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Privacy Policy - Last Updated: 1/20/2002
Wolfe Developments is
committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information on our Web
sites and developing technology that gives you the most powerful, safe, online
experience. Wolfe Developments is a participant in the Safe Harbor Agreement between the
United States and the European Union, and meets the Safe Harbor privacy
principles published by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
This Privacy Statement applies to the network of Belong2It Web Sites that
display the Belong2It logo and/or trademark. By using Wolfe Developments, you
consent to the data practices described in this statement. If you have questions
about this Privacy Statement or the protection of your personal information on
Belong2It Web sites, please write us at privacy@Belong2It.com.
Collection of your Personal Information
Wolfe Developments explicitly asks when it needs
information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information") pertinent to
the specific product or service you are choosing to use or subscribe to on the
Belong2It web sites. This information can include your e-mail address, name,
address, telephone number, and credit card number, as applicable. Wolfe Developments
Belong2It also may ask for non-personal information or demographic information.
Use of your Personal Information
Wolfe Developments and our Wolfe Developments affiliates and
service partners use your personal information to operate the Wolfe Developments
sites and to provide the Belong2It services you have requested. The information
is also used to communicate with you regarding your Wolfe Developments accounts
by sending out periodic newsletters that are considered as essential to the
operation of the service. The non-personal information is used to compile
general demographic statistics which is shared in the aggregate with Belong2It
advertisers.
We ask for your postal address because some of our services require a mailing
address so that we can completely perform the service. For example, we need your
postal address for our Revenue Avenue service so that we can mail you checks for
the money you earn from affiliate programs. We may also use this information for
credit card validation.
Wolfe Developments may disclose your Personal Information 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
Wolfe Developments, Wolfe Developments or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of Wolfe Developments; Wolfe Developments, the site or the users of Wolfe Developments
Belong2It; or, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety
of users of Wolfe Developments, Wolfe Developments, the site or the public.
Personally identifiable information collected by Wolfe Developments may be
stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which
Wolfe Developments or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by
using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your
country.
Sharing your Personal Information with Other Companies
Except as otherwise described in this statement, Wolfe Developments will
share your personal information with other companies only with your consent. For
example, when subscribing to a service which involves a third party to
facilitate the service your personal information will be shared. Revenue Avenue,
for example, provides your contact information to affiliate program owners only
with your consent so they can respond to specific customer requests to join
their affiliate networks. Without this relationship, Revenue Avenue could not
provide its service to you. These uses of personal information are primary to
the operation of the site.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our
behalf, such as packaging and delivering purchases and other mailings, providing
customer service, performing statistical analysis of our services, or providing
other essential elements of the site. We will only provide those companies the
personal information they need to deliver the product or service, and they are
prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. For example,
Belong2It shares your personal information with third parties to collect and
merge your personal information into your Belong2It profile for an improved and
personalized customer experience on this Web site. As a part of the Belong2It
Banner Network affiliate program, Belong2It Banner Network service shares your
banner ad content with other affiliates in the program, however, no personal
information is shared with affiliates as a part of the banner ad content.
Control of your Personal Information
As part of your participation in any of the Wolfe Developments services,
Wolfe Developments allows you to elect to receive certain information and e-mail
from Wolfe Developments and its service partners. There are two types of
information sent to Belong2It, customers: 1) account specific information; and,
2) promotional and customer feedback information.
Account specific communications include information that is essential for the
Belong2It service to operate properly. This includes the initial welcome mail
describing features and guides to a particular service. It also includes any
communications describing any changes or updates to a particular service or
billing schedule. Because account specific communications are essential to
providing the customer with the most current information on Belong2It services
these types of communications will be sent to all Belong2It customers when
appropriate. These types of communications are considered an essential part of
the service for which you have signed-up for and you will not be able to
unsubscribe from such mailings.
Promotional and customer feedback information includes special promotional
offers, sweepstakes, contests, and/or customer surveys. For this type of
information, the customer has the ability to opt-in or opt-out from receiving
this type of information. The customer also has the ability to change their
opt-in/out preferences at any time, either by changing their personal
information, described in the next section, or by following the unsubscribe
instructions provided in each mailing.
Please be aware that this Privacy Statement and the choices you make on this
site will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to
Wolfe Developments in the context of other, separately operated, Wolfe Developments products or
services.
Changes to your Personal Information
You may update, edit or delete the personal information you have shared with
Wolfe Developments, at any time when you are on the Belong2It Web site, from
within your Belong2It Membership Manager by clicking the "Organization" link.
If you have chosen to receive information from Belong2It and then at a later
date decide you do not wish to continue receiving such information, you can
unsubscribe by following the instructions in the e-mail. If are not currently
receiving Belong2It information and you would like to, you can do so by the
following the instructions outlined below. For all Wolfe Developments services,
you can make changes to your personal information through the "Organization" page in the Membership Manager. To do this:
- From the homepage, log into your account by entering your username and password.
- From the Membership Manager page, click the "Organization" link.
- Now click the "Administrator Profile" to modify your information and click the save button to save the changes.
If you have difficulty modifying any of your information, please click here to send e-mail
to receive further assistance.
Security of your Personal Information
Wolfe Developments secures your personal information from unauthorized
access, use or disclosure. Belong2It secures the personally identifiable
information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment,
protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When sensitive personal
information (such as a credit card number and other financial information) is
transmitted over the Internet, it is protected through the use of encryption,
such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Security of your Company's and Customers' Information you share with
Wolfe Developments As a part of some of Wolfe Developments services, you can
choose to store your customer's and their company information on Belong2It's
servers. Belong2It secures your customer's information on computer servers in a
controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or
disclosure. Wolfe Developments will not use your customer contact list or any
other customer information for any other purposes than those intended with the
service, nor will your customer information be shared with any other parties. Belong2It will not use your customer information for the
purpose of sending unsolicited commercial e-mail.
Belong2It collects statistics on your specific company's customer's behavior
in regards to their use of the Belong2It service on your behalf and reported to
you in the aggregate. In general, no personally identifiable information is
collected.
Use of Cookies
To make it easy and convenient for you to login to our services, the
Wolfe Developments site does require you to enable cookies to utilize our
services. Because we use cookies, you can bookmark your Wolfe Developments start
page and access your account without logging in.
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. This simplifies the process of recording your
personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on.
When you return to the same Wolfe Developments Web site, the information you
previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the 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 will not be
able to fully experience the interactive features of the Wolfe Developments Web
site and on other Wolfe Developments Web sites or other web sites you visit.
The use of cookies is required to use the Belong2It service.
Use of Privacy Statements by Belong2It Partners and Affiliates
While Belong2It supports other web site operators using Wolfe Developments
services complying with these principles, you should carefully examine the
privacy statements of sites linking to or from Wolfe Developments. Personal
information that you choose to provide to other web sites will be subject to the
privacy policies of that specific web site.
Use of Third Party Ad Networks
The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on the Belong2It Web
sites are displayed by Belong2It. In addition, Belong2It also allows other
companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display
advertisements on Belong2It 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. Wolfe Developments does not have access to or control of
the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.
Belong2It may maintain relationships with a number of the third-party ad
networks currently operating such as: 24/7 Media; AdForce; AdKnowledge;
AppNet/admaximize/i33; Avenue A; BlueStreak.com; CFM&Z; Click Here;
DoubleClick; Flycast; Interad Network; MatchLogic; Mediaplex; Sabela Media; The
Thinking Media; and Vita Bella. If you want to prevent one of these third-party
companies from sending and reading cookies on your computer, you will need to
either set your browser to decline third party cookies or visit each ad
network's web site individually or request that you be removed from its system.
Use of Web Beacons
Wolfe Developments pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons,
sometimes called single-pixel gifs that allow Belong2It to count users who have
visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Belong2It may include web
beacons in promotional e-mail messages or Belong2It 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 Belong2It network of sites
and services; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about
Belong2It 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. Belong2It Web pages may also contain Web beacons placed there
by our advertising partners to help Belong2It determine the effectiveness of our
Internet advertising campaigns.
Changes to this Statement
Belong2It will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company
and customer feedback. When Belong2It posts changes to this Statement, we will
also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the Privacy Statement. If
there are material changes to this Statement, Belong2It will notify you by
placing prominent notice on the Web site. Belong2It encourages you to
periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Wolfe Developments is protecting
your information.
Contact Information
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement, please click here to send e-mail.
Wolfe Developments Privacy Wolfe Developments, Inc
108 Glasgow Lane
Noblesville, IN 46060
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