This Overall Privacy Statement verifies that uPromote® is in compliance with leading privacy principles. This statement discloses the privacy practices for the entire web site. Our mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the principles of disclosure and informed consent. What information this site gathers/tracks about you What this site does with the information it gathers/tracks With whom this site shares the information it gathers/tracks Does this site use cookies? This site's opt-out policy This site's policy on correcting and updating personally identifiable information Changes in our privacy policy. Methods of contacting the Site. Direct questions regarding this statement to uPromote Support Services.  About uPromote.com Welcome to uPromote.com®, provider of customized Web marketing and advertising solutions for increasing the visibility of web sites, their products and services. We educate our clients, helping them to understand their unique Web-based challenges and how to surmount them. We bring targeted customers to our clients, presenting them with the appropriate Web promotion strategies to grow their bottom line. We strengthen our clients, by setting up the necessary tools for measuring the effectiveness of their online advertising efforts. To improve upon their underestanding of Web marketing, our members may create their own unique profiles in our discussion forum, as a member to our newsletter of in any of our free online marketing tools. In order to do this, we must ask for certain personal information. None of the information we gather can be used by the public (visitors, other members, or anyone not employed by uPromote.com) to identify specific individuals. We are an anonymous account-based service. We collect first name, last name, zip code and country of origin only from those who choose to join. All visitors to our site may browse the site, and view any articles or features our site has to offer without entering any personal information. The information provided in this Customer Information Privacy Policy covers your interactions with all uPromote® services. Information submitted to uPromote.com® uPromote® gathers information about our customers that allows us to offer compelling and easily accessible online content in a manner that provides personal privacy protection as well. Occasionally we ask you to provide us information such as your name, email address, or what your interests and hobbies are. You never have to answer these questions although this may limit what services we can offer you. uPromote.com® gathers two types of information: information users submit to us and information not directly submitted by users. There are two types of user-submitted information we collect: Public and Private. We define Public information as personal information that may be displayed on the site, such as interests or anonymous user name (screen name) but cannot be linked to a particular user. Private information is defined as any information that allows others to contact a user other than through uPromote.com® or allows the collection of information about the user other than what is displayed on the site. Public: To accomplish our goal of bringing people the information they seek, we must gather personal information, which may or may not include: customer-specified uPromote.com® username, gender, age, ethnic background, occupation, web site and general geographic location. Much of this information is optional, and meant to be seen by members and visitors to the site but cannot be used to identify a specific member by name, address, etc. Private: This information is gathered from members and guests who apply for the various services our site offers. This information includes, but is not limited to: email address, first name, last name, birthdate, a user-specified password, mailing address, zip code and telephone number. Surveys & Contests: From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, and age). Information not Directly Submitted by Users to Us:This is information we collect that is not personally identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all users to the site. uPromote® will not willfully disclose personal information about its customers to any third party without first receiving that customer's permission.  Use of the Information We Obtain As a company, uPromote® believes so strongly in protecting consumer privacy that we keep your personal information in a secure, non-Web accessible database and will NEVER share your information with third party vendors unless you provide the appropriate consent. The choice of how much personally identifiable information about yourself to disclose to uPromote is left completely up to you, our customer. But however you choose to interact with uPromote®, you have our guarantee of privacy: uPromote® strives to provide you with a compelling reason to re-visit our site. We use the information to provide personalized portions of our site that are intended to provide just the information you are interested in receiving. In other instances it is our partners who provide these tailored services. Occasionally we will send you email communications to provide information which we think you will find useful, including information about new products and services from uPromote®. It is our policy only to send email to customers who give us permission to do so. In every such email, we will also have instructions on how to unsubscribe so that you will not receive any future emails from uPromote if you do not wish to, or you can avoid receiving them altogether - see our Opt-out Policy below. Public: Public information supplied by the user is intended to be viewed by visitors to the site. Public information cannot be used to identify a specific member by name, address, etc. Private: We primarily use Email addresses submitted by members to verify enrollment and when forwarding anonymous emails from ad responders. Respondees' email addresses are not disclosed to the responder by our service. We may also use a user's email address to send news regarding our site, but the user may choose not to receive email of this type by contacting us. Email addresses may also be used in private correspondence with the user for customer service issues. All other private information submitted by the user is confidential and will not be disclosed except as required by law or to protect members of uPromote.com®. All private information can be updated or deleted by the user at any time. Surveys & Contests: Contact and other information collected for contests will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information collected will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.  Information Distribution The individually identifiable information that you provide will be used extensively by uPromote.com to provide a personalized experience to you. It will also be shared with uPromote.com partners that provide some of the personalized content on our site and other third parties unrelated to offerings by uPromote®, but only if you have given your permission for this to occur. Our privacy guarantee to you remains unchanged: uPromote® will not willfully disclose personal information about its customers to any third party without first receiving that customer's permission. Links This site contains links to other web sites. Please be aware that uPromote.com® is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site. Other companies which place advertising on our site may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising or content. uPromote® does not control this collection of information. You should contact these advertisers or content providers directly if you have any questions about their use of this information. Additionally, uPromote.com® does not control the information collection and distribution policies on sites off of our site or outside of our email communications. Use of Cookies A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects a cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas on our site. We occasionally use cookies to anonymously track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site or for advertising tracking purposes. In addition, cookies may be used on our site to allow enhanced capabilities such as chat. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user! Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. Opt-Out Features uPromote.com® places control over communications directed to you where it belongs - in your hands. Every time we collect name and address information about you, you're free to declare whether you want to receive communication from uPromote.com® such as email newsletters announcing contests or new features. You can tell us if you don't want to receive communication from third-party companies who offer a product or service that we think would be of value to you. And, of course, you can always decline to provide the personal information to us in the first place. Correcting and Updating uPromote.com® gives users the following options for modifying or removing their information from our database: 1. You can send email to customercare@upromote.com Changes in our privacy policy If we change our privacy policy, we will prominently post a link to those changes on our home page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use 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. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner, and we will then use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. Methods of contacting the Site If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: 1. Via Email customercare@upromote.com