
Privacy Policy
Last revised on February 11, 2008.
We value you as a customer and we respect your need for privacy.
The following provides a framework under which we respectfully treat customer
data.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
- This policy covers how SparcPlug, Inc., a Nevada Corporation (SparcPlug)
treats personal information that SparcPlug collects and receives, including
information related to your past use of SparcPlug products and services.
Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable
like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not
otherwise publicly available.
- This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that SparcPlug
does not own or control, or to people that SparcPlug does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
General
- SparcPlug collects personal information when you register with SparcPlug,
when you use SparcPlug products or
services, when you visit SparcPlug pages or the pages of certain SparcPlug
partners or Services, and when you enter promotions
or sweepstakes. SparcPlug may combine information about you that we have
with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
- When you register for certain services, we ask for information such as
your name, email address, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests.
For some products and services we might also ask for your address and Credit
Card numbers and/or banking information. When you register with any SparcPlug
service and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
- SparcPlug collects information about your transactions with us and with
some of our business partners, including information about your Area Code
and location.
- SparcPlug automatically receives and records information on our server
logs from your browser, including your IP
address, SparcPlug Services cookie information,
and the pages you request.
- SparcPlug uses information for the following general purposes: to customize
the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and
services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide
anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Children
- SparcPlug assumes that all users of it's products and services are over
the age of 18 or have obtained
parental permission to use products and services.
- SparcPlug does not knowingly contact children under age 13 about special
offers or for marketing purposes.
- If it is determined that a minor has registered for an account, SparcPlug
will terminate the account.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- SparcPlug does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with
other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services
you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf
of or with SparcPlug under confidentiality agreements. These companies
may use your personal information to help SparcPlug communicate with you
about offers from SparcPlug and our marketing partners. However, these
companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish
or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud,
situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any
person, violations of SparcPlug's terms of use, or as otherwise required
by law.
- We transfer information about you if SparcPlug is acquired by or merged
with another company. In this event, SparcPlug will notify you before information
about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- SparcPlug may display targeted advertisements based on personal information.
Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact
with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example,
women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
- SparcPlug does not provide any personal information to the advertiser
when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting
with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the
advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria
used to display the ad.
- SparcPlug advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks,
insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial
companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
- SparcPlug works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service
providers in different industries and categories of business.
Cookies
- SparcPlug may set and access SparcPlug cookies on
your computer. The primary purpose of these cookies is to remember user data
put into the form fields, and to prevent abusive use of the justKnow® service.
- SparcPlug lets other
companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access
their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is
subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other
companies do not have access to SparcPlug's cookies.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
General
- You can edit your SparcPlug
Account Information at any time.
- We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the
SparcPlug services, such as service announcements, administrative messages
and Newsletters, that are considered part of your SparcPlug
account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
- You can delete your SparcPlug account through our administrative panels
of the various products and services.
Confidentiality and Security
- We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe
reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products
or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
- We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with
federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
- SparcPlug may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes
in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary
email address specified in your SparcPlug account or by placing a prominent
notice on our site.