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PRIVACY
POLICY
Your privacy is very important to CCG Partners, Inc.
(the “Company” or “we”).
The following Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and
safeguard the information you provide to us through the Company owned
and/or operated web site(s) (Hereinafter referred to as "Site,"
"Sites," "SITE," or "SITES) and their
related features and functions. As of February 1, 2008 the Site includes www.teasing-video.com.
We are committed
to respecting and safeguarding your privacy online, as set forth in
this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy sets forth the policies and
practices of the Company with respect to information and other data
that is received or gathered regarding visitors to, and members,
subscribers and other users of, the Site and services provided by or
related to the Site. The use of the terms "visitor", and
"member" shall, depending on your status, shall mean and
otherwise refer to you. The term "Third Party Program
Participants" shall mean merchants, advertisers, promoters,
content providers and others that the Company contracts with to
provide goods and services via programs and Offers (as that term is
defined below) available to Site users.
This document contains
thirteen (13) numbered paragraphs.
Before you begin or continue to use the Site, or any services or
functionality provided by or through the Site, please carefully read
this privacy policy. This privacy policy contains important
information. It is also very important that you fully understand our
policy because by your use or continued use of this Site or any of
its related services you will be expressly signifying that you agree
to this policy in its entirety and that you agree to the collection
and use of information that you supply or that is collected about
you, including personal information, as detailed in this policy
statement.
Only adults are authorized to use this Site.
Authorized access and use of the Site, its databases and
functionality is limited to persons over the age of eighteen years,
and such access and use is limited by our
terms and conditions.
The company does not knowingly seek or collect any personal
information or other data from any persons under the age of eighteen
years.
If you do not understand or do not expressly agree with
all of the terms of this privacy policy and our
terms and conditions, you should not use this Site or the services offered or otherwise
provided by or through this Site.
1. Information
Security
We are dedicated to the protection of Site users'
information. To prevent unauthorized access to information provided
to us, the Company uses a number of generally accepted industry
standard procedures designed to effectively safeguard the
confidentiality of your personal information. These procedures
include secure server location,
controlled access to data and equipment, robust redundant firewall
software, network monitoring, and adaptive analysis of network traffic to
track and prevent attempted network intrusions and other network
abuse. We shall continue to take
reasonable steps to provide effective data protection at all times,
however, because no security technology can provide invulnerability
to information compromise, the Company cannot, and does not,
guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us or
to any third party affiliated with the Site.
2. Visitor,
Subscriber, Member and User Information
When you visit or
use this Site, including, for example, when you click on any of our
links, we will collect and store in one or more of our databases, one
or more of the following types of information ("Data"):
your IP address (the domain name or other locator indicating your
access to Internet); the IP address of the Website from which you
linked to our Site operating system; browser data; email address
data; the date and time you access our Site and its functions, and
any other accessible online user, biometric or device information. We
will often collect Data at several points throughout the Site, its
links and through related functionality.
We use Data to
measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our Site,
to help us make our Site more useful to visitors, to measure the
amount of traffic generated through our affiliate network, to
generate usage statistics, to ensure email reaches intended
destinations, to generate special offers and advertisements which we
may present to you, to provide our marketing partners, affiliates,
licensees, purchasers and successors in interest with accurate Data
and to prevent fraud.
Sometimes, we will ask you to provide,
on a strictly optional basis, "Optional Information," such
as your name, username, address, zip code, telephone number, credit
card data, or other personal information, such as other identifiers
that permits physical or online contacting of you. For example, such
information may be requested, on an optional basis, for participation
in special promotions or other Offers.
The only
personally-identifying information we collect and store about you is
the information you, voluntarily choose to provide to us, such as
your name, e-mail address, address, zip code, telephone number, etc.,
in response to a specific prompt that requires you to initially enter
the information. In addition, we, our agents, affiliates, Third Party
Program Participants and others may ask you to voluntarily provide
additional personal information for billing, shipping and other
similar purposes.
When a visitor or member requests web
pages from the Site's server, clicks on banners or other links or
otherwise uses the Site's services or other functionalities, we or
our agents may automatically collect some information or data about
the user and the user's Site use, including the IP address from which
the Site is being accessed, the pages or links that were requested,
the special preferences or requests of the user and cookie
information received from the computer of the user. You agree that
all such information and other Data may be collected and used by the
Site and its agents.
When any Site user signs-on as a member
or subscriber of this Site or related services, that person will be
required to provide certain personal as well as demographic
information. Such Optional Information, may include, but is not
necessarily limited to, the subscriber's name, address, birthday,
e-mail address, gender, marital status, occupation, education, credit
card number and expiration date of the credit card, username and
password, and special interests or affiliations. This Site, the
Company and its agents, may collect any and all such Optional
Information and include it in its databases with Data and other
information.
If a visitor, member, subscriber or other Site
user sends any personal communication or correspondence, by any
means, to the Site, the Company or any of its employees, agents or
representatives, we may collect, in databases and otherwise, and use,
any and all such information and other Data regarding that
communication, consistent with this privacy policy.
3.
Cookies
We use cookies for your convenience. For
example, we use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate
and otherwise use our Site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are
stored by a user's Web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can
be used to "remember" what information a user accesses on
one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web Site
by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's
transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to
move between and interact with Web pages and to complete commercial
transactions over the Internet. The Site also uses cookies to store
and sometimes track information to make your online experience easier
and more personalized and for other purposes related to your use of
the Site and related services. For example, because a cookie can be
linked to information you have inputted or which has otherwise been
collected, the need to repetitively enter certain information, such
as your username or email address, can be eliminated. The use of
cookies also assists us in acquiring important Site usage Data.
Cookies can also assist us in tracking and targeting the interests,
preferences and desires of our Site users to present the most
appropriate messages, offers and other communications to our users,
and to generally enhance their experience at our Site.
Currently,
there are two general types of cookies commonly used in association
with typical Web Sites including our Site: "session"
cookies and "persistent" cookies. A session or "session
ID" cookie is functional only during the current "session"
use of your browser, i.e., it ceases to function when you close you
browser. A "persistent" cookie remains on your hard beyond
the current browser session. You can remove persistent cookies by
following directions provided in your Internet browser's "Help"
file. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies.
Also,
some Site use rewards and other benefits tied to Site usage use
session cookies to track your Site usage and give you proper credit.
We may also use persistent cookies to track the actions of our users
to enhance the experience on our Site, other web Sites and to more
effectively communicate Offers, promotional data and other useful
information to you. At the present time, we intend to also adopt and
use helpful future cookie technology, and similar types of
technologies, as they become available. We may implement any and all
such new technologies and similar improvements to Site functionality
without notice.
We may also track special offers, promotions
and other advertising delivered by us, and your responses to them, by
using cookies. This helps us reduce the number of offers that might
not be interesting to you. We also use cookies to help us credit
persons who referred or introduced you to us.
The Site may
also automatically collect traffic and click-through data as well as
information regarding the online behavior of subscribers and other
Site users by the use of cookies or other programming means. Any and
all information about Site users collected by the Company, or its
agents or affiliates via the Site or otherwise, through the use of
cookies or other programming means may be freely included in our
databases and used in a manner consistent with this Privacy
Policy.
Some of our Third Party Program Participants,
advertisers, agents and others use cookies on or in association with
our Site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. We may
also allow third-party service providers to deliver special offers or
services to Site users and to control the use of their cookies on
your computer. Since such providers may set, access and otherwise
control their cookies on your computer, we urge you to consult their
privacy policies as they pertain to use of their cookies and the data
collected from such use.
Most major Web browsers are set up
so that they will initially accept cookies, but you may modify your
computers preferences to issue you an alert when a cookie is
downloaded, or to disable the ability of third parties to download a
cookie to you. If you choose to reject cookies, or disable your
computer's ability to receive or process them, there are areas of
this Site, other related web Sites and related services that may not
function properly. For example, you may not be able to view or
interact with parts of the Site or access some of the services or
offers otherwise available on the Site. Also, if you disable or
reject cookies, you may not be credited for actions required for
certain gifts and other benefits, and therefore may not receive such
benefits.
You may obtain further information about "cookies"
and how they function at:
http://www.cookiecentral.com or
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm.
4. Clear GIFs
("Web Beacons")
Clear GIFs, otherwise
known as "web beacons" or "single-pixel GIFs",
are very small web page graphics that contain a unique digital
identifying means. They function like cookies, in that they are often
used to track and measure online actions taken by web site users. In
contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard
drive, clear GIFs are embedded into the graphics, text or other
components of Web pages, including pop up windows, or in other
digital documents that can support them, like email messages. We may
also use Web Beacons to optimize search engine functionality. Clear
GIFs are nearly invisible and are often only the size of small dot,
such as a period at the end of a sentence. Also, like cookies, Clear
GIFs, help us and our Third Party Program Participants measure and
improve Site efficiency and effectiveness. For example, we may use
web beacon technology to access your personally identifiable
information or compile aggregated statistics about overall Site
usage.
Many of our Third Party Program Participants and
advertisers also employ Clear GIFs on our Site and in related Sites.
5. Log Files
The Company and Third Party
Program Participants, through the functionality of the Site, related
Sites and related services, gather Data and other information
regarding Site navigation and Site use from cookies, clear GIFs and
other means and store such information in log files and other
databases. This Data and similar information includes date and time
recordation data, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, Internet service
provider (ISP) data, referring or exit pages, your computer's
operating system and components, such as your browser type, and other
data. While this information generally does not directly identify
individual users, it does provide us with Data and other broad
demographic information. We use this information for a number of
purposes including Site usage analysis, analysis of Site navigation
by users, determining and analyzing overall user preferences and user
trends, Site administration, and general improvement and optimization
of Site efficiency and effectiveness and user communications,
including promotions to users. We may also provide third parties with
some or all such information and other Data collected.
6.
Use of Personal Information and Disclaimer
We may
request personal identification information from you (such as your
name, street address, telephone number, credit card number, e-mail
address, and/or any other identifier that permits the physical or
online contacting of you) in connection with your use of, or
participation in, membership registration for our Sites, forums,
content submissions, requests for suggestions, visitors' requests for
free products or services or additional information (including via
email to us), and in connection with other activities, services or
resources we make available on any of our Sites. In all of these
cases, we will collect personal identification information from you
only if you voluntarily submit such information to us.
If you
do provide us with personal information for any of these activities,
we may use it to conduct the activity and we may also use it for all
other purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy, including, without
limitation, we may use the information to verify identity, protect
against fraud, update and service your account, target and
personalize future Offers that we may display on or in association
with the Site and in our communications with you. We will use your
physical mailing address for fulfilling Offers (as defined in Section
7 below) you have accepted, to improve our ability to provide you
with more accurate and appropriate marketing and for other
communications with our Company. Any such third party service
provider shall have agreed to protect any such information under
terms and conditions no less restrictive than those contained in this
Agreement.
If you provide the Company with Optional
Information, we may also use such personal identification information
for internal or external marketing and promotional purposes. For
example, we may send you e-mails to introduce a product or service
that we think might be of interest to the users of our Site. For us
to obtain your permission to send you this information, we will give
you an opportunity to "opt-in" at the time our request for
your personal information is made. If you do "opt-in," you
may choose to "opt-out" at any time, even after you have
provided personal information, by following the procedures set forth
in this Privacy Policy. Please note, however, that under certain
circumstances, if you initially do not choose to "opt-in,"
or if you later "opt-out," you may not be eligible for
certain benefits for which a name, e-mail address, telephone number
or other personal identification information may be required.
We
will release any and all specific information about you or your
account to comply with any valid legal inquiry or process such as a
search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. We will also
release specific information in special cases, such as if there is an
attempted breach of the security of the Site, or a physical or
property threat to you or others. We may also transfer user
information, including personally identifiable information, in
connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of
related assets or corporate division or other fundamental corporate
change.
Further, the information you enter when making a
purchase or an online donation will be shared with payment
processors, financial gateways, and your credit card company to
authorize credit card payments. Such information may also be shared
with necessary third parties solely for the purpose or carrying out
the transactions.
Please note that if you give out personal
information online, for example, by including such information in a
posting, all such information can be collected and used by third
parties. The Company shall have no obligation to guarantee the
security of such information provided by you as set forth above. All
such disclosures of such information are at your own risk.
By
your use or continued use of the Site and/or its services, you
expressly agree that the Company, via the Site and otherwise may use
any and all Data, Optional Information and all other information that
it or its agents gather or collect directly or indirectly pertaining
to you, including, without limitation, any personal information that
has been provided by you, your computer or other device, or
information provided by a third party, for any and all technical,
administrative, research, development, customer assistance, age
verification, marketing, promotion and advertising uses, for the
transmission of communications of every kind, including, without
limitation, email communications of every kind, for the sending of
products, for fulfillment purposes, and for compliance with any and
all TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Furthermore, you agree that the Company may
share, disclose, lease, license, sell and otherwise provide any and
all of such information, including personal information to its
affiliates, agents, assigns, successors in interest, licensees,
clients, customers, Third Party Program Participants and other third
parties who have been authorized or permitted to use the information
by the Company, its successors, assigns and licensees.
By your
use or continued use of the Site and/or its services, you agree that
the Company is not responsible or liable for the use of any
information that you or any other visitor, member, subscriber or
other Site user may provide to any other person or entity, or that is
gathered by any third-party, including, without limitation, any Third
Party Program Participant, by any means. This Site does not control,
monitor or endorse the information gathering practices or Privacy
Policies of any third-party, and you acknowledge that such
third-parties and their web Sites may, and probably do, have privacy
policies that are different from this Privacy Policy. Whenever
applicable, you and all other visitors, members, subscribers and
other Site users are strongly advised to read the Privacy Policy of
any and all third-party web Site providers that have one or more
advertising banners, or links on the Site, or on the web Site of any
Third Party Program Provider, and of any entity that provides goods
or services at, through or in direct or indirect association with the
Site.
All members and visitors of this Site should consider
any information provided to or collected by the Site as
non-confidential, and consequently the Site assumes no liability or
responsibility if any information relating to any Member or Visitor
is intercepted and/or used by an unintended recipient.
7.
Offers, Special Promotions, Opinion Polls, Surveys, Contests, Special
Events and Service Alert Emails
There may be
occasions when a visitor or member or other Site user will be
presented with special offers either from the operators of the Site,
their agents, affiliates or from other third-party offers, that may
include the presentation of one or more options for a Site user to
consent to receive e-mail solicitations, communications, newsletters
or commercial advertising, or to participate in other promotions or
special events, including without limitation, contests, opinion polls
or surveys (collectively referred to as "Offers"). Offers
might be made by the Company, its agents, affiliates, Third Party
Program Participants or other third-parties making such Offers. Site
users may be asked to provide certain information in order to
participate in such Offers. Information requested may include,
without limitation, contact information (such as name and address)
and demographic information (such as zip code, area code, age level,
occupation, etc.). Participation in such special events and special
offers is completely voluntary and Site users may elect whether or
not to provide the requested information. Information collected will
be used for the purposes of winner notification, prize awarding,
monitoring and improving Site usage and user satisfaction, providing
additional relevant offers, promotions and other communications to
Site users via electronic mail and other means, and other purposes
consistent with this Privacy Policy.
"OPT-IN"
Acceptance of Offers. Some Offers may be presented to you with the
option to express your preference by either clicking or entering
"accept" (or alternatively, for example, "yes")
or "decline" (alternatively "no") or "consent"
or by indicating your preference regarding participation or
non-participation by some other recordable means. By selecting
accept, yes, consent, or some other affirmation of participation, you
shall be deemed to agree that such action(s) shall constitute an
"OPT-IN" to the Offer related to the action and that the
you thereby agree and assent that your personal information, Data,
Optional Information and other information in the Site's databases
may be disclosed to the Company, the Company's affiliates, agents,
Third Party Program Participants and other third-parties
offerors.
"OPT-OUT" Rejection of Offers Otherwise
Accepted. Some Offers may be presented with a pre-selected preference
or choice. If you do not deselect the pre-selected preference of
choice (i.e. "OPT-OUT" of the Offer) then the Site may
transfer your personal information to the Company, its affiliates,
agents, Third Party Program Participants, and any other third party
making the Offer. If you deselect the pre-selected preference (i.e.,
reject the Offer) then no personal information relating to the Offer
in the Site's database may be disclosed to a third party offeror of
that particular Offer with respect to that particular Offer. Nothing
herein shall limit information collection or transfer that you have
previously authorized or subsequently authorize, including, without
limitation any authorization regarding the third party offeror with
respect to another Offer.
The Company may also send new
members, subscribers, visitors or other Site users a welcoming email
and occasionally send information on products, services, and special
deals from Third Party Program Participants, and other third parties.
If you don't want to receive such email or other email messages from
us, please follow the directions for unsubscribing or "opting-out"
contained in the email message you receive from us. We reserve the
right to contact you, however, with non-commercial relationship and
other advisory email messages, such as communications of changes or
updates to our software, changes to our TERMS AND CONDITIONS (sample
of which can be found here),
changes to Offers you have accepted, changes to programs you have
elected to participate in, notice of termination of any Offer,
program or service or changes to this Privacy Policy.
We may
provide you with links in our email communications. These links may
include one or more special tracking codes, unique to you or some
other identifying feature (such as geo-location). These codes assist
us in formulating, selecting and distributing content, promotions,
Offers, advertisements and other communications to you which are more
appropriately targeted to your likely preferences. We may share this
data in aggregate form or in individual form.
The Company
does not provide a process to update or modify a Site user's
personally identifiable information. If you no longer desire to use
one or more of our services, you must, as relevant, opt-out of our
mailings, unsubscribe, cancel membership, remove Company, Third Party
Program Participant and/or other third party distributed software
from your computer, and/or discontinue the use of the Site and
services.
8. Revocation of Consent Procedure (Revocation
"Opting-Out")
The Site also offers to you a
procedure for "Opting-Out" if you subsequently choose to
revoke or withdraw any consent to accept or receive Offers. To revoke
or withdraw consent to accept or receive Offers, send an e-mail to
indy@teasing-video.com,
clearly stating that you have revoked or withdrawn consent to receive
any future Offers.
If you decide to cancel an Offer and later
wish to rejoin or recommence receiving a previously cancelled Offer,
you may not always be able or entitled to do so, and you many not be
entitled to receive credit towards benefits offered by the Company or
a third party. We reserve the right at all times to terminate or
suspend any subscription, membership, Offer, service or account at
any time with or without notice.
9. Third Party Program
Participants and Others
We may send you offers on behalf
of Third Party Program Participants. Acceptance of some Offers
through the Site may require you to provide personal information to
Third Party Program Participants. These Companies may also
independently send you Offers. If you would like to opt-out or cancel
any such Offers or prevent Third Party Program Participants from
independently communicating with you, you will need to inform them
separately pursuant to their process for doing so.
The
Company shares aggregated demographic and Site navigation
information, Data, Optional Information and other information with
Third Party Program Participants, advertisers, analysts and others.
We may also sell access to our mailing lists, including email lists,
and other information to brokers and third party advertisers and we
may transfer your information to such third parties. We may transfer
some or all of your information to a purchaser of all or part of our
Company or any successor in interest in the Company or the Site. We
may also hire contractors or other third parties to perform any
Company, Site or Site service function with or without notice to you.
The Company and its agents may also aggregate demographic and other
information about you and other Site users in databases and disclose,
license or sell such information to Third Party Program Participants
and other parties.
By your use or continued use of the Site or
acceptance of any Offer associated with the Site, you expressly agree
that this Privacy Policy, all Data, Optional Information and other
information collected by the Company, its agents, affiliates, Third
Party Program Participants and all other third parties associated
with the Company or the Site, all contractual rights and all rights
arising under the TERMS AND CONDITIONS (sample of which can be found
here) of this Site may be freely and unconditionally transferred,
assigned, sold, leased or licensed to any person or entity and that
all Offers are subject to change and may be terminated by the Company
or any third party initiating the Offer, with or without notice.
10. Disclosure
The Company will not disclose
or use any of your personally identifiable information except to the
extent set forth in this Privacy Policy, or under special
circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law
requires it, or when we have reason to believe that disclosing this
information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action
against someone who may be violating the Site's TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(sample of which can be found here),
defrauding the Company or any third party, including any Third Party
Program Participant.
The Company will disclose your personal
information, without notice, to a party unrelated to the Company if
required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action
is necessary to comply with the law, legal process served on the
Company or a Third Party Program Participant, to protect the rights
or property of the Company or a Third Party Program Participant, or
in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of
the Site or the public at large.
All unsolicited information
provided to the Company or any affiliated party, including, without
limitation, any Third Party Program Participant, entirely on the
initiative of a person providing the information or that person's
agent, or any information which is provided independently of any
request by the Company or its affiliates shall be deemed to be public
information regarding which neither the Company nor any other person
or entity has any duty to the information provider or any other
person, and as such, the Company may use such unsolicited information
in an unlimited manner.
11. Protection of Children
The
Company and Third Party Program Participants do not publish any
content or Offers on the Site that are targeted to children. We do
not specifically collect information about children. The Company and
Third Party Program Participants do not solicit and do not knowingly
accept subscriptions, memberships, or acceptances of Offers from
persons under the age of eighteen years. If minors have access to
your computer or email, we ask that you take appropriate measures to
prevent such minors from accessing or using the Site or any of our
Company's services as they are exclusively offered and restricted to,
and only authorized for, adults over the age of eighteen years.
12.
Scope of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy
applies to your use of the Site and services owned or operated by the
Company. This policy does not apply to your use of unaffiliated Sites
to which are only linked to the Sites.
13. Revisions to
this Privacy Policy
The Company reserves the right, in
its sole and absolute discretion, to revise, amend, modify or revoke
this Privacy Policy at any time and in any manner. Changes to this
Policy will be effective by posting revisions on the Site. In some
circumstances you might be required to actively "accept" or
"agree" to a new Privacy Policy or to new or modified
provisions in the Privacy Policy in order to continue using the Site
or services provided by the Company or Third Party Program
Participants. Such assent or agreement to revisions to this Privacy
Policy may be effectuated via an Opt-In or Opt-Out procedure (as
those procedures are discussed above).
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