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WITI.com
Privacy statement
This Privacy Statement discloses the privacy practices for WITI.com (hereafter "we," "us," "our" and "WITI.com") and our web site (the "Site") located at www.witi.com.
Registration
In order to use our Site, you must first complete a registration form. During registration you are required to disclose personally identifiable information (such as your name and email address). This personally identifiable information is used to contact you about future and existing services and products available through our Site. Although it is not required, you may provide additional demographic information during registration and are encouraged to do so to allow us to provide you a more personalized experience on our Site.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive that contains information about you. Usage of cookies is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information about you while you are on our Site. Once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates. For example, by setting a cookie on our Site, you do not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our Site. If you reject the use of cookies you may still use our Site but with limited access. Cookies also enable us to track and target your interests in order to enhance your experience on our Site. Some of our business partners use cookies on our Site (for example, advertisers), however, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Information
Collection and Use
We are the sole owners of the information collected on our Site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to any third party in any way that is different from what is disclosed in this Privacy Statement. We collect information from you at several different points on Site, as described further below.
Storage
We use Internet protocol ("IP") addresses to analyze trends, administer the Site, track your use of our Site and to gather aggregated demographic information about all of our users. IP addresses are not linked to any personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We intend to share aggregated demographic information about your (and our other user's) use of our Site with our partners and advertisers. Aggregated demographic information is not linked to any personally identifiable information that can be used to identify any one individual person.
We use an outside credit card processing company for billing. This company does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information about you for any secondary purposes.
We partner with third parties to provide specific services that are not directly provided by us or any of our affiliates. When you sign up for these services, we will share only that information which is necessary for the third party service provider to provide the desired services to you. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing such services.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a your personally identifiable information changes, you may update your information by:
- Using the form posted on our Site at http://www.witi.org/center/membership/memberupdate/.
- Sending the new information to:
WITI
6345 Balboa Blvd.
Suite 257
Encino, CA 91316
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our Site at the point where we ask for the information. If you no longer wish to receive product information or promotional materials from our partners or us, you may opt-out of receiving these communications by:
- Sending an email to info@corp.witi.com
- Sending notice via regular mail to the following postal address:
WITI
6345 Balboa Blvd.
Suite 257
Encino, CA 91316
- Calling us at 800.334.9484
Links
Our Site contains links to third party web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third party sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that you visit. Our Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by our Site.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our Site will request information from you via email surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and may choose not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address) and general demographic information (such as zip code and current age). Personally identifiable information collected for contests shall be used to notify winners and to award prizes. Survey information will be used for the purpose of monitoring or improving the use and operation of our Site.
Children's Privacy
- We do NOT collect online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent.
- We do NOT collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent
- We do NOT distribute to third parties any child's personally identifiable information with out prior parental consent
- We do NOT offer the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute a child's personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent
- We do NOT entice children by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity.
Public Forums
We make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to our users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should always exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information in such areas of our Site.
Security
WITI.com takes every commercially reasonable precaution to protect our users' personally identifiable and other information. When you submit your information via our Site, it is protected both on-line and off-line through our security measures.
When our registration processing form asks you to enter your information, that information is encrypted and is protected with secure socket layer technology. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of your web browser (for example, Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer) will lock, as opposed to being unlocked or open when you are just surfing the Internet.
We also protect your information off-line. All of our your personally identifiable and other information is restricted in our offices, or in the co-location facilities where we have our data servers. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerks or customer service representatives) are granted access to your personally identifiable information. All employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Our employees are notified and reminded about the importance we place on our users' privacy rights, and informed about what they can do to ensure our users' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.
Special Offers
We send all new users a welcome email to verify your password and user name that will be used in conjunction with our Site. Established users will occasionally receive information on products, services and special deals that we are offering, as well as a newsletter we publish. Out of respect for your privacy, and in compliance with current state and federal laws, we give you the option, upon receipt of such notices, not receive these types of communications from us in the future.
Site and Service Updates
We also send you Site and service announcement updates. You are able unsubscribe from service announcements in the manner described above, but please be aware that these announcements contain important information about our Service. We will also contact you to provide requested services and for issues relating to your account.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our Privacy Statement, which we may do at any time, we will post the changes on our Site so that you are aware of any new information we collect, how we may use it and under what circumstances, if any, we shall disclose such information to third parties. We will use your information in accordance with the Privacy Statement under which it was collected.
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