The CreativeSparks.com service is
not directed to children (persons under
the age of 13), and we do
not knowingly collect, either online
or offline, personally identifiable
information from children.
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Changes to this Privacy Policy |
• From time to time, CreativeSparks.com
may change its privacy policy. If we
make any changes regarding
disclosure of Personally Identifiable
Information to third parties, then we'll
send you an e-mail (or notify
you by pop-up screen) prior to the date
the modified policy takes
effect. We will also post conspicuous
notice of the new policy on our home
page. Any new policy will
have prospective effect only, meaning
it will not apply to information previously
gathered without your express consent.
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Questions |
• Please feel free to contact us regarding
our Privacy Policy at
support@creativesparks.com with
any question or concerns
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