Privacy Policy
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Collection of Your Personal Information
At some CaledosLAB sites, we ask you to provide personal information, such as
your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. We may
also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender,
preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase or sign
up for a paid subscription service, we will ask for additional information, such
as your credit card number and billing address, which is used to create a
CaledosLAB billing account. In order to access some CaledosLAB services, you
will be asked to sign in with an e-mail address and password.
Use of
Your Personal Information
CaledosLAB collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve
its sites and services. These uses may include providing you with more effective
customer service; making the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the
need for you to repeatedly enter the same information; performing research and
analysis aimed at improving our products, services and technologies; and
displaying content and advertising that are customized to your interests and
preferences. For more information about the use of information for advertising,
see the Display of Advertising section below. We also use your personal
information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory service
communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders, information on
technical service issues, and security announcements. Some CaledosLAB services,
such as Windows Live Hotmail, may send periodic member letters that are
considered part of the service. Additionally, with your permission, we may also
occasionally send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform you of
other products or services available from CaledosLAB and its affiliates,
information about other CaledosLAB products and services, and/or share your
personal information with CaledosLAB partners so they may send you information
about their products and services. Personal information collected on CaledosLAB
sites and services may be stored and processed in the United States or any other
country in which CaledosLAB or its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers
maintain facilities.
Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal
information outside of CaledosLAB and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates
without your consent. Some CaledosLAB sites allow you to choose to share your
personal information with select CaledosLAB partners so that they can contact
you about their products, services or offers. Some CaledosLAB services are
co-branded by CaledosLAB and another company. In some cases, both a CaledosLAB
privacy statement and the other company’s privacy statement will be displayed.
If so, information you provide, such as on registration forms, is collected by
both CaledosLAB and the other company. We occasionally hire other companies to
provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and
delivery of mailings, providing customer support, hosting websites, processing
transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those service
providers will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to
deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the
information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose than for
delivering the service to CaledosLAB in accordance with CaledosLAB’s
instructions and policies. However, our fraud detection vendors may use data to
help improve their services. This helps them more accurately detect fraudulent
transactions. We may access or disclose information about you, including the
content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond
to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of
CaledosLAB or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or
policies governing your use of the services; or (c) act on a good faith belief
that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of
CaledosLAB employees, customers or the public. We may also disclose personal
information as part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of
assets.
Security of Your Personal Information
CaledosLAB is committed to protecting the security of your personal information
and information collected for advertising purposes. We use a variety of security
technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from
unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal
information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are
located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential
information (such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet, we
protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
protocol. If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal
information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do
not share this information with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with
anyone you should always log out before leaving a site or service to protect
access to your information from subsequent users. Top of page Collection and Use
of Children's Personal Information Many CaledosLAB sites and services are
intended for general audiences and do not knowingly collect any personal
information from children. When a CaledosLAB site does collect age information,
and users identify themselves as under 13, the site will either block such users
from providing personal information, or will seek to obtain consent from parents
for the collection, use and sharing of their children's personal information.
CaledosLAB Web sites use "cookies" to enable you to sign in to our services and
to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that
is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies contain information
that can later be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to
you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to store your preferences and other
information on your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need
to repeatedly enter the same information and to display your personalized
content and appropriate advertising on your later visits to these sites.
CaledosLAB Web sites also use cookies as described in the Collection of your
Information and Display of Advertising sections of this privacy statement. When
you sign in to a site using your Windows Live ID credentials, we store your
unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your
hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without
having to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, these cookies are
deleted from your computer. We also use cookies to improve the sign in
experience. For example, your e-mail address may be stored in a cookie that will
remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie allows your e-mail
address to be pre-populated, so that you will only need to type your password
the next time you sign in. If you are using a public computer or do not
otherwise want this information to be stored, you can select the appropriate
radio button on the sign-in page, and this cookie will not be used. You have the
ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept
cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if
you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or
use other interactive features of CaledosLAB sites and services that depend on
cookies, and some advertising preferences that are dependent on cookies may not
be able to be respected.
Use of Web Beacons
CaledosLAB Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons -
sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to assist in delivering
cookies on our sites and allow us to count users who have visited those pages
and to deliver co-branded services. We may include Web beacons in promotional
e-mail messages or our newsletters in order to determine whether messages have
been opened and acted upon. CaledosLAB may also employ Web beacons from third
parties in order to help us compile aggregated statistics regarding the
effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or other operations of our sites. We
prohibit Web beacons on our sites from being used by third parties to collect or
access your personal information. Finally, we may work with other companies that
advertise on CaledosLAB sites to place Web beacons on their sites in order to
allow us to develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on a
CaledosLAB site results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser's site.
How to Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices, go to the full CaledosLAB
Online Privacy Statement. If you have a technical or general support question,
please send mail to support@caledos.com