Privacy Statement

eREC Privacy Statement

• We at findeREC.com, Inc. (“We") 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 find-erec.com Website but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between find-erec.com, or any other company, and consumers. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on June 29, 2004. 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.
• Information We Collect From You
• In order to operate the Site and to provide you with services for which you are subscribing, we mush collect “personal information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly (without using the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address), “financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers) “demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information; this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, gender, Username, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history information, searching history information, and registration history information, subject to the rest of this paragraph. Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1) “non-public information", which consists of purchase history information and one-on-one communications between you and other Users of the Site; and 2) “public information", which consists of information you have entered that is viewable online to other Users via the Internet.
• 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 eREC). These types of communications are known as “Operational Communications."
• To operate the Site, certain personal information will be displayed to other Users of the Site as part of the service being provided to you as a Member. The names, ages and telephone numbers of Members, Co-Members and child Members will be provided online as the service for which you are subscribing to receive.
• 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 and order fulfillment sweepstakes. We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
• Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is authorized to use your personal 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. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.
• 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 personal information.
• How We Use Financial Information
• We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for services you 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 cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of findeREC.com, Inc. 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 who 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.
• How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
• We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to enable other Users to find your record account, to identify the names and telephone numbers of individuals you provide as emergency contacts, including the names and telephone numbers of Members and Co-Members. We may use demographic information to tailor the Site and communications to your interests.
• 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. Please contact us with any questions regarding this privacy policy.