We at HonestLinks.Net have created this privacy policy
to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your personal information and
informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to
transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the
HonestLinks.Net Website, it does not apply to any other
Website or offline point of contact between HonestLinks.Net, or any other company. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify
it from time to time.
Each time you visit the Site or provide us with
information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this
privacy policy at that time. If users have questions or concerns regarding this
statement, they should contact the Privacy Officer at HonestLinks.Net via the contact form on this site.
Your IP Address
Like most Websites, each time you visit the Site we may
automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In
order to administer and optimize the Site for you, and to diagnose problems with
our Site, we may use your IP address to help identify you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We may also
use cookies to save your
password so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the Site. Third party
advertisers on the Site may also place cookies on your browser. If you wish to
disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will
tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not
be able to access certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site we may collect "personal
information" such as full name, postal address, phone number or
email address), this
may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender,
username, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history
information, searching history information, registration history information.
Such information will be kept strictly confidential and not shared with any third party without your explicit permission.
We ask that you do not enter personal information or financial
information into your "Linking Profile" (for example, don't use your address or password as your username, or include your name or address in your written
responses), because if you do then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and
the information will then be treated as "demographic information" that is
"public information."
HonestLinks.Net IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR USERS WHO INTENTIONALLY OR OTHERWISE
DISCLOSE PRIVATE INFORMATION IN THE PUBLIC AREAS OF THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, PROFILES, EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE OR PUBLIC FORUMS WHICH ARE
PUBLICLY VIEWABLE BY USERS.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site we place links to other Websites operated by other parties. Some of
these other Websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other
intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links
and visit these other Websites, regardless of whether or not they contain our
brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware
that we do not control these other Websites or these other Websites' business
practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other Websites.
Consequently, the operators of these other Websites may collect different kinds
of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in
different ways than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you
to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible
for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to help us
efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your
transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not limited to,
confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with
HonestLinks.Net), and to forward messages to you from other HonestLinks.Net users.
These types of communications, are known as "Operational Communications." In
some cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages,
such as text ads and special offers. We also use personal information to send
you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for
HonestLinks.Net goods or services. We attempt to send you
offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special
event information.
By signing up for a membership on this site you are opting in to receive the HonestLinks.Net newsletter by email. To stop receiving
HonestLinks.Net newsletter, email us via the contact page on the site and request your membership be terminated.
To operate the Site, including
processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may
share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors
and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as
authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or
support services, customer relationship management services or order fulfillment.
We require these entities not to
use your information for any other purpose.
In some cases, we may enter into a
promotional relationship with another company in which we prominently display
their brand name or trademarks on pages of the Site. These pages are known as
"Co-Branded Pages" and these companies are known as "Co-Branded Companies."
Co-Branded Companies may
use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly
regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them, your details will never be passed from HonestLinks.Net to a co-branded company without your consent.
Those who contact
you will need to be instructed directly by you, regarding your preferences for
the use of your personal information by them.
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for
products and services and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and
similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase,
or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial
information, on the Site, you consent to our providing your financial
information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine
are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as well
as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may
include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and
support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making
reservations for, products or services of third parties offered on the Site, or
by participating in programs offered on the Site that are administered by third
parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use
them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those
third parties. Additionally, if the page on which you submit information is a
Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page,
then we may share your financial information with the associated Co-Branded
Company. Any of these various third parties (including Co-Branded Companies)
may be authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our
contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their
own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are
not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Additionally,
you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to
such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and
disclose any other information that you submit to us. Please read the
information below under the heading "Special Cases in which we Share Personal
and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your
financial information.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third
party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We
may also disclose personal information or financial information when we
determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to
co-operate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of
HonestLinks.Net or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your personal
information or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and
businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are
under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or financial
information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your
demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our
parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive
your personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous demographic
information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with
respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control. Our secure server software
(SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for
secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and financial
information as it travels over the Internet and we store your financial
information on our servers in encrypted form. Your information may be
transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside
of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you
reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are
located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or
jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered Information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will
notify users by way of an email or by providing 30 days notice on the Site.
Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy
policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable information,
without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy,
provided that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after
the date of the change.