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PartnersInPaper Privacy Policy
March 22, 2007
At PartnersInPaper we recognize that privacy is important. This
Policy applies to all of the products and services offered by
PartnersInPaper Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies
(collectively, PartnersInPaper's "services").
If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us
through our website or write to us at Privacy Matters, c/o
PartnersInPaper LLC., 1263 Barnes St., Atlanta, GA 30318 USA.
Information we collect and how we use it:
In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following
types of information
Information you provide - When you sign up for a
PartnersInPaper Account that requires registration, we ask you for personal
information (such as your name, address, email address and an account password).
For purchases made within our ecommerce store, we also request credit card,
which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the
information you submit under your account with information from other
PartnersInPaper services or third parties in order to provide you with a better
experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we
may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
PartnersInPaper cookies - When you visit PartnersInPaper, we
send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to
your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve
the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends,
such as how people purchase. Most browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate
when a cookie is being sent. However, some PartnersInPaper features and services
may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
Log information - When you use PartnersInPaper services, our servers
automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit our
website. These server logs may include information such as your web request,
Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of
your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications - When you send email or other communication to PartnersInPaper, we may retain those communications in order to process your
inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
Affiliated sites - We offer some of our services in connection with other web
sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to PartnersInPaper in order to deliver the service. We process such information in
accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy
practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
Links - PartnersInPaper may present links in a format that enables us to keep
track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to
improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and
advertising.
Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are
owned and operated by PartnersInPaper. We do not exercise control over the sites
displayed as links from within our various services. These other sites may place
their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit
personal information from you.
PartnersInPaper only processes personal information for the purposes described
in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In
addition to the above, such purposes include:
- Providing our products and services to users, including the display of
customized content and advertising;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our
services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and Developing new services.
PartnersInPaper processes personal information on our servers in the United
States of America. We may process personal information to provide our own
services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and
according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising
partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you
to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner
different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your
consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those
described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer
you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those
other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes
other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service
notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which
case PartnersInPaper may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
PartnersInPaper only shares personal information with other companies or
individuals outside of PartnersInPaper in the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive
personal information.
We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other
trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information
on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information
based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other
appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such
information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law,
regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce
applicable term of service, including investigation of potential violations
thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical
issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety
of PartnersInPaper, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If PartnersInPaper becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of
sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal
information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal
information, such as the number of users who purchased a particular item, for
example, how many users clicked on a particular affiliate link. Such information
does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the
management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include
internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and
security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against
unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to PartnersInPaper employees,
contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate,
develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality
obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal
prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
PartnersInPaper processes personal information only for the purposes for which
it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable
service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and
processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the
personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take
reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate,
complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their
personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use PartnersInPaper services, we make good faith efforts to provide you
with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it
is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise
required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask
individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be
accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may
decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic,
require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or
would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information
residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any
case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service
free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some
of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users'
personal information.
Enforcement
PartnersInPaper regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel
free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or
PartnersInPaper's treatment of personal information by contacting us through
this web site or by writing to us at Privacy Matters, c/o PartnersInPaper LLC.,
1263 Barnes St., Atlanta, GA 30318 USA. When we receive formal written
complaints at this address, it is PartnersInPaper's policy to contact the
complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the
appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities,
to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be
resolved between PartnersInPaper and an individual.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not
reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we
expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy
changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more
prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy
changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page
by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy
Policy in an archive for your review.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel
free to contact us any time through this web site or at Privacy Matters, c/o
PartnersInPaper LLC., 1263 Barnes St., Atlanta, GA 30318 USA.
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