PRIVACY POLICY
Digital Bulldogs, LLC, and each of its related web sites (“Digital Bulldogs”)
Privacy Policy
Last updated September 14, 2011.
This Privacy Policy outlines important information regarding the use and disclosure
of information collected via this Website. Digital Bulldogs provides this
Privacy Policy to help users make an informed decision as to whether to use or continue
using the Website.
PLEASE NOTE: OUR PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES FROM TIME TO TIME AND CHANGES ARE EFFECTIVE
UPON POSTING. PLEASE CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY FOR UPDATES AS IT IS YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY
TO BE AWARE OF CHANGES. Digital Bulldogs DOES NOT PROVIDE NOTICES OF CHANGES IN
ANY MANNER OTHER THAN BY POSTING THE CHANGES AT THIS WEB SITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE
WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION TO Digital
Bulldogs OR USE ANY OF THE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS OFFERED OR PROVIDED ON ANY OF THE
WEB SITES REFERRED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
This Privacy Policy applies to Digital Bulldogs ’s collection, use, storage
and disclosure of information by Digital Bulldogs on its (a) websites, including
all its divisions, subsidiaries and related companies (collectively, the “Website”),
(b) on various third party websites, and (c) to Digital Bulldogs’ other information
collection, including the purchase of customer lists from third parties. Media Bulldogs
is not responsible for the information collection or privacy practices of third
web sites or applications.
By reference, this Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Website
Terms of Use. Your use of the Website and any personal information you provide via
the Website or through other official Media Bulldogs contact remains subject to
this Privacy Policy, as well as the Terms of Use and/or other stated policies.
1. Collection of Information.
1.1 Survey Information.
Digital Bulldogs collects information from individuals by various methods, including,
but not limited to, when an individual voluntarily completes an Digital Bulldogs
survey, order form, or a registration page either online or offline, or by means
of online or offline surveys, order forms, or registration pages operated by third
parties (collectively, a “Survey”). (As used herein, “online”
means using the Internet, including the Website, and related technologies, and “offline”
means by methods other than online, including in person, in the postal mail, using
telephones and cell phones, and other similar means.) In the Surveys, Digital Bulldogs
or a third party (a “Third Party”) may ask an individual to provide
various information to Media Bulldogs, which may include his or her name, email
address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone numbers
and carriers), SMS messaging details (e.g. date, time and content of the SMS message),
birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital status, occupation, employment
information, personal and online interests, and such other information as may be
requested from time to time (together, “Survey Information”). Media
Bulldogs may also collect information concerning an individual from another source
and use that information in combination with information provided from this Web
Site. Completing the Surveys is completely voluntary, and individuals are under
no obligation to provide Survey Information to Digital Bulldogs or Third Party,
but an individual may receive incentives from Digital Bulldogs or a Third Party
in exchange for providing Survey Information to Digital Bulldogs.
1.2 Third Party List Information.
Digital Bulldogs collects information from individuals when an individual provides
information to a Third Party and Digital Bulldogs subsequently purchases, licenses,
or otherwise acquires the information from the Third Party (the “Seller”).
Such purchased information may include, but is not limited to, an individual's name,
email address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone
numbers and carriers), SMS messaging details (e.g. date, time and content of the
SMS message), birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital status, occupation,
industry of employment, personal and online interests, and such other information
as the individual may have provided to the Seller (together, “Third Party
List Information”). When acquiring Third Party List Information, Media Bulldogs
seeks assurances from the Seller that the Seller has a right to transfer the Third
Party List Information to Digital Bulldogs and that the Seller has a right to provide
offers from advertisers to the individuals whose personal information is included
on the Seller's list.
1.3 Other Information.
Other occasions when Digital Bulldogs obtains information from individuals include
(1) when an individual is making a claim for a prize or seeking to redeem an incentive
offered by Digital Bulldogs or by a Third Party, (2) when an individual requests
assistance through Digital Bulldogs’s customer service department, and (3)
when an individual voluntarily subscribes to a Digital Bulldogs service or newsletter
(together, “Other Information”).
1.4 Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Info Collected Using Technology.
Digital Bulldogs currently uses cookie and web beacon technology to associate certain
Internet-related information about an individual with information about the individual
in our database. Additionally, Media Bulldogs may use other new and evolving sources
of information in the future (together, “Technology Information”).
(a) Cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data stored on
the hard drive of the individual's computer that allows Media Bulldogs to identify
the individual with his or her corresponding data that resides in Digital Bulldogs’s
database. You may read more about cookies at http://cookiecentral.com. Individuals who use the Website
need to accept cookies in order to use all of the features and functionality of
the Website.
(b) Web Beacons. A web beacon is programming code that can
be used to display an image on a web page (by using an <img src=“x”>
programming function -- see http://truste.org for more information), but can also
be used to transfer an individual's unique user identification (often in the form
of a cookie) to a database and associate the individual with previously acquired
information about an individual in a database. This allows Digital Bulldogs to track
certain web sites an individual visits online. Web beacons are used to determine
products or services an individual may be interested in, and to track online behavioral
habits for marketing purposes. For example, Digital Bulldogs might place, with the
consent of a Third Party website, a web beacon on the Third Party's website where
baseball products are sold. When Joe, an individual listed in Digital Bulldogs’s
database, visits the fishing website, Digital Bulldogs receives notice by means
of the web beacon that Joe visited the baseball site, and Digital Bulldogs would
then update Joe's profile with the information that Joe is interested in baseball.
Digital Bulldogs may thereafter present offers of baseball related products and
services to Joe. In addition to using web beacons on web pages, Digital Bulldogs
also uses web beacons in email messages sent to individuals listed in Digital Bulldogs’s
database.
(c) New Technology. The use of technology on the Internet,
including cookies and web beacons, is rapidly evolving, as is Digital Bulldogs’s
use of new and evolving technology. As a result, Digital Bulldogs strongly encourages
individuals to revisit this policy for any updates regarding its use of technology.
1.5 Outside Information.
Digital Bulldogs may receive information about individuals from Third Parties or
from other sources of information outside of Digital Bulldogs including information
located in public databases (“Outside Information”).
1.6 Individual Information.
As used herein, Individual Information means Survey Information, Third Party List
Information, Other Information, Technology Information, and Outside Information,
and any other information Digital Bulldogs gathers or receives about individuals
such as usage data, file transfer and viewing data.
1.7 No Information Collected from Children.
Digital Bulldogs will never knowingly collect any personal information about children
under the age of 13. If Digital Bulldogs obtains actual knowledge that it has collected
personal information about a child under the age of 13, that information will be
immediately deleted from our database. Because it does not collect such information,
Media Bulldogs has no such information to use or to disclose to Third Parties. Digital
Bulldogs has designed this policy in order to comply with the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).
1.8 Credit Card Information.
Digital Bulldogs may in certain cases collect credit card numbers and related information,
such as the expiration date of the card (“Credit Card Information”)
when an individual places an order from Media Bulldogs. When the Credit Card Information
is submitted to Media Bulldogs, such information is encrypted and is protected with
SSL encryption software. Digital Bulldogs will use the Credit Card Information for
purposes of processing and completing the purchase transaction, and the Credit Card
Information will be disclosed to Third Parties only as necessary to complete the
purchase transaction.
Log File Data: When users log-in to access their account, our servers will automatically
record and archive certain information that web-browsers send whenever visiting
a Website. These server logs may include information vital to validating the user’s
authorization to access the account. Information, such as a Web request, Internet
Protocol (the “IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring
pages, exit pages and visited URLs, platform type, click counts, pages viewed and
in what order, time spent, the date and time of the request, and other important
data is necessary to validate and authorize a user’s entry and activity on
the Website.
2. Use of Individual Information.
2.1 Discretion to Use Information.
THE COMPANY MAY USE INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION FOR ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN
COMPANY'S SOLE DISCRETION.
The following paragraphs in Section 2 describe how Digital Bulldogs currently uses
Individual Information, but Digital Bulldogs may change or broaden its use at any
time. As noted, Digital Bulldogs may update this policy from time to time. Digital
Bulldogs may use Individual Information to provide promotional offers to individuals
by means of email advertising, telephone marketing, direct mail marketing, online
banner advertising, and package stuffers, among other possible uses.
2.2 Email.
Digital Bulldogs uses Individual Information to provide promotional offers by email
to individuals. Digital Bulldogs may maintain separate email lists for different
purposes. If email recipients wish to end their email subscription from a particular
list, they need to follow the instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe
from the particular list. To unsubscribe from all Digital Bulldogs’s email
lists, a person must send an email to
unsubscribe@digitalbulldogs.com.
2.2(a) Content of Email Messages.
In certain commercial email messages sent by Digital Bulldogs, an advertiser's name
will appear in the “From:” line but hitting the “Reply”
button will cause a reply email to be sent to Digital Bulldogs. The “Subject:”
line of Digital Bulldogs email messages will usually contain a line provided from
the advertiser to Digital Bulldogs.
2.2(b) Solicited Email.
Digital Bulldogs only sends email to individuals who have agreed on the Website
to receive email from Digital Bulldogs or to individuals who have agreed on Third
Party websites to receive email from Third Parties such as Digital Bulldogs. Digital
Bulldogs does not send unsolicited email messages. As a result, statutes requiring
certain formatting for unsolicited email are not applicable to Digital Bulldogs’s
email messages.
2.3 Targeted Advertising.
Digital Bulldogs uses Individual Information to target advertising to an individual.
When an individual is using the Internet, Digital Bulldogs uses Technology Information
(see also Section 2.5 below) to associate an individual with that person's Individual
Information, and Media Bulldogs attempts to show advertising for products and services
in which the person has expressed an interest in the Surveys, indicated an interest
by means of Technology Information, and otherwise. Media Bulldogs may, at its discretion,
target advertising by using email, direct mail, telephones, cell phones, and other
means of communication to provide promotional offers.
2.4 Direct Mail and Telemarketing.
Digital Bulldogs uses Individual Information to advertise, directly or indirectly,
to individuals using direct mail marketing or telemarketing using telephones and
cell phones.
2.5 Mobile Phone SMS Messaging.
In certain cases, when requested by an individual, a Third Party may use Individual
Information to provide customized content and advertising via SMS messaging to an
individual’s cell phone. Media Bulldogs is not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such Third Parties.
2.6 Use of Technology Information.
Digital Bulldogs uses Technology Information (1) to match a person's Survey Information
and Third Party List Information to other categories of Individual Information to
make and improve profiles of individuals, (2) to track a person's online browsing
habits on the Internet, (3) to determine which areas of Digital Bulldogs’s
web sites are most frequently visited. This information helps Digital Bulldogs to
better understand the online habits of individuals so that Digital Bulldogs can
target advertising and promotions to them.
2.7 Profiles of Individuals.
Digital Bulldogs uses Individual Information to make a profile of an individual.
A profile can be created by combining Survey Information and Third Party List Information
with other sources of Individual Information such as information obtained from public
databases.
2.8 Storage of Individual Information.
Digital Bulldogs stores the Individual Information in a database on Digital Bulldogs
computers. Our computers have security measures (such as a firewall) in place to
protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under Digital
Bulldogs’s control. Not withstanding such measures, Digital Bulldogs cannot
guarantee that its security measures will prevent Digital Bulldogs computers from
being illegally accessed, and the Individual Information on them stolen or altered.
3. Dissemination of Individual Information.
3.1 Sale or Transfer to Third Parties.
Digital Bulldogs MAY SELL OR TRANSFER INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES FOR
ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN Digital Bulldogs’S SOLE DISCRETION.
3.2 Order Fulfillment.
Digital Bulldogs will transfer Individual Information to Third Parties when necessary
to provide a product or service that a person orders from such Third Party while
using Digital Bulldogs web sites or when responding to offers provided by Digital
Bulldogs.
3.3 Legal Process.
Digital Bulldogs may disclose Individual Information to respond to subpoenas, court
orders, and other legal processes.
3.4 Summary Data.
Digital Bulldogs may sell or transfer non-individualized information, such as summary
or aggregated anonymous information about all persons or sub-groups of persons.
3.5 Access.
Individuals have access to their Individual Information collected to provide an
opportunity for an individual to correct, amend, or delete such information. Access
can be obtained by contacting contact@digitalbulldogs.com.
Digital Bulldogs may also grant advertising clients and email services providers’
access to an individual's email address to verify the origin of the Individual Information
collected.
4. Privacy Practices of Third Parties.
4.1 Advertiser cookies and web beacons.
Advertising agencies, advertising networks, and other companies (together, “Advertisers”)
who place advertisements on the Website and on the Internet generally may use their
own cookies, web beacons, and other technology to collect information about individuals.
Media Bulldogs does not control Advertisers' use of such technology and Digital
Bulldogs has no responsibility for the use of such technology to gather information
about individuals.
4.2 Links.
The Website and email messages sometimes contain hypertext links to the web sites
of Third Parties. Digital Bulldogs is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of such other web sites. Linked web sites may contain links to web
sites maintained by Third Parties. Such links are provided for your convenience
and reference only. Media Bulldogs does not operate or control in any respect any
information, software, products or services available on such Third Party web sites.
The inclusion of a link to a web site does not imply any endorsement of the services
or the site, its contents, or its sponsoring organization.
4.3 Affiliated Companies.
Digital Bulldogs may disclose, transfer, and sell Individual Information to entities
affiliated with Digital Bulldogs in Digital Bulldogs’s discretion. Should
Digital Bulldogs be subject to an acquisition, merger, sale or other change of control
or business entity status, Digital Bulldogs reserves the right to transfer or assign
the Information collected from the Website.
5. Individuals Outside of the
United States.
Anyone using the Website outside of the United States acknowledges that personal
information will be collected and stored by Digital Bulldogs in the United States.
By using the Website, you consent to the transfer of information to and/or storage
of information outside of your country and in the United States.
6. Unsubscribe Procedures.
6,1 If you wish to discontinue receiving email messages from Digital
Bulldogs, you have several options:
To unsubscribe from a particular SMS messaging campaign on a cell phone, send “STOP”,
“END”, or “QUIT” to the SMS message received by the individual.
In addition, other methods to unsubscribe may be set forth on the website at which
the individual signed up for the SMS messaging campaign.
For more information about protecting your privacy, you may wish to visit: www.ftc.gov. If you have questions
about this policy, please contact us at
legalnotices@digitalbulldogs.com.
California User Consumer Rights. In accordance
with California Civil Code Sec. 1789.3, California resident users are entitled to
know that they may file grievances and complaints with California Department of
Consumer Affairs, 400 R Street, STE 1080, Sacramento, CA 95814; or by phone at 916-445-1254
or 800-952-5210; or by email to dca@dca.ca.gov.
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