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| Privacy Policy Privacy Statement AttorneyMentoring.com ("AttorneyMentoring.com" or "we" or "us") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets out our privacy policy and explains what we do with the personal information that we collect from you. Please read the following to understand our practices regarding personal information and how they affect you as you use our features and services. What This Privacy Policy Covers This policy covers how AttorneyMentoring.com treats personal information that AttorneyMentoring.com collects and receives, including information related to your past use of AttorneyMentoring.com products and services. 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. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that AttorneyMentoring.com does not own or control, or to people that AttorneyMentoring.com does not employ or manage. In addition, AttorneyMentoring.com is hosted by Yahoo Inc. which has its own privacy policy. What Information Does AttorneyMentoring.com Gather About You? AttorneyMentoring.com collects information about our visitors so that we can provide a more interesting and useful service, as well as more appropriate advertising. We may ask, from time to time, for your name, email address, and other personal information when you register to use certain current and future features of our Web site, or if you sign up for special or personalized services, such as discussion boards or email newsletters, as they may be offered on our Web site from time to time. We also may ask for this information at other times, such as when you enter contests or other promotions sponsored by AttorneyMentoring.com and/or our partners or answer surveys on AttorneyMentoring.com. When you place an order for a product or service, we need to know the sort of information typically used for credit card transactions, such as your name, mailing and billing addresses (and shipping address, if different), telephone number, and credit card number and expiration date. Gathering this information allows us to process and fulfill your order and notify you of your order status. We will also use your information to contact you regarding your order if necessary. We may also collect your email address when you submit content to our sites (for example, a contest entry, or a review of a product). Unless we get your approval, we will not display your address with your submission. We have contracted with Yahoo! Search Marketing ("YSM"), to monitor certain pages of our Web site for the purpose of reporting web traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-throughs', and/or other activities on our site. Where authorized by us, YSM may use cookies, Web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics on our Web site visitors. No personally identifiable data is collected by or transferred to Yahoo! Search Marketing. Advertising networks that serve ads on our site may also use single-pixel GIFs in their advertisements. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a Web page, including an ad banner, can act as a Web beacon. How Does AttorneyMentoring.com Use Your Personal Information? AttorneyMentoring.com collects personal information to provide you, the user, with the best and most personalized experience possible, and to provide our advertisers with an efficient way to reach the right audience. In short, by knowing a little about you, AttorneyMentoring.com can deliver more relevant content and advertisements to you. We conduct research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior based upon the information you provide us when you register or participate in contests or other promotions on our site, or based upon the information on our server log files. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. In addition to helping us process your order, we use the information we collect from you when you buy a product or service from us so that we can provide you with an enhanced, more personalized shopping experience. How Do We Use "IP Addresses" and "Cookies"? IP Addresses Your Web browser or email application automatically provides your Internet Protocol address ("IP address") to other computers with which you communicate over the Internet, so that they know where to send you information. Our hosting company receives an IP address each time you view one of our Web pages, because the browser automatically reports it to us. We also may store the IP address when you register with AttorneyMentoring.com, post a message, or buy something from us. We may use IP addresses for various purposes, including:
Cookies Cookies are used on our sites in the following ways: • We use cookies to estimate our audience size and usage patterns. The unique cookie that is given to each browser accessing AttorneyMentoring. com is then used to determine usage patterns and help us target content and ads based upon user interests. • Search engines on our website may use cookies to expedite your search for content or products. • In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our Web advertising partner(s), may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. For more on how to opt-out of these cookies, please see below. • Some of our advertisers use third-party networks to serve their advertisements on our sites and in our HTML-formatted newsletters. Often, these third-party advertising companies use cookies, Web beacons, and similar technologies to measure advertisement effectiveness. We do not control, nor do we have access to, their cookies or the information they obtain. Use of their tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies. Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can configure yours to refuse cookies or notify you when you've received one. Browsers differ, so check your "Help" menu to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you reject cookies on our sites, though, you will not be able to access all areas of them or use many of their features, including our discussion boards and portfolio tracker. When you accept our cookies, we cannot use them to find out who you really are, unless you tell us. Will AttorneyMentoring.com Disclose Any of Your Personal Information? We may also use aggregated information to help the advertisers reach the kind of audience they want. We may also disclose aggregate information in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes. AttorneyMentoring.com 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 respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims and as required by law or legal or administrative process; • 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 AttorneyMentoring.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. • We transfer information about you if AttorneyMentoring.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, AttorneyMentoring.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. • If you sign up for a special offer from an advertiser, we will provide your individual contact information (for example, name, mailing address, email address, and/or telephone number), so that the advertiser or its agent can fulfill the special offer. Once the advertiser receives the information, it will handle the information under its own privacy policies. • If you sign up for a service that relies upon third parties for important elements, we will provide your personal information to the third parties so that they can do their job. Those companies will treat the data under their own terms of service and privacy policies. • If you buy something from us, we will disclose your personal information to the extent necessary to fulfill your order and charge your credit card (if applicable). We may use a fulfillment company to fill and ship your order (excluding products you download directly from our site) and a credit card processing company to verify your card number and process the transaction. We may also give your information to a delivery or postal service so that it can get your order to you. • We may disclose personal information in some other limited circumstances, but we will specifically describe them to you when we collect the information, such as in the rules of a contest or a new service. • We may employ contractors or other third parties to help with our operations. We may give them access to databases of user information, subject to confidentiality agreements, so that they can perform their services for us, including performing system maintenance, performing list analysis or management, or sending mailings for us from our advertisers. • If we add ads on this Web site, they will be delivered to you by our Web advertising partner. Information about your visits to AttorneyMentoring.com, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you. We will provide how to opt-out of their tracking methods at the time that we add advertising. • AttorneyMentoring.com and its parent and affiliated entities may share information for site administration or order fulfillment. How Do We Respect Children's Privacy? Our site is not directed at children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. What Else Should You Know About Your Privacy? When you post information on discussion boards, in chat rooms, as they may be offered by the Web site from time to time, that information, along with your screen name, will be visible to the public. Please remember that whenever you disclose personal information publicly that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online where people can see it, people will know that information and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. If you do not want strangers to have your email address, you should not post your email address on a discussion board. Our Web site is directed at attorneys practicing law in the United States and our Privacy Policy has been developed to address these visitors only. Data handling practices and rules may differ from country to country. While we do our best to protect your personal information, AttorneyMentoring.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online, especially when using a computer that other people can use also. Many of our advertisers or partners, link from our site to areas on their own sites where they sell their own products and services. If you follow links from our site to others, you should be aware that you are doing business with those other sites, which have their own terms of service and privacy and data collection practices. AttorneyMentoring.com has no responsibility or liability for these independent third party companies or their policies and practices. For more information regarding a site and its privacy policies, check that site. How Will You Know Whether AttorneyMentoring.com's Privacy Policy Has Changed? We may change this Privacy Statement at any time and without notice, and any changes will be effective upon posting to the Privacy Policy Page of our website and you are encouraged to check that page frequently. Effective: January 7, 2006 |
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