
Last updated January
28, 2008
The following privacy policy
discloses Prophet Media Group's
practices and policies regarding the
gathering and dissemination of
personal information.
Personal Information
We Collect
When you create an account with Prophet Media Group, or
when you make a purchase through our
web site, we collect certain
personal information. That
information includes:
1)
your name, address,
phone number and email address;
2)
credit card
information whenever a purchase is
made;
3)
account preferences,
including whether or not you wish to
receive our newsletter and web site
update information by email;
4)
names, titles,
business contact information from
our corporate and business customer
contacts.
This information is collected and
used for a number of purposes:
Ø
To
establish and maintain a commercial
relationship with you and to provide
you with products and services.
Personal contact and credit card
information is required to process
your purchases. Account information
is retained by us to enable our web
site to identify you, to allow you
to set up and access your account
and download forms and documents
which you have purchased. This
information is used only for these
purposes and is only retained in
transaction records required for
internal management and auditing
purposes, unless you are informed
otherwise or you provide your
consent.
Ø
To
understand your needs and
preferences. We maintain a record of
the products and services you
receive from us, and we may ask you
for additional information so that
we can serve you better.
Ø
To
provide you with information you
have requested, and to keep you
informed with respect to ongoing
changes to our web site. Your email
address will be used to send you our
newsletters and mailings IF YOU HAVE
REQUESTED US TO DO SO. This option
is available when you set up your
account. You can withdraw your
consent for such mailings at any
time by contacting us as set out
below.
Ø
To
develop, enhance or provide new
products and services. We may from
time to time conduct surveys and
research, requesting input from our
visitors to help us improve our web
site, products and services in an
effort to serve you better. Your
participation in such surveys is
voluntary, and in some cases you may
have the option to participate
anonymously. However, your name,
address, email and telephone number
may be required to take advantage of
bonuses or other benefits which are
available to survey participants, in
which case your contact information
will only be used for notification
and fulfillment purposes.
Ø
To
manage and administer our business.
The nature of the Internet is such
that it passively and automatically
collects certain information about a
user's traffic patterns, which may
be linked to their Internet Protocol
(IP) addresses. These are unique
Internet "addresses" assigned to all
Web users by their Internet Service
Providers (ISP). Server logs record
statistical information, such as
visitors' IP addresses, type of
operating systems, time and duration
of visit, web pages requested, and
identify visitors by categories such
as domains and browser types. These
statistics are only used on an
aggregate basis and will not contain
any information that could identify
you personally.
Ø
To
meet legal, regulatory, security and
processing requirements (such as in
response to a court order), and
otherwise as permitted or required
by law.
If we intend to use personal
information for purposes not
identified to you or as set out
above, these other purposes will be
described to you at the time of
collection or before using the
information. We will not use your
information for any other purpose
without your consent.
Cookies
Users also should be
aware that non-personal information
and data may be automatically
collected through the standard
operation of our Internet servers or
through the use of "cookies".
Cookies are small text files
containing a unique identification
number that identifies your browser
- but not you - to our servers each
time you visit our web site. Cookies
are not pervasive or invasive
programs that enter a user's system
and damage files. They simply tell
us which pages of our web site are
visited and by how many visitors.
Cookies cannot, by themselves,
disclose the individual identity of
any site user, and we never combine
information gathered by a cookie
with personally identifiable
information like your name,
telephone number or email address,
without your consent.
You should be aware that Prophet
Media Group cannot control the use
of cookies or the resulting
information by advertisers or third
parties hosting data for Prophet
Media Group. If you do not want
information collected through the
use of cookies, there is a simple
procedure in most browsers that
allows the user to deny or accept
the cookie feature; however, you
should note that you must have
cookies enabled in your browser if
you wish to make a purchase on the
Prophet Media Group website, log
into your account or download files.
Third Parties' Access
to Information
Prophet Media Group
is not in the business of selling
customer information to others. Our
customer information is not
available for sale to any outside
entity. We contract with third
parties to fulfill certain functions
on our behalf, such as providing
marketing assistance, analyzing
data, preparing and maintaining site
content, processing credit card
payments, and providing customer
service. These agents have access to
customer information only as
required in order to help them
perform their functions on our
behalf, but they are not allowed to
use that information for any other
purpose and must keep such
information confidential.
We also work closely with our
affiliates, and in some cases we
offer services or sell documents
jointly with these affiliates. When
you purchase documents or services
that are provided jointly by Prophet
Media Group and one of its
affiliates, we share our customer
information with that affiliate with
respect to your purchase.
Site visitors should be aware that
Prophet Media Group may sometimes
permit third parties to offer
subscription and/or
registration-based services through
our website. Prophet Media Group is
not responsible for any actions or
policies of such third parties, and
you should check the applicable
privacy policy of such party before
providing personally identifiable
information.
Customer information is a valuable
business asset. If for any reason
Prophet Media Group transfers or
divests itself of its business
assets, our customer information
will be transferred as one of those
business assets.
Prophet Media Group will release
customer information to the
appropriate law enforcement,
governmental or other authorities if
legally required to do so. Prophet
Media Group will also release such
information if we feel it is
necessary in order to protect our
rights or the rights of our
customers, affiliates, partners or
any other party and for purposes of
protection from fraud and credit
risk.
External Links
The Prophet Media
Group web site contains links or
references to other web sites to
which this privacy policy does not
apply. These sites are not owned or
controlled by Prophet Media Group,
and Prophet Media Group is not
responsible for the collection, use
and disclosure of personal
information or the privacy practices
of other organizations or other web
sites to which our site may refer
visitors or provide links for. When
submitting personal information on
such other web sites, we encourage
you to read the privacy policy of
those sites.
Non-Secure Web Site
Areas
You should be aware
that if you voluntarily disclose
personally identifiable information
(e.g., user name, email address) on
non-secure areas of the Prophet
Media Group web site, that
information can be collected and
correlated and used by third parties
and may result in unsolicited
messages from third parties. Such
activities are beyond the control of
Prophet Media Group.
Security
We store customer
information, including log-in and
password information, on our web
site in a secure manner. We store
such information in a manner not
accessible to Web browsers, behind
firewall and password protection, or
offline.
This site has security measures in
place (including the use of Secure
Socket Layers ("SSL") encryption
technology) to protect the loss,
misuse and alteration of the
personal information under our
control. All order forms are
encrypted and are transmitted via a
secure server.
Employees, agents and affiliates of
Prophet Media Group who require
access to your personal information
in order to fulfill their job or
contractual requirements will have
access to your personal information
to the extent necessary to fulfill
such requirements.
Updating Your Account
Information
If you wish to
update your personal information,
click on the 'My Account' button to
access your account information and
make changes online.
Opt-Out Option
Upon request,
Prophet Media Group will allow any
user to "opt out" of further
promotional contacts at any time.
Also, upon a user's request, Prophet
Media Group will use commercially
reasonable efforts to functionally
delete the user and his or her
personal information from our
database; however, it may be
impossible to delete a user's entry
without some residual information
because of backups and records of
deletions. You can email
mack@prophetmediagroup.com
to request that your account
information be deleted.
Your Consent
Consent to the
collection, use and disclosure of
personal information may be given in
various ways. Consent can be express
(e.g., orally, electronically or on
a form you may sign describing the
intended uses and disclosures of
personal information) or implied
(e.g., when you provide information
necessary for a service you have
requested, or in some circumstances
where notice has been provided to
you about our intentions with
respect to your personal information
and you have not withdrawn your
consent for an identified purpose,
such as by using an "opt out" option
provided). Consent may be given by
your authorized representative (such
as a legal guardian or a person
having a power of attorney).
Generally, by providing us with
personal information, we will assume
that you consent to our collection,
use and disclosure of such
information for the purposes
identified or described in this
privacy policy, if applicable, or as
otherwise described at the time of
collection. You may withdraw your
consent to our collection, use and
disclosure of personal information
at any time, subject to contractual
and legal restrictions and
reasonable notice, however, please
note that if you withdraw your
consent to certain uses of your
personal information, we may no
longer be able to provide certain of
our products or services.
Prophet Media Group does not
collect, use or disclose your
personal information other than as
described in this privacy policy
without your consent, unless
permitted or required by law. We may
be required or permitted under
statute or regulation to collect,
use or disclose personal information
without your consent, for example in
response to a court order or
subpoena, to comply with local,
provincial or federal regulations,
or to collect a debt owed to us.
Contacting Us
This web site is
subject to the Personal Information
Protection and Electronic Documents
Act. This legislation closely
regulates our handling of your
personal information. You can find
more information on this Act through
the
Government of Canada
site. You have a right to know what
information we have on file about
you. If you have any questions or
concerns about this privacy policy,
or if you would like to review your
personal information, you can
contact us at 1-250-764-7753 or by
email at mack@prophetmediagroup.com
If you are not
satisfied with our response to your
privacy concerns, you may wish to
contact the Privacy Commissioner via
www.privcom.gc.ca
or by calling 1-800-267-0441.
Any dispute arising between the
customer and Prophet Media Group
with respect to privacy is subject
to the terms and conditions of use
and this privacy policy, including
limitations on damages, arbitration
and application of the laws of the
Province of British Columbia,
Canada. The foregoing policies are
effective as of January 1, 2005.
Prophet Media Group reserves the
right to change this privacy policy
at any time by posting the policy
changes on our web site. Site
visitors are advised to periodically
check this web site for such
changes.
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All Rights Reserved.