PRIVACY POLICY
Your Privacy Matters!
Learning Links Direct and AffiliateLearningLinks.com takes your privacy seriously.
NOTE: PLEASE ALWAYS USE CAUTION WHEN GIVING OUT PERSONAL INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. NEVER EXPOSE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER TO ANY PARTY THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH AND TRUST. YOU ARE ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR DECISIONS YOU MAKE REGARDING THE RELEASE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND SHOULD ALWAYS EXERCISE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT WHENEVER YOU GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ANYONE.
HOW OUR COMPANY COLLECTS INFORMATION AND HOW IT IS USED
We collect only the information that is voluntarily given to us by
those who opt-in or subscribe to our email retrieval systems. We never
rent or sell any information to any third party or list company.
However, in instances where our company and a partner jointly promote our Services, we may provide the partner certain personal information, such as the name, address, and user name of persons who subscribed to the Services as a result of the joint promotion for the purpose of offering you other products and services.
In this instance, personal information may not be used by the partner for any other purpose. We may also generate non-identifying and aggregate profiles from personal information Members provide during registration (such as the total number, but not the names, of Members). As explained in more detail below, we may use this aggregated and non-identifying information to sell advertisements that appear on the Services.
Also, with purchases, we supply our member's contact information, to our business partners, who then may contact the member by telephone after the member purchase. Sales proceeds are collected by the that business partner company. We also may supply other companies with contact information, for mail offers we believe would be of interest to our members, with or without compensation from those companies. At times we may send an advertisement for a third party product, where we collect the sales proceeds, and forward the purchaser's information to that third party.
Our Company Partners and Sponsors: Some products and services may be offered to Visitors and Members in conjunction with an affiliate, independent contractor seller or non-affiliated partner. To provide Visitors and Members some of these products and services, the partner may need to collect and maintain personal information.
On line Shopping: At some Web sites, you can purchase products and services or register to receive materials, such as a newsletter, catalog or new product and service updates. In many cases, you may be asked to provide contact information, such as your name, address, email address, phone number, and credit/debit card information.
If you complete an order for someone else, such
as an on line gift order sent directly to a recipient, you may be asked
to provide information about the recipient, such as the recipient's
name, address, and phone number. Our company has no control over the
third parties' use of any personal information you provide when placing
such an order. Please exercise care when doing so.
If you order services or products directly
from our company, we use the personal information you provide to
process that order. We do share this information with outside parties
that we do business with.
On line Advertisements: Our company may display our on line advertisements. In those cases we share information about our Visitors and Members collected through the registration process as well as through on line surveys and promotions with these advertisers.
Additionally, in some instances, we use this
information to deliver tailored advertisements or joint ventures. For
instance, an advertiser or joint venture company tells us the audience
they want to reach and provides us an advertisement tailored to the
audience. Based upon the information we have collected, we may then
display or send the advertisement to the intended audience. Our company
does share personal information about its Visitors or Members with
these advertisers or joint venture companies.
Responses to Email Inquiries: When Visitors or
Members send email inquiries to our company, the return email address
is used to answer the email inquiry we receive.
Voluntary Customer Surveys: We may
periodically conduct both business and individual customer surveys. We
encourage our customers to participate in these surveys because they
provide us with important information that helps us to improve the
types of products and services we offer and how we provide them to you.
We may take the information we receive from
individuals responding to our Customer Surveys and combine (or
aggregate) it with the responses of other customers we may have, to
create broader, generic responses to the survey questions (such as
gender, age, residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry
sector, or other demographic information). We then use the aggregated
information to improve the quality of our services to you, and to
develop new services and products. This aggregated, non-personally
identifying information may be shared with third parties.
Special Cases: It is our company's policy to
use or share the personal information about Visitors or Members in ways
described herein without additional notice or means to opt out or
otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Also, we may disclose personal information about
Visitors or Members, or information regarding your use of the Services
or Web sites accessible through our Services, for any reason if, in our
sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including:
credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant database agencies, law
enforcement, or to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications
Privacy Act, the Child On line Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental
or legal requests for such information; to disclose information that is
necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone
who may be violating our Acceptable Use Policy or Terms Of Service, or
other user policies; to operate the Services properly; or to protect
our company and our Members.
A cookie is a text file stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Web sites create cookies to record information about a user’s preferences, such as the items you add to your shopping cart, and for security purposes (see Security below). Cookies are also used to help us determine the various services you use and the support you may need, and to help us detect and solve any problems you may have while using our web site. In addition, the use of a cookie on our web site will enable users to log on without having to reenter their password on each visit and to fully participate in our Community discussions. Most cookies expire after a certain time period. If you wish, you may set your browser to reject all cookies and still view our web site.
Log Files:
Like most standard web sites, we
use log files on our servers. These log files store information
regarding IP (Internet protocol) addresses, browser type, ISP
(Internet service provider), referring/exit pages, platform type,
date/time stamp, and number of clicks. These log files are used to
analyze trends, administer the web site, track user’s movements in
the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for our
use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personal information.
Our Company Commitment to Children's Privacy.
Protecting children's privacy is especially important to us. It is our
policy to comply with the Children's On line Privacy Protection Act of
1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore we restrict our Web site
to persons eighteen years or older.
YOU MUST BE EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OR OLDER TO
ACCESS THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE
NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEB SITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE
RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEB SITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS
WEB SITE, FALLS WITHIN THE CHILD ON LINE PRIVACY ACT (COPRA) AND IS NOT
MONITORED AS DOING SO.
Security:
Services and Web sites we sponsor have security measures in place to
protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our
control. While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and
security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our
security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally
obtaining this information.
Questions About Our Privacy
Policy: If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the
practices described herein, you may contact us at www.customerservice@learninglinkdirect.com
Policy Rivisions: Our company reserves
the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy, our Terms Of Service
agreement, and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any
manner, by updating this posting. Your use of this site after such
changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgment and acceptance
of these changes. Please consult this privacy statement prior to every
use for any changes.
Last updated: August 10th, 2009