This Privacy Policy shall be effective as of 01/01/09.
Privacy Policy
Welcome to the C. Millionaire Developments Inc. ("Contest
Millionaire" "we" "our" "us"
"company") www.contestmillionaire.com website ("Website" or
"Site").
This Privacy Policy is designed to explain the Contest Millionaire online
information-gathering practices regarding this Website. The Privacy Policy
describes how this Website collects, uses, and shares personally identifiable
information and other non-personally identifiable information obtained from and
about individuals who visit this Site. The Internet presents an opportunity for
us to reach our audience with product, shopping and company information, and
activities such as, but not limited to, sweepstakes, contests, rebates, offers,
newsletters, and other promotions. We are committed to providing and
maintaining that opportunity in a safe and secure environment for our visitors.
Agreement to This Privacy Policy and Privacy Policy Modifications
By using this Website you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree with this Privacy Policy, or any of its terms, please do not provide your
personally information ("PI"), for example, your name, address,
telephone number, screen name, email address, or credit card information. From
time to time, and at any time, this Privacy Policy may be revised or changed.
We will notify you about material changes and their respective effective
date(s) in the way we treat PI by sending a notice to the primary email address
you have specified and by placing a prominent notice on the Site. Website users
should review this Privacy Policy periodically to be up-to-date on the Site's
most current privacy policies and practices.
Collection of Your Personal Identifiable Information ("PI") and
Other Personal Information
This Website is intended to provide a unique, educational, and entertaining
experience for users without requiring them to submit any more PI than is
necessary to participate in particular activities that may be offered, or to
use the Site effectively. We do require users to register or submit PI in order
to access the member’s area of the website.
About Children
The Contest Millionaire Site is not directed to children under the age of
13. We will not knowingly accept information from children under the age of 13.
When PI May Be Requested
During the process of registering on the Site , you may be required to
provide certain personal information, such as your name, e-mail address, birth
date, gender, and postal code. Registration and input of PI may be required to
participate in activities such as, but not limited to, subscribing to the Contest
Millionaire membership program, participation in sweepstakes, contests,
specific promotional activities and offers, and some surveys, or for e-commerce
and sales activities. Participation in these activities is completely voluntary
and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. If
you chose to purchase a service or subscription from Contest Millionaire you
will be required to provide us with certain contact information including your
name, e-mail address billing address and other information necessary to process
any applicable payment, such as a credit card number and expiration date.
Use of PI
We may use PI in the Contest Millionaire membership program, sweepstakes,
contests, surveys, or promotional activity (i) to register you for those
activities, to verify that you comply with the published Rules or Terms and
Conditions, and to notify you if you are a winner in a sweepstakes or contest
or provide you with information and materials for the Contest Millionaire program
and for a promotion activity,(ii) for coupon, premium, or prize delivery, (iii)
for notification of special offers and newsletters; (iv) for notification of
important changes to Website functionality, and (v) to ensure that we comply
with applicable laws.
The PI you disclose for these and similar activities may be shared with
third parties such as those who may administer the activity for us and shipping
companies that may deliver a prize or premium. We will inform you at the time
we are collecting the PI that such collection is a requirement for
participation.
We may also use your PI for the following purposes: (vi) to help personalize
and enhance our Site and your Website experience; (vii) to send you
personalized information about our Site via email, and (viii) to contact you
for feedback regarding us or our advertisers or business partners.
We may use your email address and other PI contact information provided to
us through the Site to send you promotional materials from us and, if you have
opted in, have promotional materials sent directly to you from and by third
parties. You can choose these opt-ins when you register. If you do not want to
receive such promotional information, you can change your communication
preferences and remove yourself from our email lists at any time
Please also note that even if you opt out of receiving promotional emails
from us or third parties, we may still use your information to communicate with
you for other purposes, such as confirming orders and purchases, advising you
about your Contest Millionaire account, or notifying you if you are a winner of
a Contest Millionaire sweepstakes or contest or if you are participating in
other activities where we believe communication is necessary.
Should you respond to a particular offer from our business partners or
advertisers, we may also use your PI to provide a report to our advertisers or
business partners that tells them who responded to a particular offer. Further,
if you accept an offer contained in, for example, an email, we may provide the
advertiser or business partner with the PI necessary to fulfill that offer to
you.
Your PI may be shared with other companies and websites we own or operate
for our behalf.
Your PI may also be shared with those persons or entities that administer
our Website.
Your PI will only be shared with administrators, business partners, or
advertisers for a particular purpose and they will not be permitted to use it
for any unauthorized purpose.
At the time we gather any of your PI, we may give you the opportunity to
"opt in" to allow us to use your PI for other purposes such as
sending you specific future emails or advertising or sharing your PI with
specific business partners or other advertisers. If you do not "opt
in" for a specific use, we will not use your PI for that purpose.
Use of Non-PI
From time to time, we may also ask you to provide us with non-PI which is
data that does not allow us to identify you, such as first name, zip code, age,
gender, product and promotional preferences, and household characteristics like
presence of children or income bracket. Your non-PI may be aggregated and used
for our internal purposes or for creating reports for third-party advertisers
and partners, or otherwise shared with third parties for any lawful purpose,
without your permission. No third party will know who you are as a result of
the use of your non-PI.
E-Commerce
Purchases through our Site, if offered, may require disclosure of your PI,
your credit card information, and information about the name and address of the
person receiving the purchases. The credit card information may be subject to
verification by the issuing credit card company or other company. Shipping
information will be shared with the shipping company. Sales and shipping
records will also be generated and maintained. Unless you give us permission at
the time we collect such information, however, this information will not be
used for any purpose except the fulfillment and recordkeeping of the
transaction.
Opting Out
If you opt out of the use of your PI, we may still use your PI for internal
purposes, or as may be necessary to administer the Site, for example, sharing that
data with those persons or entities that administer the Website. Your PI may
further still be used to comply with applicable law, for example, but not
limited, to comply with valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena,
or court order, and to report sweepstakes and contest winnings as may be
required by law. And it may be used in special cases when we have reason to
believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify or contact
you, or bring legal action against you if, for example, we believe that you may
be causing injury to, or interference with, our Site or company's rights or
property, or other users of the Site, whether your actions are intentional or
unintentional.
Further, your PI may be shared with any successors and/or assigns we may
have.
Safety and Security
We take steps to help ensure that all information provided by you, whether PI
or non-PI, is treated securely. We have implemented technical, administrative,
and physical security measures to protect visitor information from unauthorized
access and improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures
in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware
though that despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
If you share your computer or use a computer that is accessed by the general
public, remember to sign off and close your browser window when you have
finished your session. This will help to ensure that others cannot access your PI.
No data transmission over the Internet, however, can be guaranteed to be
totally secure. While we try to protect your PI, we cannot guarantee the
security of any information you transmit to us. You use the site, and provide
us with PI, at your own risk. To the extent reasonably necessary to protect a
user's safety, we may collect his or her name, address, and/or email address.
To protect our security, to protect us against liability, or as required by
law, we may collect a user's name and email address. PI collected pursuant to
this provision will not be used for any other purpose.
Passive Gathering Information Electronically
Use of Cookies
During the course of any visit to the Website, the pages you see, along with
something called a "cookie," are downloaded to your computer. Cookies
are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your
computer's hard drive. These cookies do not contain any personal identifying
information, but they do enable us to provide features such as personalization.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your
browser. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, but rather
the computer used. Users may have the opportunity to set their computers to
accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or to not receive
cookies at any time. Different browsers may address cookies differently. If you
set the browser to not accept cookies, it may result in certain personalized
services not being provided to users of that computer.
Web Beacons
A web beacon is a transparent image file. Web beacons enable use to track
website usage information, such as the number of times a given web page has
been viewed. Web beacons are invisible to you and (unlike cookies) are not
placed on your computer. They may be used in association with cookies to
understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a
website.
Web beacons may also be used to track whether you have opened an HTML email.
When the email is opened a part of the code that makes up the HTML page calls a
web server to load the web beacon which then generates a record showing that
the email has been viewed. Web Beacons may also recognize when the email was
opened, how many times it was forwarded and which URL's (links within the
email) were clicked.
We do NOT use web beacons to collect or otherwise record any type of
personal information provided by or about any visitor to the Website.
Third-Party Advertisements
We may include banner, icon or text advertisements for third parties (or for
sites operated by third parties) that are not sponsors of and are not
affiliated with our Website. Should you click on any such advertisement, you
will leave our Website and be taken to the advertiser's website. As such, we
are not responsible for the content, practices, or information practices
(including but not limited to information practices relative to the gathering
and use of PI) of the websites operated by these third parties. In addition,
these advertisements do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by
us of the content, policies, practices, or products of these websites. All
users should check the relevant website's privacy policy and terms of use in
order to understand their policies and practices regarding the collection and
use of PI.
International User Notice
The Site is intended for use exclusively by residents of the United States of America and Canada. Our computer
systems are based in the United States
and Canada.
Personally Identifiable Information may be treated differently than it is in
other parts of the world, such as the European Union.
Review and Deletion of Personal Information
All users may review their PI at any time. If you would like to
review, modify, or delete this information, please feel free to contact us by
email or by mailing a letter with the request to:
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our Website users who are
California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge,
information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third
parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If
applicable, should you be a California
resident and would like to make such a request please submit your request in
writing to:
