Information Collection
We at WellEconomy.com, Inc. recognize the importance of protecting your personal and financial information. We respect your
privacy and your concerns about how the information you provide might be used. WellEconomy.com, Inc. is the controller of the
information collected on the Web sites.
Information collection practices for the Web sites are identical.
Registration
In order to use the Web sites, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to
give contact information (name, organization, email address, postal code, position title, country, postal code, and age). We
also may ask for organization address, organization phone number, type of organization, size of organization (sales and
number of employees), gender, marital status, income, presence of children, home address, and home phone number (although the user is not required to give any of this information). We use this information to tailor any contact we make with the user about services on the Web sites for which he/she has expressed interest.
Orders/subscriptions
For some products and services we may also ask for your credit card information and billing address. This information is used
to process and fulfill product orders and/or subscriptions and to provide support. If we have trouble processing an order,
the information is used to contact the user.
Email a Colleague Feature
If you use the Email a Colleague feature, we will ask for a name and email address for the purpose of sending an email
message on your behalf. We ask for this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email message and tracking the success of this feature.
Information Use
Profile
We store the information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is sorted information that we keep on individual users that details their viewing preferences and
habits. Consequently, collected information is related to the user's personal identifiable information to provide offers and
improve the content of the site for the user. This profile is used to customize and personalize a user's experience to our
web site, and to direct pertinent marketing promotions to them. We will share your profile with pre-screened third parties
ONLY if you request to receive offers of interest from these organizations when you register as a new user. Please be aware
that your profile and your personally identifiable information may be shared if you request to receive these offers of
interest.
Other WellEconomy.com organizations
For the purposes of carrying out the services provided under the Web sites, WellEconomy.com, Inc. may from time to time pass users' personally identifiable information to its subsidiaries/affiliates .
Purchases
When users purchase products from any of WellEconomy.com's content partners , we may share names and other contact
information with that partner for support and administrative purposes on behalf of WellEconomy.com. The content partners are
not allowed to use personal data except for the purpose of providing these services.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer which identifies that computer during current and subsequent visits
to a web site. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user's computer for an extended
period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser's help file directions. Internet
Explorer users can use the following link for additional information on managing cookies:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/privacy/config.asp
Cookies are used to automate the login process and store user site preferences. If a user rejects certain cookies, their
ability to use the Web sites will be significantly degraded and the Web sites may not function at all. Persistent cookies
enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience of our site. Personally identifiable
information is stored and encrypted within either session or persistent cookies. We do link the information we store in
cookies to personally identifiable information you submit while using our site.
Log Files
Like most users of standard web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type,
internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze
trends, administer the site, track users' movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses, etc. are linked to personally identifiable information. We use Google Analytics and AWStats, software
packages that use log files to analyze user activity.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that helps us better manage content on our
Web sites by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in
function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users. The main difference between the two is that
clear gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period (full stop) at the end of this
sentence. Clear gifs are not tied to users' personally identifiable information. Clear Gifs can "work with" existing cookies on a computer if they are both from the same web site or advertising company.
That means, for example, that if a person visited "www.companyX.com", which uses an advertising company's clear gif, the web
site or advertising company would match the clear gif's identifier and the advertising company's cookie ID number, to show
the past online behavior for that computer. This collected information would then be given to the advertising company or web
site.
In addition, we use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by the recipients. This
allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If users would like to opt-out of these emails, please see the Opt-out section.
Communications from the Site
Special Offers and Updates
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we leave it
to users to decide whether to 'opt-out' of receiving these types of communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out
sections.
Newsletters
If a user wishes to subscribe to any of our newsletters, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Out
of respect for the privacy of our users, we leave it to users to decide whether to 'opt-out' of receiving these
communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections.
Service Announcements
On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service-related announcement. For instance, if our service is
temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications,although they can deactivate their account. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.
Customer Service
We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account
we reply via email or phone, in accordance with the user's wishes.
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