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ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY Your Privacy Is Important to Mom Inventors We recognize that when you visit our web site and provide us with personal information, you trust that we will act responsibly and keep your information secure and confidential. Any unauthorized access or use of this Site, Mom Inventors' computer systems, Mom Inventors' servers and/or Mom Inventors' equipment may constitute a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C.§ 1030), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (18 U.S.C. §2701), California Penal Code § 502, and various other state laws. Mom Inventors reserves the right to aggressively pursue the prosecution of any entity or individual violating the foregoing laws. If you choose to provide Mom Inventors with any personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your customer relationship with Mom Inventors. What We Collect We do not collect personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. The personal information that may be gathered includes your name, company name, mailing address, email or telephone number. The information will be gathered when you register to our site or when you submit a request form. Mom Inventors uses this information to customize your experience on our web site. In addition, Mom Inventors may use this information for other business purposes, such as alerting you to products and services that can assist you in your business. We do not disclose information about individual visits to the Mom Inventors web site, or any other personal information that you may give us, to any third parties without your permission. In general, you can visit our site without divulging any personal information. However, there are areas of the site that require this information to complete certain customization functions. These may not be available to you if you choose not to reveal the information requested. Some Mom Inventors web pages use cookies. How We Use Your Information Mom Inventors uses your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better products and services. Specifically, we may use your information to communicate with you, to update you on our services and benefits, and to personalize our web sites for you. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research. We may also send you marketing information we think would be of particular interest to you. As a minimum, we will always give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving such direct marketing or market research contact, or where applicable, allowing you to opt in before receiving unsolicited contact. Who We Share Information With Mom Inventors will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission, are required by law, or your conduct on this Site violates our Terms of Use, we will only share the personal data you provide with other Mom Inventors entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf for the purposes described in "How We Use Your Information". Such Mom Inventors entities and/or business partners, including those in the United States and/or in other countries, are governed by our privacy policies with respect to the use of this data and are bound by the appropriate confidentiality agreements. Data collected online may also be combined with information you provide when you register with Mom Inventors. Accuracy & Access Mom Inventors strives to keep your personally identifiable information accurate. We will provide you with access to your information, including making every effort to provide you with online access to your registration data so that you may view, update or correct your information. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections to your personally identifiable information. To make corrections to your personally identifiable information, please send a request to make changes to info@mominventors.com. Certain areas of the Mom Inventors web sites may limit specific individuals through the use or passwords and/or through providing personally identifiable information. Links to third party web sites on the Mom Inventors web site are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the Mom Inventors web site. Mom Inventors has not reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content, or their privacy. Thus, Mom Inventors does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software, or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained by using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you are using them at your own risk. Security Mom Inventors is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data. Oversight If you have any comments or questions about our privacy policy, please send an email to info@mominventors.com with "Privacy" as your subject category. Receiving Unsolicited Invention or Product Information There is nothing Mom Inventors can do with unsolicited information about any invention or product that you may send to us. In order to protect your confidentiality, we handle unsolicited invention or product information in the following manner. We make every attempt to identify unsolicited submissions sent by mail or courier prior to opening it. If it appears to be invention information, we do not open it. Opened and unopened invention or product submissions will be destroyed, and no copies will be made: submission on paper will be shredded, submissions via e-mail will be deleted. We will not notify you of destruction of this information nor will we respond to your unsolicited submission except as outlined in the following return policy. We will not return any delivered packages to you unless it is so marked by you, and then only if you agree to pay for return postage. The handling of solicited invention or product Information is outlined on the web site. How Mom Inventors Uses Cookies A cookie is a piece of text asking permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. If you agree, your browser then adds the text in a small file. The purpose of a cookie is to analyze web traffic or let us know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow a web application to respond to you as an individual. By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the web application can tailor its operation to your needs, likes, and dislikes. Mom Inventors uses traffic log cookies to identify what pages are being used and which ones aren't. This helps us aggregate and analyze data about web page traffic and make improvements to Mom Inventors.com web sites to better meet customer needs. In this case, Mom Inventors uses this information only for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. That is the case of many of our support and information sharing pages and forums. Denial of a traffic log cookie should not prevent you from using one of these sites. Mom Inventors may use temporary cookies as part of the customer web navigation experience, tracking unique IDs for a particular web site session. If you deny such a cookie, you should still be able to use the site anonymously. Cookies help Mom Inventors give you a better web site to use, by letting us monitor what is working and what isn't working though site traffic analysis. Mom Inventors wants to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you have chosen to share with us. This practice is strictly enforced. We know a lot of people have concerns about cookies, but in talking with many of our customers, Mom Inventors believes that the benefit we both gain from their proper use are worthwhile. We value the relationship we have with our customers, so we respect these concerns. Mom Inventors works to continuously improve the Mom Inventors.com web experience and personal data privacy policy and practices. Changes to the Mom Inventors Privacy Policy Mom Inventors may edit this policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by positing a conspicuous announcement on our web sites. | ||||||
