Information Awards LLC Statement of Privacy Policies

      Information Awards LLC has created this privacy statement in order to describe our firm commitment to data integrity and privacy protection. We recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by users of our web sites and software. We created the following policy guidelines with a fundamental respect for our users' right to privacy.
      We collect information from the users of our web sites and services. By carefully reviewing this privacy policy one can fully understand the collection, security measures and use of that information.

      This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for the entire Information Awards LLC network including the web site you are visiting:

            InfoAwards.com

            Information Awards LLC has created this page for you, the consumer, so that you can understand the privacy issues facing online surfing, shopping, and discloser of personal information. Should you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact .

      If you believe that there is a failure in the compliance of this privacy policy, please contact .

      Information Collection, Security and Use Overview

Introduction: Consent, Privacy Policy Overview

Information Awards LLC Web Sites: Information Collection on InfoAwards.com, Information Collection on Other Information Awards LLC Web Sites

Methods of Information Collection: Email, Surveys, Contests, Registrations, Ranking, Forums, Webmaster Tools & Member Areas, Tell-A-Friend, Log Files, Web Site Traffic Tracking, CGI, Cookies

Use of Collected Information: Email Addresses, Double Opt-in, Single Opt-out, External Demographics, Web Site Traffic Statistics, Tell-A-Friend, Contacting Users, Sharing Information, Configuration Information, Outsourced Services

Saved and Backed-up Information: Web Site Statistics, Security, Webmaster Tools & Member Areas

Deletion of Collected Information: Tell-A-Friend, Ranking, Webmaster Tools & Member Areas, Members' Accounts, Cookies, Other Records

Protection of Information: Security, Third Party Web Sites

Your Choices in Information Handling: Choice/Opt-out, Updating Personal Info

General: Update Notices, Policy Changes, Contacting this Web Site



Introduction

      Information Awards LLC is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to anyone with the following three exceptions:
            Web site traffic statistics: This only includes server activity without any personally identifiable information.
            Survey results and public forums: This optional information is available to any visitor of our web sites.
            Membership sites: When a user intends and expressly permits the relay of voluntary, specified information to specific third parties to allow the operation of specific services and partnerships.

      Our privacy policies cover all aspects of our web servers, web pages, desktop software, and printed submittions. Also references in this document to the privacy handling to one method of data submittion will be handled in the same responsible way through any other method.

      Our Web server does not attempt to automatically recognize the personal information of our visitors. We do collect information related to server requests.

Consent
      You can browse the Information Awards LLC Network of web sites even if you choose not to enter personal information with the exception of members' areas.

Privacy Policy Overview
1. What personally identifiable information we collect
2. What demographic information we collect
3. What server activity information we collect
4. How we collect the information
5. How we protect the information
6. How the information is used
7. With whom the information may be shared
8. Your options for the collection, use and distribution of your personal information
10. How you can update your personal and configuration information.



Information Awards LLC Web Sites

Information Collection on InfoAwards.com
InfoAwards.com
      Membership (personal, security & configuration)
      Profit Sharing Program / Affiliation (personal, tax, security & configuration)
      Forum (messages, security, configuration & optional contact)
      Contest (personal & security)
      EZine (email address & security)
      Feedback (message & security)
      Contact us (message, security & optional return contact)
      Search (server requests)
      Statistics (server requests)



Methods of Information Collection

Ezines, Newsletters, Membership email lists, Forums, Listservers, Newsgroups, etc.
      If a user wishes to subscribe to our Ezines or other pro-active electronic communication, we ask for only email address contact information. No personal or demographic information, response statistics, or any information other than the function of our mail system will ever be linked to you or your email address.

Email Inbox
      Information Awards LLC owns many various domains. We collect the e-mail addresses of all those who communicate with us via e-mail or join one of our Ezines or membership web sites.

Surveys
      From time-to-time our sites request information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Contests
      From time to time we may run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (i.e., their e-mail address).
      Contact information from the contests is used to provide the visitor with information about our company. The Member's contact information is also used to get in touch with the entrant when necessary.
      The rules and terms of each contest are different so all the information about each contest is clearly posted during the duration of the contest. All contests are fully in accordance with United States law.

All Registrations
      During all registrations the user is required to supply a valid email address and given also the option to join one or more email newsletters.
      During most registrations the user may be required to supply a username, password, name, country, postal code, physical address, telephone/fax number.
      During some registrations the user may be required answer survey questions about birth date, gender, income, online income, Internet connection speed, and career goals.
      During (or after reaching tax status) affiliation registrations must include tax identification information and a copy of their government photo ID.

Membership Registration & Purchases
      We request information from the user on our order form. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill Member's orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.

Profit Sharing Program
      We request information from the user on our application. Here a user must provide contact information (like name, email and home address), financial information (like social security number and bank accounts for deposits), identification, and proof of residency. This information is used for handling affiliation matters. If we have trouble processing revenue, the contact information is used to get in touch with the member.

Information Ranking, Surveys & Contests
      Information Awards LLC and Web Hot post extreme edge business-to-business and webmaster information. Visitors are invited to rank what they find good or bad and invited to leave comments. Our sites offer interactive polls to users so they can share their ratings and opinions with other visitors. We sometimes share the information collected in these surveys with our advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.
      Email addresses collected during ranking are used to eliminate third party cheating. Users may choose to be notified upon conclusion of the survey via email address. All personal information is deleted upon conclusion of a survey.

Public & Private Forums
      Forums are live web page content created by web surfers. This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or newsgroups available to its members, users and visitors. To enter a forum in our network of sites you have to agree that Information Awards LLC cannot be responsible for real-time editing. Our artificial intelligence grows superior by the day and we strive to make public forum maintenance one of our top priorities.
      Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Throughout our network of forums there are nearly three million registered users. Sharing your email address, home address and telephone number is not recommended. A great choice is to automatically share your nickname and web site URL in your postings.

Webmaster Tools & Member Areas
      Configuration information and requests are used to complete automated Internet tasks and to design personalized output. Only information needed to complete the task is used.

Tell-A-Friend
      If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site or for forwarding an EZine message, we ask them for the friend's name and email address.

Log Files & Web Site Traffic Tracking
      Information Awards LLC tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Common Gateway Interface
      We primarily use Common Gateway Interface (CGI) for web site security. CGI is also used to create desired material on the fly based on voluntarily shared member preferences. We have various CGI programs which allow visitor interactivity with our servers. Any information tracked in these programs is explained in detail through this policy.

Cookies
      A cookie is a small data file that certain web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. A program you installed or that was maliciously installed on your computer can read your cookies which is why we store no personal information on them.
      If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser options. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use any Information Awards LLC site.
      We currnetly set and read cookies on our network to determine the effectiveness of our web site layout and for tracking our affiliate program to ensure proper credit to our sponsors. Our affiliate cookies will expire in 10 years and contain no personally identifiable information.
      Cookies are used by some of our partners to credit us for sending traffic and referring leads. This occurs when a web surfer responds to an Internet advertisement such as those on our sites and visits one of our partners. This information simply includes Information Awards LLC's affiliate code and time of successful advertising. All such uses of cookies are well intentioned and greatly beneficial to the Internet community.

Third Party
      Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertiser statistics). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
      We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
      This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Information Awards LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
      The information of users of our sites will not be collected by any outside parties.



Use of Collected Information

Email Addresses
      Email addresses are only used to direct the emails and to provide a method to automate opting-out. You may opt-out at any time. Simply request the removal of your email address and we will completely erase all instances of your address and any information that has ever been linked to it. Your address will never be disclosed to any other party or used for any purpose other than that which was originally intended when supplied to us.
      Our Ezines and other electronic communication never contain paid third-party advertisements; Information Awards LLC only sponsors those sites, which we have chosen as useful and newsworthy.
      Using e-mail addresses provided at registration or otherwise, Information Awards LLC periodically sends out e-mail newsletters and promotional e-mail to our users about services and products we are offering. Users can indicate that they do not wish to receive e-mail information from Information Awards LLC by choosing the 'remove' link at the bottom of any e-mail received from Information Awards LLC. A notice will be sent to alert you, in case someone arbitrarily entered your email address.

Double Opt-in, Single Opt-out
      When joining any Information Awards LLC membership site, a valid email address will be required. We send a confirmation notice that contains a unique code that must be sent back to our servers to validate that the user is the true owner of the email address.
      When leaving any of our services, for your convenience, you will not have to validate proof of email account ownership.

External Demographics
      In order for this website to enhance its ability to tailor the site to an individual's preference, we combine information about the purchasing habits of users with similar information from our partners such as, Commission Junction & CCBill, to create a personalized user response. When a user makes a purchase from either of these two companies, the companies collect and share that purchase information with us so we can tailor the site to our users' preferences.
      We gather broad demographic information about our visitors. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally. We may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber at registration with site usage, user preferences, advertising and demographics supplied from benchmark, web sites. Information Awards LLC does not give anyone information about individual users of any Information Awards LLC web site.

Web Site Traffic Statistics
      We do not track what individual users read, but how each page performs overall. This helps us continue to enhance our future service for you.

Tell-A-Friend
      If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site or for forwarding an EZine message, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Information Awards LLC will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site.

Contacting Users when Necessary
      We need to contact users to deliver products that a user purchases or requests, to deliver invoices and payment requests for products and services, and to notify users of new partnerships and service, account, or web site updates.

Sharing of Collected Information
      General:
            We do not share aggregated demographic or personal information with any person or business.
            We will only share demographic information you've supplied to us when you specifically request that specific information be shared with specific third parties. Without such a request, no collected information will be disclosed for any reason other than when required by United States law.
      Profit Sharing Program:
            Our profit sharing program was designed to share some of the members' personal information. This is because our program is sponsorship based and enabled through networking. The shared information includes name, city, state, revenue, community revenue, and affiliate partners.
            If a member does not wish to share some or all of this information he/she can tell us how to restrict it (or how to display information) by contacting us through our desktop software or members' areas.

Membership / Profit Sharing / Affiliation Account Configuration Information
      User name and preference information is sought, retrieved and utilized to give users the best possible experience. All such info is protected against theft, distribution, loss, etc.

Outsourced Services which Collect Information
      The companies we've partnered with have proven their honest practices as well as their dedication to service, security and privacy.
      We have outsourced all, but not limited to, occurrences of the following services: billing, affiliation, hosting, advertising, Internet communication, legal representation and inbound telemarketing. We only have limited access to, and no responsibility for, information collected through these third party services.



Saved and Backed-up Information

Security
      IP addresses, file access and time of request are stored to avert server attacks and other illegal activities.

Profit Sharing Statistics
      IP addresses, URLs, revenue, and time of request are stored to track deserved commissions and advertisement effectiveness.

Webmaster Tools & Member Areas
      Configuration information is stored for future requests.

Web Site Statistics
      We store information on counts of page views, options selected, links followed and advertising impressions.



Deletion of Collected Information

Opt-Out
      When a contact chooses to not receive future email communications, their email address is completely removed from our databases. This is done immediately following the sending a removal notice to the owner of the email address.

Tell-A-Friend
      If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site or for forwarding an EZine message, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Information Awards LLC will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Information Awards LLC does not store this information following the one-time email.

Information Ranking, Surveys & Contests
      If a visitor elects to enter an email address and be notified upon completion of a survey or contest Information Awards LLC will automatically send a one-time email to announce the completion of the event. Information Awards LLC does not store this information following the one-time email.

Webmaster Tools & Member Areas
      Information sent in requests is used to complete automated Internet tasks and to design personalized output. This information is deleted upon completion of the tasks.

Members' Accounts
      Inactive members' account information is automatically deleted one year since last activity.

Cookies
      Cookies set by our partners will expire in no later than 180 days. We currnetly set and read cookies on our network to determine the effectiveness of our web site layout and for tracking our affiliate program to ensure proper credit to our sponsors. Our affiliate cookies will expire in 10 years and contain no personally identifiable information.

All Other Records
      All inactive Information Awards LLC records, which are not required by the United States of America (such as tax information), will we be automatically deleted no later than 3 years following the last record modification.



Protection of Information

Security
      This website, InfoAwards.com, and all Information Awards LLC sites take every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.
      We use 128-bit Secure Socket Layers(SSL) for all sign-up and members area pages. We also use strong encryption for storing preferences and connection data used by our desktop software. Unless member requests a shorter username or password, we implement 50 character encypted strings to offset hacking attempts.
      Information Awards LLC and InfoAwards.com record possible security attacks. These records only contain server, request & time information and do not include any personal information. Local authorities provided with our security records can locate personal information. Possible security attacks include but are not limited to: server errors, unknown web spiders and browsers, multiple similar requests, and sensitive requests (involving membership, email address, password & billing information transmission).
      We outsource our billing department. When using our registration/order forms the information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just surfing.
      While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. Access to our all of our members' information, not just sensitive information, is restricted to our administration executives and our software. As software handles most Member care functions, viewing of personally identifiable information is only required when an unforeseen problem arises. Our authorized executives must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information.
      All Information Awards LLC employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices as well as reminded about the importance we place on those practices, and what they can do to ensure our Members' information is protected.
      The servers that we store all information on are kept in a secure environment, behind an extreme-technology firewall, of which we have designed 50 percent. We have never distributed, compromised or lost any collected information.
      This site has security measures in place to protect against theft, loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our care.
      Information Awards LLC uses all reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to us secure and not to disclose such information to third parties.
      We employ firewalls, encryption software, and other security software to prevent unauthorized access to our systems and data. Physical access to our servers is restricted and monitored by surveillance. Unauthorized access to server hard drives where data is stored is prevented.
      For more information, please contact .

Additional Affiliate Security
      We have many software programs and monitoring routines to defend both you and us against abusive/fraudulent activities. We will implement any additional measure that you request. We only allow each link to be clicked once per 24 hours blocking by IP, which is the standard way in the industry to handle web guests. But on our system it should only get that far with brand new users, because most of our users join our affliate program and will verify their email address and home address. At this point we can block by unique user who lives in the U.S. and hasn't attempted to abuse our system in the past. If they earn in a year, they will also have to send a w-9 tax form and a copy of a photo ID. At this point we can block by unique user who is a U.S. citizen who has not falsified information. We believe we've designed the most abuse-resistant affiliate program ever created. We felt this was neccessary because eliminating cheaters is very difficult in the search distribution industry. We have gone to great lengths and we will continue to improve our efforts to protect ourselves and also to assure you we our a safe partnership with tremendous assets to you.

Third Party Web Sites
      Information Awards LLC is dedicated to choosing those we recommend wisely, however, we are not responsible for the content or the privacy polices of Web sites to which they may provide links or the Web sites of its advertisers. Please review their privacy policies and terms of use.
      This site contains links to other sites. Information Awards LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. When you visit or link to a commercial Web site, you should read its privacy policy before making purchase or submitting personal information.
      Information Awards LLC will not reveal any personal information that users provide us to any third party, except where key, voluntary info is shared intentionally and expressly permitted. Each info exchange is 100% optional and clearly explained in this policy and on the web page where the exchange can be initiated.



Your Choices in Information Handling

Choice/Opt-out
      Users who no longer wish to receive our Ezines, promotional materials, etc. may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking the Remove Me link in any of our emails, visiting the web site you've joined, or contacting .

Updating Personal Information: (members only)
      If a member's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or remove that member's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the member information page or inside the related member area. It is the member's responsibility to keep all required info valid and up to date.
      Email validation will be required for email address updates.
      You can modify or update your personal information after you log in to the site with your user name and password. Please do not send financial information, for example, credit card numbers, or user identification numbers and passwords to us via e-mail.
      Users may unsubscribe to any of our memberships at any time by logging in to the members' area or contacting . Upon account deletion we completely delete all personal and configuration information.



General

Members' Service and Site Update Notices
      We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will occasionally receive site and service update announcements. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements without canceling their membership. Service announcements contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email, phone or mail. At any time, any member, of any site, can cancel their membership by visiting the associated web site or member area.

Notification & Authorization of Changes to this Policy
      If at any point we decide to change our privacy policy and decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we would notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Contacting this Web Site
      Should you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact .