FLAWLESS
MEDIA PRIVACY STATEMENT
At flawless media, we respect and
protect the privacy of our subscribers. The following Privacy
Statement provides details about how your personal information
is collected and used.
Information Collection and Use
flawless media is the sole owner of information collected
on through email transmissions or via our websites. We will
not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways
different from what is disclosed in this statement. We collect
information from our users at several different points on
our website and through email transmissions.
Our website offers several opportunities for visitors to
register for promotional and informational mailings. These
registration forms enable users to opt-in to flawless media's
mailing lists and require users to give contact information
(such as name and email address). We use this contact information
to send information about our company and our products and
services, such as upcoming events. Notice is given at the
point of collection to enable users to choose whether or
not they consent to the usage terms. Those who have signed
up and subsequently wish to withdraw their participation
may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time (see
the choice/opt-out section below).
We also keep track of activity on our website via log files
stored on our web servers. We collect information such as
IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view.
We also keep track of how you got to our site and any links
you click on to leave our site. We use our logs of your
website activity to assist us in offering you a personalized
Web experience, assist you with technical support, diagnose
problems with our server, administer our website and to
tailor our product and service offerings to you.
Security and Privacy
We take every precaution to protect the confidentiality
and security of your personal information by using industry-recognized
security safeguards such as firewalls, coupled with carefully
developed security procedures to protect your information
from loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration. When we collect
sensitive account information such as credit card numbers,
we protect its transmission through the use of encryption
such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
flawless media takes care to reinforce the importance of
our website visitors' and email database members' security
and privacy among our employees. Our employees are trained
and required to safeguard your information and, using physical,
electronic and procedural safeguards, we restrict access
to personal information to those employees and agents for
business purposes only. Additionally, we use internal and
external resources to review the adequacy of our security
procedures.
We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information
with third parties for their promotional use. Occasionally,
we enter into contracts with third parties so that they
can assist us in servicing you (for example, providing customer
service). The contracts prohibit them from using any of
your personal information for their own purposes, and they
are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information
we provide to them. We may also disclose information to
partners who introduced you to flawless media's services
in order to ensure they are properly compensated for their
efforts. Lastly, we may disclose or report personal information
in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith
that disclosure is required under the law. For example,
we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate
with regulators or law enforcement authorities, to comply
with a legal process such as court order, subpoena, search
warrant, or law enforcement request.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We use a variety of technologies on our sites. Among these
are cookies: a text-only string of information that a website
transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's
hard disk so that the website can remember your browser
in the future. A cookie will typically contain the name
of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime"
of the cookie, and a value, usually a unique number. When
you visit our website, open our email, or encounter our
services online (perhaps on a customer's website) we may
send you a cookie. Cookies may be used in many ways: they
allow us to verify the login status of customers using products
or services linked directly with our website, track point
of entry to point of registration for those users participating
in our affiliate signup programs, and track and measure
the success of a particular marketing campaign. Cookies
also allow us to track overall site usage and determine
areas users prefer, enabling us to make your visit to our
website easier by recognizing you when you return and helping
to provide you with a customized experience.
Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally
identifiable information while on our site. You have the
ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings
in your browser. If you choose to disable cookies, you may
still use our site; however, you may have limited access
to some areas within our website. For more information on
how to manage cookies in your web browser, see http://www.aboutcookies.org.
Some of our web pages, emails, and other online content
may contain electronic images known as web beacons, also
known as single-pixel GIFs, which are invisible graphical
images. These web beacons allow us to count users who have
visited our web pages, seen our ads, or opened our email.
Web beacons collect only limited information, such as a
cookie identifier, time and date of a page being viewed,
and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon resides
(the URL).
When we send you emails, we may include a web beacon to
allow us to determine the number of people who open our
emails. When you click on a link in an email, we record
this individual response to allow us to customize our offerings
to you.
Web Beacons cannot be declined when delivered via a regular
web page. However, Web Beacons can be refused when delivered
via email. If you do not wish to receive Web Beacons via
email, you will need to disable HTML images or refuse HTML
(select Text only) emails via your email software.
Online Advertising
We also use pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help manage
online advertising. These GIF files are provided by our
ad management partners; they enable our partners to recognize
a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables
us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website
or are opened via email. With both cookies and web beacons,
the information that we collect and share is anonymous and
not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name,
address, telephone number, or email address.
Choice/Opt-out
flawless media's Anti-Spam policy tolerates only permission-based
email. In addition, users always have the opportunity to
opt-out or change preferences via a link in the footer of
all non-transactional email messages. These options are
made available when you sign-up for our email lists and
in email messages delivered from our company. Alternatively,
you may email us at rsvp.flawless@mac.com.
Links
Our email template and website provide links to third-party
websites, such as those of our business partners and online
advertising partners. While on these sites, flawless or
its partners may collect information about you. Because
flawless does not control the information policies or practices
of these third parties, you should review their privacy
policies to learn more about how they collect and use personally
identifiable information.
Notification of Changes
This policy is in effect as of July 2008. If we decide to
change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on
the flawless media website so our users are always aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.