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We
Respect Your Privacy
Privacy
Policy
The
following discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for the Bigfoot Interactive Web site.
Any
and all information collected at this site, via your permission,
will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, reused,
rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed. Any information you provide
on the Bigfoot Interactive Web site will be held with the utmost
care, and will not be used in ways for which you have not given
consent. A more detailed explanation about how we safeguard your
personal information is described below.
Access
to Information
All information is secure and may be accessed only by key staff
members of Bigfoot Interactive.
Browser
Information Collected on This Web Site
Bigfoot Interactive analyzes our Web site logs (e.g. IP address,
referring urls) to constantly improve the value of the materials
available on our Web site. Our Web site logs are not personally
identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals
that actually browse the site.
Changes
to Your Profile
If you would like to update your information please go to the Contact
Us window and submit a new form with updated contact information.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that
Bigfoot Interactive is not responsible for the privacy practices
of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of each web site that
collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by Bigfoot Interactive.
Notification
of Changes
This policy was last reviewed in July of 2002. Changes were limited
to: update of contact information; information on our enrollment
into the TRUSTe Privacy Program; information on our enrollment in
the Safe Harbor Program. If we decide to revise our privacy policy,
we will post a notice of those revisions on our Homepage and disclose
the changes in this privacy statement. If, however, we are going
to use user's personally identifiable information in a manner different
from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users
by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.
Bigfoot
Interactive takes stringent precautions to protect information from
loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and
destruction.
Privacy
Concerns
If you have any concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please feel
free to contact us via email at privacy@bigfootinteractive.com.
Privacy
of Email Lists
Bigfoot Interactive maintains an email list to communicate with
our clients and prospects. Individuals must affirmatively ask to
join our mailing lists by opting in on the Bigfoot Interactive Web
site. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade or lease the addresses on
our list to anyone. All email messages sent to this list include
an opportunity to unsubscribe or opt-out of this list.
Resale
or Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Bigfoot Interactive does not sell, rent, loan, trade or lease any
personal information collected on the Bigfoot Interactive Web site,
including email lists, without prior consent.
Security
Bigfoot Interactive does not request sensitive information (such
as credit card number and/or social security number) from our users.
We take every precaution to protect our users' information both
online and offline. Periodically, our employees are notified about
the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure
our clients' information is protected. The servers on which we store
data are kept in a secure environment. If you have any questions
about the security at our website, you can send an email to privacy@bigfootinteractive.com.
Use
of Cookies
We do not use cookies on this site.
Bigfoot
Interactive is strongly committed to upholding the highest level
of privacy and permission standards.
Bigfoot
Interactive Clients
Bigfoot
Interactive works with the world's leading marketers to create permission-based
email marketing programs that achieves superior results.
Bigfoot
Interactive's role in supporting our clients may include hosting
the actual collection site, delivery of email, tracking results
of email campaigns, analysis of data, and transferring collected
data back to the client. Bigfoot Interactive is contractually bound
to keep our clients' customer data private and this data is never
shared across clients.
Some
of our clients use Bigfoot Interactive's technology platform to
design and send their own campaigns. We have a stringent policy
against sending unsolicited commercial email. If problems arise
with a client's campaign, we will work with the client to resolve
the problems and prevent them in the future. If Bigfoot Interactive
determines that a client has knowingly used our system for sending
unsolicited commercial email, we will immediately revoke the client's
permission to send email using our product or our system.
Internet
user privacy is very important to Bigfoot Interactive and our clients.
The protection of consumers' information and privacy is a vital
part of our business. Before companies can use Bigfoot Interactive
technology to send email, they must commit to us in writing that
consumers have agreed to receive such email messages.
Bigfoot
Interactive is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. Questions,
concerns, comments and complaints can be addressed to privacy@bigfootinteractive.com.
TRUSTe
is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build
users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use
of fair information practices. For more information on TRUSTe, please
click here. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment
to users' privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices
and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If
you feel that this company is not abiding by its posted privacy
policy, you should first contact Bigfoot Interactive's Privacy Administrator
by email at privacy@bigfootinteractive.com.
If
you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry
has not been addressed to your satisfaction, you can then contact
TRUSTe.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison to Bigfoot Interactive for prompt
complaint resolution.
Safe
Harbor
The
collection of personal information by businesses is governed by
Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard
to the processing of personal information and on the free movement
of such information, as well as the national legislation of European
Union Member states. For more information, see http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/media/dataprot/index.htm.
Bigfoot
Interactive enters into processing contracts with its clients in
the EU that specify that the EU client recognizes that it is a data
controller for the purposes of data protection legislation and therefore
it will need to be in compliance with the relevant Member State
national law. Any data processed by Bigfoot Interactive is not further
disclosed to third parties, except where required by the European
client as a data controller or when required by law. Any information
that our EU clients identify as sensitive will be treated as such.
Bigfoot
Interactive has a Privacy Administrator who is responsible for the
internal supervision of Bigfoot Interactive privacy policies and
a team of technicians to handle data security. Bigfoot Interactive
educates its employees about compliance with the Safe Harbor Principles
and has self-assessment procedures in place to ensure its compliance.
TRUSTe
serves as Bigfoot Interactive's third-party dispute resolution provider.
We
participate in the EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework as set forth
by the United States Department of Commerce. As part of our participation
in the safe harbor, we have agreed to TRUSTe dispute resolution
for disputes relating to our compliance with the Safe Harbor Privacy
Framework. If you have any complaints regarding our compliance with
the Safe Harbor you should first contact us.
If
contacting us does not resolve your complaint, you may raise your
complaint with TRUSTe by:
If
you are faxing or mailing TRUSTe to lodge a complaint, you must
include the following information:
- The name
of company
- The alleged
privacy violation
- Your contact
information
- And whether
you would like the particulars of your complaint shared with
the company.
For
information about TRUSTe or the operation of TRUSTe's dispute resolution
process, see http://www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog_intro.html
or request this information from TRUSTe at any of the addresses listed
above. The TRUSTe dispute resolution process shall be conducted in
English.
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