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Last Updated: October 24, 2008
Zoa Cell is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe online
experience for all our users. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected
online through Zoa Cell's Web site(s), which includes all of the Zoa Cell partner
sites and governs online data collection and usage by Zoa Cell. Please read the
complete Zoa Cell Online Privacy Policy below and contact us if you have any questions.
What We Do with Collected Information, Use of Cookies, Use of Web Beacons, Controlling
Your Personal Information, Security of Your Personal Information, Children's Privacy,
Changes in Corporate Structure, Visitors World Wide, Changes to Our Privacy Policy.
COLLECTION AND TRACKING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
So that we can provide you with the most efficient and enhanced service(s) possible,
we request information about you. We collect personally identifiable information
such as names, email addresses and demographic information such as age, gender and
postal code. We also may collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, access
times and referring Web site address. This information is collected both during
registration on the site or in response to specific requests, for example when signing
up for a newsletter and answering a survey. Information collected at one Zoa Cell
Web site will be available within the Zoa Cell family of Web sites. Sometimes we
will give you the opportunity to opt in to offers from third parties not affiliated
with Zoa Cell. If you decide to accept these offers, we will provide, with your
consent, your information to the third party. However, you should note that this
Privacy Policy does not apply to information users consent to give to third parties
not affiliated with Zoa Cell. Any information users give to another party is governed
by the rules of that party's privacy policy, which may differ from this Privacy
Policy. Zoa Cell is not responsible for information given to other parties. Please
review their privacy policies prior to providing any information to third parties.
WHAT WE DO WITH COLLECTED INFORMATION
We use personal information so that we may display custom, personalized content
to our visitors and send newsletters, emails, features, promotional material, surveys
and other updates to our users. A user may, at any time, opt out of receiving such
information. We also use collected information to evaluate and administer our service,
respond to any problems that may arise and to gauge user trends to determine what
part of our services are most popular with users. We may extend offers to users
on behalf of our partners about a particular product or service that may be of interest
to you, but we will never give out your name or personal information at any time
without your permission. As result, although Zoa Cell may receive a fee from our
partners for this service, Zoa Cell sends all the offers so that your personal information
is never shared with any outside third party. We may, at times, produce reports
for advertisers containing aggregate information about our users such as demographic,
age and online usage information. This allows us to work more closely with advertisers
to provide content and offers that are most relevant to our users. We will never
include any personal information of our users in these reports. We allow users of
our Web site to send articles or links by email to other parties who may be interested
in them. We do not retain any email addresses (unless you are a member who already
has voluntarily provided your email address) of either the sender or recipient of
such articles or links after they are sent. We reserve the right to use or disclose
any information without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any law, regulation
or legal request; to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches
of law; to protect the integrity of our site and our property; to protect the safety
of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests; or to cooperate in any legal
investigation. You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose information
online (whether through Zoa Cell's services or any other service available online),
personal or otherwise, that information can be collected and used by others. For
example, if you use chat, forums, bulletin boards, and your e-mail or if you post
personal information online, you may receive unsolicited messages from others. Zoa
Cell has no control over this use of your personal information.
USE OF COOKIES
Your browser offers so-called "cookies" which, if you allow their use, store small
amounts of data on your computer when you visit a Web site. Cookies do not contain
any personally identifiable information about you and therefore cannot be used to
identify you personally. Cookies simply assist us in tracking which of our features
you like best. Cookies also enable us to customize our content according to your
preferences. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your
browser and our Web sites are viewable even if you disable the cookie function on
your browser. However, if you disable cookies, some advanced and customized features
of our site, as well as other Web sites, will not be available to you. We may also
place a cookie on your browser so that this and other Web Sites owned by Zoa Cell
will recognize you as a unique, anonymous user. This will enable us to make sure
that you do not see the same ad over and over, to sequence ads in a series, and
to measure more accurately the number of unique visitors across the network of Zoa
Cell Web sites.
USE OF WEB BEACONS
Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons, which
are also called single-pixel gifs. These images allow us to count users who have
visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We also may include Web
beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to count how many
messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your
personally identifiable information but they are a technique we use to compile aggregated
statistics about our Web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information
including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, originating IP address,
and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. Some of our Web pages
may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help us
determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
A user may, at any time, change, correct, modify or delete any personal information
they may have provided to Zoa Cell by visiting the Member Center located on the
Zoa Cell homepage. Users can also unsubscribe from any newsletters or opt out of
various promotional emailings at any time by visiting the Newsletters or Profile
section in the Member Center or clicking on "unsubscribe" links at the bottom of
each of our newsletters or emails.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Zoa Cell employees are made aware of its privacy practices through periodic communications
and training. We limit access to private and confidential data only to those employees
with a specific need to retrieve this information and we store data on multiple
service systems, in controlled, secure environments. To maintain our level of security,
we conduct both internal reviews and external audits of our security measures and
procedures on a regular basis.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Some portions of the Zoa Cell Web site may be used by children under the age of
13. Zoa Cell is strongly committed to protecting the safety and privacy of children
who visit our Web site. Zoa Cell has a system in place to effectively screen its
users to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy and the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations establish
United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet.
Our site and services may collect information about children under 13, including
e-mail forum participation and chat rooms. Use of such activities requires initial
registration by the participant. Children under the age of 13 who wish to register
are asked to have a parent or legal guardian do so for them. The parent must provide
suitable proof for verification that he/she is an adult. Upon verification, the
parent can choose in which activities he or she would like the child to participate.
Parents can change the selected activities at any time. Only after verifying age
in accordance with Federal standards, do we collect and maintain the name, date
of birth and email address of children who register. With proper proof of identification
(including name and suitable verification), parents can review their child's personal
information, ask to have it deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or
use of their child's information. We use cookies to check the age of registered
users who enter chat rooms. We do not knowingly permit users under 13 into chat
rooms unless their parents have consented to their participation. Zoa Cell includes
many topical areas that all users may access. When a parent provides verifiable
consent to allow his or her child to use chat and forums and to receive newsletters
or other materials where a child may provide personally identifiable information,
the child will also have access to those relevant services throughout the Zoa Cell
site, including areas that may not be directed toward children. In particular, if
you allow your child to participate in chat or forums, your child will have access
to all chat and forum areas on Zoa Cell. Many chat areas are not monitored and private
chat is permitted. Chat areas may contain information or language unsuitable for
young children and visitors of all ages may participate. If you authorize your child
to participate in these features, we encourage you to monitor their use closely.
We also allow guests to participate in chat and forum areas at Zoa Cell but use
techniques to prevent unregistered children under 13 from participating in areas
unsuitable for them. Parents can change these options at any time. Except as authorized
under COPPA, Zoa Cell will NOT: collect online contact information from a user under
13 without prior verifiable parental consent, which includes an opportunity for
the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity.
When we do not obtain prior verifiable parental consent, online contact information
will be used only to directly respond to the child's request and will not be used
to contact the child for other purposes. Collect personally identifiable offline
contact information from users under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.
Distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information collected from
children known to be under 13. Give the ability to children to participate in forums
or chat rooms without prior verifiable parental consent. Entice a child under 13
by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information
than is needed to participate in such activity. We will also place prominent notice
wherever personally identifiable information is collected requesting the child to
ask a parent for permission to proceed. If you have any questions regarding the
privacy and safety of children on our site, please either email or call us.
CHANGES IN CORPORATE STRUCTURE
In developing our business, we might sell certain assets or the company, or parts
of it, may be sold, merged or otherwise transferred. In such transactions, user
information, whether personally identifiable or otherwise, may be one of the transferred
assets.
WORLD WIDE VISITORS
Our Web site and the servers that make this site available worldwide are located
in many different countries. All matters relating to these sites are governed by
the laws of the countries in which they are located. Any information you provide
will be transferred to those countries for storage. By visiting our sites and submitting
information, you authorize this transfer.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to maintain the highest
protection for our users and to comply with a changing environment. We recommend
that you check the policy when you visit our site to be sure you are aware of and
understand our current policy. If we make material changes to this policy or in
how we will use or collect your personally identifiable information, we will prominently
post such changes prior to implementing the change. We will not make changes in
how we handle previously collected personal information that have retroactive effect
unless legally required to do so.
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