Privacy Policy
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Pristine Services upholds the strictest standards with regards
to your privacy. Your information
will be safeguarded within our organization.
Pristine Services will forever be developing and implementing better
and more diverse security measures to ensure we are fulfilling this
goal. We limit access to all information about
you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that
information. We will never sale, trade, pass, leak, or in any means forward
your information to any organization outside Pristine Services without your
permission. |
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What Does This privacy
policy Cover? |
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Our Commitment to Your
Family and Children |
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We are concerned about protecting the
safety of the children who use our site, so we have created the Family
Filter. The Family Filter helps ensure that children can search online
without seeing inappropriate material. See our Terms of Service for more information. Our site complies with the
terms of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998.
Pristine Services does not collect personally identifiable information from
individual users under the age of 13. Under COPPA, parents have the ability
to control what personal information about their child may be disclosed to
third parties, and we believe that this is just the way things should be. The
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) provides a set of guidelines on How To
Protect Kids' Privacy Online that parents should follow in making sure
their child's privacy is protected while they're online. If you suspect there
has been a violation of COPPA, contact the FTC's Consumer Response Center or
visit their Kidz
Privacy web site. |
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What Information Is
Collected From You By Pristine Services and How Is It Used? |
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Anonymous Information is information that ordinarily cannot be traced back
to a particular person. Anonymous information is data about how you use our
site (such as the pages you view and the search terms you query). For
example, at Pristine Services we know how many people visit this privacy
policy Details page each day, but we don't necessarily know the names or any
other specific information about those visitors. Anonymous information also
includes the domain names and/or IP addresses of Internet browsers that visit
our site, the time of day the site was visited, and other non-personal
information. Personally Identifiable Information is information, like your name, mailing address,
email address or telephone number, that can be used to uniquely identify you.
Anonymous information, such as web pages viewed and search terms queried,
becomes personally identifiable information when it is associated with
personally identifiable information such that it can be traced back to a
particular individual. What type of anonymous information does
Pristine Services collect and how is it used? Pristine Services collects anonymous
information when people use our site. When you surf the Internet, your
Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer)
automatically transmits information to Pristine Services’ web server logs.
Examples of this information include the URL of the web page you were on
before coming to Pristine Services, the Internet Protocol (or IP) address (as
explained below) of the computer you are using, the search terms you query,
and the web pages you view.. We use this information to personalize your
experience on our site, to show you more relevant advertising messages, and
to improve our services in general. IP Addresses We collect IP addresses for
some purposes (for example, to report anonymous user information to our
advertisers and to audit the use of our site). We do not link a user's IP
address to a person's personal information, which means we will have a record
of each user's session but the user remains anonymous to us. PLEASE NOTE: We will use IP addresses to identify users of our
site when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our site's Terms of Service or to protect our service, site or other users from
fraudulent behavior. Furthermore, under certain circumstances to comply with
court orders and subpoenas, IP address and/or domain names may be linked to
personally identifiable information, when said information is stored in
databases managed by Internet registrars or registries such as American
Registry for Internet Numbers or Network Solutions. Cookies Unless your browser is set to allow third
parties to extract information (and the most popular browsers such as
Netscape, AOL and Internet Explorer do not allow it), then cookies will not
extract information from your hard drive. Rather, cookies save you time when
you surf the Internet. They help us to provide you customization while you
use our site without your having to remind us of your preferences each time
you return to our web pages. You are not required to accept cookies in
order to use our site. However, if you do not accept cookies, you will have
to tell us your preferences each time you return to our site. You can
configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify
you when a cookie is set. Each browser is different so check the "Help"
menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Each web site can send cookies to your
browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but in the interest of your
privacy, your browser will only allow a web site to access the cookies it has
already sent to your computer, not the cookies sent to your computer by other
web sites. Web Beacons What type of personally identifiable
information does Pristine Services collect? In order to use our services, we do not require
that you provide us with any personally identifiable information. Exceptions
to this include various submission services that permit users to submit URLs
for inclusion in the index and for products and services offered by Pristine
Services’ Business Solutions group that are explained further below. From time to time, we may conduct surveys
about your opinions regarding our site but will not request personal
information and all data collected from these surveys will be analyzed in the
aggregate. We may seek your consent to participate in promotions conducted on
the site. For each such request, we may request that you provide personal
information and with each promotion we will state how the information will be
used. We do not run contests on our site but some
of our advertisers do run contests through our web pages. If you decide to
participate, you should refer to their privacy policy. For further details,
see below. |
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What Information Do Third
Parties Collect Through Pristine Services and How Do They Use It? |
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Are any third parties collecting
anonymous information through Pristine Services? If so, how is this
information used? Third party advertisement server agencies, such
as Hostfor2bucks.com, collect anonymous information through Pristine Services
by way of the cookies they are authorized to send to Pristine Services users.
These advertisement server agencies place their cookies on your computer when
you first view an advertisement served by them (this could happen while you
are on our site or another site where their advertisements are also served).
These advertisement server agencies use their cookies to control the sequence
of advertisements you see and to make sure you don't see the same
advertisements too many times Tracking Pixels Bear in mind that the only way to ensure
your personal privacy whenever you are on the Internet is to make sure your
browser is configured so that you are alerted to all cookies. By using this
feature of your browser, you should also be alerted to any "tracking
pixels" located on our web pages. Are any third parties collecting
personally identifiable information on Pristine Services? If so, how is this
information used? Generally third parties do not collect
personally identifiable information on the Pristine Services site. However,
you should bear in mind that several of our products and services are offered
through third party web sites, some of which have their own registration
process. We offer co-branded pages that are "powered by" third
parties. Although these pages display the Pristine Services logo at the top,
these pages have their own URL that you link to from Pristine Services, and
the privacy policy of these third parties, not this one, applies to the
collection of your information on those web pages. If you have any questions about whether
Pristine Services or a third party is collecting information, please Contact Us Some advertisers are able to collect your
personal information through a special type of advertisement, which asks you
for personal information. Such information is never shared with Pristine
Services. However, if you agree by checking the "opt-in" box, the
advertiser may share your personal information with third parties. In
addition, some of these advertisements provide online contests and
sweepstakes. If you enter them, you agree that the contest or sweepstakes
sponsor may use your name in relation to announcing and promoting the winners
of the sweepstakes. |
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With Whom Is This
Information Shared? |
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Personally Identifiable Information Submission Services Other Third Parties Pristine Services Business Services Pristine Services does not collect any
information in relation to third-party sites and therefore, no third-party
sites are covered by this privacy policy. If you feel that a site using the
Pristine Services brand and/or logo does not follow acceptable privacy
practices, please Contact
Us Be sure to check the URL that
you link to from Pristine Services web pages to determine whether this
privacy policy applies. If you ever have any questions about whether certain information,
content or services pertain to us, or are "powered by" these third
parties, again please Contact
Us Anonymous Information In addition to the anonymous information
that certain advertisement server agencies collect through the use of
cookies, as explained above, we share some of the anonymous information that
we collect with them. However, these advertisement server agencies have
represented that they have never, and will never collect or use any of your
personally identifiable information. Subpoenas and Court Orders If a governmental agency requests
information in the form of a subpoena, court order, or other legal process,
Pristine Services will disclose only the information it has collected from
its users. |
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What Security Measures
Are in Place to Protect Against the Loss, Misuse or Alteration of Your
Information? |
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We operate secure data networks protected by
industry standard firewall and password protection. We have security measures
in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of
your user data under our control. Only certain employees have access to the
information you provide us. For example, we impose strict rules on our
employees who have access either to the databases that store user information
or to the server that host our services. While we cannot guarantee that loss,
misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we use our best efforts to
prevent such unfortunate occurrences. |
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How Will You Be Notified
If Pristine Services Changes This privacy policy? |
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Pristine Services may update this privacy policy
from time to time. If we are going to use personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will
notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your
information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material
changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already
stored in our databases, we will post a prominent notice on our web site
notifying users of the change. Bear in mind that the only way to ensure your
personal privacy whenever you are on the Internet is to make sure your
browser is configured so that you are alerted to all cookies. |
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Contact Us |
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General Counsel Policy updated and effective date: June 30,
2004 |
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