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Networking Vantage, Inc. ("we," "our", or "us"), owns and
operates the Web site located at the URL salessynergy.net (the
"Site"). By visiting, using and/or submitting information to
the Site, you are accepting the practices described in this
Privacy Policy. We take your privacy seriously and have
published this Privacy Policy to inform you about the
collection, use and disclosure of your information.
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Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
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The following are certain situations in which we may collect
personally identifiable information from you:
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Subscriptions, Forms, and Surveys.
We may collect the following information that you submit or
provide to us: (a) personally identifiable information, such
as your name, postal address, telephone number, or email
address, or (b) other information about you, such as your
zip code, gender, age, industry, personal interests,
categories of interests, or other demographic information.
To better provide you with offers, we may match information
that you provide to us with third party data sources. For
example, we may match your personally identifiable
information to information from third party data sources,
such as past purchase information and your future Web usage
from other sites. By providing your personal information to
us, some of your past and future Web usage and other
information will no longer be anonymous to us.
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Correspondence.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or
letters, or if other users or third parties send us
correspondence about you, we may choose to collect such
information.
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Business Partners and Affiliates.
We may receive and retain your personally identifiable
information from one of our business partners or affiliates.
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Third-Party Advertisers.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve
advertisements when you visit the Site. These companies may
use information about you, including information about your
visits to the Site and other Web sites, in order to provide
you with advertisements about goods and services that may be
of interest to you.
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Use of Personally Identifiable Information
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We may use your personally identifiable information for
online and off-line marketing purposes, to send you emails,
fulfill your requests for certain products and services,
send you offers for goods and services that, in some cases,
are targeted or relevant to your interests, provide you with
special offers that may be of value to consumers or to all
our subscribers, help our clients better understand the
demographics of our target audiences, analyze Site usage,
send you administrative notices, improve our content and
product offerings, customize the Site's content, layout, and
services, send you communications relevant to your use of
the Site, support our marketing data products and services,
and as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. The
aforementioned offers may be delivered via email, direct
mail, and / or telemarketing channels.
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We may provide your personally identifiable information to
our business partners and affiliates, which may include
third party marketing companies, advertising agencies, and
data aggregation companies. These third parties may use your
information to provide you or other consumers with
information on products and services that may be of interest
to you or other consumers via email, direct mail, and / or
telemarketing channels.
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Your personally identifiable information may also be
aggregated and used by us, our affiliates, and third parties
for online and offline (including, without limitation,
direct mail and telemarketing) advertising purposes, market
research, project planning, troubleshooting problems,
detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other
criminal activity, to enforce our Terms of Use, for other
internal purposes, and as otherwise described to you at the
time of collection.
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By using and accessing the Site, you expressly agree to the
use of your personally identifiable information described in
this Privacy Policy and to receive the information described
above. If you do not wish for us to use your information or
to receive these communications, we encourage you opt-out of
the receipt of certain communications, as set forth below.
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Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
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The following describes some of the ways that your
personally identifiable information may be disclosed:
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Third Parties.
If you provide your personally identifiable information to
us we may share, loan, rent or sell your personally
identifiable information to third parties, such as marketing
companies, affiliates, advertising agencies and data
aggregation companies. These third parties may use your
personally identifiable information to provide you with
information, goods and services that may be relevant to your
interests, provide you with special offers, help understand
the demographics of their target audiences, and support
their products and services. If your personally identifiable
information is disclosed to a third party, pursuant to this
Privacy Policy, we are not responsible for such third
party's use of such personally identifiable information or
that third party's privacy practices. A third party's
privacy policies may differ substantially from this Privacy
Policy.
If you do not want your personally identifiable
information shared, loaned, rented or sold to third
parties, you should not provide any information to us or
visit our Site.
We may also aggregate personally
identifiable information and disclose such information
in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers
and other third parties.
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External Service Providers.
There are a number of separate services offered by third
parties that we refer to as external service providers that
may be complementary to your use of the Site. If you choose
to use these separate services, disclose information to the
external service providers, and/or grant them permission to
collect information about you, then their use of your
information is governed by their privacy policy. We only
disclose your personally identifiable information to
external service providers as set forth in this Privacy
Policy. You should evaluate the practices of external
services providers before deciding to use their services.
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Internal Service Providers.
We may use third parties that we refer to as internal
service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more
aspects of the business, product and service operations that
we provide to you and therefore we may provide some of your
personal information to these internal service providers. We
will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that
these internal service providers use your personal
information only to facilitate our business, product and
service operations pursuant to this Privacy Policy. If you
provide additional information to an internal service
provider directly, then their use of your personally
identifiable information is governed by their applicable
privacy policy.
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Third-Party Advertisers.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve
advertisements to you when you visit the Site. We may
disclose information about your visits to the Site to
third-party advertising companies to market more effectively
to you. Our third-party advertising company may link your
personally identifiable information, such as your name,
address and e-mail address, to other information which they
collect, such as past purchase information and your future
Web usage from other sites. By providing your personal
information on the Site, some of your future Web usage will
no longer be anonymous to our third-party advertising
company.
Our third-party advertising company may also merge your
personally identifiable information with previously
collected non-personally identifiable information. In these
cases, because our third-party advertising company may link
your name, address and e-mail address to your past Web
usage, some of your past and future Web activity will not
longer be anonymous to the advertising company.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right, and you
authorize us, to share or disclose your personally
identifiable information when we determine, in our sole
discretion, that the disclosure of your personally
identifiable information is necessary to identify, contact,
or bring legal action against you if:
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you are or may be violating this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use
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you are interfering with another's rights or property,
including, without limitation, our rights or property
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you are violating any applicable law, rule or regulation
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necessary or required by any applicable law, rule or
regulation; and/or
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requested by authorities in the event of any act of
terrorism or instance of local, regional or national
emergency.
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Personally identifiable information and other personal
information collected from you may also be transferred to a
third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger,
reorganization, other transfer or bankruptcy (a “Transfer”)
involving us and/or our affiliates. We specifically reserve
the right to transfer personally identifiable information
collected from or in connection with the Site, and any of
its databases, together with any personally identifiable
information contained therein, to a third party in
connection with a Transfer, and nothing in this Privacy
Policy is intended to interfere with our ability to transfer
all or part of our business and/or assets (including the
Site) to an affiliate or independent third party at any
time, for any purpose, without any limitation whatsoever.
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In addition, due to the existing regulatory environment, we
cannot ensure that all of your private communications and
other personally identifiable information will never be
disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy
Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing),
we may be forced to disclose personal information to the
government or third parties under certain circumstances or
third parties may unlawfully intercept or access databases,
transmissions or private communications. Therefore, although
we value your privacy and use industry standard practices to
protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not
expect, that your personally identifiable information or
private communications will remain private.
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| Opt-Out Procedure |
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You may at any time opt-out of our use of your personally
identifiable information by sending an email requesting to
opt-out of our use of your personally identifiable
information at the following email address: unsubscribe@salessynergy.net.
After we process your opt-out request, we will stop using
your personally identifiable information
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Please note, however, that after you opt-out of our use of
your personally identifiable information, third parties may
continue to use any personally identifiable information that
may be in their possession and you may still receive offers
from third parties. You must contact these third parties
directly to opt-out of their use of your personally
identifiable information. We are not responsible for any
third party's use or failure to stop using your personally
identifiable information.
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| National Do Not Call List |
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By providing us with your personally identifiable
information, you agree that we may contact you in connection
with your requests for products or services, even if you are
listed on the National Do Not Call list, as permitted by
law.
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Newsletters and CAN-SPAM Compliance
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We are fully compliant with the Controlling the Assault of
Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (the
"CAN-SPAM Act"). We are not responsible for any email
communications that you may receive from third parties.
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"Cookies" are alphanumeric identifiers in the form of text
files that are inserted and stored by your web browser on
your computer's hard drive. We may set and access cookies on
your computer to track and store preferential information
about you. Such aggregated information is used within our
internal organization, with our affiliates and may be shared
with third parties.
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| Log Files |
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We use log files. Log files are not linked to personally
identifiable information, and provide us with the following
types of information: internet protocol (IP) addresses,
browser type, internet service provider (ISP),
referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and
number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site,
track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use.
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| Web beacons |
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"Web beacons", also called single-pixels (1x1) or clear
GIFs, are electronic images that allow a website to access
cookies and help track marketing campaigns and general usage
patterns of visitors to those websites. Web beacons can
recognize certain types of information, such as cookie
numbers, time and date of a page view, and a description of
the page where the Web beacon is placed.
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Internal use of web beacons.
We may use web beacons internally to count users and
recognize users through cookies. Access to cookies helps us
personalize your experience when you visit the Site.
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Email.
We may include web beacons in HTML-formatted email messages
that we or our affiliates or agents send. Including web
beacons in email messages helps us determine your interest
in and the effectiveness of such emails.
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External use of web beacons.
We may also use web beacons externally. For example, we may
report aggregate information about the Site's users, such as
demographic and usage information, to our partners and other
third parties. We may also include other company’s web
beacons within the Site or in emails.
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| Security |
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We protect information we maintain with internal and
external firewalls and physical and technological security
measures. In certain areas of the Site, we may use
industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data
transmissions. If an unauthorized third party compromises
our security measures, we will not be responsible for any
damages directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized
third party's ability to view, use or disseminate such
information.
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| Links to Other Web sites |
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The Site and emails we send you, may include links to other
third party Web sites. Such links are not an endorsement by
us of those Web sites and/or the products or services
offered there. Third party Web sites may have different
privacy policies and we are not responsible for the privacy
practices of those third party Web sites. If you click on a
link to a third party Web site, we encourage you to check
the privacy policy of that Web site, as it may differ
substantially from that of this Privacy Policy.
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| Access and Use of the Site |
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The Site is intended to be accessed and used only by adults
and is not directed to children under the age of 18. We do
not knowingly permit registration or submission of
personally identifiable information by anyone under the age
of 18.
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| Changes to this Privacy Policy |
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We reserve the right to update, amend and/or change this
Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion and
without notice. Updates to this Privacy Policy will be
posted here. Any information we collect from you online is
subject only to our most current Privacy Policy. You are
encouraged to revisit this Privacy Policy from time to time
in order to review any changes that have been made. Our last
update was August 18, 2006. Your continued access and use of
the Site following the posting of any such changes shall
automatically be deemed your acceptance of the same.
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| Questions or Concerns |
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If you have questions, comments, concerns or feedback
regarding this Privacy Policy, send an email to
support@salessynergy.net.
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| Governing Law; Arbitration |
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This Privacy Policy is to be governed by and construed in
accordance with the internal laws of the State of Florida,
without regard for principles of conflicts of laws. Any
civil action, claim, dispute or proceeding arising out of,
or relating to, this Privacy Policy shall be referred to
final and binding arbitration, before a single arbitrator,
under the commercial arbitration rules of the American
Arbitration Association in Palm Beach County, Florida. You
and we shall select the arbitrator, and if you and we are
unable to reach agreement on selection of the arbitrator
within thirty (30) days after the notice of arbitration is
served, then the American Arbitration Association shall
select the arbitrator. Arbitration shall not commence until
the party requesting it has deposited One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00) with the arbitrator as a retainer for the
arbitrator's fees and costs. The party requesting
arbitration shall advance such sums as are required from
time to time by the arbitrator to pay the arbitrator's fees
and costs until the prevailing party is determined or the
parties have agreed in writing to an alternate allocation of
fees and costs.
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Judgment upon any award rendered by the arbitrator shall be
final, binding and conclusive upon you and us, and your and
our respective administrators, executors, legal
representatives, successors and assigns, and may be entered
in any court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the
previous sentence, in no event shall either you or we be
entitled to punitive, special, indirect or consequential
damages, and both you and we hereby waive your rights to any
punitive, special, indirect or consequential damages,
including, but not limited to, damages for any loss of
profit, revenue or business. You agree that, subject to the
previous sentence, such an award by the arbitrator shall be
your sole and exclusive remedy pursuant to this Privacy
Policy.
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| Miscellaneous |
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If any portion of this Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful,
void or unenforceable by any arbitrator, this Privacy Policy
as a whole shall not be deemed unlawful, void or
unenforceable, but only that portion of this Privacy Policy
that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken
from this Privacy Policy. The headings contained in this
Privacy Policy are for convenience of reference only, are
not to be considered a part of this Privacy Policy, and
shall not limit or otherwise affect in any way the meaning
or interpretation of this Privacy Policy.
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All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties
made in this Privacy Policy, as may be amended by us from
time to time, shall survive your acceptance of this Privacy
Policy.
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This Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use represent the
entire understanding and agreement between you and us
regarding the subject matter of the same, and supersede all
other previous agreements, understandings and/or
representations regarding the same.
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