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This policy covers personal information about you as a Member of the Swagger Essentials Online Service ("the Swagger Essentials Service," or "Service"), including the personal information we collect through the sites, services and software that we use to provide you our Service. Some of these offerings may provide you with additional information and choices about your privacy, which you should read if you take advantage of these offerings.
The Swagger Essentials Member Privacy Policy does not apply to other companies' Web sites and services that you may access outside the Swagger Essentials Service. The personal information collected or received by these other companies is subject to their own privacy policies.
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Collection of Your SwaggerEssentials.com Member Information
Your Swagger Essentials Member information consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you interact with the Swagger Essentials Service, including Swagger Essentials sites and pages, services, and software (collectively Swagger Essentials Service "offerings"). Depending on how you use the Swagger Essentials Service, your Swagger Essentials Member information may include:
- registration-related information (such as name, home or work addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers);
- information about your visits to Swagger Essentials sites and pages, and your responses to the offerings and advertisements presented on these sites and pages;
- information about the searches you perform through the Swagger Essentials Service and how you use the results of those searches;
- information about the Swagger Essentials Service offerings that you use, including Swagger Essentials premium services, and how frequently you use them;
- information about your Swagger Essentials preferences (such as a zip code for localization purposes);
- transaction-related information (such as credit card or other preferred means of payment, billing or shipping information, or a history of products purchased through the Swagger Essentials Service);
- customer service information about you as an Swagger Essentials Member (such as account history, your or others' complaints, and your interactions with Swagger Essentials support services online or by phone); or
- other information specifically related to your use of a particular Swagger Essentials Service offering.
Your Swagger Essentials Member information may also include certain technical and diagnostic information gathered or received when you use the Swagger Essentials Service. Some of the technical information that may be collected or received includes: the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Swagger Essentials Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), CPU type (e.g. Pentium), the manner in which you connect to the Internet (e.g., connection speed through narrowband or broadband access); Internet protocol address; other information about your geographic location; or data relating to computer malfunctions or problems occurring when you use your computer with the Swagger Essentials Service. Additionally, we may collect information about other software on your computer for the limited purpose of protecting your security or improving your online experience.
Your Swagger Essentials Member information may be supplemented with additional information, including publicly-available information and information from other companies.
How Your Swagger Essentials Member Information Is Used
Your Swagger Essentials Member information may be used:
- to operate and improve the Swagger Essentials Service and enhance your online experience;
- to personalize the content and advertisements you receive;
- to identify or remediate possible threats to your safety, security, privacy, or to your computer's security;
- to fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services;
- to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries;
- to conduct research about your use of the Swagger Essentials Service; and
- to help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest.
Swagger Essentials does not rent or sell your Swagger Essentials Member information (such as name, address, telephone number, screen name and credit card information) to third parties. We may share Swagger Essentials Member information in order to jointly present you offers with or on behalf of our business partners, but we do not allow these partners to use your Swagger Essentials Member information for any other purpose. Except for these joint offers, Swagger Essentials will only share your Swagger Essentials Member information with third parties to provide products and services you have requested, or when we have your consent
Swagger Essentials does not read your private online communications when you use Swagger Essentials Service communications tools (for example, Swagger Essentials Service e-mail or Swagger Essentials instant messenger), except in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy. Please remember, however, that if you use these tools to disclose information about yourself publicly (for example, in public chat rooms or online message boards on Swagger Essentials), other online users may obtain access to any information you provide.
Your Swagger Essentials Member information, including the contents of your private online communications, may be accessed and disclosed in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); in other circumstances in which Swagger Essentials believes the Swagger Essentials Service is being used in the commission of a crime; when we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person; or when necessary either to protect the rights or property of Swagger Essentials, or for us to render the service you have requested.
Swagger Essentials may use agents and contractors in order to help operate the Swagger Essentials Service. We require agents and contractors that have access to Swagger Essentials Member information to protect this information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, and prohibit them from using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for the Swagger Essentials Service.
In the event that ownership of the Swagger Essentials Service was to change as a result of a merger, acquisition, or transfer to another company, your Swagger Essentials Member information may be transferred. If such a transfer would result in a material change in the use of your Swagger Essentials Member information, we will provide notice about the choices you have to decline to permit such a transfer.
Your Choices About Your Swagger Essentials Member Information
The Swagger Essentials Service allows you to access your registration, billing or shipping information, and edit this information through Swagger Essentials My Account. Additionally, some Swagger Essentials Service offerings allow you to control what information is collected or used when you use that offering.
You can also make choices about how your Swagger Essentials Member information may be used by the Swagger Essentials Service to provide marketing offers to you:
- You may choose not to receive marketing offers from Swagger Essentials by U.S. mail.
- You may choose not to receive marketing offers from Swagger Essentials by telephone.
- You may choose not to receive marketing offers from Swagger Essentials by e-mail.
- You may choose not to receive marketing offers through online pop-ups from Swagger Essentials.
In order to do so, please visit Swagger Essentials Keyword: Marketing Preferencesor Swagger Essentials Keyword: Choice to review your Swagger Essentials Service marketing preferences. These preferences do not apply to communications that are related to your Swagger Essentials Membership, or the fulfillment of a specific transaction you have requested (for example, a service advisory from the Swagger Essentials Service, or an acknowledgment of a purchase order). Similarly, these preferences do not apply to the sharing of information necessary to provide the basic functionality of the Swagger Essentials Service, or information necessary to carry out your requests or specific transactions.
Because the choices you make in connection with your Swagger Essentials Member information may not take effect immediately, it is possible you may receive a communication during the period in which your request is being processed.
Cookies and Web Beacons
The Swagger Essentials Service may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies in combination with your Swagger Essentials Member information to enhance and personalize your experience on the Swagger Essentials Service, including to operate and improve offerings through the Swagger Essentials Service; to help authenticate you when you use the Swagger Essentials Service; to remember your preferences and registration information; to enable a shopping cart; to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of Swagger Essentials Service offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications (by determining which Swagger Essentials Service e-mails you open and act upon); and to customize the content and advertisements provided to you through the Swagger Essentials Service.
The Swagger Essentials Service and its advertisers may also use ad network providers and other service providers, including Swagger Essentials subsidiaries, to help present customized content and advertisements on the Swagger Essentials Service and other Web sites. These providers may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies on your computer to help present, better target, and measure the effectiveness of their content and advertisements, using data gathered over time and across their networks of Web pages to determine or predict the characteristics and preferences of their audience. The Swagger Essentials Service may share certain non-personally identifiable information about you as an Swagger Essentials Service Member (such as age or zip code) with certain ad network and service providers, to help them deliver more relevant content and advertisements through their networks. The use of cookies, web beacons or similar technologies, from other content and ad network providers is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Swagger Essentials Service's.
Our Commitment to Security
There are many ways for you to access the Swagger Essentials Service or other Swagger Essentials offerings, including through high speed and wireless connections provided by Swagger Essentials or other companies. Swagger Essentials offers you a robust set of tools to help you prevent others from gaining access to your personal information, as well as to help protect against other threats to the security of your online experience. Please visit Swagger Essentials Keyword: Safety to learn what you can do to help safeguard your safety, security, and privacy.
To help protect the Swagger Essentials Member information you provide to Swagger Essentials, we use a variety of safeguards, including
- technical, administrative, and physical controls (such as restricted access facilities, intrusion prevention and detection systems, and dedicated security personnel and incident response teams)
- encryption and authentication systems
- passwords, and an Account Security Question to help verify your identity when making corrections to your Swagger Essentials Member information; and
- agreements with contractors and vendors requiring them to protect the confidentiality, safety, and security of Swagger Essentials Member information
Each and every Swagger Essentials employee must acknowledge that they understand and will comply with the Swagger Essentials Privacy Policy. Swagger Essentials authorizes its employees to obtain access to Swagger Essentials Member information only to perform their particular functions, and uses technological and other control procedures to help limit such access. Employees who violate our policies and practices are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination, or prosecution.
Swagger Essentials has established these safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your Swagger Essentials Member information, but cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, as a result of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or the policies of the Swagger Essentials Service and its affiliates).
Your Swagger Essentials Member information may be collected and stored in the United States or other countries.
Personal Financial Information
The following notice explains the Swagger Essentials Service's practices with respect to the use of personal financial information. By using Swagger Essentials Service financial features, you agree to receive future notices required under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act through the continuous posting of this Privacy Policy online.
The Swagger Essentials Service does not disclose portfolio or wallet information to third parties other than in the limited circumstances permitted by law (for example, in response to legal process), or when you ask us to disclose the information (for example, when you request that the Swagger Essentials Service share wallet information in order to facilitate a purchase on a third party web site). This policy does not apply, however, to financial information that you provide to another company in connection with your use of their sites or offerings.
Only employees and contractors who need to know this information in order to provide this service to you are authorized to access portfolio or wallet information.
Protecting Children
Young people need special safeguards and privacy protection. We realize they may not understand all the provisions of our policy or be able to make thoughtful decisions about the choices available to adult members. So we urge all parents to educate their children about online safety and the need to protect their personal information.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about the Swagger Essentials Service's Privacy Policy or its implementation, or if you have a concern or policy violation you wish to report, you may contact us at the email address
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Keeping You Informed about Changes to this Policy
The Swagger Essentials Service may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this Policy periodically. If we make minor changes or clarifications to this Policy, we will give you notice online through Swagger Essentials, such as through the Swagger Essentials Service Welcome page or on our main Swagger Essentials Service Web sites and pages. If the Policy changes are substantial, we will notify you 30 days' in advance of such changes taking effect, such as through e-mails or online pop-up screens. You should sign on to your account regularly for these and other important announcements. You may be provided additional privacy-related information and choices in connection with your use of other offerings from the Swagger Essentials Service, as well as for special features and services not described in this Policy that may be introduced in the future.
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