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Last updated may 15, 2006
BY VISITING THIS WEBSITE AND REQUESTING INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES THERON, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION OR USE ANY OF THE
SERVICES OR PRODUCTS OFFERED OR PROVIDED ON ANY OF THE WEBSITES REFERRED TO IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES FROM TIME TO TIME AND CHANGES ARE EFFECTIVE UPON POSTING. PLEASE CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY FOR
UPDATES AS IT IS YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY TO BE AWARE OF CHANGES. WE DO NOT PROVIDE NOTICES OF CHANGES IN ANY MANNER OTHER THAN BY POSTING
THE CHANGES AT THIS WEB SITE.
This policy describes the information collection, use, and dissemination practices of Great Incentives, LLC ("Great Incentives") and applies to
Great Incentives's collection, use, storage and disclosure of information by Great Incentives on its (a) websites, including all its divisions,
subsidiaries and related companies (collectively, the "Websites"), (b) on various Third Party websites, and (c) to Great Incentives's other
information collection, including the purchase of customer lists from Third Parties. Great Incentives is not responsible for the information
collection or privacy practices of Third Party websites or applications.
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS PRIVACY RIGHTS
Companies that collect personally identifiable information ("PII") from California residents and disclose such information to Third Parties
(including affiliated entities) for marketing purposes must, in response to a request by a consumer, either (1) provide a list detailing
the categories of information shared and the entities to which such information was provided, or (2) provide a mechanism by which a
consumer may opt-out of having their information shared with Third Parties. We have elected the second option and you may request that
your PII not be shared with Third Parties by sending your request, including your full name, email address and postal address to: Great
Incentives, 8721 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 1445, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
THE INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE AND DISSEMINATION PRACTICES OF GREAT INCENTIVES.
1. Collection of Information.
1.1 Survey Information.
Great Incentives collects information from individuals by various methods, including, but not limited to, when an individual voluntarily completes
a survey, order form, or a registration page either online or offline, or by means of online or offline surveys, order forms, or
registration pages operated by Third Parties (collectively, a "Survey"). (As used herein, "online" means using the Internet, including the
Websites, and related technologies, and "offline" means by methods other than online, including in person, in the postal mail, using
telephones and cell phones, and other similar means.) In the Surveys, Great Incentives or a Third Party (a "Third Party") may ask an
individual to provide various information to Great Incentives, which may include his or her name, email address, street address, zip code,
telephone numbers (including cell phone numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital status, occupation,
social security number, employment information, personal and online interests, and such other information as may be requested from time to
time (together, "Survey Information"). Great Incentives may also collect information concerning an individual from another source and uses
that information in combination with information provided from this web site. Completing the Surveys is completely voluntary, and individuals are
under no obligation to provide Survey Information to Great Incentives or Third Party, but an individual may receive incentives from Great Incentives or
a Third Party in exchange for providing Survey Information to Great Incentives.
1.2 Site Membership or Registration.
To the extent registration is required to receive email and possibly postal communications from Great Incentives, this Privacy Policy also
applies to consumers that have agreed to receive e-mail marketing from Great Incentives, whether at our Website, via email, on Third Party
websites or otherwise. We collect information in certain portions of our Website, where guests provide content submissions and suggestions or
participate in interactive online activities (i.e., by way of responding to questions and surveys, community listings, ratings, searches
and comparison searches, bidding, purchasing, chat, games, or bulletin boards, etc.). The personal profile information you submit to
Great Incentives remains your property, but by submitting that information to Great Incentives, you grant Great Incentives, the right to use that
information for marketing purposes. Great Incentives, may also use such information for content improvement and feedback purposes. We may sell
the personal information that you supply to us and we may join together with other businesses to bring selected retail opportunities to
our members. These businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data
enhancement, suppression and validation. In addition, Great Incentives reserves the right to release current or past member information in the
event Great Incentives believes that the membership is being or has been used in violation of the Rules or to commit unlawful acts, if the
information is subpoenaed, if Great Incentives is sold or acquired, or when Great Incentives deems it necessary or appropriate. By agreeing to
these terms, you hereby consent to disclosure of any record or communication to any Third Party when Great Incentives in its sole discretion,
determines the disclosure to be appropriate.
"Subscription" occurs when an end-user registers for Great Incentives's services, either via registration at our website, via co-registration
at a marketing partner's website, or via a permission pass / opt-out / no-opt mailing Great Incentives collects personally identifiable information
about our subscribers, based on: information gathered at the time of registration, subscriber interaction and response to subsequent electronic mailings
and website use, information provided by marketing partners, and information appended from data aggregators. Information collected may include,
but is not necessarily limited to: name, email address, postal address, gender, birth date, telephone number, activity, interests, user behavior and
other demographic information. This information enables us to better tailor our content to subscribers' needs and to help our clients to promote and sell
their products and services.
1.4 Other Information.
Other occasions when Great Incentives obtains information from individuals include (1) when an individual is making a claim for a prize or
seeking to redeem an incentive offered by Great Incentives or by a Third Party, (2) when an individual requests assistance through
Great Incentive's customer service department, and (3) when an individual voluntarily subscribes to a service or newsletter (together, "Other
Information").
1.5 Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Info Collected Using Technology.
Great Incentives currently uses cookie and web beacon technology to associate certain Internet-related information about an individual with
information about the individual in our database. Additionally, Great Incentives may use other new and evolving sources of information in the
future (together, "Technology Information").
(a) Cookies.
A cookie is a small amount of data stored on the hard drive of the individual's computer that allows Great Incentives to identify the individual with his
or her corresponding data that resides in Great Incentives's database. You may read more about cookies at http://cookiecentral.com.
Individuals who use the Websites need to accept cookies in order to use all of the features and functionality of the Websites.
(b) Web Beacons.
A web beacon is programming code that can be used to display an image on a web page (by using an <img src="x"> programming function -- see
http://truste.org for more information), but can also be used to transfer an individual's unique user identification (often in the form of a cookie) to
a database and associate the individual with previously acquired information about an individual in a database. This allows Great Incentives
to track certain websites an individual visits online. Web beacons are used to determine products or services an individual may be
interested in, and to track online behavioral habits for marketing purposes. For example, Great Incentives might place, with the consent of
a Third Party website, a web beacon on the Third Party's website where cosmetics are sold. When Jane, an individual listed in Great
Incentive's database, visits the cosmetic website, Great Incentives receives notice by means of the web beacon that Jane visited the cosmetics
site, and Great Incentives would then update Jane's profile with the information that Jane is interested in cosmetics. Great Incentives may
thereafter present offers of cosmetic related products and services to Jane. In addition to using web beacons on web pages, Great Incentives
also uses web beacons in email messages sent to individuals listed in Great Incentives's database.
(c) New Technology.
The use of technology on the Internet, including cookies and web beacons, is rapidly evolving, as is Great Incentives's use of new and
evolving technology. As a result, Great Incentives strongly encourages individuals to revisit this policy for any updates regarding its use
of technology.
(d) Usage Tracking.
Great Incentives tracks information related to the electronic mailings and web pages viewed by users and subscribers, as well as the
hyperlinks clicked by subscribers, while viewing our emails or visiting our websites.
(e) Log Files.
Log files are used to track and monitor subscriber usage.
(f) Optional Registration.
Great Incentives may offer free voluntary registration to potential subscribers. During such registration, the subscriber is required to
supply an email address and other personal information. This information is required if the subscriber wants to participate in Company
services.
(g) Feedback and Inquiries.
You have the ability to contact Great Incentives to provide us with their feedback. Great Incentives uses this information to respond to you and
analyze customer service issues.
1.6 Outside Information.
Great Incentives may receive information about individuals from Third Parties or from other sources of information outside of Great Incentives
including information located in public databases ("Outside Information").
1.7 Individual Information.
As used herein, Individual Information means Survey Information, Third Party List Information, Other Information, Technology Information,
and Outside Information, and any other information Great Incentives gathers or receives about individuals.
1.8 No Information Collected from Children.
Great Incentives will never knowingly collect any personal information about children under the age of 13. If Great Incentives obtains actual
knowledge that it has collected personal information about a child under the age of 13, that information will be immediately deleted from
our database. Because it does not collect such information, Great Incentives has no such information to use or to disclose to Third Parties.
Great Incentives has designed this policy in order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA").
1.10 Links to External Websites.
Great Incentives's emails and websites contain links to external websites. You will be taken to external websites if you click on these links.
Your information may be passed from Great Incentives's database to the external website, and/or external database, for your convenience (e.g.
your information may be used to pre-fill a form at a destination website). Great Incentives is not responsible for the privacy practices or
content of any external website owner. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website they visit.
2. Use of Individual Information.
2.1 Discretion to Use Information.
THE COMPANY MAY USE INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION FOR ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN COMPANY'S SOLE DISCRETION.
The following paragraphs in Section 2 describe how Great Incentives currently uses Individual Information, but Great Incentives may change or
broaden its use at any time. As noted below, Great Incentives may update this policy from time to time. Great Incentives may use Individual
Information to provide promotional offers to individuals by means of email advertising, telephone marketing, direct mail marketing, online
banner advertising, and package stuffers, among other possible uses.
2.2 Email and Unsubscribe Policy.
Great Incentives uses Individual Information to provide promotional offers by email to individuals.
If email recipients wish to end their email subscription they can unsubscribe via the banner at the bottom of each message, or on our website.
Great Incentives's unsusbcribe process is highly efficient and you should stop receiving communications from us within 1 business day.
You should also note that unsubscribing from Great Incentives's electronic mailings may not automatically unsubscribe the subscriber's
information from any Third Party associates and licensees of the data. Since Third Party associates and licensee partners maintain
separate databases from Great Incentives, and you will need to unsubscribe from each source individually, if desired. This allows you the
freedom to pick and choose which subscriptions to maintain and which to discontinue.
2.3 Content of Email Messages.
In certain commercial email messages sent by Great Incentives, an Advertiser's name will appear in the "From:" line but hitting the "Reply"
button will cause a reply email to be sent to Great Incentives. The "Subject:" line of Great Incentives email messages will usually contain a
line provided from the Advertiser to Great Incentives.
2.4 Solicited Email.
Great Incentives only sends email to individuals who, by registration as a member to one of it's websites, have agreed to receive email and
email solicitations from Great Incentives, one of Great Incentives's websites or who have agreed on Third Party websites to receive email from Great
Incetives, it's agents, affiliates, subsidiaries or from third parties. As such, Great Incentives does not send unsolicited email messages and certain
statutes requiring certain formatting for unsolicited email are not applicable to Great Incentives' email messages.
2.5 Targeted Advertising.
Great Incentives uses Individual Information to target advertising to an individual. When an individual is using the Internet, Great Incentives
uses Technology Information (see also Section 2.7 below) to associate an individual with that person's Individual Information, and Great
Incentives attempts to show advertising for products and services in which the person has expressed an interest in the Surveys, indicated an
interest by means of Technology Information, and otherwise. Great Incentives may, at its discretion, target advertising by using email,
direct mail, telephones, cell phones, and other means of communication to provide promotional offers.
2.6 Direct Mail and Telemarketing.
Great Incentives uses Individual Information to advertise, directly or indirectly, to individuals using direct mail marketing or telemarketing
using telephones and cell phones.
2.7 Use of Technology Information.
Great Incentives uses Technology Information (1) to match a person's Survey Information and Third Party List Information to other categories
of Individual Information to make and improve profiles of individuals, (2) to track a person's online browsing habits on the Internet, (3)
to determine which areas of Great Incentives's websites are most frequently visited. This information helps Great Incentives to better understand
the online habits of individuals so that Great Incentives can target advertising and promotions to them.
2.8 Profiles of Individuals.
Great Incentives uses Individual Information to make a profile of an individual. A profile can be created by combining Survey Information and
Third Party List Information with other sources of Individual Information such as information obtained from public databases.
2.9 Storage of Individual Information.
Great Incentives stores the Individual Information in a database on leased computers. Our computers have security measures (such as a
firewall) in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under Great Incentives's control. Not withstanding
such measures, Great Incentives cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent leased computers from being illegally accessed, and
the Individual Information on them stolen or altered.
3. Dissemination of Individual Information.
3.1 Sale or Transfer to Third Parties.
GREAT INCENTIVES MAY SELL OR TRANSFER INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY PURPOSE IN GREAT INCENTIVES'S
SOLE DISCRETION.
3.2 Order Fulfillment.
Great Incentives will transfer Individual Information to Third Parties when necessary to provide a product or service that a person
orders from such Third Party while using Great Incentives websites or when responding to offers provided by Great Incentives.
3.3 Legal Process.
Great Incentives may disclose Individual Information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, and other legal processes.
3.4 Summary Data.
Great Incentives may sell or transfer non-individualized information, such as summary or aggregated anonymous information about all persons
or sub-groups of persons.
3.5 Access.
Individuals have access to their Individual Information collected to provide an opportunity for an individual to correct, amend, or delete
such information. Access can be obtained by contacting us at Great Incentives LLC | 8721 Santa Monica Blvd #1445 | Los Angeles, CA | 90069-4507. Great Incentives may also grant advertising clients and email
services providers' access to an individual's email address to verify the origin of the Individual Information collected.
4. Privacy Practices of Third Parties.
4.1 Advertiser cookies and web beacons.
Advertising agencies, advertising networks, and other companies (together, "Advertisers") who place advertisements on the Websites and on
the Internet generally may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other technology to collect information about individuals. Great Incentives
does not control Advertisers' use of such technology and Great Incentives has no responsibility for the use of such technology to gather
information about individuals.
4.2 Links.
The Websites and email messages sometimes contain hypertext links to the websites of Third Parties. Great Incentives is not responsible for
the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. Linked websites may contain links to websites maintained by Third Parties.
Such links are provided for your convenience and reference only. Great Incentives does not operate or control in any respect any information,
software, products or services available on such Third Party websites. The inclusion of a link to a web site does not imply any
endorsement of the services or the site, its contents, or its sponsoring organization.
4.3 Affiliated Companies.
Great Incentives may disclose, transfer, and sell Individual Information to entities affiliated with Great Incentives in Great Incentives's
discretion.
5. Unsubscribe Procedures.
To unsubscribe from a particular list follow the instructions in each promotional email message sent by Great Incentives.
If you have questions about this policy, please write to us at:
Great Incentives LLC | 8721 Santa Monica Blvd #1445 | Los Angeles, CA | 90069-4507
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