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MINING GOLD PRIVACY
POLICY
-- IMPORTANT -- PLEASE READ
LAST UPDATED: June 24, 2009
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the commitment
to your privacy on the part of Mining Gold Corporation (referred to
collectively as “Mining Gold,” “we” and “us”).
PERSONS OR PARTIES COVERED
This Privacy Policy applies to all visitors to any Mining Gold
owned website (the “Website”), all subscribers to Mining Gold-sponsored
lists and/or newsletters (whether paid or unpaid), all members
and/or affiliates of memberships or membership sites sponsored by or
owned by Mining Gold (whether paid or unpaid), all affiliates of any
site sponsored or owned by Mining Gold (whether paid or unpaid), and all customers that
purchase products and/or services via the Website or otherwise from
Mining Gold. Persons who visit or view the Website, whether
intentionally or unintentionally, whether solicited or unsolicited,
are referred to herein as "Visitors" and are subject to this Privacy
Policy.
Subscribers to Mining Gold-sponsored lists and/or newsletters are
referred to herein as "Subscribers" and are subject to the Privacy
Policy. Persons who join an organization or marketing endeavor (e.g.
"affiliates") promoted by and through the Website, or otherwise by
Mining Gold are referred to herein as "Members" and are subject to
this Privacy Policy. Individuals that order, attempt to order or
receive products and/or services that are sold, advertised on or
delivered from the Website, or otherwise by Mining Gold, even at no
cost, are referred to herein as "Customers" and are subject to this
Privacy Policy.
If you are a resident of the State of California and would like to
opt-out from the disclosure of your personal information to any
third party for marketing purposes, please e-mail us at: Support@goldwares.com.
Please be advised that where California residents opt-out from
permitting their personal information to be shared, such individuals
may still receive selected offers directly from us, in accordance
with the law.
MINORS
We do not knowingly collect information from individuals under
eighteen (18) years of age, or persons who are otherwise covered by
the provisions of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of
1998, as amended (“COPPA”). No information should be submitted to,
or posted at, the Website by individuals under eighteen (18) years
of age. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online
with their children and to participate and monitor the interactive
activities of their children.
VIEWING, USE AND/OR COMMUNICATION IS CONSTRUED AS ACCEPTANCE OF THE
TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy is a portion of the
consideration required for your right to visit the Website. If you
do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy in their entirety,
you have no right to visit the Website.
ABOUT THE PERSONAL INFORMATION MINING GOLD COLLECTS AND HOW IT IS
USED
Mining Gold routinely collects information about Visitors,
Subscribers, Members and Customers. This information is obtained in
various ways, such as:
VISITOR, SUBSCRIBER, MEMBER OR CUSTOMER INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM
REGISTRATION
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Registration” means that the
Visitor, Subscriber, Member or Customer, as applicable, takes
active, positive steps to communicate information to Mining Gold.
This can include, without limitation, where the individual: (a)
registers for a newsletter or subscribe to a mailing list; (b)
participates in Visitor surveys; (c) participates in promotions,
contests and/or sweepstakes offered by Mining Gold; (d) requests
information from Mining Gold via an online form, email, mail or courier; (e) joins,
or attempts to join, an affiliate program or other membership
organization sponsored by Mining Gold; and/or (f) orders a product
through the Website or otherwise from Mining Gold.
The information that you must supply in connection with Registration
(as further described below) may include, without limitation, some
or all of the following: (i) your full name; (ii) company name;
(iii) e-mail address; (iv) mailing address (and billing address if
different); (v) home telephone number; (vi) work telephone number;
(vii) telecopier number; (viii) credit card information; and/or (ix)
any other information requested on the applicable Registration form.
VISITOR EMAIL INQUIRIES
Website Visitors that wish to communicate with Mining Gold do so
under the following conditions: (a) they give their permission to be
contacted by Mining Gold; and (b) they are subject to any
‘submission’ provisions contained in the Mining Gold Terms of Use,
Mining Gold Purchase Agreement and/or this Privacy Policy. The
email address that you use in connection with your inquiry shall be
added to the Mining Gold database.
CUSTOMER EMAIL OR TESTIMONIALS
If you are a Customer and you send an email to Mining Gold, or if
you communicate with Mining Gold by phone or U.S. mail, Mining Gold
shall collect information about your communication and by
communicating with Mining Gold, you give your permission for Mining
Gold to collect, archive, retrieve and otherwise use any information
collected as Mining Gold sees fit.
Any communication which, in its sole discretion, Mining Gold deems
to be a testimonial, may be publicized for commercial purposes.
INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM VOLUNTARY VISITOR, SUBSCRIBER, MEMBER OR
CUSTOMER
SURVEYS
Unless otherwise specified in the survey, you must assume that any
information provided to Mining Gold as part of a survey in which you
participate may be used as set forth hereinbelow.
INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM ELECTRONIC MEANS AND COOKIES
We may collect certain non-personally identifiable information about
you when you visit many of the sections of the Website. This
non-personally identifiable information includes, without
limitation, the type of browser that you use (e.g., Netscape,
Internet Explorer), your IP address, the type of operating system
that you use (e.g., Windows or Mac OS) and the domain name of your
Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink). We use
the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to
improve the design and content of the Website and to enable us to
personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this
information in the aggregate to analyze Website usage, as well as to
offer you products and services. We also reserve the right to use
aggregate or group data about our Visitors for any and all lawful
purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes the
demographics, usage and/or characteristics of our visitors as a
group. By visiting and/or supplying your personal information at the
Website, you agree to allow us to provide such aggregate data to
third parties.
"Cookies" is web jargon for bits of computer code placed on your
hard drive. The Website uses cookies to keep you 'logged in,' to
keep track of search criteria, to monitor use, to password protect
use of the Website and/or to track use of products and/or services
sold by and through the Website. Even in the case where a Visitor
rejects a cookie, they may still use our Website. The only drawback
to this is that the Visitor may be limited in what he/she can access
in some areas on our Website. Cookies can also be used to obtain
information about your computer configuration or your use of your
computer. To find out more about cookies, including how to disable
and/or remove cookies, please visit www.cookiecentral.com.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED
The personal information that you submit to us remains your
property, but by submitting such information to us you grant us the
right, subject to applicable state and federal law, to use the
personal information (other than credit card information) for
marketing purposes. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, we reserve the right to share, sell, rent, lease and/or
otherwise distribute any and all personal information with/to any
third-party for any and all uses permitted by this Privacy Policy
and applicable law. These third parties may include, but shall not
be limited to: (a) providers of direct marketing services and
applications, including
lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation;
(b) e-mail marketers; (c) telemarketers (where permitted by
applicable law); (d) SMS text-based marketers (where permitted by
applicable law); and (e) direct marketers. We may also use your
personal information for any promotion-related purpose, and/or
marketing and survey purpose, on our own behalf and on behalf of our
affiliates and subsidiaries. We may disclose personal information to
third-party agents and independent contractors that help us create
and/or operate any promotions, surveys or other offerings. You agree
that we may contact you at any time with updates and/or any other
information that we may deem appropriate for you to receive in
connection with your continued use of the Website and any and all
offerings made available therein, or otherwise by Mining Gold.
We are able to offer our products and services to you, in part,
based on your willingness to be reached by our third-party
advertisers. Your personal information (other than credit card
information) will be shared with advertisers on an aggregate and
non-aggregate basis. We also use contact information from your
personal information to send you information about us, our products
and services and to contact you about your billing account status.
Please keep in mind, though, that we do not control, and are not
responsible for, the practices of our third-party advertisers. If
you wish to stop receiving future communications from us and/or
third party advertisers, or if you wish to prevent the transfer
and/or sale of your personal information to third parties (subject
to restrictions contained in applicable state and federal law),
please see the Opt-Out/Unsubscribe section below.
You agree that by submitting your personal information to Mining
Gold, you agree to receive e-mail marketing from Mining Gold and our
third-party advertisers. In addition, you agree that such act
constitutes a purchase, an inquiry and/or an application for
purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule, 16 CFR §310 et
seq. (the “ATSR”). With respect to the ATSR, and notwithstanding
that your telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade
Commission’s Do-Not-Call List, we retain
the right to contact you via telemarketing in accordance with the
terms of the ATSR.
In addition, by submitting your personal information to Mining Gold,
you agree to receive mobile marketing including, but not limited to,
text-message based marketing, from us and our third party
advertisers and marketers (where, and to the extent that, such
marketing is permitted by applicable law). As such, notwithstanding
that your mobile telephone number may be listed on state and/or
federal Do-Not-Call registries, we retain the right to contact you
via text-message based marketing in accordance with applicable state
and federal law. Further, you agree that we reserve the right to
share, sell, rent, lease and/or otherwise distribute your mobile
telephone and other mobile data with/to any third-party for any and
all non-marketing uses permitted by this Privacy Policy and
applicable law.
We reserve the right to release current or past personal
information: (a) in the event that we believe that the Website, and
any products, services or other offerings is/are being or has/have
been used in violation of this Privacy Policy, the Mining Gold Terms
of Use, Mining Gold Purchase Agreement, or to commit unlawful acts;
(b) if the information is subpoenaed; or (c) if any entity
comprising Mining Gold is sold or acquired. Moreover, you hereby
consent to the disclosure of any record or communication to any
third-party when we, in our sole discretion, determine the
disclosure to be appropriate including, without limitation, sharing
your e-mail address with other third-parties for suppression
purposes in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended
from time to time. Visitors should also be aware that courts of
equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, might have the authority
under certain circumstances to permit personally identifiable
information to be shared or transferred to third parties without
permission.
We may also supplement the information we collect with information
from other sources to assist us in evaluating and improving the
Website, our products and/or services, and to determine your
preferences so that we can tailor the Website and our products
and/or services to your needs.
CREDIT CARD INFORMATION
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we will not use your credit card
information for any marketing purposes, or transfer same to any
third party, other than as set forth in this paragraph. Mining
Gold may: (a) transfer your credit card information to third party
sellers where necessary to effectuate the purchase of products
and/or services that you requested on the Website or otherwise from
Mining Gold; (b) disclose your credit card information pursuant to a
court order, litigation and/or fraud investigation; and (c) share
with third parties the fact that we have credit card information on
file for specific individuals.
INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM VISITOR INTERACTION WITH BANNERS, POPUPS
OR WEBSITE ADVERTISERS
The Website may contain third party provided banners, pop-ups,
hyperlinked advertising and links to other third-party owned and/or
operated websites. Mining Gold is not responsible for the privacy
practices associated with such third party advertisers and/or
websites. In some cases, you may be required to provide certain
information to register or complete a transaction via such
advertisers and/or at such websites. These third-party websites and
advertisers have separate privacy and data collection practices and
Mining Gold has no responsibility or liability relating to them. We
do not endorse, nor are we responsible for the accuracy of, the
privacy policies and/or terms and conditions of such advertisers
and/or websites. These third party entities are independent third
parties and are not affiliated with us.
OPT-OUT/UNSUBSCRIBE
When you submit personally identifiable information to us at the
Website, you have opted-in to the sharing of your personal
information with third parties to receive marketing communications.
When contacted by any of these companies or third parties, you
should notify them directly of your choices regarding their use and
sharing of your information. To opt-out of having your information
shared with third parties, please notify us by email at support@GoldwaresSupport.com.
To stop receiving future e-mail communications from Mining Gold,
please notify us by email at support@GoldwaresSupport.com. Mining Gold may
maintain separate e-mail lists for different purposes. If e-mail
recipients wish to end their e-mail subscription from a particular
list, they need to follow the instructions at the end of each e-mail
message to unsubscribe from the particular list. To unsubscribe
from all Mining Gold e-mail lists, please notify us by email at
support@GoldwaresSupport.com.
DATA SECURITY
All collected information is stored in a technically and physically
secure environment. When our registration/application process asks
users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number),
and when we store and transmit such sensitive information, it is
encrypted and protected with SSL encryption software. While we use
SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do
everything in our power to protect sensitive information and other
personal information off-line. Unfortunately, no
data transmission over the Internet, or otherwise, can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your
sensitive information and other personal information, we cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit
to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Once we receive your transmission, we make reasonable efforts to
ensure its security on our systems. Access to this personal
information is strictly limited, and not accessible to the public.
All of our users’ personal information, not just sensitive
information, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need
the information to perform a specific job are granted access to
personal information. Our employees are dedicated to ensuring the
security and privacy of all Mining Gold user personal information.
Employees not adhering to our written firm policies are subject to
disciplinary action. In compliance with applicable federal and
state laws, we shall notify you and any applicable regulatory
agencies in the event that we learn of an information security
breach with respect to your personal information. You will be
notified via e-mail in the event of such a breach. Please be
advised that notice may be delayed in order to address the needs of
law enforcement, determine the scope of network damage, and to
engage in remedial measures.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or would
like more
information on our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Support@GoldwaresSupport.com
Mining Gold Corporation
No. 348, Suite 103
3780 Old Norcross Road
Duluth, GA 30096 USA
REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY WITHOUT NOTICE
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify, add
and/or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. All
Privacy Policy changes will take effect immediately upon their
posting on the Website. Please check the Website periodically for
any changes. Your continued use of the Website and/or acceptance of
our e-mail communications following the posting of changes to this
Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of any and all
changes.
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