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eprodz.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please
read the following policy to understand how your personal information will
be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may
change from time to time so please check back periodically.
This policy will let you know:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you;
- What cookies are and how they are used;
- How your information is used;
- Who is collecting your information;
- With whom your information may be shared;
- What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and
distribution of your information;
- How you can access, update or delete your information;
- The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the
loss, misuse, or alteration of your information;
- What else you should know about your online privacy.
- What personally identifiable information does eprodz.com
collect from me?
Some personal information is gathered when you register. During
registration, eprodz.com asks for your name, email address, birth date,
gender, address , zip code, etc.. . Once you register you are no longer
anonymous to eprodz.com - you are able
to take full advantage of eprodz.com's many offerings.
In addition to registration we may ask you for personal information at
other times, including (but not limited to) when you enter a sweepstakes,
contest or promotion sponsored by eprodz.com and/or our many partners; . If you contact
eprodz.com we may keep
a record of that correspondence. eprodz.com also occasionally asks users
to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. Wherever eprodz.com collects personal information we make an effort to include a
link to this Privacy Policy on that page.
- What are cookies and how does eprodz.com use
them?
As part of offering and providing customizable and
personalized services, eprodz.com uses cookies to store and sometimes
track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is
sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard
drive. All sites on eprodz.com where you are prompted to log-in or that
are customizable require that you accept cookies. (See "What are my
choices regarding collection, use and distribution of my information?" for
more information on cookies.)
Generally, we use cookies to remind us of who you are and to access your account information
(stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more
personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or "Log
In"
and is modified when you "Log Out" of our services.
Advertising networks that serve ads onto eprodz.com may also use
their own cookies.
- How does eprodz.com use my
information?
eprodz.com's primary goal in collecting
personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized
experience on our network of sites. This includes personalization
services, interactive communications, and many other types of services,
most of which are completely free to you. In order to provide services
free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, eprodz.com is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content,
and hence better service, to you.
In our role of delivering targeted advertisements, eprodz.com plays
the middleman. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type
of audience they want to reach (for example, males over 35 years old). eprodz.com takes the advertisement and displays it to users meeting that
criteria. In this process, the advertiser never has access to individual
account information. Only eprodz.com has access to individuals'
accounts. This kind of advertisement targeting is done with banner ads.
You will only receive special offers via email from eprodz.com if you
have indicated in your account preferences that you would like to receive
them. You can change your account preferences at any time.
eprodz.com does research on our users' demographics, interests, and
behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during
a promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to
better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and
analyzed on an aggregated basis. eprodz.com may share this aggregated
data with advertisers or business partners.
- Who is collecting information?
When you are on a eprodz.com site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing
that information with eprodz.com alone, unless it is specifically stated
otherwise. Some eprodz.com services are offered in conjunction with a partner company. In order to
provide this co-branded service to you, it is necessary for us to share
your personal information with our partner company. If data is being
collected and/or maintained by any company other than eprodz.com, you
will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If
you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the
transfer by not using that particular service.
Promotions that run on eprodz.com may be sponsored by companies other
than eprodz.com or may be cosponsored by eprodz.com and another
company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with
the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the
time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in
the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.
Please be aware that eprodz.com Internet access partners,
advertisers, and web sites that have links on our site may collect
personally identifiable information about you. The information practices
of those Internet access partners, advertisers, and web sites linked to eprodz.com are not covered by this privacy statement.
- With whom does eprodz.com share my information?
As a
general rule, eprodz.com will not disclose any of your personally
identifiable information except when we have your permission or under
special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law
requires it or under the circumstances described below. The following describes some of the ways that your information may
be disclosed.
Business Partners & Sponsors: eprodz.com may disclose your
personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is
specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to
transferring the data. Details of shared use can be found in specific
Terms of Service or Use Agreements, and sweepstakes and promotions rules.
Some or all data collected during a eprodz.com promotion may be shared
with a sponsor.
Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information
from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give eprodz.com
permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they
can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your email address will
be shared. If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will
be notified prior to the transfer.
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive
materials or special offers from third parties. If you opt-in to receive
information from these third parties, eprodz.com will (with your
permission) share your name and email address with them .
Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality
agreements, eprodz.com may match user information with third party data.
Also, eprodz.com discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 45%
of our users are from Bangalore) in order to describe our services to current and
prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other
lawful purposes.
Other: eprodz.com may also disclose account information in special
cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is
necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who
may be violating eprodz.com's Terms of Service or may be causing injury
to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) eprodz.com's rights or property, other
eprodz.com users, or anyone
else that could be harmed by such activities. eprodz.com may disclose or
access account information when we believe in good faith that the law
requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem
necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
- What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution
of my information?
eprodz.com may, from time to time, send
you email regarding our products and services. In addition, if you
indicated upon registration that you are interested in receiving offers or
information from eprodz.com and our partners, we may occasionally send
you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of
interest to you. Only eprodz.com (or agents working on behalf of eprodz.com and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these
direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these
offers. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when
you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily edit
your eprodz.com Account Information to no longer receive such offers and
mailings. You will need your user ID and Password in order to
access your eprodz.com Account Information.
On some types of eprodz.com promotions, we will be updating you on your score, entries, and status in prize
drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you
automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you choose the no-
email option that some promotions offer. Occasionally these promotion-
related email messages may include targeted advertisements.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your
browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be
notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to
reject all cookies you will be unable to use those eprodz.com services
that require registration in order to participate
eprodz.com does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will
notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be
shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not
permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be
shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to
participate in certain promotions or contests.
- What is eprodz.com's policy on allowing me to update, correct,
or delete my personally identifiable information?
You may
edit your eprodz.com Account Information and your public eprodz.com
Profile at any time by using your user ID and password. Please contact privacy@eprodz.com
for further instructions about deleting or deactivating your eprodz.com
account. Residual information will remain within our archive records.
- What security precautions are in place to protect the loss,
misuse, or alteration of my information?
Your eprodz.com
Account Information and eprodz.com Profile are password-protected so
that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may
edit your eprodz.com Account Information and eprodz.com Profile by
using your user ID and password.
We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. eprodz.com will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone
call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your eprodz.com account and close your browser window when you have finished
your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal
information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else
or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless
network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive
to protect your personal information, eprodz.com cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our
online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we
receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security
on our systems.
- What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep
in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online
- for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that
information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post
personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may
receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of
your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and
responsible whenever you're online.
Additional Information If you have a question that was not addressed in
this privacy policy you may contact us at privacy@eprodz.com
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