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StormFront Development Group, LLC (we, us, the company, the Site) and Client/User (you) agree to the following: DEFINITIONS (a) "Client" means the person who orders Web Hosting, Design, Maintenance, or Site Management services from us and has ownership rights to the "Web Site". (b) "Web Site" means all data files, data structures, images, and other information content owned by the Client that is to be hosted and managed under this Agreement. (c) "Physical Server" means the third-party computers, hardware, operating system, and software necessary to operate and support your Web Site in accordance with this Agreement. Your privacy is very important to us. Because we gather certain types of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") from users of our website, we feel you should know how we use the Personal Information that you may voluntarily provide us and the Personal Information that is collected passively through the use of cookies or image tags. The Privacy Policy is a part of the Site's Usability Agreement, which is binding on all users. Unless specified otherwise on the Site, users must be at least 18 years of age and a legal resident of the United States before participation in any activity that requires the submission of Personal Information. By your participation in our Site activities, you certify that you are at least 18 years of age. All users of the Site are required to provide true, current, complete and accurate Personal Information when prompted and we will reject and delete any entry that we believe in good faith to be false or fraudulent. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not participate in the Site's activities or services that require you to provide your Personal Information. (The type of Personal Information is listed below.) Your continued participation indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and of the collection, use, disclosure, maintenance, management and storage of your Personal Information as described below. This Privacy Policy will remain in full force and effect as long as you are a user of the Site. We reserve the right to revise this policy at any time by updating this posting without advance notice to you. Such revisions shall be effective to you as a user of the Site immediately upon posting. Therefore, we encourage you to check this Privacy Policy often. COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION Generally, you may browse this Site without providing any Personal Information. For certain activities (such as contest and sweepstakes registrations, membership, nominations for civic or "Best" awards, or registration for chat rooms and message boards) the Personal Information you voluntarily provide may include your first/middle and last name, home address, business address, email address, telephone number, age, birthdate, gender, employer or personal preferences, depending on the activity. Your Personal Information will be used to implement the specific activity or event and will be used for the marketing of additional events, services and merchandising for this Site and StormFront Development. We will not sell, exchange, rent, lease or otherwise disclose your Personal Information to other third-party marketers or any such persons that are not associated with our company as an advertiser, sponsor, or promotional partner (collectively "Advertisers") unless it is necessary to 1) conform to regulatory and legal requirements or to comply with legal process, 2) to protect the safety and security of our users, employees, or property, 3) to defend the rights of the Site or our company, or 4) to enforce the Terms of Use Agreement. (Specifics on how we may share your information with Advertisers are explained below.) It is necessary that we share your Personal Information with our operational service providers, the specialists that provide internal support to our Site design, development, hosting and operations including maintenance, management, storage and/or fulfillment of our membership and e-mail clubs, various contests, sweepstakes, services, events and online stores. We use operational service providers to efficiently provide the full range of content, activities and membership services we bring to you and we request that our operational service providers also protect your privacy and not disclose your personal information with third-party marketers that are not associated with our company or website. Furthermore, we reserve the right to disclose any and all membership and visitor databases collected by the website, in the event that the assets or stock of StormFront Development, its corporate licensee or parent company are sold or transferred to, or merged with a different company or entity, and to contact you at any time regarding the administration of the Site, its various activities and your membership. We explain below what our policy is for the collection, use and disclosure of users' Personal Information for the Site and Advertisers. Advertising support allows us to offer, free of charge, many great activities and services to our users such as contests, sweepstakes and special events. Therefore, we may also use your Personal Information for the marketing of events, products or services of our generous Advertisers. There are two ways users may receive such information from Advertisers, either indirectly via newsletters, email or direct mail from the Site, or directly from the Advertiser. We may use one or both methods depending on the activity and the Advertiser. We do not currently share Personal Information with our Advertisers. However, depending on the activity, we may in the future do so and you will receive notice on the Site and/or in the rules of participation ("Rules of Participation") for the event or activity. Please be informed that our Advertisers may not have the same privacy policies that we do. Therefore, you will need to tell us if you do not want to receive marketing information directly from our Advertisers. You will need to check the "Opt-out" click boxes so indicated on the registration area for the particular event, or notify the Site's Privacy Administrator at WEBMASTER@STORMFRONTDEVELOPMENT.COM. You will also need to tell us if you do not wish to receive marketing or promotional materials from the Site and/or our company in the same manner. We reserve the right to monitor and edit any Personal Information about our users, including information about the use of website activities and services and the contents of users' email and messages for internal purposes and when necessary, to disclose to law enforcement personnel, and/or the employer and/or Internet Service Provider of a user that is not in compliance with the Terms of Use Agreement. We will take such measures if we believe it is necessary to protect the security and operations of this Site. We provide aggregate statistics about our users, traffic patterns and related website information to Advertisers, reputable third-party vendors or marketing companies, but these statistics do not disclose Personal Information about a particular user. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICY Although persons of all ages may visit our Site and participate in activities that do not require the collection of Personal Information, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 and will automatically reject and delete the registration or entry of any person we believe in good faith to be underage. Any false or fraudulent registration or entry from a minor will be deemed to be ineligible and will disqualify the minor from the receipt of a prize, benefit or other participation. EMAIL POLICY We do not generally keep email correspondence, except for those emails as required by Federal law. Email is an important communications channel for StormFront Development. All email sent to us should be generated by the person in whose name the email account is registered. Email users shall not mask their identity by using a false name or another person's name or account. We will use your email address and the content of any email for administrative and correspondence purposes and to send you information that you may request. Any non-personal content you provide to the Site by email, including, but not limited to, feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, plans, ideas or the like, shall be deemed to be non confidential and we assume no obligation to protect such information from disclosure. You understand, acknowledge, and agree that the submission of such information shall in no way prevent the purchase, manufacture or use of similar products, services, plans and ideas by our company and this Site for any purpose whatever, and we shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute such content without restriction E-COMMERCE POLICY If this Site sells goods and/or services or provides auction services we will request Personal Information that includes your credit card or other payment information, full name, billing and shipping address, email address and telephone number and any such information that is required to fulfill your order and to communicate with you regarding your order. Sensitive Personal Information such as credit card account numbers will be collected though a secured Internet connection generally via SSL or S-HTTP protocols. We may use your Personal Information, (but not your credit card number) to contact you about future products, services and discounts from the our company or to provide such information indirectly from our Advertisers, unless you tell us otherwise. We will only use your credit card number to complete the specific transaction you requested. CHAT ROOMS, MESSAGE BOARDS, AND PUBLIC FORUMS By use of or registration for any Site activity such as message boards, chat rooms and other such public forums (collectively "Public Forums"), you understand, acknowledge and agree that you are automatically subject to the following rules of conduct and the Site's Privacy Policy. You further agree that we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to terminate your membership or registration at any time, delete any or all of your postings, block access to your membership file or profile(s) and/or reject participation in any other activity or service provided to you by the Site. We also reserve the right to take such actions, with or without notice, and without any liability to the account holder and user. As an entertainment service to our users, StormFront Development provides Public Forums that enable users to interact with other users and StormFront staff, and share commentary on a variety of subjects. A variety of subjects may be discussed via Public Forums, however, use of such forums may only be for lawful purposes. The Site specifically prohibits certain uses and activities. You understand, acknowledge and agree that by access or registration on Public Forums, you are prohibited from use of the Site for any of such purposes below: 1. Posting any incomplete, false, fraudulent or inaccurate biographical information or general information, which is not your own information, or impersonating any other person. 2. Posting a profile for anything other than to participate in online discussion via the Public Forum. 3. Sending a message to a user for any reason other than to participate in online discussions. 4. Deleting or revising any content or material posted by any other person or entity. 5. Posting chain letters or pyramid schemes. 6. Forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting for any reason. 7. Posting any obscene, indecent, defamatory, threatening, harassing, tortuous, abusive, hateful content, or any content that is embarrassing or harmful to another user or any other person or entity. 8. Posting any sexually explicit image or statement. ADVERTISING AND OTHER THIRD-PARTY CONTENT This Site provides banner and general advertising, and other content provided by our Advertisers and/or business partners. You understand, acknowledge and agree that such third-party content on this Site is not an endorsement by our company of the goods, services or messages conveyed in the content or the business practices (including the privacy policies) of such third-party content providers. Users may from time to time enter into correspondence with or participation in the advertising or promotions offered through the Site. However, all such correspondence, including, without limitations, and resulting contractual agreements are solely between the Advertiser and the user. Your further agree that the Site is not responsible for upholding any applicable terms, conditions, and representations of warranties made by Advertisers in connection with an agreement between users. HYPERLINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES This Site often provides links to third-party websites and other resources that could be of interest to our users, including the websites of our Advertisers. You understand, acknowledge and agree that these links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by the Site or our company of the content, advertising or business practices (including the privacy policies) of such third-party websites, whether the company's logo or sponsorship identification is on the third-party website, or whether the Site conducts "framing," which allows a user to access several web pages or websites while still viewing a header or border from this Site. These third-party websites may have different privacy policies and business practices than we do. Therefore, we do not endorse, verify, make any representations, or take responsibility for the content, truthfulness, accuracy, quality or completeness of the content or activities conducted on such websites. You further agree that the Site, its Owner and Operator, parent company, affiliates, successors and assigns, and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and operational service providers will not, under any circumstances, be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with your use of or reliance on the content, advertising or business practices of linked third-party sites. If you decide to access and use linked third-party websites, you understand, acknowledge and agree that you do so at your own risk. COOKIES AND IMAGE TAGS The use of cookies is an industry standard and they are currently used on most websites, including this Site. Cookies are a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred from a website to the hard drive of a user's computer so that the website administrator may identify the computer and passively track the user's activities on the website. Image tags work in conjunction with cookies and are small image files that may be located on select pages of our Site, or within web-based email newsletters that we may send. (Image tags are also called web beacons, web bugs, clear GIFs or single-pixel GIFs.) Tracking is important because we can better understand what parts of our website are used the most, when to launch new services and how to enhance current offerings. We may share the information we receive from cookies and image tags with third-parties and our Advertisers in aggregate form, which means that such information does not contain specific Personal Information about any one visitor. In short, cookies and image tags collect a user's Internet protocols and server information. Such data files allow our Site to remember your web browser when you visit our Site and are a necessary tool for quick and efficient access to membership clubs, awards programs and contests. A cookie will not allow the Site to learn any Personal Information (such as your real name and email address) that you have not otherwise disclosed. Cookies and image tags allow the Site to remember important information that will make your use of that Site more helpful. We do not use cookies or image tags to collect other Personal Information unless you give us permission to do so. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie or image tag is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all such devices. This is done through your browser. If you turn cookies off, you may not have access to many features at our Site that make your Internet experience more efficient and enjoyable - like the features mentioned above - and some of our other services may not function properly. SECURITY MEASURES We conduct the collection, management, maintenance and storage of visitor information in a secure and reasonable manner using acceptable standards of security technology and practices (e.g., electronic security systems and password protections) to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of Personal Information data. We also request that our operational service providers to also take such precautions. StormFront databases are accessible only by authorized personnel. However, please note that when users transmit Personal Information over an unsecured Internet connection, the Site is not responsible for the security of that information during the transmission stage as your email or registration could be copied or intercepted by unknown third parties. We use a secured connection only for the sale of goods and services but we do not use a secured connection for other types of activities. Therefore, you understand, acknowledge, and agree that you transmit certain Personal Information over this Site at your own risk. REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION You may review, update or delete your Personal Information collected by the Site. To do so, please email the Site's Privacy Administrator at WEBMASTER@STORMFRONTDEVELOPMENT.COM. To have access to your Personal Information, you must provide proof of identification such as full name, street address, city/state and zip code, user ID and password, and/or information about your recent activity on the website. We reserve the right to deny access to any user if we believe there is a question about your identity. Certain types of Personal Information that are necessary to check eligibility, such as birthdate or age, cannot be modified or deleted. CONTACT US If you have any questions regarding this Agreement, please contact the Site's Privacy Administrator via email at WEBMASTER@STORMFRONTDEVELOPMENT.COM, or contact: STORMFRONT DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC P.O. Box 1702 Sumner, WA 98390 ATTN: Privacy Administrator The Terms of this agreement were last updated on 1/17/2005.