This
site is owned and operated by The Memory
Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC. Your privacy on
the Internet is of the utmost importance to
us. At The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC,
we want to make your experience online satisfying
and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information
about our users, we feel you should fully understand
the terms and conditions surrounding the capture
and use of that information. This privacy statement
discloses what information we gather and how
we use it.
Definition of the Information The Memory Zone
Scrapbook Store, LLC gathers and keeps track
of.
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC gathers
two types of information about users:
- Information
that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions
to receive our electronic newsletters, to
participate in our message boards or forums,
to email a friend, and from participation
in polls and surveys.
- Information
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC gathers
through aggregated tracking information derived
mainly by tallying page views throughout
our sites. This information allows us to
better tailor our content to readers' needs
and to help our advertisers and sponsors
better understand the demographics of our
audience. Because The Memory Zone Scrapbook
Store, LLC derives its revenue mainly from
sponsorships and advertising, providing such
aggregated demographic data is essential
to keeping our service free to users. Under
no circumstances does The Memory Zone Scrapbook
Store, LLC divulge any information about
an individual user to a third party.
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC Gathers
User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the
following free services, which require some
type of voluntary submission of personal information
by users:
- Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will
offer a free electronic newsletter to users.
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC gathers
the email addresses of users who voluntarily
subscribe. Users may remove themselves from
this mailing list by following the link provided
in every newsletter that points users to
the subscription management page. Users can
also subscribe to the newsletters at the
time of registration.
- Message boards/forums
Users of the site's
Message Boards and Forums must register separately
for these services (both are free of charge)
in order to post messages, although they
needn't register to visit the site. During
registration the user is required to supply
a username, password, and email address.
- "E-mail
this to a friend" Service
Our site users
can choose to electronically forward a link,
page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend".
The user must provide their email address,
as well as that of the recipient. This information
is used only in the case of transmission errors
and, of course, to let the recipient know who
sent the email. The information is not used
for any other purpose.
- Polling
We may offer interactive polls to
users so they can easily share their opinions
with other users and see what our audience
thinks about important issues. Opinions or
other responses to polls are aggregated and
are not identifiable to any particular user.
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC may
use a system to "tag" users
after they have voted, so they can vote only
once on a particular question. This tag is
not correlated with information about individual
users.
- Surveys
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store,
LLC may occasionally conduct user surveys
to better target our content to our audience.
We sometimes share the aggregated demographic
information in these surveys with our sponsors,
advertisers and partners. We never share
any of this information about specific individuals
with any third party.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we
will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13
without requesting parental consent.
USAGE TRACKING
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC tracks
user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. The Memory
Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC does break down overall
usage statistics according to a user's domain
name, browser type, and MIME type by reading
this information from the browser string (information
contained in every user's browser).
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC sometimes
tracks and catalogs the search terms that users
enter in our Search function, but this tracking
is never associated with individual users.
We use tracking information to determine which
areas of our sites users like and don't like
based on traffic to those areas. We do not
track what individual users read, but rather
how well each page performs overall. This helps
us continue to build a better service for you.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in
the browser files of your computer. The cookie
itself does not contain Personal Information
although it will enable us to relate your use
of this site to information that you have specifically
and knowingly provided. But the only personal
information a cookie can contain is information
you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data
off your hard disk or read cookie files created
by other sites. The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store,
LLC uses cookies to track user traffic patterns
(as described above). Our advertising system
delivers a one-time cookie to better track
ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off
in your browser. If you've set your browser
to warn you before accepting cookies, you will
receive the warning message with each cookie.
You do not need to have cookies turned on to
use this site. However, you do need cookies
to participate actively in message boards,
forums, polling and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC uses
any information voluntarily given by our users
to enhance their experience in our network
of sites, whether to provide interactive or
personalized elements on the sites or to better
prepare future content based on the interests
of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users
voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic
newsletters and to enable users to participate
in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums.
We send out newsletters to subscribers on a
regular schedule (depending on the newsletter),
and occasionally send out special editions
when we think subscribers might be particularly
interested in something we are doing. The Memory
Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC never shares newsletter
mailing lists with any third parties, including
advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine
which areas of our sites users like and don't
like based on traffic to those areas. We do
not track what individual users read, but rather
how well each page performs overall. This helps
us continue to build a better service for you.
We track search terms entered in Search function
as one of many measures of what interests our
users. But we don't track which terms a particular
user enters.
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC creates
aggregate reports on user demographics and
traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors
and partners. This allows our advertisers to
advertise more effectively, and allows our
users to receive advertisements that are pertinent
to their needs. Because we don't track the
usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser
or sponsor will never know that a specific
user clicked their ad. We will not disclose
any information about any individual user except
to comply with applicable law or valid legal
process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC uses
the above-described information to tailor our
content to suit your needs and help our advertisers
better understand our audience's demographics.
This is essential to keeping our service free.
We will not share information about individual
users with any third party, except to comply
with applicable law or valid legal process
or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
SECURITY
The Memory Zone Scrapbook Store, LLC operates
secure data networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password protection systems.
Our security and privacy policies are periodically
reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only
authorized individuals have access to the information
provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and
practical. Such choices include:
- Opting
not to register to receive our electronic
newsletters.
- Opting
not to participate in certain interactive
areas, which completely alleviates the need
to gather any personally identifiable information
from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection
and use of this information by The Memory Zone
Scrapbook Store, LLC. If we decide to change
our privacy policy, we will post those changes
on this page so that you are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it,
and under what circumstances we disclose it.
