Last updated: February 2009
AdECN is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement applies to the data collected by AdECN through our Website (the "Site") and services.
Collection of Your Information
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you. The personal information we collect may include name, e-mail address, phone, postal address, and demographic information. In addition, registered users will be asked to provide information that allows us to conduct a credit check and perform risk assessment and collections services, such as your name and full billing address, your username, and all information necessary to receive your payment of the respective fees, including credit card number, and tax id (which could include your social security number).
We may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take in connection with the Site. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every Web site you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times, and referring Web site addresses.
In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with AdECN, information collected through one AdECN service may be combined with information obtained through other AdECN services. We may also supplement the information we collect with information obtained from other companies. For example: we may use services from other companies that enable us to derive a general geographic area based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic area. We may also receive information from members about their clients and information from third party service providers that collect and distribute information about various internet users. We may add this to the information we have already collected from you in order to improve the services we provide.
Use of Your Information
The information collected on this Site will be used to operate the Site and to provide the service(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you have requested or authorized.
In support of these uses, AdECN may use your information to provide you with more effective customer service, improve the Site and any related products or services, perform statistical analysis, and make the Site easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing the Site to your particular preferences or interests.
Any information entered into publicly available sections of the Site will be displayed to anyone who has access to these sections. These publicly available sections include the user forum, any public folder and wikis within the Site, and posts and comments of other registered users.
We may use your information to provide you with important information about the product or service that you are using, including critical updates and notifications and updates to our privacy policy or terms of use. If you do not want to receive these e-mails, you must delete your user account with us. Additionally, with your permission, we may send you information about other AdECN products and services.
AdECN may hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as Web site hosting, packaging, mailing, and delivering prizes, answering customer questions about products and services, and sending information about our products, special offers, and other new services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
We may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of AdECN or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the services; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of AdECN employees, customers or the public.
Information that is collected on the Site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which AdECN or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers maintain facilities. AdECN abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.
Control of Your Information
Except as otherwise described in this statement, personal information you provide on the Site will not be shared outside of AdECN and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your permission.
You can stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from AdECN by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive, or by contacting us directly using the contact information provided below.
This privacy statement and any choices you make on the Site will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to AdECN in the context of other, separately operated, AdECN products or services.
Access to Your Personal Information
You can review and edit the personal information you provided at the Site by clicking on the edit account button in the top right hand corner of the login screen.
Security of Your Information
At AdECN, we take the security of your personal information very seriously. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, if we transmit sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Use of Cookies
We may use cookies on this Site to enable you to sign in to our services or to help personalize the Site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a Web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of delivering relevant content, eases site navigation, and so on. When you return to the Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the site's 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 are using Internet Explorer, search for "Cookies" in the Help menu to find detailed instructions. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to use interactive features of this or other Web sites that depend on cookies.
Use of Web Beacons
Pages on this Site may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to assist in delivering cookies, to allow us to count users who have visited those pages, and to deliver co-branded services. We may also include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or our newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
AdECN may also employ Web beacons from third parties in order to help us compile aggregated statistics and determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or other operations of our sites. We prohibit Web beacons on our sites from being used by third parties to collect or access your personal information. We may work with other companies that advertise on our Site to place Web beacons on their sites in order to allow us to develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on the AdECN Site results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser's site.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
We may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to this privacy statement, we will notify you either by placing a prominent notice on the home page of our Web site or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.
Contact Information
AdECN welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you have questions about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact us at
privacy@adecn.com.
AdECN, Inc.
5464 Carpinteria Avenue, Suite J
Carpinteria, California 93013
U.S.A.
