psychics.com Privacy Policy – March 2009
Our privacy statement
We welcome you to psychics.com and thank you for visiting
the psychics.com website. We understand that
our users are our most valuable commercial asset and that the welfare of our
users is critical to our success. Accordingly, we have a serious and ongoing
interest in the privacy of our users and their personally identifiable
information. We provide this notice in order to explain our online information
practices and the choices available to you concerning the manner in which we
use the information collected at the Website or via the telephone. This notice
is intended to explain 1) the information that this Website gathers/tracks
about you; 2) what this Website does with the information it gathers/tracks; 3)
with whom this Website shares the information it gathers/tracks; and 4) this
Website’s opt-out policy.
If you are a resident of
the State of California and would like to opt-out from the disclosure of your
personal information to any third-party for marketing purposes, please e-mail
us at:
CustomerService@Psychics.com
If you have any questions
about this Privacy Policy, psychic.com’s privacy practices or your dealings on
this Website, please contact us at: CustomerService@Psychics.com or 1-888-611-4111
Application of this Notice
This notice applies to the
information collected by psychics.com.
Information Collected by psychics.com
We collect personally identifiable information from you when
you register with, and/or purchase minutes or packages via the Website or
telephone. The types of personally identifiable information we may collect at
this Website, or via the telephone, during registration and when you make a purchase,
include: 1) name, 2) gender, 3) email address, 4) zodiac sign, 5) date of birth,
6) credit card information, including expiration date and verification code, 7)
billing address and zip code, and 8) telephone number.
Collecting personal information from you allows us to
provide services and features that are most likely to meet your needs, to
customize our services to facilitate and enhance your experience, to bill for
services, provide customer service, and to keep you informed of opportunities
available on those services, thereby providing you with a smooth and efficient
experience while you are using the Website’s psychic entertainment and other
services.
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if
you no longer desire our services, you may update or delete it any time via
email at or via customer service CustomerService@Psychics.com,
or by calling 1-888-611-4111.
To the extent that additional information is gathered and/or
collected by an advisor in order to enhance your experience, that information
is not retained by us except that some calls may be monitored, or recorded, for
training and customer service purposes. In such events, the information will
not be disclosed to unrelated third parties.
Cookies:
The Website uses a “cookie”
to assign a unique identifier to your computer. The cookies we use are
persistent files that your web browser places on your computer’s hard drive.
We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, e.g. to save your
username so that you do not have to remember it each time that you visit our
Website, if you so choose, and for other purposes. No personally identifiable
information is gathered by the cookie. For more information, including how to
disable cookies, please visit www.cookiecentral.com.
Group/Aggregate Data:
Aggregate or group data is
data that describes the demographics, usage, or characteristics of Psychics.com
users as a group, without disclosing personally identifiable information. We
may create internal reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for our
use and for use by our advertisers and partners. To the extent that customer
credit card-specific information is collected by Psychics.com, said information
will be kept in confidence and will not be shared with any third parties (other
than credit card processor and consumer credit agencies) without the customer's
prior informed consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to
share with third-parties the fact that we have credit card information on file
for specific customers, but we will not share more than the last four digits of
this credit card information with third-parties without the customer's prior
informed consent.
In addition, we may use log
files to track anonymous user information including, but not limited to,
Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider
(“ISP”), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of
clicks. This information is tracked in order to analyze trends, administer the
Website, track users’ movements in the aggregate and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. The information tracked via log files is not
linked to personally identifiable information. This aggregate information may
be shared with our advertisers and business partners.
Use and Sharing of Your Information
We reserve the right to
provide aggregate or group data about our users for lawful purposes. However,
except as explicitly stated herein, we do not sell, rent or trade any
personally identifiable information to third-parties. We may join together
with other businesses, or sell our user information, to bring selected
opportunities to our users. We are able to offer our services to you, in part,
based upon your willingness to be contacted by our third-party advertisers. By
allowing us to make the information that you supply available, you may receive
free information on products and services that may be of interest to you. In
addition, you agree that registering at the Website constitutes a purchase, an
inquiry and/or an application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales
Rule, 16 C.F.R. § 310, et seq. (the “ATSR”). Notwithstanding that your
telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade Commission’s Do-Not-Call
List, Psychics.com retains the right to contact you via telemarketing in
accordance with the ATSR.
The personally identifiable
information that you submit to Psychics.com remains your property. However, by
submitting that information to us you grant Psychics.com the right to use that
information for any legal purpose including, without limitation: a)
effectuating a purchase from Psychics.com that you make at the Website; b)
marketing purposes; c) providing promotional offers to you by means of e-mail
advertising, direct mail marketing, mobile telephone, pop-ups, pop-unders
and/or online banner advertising; and d) for validation, suppression, content
improvement and feedback purposes.
You agree that we may
contact you, via email, telephone, sms or other means at any time with updates,
newsletter, horoscopes, and/or any other information that we may deem
appropriate for you to receive in connection with your continued use of the
Website and/or our psychic entertainment services. We also use contact
information from your registration data to provide you information about
Psychics.com, its partners, or third party offers and to keep you informed of
our other products and services, and/or those of our affiliates, that may be of
interest to you. Your contact information is also used to reach you, when
necessary, regarding issues concerning purchases made on the Website or via our
toll free number. Additionally, we may use personally identifiable information
for other purposes, including but not limited to troubleshooting, processing
e-commerce transactions, site administration, administration of sweepstakes and
contests, extending promotional offers and other communications with you. If
you wish to stop receiving future communications from us, please see the
Opt-Out section below.
In addition, we may be
required to disclose personal information in some instances, such as: 1) when
required by law wherein we have a good faith belief that such action is
necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena and/or
request of a law enforcement agency; 2) in the event that Psychics.com is sold
or acquired; 3) in the event that we believe that the Website and/or our
services are being, or have been, used in violation of our terms and conditions
or to commit unlawful acts; or 4) for suppression purposes in compliance with
the provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time-to-time and
the ATSR. Please note that in the above matters we may not provide you with
notice prior to disclosure in such instances.
We use other third parties
to provide credit card processing services. When you register for Psychics.com
services, we will share your name, address, telephone number and credit card
information as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These
third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable
information for any other purpose. No further notice will be provided before
providing this information with our credit card processing servicers.
Opt-Out Procedure
When you register with, or
make a purchase on, the Website you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” of
having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes. If
you no longer wish to receive our newsletter, daily horoscopes and/or marketing
communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by clicking on the
“Unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of each e-mail and following the
subsequent instructions or by sending an email with the subject “Unsubscribe”
to Unsubscribe@Psychics.com.
If you decide you would like to cancel your registration for
a Psychics.com product or service, you may do so by contacting Customer Service
via email at CustomerService@Psychics.com
or via telephone by calling 1-888-611-4111.
Please specify the product or service you wish to
discontinue.
Security of Your Information
All collected information
is stored in a technically and physically secure environment and meets or
exceeds Geo-trust guidelines. Access to collected information is not available
to the public and is strictly limited. Our employees are dedicated to ensuring
the security and privacy of all Psychics.com user information. To prevent
unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of
information, we use appropriate industry standard procedures to safeguard the
confidentiality of your personal information, such as firewall, encryption,
token authentication, application proxies, monitoring technology, and adaptive
analysis of network traffic to track abuse of our network and its data.
In addition, we have
security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of
personal information under our control. We employ Secure Socket Layer Software
(“SSL”) to protect certain financial information and associated data, and to
secure any transactions. SSL encrypts information, including credit card
numbers, as it is transmitted over the Internet.
Please be advised that,
although we take every reasonable technological precaution available to protect
your data, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure.
Security Breach
In compliance with
applicable federal and state laws, we shall notify you and any applicable regulatory
agencies in the event that there has been an information security breach. You
will be notified via e-mail in the event of such a breach. Please be advised
that notice may be delayed in order to address the needs of law enforcement,
determine the scope of network damage, and to engage in remedial measures.
Minors
No person under the age of
18 (“minors”) is eligible to register for, use and/or purchase the services
and/or products featured on the Website. We do not knowingly collect
information from minors. No information should be submitted to, or posted at,
this Website by individuals under 18 years of age. We encourage parents and
guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate and
monitor the interactive activities of their children.
Third Party Links
This Website may contain
links to other third-party owned and/or operated websites. We are not
responsible for any content, terms and conditions, or the privacy policies of
such websites. The entities that advertise and/or place banner ads at the
Website, including, but not limited to, third-party advertisers, are
independent third-parties and are not affiliated with Psychics.com. These
third parties may have their own privacy and data collection policies and
practices. We encourage you to review the policies of these sites.
Changes to the Privacy Policy & Notification of Changes
Psychics.com reserves the
right to change or update this Privacy Policy at any time by updating our
Privacy Policy. If the manner in which we use personally identifiable
information changes, we will notify users by posting the changes on this
Website, no other notification will be given. Any and all changes to our
Privacy Policy are effective immediately upon posting. We encourage you to
check the privacy policy from time to time. The user’s continued use of the
Website, our products and/or services, and/or continued receipt of Psychics.com
e-mails constitutes an affirmative acknowledgement and acceptance by the user
to the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.
Customer Service
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or would
like more information on our privacy practices, please contact us via e-mail at
CustomerService@Psychics.com, by calling 1-888-611-4111, or by writing to:
Psychics.com, 1497 Main St.
Suite 362, Dunedin, FL 34698