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Privacy
Policy
MIG
is committed to protecting your online privacy. Because
the very nature of the services that MIG provides focuses
on the collection and analysis of various types of information
that our users voluntarily provide us, we recommend
that you read this Privacy Policy so you will understand
how your personal information will be treated as you
make full use of our services. Please keep in mind that
our commitment to meeting the demands of our users may
result in changes or additions to this Privacy Policy.
In the event of such a change, MIG will post the revised
Privacy Policy on our web site, which you can reach
through the link on our Homepage and on other pages,
so that you are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it.
This
Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the
Terms and Conditions of the use of our web site. By
using our web site you pledge to abide by those Terms
and Conditions.
Children
Under the Age of 13
MIG
supports the privacy protection needs of children and
does not intend to collect any personally identifiable
information from children. You must be 13 or older to
use our web site, join an Email Club or submit any information
to MIG.
How
We Collect and Use Information from Members
MIG
provides members the opportunity to receive news, promotions
and other information via email from their favorite
neighborhood stores, theaters, and other establishments.
You will only receive these emails if you grant us or
the establishment permission to communicate the news
of the establishment to you. You must also provide us
or the establishment with at a minimum your name and
email address to allow us to communicate a personalized
message to you. You can do this by:
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Completing
an Email Club postcard to join an establishment's
Email Club. |
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Clicking
a link to join a particular Email Club found on
the establishment's email to a member of its Email
Club, if the email is forwarded to you under the
Refer a Friend option. We do not store your email
address unless you join the Email Club. We do not
store your friend's comments to you. |
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Clicking on a "Buddy Banner" promoting an Email
Club sponsored by an establishment participating
in the MIG Net Neighborhood, attached to an email
message from an Email Club you have already joined. |
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Completing a form or following links to opt in to
the establishment's Email Club contained on a page
at the establishment's web site. |
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Providing your name and email address and granting
consent to an establishment by some other means. |
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Using the Join Now feature on the Net
Neighborhood homepage to become a member of
the MIG Net Neighborhood. As a member, you can join
as many establishments' Email Clubs in the MIG net
network as you want through the My Merchants section
of our web site. |
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We
will send you a confirmation of your enrollment in the
first Email Club you join. We will indicate the source
of your subscription request.
When
you join additional Email Clubs, your name and email
address, and any other general information you have
voluntarily provided to us in the My Profile section
of our web site ("Profile Information") will be shared
with the sponsor and added to the member information
for the Email Club. Any information you voluntarily
provide that is requested specifically for one Email
Club will not be shared with other Email Clubs.
If
you become a member of the MIG Net Neighborhood at any
time using the Join Now feature on our homepage, MIG
and any establishments whose Email Club you join will
co-own and have access to your Profile Information.
For as long as you are a member of the network, MIG
may independently send you informational emails about
establishments participating in the network and other
news and information MIG believes will be of interest
to you. MIG will also send you email communications
on behalf of the sponsoring establishment for each Email
Club you join.
If
you join one or more Email Clubs through the methods
described in items A, B, C, D and E above, and you do
not join the MIG Net Neighborhood at any time, your
information will be owned separately by the establishments
whose Email Clubs you joined, and MIG's rights to use
your information to contact you independently, and not
on behalf of an establishment sponsoring an Email Club,
is more limited. MIG may send one email to communicate
when the sponsoring establishment is no longer participating
in the MIG Net Neighborhood and to invite the members
to join the MIG Net Neighborhood. If an establishment
ends its participation in the MIG Net Neighborhood in
good standing, the establishment may obtain the email
addresses and names of the members of its Email Club
from MIG.
MIG
does not share any of your personally identifiable information
with third parties, other than sharing your Profile
Information with the sponsoring establishment for each
Email Club you join. MIG may employ data entry firms
or other vendors to assist in the entry and administration
of member information and email transmissions. Any such
vendors will be subject to confidentiality agreements
and will not have any right to use or disclose member
information except in connection with their contracted
services.
MIG
does not obtain any information about you other than
your first name and email address unless you provide
it voluntarily. Please note that you are under no obligation
whatsoever to provide this extra personal information
in order to continue to receive your periodic promotion
and special event news If you do provide MIG and your
Email Club sponsors with further personal interest information
about yourself, you will enable us to highly personalize
the communication and tailor it to your own interests,
needs and area.
There
are several ways you can disclose personal information
to MIG and your Email Club sponsors:
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The
periodic emails that you will be receiving from
us on behalf of your Email Club sponsors, will contain
a User Profile option allowing you to update your
contact information and provide your areas of interest
relative to that establishment. The User Profile
web page offers a Reminder Option allowing you to
fill in the names of friends or relatives and their
birthdays or anniversaries. Your Email Club sponsor
may use this information to send you a reminder
notice with a special promotion. |
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You will also be able to provide information about
your interests through email surveys we send out
on behalf of your Email Club sponsors. This information,
too, will assist MIG and your Email Club sponsors
to customize the emails you receive from us on their
behalf. |
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You are invited to provide comments to us and your
Email Club sponsors. Comment sections appear on
the emails we send to you, the form you can use
to opt in to the establishment's Email Club, and
on our own Join Now feature on the Net
Neighborhood homepage. We and your Email Club
sponsors will use your comments to provide better
services to you. |
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You may reply to any email we send you. We will
store your first reply, and then forward it to the
appropriate Email Club sponsor, if applicable. You
may then correspond directly with the Email Club
sponsor by email. If we correspond with you directly,
we may store this correspondence. We and your Email
Club sponsors will use the comments in your emails
to provide better services to you. |
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You will have the opportunity to opt out of membership
in any Email Club or in the MIG Net Neighborhood
whenever you receive an email. You will be given
the opportunity to provide comments why you want
to end your membership. We and the Email Club sponsors
will use your comments to improve the services provided
to members. |
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You can add to or update your voluntary Profile
Information in the My Profile section on the Net
Neighborhood web site at any time. |
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We provide a Reminder Option in the My Profile section
of our Net
Neighborhood web site. We may use this information
to send you a reminder notice with a special promotion.
We can also share this information with your Email
Club sponsors who may use it to send you special
promotions. |
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There
are several other areas of our web site, like the Refer
A Friend or Suggestions options, that require certain
information in order to use them. The information that
you provide for these options will not be used for any
reason other than that for which you provide the information.
MIG will not use an email address you provide under
the Refer A Friend option to contact your friend after
your referral unless your friend elects to join the
Email Club and the referral is complete.
We
collect and have access to all of the above member information.
We may share information you provide to us specifically
for an Email Club sponsor in a form that may link the
information with personal information that can identify
you, only with that Email Club sponsor. The specific
Email Club sponsor for whom you are providing the information
will own the information, except we will co-own the
information with them if you become a member of the
MIG Net Neighborhood at any time. MIG will own any information
you provide in response to a request from MIG on its
own behalf. We will share Profile Information you provide
to us in the My Profile section of our web site with
the sponsors of any Email Clubs you join. The information
may be in a personally identifiable form. We do not
share information in personally identifiable form that
you provide in connection with one Email Club with the
sponsors of other Email Clubs or other third parties.
MIG
does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information
to others or share it with others, except we share the
information with the establishments sponsoring Email
Clubs and vendors subject to confidentiality agreements
employed to assist with data entry and administration,
as described in this Policy Statement. If the ownership
of an establishment sponsoring an Email Club changes
due to the sale of all or substantially all of the assets
of the establishment or the controlling stock or other
ownership interest, the new owner may have the same
rights of access and ownership of your personal information
as the previous owner. Similarly, if a purchaser acquires
substantially all of the assets or stock of MIG, the
purchaser will succeed to our rights with respect to
your personal information. MIG will not otherwise sell
or share your personal information with third parties
unless we first notify you and you permit the transfer.
MIG
may provide aggregate statistics about our members and
the members of the sponsoring establishments' Email
Clubs, traffic patterns, read rates, redemption rates,
and related site information to advertisers and for
other marketing and promotional purposes or to third
party vendors. In these situations, we would not disclose
any information that could be used to personally identify
you. We do not supplement information we collect from
members with information from third parties to make
member information personally identifiable.
MIG
will disclose member information as required by law,
court order, or as requested by government or law enforcement
agencies. We will cooperate with law enforcement agencies
in identifying those who use our services to further
illegal activity. We also reserve the right to report
any illegal activity to law enforcement for prosecution.
Log
Files
MIG
uses IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our
web site, track our users' movement and web browsers
used and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information.
MIG
automatically tracks certain information, including
banners or other links clicked on and whether members
read the email messages from their Email Clubs. This
information is provided to the respective establishment
sponsoring the Email Club and may include personally
identifiable information.
What
"Cookies" Are - We Do Not Use Them
We
do not use "cookies". We maintain all data for tracking
a user's session on our server. A cookie is a small
data file that a web site transfers to a user's hard
drive when the user visits the web site. A cookie file
can contain information such as a user ID that the web
site uses to track the pages visited. The only personal
information a cookie can contain is what the user supplies.
A cookie cannot read data off of a hard drive or read
cookie files created by other web sites.
Many
Internet services deliver cookies to visitors to their
web sites. We do not. Cookies store information about
your use of their service on your computer where it
can only be retrieved by the same service at a later
time. Cookies are used by Internet services to make
their services more convenient and personalized. Most
web browsers automatically accept cookies, but by modifying
your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept
all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or
to reject all cookies. You can also delete cookies from
your hard drive
Other
Sites
Please
note that although our web site contains links to other
sites, the privacy policy of these other sites is likely
not identical to our own. Merchants who sponsor an Email
Club we support on this web site may maintain their
own web site. We encourage you to be aware of when you
leave our web site and to investigate and ask questions
before disclosing any information to other sites. This
Privacy Policy applies solely to the information collected
by MIG.
Controlling
or Changing Member Information
You
will have the opportunity to opt out of membership in
any Email Club or in the MIG Net Neighborhood whenever
you receive an email. When we send you confirmation
of your membership by email, we will provide you with
instructions on how to unsubscribe from the list and
how to report that your subscription was in error. If
you opt out of membership in an Email Club or in the
MIG Net Neighborhood, your name will be added to a list
of individuals who have ended their membership and the
transmission of emails to you will stop no later than
seven business days from your request. Should you subsequently
renew your membership in that Email Club or in the MIG
Net Neighborhood, your membership will be reinstated
as though no break in your membership had occurred.
You will have to perform the steps to unsubscribe from
each Email Club you wish to leave. If you unsubscribe
from all of your Email Clubs, you will continue to be
a member of the MIG Net Neighborhood if you had joined.
Please note that if you do choose to cancel your membership
in an Email Club or in the MIG Net Neighborhood, your
information remains in the MIG database, but your membership
will be deactivated.
You
also have the option of adding to, updating or changing
any voluntary personal information you have provided
to MIG. You can add to, update or change the information
in your User Profile for any Email Club by submitting
changes to your information found in the periodic emails
that you will be receiving. You can view, update or
change the information in the My Profile section of
My Page on the Net
Neighborhood web site by accessing the page using
your email address and password. If you believe that
any of the information we have is incorrect, please
write to webmaster@migemailmarketing.com
We
will retain in our files information that you have requested
us to remove in some circumstances, such as to resolve
disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce the Terms
and Conditions of our web site. In addition, prior information
is never completely removed from our databases due to
technical constraints and the fact that we back up our
systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of
your personally identifiable information will be completely
removed from our databases in response to your requests.
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Security
MIG
takes every precaution to protect your information.
When you submit sensitive information via the web site,
your information is protected both online and offline.
MIG employees are briefed on our privacy policies when
they are hired. We provide all of our employees either
a hard copy of the policy or send the policy to them
by email when our Privacy Policy is updated.
All
member data we collect is stored on secure servers and
protected against unauthorized access. None of this
information is stored on the web site. We operate a
secure data network protected by industry standard firewall
and encrypted password protection systems. Only a few
MIG employees have access to member personal information
stored in MIG's databases. Your MIG Net Neighborhood
member information is password-protected so that only
you have access to this personal information. We recommend
that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Also
remember to sign out of your MIG account and close your
browser window when you have finished using our web
site. This is to ensure that others cannot access your
personal information and correspondence if you share
a computer with someone else or you are using a computer
in a public place like a library or Internet café.
Unfortunately,
no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure and third parties may unlawfully intercept
or access transmissions or private communications. As
a result, while we will strive to protect your personal
communications and information, MIG cannot fully ensure
or warrant that your private communications and personal
information will not be disclosed to third parties..
How
We Collect and Use Information from Merchants
MIG
maintains an informational web site with an address
at http://www.MIG for establishments that may be interested
in participating in the MIG Net Neighborhood by sponsoring
an Email Club. Our web site includes links for the establishments
to contact us by email for additional information. We
do not collect any other personally identifiable information
from establishments and do not provide any method for
establishments to update their account information through
our web site.
MIG
will disclose merchant information as required by law,
court order, or as requested by government or law enforcement
agencies. We will cooperate with law enforcement agencies
in identifying those who use our services to further
illegal activity. We also reserve the right to report
any illegal activity to law enforcement for prosecution..
Web-site
Manager
MIG
306 S. Washington Ave., Suite 500
Royal Oak, MI 48067
248.544.9100
email:
webmaster@migemailmarketing.com
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© 2000-2002, MIG Email Marketing, Inc. All Rights
Reserved. The Net Neighborhood, Your Net Neighborhood,
Your Net Neighborhood logo, Localized Permission Email
, Localized Email, Email Club, No Tech Net, Shop Pass,
Buddy Banner, and Instant Sign Up, are the trademarks
and service marks of MIG Email Marketing. Other trademarks
and service marks used herein are the property of their
respective owners.
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