Privacy Policy Updated September 2004 At Partners in Beauty®, we are committed to maintaining your privacy and trust. This privacy policy explains how we collect, protect, use, and share information about you, including on our Web site, and/or through your membership in Partners in Beauty. We hope this information increases your confidence in Partners in Beauty and enhances your experience on our Web site. Information We Collect We collect the following information from you when you visit our site: The name of the domain through which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com if you use America Online); The date and time you access our site; The Internet address from which you linked to our site (the Web page you "clicked" from to get to our Web site); The unique Internet address of the computer you used to access our site; Your browser (i.e., Internet Explorer 5.5); and The operating system of your computer (i.e., Microsoft Windows NT 4.0). We use this information to administer our Web site, to help diagnose and troubleshoot potential server malfunctions, and to gather broad demographic information. To help make sure you receive information that is relevant to you, our site uses data "cookies." These cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer that help us keep track of who is visiting our site, and personalize your experience when you arrive. There are ways to limit the information collected through technology-e.g. by disabling your cookies-though some of the features on our site will not work if you decide to do this. Our Web pages contain electronic images (called "Clear GIF", "Single-Pixel Gif", or "Web Beacon") that allow us to count page views or to access cookies. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a Web page, including an ad banner, can act as a Clear GIF. Typically, though, Clear GIFs are very small (1-by-1 pixel size) files. They are often invisible on the Web page, but their presence can be easily detected within Internet Explorer by clicking on "View" and then on "Source." Clear GIFs are so small in order not to use valuable space on the computer screen that is better used to display helpful content. We also include Clear GIFs in HTML-formatted newsletters in order to count how many newsletters have been read. In addition, some advertising networks that serve ads on our Web site will occasionally use Clear GIFs within banner advertisements. Our Clear GIFs do not collect, gather, monitor or share any personal information about our Web site visitors; they are simply the technique we use to compile our anonymous, aggregated statistics about Web site usage. n order to register to become a Partners in Beauty member, you need to provide us with the following information: Your name; Your street address; Your email address(if you register online); Your birth date; and Your ZIP code. How you heard about partners in beauty The beauty/ health and wellness services you are interested in. We will also ask you for your phone number, We may also obtain information about you through other methods such as surveys or from other suppliers of information, including our Affiliates. This enables us to have a complete member file that will allow us to continually offer you the most value as a Partners in Beauty member. If you do not register for Partners in Beauty, you can still visit Partners in Beauty.com and enjoy most of our content and tools, although you may not have access to all of the features Partners in Beauty.com offers, such as our checklists, the Partners in Beauty calendar, and various sweepstakes and promotions. You will also miss out on certain offers made only to Partners in Beauty members. If you do become a member, not only can you enjoy all of the benefits of membership, but you can also refer other individuals to join by providing us with their first names and email addresses. Using the information you give us on these potential members, we will send them an email invitation to join Partners in Beauty. The only way these individuals can become members, however, is if they come to our site and sign up themselves. We do not use this information for any other purposes. Email Communications After you register for Partners in Beauty, you may receive communications from us including those in which we may describe specific offers from our Affiliates, as well as news and updates related to Partners in Beauty. You can request at any time to opt-out of future emails by updating your account, or by following the instructions to opt out posted at the bottom of each communication from Partners in Beauty. Uses of Information At Partners in Beauty, everything we do, including how we handle your personal information, is designed to show how much we value moms. Your information assists us in understanding the kinds of benefits and services that may suit your needs and interests. Partners in Beauty relates with Affiliates, which are listed on our Web site. We may share individually identifying information about you with these partners so that they can augment their customer files, or perform market research. Our partners will only use your individually identifying information to send direct solicitations if you agree to receive them, or if you are an existing customer or become a customer of these companies. On occasion, we will share information about our members with potential partners, but this information will only be used in an aggregated form. The purpose of Partners in Beauty's Benefits is to reward you for your loyalty to Partners in Beauty Affiliates. . Accordingly, we need to share some of your information with our partners to administer the Program and make it easy for you to make full use of its benefits. Except as described herein, we do not share any data regarding our individual members to any third parties outside our existing or potential affiates. If you decide that you prefer not to have your individually identifiable information shared with our Affilates including for the administration of the Partners in Beauty's Benefits, click here, but please be advised that if you so choose, your participation in Partners in Beauty's Benefits Program will be terminated. Sometimes we hire companies to help us deliver products or services-like a shipping company that delivers a package. In those instances, we need to share your information with them. These companies are basically "standing in the shoes" of Partners in Beauty, and they are only allowed to use your information to deliver the product or service that we hire them to deliver. We may share your information with your referring Partners in Beauty "Beauty Advocate". If you were referred to Partners in Beauty by a Partners in Beauty, "Beauty Advocate", you probably included her member number or other identifying information on the registration form that you completed when you joined. We will inform that Ambassador that you joined Partners in Beauty and we may share some of your individually identifiable information with her. We may send regular newsletters and other correspondence to our members. However, you may opt out of receiving Partners in Beauty correspondence (i) at any time simply by updating your account, which you can do by clicking on the "My Account" button posted throughout the site, or (ii) by opting-out of receiving future emails as described at the bottom of each communication from Partners in Beauty. We use demographic data collected at our site to personalize your visit. With this data, we can provide content applicable to your particular location and interests. General, non-identifying information regarding the total number of visitors to our site and the services the visitors used will be shared with sponsors, advertisers, and partners who offer services relevant to our members. On occasion, we offer promotions-like Partners in Beauty Makeovers or free subscriptions-in conjunction with Affiliates or sponsors. By participating in a promotion, you submit to that promotion's terms and conditions including providing us with permission, if required, to share your information with a particular sponsor. Partners in Beauty also has bulletin boards where members may post messages on various topics. Any messages you post on these boards will become public, and any personal information you post will be accessible to anyone who visits that message board. Partners in Beauty.com contains links to other sites. It is possible for you to receive information directly from our partners and other companies if you access them through a link on Partners in Beauty.com or if you go directly to their Web sites. Once you are on their sites, any data that you supply to these partners, for example, to obtain information or buy products directly from them is beyond our reach and will be the responsibility of each of the linked-to entities and not Partners in Beauty. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Web sites or any other sites linked to or referenced on our site. This also applies to various advertisements that appear on Partners in Beauty.com. We use DoubleClick and MediaPlex to provide banner advertisements. If your browser is set up to accept cookies, DoubleClick, MediaPlex and some of Partners in Beauty's advertisers will place cookies with your machine whenever you visit one of our pages carrying the banners of those advertisers or the banners served by DoubleClick or MediaPlex. Please note that this happens whether or not you click on a banner placed on our site by these companies. DoubleClick, MediaPlex and Partners in Beauty's advertisers use cookies according to their own privacy and security polices. You can review DoubleClick's privacy policy at http://www.doubleclick.com and the MediaPlex privacy policy at http://www.mediaplex.com/privacy.shtml. For the privacy policies of Partners in Beauty's advertisers, you must visit their respective Web sites. We may receive requests to transfer information for legal purposes. We will disclose the identities of our users if we are legally required to do so. If a governmental agency (for example, law enforcement agencies, United States Attorneys' offices, or similar governmental agencies) sends us a subpoena, we will comply with it. If we receive a subpoena by a third party that is not a governmental agency (for example, a subpoena in connection with civil litigation), we will contact the user whose identity has been requested using the contact information the user provided during the registration process. We will wait 10 days after notifying the user before complying with the subpoena, unless the subpoena requires us to disclose this information before then. If we cannot wait 10 days because of the deadline in the subpoena, we will let the user know the deadline included in the subpoena when we provide notice that we received it. Other than as described above, we do not transfer or sell members lists to outside parties. However, in the event that Partners in Beauty, substantially all of its assets, or a line of business are acquired, individually identifying information of our members may be one of the assets sold in connection with that transaction. Partners in Beauty will notify users of the Web site of such a change in ownership or transfer of assets by posting a notice on the Web site. Security Partners in Beauty has multiple layers of security on its systems. We have implemented software and hardware security, including firewalls, data encryption, and private networks to protect your information from unauthorized access. We protect our network with Cisco Systems firewalls and intrusion-detection devices that defend against hackers and are designed to notify us if any attempts are made to compromise our network. Our Web site utilizes SSL encryption when transmitting sensitive data such as credit card information. Finally, we constantly review additional software upgrades to enhance our security measures. Children's Privacy Although not a Web site for children, Partners in Beauty.com strives to create a truly safe place for children on the Internet. Parental controls protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services), which are commercially available, may assist parenting in limiting access to content that may be harmful to minors. For more information on parental control protections, click here. Updating Your Personal Information If you are a Partners in Beauty member, you can update your information at any time by accessing your Account. To do this, just click on the "My Account" link listed throughout the site. Changes to the Privacy Policy We will inform you if we substantially modify the way we handle your personally identifiable information by posting a notice on the Web site, and we will give you the opportunity to opt-out of whether we use your information in a different manner than described above. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Partners in Beauty Web site. TRUSTe Privacy Program Partners in Beauty is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to enable individuals and organizations to establish trusting relationships based on respect for personal identity and information by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site www.Partners in Beauty.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to our users' privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. If your privacy concerns are not adequately addressed by this Web site, contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog_new.php . Contacting Us If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or the practices of this Web site, please contact: info@partnersinbeauty.com
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