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MadRooster.com takes your privacy seriously.
Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
NOTICE: Click
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the Federal Trade Commission.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
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This policy covers how MadRooster.com treats
personal information that MadRooster.com collects and receives,
including information related to your past use of MadRooster.com
products and services. Personal information is information
about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address,
email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly
available.
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This policy does not apply to the practices
of companies that MadRooster.com does not own or control, or
to people that MadRooster.com does not employ or manage. In
addition, certain MadRooster.com associated companies such
as MadRooster Designs, ILR Systems, and USMCS have their own
privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking on the links.
Information Collection and Use
General
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MadRooster.com collects personal information
when you register with MadRooster.com, when you use MadRooster.com
products or services, when you visit MadRooster.com pages or
the pages of certain MadRooster.com partners, and when you
enter promotions or sweepstakes. MadRooster.com may combine
information about you that we have with information we obtain
from business partners or other companies.
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When you register we ask for information such
as your name, email address, zip code, occupation, and industry.
For some financial products and services we may also ask for
your address, Social Security number, and information about
your assets. Once you register with MadRooster.com and sign
in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
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MadRooster.com collects information about your
transactions with us and with some of our business partners,
including information about your use of financial products
and services that we offer.
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MadRooster.com automatically receives and records
information on our server logs from your browser, including
your IP address, MadRooster.com cookie information, and the
page you request.
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MadRooster.com uses information for the following
general purposes: to customize the advertising and content
you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve
our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous
reporting for internal and external clients.
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When a child under age 13 attempts to register
with MadRooster.com, we ask that he or she have a parent or
guardian create a MadRooster.com Account to obtain parental
permission.
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MadRooster.com will not contact children under
age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without
a parent's permission.
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MadRooster.com does not ask a child under age
13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation,
than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity
or promotion.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
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MadRooster.com does not rent, sell, or share
personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated
companies except to provide products or services you've requested,
when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
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We provide the information to trusted partners
who work on behalf of or with MadRooster.com under confidentiality
agreements. These companies may use your personal information
to help MadRooster.com communicate with you about offers
from MadRooster.com and our marketing partners. However,
these companies do not have any independent right to share
this information.
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We have a parent's permission to share
the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents
have the option of allowing MadRooster.com to collect and
use their child's information without consenting to MadRooster.com
sharing of this information with people and companies who
may use this information for their own purposes;
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We respond to subpoenas, court orders,
or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal
rights or defend against legal claims;
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We believe it is necessary to share information
in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person,
violations of MadRooster.com's terms of use, or as otherwise
required by law.
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We transfer information about you if MadRooster.com
is acquired by or merged with another company. In this
event, MadRooster.com will notify you before information
about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different
privacy policy.
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MadRooster.com displays targeted advertisements
based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving
companies) may assume that people who interact with, view,
or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for
example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
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MadRooster.com does not provide any personal
information to the advertiser when you interact with or
view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing
an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser
will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria
used to display the ad.
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MadRooster.com advertisers include financial
service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock
brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies
(such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
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MadRooster.com works with vendors, partners,
advertisers, and other service providers in different industries
and categories of business. For more information regarding
providers of products or services that you've requested please
read our detailed reference links.
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MadRooster.com may set and access MadRooster.com
cookies on your computer.
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MadRooster.com lets other companies that show
advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies
on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is
subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers
or other companies do not have access to MadRooster.com's cookies.
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MadRooster.com uses web beacons to access MadRooster.com
cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in
connection with MadRooster.com products and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information
and Preferences
General
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You can edit your MadRooster.com Account Information
at any time.
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We reserve the right to send you certain communications
relating to the MadRooster.com service, such as service announcements,
administrative messages and the MadRooster.com Newsletter,
that are considered part of your MadRooster.com account, without
offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
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You can delete your MadRooster.com account
by visiting our support
department and requesting removal.
Confidentiality and Security
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We limit access to personal information about
you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into
contact with that information to provide products or services
to you or in order to do their jobs.
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We have physical, electronic, and procedural
safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect
personal information about you.
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To learn more about security, including the
security steps we have taken and security steps you can take,
please read Security at MadRooster.com.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Questions and Suggestions
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MadRooster.com is TRUSTe-certified. This certification
applies to all English-language sites under the MadRosoter.com
domain. If you feel that your inquiry has not been satisfactorily
addressed, you should contact TRUSTe, an independent privacy
organization. TRUSTe serves as a liaison with MadRooster.com
to resolve your concern.
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If you have questions or suggestions, please
complete a feedback form or you can contact us at:
MadRooster.com Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
Box 481
Queen Creek, AZ 85242
Effective Date: March 28, 2002
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