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Who We Are; Disclosure and Use of
Information within ZiggyBug, Inc.
When we say "we" or "ZiggyBug"
in this privacy policy, we mean ZiggyBug, Inc., a California
corporation.
Information We Collect From You
We may collect "contact information"
(i.e., information that could be used to contact you such
as full name, postal address, phone number and email address
as well as your computer's unique IP address (if any)), "financial
information" (i.e., passwords, credit and debit card
numbers and bank and other financial institution account numbers)
and "demographic information" (e.g., zip code, postal
code, hometown, gender, purchase history information and age
as well as IP addresses that are not unique to your computer)
from you. Please note that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly
collect contact information or financial information from
children under the age of 13.
How We Use Contact Information;
Responsibility
• Order and Payment Processing,
Customer Service, Credit Card Issuers & Quality Assurance.
We use contact information to help us efficiently perform
transactions, to deliver the services you have requested,
to perform quality assurance, sales analyses and other business
analyses, and to contact you in connection with your provider
membership. In some cases we may use service providers to
help us perform some of these tasks, including, but not
limited to, processing or fulfilling your orders, or performing
customer service, business analyses or quality control,
and consequently we may share your contact information with
these service providers. In such cases, we often require
these service providers to enter into agreements with us
regarding the confidential handling of your information.
We may also provide your contact information to your credit
card issuer or to credit card processors for their purposes.
When you make a purchase through the Site, or register with
the Site, you will provide us with an email address where
we, or these service providers, may contact you for the
purposes described in this paragraph.
• Contacting You for Offers
and Promotions.
In connection with your provider membership, we may may
use your email to send out newsletters and important information
about your provider account. WE WILL NEVER SELL YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION TO ANY OTHER PARTY.
• Divulging Your Contact
Information for Legal and Administrative Reasons.
We may disclose specific contact information when we determine
that such disclosure is necessary to comply with law, to
cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement or
to protect the interests or safety of ZiggyBug or other
visitors to the Site or users of services or products provided
by ZiggyBug. Also, your contact information may be passed
on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership
or assets, or a bankruptcy, of ZiggyBug.
• Responsibility.
ZiggyBug will not be responsible or otherwise liable for
any use or disclosure of your contact information by a third
party to whom ZiggyBug is allowed to disclose your contact
information under this privacy policy.
How We Use Financial Information;
Responsibility
We use your financial information to
check your qualifications, to help us efficiently perform
sales and other transactions, to deliver the services you
have requested, to enroll you in the discount, rebate and
other programs in which you elect to participate and to perform
quality assurance. In some cases we may use, and consequently
we may provide to service providers, your financial information
to help us perform some of these tasks. In such cases, we
will require these service providers to enter into agreements
with us regarding the confidential handling of your information.
We may also provide your financial information to your credit
card issuer, financial institutions or credit card processors
to process transactions and for their other purposes..
ZiggyBug will not be responsible or otherwise
liable for any use or disclosure of your financial information
by a third party to whom ZiggyBug is allowed to disclose your
financial information under this privacy policy.
How We Use Demographic Information
We
may use your demographic information to perform business analyses
or to tailor the Site and communications to your interests.
We may share anonymous, aggregated (grouped) demographic information
with advertisers and other third parties so that they can
tailor their advertisements and communications to the appropriate
audience. Any time that we are allowed under this privacy
policy to share your contact information or financial information,
we may also share your demographic information along with
it.
Information Other Web Sites Collect
From You
On the Site, we place links to other web sites operated
by other parties. Some of these other web sites contain our
brand names and trademarks and other intellectual property
that we own; others do not. When you click on these links
and visit these other web sites, regardless of whether or
not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual
property, you need to be aware that we do not control these
other web sites or these other web sites' business practices,
and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other
web sites. Consequently, the operators of these other web
sites may collect different kinds of information about you,
and may use and disclose that information in different ways
than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage
you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we
will not be responsible for their actions.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce websites, each time you visit
the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the
web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize
the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we
use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad
demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most websites, the Site uses cookies to help
it keep track of your purchases and other activity on the
Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use
cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and
to facilitate the retrieval of information so you do not have
to re-enter it each time you visit the Site. On the Site,
others may place or read cookies on your browser as well.
If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help"
portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how.
However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may
not be able to access certain areas or features of the Site.
Our Security Precautions; Geographic
Location of Information
The Site has security measures in place to help protect
against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information
under our control. We use secure socket layer (SSL) technology
to help protect the security of commerce transactions. We
encrypt your contact information and financial information
as it travels over the Internet. Your information may be transferred
to and maintained in whole or in part on computer networks
which may be located outside of the state, province, country
or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and
may be stored on equipment or in facilities leased or licensed
from third parties.
Public Areas
The Site may provide you with the opportunity to
post information for display in areas of the site that are
accessible to viewing by the general public ("public
areas"), including, but not limited to, bulletin boards,
chat rooms and user-submitted comments. This privacy policy
does not apply to any information that you submit for use
in public areas. We ask that you do not submit any contact
information or financial information for display in public
areas, as other people who use the Site will see it. If you
submit such information for display in public areas, ZiggyBug
cannot prevent it from being used in a manner that violates
the law, your personal privacy or your safety. By submitting
such information for display in public areas, you assume the
risks and sole liability arising as a result of such information
being displayed.
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