Your privacy is very important for ideaREF! The following eplains our privacy policy.
This policy covers how ideaREF! treats personal information that ideaREF! collects and receives, including information related to your past use of ideaREF! products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, email address, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
ideaREF! collects personal information when you register with ideaREF!, when you use ideaREF! products or services, when you visit ideaREF! pages or the pages referred by ideaREF! internet addresses and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes.
When you register we ask for your name and email address. If you purchase certain ideaREF! products we ask for your credit card information. Once you register with ideaREF! and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
- ideaREF! collects information about your use of products and services that we offer.
- ideaREF! collects information about the use of ideaREF! internet addresses.
- ideaREF! automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, ideaREF! cookie information, and the page you request.
- ideaREF! uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, provide cumulative statistics and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
- ideaREF! does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
o We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
o We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of ideaREF!'s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- ideaREF! displays targeted advertisements based on personal information and content accessed. Advertisers (including ad serving companies, other internet companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
- ideaREF! may set and access ideaREF! cookies on your computer.
- Other companies' (including advertisers) use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies.
- You can edit your ideaREF! Account Information at any time.
- We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the ideaREF! service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the ideaREF! Newsletter, that are considered part of your ideaREF! account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
- You can delete your ideaREF! account by visiting our Account Deletion page.
- We limit access to personal information about you to need to know basis. Employees accesing your information require the information to perform their job.
- We take electronic, breaucratic and other measures to protect personal information about you.
- ideaREF! may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your ideaREF! account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
- If you have questions or suggestions, please contact privacy@idearef.com
Effective Date: November 1, 2005