ARAlifestyle.com Privacy Policy
At ARAlifestyle.com, we are committed
to protecting the online privacy of visitors to our websites. This Policy applies
only to the websites and online services provided by ARAlifestyle.com. This Policy
does not cover any interaction you may have with Live Informed by telephone, postal
mail, or other offline communications. The purpose of this Policy is to inform you
about the types of information we gather about you when you visit our websites,
how we may use that information, and how we disclose it to third parties.
Our websites are not designed for use
by children without their parent's supervision. We ask that anyone under the age
of thirteen not submit any personal information through our websites. We do not
knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen,
and therefore we do not knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
Our websites may contain links to other
websites, including websites directed to children. We have no control over the privacy
practices or the content of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors
or other websites to which we provide links from our websites. You should check
the applicable privacy policy of the website sponsor when linking to other websites.
I. Information That We Collect
Personal Information
At various locations on our websites, such as in registration forms, sweepstakes
entries, message boards, online stores, surveys, and polls, we may request that
you supply us with "personal information," such as your name, email address, mailing
and shipping addresses, home or work telephone number, and/or credit card information.
You will always know when we are collecting personal information, because we only
collect personal information when you voluntarily submit it to us through our online
forms and questionnaires. Although you do not have to provide us with any information
to visit our websites, you may not be able to fully utilize all of the services
on our websites if you choose not to provide certain information. If you do choose
to give us personal information through our websites, we will collect and retain
that information.
Non-Personal Information
When you use our websites, we may also collect "non-personal information," which
is information that, by itself, cannot be used to identify or contact you, such
as demographic information (your age, gender, income, education, profession, zip
code, etc.). Non-personal information may also include technical information, such
as your IP address, the type of browser you are using, the websites you visit immediately
before and immediately after you visit our websites, and other anonymous data involving
your use of our websites.
Cookies
We use "cookies" to enhance your visits to our websites. 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. Cookies do not store personal information about you, unless you knowingly
provide it. Cookies can store non-personal information, such as what websites, pages,
or advertisements your browser has accessed. We use cookies to store information
and personalize your experience with our websites. For example, cookies allow our
websites to recognize your browser as a previous visitor, and thus save and remember
any preferences that may have been set while you were previously browsing our websites.
Our cookies can also store your password, personalize pages, and keep track of selections,
such as your time zone and episode selections, or items you have placed in a "shopping
cart."
You do have control over cookies. Most
browsers can be set to notify you when a cookie is being placed on your computer.
Most browsers can also be set to refuse to accept cookies, although this may affect
your Internet experience. You can also erase cookies that are already on your computer.
For more information about working with cookies, you should consult your user manual,
FAQ, or "help" function of your specific browser and operating system software.
II. How We Use the Information We
Collect
Our Services and Websites
We use your personal information to provide you any services that you may request
or require, to communicate with you, to allow you to make purchases, and to allow
you to participate in online contests, surveys and games. We use aggregated non-personal
information about our users to understand our website's demographics, such as the
percentage of male and female users, the geographic distribution of our users, the
age ranges of our users, or a combination of these or other demographics. We use
the non-personal information we collect to analyze how our websites are being used,
and to improve the content of our websites, online product offerings, and marketing
and promotional efforts.
Email Communications
If you send us an email with questions or comments, we may use your personal information
to respond to your questions or comments, and we may save your questions or comments
for future reference. However, aside from our reply to such an email, it is not
our standard practice to send you email unless you request a particular service
that involves email communications, you otherwise consent to being contacted by
email or if such contact is to communicate with you about products purchased through
our online stores, to provide customer support in connection with those products,
and to send you information about other products and services which we believe may
be of interest to you. There may be times when you will have the opportunity to
subscribe to an email list or electronic newsletter that will send information about
our websites or our advertisers to your email address. However, we will provide
you with the option to change your preferences and opt-out of receiving those communications.
You may request at any time that we not email you in the future by clicking the
"unsubscribe" link which is included at the bottom of any email that you receive
from us, or by contacting us at
privacy@ARAlifestyle.com. If you unsubscribe, we will make reasonable
efforts to discontinue these email communications as soon as practicable.
III. Disclosure of Information to
Third Parties
Affiliates and Non-Affiliates
Except as specifically set forth in this Policy, we do not share your personal information
with any non-affiliated third party without your permission. We may disclose aggregate
information, such as demographic information, and our statistical analyses to third
parties, including advertisers or other business partners.
Service Providers
We sometimes engage unaffiliated businesses to assist us in providing you certain
services. For example, we may hire a shipping company to help us deliver our products
or services to you. We may also use third parties to process online transactions
and credit card payments, provide advertising, marketing and promotional assistance,
provide email services, or facilitate our online services (such as message boards,
chat rooms, and surveys). In those instances, we may need to share your personal
information with them. We require these companies to use your personal information
only to provide the particular product or service and do not authorize them to use
your personal information for any other reason.
We sometimes offer promotions (like
sweepstakes or free subscriptions) in conjunction with a third party sponsor. If
you choose to participate in one of those promotions, we may share your information
with the sponsor if they need it to send you a product or other special promotion
they offer.
Business Transactions
As ARAlifestyle.com and its websites continue to develop, we may buy, sell or combine
with other businesses. If so, personal and non-personal information that we or other
businesses have collected will likely be transferred as part of the transaction.
If we sell a business, we will attempt to ensure that requests made of us regarding
email communications will be honored.
Public Forums
We feature public forums such as chat rooms, message boards, bulletin boards, or
similar activities where you and other users of our websites can communicate with
one another. This Policy does not protect you when you use these public forums or
provide information (including personal information) about yourself. Any information
you share in a public forum such as a chat room, message board, or bulletin board
is public information and may be seen or collected by anyone, including third parties
that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. ARAlifestyle.com is not responsible for
events arising from the distribution of any information you choose to publicly post
or share through our websites.
Third Party Advertisers
We use third-party advertising companies to deliver specific advertisements to you,
which appear on pages throughout our websites. These companies collect non-personal
information about your visits to our websites and other websites in order to provide
advertisements about products and services that may be of interest to you. These
companies may also aggregate your non-personal information for use in targeted advertising,
marketing research, and other similar purposes. These companies may place their
own cookies on your computer. If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from
collecting and using this information, you may visit each third party advertiser's
website directly and opt-out. You may also visit Network Associates at www.nai.com for solutions
regarding consumer privacy.
Other Disclosures
We may disclose personal information when we are required or requested to do so
by law, court order or other government or law enforcement authority or regulatory
agency; to enforce or apply our rights and agreements; or when we believe in good
faith that disclosing this information is necessary or advisable, including, for
example, to protect the rights, property, or safety of ARAlifestyle.com, our users,
or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations
for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We reserve the right to use or disclose
non-personal information in any way we see fit.
IV. Security of the Information
We Collect
The security of your personal information
is important to us. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
to secure your personal information. However, "perfect security" does not exist
on the Internet, and there is always some risk in transmitting information electronically.
The personal information we collect is stored within databases that we control.
As we deem appropriate, we use security measures consistent with industry standards,
such as firewalls and encryption technology, to protect your information. However,
since no security system is impenetrable, we cannot guarantee the security of our
databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted
while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Of course, any information you
post to any message board, discussion group, or other public posting area on our
websites is available to anyone with Internet access.
V. Accuracy of the Information We
Collect
Any questions you may have regarding
our Privacy Policy, the accuracy of your personal information or the use of your
personal information, or any requests that we correct, update, or remove your information
in our databases, should be directed via email to privacy@ARAlifestyle.com You also
can write us at:
ARAlifestyle.com
701 Fifth Street South
Hopkins, MN 55343
After receiving a request to change
your information, we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that all of your personal
information stored in databases we actively use to operate our website will be updated,
corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as reasonably practicable.
However, we reserve the right to retain in our archival files any information we
remove from or change in our active website databases. We may retain such information
to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our terms of use. In addition,
it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information
you have provided to us. A copy of your personal information may exist in a non-erasable
form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate.
This Policy is effective as of January
8, 2008. We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time, and will post any
changes to this Policy as soon as they go into effect. Please refer back to this
Policy on a regular basis.