Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Personally Identifiable Information: We may ask you to provide us with certain personal information about yourself, which is information that could reasonably be used to identify you personally (such as your name, address, or email address and which we refer to as “PII”), when you register with us or at other times, such as if you choose to receive a newsletter distribution, or to participate in contest, sweepstakes, promotional or Stiletto Spy School event. We may also ask you to provide us with demographic information, information regarding your interests, or similar information. Providing us with information about yourself is voluntary, and you can always choose not to provide certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in many of the Website’s and Stiletto Spy School event features.

In addition, you may have the opportunity to provide us with the PII, such as name or e-mail address, of a friend (or for a friend to provide such information about you), such as if you chose to e-mail a friend an article, newsletter or other special feature from our Website. The e-mail addresses you supply us for those activities will not be used to send you or your friend other e-mail communications unless requested or otherwise disclosed at the time you provide such information.

We may combine the information about you that we collect at this Website with information available to us from other sources. For example, you may provide PII to us at other SSS Websites, or our co-promoters or sponsors may provide us with information, including PII, about users that choose to participate in a promotional opportunity the co-promoter or sponsor is offering in connection with SSS.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information: When your computer contacts our web servers our web servers automatically collect Website usage information. Website usage information is non-identifying information that describes how our visitors use and navigate our Website. It includes the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and the length of their stays, browser type, referrer data that identifies the web page visited prior and subsequent to visiting our Website, and IP addresses (see below for more information on IP addresses). We also may determine the applicable technology available in order to serve you the most appropriate version of a web page, email or similar service.

Use of Cookies: Like most Websites, this Website sometimes makes use of browser “cookies.” Cookies are pieces of information that a Website either transfers to your computer’s hard drive or stores temporarily in your computer’s memory for record-keeping purposes. SSS does not save PII in cookies. We may use cookies for a number of purposes. For example, we sometimes use cookies when we conduct polls, contests or sweepstakes to limit multiple responses and registrations. Or, we may use cookies to track usage patterns on the Website or to analyze web activity. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you decline to accept SSS cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in certain features of this Website.

Use of Web Beacons: Our web pages or e-mail messages may contain a small graphic image called a web beacon, which is sometimes also called a “clear gif”, that allows us to monitor and collect certain limited information about our users, such as the type of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon was viewed. Web beacons can be very small and invisible to the user, but, in general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or e-mail, including HTML based content, can act as a web beacon. SSS may use web beacons to count visitors to our web pages or to monitor how our users navigate our Website, and we may include web beacons in email messages in order to count how many messages we sent were actually opened or acted upon. SSS uses Web beacons to compile aggregate statistics about our Website and our marketing campaigns; SSS does not link the information collected by its Web beacons to the PII you provide when registering with the Website.

Use Of IP Addresses: An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer or network when you are on the Internet. When you request pages from this Website, our servers log your IP address. SSS may use IP addresses for a number of purposes, such as system administration, to report aggregate information to our business partners or to audit the use of the Website. SSS Does Not Knowingly Collect Information From Children Under Thirteen (13) Years Of Age: This is not a Website directed to children under the age of 13, and SSS does not knowingly collect any PII from children under thirteen (13) years of age. If you are under thirteen (13) years of age, do not send any information about yourself to SSS. If SSS discovers that a child under the age of 13 has provided SSS with PII, SSS will delete that child’s PII from its system.

SSS’S Use and Disclosure of Collected Information
Use by SSL: SSS may use your PII to provide you with requested information, services or content, to contact you in connection with a contest, sweepstakes or promotion, or for other purposes disclosed when you provide the information. We may also contact you from time to time on behalf of one of our affiliated companies or an external business partner with information that may be of interest to you, but in such a case, we do not share your PII with the third party. We may also contact you regarding any problems or questions we have relating to your use of our Website, or, in our discretion, notify you of changes to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use or other policy or terms that affect you and your use of our Website. SSS may also use information about our users, including PII, for internal purposes.

Sharing User Information and Disclosure to Third Parties: Unless otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy or at the time you provide your information, SSS will only share your PII with third parties under the following limited circumstances:

Events, Contests and Promotions. If you choose to enter a contest or other promotion, your PII may be disclosed to third parties in connection with such promotion at least as required by law, including, without limitation, on a winners list. Also, by entering a contest or other promotion, we may require you to consent to the use of your PII or other information, such as voice or likeness, in advertising, promotional and marketing materials. In addition, we may offer certain promotional content that is sponsored by or co-branded with a third party, who may obtain the PII that you submit, but only where specifically stated on the registration page for such promotion. Please note that SSS has no control over such a third party’s use of this information, and any such third party is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

Third parties providing services on our behalf. SSS may employ other individuals to perform functions on its behalf. Examples include, without limitation, hosting this Website, sending communications on our behalf, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, creating, hosting and/or running contests and providing customer service. These third parties may have access to this Website’s user information, including PII, but only to the extent it is needed to perform their duties and functions.

SSS’s Security: SSS may disclose information about its users, including PII, when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, or to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Website and applicable laws. SSS may also disclose such user information whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability or to protect or enforce the rights, interests, or safety of the Website, our users or others. Corporate change. In addition, SSS reserves the right to disclose and/or transfer user information, including PII, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all of its assets, or other fundamental corporate change. Aggregate information. SSS may disclose non-identifying, aggregated user statistics to third parties for a variety of purposes, including describing SSS’s services to prospective partners and other third parties.

SSS will never trade or sell your personal information.

Security. SSS strives to ensure the security of your PII on our systems, including limiting access to the PII contained on our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. SSS cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to SSS and you do so at your own risk.

Links. Please be aware that when you are on our Website or viewing other content provided by SSS, you could be directed to other web pages or online content through links that take you outside SSS’s service and are beyond SSS’s control. These other Websites may set their own cookies, collect data, solicit PII and/or have their own privacy policies.

CONSENT TO TRANSFER This Website is operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using our Website or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.

ACCEPTANCE By using this Website, you accept our privacy practices, as outlined in this Privacy Policy. SSS reserves the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time. We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back from time to time. However, SSS will use your PII in a manner consistent with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time you submitted your PII, unless you give us your consent. CONTACT US If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us through HYPERLINK “mailto:info@stilettospyschool.com” info@stilettospyschool.com

Effective Date: September 15, 2009 © 2009 Stiletto Spy School, LLC. All rights reserved.