Privacy Statement
Adapted from sample Privacy Policy found at the website of
The American Advertising Federation (AAF)
At the same time that Rainbow Websites is committed to bringing you information tailored to
your individual needs, we recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of personally
identifiable information collected about you, our customers and prospects. In adopting this
customer privacy policy, our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in
collecting and using information with your reasonable expectations of privacy.
Rainbow Websites does not collect personally identifying information about individuals,
except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals.
A user's personally identifiable information (e.g., name, e-mail address) may be used by
Rainbow Websites for editorial purposes. For example, we may use information provided by you
to us as part of an editorial online survey. If we run competitions or contests on the site,
you may be required to provide information such as your telephone number and address in order
to participate. The exact rules may vary in each case but the specific rules for any contest
will state how that information may be used. We also may use personally identifiable information
for marketing and promotional purposes. We may send you e-mails about Rainbow Websites products,
promotions, or services as well as on behalf of other companies.
Except
as stated in this privacy policy or at the time of collection,
user's personally identifiable information will not be transferred
to a party outside Rainbow Websites. its
divisions, its vendors providing Internet hosting services
or third party list managers unless stated at the time of
collection. If you do not wish to receive any e-mail or to
have us share
such information with another party, you may "opt out" at
any time by e-mailing us or contacting us by regular mail.
We do not control the privacy policies of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other
sites to which we provide hyperlinks. Rainbow Websites users should also be aware that, when
you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information
may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others.
Third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your
browser,
or using web beacons to collect information,
in the course of ads being served on these websites. For
more information on management of cookies, please consult
your
browser's "help" menu.
Kids:
Be sure to ask your parents for permission before you
send any information about yourself, such as like your
name, address, or e-mail address, over the Internet,
to us or to anyone else
and before making any purchases online.
Parents:
We encourage you to get involved with your children's online
usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are
participating. Any personally identifiable information
collected
by Rainbow Websites that we are aware is from children
will be used only for Rainbow Websites internal purposes
such as market research, sweepstakes fulfillment or for
fulfilling requests
for information or materials, and may sometimes be included
in our database. Such information will not be posted or
published by us, or provided to any third parties, without
your prior consent.
Anonymous aggregated data is sometimes provided to other
parties with which we do business, for statistical and
market research purposes as described above. Finally you
should be aware that if
your children voluntarily disclose information such as
their names or e-mail addresses on various forums or chat
areas, such disclosures may result in unsolicited messages
from other parties.
Technology
on the Internet is developing at a rapid pace, and we need
to maintain our flexibility in the online arena. If we
need to change our policy in the future, we will post these
changes as
soon as they go into effect.
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