PRIVACY POLICY SUMMARY
Protecting the privacy of all of our users and particularly children who may visit our site is an ongoing commitment of BustedThumbs. BustedThumbs wants to provide for the safety and security of all of our members while using our website. Also included in this privacy policy are all other internet accessible services provided under the BustedThumbs name and marks. Our privacy policy has been created so that you are informed of the information BustedThumbs may gather about you when you visit our websites, how BustedThumbs may use this information, how and when we may disclose this information to others and how you can control the use of this information. You should be made aware of how you can modify or correct your information and how you can limit the disclosure of your personal information on the Internet. To accomplish this, BustedThumbs has established registration, sign-in procedures, and this Privacy Policy, to protect the privacy of information provided to BustedThumbs by its visitors and members while using the BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store. You should be aware that this Privacy Policy applies to only the BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store and services; it DOES NOT apply to the websites of any person or entity other than BustedThumbs, including websites that you may link to from the BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store. You should use caution and review the privacy policies of any sites that you visit from ours to lean more about their information practices.
Please take a few moments to read this agreement. By accessing the BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store website, you agree to accept the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and are aware that our policies may evolve in the future as indicated below.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND WHO IS COLLECTING IT?
When you use BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store websites, you are asked to provide limited personal identifier information to become a member. This type of information includes your E-Mail address. We want to make sure that our policy regarding using this information is very clear and concise. BustedThumbs will not distribute, sell or rent any of the personal information you have provided to us without providing to you prior notice of our intention to do so and a clear opportunity for you to prevent any such disclosure. Wherever possible, there will be a link to this privacy policy on every website page where personal information might be displayed or stored. You should also be aware that some websites that link to our site may also collect personal information about you (see "Cookies" section below). We can not make any representations regarding the information privacy practices of those websites. In summary, BustedThumbs encourages you to use common sense and be cautious about what information you may provide on-line, whether through our websites or elsewhere on the Internet. With this approach and awareness, you can safely and enjoyably use and benefit from your Internet experience.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We have no hidden agenda regarding our use of your personal information. Our primary goal is to provide members with the most useful and enjoyable experience on the Internet. Your E-Mail address may be used in order for us to send notices about new features, products, or other information that your personal information tells us might interest you, but we never share it with or provide it to others. You can choose to opt out of receiving these types of messages. The BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store website is constantly evolving and changing in content and in features. Member-use information helps guide such changes and the evolution of our websites. The use of personal information in these ways allows us to provide a constantly evolving and user-sensitive package of services, products, and features that satisfy member needs, wants and desires but always with the priority of protecting individual member privacy. Every member should be aware that personal information may be legally and rightfully disclosed when it is required by law or when we are protecting BustedThumbsís rights or property or the rights or property of other BustedThumbs members, if we have reason to be believe that other parties may be interfering with your or our rights and property.
COOKIES AND THEIR USE
Cookies are used to store and track various types of information about BustedThumbs users. A cookie is a small piece of data that our web service sends to your browser and is stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies help us estimate the size of our audience. We use cookies to tell us what features of our website you visit most as well as what features on the site you do not visit. But again for your comfort, BustedThumbs never shares or provides any personal identifier information to any other party.
IS MY INFORMATION PROTECTED?
If there are others who use your computer, you should always sign-out/log out of the BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store site and close your browser window when you are done using the Internet. Signing out/logging out helps protect your information if you are using a computer in a public place such as a library. BustedThumbs is using the latest security hardware, software and operating procedures and we make every attempt to protect the privacy of your personal information stored in the BustedThumbs computer systems. However, in honesty you should be aware that there is no data that is transmitted over the Internet that can be guaranteed 100% secure in transmission or safe from theft or illegal acquisition. We will always do our best to protect against such occurrences.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
The Childrenís Online Privacy Protection Act (ìCOPPAî) requires that we inform parents and legal guardians about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from children under 13 years of age. Although the BustedThumbs website is not directed at children under 13 years of age, we recognize that with proper adult supervision some parents might permit their children to visit and utilize the site. COPPA requires that we obtain the consent of parents and guardians in order for children under 13 years of age to use certain features of the BustedThumbs website.
When your child attempts to register and/or provide personal information to BustedThumbs (including on the BustedThumbs website), we require a parent or legal guardian to:
* complete the registration;
* review our privacy policy and to submit a valid credit card number to verify that the childís parent or guardian knows about and authorizes our information practices related to children protected by COPPA; and
* verify through the use of an email confirmation and second authorization that the parent or guardian consents to any applicable Terms of Service and this privacy policy.
Once parental notice and consent has been verified, the information we collect will be treated the same as information collected from any other user of the BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store website. Without verified parental notice and consent, we will not knowingly collect personal information of children under 13 years of age, and if we learn that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will promptly delete it. In compliance with COPPA, parents and legal guardians may request us to review, delete or stop the collection of the personally identifiable information of their child. You may do so in one of two ways. If you know the user name and password, follow the instructions through the Edit Profile link, or you may contact us by letter, phone or email using the address information provided at the bottom of this page. If you request that no further information about your child be collected or used, we will be required to terminate your childís ability to use the BustedThumbs WebPages that require a user to ìsign in.î
SECURITY
During sessions in which you give us information such as credit card numbers, we encrypt your transmissions using SSL (ìSecure Sockets Layerî) technology. We keep any personally identifiable information you provide us on servers that are protected by firewalls and other technological means against intrusion or unauthorized access. They are located in a physically secure facility, and only our employees and agents with a need to know the information are given access. While no amount of security can give a perfect guarantee, you can have a high degree of confidence that the personally identifiable information you give us is protected from unauthorized access and use. We rely on you to select passwords that cannot be easily guessed and to safeguard those passwords from disclosure.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
We will notify our members, by E-Mail or by posting a notice on our website, when we make any significant changes to our Privacy Policy that affect the use of any personally identifiable information we collect. Your continued use of our BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store will constitute acceptance of the changes and the existing privacy policy. In instances where we ask for your personally identifiable information and we tell you the data we are collecting on that page will be shared with unaffiliated third parties, and in cases where a member of the BustedThumbs community opts-in to share his/her information with third parties, those disclosures and opt-ins will override anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy. In addition, BustedThumbs reserves the right to make non-significant changes to our Privacy Policy that will not affect BustedThumbs's use of a user's personally identifiable information at any time without any notice to you other than posting any such changes in a revised Privacy Policy on the BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store website. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be sure you are familiar with the most current version. The Policy will include the most recent date in which any revision has been made. Please note that this Privacy Policy is also incorporated, by reference, into BustedThumbs's Terms of Service and Etiquette Policy.
CONTACTING BustedThumbs
If you have a privacy concern regarding the BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store website or this policy, and if you cannot satisfactorily resolve it through the use of the website, you should complete a feedback form or you can write to us by email at privacy@BustedThumbs.com.
If you object to any sharing of your personal information that may be permitted under this policy, you may do so by writing us at the above address. We will take reasonable steps to accommodate your requests as they relate to our commercial practices. In some instances, honoring your requests may interfere with or preclude your ability to use the BustedThumbs wallpaper & ringtone store website or may require us to terminate our relationship with you.
Effective Date: February 1, 2007
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