What This Privacy Policy Covers...
This policy covers how AffiliateSmarts treats personal information that AffiliateSmarts collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. Please note that your posting is not considered "personal information" and is not considered the type of information protected by a privacy policy.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that AffiliateSmarts does not own or control, or to people that AffiliateSmarts does not employ or manage.
This policy does not address children's privacy issues because AffiliateSmarts does not permit children under 13 to use its products and services.
Information Collection and Use
General
AffiliateSmarts collects personal information when you register with AffiliateSmarts to use AffiliateSmarts products or services or to post content on a AffiliateSmarts affiliate network site as a guest with authoring rights, and when you enter into promotions or sweepstakes. AffiliateSmarts may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, billing address, phone number, credit card information, and certain optional information such as birth date, birth place, mother's maiden name, gender, zip code, biographical information, ICQ/AIM/Yahoo/MSN user name
AffiliateSmarts collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners.
AffiliateSmarts automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie, and the page you request.
AffiliateSmarts uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting. IP Address
AffiliateSmarts receives IP addresses from all users because this information is automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page.
Your IP address is also stored in our user registration databases when you register with AffiliateSmarts.
IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including to:
Diagnose service or technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
Tailor advertising based on geographic area or other information derived from your IP address. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.
Estimate the total number of users visiting AffiliateSmarts from specific geographical regions.
Help determine which users have access privileges to certain content, services or resources that we offer.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use AffiliateSmarts products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings. However, many AffiliateSmarts products and services do not require that you accept cookies.
AffiliateSmarts uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
Access your information when you "sign in".
Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using AffiliateSmarts's services.
Display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on AffiliateSmarts.
Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
Conduct research to improve AffiliateSmarts's content and services.
Require you to re-enter your AffiliateSmarts password after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account contents.
AffiliateSmarts lets other entities that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to AffiliateSmarts's cookies.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
When you post an ad, your AffiliateSmarts ID or alias that you are posting under is visible to other users.
When you post an ad on AffiliateSmarts affiliate network Sites, you have the ability to post an ad which may include personally identifiable information about yourself.
If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
AffiliateSmarts may disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the AffiliateSmarts Terms of Service.
AffiliateSmarts does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with AffiliateSmarts under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help AffiliateSmarts communicate with you about offers from AffiliateSmarts and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of AffiliateSmarts's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We transfer information about you if AffiliateSmarts is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, AffiliateSmarts will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
AffiliateSmarts displays targeted advertisements based on personal information.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
General
You can edit your AffiliateSmarts Account Information at any time.
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the AffiliateSmarts service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the AffiliateSmarts Newsletter, that are considered part of your AffiliateSmarts account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
You can delete your AffiliateSmarts account by visiting our Account Deletion page; however, please note that your identification, billing and contact information will remain in AffiliateSmarts's record for a commercial reasonable time for archival purposes. Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.
Your AffiliateSmarts Account Information is password-protected.
In certain areas, AffiliateSmarts uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
AffiliateSmarts may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your AffiliateSmarts account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.