Effective Date: March 17, 2005
Thank you for visiting the AskNow® website at www.asknow.com (hereinafter referred to as the "Website"). The Website is brought to you by Qwando, LLC, doing business as AskNow® ("AskNow®", "we" and "us"). AskNow® respects the privacy of your personally identifiable information. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices available to you concerning the way that we use the information collected online at this Website. You agree to this Privacy Policy in its entirety when you: 1) access or use the Website; 2) purchase products and/or services from us; and/or 3) agree to receive an e-mail message from us. This Privacy Policy will address the following: What information this Website gathers/tracks about you. If you are a resident of the State of California and would like to opt-out from the disclosure of your personal information to any third-party for direct marketing purposes, please e-mail us at CustomerService@Asknow.com
Information We Collect: We collect personally identifiable information that you provide to us when you when you register with, and/or purchase products or services via, the Website or our toll-free telephone number. The types of personally identifiable information we may collect at this Website, or via the telephone, during registration and when you make a purchase include: Name; AskNow® may create internal reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for our use and for use by our advertisers and partners. AskNow® may include your personal information in our reports. This information allows our third-party advertisers to deliver, and our users to receive, content-specific information and advertisements. To the extent that customer credit card-specific information is collected by AskNow® , said information will be kept in confidence and will not be shared with any third parties (other than consumer credit agencies) without the customer's prior informed consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, AskNow® and its affiliates reserve the right to share with third-parties the fact that they have credit card information on file for specific customers, but they will not share more than the last four digits of this credit card information with third-parties without the customer's prior informed consent. In addition, we use log files to track anonymous user information including, but not limited to, Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider ("ISP"), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks. This information is tracked in order to analyze trends, administer the Website, track users' movements in the aggregate and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. The information tracked via log files is not linked to personally identifiable information. Cookies:
Our Use and Disclosure of Your Information. Except as explicitly stated herein, we do not sell, rent or trade any personally identifiable information to third-parties. We may sell our user information and/or join together with other businesses to bring selected opportunities to our users. AskNow® is able to offer our products and/or services to you, in part, based on your willingness to be reached by our third-party advertisers. By allowing us to make the information you supply available to these third-parties, you will receive free information on products and services that may be of interest to you. This information may also be shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. In addition, you agree that such act constitutes a purchase, an inquiry and/or an application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule, 16 C.F.R. ยง 310, et seq. (the "ATSR"). Notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade Commission's Do-Not-Call List, AskNow® retains the right to contact you via telemarketing in accordance with the ATSR. Moreover, by registering with, or requesting information from, a third-party advertiser at or through the Website, such action shall constitute a purchase, an inquiry and/or an application with the respective third-party advertiser for purposes of the ATSR and you may be contacted via e-mail, direct mail and/or telemarketing by such third-party advertiser in accordance with the ATSR. We may be required to disclose personal information in some instances, such as: 1) when required by law wherein we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, and/or subpoena; 2) in the event that AskNow® is sold or acquired; or 3) in the event that we believe that the Website is being, or has been, used in violation of our terms and conditions or to commit unlawful acts. You hereby consent to the disclosure of any record or communication to any third-party when AskNow®, in its sole discretion, determines the disclosure to be appropriate including, without limitation, sharing your email address with other third parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time-to-time.
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Security. In addition, AskNow® has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control. We employ Secure Socket Layer Software ("SSL") to protect certain financial information and associated data, and to secure any transactions. SSL encrypts information, including credit card numbers, as it is transmitted over the Internet. Please be advised that, although we take every reasonable technological precaution available to protect your data, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
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