Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for EconoWhiner.com (“EW” or “Service”). EW is committed to your right to privacy and will use your data only as set forth in our Privacy Policy below. Please read this information carefully before accessing the EW Site. The privacy statement may be amended at any time, with or without notice to users. Your use of EW constitutes agreement to abide by this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use that are posted on the EconoWhiner.com Site. Please regularly consult EW’s Privacy Policy in order to be aware of updated practices.

Personally Identifiable Collection of Information

You may voluntarily provide EW with personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information and information about your interest in various products, programs and services ("Personal Information"). Examples of how you may provide this information are: volunteering your email address in order to sign up for newsletters, purchasing products or services from the Site, participating in blogs, posting comments and participating in forums on the Site.

Additionally, in order to participate in various forums and portions of the Site, users may be required to submit a valid email address, demographic details and areas of interest. Such information may be used to select editorial topics and for screening out users who leave comments prohibited by the Terms and Conditions of this Site.

Should EW request other personally identifiable information from you, you are not required to share any such information to gain access to the Site. Simply, you can refuse to provide any such information.

It should be noted that you may voluntarily, but you are not required to, participate in public forums, Site Blogs and other sections of the Site which allow you to participate in a public discussion or post public comments. Should you elect to participate in any such portion of the Site, you understand that your comment and actions will be posted for the public to see. We advise you to use discretion in sharing information about yourself on the Internet. Privacy is an important right and we advise you to be careful and responsible when disclosing information online.

Other Collected Information

In the normal course of visiting EconoWhiner.com, viewing our pages and downloading any information from the website, our servers also collects information such as:

The domain name from which you access the Internet
Client host names
Your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address
The name and version of your computer’s operating system and browser

Use of Collected Information

We use your personally identifiable information to supply you with and fulfill your requests for services, additional information, to include you on a subscription list, and to select forum topics.

We may use the information collected for internal purposes for administrative purposes, for technical maintenance purposes, the marketing and promotion of products and services that might be of interest to you, to communicate with you about customer service issues, to measure the number of visitors to the site and to make the site more useful to users.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We reserve the right to share both aggregate and personal information collected from you with third parties if we are authorized to do so, if the law requires it, to protect the rights of EW, or as part of a sale or other disposition of our assets (including our membership and/or customer records). We may also use and disclose Personal Information to prevent or trace abuses of the Site.

We may also use and disclose Personal Information to comply with any court order or government investigation, subpoena or inquiry, or as otherwise required by law, or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of EW, users of the Site, or the public.

Disclaimers

While EW has taken reasonable steps to limit the uses of information provided by you, we cannot guarantee that the information will remain permanently secure. There is always a possibility that your information could be lost due to technical problems or stolen from our databases. EW is not responsible for any such loss or theft or any other unanticipated security breach.

Cookies

EW does not use Cookies at the present time. In the future, however, users to this Site may be issued a "cookie," a small text file placed on the user’s hard drive to track usage of the Site. Cookies help to prevent you from having to register or re-enter your information every time you visit the Site. Cookies are also used to authenticate your identity. Cookies from our Site provide us with certain information about your computer, but will not interfere with the operation of your computer. EW may use cookies to gain knowledge of Internet usage, improve content and advertisements.

Some cookies that are issued may contain your personally identifiable information, and such cookies may be shared with the affiliates of EW.

If you would like to avoid cookies, your web browser may have an option that enables you to disable or not accept cookies. It should be noted, however, that should you disable or not accept cookies, portions of the Site may not properly function.

Hyperlinks

We may post hyperlinks to the Web sites of third-party web sites (“Third Party Sites”). We cannot control the actions of such third parties or be held responsible for their use of any information that you provide directly to them. We advise you to take the time to educate yourself about the privacy policy and terms of use of any Web site that you visit.

EW does not control or endorse Third Party Sites.

Purchases

You may make purchases of products from the Site. To enable such purchases, EW will collect and store billing and credit or debit information. This information will be shared only with third parties who perform tasks required to complete the purchase transaction, such as fulfilling orders and processing credit card information.

Third Party Advertisements

Third party advertisements that appear on EW are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. The advertisers may automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Cookies will allow the advertiser to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. EW does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on EW unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Again, if you would like to avoid cookies, your web browser may have an option that enables you to disable or not accept cookies. It should be noted, however, that should you disable or not accept cookies, portions of the Site may not properly function.

Children’s Online Privacy

Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"), this Site is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 13. EW does not knowingly collect personal information from children through this Site, or any of its Web sites. Minors between the ages of 13 and 17 must obtain the permission of their parents or legal guardians before making purchases of any type on this Site.

If you are a parent with concerns about children’s privacy issues in conjunction with the use of this Site, or any other privacy issue, please contact us at concerns@econowhiner.com.