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I.
ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND USING OUR SITE AND TOOLS
This Privacy Policy applies to the BLUETOOZ.com website, information
as provided by BLUETOOZ. and its subsidiaries. Within this privacy
policy, the name “BLUETOOZ.com” pertains to any and all websites
hosted and/or operated by BLUETOOZ., including co-branded, product
and divisional websites.
The BLUETOOZ.com website contains links to other sites. Once you
enter another website, be aware that BLUETOOZ.com is not responsible
for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to
look for and review the privacy statements of each and every website
that you visit through a link on BLUETOOZ.com. We hope that reading
our Privacy Policy gives you a clear idea of how we manage
information about you.
While you may use some of the functionality of BLUETOOZ.com without
registration, many of the specific tools and services on our website
require registration. If you use our website without registering,
the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information
through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons. If you choose to register
with our website for certain services, we require you to submit
Personally Identifiable Information. Depending on the tool or
service you have selected. You are responsible for ensuring the
accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information you submit to
BLUETOOZ.com. Inaccurate information will affect the information you
receive when using our site and tools and our ability to contact you
as contemplated in this Privacy Policy. For example, your email
address should be kept current because that it is how we communicate
with you.
II. NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Even if you do not register with BLUETOOZ.com, we collect
Non-Personal Information about your use of our website, special
promotions and newsletters.
A. Cookies
We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our
website and your use of the websites of selected sponsors and
advertisers through the use of Cookies. BLUETOOZ.com assigns
every computer a different Cookie. The information collected by
Cookies (i) helps us dynamically generate advertising and
content on web pages or in newsletters, (ii) allows us to
statistically monitor how many people are using our website and
selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, (iii) how many people
open our emails, and (iv) for what purposes these actions are
being taken. We may use Cookie information to target certain
advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of
certain content or advertisements. Cookies are also used to
facilitate a user's log-in, as navigation aides and as session
timers, but not to retain Personal Health Information about you.
Cookies used by BLUETOOZ.com are also used to restrict underage
use of the tools.
Your browser software can be set to reject all Cookies. Most
browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to
reject Cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you
reject our Cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of
our website may not work properly but you do not have to accept
our Cookies in order to productively use our site. We do not
link Non-Personal Information from Cookies to Personally
Identifiable Information without your permission and do not use
Cookies to collect or store Personal Health Information about
you.
B. Web Beacons
We also may use Web Beacons to collect Non-Personal Information
about your use of our website and the websites of selected
sponsors and advertisers, and your use of special promotions or
newsletters. The information collected by Web Beacons allows us
to statistically monitor your usage of our websites.
Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of
our websites. We do not link Non-Personal Information from Web
Beacons to Personally Identifiable Information without your
permission and do not use Web Beacons to collect or store
Personal Health Information about you.
III. PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We collect Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to
us when you register as a member of BLUETOOZ.com and/or when you
update your member profile. We use the Personally Identifiable
Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide
you the specific services you select, send you emails about website
maintenance and updates, and inform you of significant changes to
this Privacy Policy.
A. Emails You Send to
BLUETOOZ.com
This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send content,
business information, ideas, concepts or inventions to
BLUETOOZ.com by email. If you want to keep content or business
information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or
proprietary, do not send them in an email to BLUETOOZ.com. We
try to answer every email within 48 business hours, but are not
always able to do so.
B. Website Registration and Interactive Tools on BLUETOOZ.com
After you have registered as a member of BLUETOOZ.com, you may
choose to use certain interactive content, tools and services
that may ask you to voluntarily provide other types of
information about yourself.
C. Children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. We do
not collect Personally Identifiable Information from any person
we actually know is under the age of 13. A parent or guardian is
solely responsible for providing supervision of the minor's use
of BLUETOOZ.com. The parent or guardian assumes full
responsibility for ensuring that the registration information is
kept secure and that the information submitted is accurate. The
parent or guardian also assumes full responsibility for the
interpretation and use of any information or suggestions
provided through BLUETOOZ.com for the minor. BLUETOOZ.com does
not sell products for purchase by children. We sell children's
products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may
use BLUETOOZ.com only with the involvement of a parent or
guardian.
D. Market Research
From time to time the BLUETOOZ.com marketing department, or
operations contractors acting on its behalf, may conduct online
research surveys in order to gather feedback about our site
through email invitations, pop-up surveys or online focus
groups. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to submit
Personally Identifiable Information. This Personally
Identifiable Information is used for research purposes, and is
not used for sales solicitations. When a third party sponsors a
survey, Aggregate Information of the survey results is reported
to the sponsor. Aggregate data does not contain any information
that could be used to contact or identify you. Personally
Identifiable Information collected through market research will
only be used by BLUETOOZ.com and its operations contractors and
will not be given or sold to a third party without your consent.
IV. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed
to by you, BLUETOOZ.com will not disclose any Personally
Identifiable or Personal Health Information it gathers from you on
our website. We will only release Personally Identifiable
Information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal
requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or
court order; or (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to
you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to
disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to a third party,
we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law
or court order. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as
described below.
BLUETOOZ.com operations and maintenance
contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally
Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or
services to BLUETOOZ.com. These contractors include vendors and
suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content
related to better operation and maintenance of our website. Access
to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is
limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor
to perform its limited function for BLUETOOZ.com. We also
contractually require that our operations and maintenance
contractors:
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protect the privacy of your
Personally Identifiable Information consistent with this Privacy
Policy
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not use or disclose your Personally
Identifiable Information for any purpose other than providing us
with products and services
V. HOW BLUETOOZ.COM HANDLES
PRIVACY AND SECURITY INTERNALLY
Listed below are some of the security procedures that BLUETOOZ.com
uses to protect your privacy:
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Requires both a personal username
and a password in order for users to access their Personally
Identifiable Information.
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Uses firewalls to protect
information held in our servers.
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Utilizes encryption in transmitting
Personally Identifiable Information to our servers.
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Closely monitors the limited number
of BLUETOOZ.com employees who have potential access to your
Personally Identifiable Information.
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Requires all BLUETOOZ.com employees
to abide by our Privacy Policy and be subject to disciplinary
action if they violate it.
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Backs-up our systems to protect the
integrity of your Personally Identifiable and Personal Health
Information.
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Provides secure messaging within the
BLUETOOZ.com so that information related to your personal health
is sent through a secure, encrypted connection.
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All credit card transactions are
processed through Verisign. Your information is encrypted via a
“key” encryption and decoded, which allows them to process and
authorize your information.
Despite BLUETOOZ.com's efforts to
protect your Personally Identifiable Information, there is always
some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our
security systems or that transmissions of your information over the
Internet will be intercepted.
VI. UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION AND
CONTACTING BLUETOOZ.COM
A. Updating Your Personally
Identifiable Information
BLUETOOZ.com pages that collect and store self-reported data
allow you to correct, update or review information you have
submitted by going back to the specific page, logging-in and
making the desired changes.
B. Removing your Personal
Information
If you have a complaint or problem, including removing your
information from our systems, please email us at info@BLUETOOZ.com.
Our customer service department will forward your complaint to
the appropriate internal BLUETOOZ.com department for a response
or resolution. We try to answer every email within 48 business
hours, but may not always able to do so. If you do not receive
adequate resolution of a privacy related problem, you may email
to BLUETOOZ.com at:
administrator@BLUETOOZ.com
C. Limitations on Removing or Changing Information
Upon your request, we will delete your Personally Identifiable
or Personal Health Information from our active databases and
where feasible from our back-up media. You should be aware that
it is not technologically possible to remove each and every
record of the information you have provided to BLUETOOZ.com from
our servers.
VII. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY
POLICY
BLUETOOZ.com retains the right to update this privacy policy at its
general discretion according to the needs of the business, its
consumers or in accordance with the mandates of federal and state
law.
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