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Privacy
Policy
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. respects the privacy of its
customers and takes its obligations to protect the
privacy of its customers seriously. This policy
describes the personally identifiable information that
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. collects from its customers and
prospective customers and the steps that we take to
safeguard such information.
DISCLAIMER
THIS PRIVACY
POLICY IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BUSINESS CONSULTING
SERVICES PROVIDED BY PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. IN THE
UNITED STATES, CANADA & UNITED KINGDOM ("SERVICES") AND IS ONLY APPLICABLE TO
CUSTOMERS LOCATED IN, OR PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. SERVICES
GOVERNED BY THE APPLICABLE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. WILL COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE
PRIVACY LAWS GOVERNING SERVICES PROVIDED IN OTHER
JURISDICTIONS.
EFFECTIVE DATE
ALTHOUGH
PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THIS
PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME (SEE "HOW WILL I KNOW IF
PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. CHANGES THE PRIVACY POLICY"
BELOW), THIS POLICY WAS LAST UPDATED ON MAY 5TH,
2008.
WHAT
IS "PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION"?
"Personally
Identifiable Information" consists of information that
can be associated with a specific individual or entity,
or permits the individual or entity to be contacted
either physically or online. This information includes,
for example, a customer's name, address, telephone
number and email address.
WHY
DOES PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. COLLECT PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. recognizes that any personal
information is very important to you, and that you
should have a right to control the use and dissemination
of that information. Therefore, PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.
collects Personally Identifiable Information for a
variety of purposes, all geared toward making your
experience as a client or prospective client a positive
one. PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. may collect and use
Personally Identifiable Information for any of the
following purposes:
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To
provide and/or change service you request to
purchase;
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To
provide you with Customer Service;
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To
ensure that our website is customer friendly,
informative and easy to access;
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To
create new services that may be of interest to you;
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To
protect our customers, employees or property (e.g.,
to investigate fraud, harassment or other types of
illegal activity);
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To bill
you, run credit checks, or to initiate debt
collection;
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To
anticipate and resolve problems with your
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. order; and
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To
inform you of the new products, services, promotions
or other marketing initiatives.
Typically,
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. will provide you with a choice to
opt out of our marketing activities. If no opt-out
choice is available, please contact PlanYourIdea.com,
Inc. at the address or telephone number listed in the
"Contact Us" portion of our website, and a
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. representative will process your
request. Once your opt-out request has been processed,
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. will respect your request to
decline to receive further direct marketing
communications.
WILL
PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. DISCLOSE MY INFORMATION TO ANY
THIRD PARTIES?
The
information collected by PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. will
only be used internally at PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.,
subject to the limited circumstances listed below.
Unless you give us your express consent,
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. will not disclose your
information to third parties who want to market products
to you. When PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. uses agents,
contractors or other third parties to perform services
on its behalf, and those third parties have access to
your Personally Identifiable Information,
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. will require that those third
parties are subject to a confidentiality agreement so
that your information is protected.
WHAT
ARE THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH
PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. WILL DISCLOSE PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES?
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. may be required to disclose your
Personally Identifiable Information to comply with
applicable law. For example, PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. may
be required to disclose certain information under a
subpoena, a court order, or as required by a regulatory
or administrative agency (e.g., in response to a
customer complaint). Additionally PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.
may disclose this information if we, in good faith,
believe that this information is necessary to identify,
contract or bring legal action against individuals who
may be a threat to public safety.
If
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. is required to or decides to stop
providing Service, or sell or transfer parts of its
business to unaffiliated companies, PlanYourIdea.com,
Inc. will provide only that portion of your Personally
Identifiable Information that will allow these companies
to offer you the same or similar services or as to
accomplish our business objectives. Be assured that
these unaffiliated companies will be bound by
confidentiality requirements and will be obligated to
keep PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. customer information
confidential.
HOW
DOES PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. COLLECT PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. collects Personally Identifiable
Information in various ways, such as over the phone,
over the Internet (if you transact with us online), or
when you complete an application form for one of the
products or services that we offer or promote.
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. collects personal information
directly from you at the time when you purchase
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. services. PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.
may also collect personal information from third parties
such as:
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Credit
reporting agencies;
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PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.'s affiliate/referral program;
or
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Other
entities who supply services to us related to the
provision of business consulting services provided
to you.
If you do
not want PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. to have your Personally
Identifiable Information, please do not submit it to
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. Be advised, however, that this
may interfere with PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.'s ability to
effectively resolve any customer service related issues
you may have.
WHAT
ABOUT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO
THE PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. SERVICES OR THE WEBSITE?
For clients
of PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. Services, or for those
individuals that access PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.'s website
or web-based tools via the Internet, PlanYourIdea.com,
Inc. may store information on your computer in the form
of a "cookie" or similar file. Cookies allow
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. to conduct additional market
research into the users of our website and products, and
will allow us to develop ways to improve our website and
services. If you do not want a "cookie" or similar file
stored on your computer, PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.
recommends that you consult with your Internet browser
instructions or "help" command to erase, block or
monitor the cookies attached to your hard drive.
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. also uses third-party advertising
companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These
companies may use information (not including your name,
address, email address or telephone number) about your
visits to PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.'s and other websites in
order to provide advertisements about goods and services
of interest to you on the PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.
website.
Additionally, from time to time, PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.
collects information about visits to our website,
session lengths, bit rates and the number of messages
and bytes passed. This Internet usage data is not
resold, and is only used on a macro scale (i.e.,
aggregate basis) to evaluate the PlanYourIdea.com, Inc.
website. PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. may also contract with
third parties that use "web beacons" on the
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. website. These web beacons are
used to track the performance of our marketing efforts
with respect to the PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. services and
no personally identifiable information is collected in
the process. This non-Personally Identifiable
Information may also be gathered and used for general
advertising and/or market research, but shall be
authorized by PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. in advance.
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. will not read your outgoing or
incoming email, private chat or instant messages.
Subject to applicable law, PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. may
store messages for a brief period of time and could be
compelled to disclose those messages to comply with
applicable law as described in the section titled "What
are the Limited Circumstance Under Which
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. Will Disclose Personally
Identifiable Information to Third Parties"?
DOES
PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. USE ANY SECURITY MEASURES TO
ENSURE THE PRIVACY OF MY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION IS MAINTAINED?
Yes.
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. takes all reasonable steps to
ensure that all information we collect, use or disclose
is accurate, complete, up-to-date and stored in a secure
environment accessed only be authorized persons, and
uses Secure Sock Layer ("SSL") software to provide
secure sessions for our visitors.
CAN
I ACCESS THE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION I HAVE
PROVIDED TO PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC.?
Yes.
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. will allow you to review or
update the available personally identifiable information
that PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. received directly from you
(not from any third parties) by accessing your account
online, or by contacting PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. at the
address or telephone number listed in the "Contact
Us"
portion of our website. In order to ensure your privacy
is maintained, PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. may ask for
information to verify your identity prior to granting
you access to your information.
HOW
WILL I KNOW IF PLANYOURIDEA.COM, INC. MAKES CHANGES TO
THE PRIVACY POLICY?
Any changes
made to this agreement will be posted on our website,
customer control panel or emailed to you within 72 hours
of any changes.
HOW
CAN I SUBMIT A PRIVACY COMPLAINT TO PLANYOURIDEA.COM,
INC.?
Please
submit any complaints about breaches of your privacy
in writing by contacting PlanYourIdea.com,
Inc. at the address listed in the "Contact Us" section of
our website.
WHAT
ABOUT THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN?
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. does not actively or knowingly
collect any Personally Identifiable Information from
individuals under 18 years of age. Where appropriate,
PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. will instruct children not to
submit such information to our website advertisements
without the consent of a parent or guardian. If a parent
or guardian is concerned that a child may have submitted
Personally Identifiable Information to PlanYourIdea.com,
Inc. without their consent, that parent or guardian may
contact PlanYourIdea.com, Inc. at the address or
telephone number listed on the "Contact Us" section of our
website and request that this information be removed
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