Thank you for registering your Screen Name to obtain enhanced access to the services offered by VisualAwards. The VisualAwards improves your online experience by offering you access to a variety of features, offerings and content. By registering your Screen Name, you gain access to the VisualAwards.com.
When you register with and use the VisualAwards, you provide the VisualAwards with personally identifiable information (your " VisualAwards information"). This Policy explains the information practices that apply to your VisualAwards information, as well as the choices you can make about the ways this information is used by the VisualAwards.
Registering to use your Screen Name with the VisualAwards is optional. This Privacy Policy applies only to information VisualAwards collects about you as a user of the VisualAwards. This policy does not apply to information about you collected by the VisualAwards affiliated providers, or third party Web sites and offerings linked to or otherwise accessible from the VisualAwards. The information collected or received by the VisualAwards affiliated providers and these third parties is subject to their own privacy policies.
Collection of your VisualAwards Information
Your VisualAwards information consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you interact with the VisualAwards’s Web sites, services and offerings as a registered user. Depending on how you use the Network, your VisualAwards information may include registration-related information (such as name, home or work addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, birth date or gender); information about your visits to VisualAwards Web sites and pages, and your responses to the offerings and advertisements presented on these Web sites and pages;
information about the searches you perform through the VisualAwards and how you use the results of those searches;
information about the VisualAwards services or offerings that you use, and how frequently you use them;
information about how long you have used services from VisualAwards prior to registering with the website;
transaction-related information (such as credit card or other preferred means of payment, billing or shipping information, or a history of products purchased through the VisualAwards);
customer service information about you as a VisualAwards user or subscriber; or
other information specifically related to your use of a particular VisualAwards service or offering.
Your VisualAwards information may be supplemented with additional information from other companies.
Your VisualAwards information may also include certain technical information gathered or received when you use the VisualAwards. Some of the technical information that may be collected or received includes: the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), CPU type (e.g. Pentium), your manner of connecting to the Internet (e.g., connection speed through narrowband or broadband access); Internet protocol address; information about the version of service from VisionAwards that you used prior to registering with the website; other information about your geographic location; and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
Your VisualAwards information may be collected and stored in the United States. Additionally, the VisualAwards will use the Screen Name Service, or similar technologies, to authenticate you on the VisionAwards and enable you to take advantage of the offerings.
How Your VisualAwards information is Used
Your VisualAwards information is used
to operate and improve the Web sites, services and offerings available through the VisualAwards;
to personalize the content and advertisements provided to you;
to fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services;
to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries;
to conduct research about your use of the VisionAwards; and
to help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest.
Your VisualAwards information may be shared with the affiliated providers. You have choices about how your VisualAwards information is used, and whether affiliated providers receive personally identifiable information about you as an VisualAwards user. Affiliated providers that receive your VisualAwards information may use this information according to their applicable privacy policies.
Your VisualAwards information will not be shared with third parties unless it is necessary to fulfill a transaction you have requested, in other circumstances in which you have consented to the sharing of your VisualAwards information, or except as described in this Privacy Policy. The VisualAwards may use your VisualAwards information to present offers to you on behalf of business partners and advertisers. These business partners and advertisers receive aggregate data about groups of VisualAwards users, but do not receive information that personally identifies you.
If you use VisualAwards communications tools to disclose information about yourself publicly (for example, in chat rooms or online message boards made available by the VisualAwards), other online users may obtain access to any information you provide. The contents of your online communications, as well as other information about you as an VisualAwards user, may be accessed and disclosed in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); in other circumstances in which VisualAwards believes the VisualAwards is being used in the commission of a crime; when we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person; or when necessary either to protect the rights or property of VisualAwards, the VisualAwards or its affiliated providers, or for us to render the service you have requested.
The VisualAwards may use agents and contractors in order to help operate the website. If such agents and contractors have access to personally identifiable information, they are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for the VisualAwards.
In the event that ownership of the VisualAwards was to change as a result of a merger, acquisition or transfer to another company, your VisualAwards information may be transferred. If such a transfer results in a material change in the use of your VisualAwards information, the VisualAwards will provide notice about the choices you have to decline to permit such a transfer.
Your Choices About Your VisualAwards Information
The VisualAwards provides you with access to your registration and any billing or shipping information; the ability to edit this information at the My Account area; and the ability to deactivate your registration with the VisualAwards. Additionally, some VisualAwards services (VisualAwards Search, for example) may offer you the ability to control what information is collected or used when you use these services.
You can make choices about how your VisualAwards information may be used by the VisualAwards to provide marketing offers to you. In order to do so, please visit My Account area and review your VisualAwards marketing preferences. These preferences do not apply to communications that are directly related to your registration with the VisualAwards, or the fulfillment of a specific transaction you have requested (for example, a service advisory from the VisionAwards, or an acknowledgment of a purchase order).
You may also choose whether the VisualAwards affiliated providers receive personally identifiable VisualAwards information. This choice does not apply to the sharing of VisualAwards information necessary to provide you the basic functionality of the Network (for example, recognizing you as an authenticated user on affiliated providers' Web sites or services). Additionally, the VisualAwards may share personally identifiable VisualAwards information with one or more of its affiliated providers when that information is necessary to carry out a specific transaction or request you make for an offering from the website or its affiliated providers, or as otherwise specified at the time you take advantage of that particular offering.
Cookies and Web Beacons
The VisualAwards may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies in combination with your VisualAwards information to enhance and personalize your experience on the VisualAwards, including to operate and improve offerings through the VisualAwards; to help authenticate you when you use the VisualAwards; to remember your preferences and registration information; to enable a shopping cart; to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of VisualAwards offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications (by determining which Network e-mails you open and act upon); and to customize the content and advertisements provided to you through the VisualAwards.
The VisualAwards and its advertisers may also use ad network providers to help present advertisements on the VisualAwards and other Web sites. These ad network providers use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies on your computer to help present, better target, and measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, using data gathered over time and across their networks of Web pages to determine or predict the characteristics and preferences of their audience. The VisualAwards may share certain non-personally identifiable information about you as a Network user (such as user age and zip code) with certain ad network providers, to help them deliver more relevant advertisements through their ad networks. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by ad network providers is subject to their own privacy policies, not the VisualAwards’s.
Personal Financial Information
The following notice explains the VisualAwards’s practices with respect to the use of personal financial information. By using VisualAwards financial features, you agree to receive future notices required under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act through the continuous posting of this Privacy Policy online.
The VisualAwards does not disclose portfolio or wallet information to unaffiliated third parties other than in the limited circumstances permitted by law (for example, in response to legal process), or when you ask us to disclose the information (for example, when you request that the websites share wallet information in order to facilitate a purchase on a third party web site).
Only employees and contractors who need to know this information in order to provide this service to you are authorized to access portfolio or wallet information.
Our Commitment to Security
The VisualAwards has established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your VisualAwards information, but cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, as a result of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or the policies of the website and its affiliated providers). To protect your privacy and security, the VisualAwards uses passwords to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to any of your VisualAwards information.
Special Note for Parents
The VisualAwards is intended for a general audience, and children under the age of thirteen are not permitted to register with the VisualAwards. If any of the VisualAwards affiliated providers offers a site directed toward children, or knowingly collects information from children, that affiliated provider is required to provide you information about its practices for the handling of children's online data through its privacy policy.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about the VisualAwards Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact us at this email address:
sales@visualawards.com
Changes to this Privacy Policy and Additional Information
The VisualAwards may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to the VisualAwards’s information practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice. You may be provided other privacy-related information in connection with your use of offerings from the VisualAwards, as well as for special features and services not described in this Policy that may be introduced in the future.
Your California Privacy Rights: California privacy law allows California residents to obtain specific disclosures about a business's privacy practices if it shares information with other companies for direct marketing purposes. To make a request to the VisualAwards under California's privacy law, please send an e-mail to:
sales@visualawards.com.
