Web Wise Seniors Statement of Privacy
Web Wise Seniors is committed to protecting your privacy
and developing technology that gives you the most
powerful and safe online experience. This Web Wise
Seniors Statement of Privacy applies to Web Wise Seniors's
Web Wise Seniors family of Web sites and governs data
collection and usage at all Web Wise Seniors sites
and services. Please read the complete Web Wise Seniors
Statement of Privacy below and also click the links
following this paragraph to learn additional details
about how some of Web Wise Seniors's sites and services
protect your personal information.
Collection
of your Personal Information
At
some sites, Web Wise Seniors collects personally identifiable
information, such as your e-mail address, name, home
or work address or telephone number. At other sites,
Web Wise Seniors collects anonymous demographic information,
that is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code,
age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
Some sites collect a combination of the two types
of information. Information collected at one Web Wise
Seniors Web site may be shared within the Web Wise
Seniors family of Web sites.
Web
Wise Seniors does not associate sensitive data, such
as your race, religion, or political affiliations,
with personally identifiable information. Web Wise
Seniors takes precautions to segregate any sensitive
data you may provide on Web Wise Seniors sites and
services that reference your race, religion, sexual
orientation, ethnicity or political affiliations.
Please
keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally
identifiable information or personally sensitive data
through Web Wise Seniors Chats, Web Wise Seniors Communities,
or other public online forums, this information may
be collected and used by others. Note: Web Wise Seniors
does not read any of your private online communications.
Your Web Wise Seniors Chat conversations, Web Wise
Seniors Messenger messages, Webmail e-mails, and Web
Wise Seniors Internet Access e-mails are completely
confidential.
Web
Wise Seniors encourages you to review the privacy
statements of Web sites you choose to link to from
Web Wise Seniors so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your information.
Web Wise Seniors is not responsible for the privacy
statements or other content on Web sites outside of
the Web Wise Seniors and Web Wise Seniors family of
Web sites.
There
is also information about your computer hardware and
software that is automatically collected by Web Wise
Seniors and may be shared with other Web sites within
the Web Wise Seniors family of web sites. This information
can include: your IP address, browser type, domain
names, access times and referring Web site addresses.
This information is used by Web Wise Seniors for the
operation of the service, to maintain quality of the
service, and to provide general statistics regarding
use of the Web Wise Seniors Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Web
Wise Seniors Web sites and their operational service
partners collect and use your personal information
to operate Web Wise Seniors Web sites and deliver
the services you have requested. Web Wise Seniors
sites also use your personally identifiable information
to inform you of other products or services available
from Web Wise Seniors and its affiliates. Web Wise
Seniors may also contact you via surveys to conduct
research about your opinion of current services or
of potential new services that may be offered.
Web
Wise Seniors does not sell, rent or lease its customer
lists to third parties. Web Wise Seniors may, from
time to time, contact you on behalf of external business
partners about a particular offering that may be of
interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally
identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone
number) is not transferred to the third party. In
addition, Web Wise Seniors may share data with trusted
partners to help us perform statistical analysis.
All such third parties are prohibited from using your
personal information except to provide these services
to Web Wise Seniors, and they are required to maintain
the confidentiality of your information.
Web
Wise Seniors keeps track of the Web sites and pages
our customers visit within Web Wise Seniors, in order
to determine what Web Wise Seniors sites and services
are the most popular. This data is used to deliver
customized content and advertising within Web Wise
Seniors to customers whose behavior indicates that
they are interested in a particular subject area.
Web
Wise Seniors Web sites will disclose your personal
information, without notice, only if required to do
so by law or in the good faith belief that such action
is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the
law or comply with legal process served on Web Wise
Seniors or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights
or property of Web Wise Seniors, an Web Wise Seniors
Web site; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances
to protect the personal safety of users of Web Wise
Seniors, its web sites, or the public.
Use
of Cookies
Many of the Web Wise Seniors Web sites use "cookies"
to help you personalize your online experience. A
cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard
disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used
to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only
be read by a web server in the domain that issued
the cookie to you.
One
of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a
convenience feature to save you time. The purpose
of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have
returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize
Web Wise Seniors's pages, or register with Web Wise
Seniors sites or services, a cookie helps Web Wise
Seniors to recall your specific information on subsequent
visits. This simplifies the process of recording your
personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping
addresses, and so on. When you return to the same
Web Wise Seniors Web site, the information you previously
provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the
Web Wise Seniors features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies.
Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but
you can usually modify your browser setting to decline
cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies,
you may not be able to fully experience the interactive
features of the Web Wise Seniors services or Web sites
you visit.
Use
of Web Beacons
Web
Wise Seniors Web pages may contain electronic images
known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel
gifs - that allow Web Wise Seniors to count users
who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded
services. Web Wise Seniors may include web beacons
in promotional e-mail messages or Web Wise Seniors
Newsletters in order to count how many messages have
been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used
to access your personally identifiable information
on the Web Wise Seniors network of sites and services;
they are a technique we use to compile aggregated
statistics about Web Wise Seniors Web site usage.
Web
beacons collect only a limited set of information
including a cookie number, time and date of a page
view, and a description of the page on which the Web
beacon resides. Web Wise Seniors Web pages may also
contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising
partner, Avenue A, to help Web Wise Seniors determine
the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.
Use
of Third Party Ad Networks
The
majority of the online banner advertisements you see
on Web Wise Seniors Web sites are displayed by Web
Wise Seniors.
In
addition, Web Wise Seniors also allows other companies,
called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display
advertisements on Web Wise Seniors Web sites. To do
this, ad networks place a persistent cookie on your
computer. Doing this allows the ad network to recognize
your computer each time they send you an online advertisement.
In this way, ad networks may compile information about
where you, or others who are using your computer,
saw their advertisements and determine which ads are
clicked on. This information allows an ad network
to deliver advertisements that they believe will be
of most interest to you. Web Wise Seniors does not
have access to or control of the cookies that may
be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.
Control
your Personal Information
You
may stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail
from Web Wise Seniors Web sites by following the specific
instructions in the e-mail you receive. The instructions
explain how to stop receiving such e-mails.
There
are some Web sites, including Web Wise Seniors Webmail,
that send out periodic e-mails informing you of technical
service issues, product surveys, new feature announcements
and news about Web Wise Seniors products and services.
These e-mails are considered essential to the provision
of the service you have requested. You will not be
able to choose to unsubscribe to these mailings, as
they are considered a part of the service you have
chosen.
Security of your Personal Information
Web Wise Seniors secures your personal information
from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Web Wise
Seniors secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure
environment, protected from unauthorized access, use
or disclosure. Personal information (such as a credit
card number) is transmitted to other Web sites through
the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encrypted protection.
Changes
to this Statement
Web Wise Seniors will occasionally update this Statement
of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback.
When Web Wise Seniors posts changes to this Statement,
you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy
Statement link on the front page of Web Wise Seniors.
If there are material changes to this Statement or
in how Web Wise Seniors will use your personally identifiable
information, Web Wise Seniors will prominently post
such changes prior to implementing the change. Web
Wise Seniors encourages you to periodically review
this Statement to be informed of how Web Wise Seniors
is protecting your information.
Contact
Information
Web
Wise Seniors welcomes your comments regarding this
Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Web Wise
Seniors has not adhered to this Statement, please
contact Web Wise Seniors by e-mail, or postal mail.
Web
Wise Seniors Privacy Web Wise Seniors Inc. 305 Woodstock
Rd Eastlake, OH 44095
Web
Wise Seniors Webmail
What information is collected: Webmail collects information
during the registration process. The personally identifiable
information Webmail collects includes first and last
name. In addition, Webmail also collects non-personally
identifiable information such as: state, zip or postal
code, gender, and birth date.
How does Web Wise Seniors use my information: Your
registration information is used to operate the site,
for demographic statistics, and to display appropriate
individualized advertisements. Webmail will not send
you any unsolicited information, including e-mail,
except as mentioned below. New users will receive
a Webmail welcome letter explaining the features provided
by the service. Webmail may also send periodic member
letters to announce important service changes, new
features, technical issue updates and news about other
Web Wise Seniors products and services. Webmail may
also contact you to conduct research about your opinion
of current and prospective services via e-mail surveys.
Webmail may from time to time contact you, on behalf
of external business partners, about a particular
offering that may be of interest to you. Webmail will
not share your e-mail address with these business
partners.
Who
else may receive my personal information: Webmail
keeps your personally identifiable information private
and does not share it with any third parties, unless
you choose, at the time of registration, to be listed
in either the Webmail Directory or the Internet White
Pages directory. In the case of the Internet White
Pages, we will share your registered name, location,
and e-mail address with the Internet White pages provider
InfoSpace who may only use your personally identifiable
information to provide their directory services. For
more information about how to change you directory
preferences, see the FAQ below. Webmail will not disclose
your Personal Information unless acting under a good
faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1)
conform to legal requirements or comply with legal
process; (2) protect and defend the rights or property
of Web Wise Seniors; (3) enforce the Web Wise Seniors
Webmail Terms of Use; or (4) act to protect the interests
of its members or others.
Your
non-personally identifiable information from your
Webmail registration (such as zip code and gender)
may be shared with other Web Wise Seniors websites
to provide a more personalized advertising experience
online. For example, you may see ads from a Web Wise
Seniors bCentral/LinkExchange Banner Network member
as you surf the Web but none of your personally identifiable
information is shared with the third party websites.
What
can I do to manage unsolicited e-mail in my Webmail
account? Webmail will not sell, lease or rent its
member lists with any third parties. While Web Wise
Seniors continues to actively review and implement
new technology, such as expanded filtering features,
there is no currently available technology that will
totally prevent the sending and receiving of unsolicited
e-mail. Using tools such as the Inbox Protector and
being cautious about the sharing of your e-mail address
while online will help reduce the amount of unsolicited
e-mail you receive. For more information on how to
best use Webmail's tools, please contact abuse@wwsmail.com.
How
do I control my personal information: You may update
your Registration Information at any time from within
your Webmail account by clicking the "Options" button
on the navigation bar, and then clicking on the "Personal"
icon. If you have questions about our privacy policy,
please e-mail Webmailprivacy@wwsmail.com.
Web
Wise Seniors Chat and Web Communities
To
participate in Web Wise Seniors Chat and Web Communities,
Web Wise Seniors requests that you create a social
nickname, which is the name you will be known by to
others in those public places. If you do not choose
to create a social nickname, you will simply be identified
as a "Guest."
At
Web Wise Seniors Web Communities, Web Wise Seniors
Chat, Web Wise Seniors Gaming Zone and Web Wise Seniors
Passport, Web Wise Seniors gives you the opportunity
to create a public profile of yourself. The public
profile contains personal information - such as your
hobbies and interests - that you have volunteered
about yourself so that other participants in Web Wise
Seniors chat rooms, Web Wise Seniors Web Communities
or other public places can learn something about you.
All such information is optional and everything you
enter in your public profile will be visible to the
public.
Your
Web Wise Seniors social nickname and the information
in your public profile is used by the Web Wise Seniors
Chat, Web Wise Seniors Web Communities, Web Wise Seniors
Gaming Zone, and Web Wise Seniors Passport Web sites
to enhance your experience on those sites. None of
this information is shared with any third parties.
Your social nickname and public profile information
are available and visible to other Web Wise Seniors
visitors and customers using the site. Web Wise Seniors
urges you to be careful only to enter information
on your public profile that you are comfortable sharing
with the public at large. You may change, edit or
delete information about yourself from your public
profile at any time while online by going to Public
Profiles, Edit Your Public Profile. You may also select
a different social nickname at any time.
While
participating in chats, communities or other public
forums, Web Wise Seniors cautions you against giving
out personally identifiable information (such as names
and addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers,
credit card numbers, and driver's license numbers)
to strangers online, which they may use for illegal
or harmful purposes.
Web
Wise Seniors Newsletters
When
you subscribe to an Web Wise Seniors Newsletter, Web
Wise Seniors requests your e-mail address. Web Wise
Seniors strongly urges you to also select a password
to protect your privacy, however, this is optional.
Web Wise Seniors uses your e-mail address to send
you the newsletter(s) you have requested. Web Wise
Seniors does not share its Newsletter subscribers'
e-mail addresses with third parties except as required
to deliver the service.
You
may subscribe and unsubscribe to Web Wise Seniors
Newsletters by going to www.WebWiseSeniors.com/publications/OnlineClasses/WWSmembers.htm.
By using a password when subscribing, you are securing
your newsletter subscription account. In addition,
each Web Wise Seniors newsletter you receive will
have instructions on how to unsubscribe prominently
mentioned in it. By using a password when subscribing,
you are securing your newsletter account. If you do
not secure your account, others who know your e-mail
address can view and modify your subscription choices.
Updated
JANUARY 2003
