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PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: Dec. 1, 2005
This privacy policy is applicable to the Web site[s] accessible at
universal resource locators Pewterkrew.com (collectively the "Site"),
which is operated Pewterkrew, LLC (collectively, the "PEWTERKREW, LLC",
"we", "our", or "us"). This privacy policy shall be prominently
published on the Site. The purpose of this privacy policy is to
disclose to you what information we may collect, how we may collect it,
with whom we may share it, and certain other matters related to such
information, including the choices you have regarding our collection of
information and our use and disclosure to other parties of information
we may have collected from you.
TYPES OF INFORMATION THAT MAY BE COLLECTED
The following are the types of information we may collect:
Information You Provide Us
Personal information such as your user ID and password, name, email address, telephone number, physical address, birth date, gender or zip code or other information may be collected via the Site.
Site Usage Information
We may receive and store certain types of information whenever you
visit the Site. For example, we may collect click-stream data and your
IP address.
Email Communications
When you open emails from the Site, we may receive a confirmation
noting you opened an email from us, if your computer supports such
capabilities. We also may keep track of what emails we send you and
what emails you may be receiving from the PEWTERKREW, LLC and our
subsidiaries and affiliates. Additionally, we keep a record of what
emails you have opted to and not to receive.
Messenger Communications
When you send, receive or open messages within your messenger provided
by the Site, we may keep a record to ensure that you and the Site's
community are protected.
Information from Other Sources
We may receive information about you from other sources and add it to your personal information.
HOW INFORMATION MAY BE COLLECTED
We may collect information from you in several different areas on the Site, including but not limited to those described below:
Registration
You may be asked first to complete a registration form and provide
personally identifiable information; you may also be asked to choose a
user ID and password in order to take advantage of certain features the
Site may choose to offer, including, but not limited to, Newsletters,
Contests, Forums, Fantasy or other subscription based services.
Newsletters and Site Emails
We may offer free newsletters to share information with you about the
Site, about us and our affiliates and subsidiaries, or about our
business partners and advertisers and sponsors. You may receive a
newsletter either by registering for a particular newsletter or in
conjunction with a special feature or membership for which you have
registered on the Site. You may cancel your free email subscription by
following the instructions provided on the Site or, in some instances,
in the designated area of certain newsletters or emails.
Contests or Sweepstakes
We may operate contests and sweepstakes through the Site which may
require registration. Your personally identifiable information may be
used to contact you for winner notification, prize delivery
confirmation or other related purposes. We may ask your permission to
allow us to post publicly some of your information on the Site, such as
on a winners page, in the event you win a contest or sweepstakes.
Except as required by applicable law, we will not post your information
without your permission. In some instances, a third party advertiser or
sponsor may operate or host a contest or sweepstakes on the Site, and
collect your information. In those cases, where we are not the operator
or host of the contest or sweepstakes, we have no control over the
information collected and accordingly urge you to review the
advertiser's or sponsor's privacy policy applicable to the contest or
sweepstakes before participating.
Surveys or Voting
From time-to-time we may request personally identifiable information
from you via surveys or voting polls. Participation is voluntary and
you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not to disclose
information. At times, you may have to register to vote or to take part
in a survey.
Cookies
As with many Web sites, the Site uses standard technology called
"cookies," which are small data files that are transferred to your
computer when you allow your browser to accept cookies. Cookies
automatically identify your Web browser to the Site whenever you visit
the Site, and make using the Site easier for you by saving your
passwords, purchases, and preferences. By tracking how and when you use
the Site, cookies help us determine which areas are popular and which
are not. Many improvements and updates to the Site are based on data
obtained from cookies. Accepting cookies allows you, among other
things, to personalize your experience on the Site. Cookies may also
allow the Site to present to you advertising which may be of interest
to you . If you do not want information collected through the use of
cookies, you generally can opt out of providing this information by
turning the cookies off in your browser; however, some areas of the
Site may not provide you with a personalized experience if you have
disabled the use of cookies.
IP Addresses and Click-stream Data
We may collect IP addresses and/or click-stream data for purposes of
system administration and to report aggregate information to our
advertisers and sponsors. An IP address is a number that is
automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the
Internet. Our computers identify your computer by its IP address. When
you request Web pages from the Site, our computers log your IP address.
Click-stream data is information collected by our computers when you
request Web pages from the Site. Click-stream data may include such
information as the page served, the time, the source of the request,
the type of browser making the request, the preceding page view and
other such non-personal information. When analyzed, this data helps us
analyze how visitors arrive at the Site, what type of content is most
popular, what type of visitors in the aggregate are interested in
particular kinds of content and advertising, and the like.
Transaction Information
If you order any information from our Site, buy any of our products or
subscribe for any of the services offered on our Site, we will ask you
to complete an order form that will request certain information from
you, including financial information such as a credit card number and
expiration date and general contact, billing and shipping information.
We will use this information to complete the transaction that you have
requested, i.e., to deliver the information, products or other services
that you order, and to invoice you. Such information is collected and
stored through encrypted means for your protection.
Fantasy Games
When you register to play Fantasy games, you may be asked to provide personally identifiable information.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION COLLECTED
PEWTERKREW, LLC owns the information collected via this Site. As applicable, the information you provide to us may be used to:
- contact you about the Site;
- contact you relating to your membership status;
- confirm or fulfill an order you have made;
- monitor or improve the use of the Site;
- customize the advertising and content you see;
- monitor compliance with our terms and conditions of use of the Site;
- provide special offers to you fromPEWTERKREW, LLC and/or their respective affiliates and subsidiaries and other third parties;
- send you promotional material on behalf of our partners;
- inform you of a prize you have won.
WITH WHOM THE INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED
At times, we may share your personally identifiable information with
others for various purposes. The following outlines the ways in which
your information may be shared with others:
- Agents:
We employ other businesses, certain services and individuals to perform
functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, sending
e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, Site
analysis, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing
credit card payments, and providing customer service. They may have
access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their
functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
- Promotional
Offers: We may send offers to you on behalf of other partners. When we
do this, we do not give that partner your name and address. If you do
not want to receive such offers, you may opt out in the email or change
your preferences.
- Aggregate Information: We
may share aggregate information such as demographics and Site usage
statistics to advertisers, sponsors or other organizations. When this
type of information is shared, the other parties do not have access to
your personally identifiable information.
- Opt-in
and Opt-out Programs: Throughout the Site you may be presented with
opportunities to receive special offers from third parties. An
opt-in/opt-out message will ask you if you would like your information
to be shared. If you do choose to have your information shared, in an
effort to protect you, third parties who have access to personally
identifiable information must abide by the current Site privacy policy.
However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these
other companies, and you should review the privacy practices of such
Web sites prior to providing your personally identifiable information.
- Third-Party
Ad Serving & Audience and Traffic Measurement Services: The Site
may use a third party network advertiser to serve the advertisements on
the Site or may use a traffic measurement service to analyze the
traffic on the Site. Network advertisers are third parties that display
advertisements based on your visits to this Site and other Web sites
you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us to target
advertisements to you for products or Web sites you might be interested
in. Audience and Traffic Measurement Services allow us to collect
anonymous traffic and behavior information from our Site by monitoring
anonymous visitor activity. Although advertisers or other companies do
not have access to the Site cookies, the Site's advertisers, sponsors
and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their
own cookies on your computer if you choose to have your cookies enabled
in your browser. Cookies allow third party advertisers to show you
advertisements or content you might be interested in. Other companies'
use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this
one.
- PEWTERKREW, LLC Subsidiaries and
Affiliates: We may share your information (including, without
limitation, personally identifiable information) with subsidiaries and
affiliates of PEWTERKREW, LLC.
- Business
Transfers: The Site may be sold along with its assets, or other
transactions may occur in which your personally identifiable
information is one of the business assets transferred. In such a case,
your personally identifiable information, which we have gathered, may
be one of the business assets we transfer.
- Legal
Process: In the event we are required to respond to subpoenas, court
orders or other legal process your personally identifiable information
may be disclosed pursuant to such subpoena, court order or legal
process, which may be without notice to you.
CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, AND MESSAGE BOARDS
The Site may make chat rooms, forums and message boards available to
its users. You are not required to provide any personal information
when using these areas but you may choose to do so. If you post
personal information online, it will be publicly available and you may
receive unsolicited messages from other parties. PEWTERKREW, LLC cannot
ensure the security of any information you choose to make public in a
chat room, forum, or message board. Also, we cannot ensure that parties
who have access to such publicly available information will respect
your privacy. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose
personal information in these areas.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
You should be aware that when you are on the Site you could be directed
to other sites beyond our control. For example, if you "click" on a
banner advertisement, the "click" may take you off the Site onto a
different Web site. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors and
partners that may use the Site's logo as part of a co-branding
agreement. These other Web sites may send their own cookies to you,
independently collect data or solicit personal information and may or
may not have their own published privacy policies. If you visit a Web
site that is linked to our Site, you should consult that site's privacy
policy before providing any personal information.
SECURITY
This Site incorporates reasonable safeguards to protect the security,
integrity, completeness, accuracy and privacy of the personal
information that we may collect and we have put into place reasonable
precautions to protect such information from loss, misuse and
alteration. Your personally identifiable information is transferred to
our computers utilizing encryption software. Only those employees who
need access to your information in order to do their jobs are allowed
access. Our security policies are reviewed periodically and revised as
required.
A SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS CONCERNING PRIVACY
The Site is a general audience site. We do not currently collect any
personal information from children under the age of thirteen on the
Site. If in the future, PEWTERKREW, LLC collects personally
identifiable information from children, it will do so in compliance
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C.
6501 et seq.) including, without limitation, obtaining necessary
parental consent. The Internet offers children wonderful educational
and entertainment resources. Your guidance and involvement are
essential to help ensure that children have a safe and rewarding online
experience. We encourage you to visit the Direct Marketing
Association's Web site ( www.the-dma.org ) and explore the Get CyberSavvy! Program as well as the GetNetWise Web site ( www.getnetwise.org ) to learn more about parental control tools.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES AND YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY
By using this Site, you signify your agreement to the terms of our
privacy policy. If we decide to change or update this privacy policy,
we will give you notice of the changes made so you can be aware of such
revised privacy policy. 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 you by way of an email or some
other means. Your continued use of the Site shall constitute your
acceptance of such revised privacy policy.
CORRECTING/UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
If your personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip
code), or if you no longer desire to access our Site, we will endeavor
to provide a way to correct, update or remove the personal data you
have provided to us. This can be done by making changes to your
profile, by using an opt out message in an email, or by emailing Member
Services at
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If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the privacy
practices of this Site, contact
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regarding this statement should be directed to:
PewterKrew, LLC.
Attn: PewterKrew.com - Privacy
3310 Lake Inks Ave.
Killeen , TX , 76543
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