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CONSUMER ADVOCATE TIM DUFFY and its affiliates
(collectively, “TIM DUFFY”) recognize the importance of
protecting the privacy of personal information that may be
provided to us by individual users or readers of TIM
DUFFY content online. Accordingly, we have adopted a privacy
policy to govern how we treat such information. This policy
does not apply to information you may provide to us offline.
TIM DUFFY may change this privacy policy from time to time,
in its sole discretion, and any such changes will become
effective when TIM DUFFY posts the revised privacy policy
online. Your continued use of this Web site indicates your
consent to the TIM DUFFY privacy policy and the most
current version then in effect.
WHAT
INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
TIM DUFFY may collect personally identifiable information when you
specifically and knowingly provide it to us, such as when
you provide your personal information such as your e-mail
address, name, phone number or address.
TIM DUFFY, or third parties on our behalf, may also collect non-personally
identifiable information via the use of cookies. Cookies are
pieces of information that are transferred to an
individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies
are used to assist you in using site information and content
by saving your user preferences. Cookies are also used to
collect aggregate information about Web site users on an
anonymous basis. TIM DUFFY has contractual relationships
with third parties, including without limitation,
advertisers and companies to place online advertisements
that may place their own cookies on the Web sites displaying
our content. In the course of serving these advertisements,
such third parties may place or recognize a unique cookie of
their own on your browser, and they may or may not collect
personally identifiable information. Such third parties’
use of cookies will be guided by their individual privacy
policy, which you should review. TIM DUFFY does not control
such third party cookies and is not responsible for
information gathered by such cookies.
WHAT
DOES TIM DUFFY DO WITH THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT?
TIM DUFFY will use the personally identifiable information directly
submitted by you solely for the purpose for which you have
provided it, whether it be to subscribe to a service,
request information, order a reprint of an article or
photograph, etc.. We may also use the information you
provide to us to contact you for reasons related to your
original communication to us. Additionally, we may
periodically send you promotional e-mail about existing or
prospective products and services offered by TIM DUFFY and
its advertisers, as well as to obtain information to better
understand our users. We may also use information you
provide to serve your advertisements, and, if you have given
your consent for us to do so, to send you e-mails concerning
offers from our partners and other third parties that we
think may be of interest to you. We will not disclose your
personal identifiable Information to third party’s. This
information may also be used as part of our demographic
research. In this event, the research is compiled and
analyzed on an aggregated basis. TIM DUFFY reserves the
right and may grant to third parties such right to publish
non-personally identifiable, aggregate information regarding
our users for promotional purposes and as a representative
audience for advertisers.
TIM DUFFY will not disclose any personally identifiable information about
our current or former users to anyone, except as permitted
or required by law, or as described herein. TIM DUFFY will
endeavor to maintain physical, electronic, and procedural
safeguards to protect the confidentiality of the information
that we collect online.
WITH
WHOM DOES Tim Duffy SHARE THE INFORMATION THAT IT COLLECTS?
As a general rule, TIM DUFFY will not disclose any of your personally
identifiable information except under one of the following
circumstances: we have your permission; we believe in good
faith determines is legally required to be revealed by any
relevant statute, regulation, ordinance, rule,
administrative or court order, decree, or subpoena;
information revealed during the course of TIM DUFFY'S
enforcement of the policies and procedures of the website;
information that we determine must be disclosed to correct
what we believe to be false or misleading information or to
address activities that we believe to be manipulative,
deceptive or otherwise a violation of law; where you are
otherwise notified at the time we collect the data; where we
need to share your information to provide the product or
service you have requested; when disclosed to an affiliate
of TIM DUFFY or when such disclosure is made subject
to confidentiality restrictions in connection with a sale,
merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition (whether of
assets, stock, or otherwise) of all or a portion of the
business conducted by the web sites to which the Tim Duffy
privacy policy applies. TIM DUFFY may share the
non-personally identifiable information that TIM DUFFY
gathers, in aggregate form only, with advertisers and other
partners. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our
server, and to administer our Web site.
Our site's registration form requires users to give us
contact information (like their name and email address). We
use customer contact information from the registration form
to send the user information about our company. The
customer's contact information is also used to contact the
visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving
future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
CHILDREN'S
POLICY
TIM DUFFY does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information
from children under 13. In the event that we learn that we
have collected any personal information from a child under
the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we
will delete that information from our database.
INTERNATIONAL
USAGE
If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the
information you provide to us will be transferred to the
United States. By using this web site, you consent to this
transfer.
This site contains links to other sites. TIM DUFFY is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information
(like their email address). We use contact data from our
surveys to send the user information about our company. The
customer's contact information is also used to contact the
visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving
future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
Also see our Terms of use
and Disclaimer
Incorporated by reference to this Privacy Page!
Terms
of use and Disclaimer
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the
loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our
control.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of
receiving communications from us such as Newsletters,
Advertisements or Solicitations of any kind.
HOW
DOES A USER CHANGE OR UPDATE THEIR INFORMATION?
If you have any questions or concerns about the TIM DUFFY privacy policy
or would like the personally identifiable information that
you have provided to TIM DUFFY corrected or updated, please
contact TIM DUFFY at: consumersupport@timduffy.com.
Postal address:
Tim Duffy
PO Box 3682
Covina CA 91722-5682
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