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The information BrandStar and its affiliated persons and entities (“BrandStar”) collects about you at BrandStar’s websites, including but not limited to those websites located at Brandstar.com, TheBalancingAct.com, DesigningSpaces.tv, MissionMakeover.tv, AccessHealth.tv, OfficeSpaces.tv and all cobranded websites (collectively, “Website”), is used to provide you with a more personalized and rich experience while visiting the Website. Your use of the Website is expressly conditioned on your acceptance of and agreement to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy sets forth the terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Website. By using this Website, you agree to abide by this Privacy Policy. In addition, when using specific services or entering contests or sweepstakes, you agree to abide by any guidelines or rules posted in connection with such services, contests or sweepstakes, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any posted guidelines or rules, or with any part of this Privacy Policy, you must not use this Website. If you do not comply with this Privacy Policy at all times when using this Website, BrandStar reserves the right to deny or restrict your access. The terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy shall apply regardless of the means by which the Website was accessed, including but not limited to through the URL, electronic mail or links from other sites. Please read on for details.
This Privacy Policy covers how BrandStar treats information that BrandStar collects and receives about you via the Website, including information related to your past use of the Website. BrandStar has prepared a detailed policy in order for you to know as much as possible about BrandStar’s practices so that you can make informed decisions. By using the Website and thereby agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to BrandStar’s use and disclosure of automatic and personal information provided to BrandStar when you interact with the Website, as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to: (i) the practices of companies or other third parties that BrandStar does not own or control, or people that BrandStar does not employ or manage; or (ii) any offline matters, activities or information that BrandStar or any affiliate collects about you or anybody else.
The information learned from the Website’s users, members and customers helps BrandStar personalize and continually improve your experience at the Website. BrandStar receives and stores certain types of information automatically whenever you interact with the Website. Here are the types of information BrandStar gathers and how it is used:
BrandStar receives and stores information that personally identifies you. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at the Website include: name, address, email address, phone number, fax number, billing address, shipping address, product selections, order number, referring URL, IP address, password, username, how you got to know about the Website, gender, occupation, personal interests, your age and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs and services. You voluntarily provide this personally identifiable information when you enter it on the Website to sign up as a member of BrandStar, whether in connection with a newsletter subscription, when you enter a sweepstakes, promotion or contest and/or other special benefits.
At the Website, you can submit personally identifiable information about other people. For example, you might submit a person’s name and email address to send a website referral or to email a BrandStar news story. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected and stored about other people at the Website include: recipient’s name, address, email address and telephone number. BrandStar does not share with, rent, transfer or sell personally identifiable information that you submit about other people to any third parties or nonaffiliated entities.
If you are located in the United States and make a purchase or payment on the Website, BrandStar will collect and store your personally identifiable information. When processing an order or payment on the Website, BrandStar needs to know your name, mailing address, billing address, email address, telephone number, product selection, order number, credit card number and expiration date. This information is necessary to process your order or payment. Although BrandStar transmits your credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing, BrandStar does not rent, transfer, sell or share your credit card issuer, credit card number or expiration date with any nonaffiliated entities.
Registered Website members, users who sign up for BrandStar newsletters and users who enter sweepstakes or contests on the Website will receive occasional marketing materials or surveys from BrandStar and/or its trusted marketing partners at the email address provided at sign up. If you would like to opt out from receiving these materials, please email webmaster@brandstar.com.
Like most website operators, BrandStar collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. BrandStar’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how BrandStar’s visitors use its website. From time to time, BrandStar may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
BrandStar also collects potentially personally-identifying information that is collected by Google Analytics. The analytics feature BrandStar has implemented is based on Display Advertising (e.g., Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the Doubleclick Campaign Manager Integration, or Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting). Visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customer Display Network ads using Ads Settings. BrandStar will not facilitate the merging of personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information previously collected from Google Display Advertising features that is based on the DoubleClick cookie unless BrandStar has robust notice of, and the user’s prior affirmative (i.e., opt-in) consent to, that merger. At any time, visitors may choose to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. BrandStar uses the Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting feature to identify trends in the usage of its website which may be published in reports for internal use.
Your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address is a unique identifier used to connect your computer to the Internet. Your IP address also is stored in BrandStar’s user registration databases when you register with BrandStar. IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including to: (i) help BrandStar identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information; (ii) diagnose service or technology problems reported by BrandStar users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific Web company or ISP; (iii) estimate the total number of users visiting BrandStar from specific areas; and (iv) help determine which users have access privileges to certain content that BrandStar hosts.
BrandStar uses a feature of your Internet Web browser called a “cookie,” a small piece of information stored on your hard drive that uniquely identifies your intra- and inter-requests on the Website. Cookies may be used for various purposes, including to keep track of preferences you specify while you are using BrandStar’s services and the Website. If you wish to disable the use of cookies, please review the Help section of your Internet browser for instructions. Web Beacons: Web pages may contain electronic images (called a “single-pixel GIF” or “Web beacon”) that allow a Website to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. BrandStar uses Web beacons (i) in order to count users and to recognize users by accessing BrandStar cookies, (ii) to count and recognize users who have read emails sent by BrandStar, and (iii) to personalize your experience when you visit the Website.
BrandStar provides services that allow users to access and customize Internet content through mobile phones, PDAs and other alternative devices. These devices may collect different information than what is collected by computers. When connecting to BrandStar using a mobile device that provides Internet access, if the mobile device service provider uniquely identifies the device, BrandStar will receive this information. BrandStar may use this unique mobile device identification information to offer extended services and/or functionality. Certain BrandStar services may require collection of the phone number for your device. BrandStar may associate that phone number to the mobile device identification information.
Some mobile phone service providers in the United States are required to operate a system that will pinpoint the physical location of devices that use their service. Depending on the provider and if you are located in the United States, BrandStar may automatically receive this information. BrandStar may use and store this information to provide enhanced location-based services as well as to serve location-targeted advertising.
BrandStar may use a third party (such as Nielsen or Rentrak) to collect information on the Website for market research purposes, including through the use of cookies and web beacons. In addition, BrandStar allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of BrandStar’s Website pages to set and access cookies on your computer. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry. BrandStar does not control cookies from third-party advertisers. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not the Privacy Policy of BrandStar.
BrandStar may disclose information about you to those whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Due to the existing regulatory environment, BrandStar cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. If you do not want us to use or disclose personal information collected about you in the ways identified in this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Website or related services.
BrandStar may provide personal information provided when you register or when you sign up for a newsletter, sweepstakes or contest to trusted partners who work with BrandStar. These companies may use your personal information to communicate with you about offers or surveys from BrandStar and/or our marketing partners. However, our partners do not have any independent right to share this personal information with third parties. If you would like to opt out from receiving these materials, please email webmaster@brandstar.com.
BrandStar occasionally has third party agents, subsidiaries, affiliates and partners that perform functions on BrandStar’s behalf, such as marketing, analytics, research, credit card processing, shipping or stocking orders, providing customer service, fraud protection, etc. These entities have access only to the personal information needed to perform their functions. They are restricted from using, selling, distributing or altering this data in any way other than to provide the requested services to the Website.
BrandStar may disclose and release information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise BrandStar’s legal rights or defend against legal claims. Additionally, BrandStar may share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of BrandStar’s terms of use or as otherwise allowed by law.
BrandStar may collect personal information about you and share it with third parties to the extent that you give us permission at the time of collection. For example, BrandStar may display targeted advertisements based on personal information provided when you register. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria (for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area). By interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad. BrandStar also sometimes gathers personal information on behalf of a sponsor in association with a promotion. In such a case, BrandStar will provide you notice at the time of collection that the information is being collected on the sponsor’s behalf and link to the sponsor’s privacy policy.
BrandStar may share your personal information with any of our subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control. Additionally, in the event BrandStar goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy.
BrandStar may establish relationships with business partners by creating a link between their sites and the Website. BrandStar is not, however, responsible for the content, maintenance or privacy policies of those sites. Once you click over to a third party site, BrandStar encourages you to check its privacy policy.
The Website may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than the information practices of BrandStar. Users who click over to a third party site from a link on the Website must be aware that BrandStar makes no warranties with regard to that site’s policies or business practices. BrandStar is not responsible for any transactions that occur between the user and the third party site. Please consult the other sites’ privacy policies, as BrandStar has no control over information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties. Should a user purchase any products or services from that third party site, the user must contact the third party site directly regarding any disputes that might occur, including but not limited to delayed shipping, missing products, damaged goods or pricing and billing discrepancies. BrandStar is not responsible for the actions of any third-party site.
The Website is not directed at or intended for children under 13 years of age. BrandStar does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, nor does it contact children under the age of 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent’s permission. BrandStar encourages parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet use. Also, BrandStar strongly encourages parents to help BrandStar enforce its Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information on the Website without permission.
It is possible that due to fraud or deception by others, BrandStar may unknowingly receive information pertaining to children under the age of 13. If BrandStar is notified of this, once BrandStar has verified the information, BrandStar will promptly obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from its servers. If you want to notify BRANDSTAR of its receipt of information in relation to children under the age of 13, please email webmaster@brandstar.com.
The Website may have chat rooms, forums, message boards and newsgroups available to its users. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information. Exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. As these forums are public and open for users to interact with each other, BrandStar expects all its users to respect the rights of others. By using these forums, you agree that BrandStar is not responsible for any information that you disclose or communicate in such forums, and any disclosures you make are at your own risk.
It is possible that due to fraud or deception by others, BrandStar may unknowingly receive information pertaining to children under the age of 13. If BrandStar is notified of this, once BrandStar has verified the information, BrandStar will promptly obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from its servers. If you want to notify BRANDSTAR of its receipt of information in relation to children under the age of 13, please email webmaster@brandstar.com.
The Website is operated in the United States. While BrandStar is committed to providing your information with a high level of privacy protection, you should know that the general level of protection for personal information in the United States may not be the same as that provided in other countries. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to BrandStar will be transferred to the United States. By using the Website, participating in any BrandStar services and/or providing BrandStar with personally identifiable information, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to this transfer and the collection and processing of information in the United States.
BrandStar places a priority on the security of personal information and BrandStar has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under BrandStar’s control. BrandStar is able to keep your personal information safe and secure by utilizing the industry standard technology, including password protected member records, firewalls, secure servers and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we are committed to protecting your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.
BrandStar reserves the right to change, modify add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice. Please check the Website frequently to see recent changes. Such changes and/or modifications shall become effective immediately upon posting thereof. Without limiting the foregoing, BrandStar may occasionally notify you by email about changes to the Website or provide notices of changes by displaying notices or links to notices to you generally on the Website. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and all of the terms and conditions set forth herein.
BrandStar offers you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your personal information. When you receive promotional communications from us you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional e-mail or newsletter you receive. You may update or edit the information you previously provided in your BrandStar account, or discontinue your account at any time. If you would like to edit or cancel your membership, discontinue marketing communications from BrandStar or third parties, discontinue any sharing or personally identifiable information with third parties, or ask any technical questions, please email webmaster@brandstar.com. Keep in mind, however, that even if you delete information from your profile, BrandStar may retain your personal information in conformance with our data retention policy and personal information may remain within our databases, access logs, and other records. In addition, BrandStar is not responsible for updating or removing your personal information contained in the lists or databases of third parties who have been provided information as permitted by this Privacy Policy.
For further information or questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Website or your dealings with this Website, you may contact BrandStar’s Privacy Officer via written correspondence to:
BrandStar
Attn: Business & Legal Affairs
2001 West Sample Rd.
Pompano Beach, FL 33064
If you have any other questions, please email webmaster@brandstar.com
Effective Date: The Privacy Policy posted on this Website was updated on or about September 1, 2015