1. General Headlines In Time Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to Headlines In
Time. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third
parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
Please read this privacy policy to learn more about the ways
in which we use and protect your personal information. We want
you to fully understand our privacy practices and therefore,
in addition to this Privacy Policy, we have created the following
to help you fully evaluate our practices and answer privacy
questions.
Our core privacy principles
Our core privacy principles remain the same
throughout Headlines In Time worldwide:
1. We will not sell or rent your personal
information to third parties for their marketing purposes and
will only disclose your personal information in accordance with
our Privacy Policy and/or with your explicit consent.
2. Third parties are not permitted to sell
the information we provide to them, to market directly to you,
or to disclose it in any other way without your explicit consent.
We share your personal information with Headlines In Time internal
services for our operations only to facilitate or outsource
Headlines In Time services or operations when absolutely necessary
and under confidential restrictions.
3. We share your personal information with
other Headlines In Time members in accordance with our Privacy
Policy to help facilitate transaction and to allow members to
contact you.
4. We disclose limited personal contact
information to verified requests by law enforcement and government
officials who conduct criminal investigations, and require a
subpoena for additional personal information, in accordance
with our Privacy Policy.
5. We will provide you with notice if our
privacy policy changes and an opportunity to reject such changes.
7. We let you change your personal information
so that you can keep it up to date.
8. We use safe, secure technology and other
privacy protection programs to keep your personal information
secure on Headlines In Time.
If you have additional questions, you may send
email to admin@headlinesintime.com.
If Headlines In Time does not respond to your inquiry or your
inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, please contact
us at 866-770-6131
The privacy practices of this statement apply
to our services available under the domain and sub domains of
www.headlinesintime.com
.
This Privacy Policy describes the information,
as part of the normal operation of our services, we collect
from you and what may happen to that information. Although this
policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy because
we believe you should know as much as possible about Headlines
In Time practices so that you can make informed decisions. Headlines
In Time strives to provide a consistent set of privacy practices
throughout the Headlines In Time trading community.
By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User
Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our use
and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with
this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into
and subject to the terms of the Headlines In Time User Agreement.
This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance in registration
for new registering users, and is otherwise effective on October
6, 2003 for all users.
2. Information We Collect.
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information
is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized
experience. This allows us to provide services and features
that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service
to make your experience safer and easier. We only collect personal
information about you that we consider necessary for achieving
this purpose. In general, you can browse the Site without telling
us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself.
Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous
to us. If you choose to use our services, we may require you
to provide contact and identity information, billing information,
shipping information and other personal information as indicated
on the forms throughout the Site. Where possible, we indicate
which fields are required and which fields are optional. You
always have the option to not provide information by choosing
not to use a particular service or feature. We automatically
track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site.
We use this information to do internal research on our users'
demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand,
protect and serve you and our community. This information may
include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is
on the Site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this
URL is on the Site or not), your computer browser information,
and your IP address. We use data collection devices such as
"cookies" on certain pages of the Site to help analyze
our web page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote
trust and safety. "Cookies" are small files placed
on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services.
We offer certain features that are only available through the
use of a "cookie". We also use cookies to allow you
to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies
can also help us provide information that is targeted to your
interests. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning
that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at
the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies
if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be
able to use certain features on the Site and you may be required
to reenter your password more frequently during a session. Additionally,
you may encounter "cookies" or other similar devices
on certain pages of the Site that are placed by third parties.
For example, if you view a web page created by a user, there
may be a "cookie" placed within that web page. We
do not control the use of cookies by third parties. If you establish
a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect
some additional information, such as a billing address, a credit
card number and a credit card expiration date and tracking information
from checks or money orders. If you register for Headlines In
Time on another web site or use a web site providing a service
for Headlines In Time or a web site that helps facilitate your
activity on Headlines In Time, that web site may provide personal
information about you and your transactions back to Headlines
In Time.
3. Our Use of Your Information.
We use your personal information to facilitate
the services you request. We use your personal information in
the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain
from your current and past activities on the Site to: resolve
disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote safe trading;
collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in our products
and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products,
services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and
protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity;
enforce our User Agreement; and as otherwise described to you
at the time of collection. At times, we may look across multiple
users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular
we may examine your personal information to identify users using
multiple User IDs or aliases. We may compare and review your
personal information for errors, omissions and for accuracy.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information.
As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent
any of your personal information to third parties for their
marketing purposes without your explicit consent. However, the
following describes some of the ways that your personal information
may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide
our services. Internal Service Providers for Our Operations.
We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service
providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of
the business, product and service operations that we provide
to you (e.g., search technology, discussion boards, bill collection,
affiliate and rewards programs, co-branded credit cards) and
therefore we may provide some of your personal information directly
to these internal service providers. These internal service
providers' are subject to confidentiality agreements with us
and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the
information we provide them for any other purpose except to
facilitate the specific outsourced Headlines In Time related
operation, unless you have explicitly agreed or given your prior
permission to them for additional uses. In some instances, the
internal service provider may collect information directly from
you (such as for Headlines In Time surveys or for a co-branded
credit card). In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement
of the internal service provider, and all additional information
you provide them and their additional uses will be strictly
up to you. If you provide additional information to an internal
service provider directly, then their use of your personal information
is governed by their applicable privacy policy. Legal Requests.
Headlines In Time cooperates with law enforcement inquiries,
as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual
property rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect you
and the Headlines In Time community from bad actors. Therefore,
in response to a verified request by law enforcement or other
government officials relating to a criminal investigation or
alleged illegal activity, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose
your name, city, state, telephone number, email address, User
ID history, fraud complaints, and bidding and listing history
without a subpoena. Without limiting the above, in an effort
to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community
free from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal
information to law enforcement or other government officials
without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal
procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure
of information is necessary to: prevent imminent physical harm
or financial loss; or report suspected illegal activity. Further,
we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, street
address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email,
and company name to Headlines In Time participants under confidentiality
agreement, as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or
appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual
property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity. Due
to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that
all of your private communications and other personal information
will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this
Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing),
we may be forced to disclose personal information to the government
or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties
may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private
communications, or users may abuse or misuse your personal information
that they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we use
industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not
promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information
or private communications will always remain private.
5. Security.
Your information is stored on Headlines In Time
Inc.'s servers located in the United States. We use procedural
and technical safeguards to protect your personal information
against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure
to protect your privacy, including encryption, "firewalls"
and Secure Socket Layers. We treat data as an asset that must
be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ
many different security techniques to protect such data from
unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company.
However, "perfect security" does not exist on the
Internet.
6. Privacy Tools.
It is our goal to make our privacy practices
easy to understand. If you have questions about any part of
this summary or if you would like more detailed information,
we encourage you to review our full privacy policy.
7. Notice.
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time
by posting the amend terms on the Site. All amended terms shall
automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially
posted on the Site.
