FOUNTAINCITY.COM
PRIVACY POLICY
Fountaincity, a service
of Fountaincity Publishing Group, a Verociouss
LLC company, strives to offer its visitors the
many advantages of Internet technology and to
provide an interactive and personalized experience.
We may use personally identifiable information
(your name, e-mail address, street address,
telephone number) subject to the terms of this
privacy policy. Please note this policy applies
only to information collected byFountaincity.com.
Other Fountaincity Publishing Group sites and
services are governed by their own privacy policies.
How we gather information
from users.
How we collect and store
information depends on the page you are visiting,
the activities in which you elect to participate
and the services provided. For example, you
may be asked to provide information when you
register for access to certain portions of our
site or request certain features, such as newsletters,
news updates and other products, or when you
make a purchase, such as a newspaper subscription.
You may provide information when you participate
in sweepstakes and contests, voting and polling
activities, message boards and chat rooms, and
other interactive areas of our site.
Like most Web sites, Fountaincity.com also collects information automatically
and through the use of electronic tools that
may be transparent to our visitors. For example,
we may log the name of your Internet Service
Provider or use cookie technology to recognize
you and hold information from your visit. Among
other things, the cookie may store your user
name and password, sparing you from having to
re-enter that information each time you visit,
or may control the number of times you encounter
a particular advertisement while visiting our
site. As we adopt additional technology, we
may also gather information through other means.
In certain cases, you can choose not to provide
us with information, for example by setting
your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but
if you do you may be unable to access certain
portions of the site or may be asked to re-enter
your user name and password, and we may not
be able to customize the site's features according
to your preferences.
What we do with the information
we collect.
Like other Web publishers,
we collect information to enhance your visit
and deliver more individualized content and
advertising, and we may permit Fountaincity
Publishing Group to call to your attention products,
special offers and unique content we believe
might be of interest to you.
Aggregated information
(information that does not personally identify
you) may be used in many ways. For example,
we may combine information about your usage
patterns with similar information obtained from
other users to help enhance our site and services
(e.g., to learn which pages are visited most
or what features are most attractive). Aggregated
information may occasionally be shared with
our advertisers and business partners. Again,
this information does not include any personally
identifiable information about you or allow
anyone to identify you individually.
We may use personally identifiable
information collected on Fountaincity.com to
communicate with you about your registration
and customization preferences; our Terms of
Service and privacy policy; services and products
offered by Fountaincity Publishing Group, and
other topics we think you might find of interest.
We reserve the right to share this information
with other Fountaincity Publishing Group business
units and affiliates.
Personally identifiable
information collected by Fountaincity.com
may also be used for other purposes, including
but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting,
processing of e-commerce transactions, administration
of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications
with you. Certain third parties who provide
technical support for the operation of our site
(our Web hosting service and our newsletter
provider, for example) may access such information.
We will use your information only as permitted
by law. In addition, from time to time as we
continue to develop our business, we may sell,
buy, merge or partner with other companies or
businesses. In such transactions, user information
may be among the transferred assets. We may
also disclose your information in response to
a court order, at other times when we believe
we are reasonably required to do so by law,
in connection with the collection of amounts
you may owe to us, and/or to law enforcement
authorities whenever we deem it appropriate
or necessary. Please note we may not provide
you with notice prior to disclosure in such
cases.
Your choices about information
use.
In the event you opt in
to receive newsletters, alerts, or other communications
from Fountaincity.com, you may unsubscribe
from those communications by following the unsubscribe
instructions accompanying those communications.
Affiliated sites, linked
sites and advertisements.
Fountaincity.com expects
its partners, advertisers and affiliates to
respect the privacy of our users. Be aware,
however, that third parties, including our partners,
advertisers, affiliates and other content providers
accessible through our site, may have their
own privacy and data collection policies and
practices. For example, during your visit to
our site you may link to, or view as part of
a frame on a Fountaincity.com page, certain
content that is actually created or hosted by
a third party. Also, through Fountaincity.com
you may be introduced to, or be able to access,
information, Web sites, features, contests or
sweepstakes offered by other parties. Fountaincity.com
is not responsible for the actions or policies
of such third parties. You should check the
applicable privacy policies of those third parties
when providing information on a feature or page
operated by a third party.
While on our site, our
advertisers, promotional partners or other third
parties may use cookies or other technology
to attempt to identify some of your preferences
or retrieve information about you. For example,
some of our advertising is served by third parties
and may include cookies that enable the advertiser
to determine whether you have seen a particular
advertisement before. Other features available
on our site may offer services operated by third
parties and may use cookies or other technology
to gather information. Fountaincity.com does
not control the use of this technology by third
parties or the resulting information, and is
not responsible for any actions or policies
of such third parties.
You should also be aware
that if you voluntarily disclose personally
identifiable information on message boards,
profiles, or in chat areas, that information
can be viewed publicly and can be collected
and used by third parties without our knowledge
and may result in unsolicited messages from
other individuals or third parties. Such activities
are beyond the control of Fountaincity.com
and this policy.
Children.
Fountaincity.com does
not knowingly collect or solicit personally
identifiable information from or about children
under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover
we have received any information from a child
under 13 in violation of this policy, we will
delete that information immediately. If you
believe Fountaincity.com has any information
from or about anyone under 13, please contact
us at the address listed below.
Contacting us.
We can be reached by contacting:
Attn: Customer Service
Fountaincity.com
c/o fountaincity Publishing
Group
Email:contact@fountaincity.com
Changes to this policy.
Fountaincity.com
reserves the right to change this policy at
any time. Please check this page periodically
for changes. Your continued use of our site
following the posting of changes to these terms
will mean you accept those changes. Information
collected prior to the time any change is posted
will be used according to the rules and laws
that applied at the time the information was
collected.
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