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Our Goal:
The goal of 10pays.com is to take advantage of the Internet technology to enable businesses to interact with consumers in highly personalized ways, without forfeiting the privacy of the consumer. Therefore, privacy is at the core of 10pays.com
Overview:
Although nearly all of the revenue that supports 10pays.com, our service providers, the
membership community and your compensation checks
comes ultimately from advertisers and/or marketing
partners, neither 10pays.com nor any of our service
providers will provide the advertisers and/or marketing
partners with any type of mechanism to reach you or
any other specific member directly.
Generally speaking, the advertisers
are not even interested in reaching a specific member.
Rather what our advertising partners are interested
in is the ability to reach a certain group of people
that share a common demographic characteristic such
as gender, age range, interests, or perhaps geographic
region with their particular marketing message.
For instance, certain products
appeal to and are more often purchased by women than
by men. Advertisers promoting these products (such
as women’s cosmetics) would prefer to target
their messages to just the women in our membership
community rather than spending the extra money to
reach the entire group of both male and female members.
Conversely, since men rarely purchase women’s
cosmetics, they have little interest in viewing ads
related to these items.
Therefore, in an effort to create
a system that works to everyone’s advantage,
10pays.com has created a Privacy Policy that protects
the identity and personal information of all of our
members while creating group demographics that are
presented in summary form to potential advertisers.
Please read our entire privacy
policy to see how we protect your privacy.
Our Promise:
We at 10pays.com are committed
to protecting your privacy. We promise to handle all
information you provide at 10pays.com including member
survey and contact information, as well as any correspondence
with complete discretion. We will not release, sell,
rent, or otherwise give your name, email address or
any other personally identifiable information to any
other entity, party or organization except as disclosed
in this statement.
Our Policy Summary:
This Privacy Policy provides
both members of the 10pays.com service and visitors
to the 10pays.com website with information about information
we collect, to what uses that information is put,
and to whom that information may be given. If you
become a member of 10pays.com, the membership agreement
encompasses the provisions that are explained by this
document. If you are a visitor to our website, this
Privacy Policy is our promise to you onhow information
about your visit will be handled.
Considering the nascent stage
of the Internet’s development, this policy should
be considered a “work in progress” and
as such is open for comment. Therefore, this policy
should be interpreted as an evolutionary framework
and will most likely be updated from time to time
as circumstances deem prudent. However, the principles
upon which this framework are built will not change,
nor will our fundamental commitment to protecting
the privacy of our members.
Our Policy:
10pays.com Privacy Policy and
our informational practices are based upon the eight
principles of the “Guidelines on the Protection
of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data”
issued by the Organization of Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD). The OECD is a worldwide community
of 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic
government and the market economy and plays a prominent
role in fostering good governance in public service
and corporate activity. For more information visit
their website at www.oecd.org
Our Philosophy:
10pays.com adheres to the philosophy
and principle that the collection of personal information
should be limited to that obtained through fair and
lawful means and only with the knowledge and consent
of the member involved. Therefore, we attempt to make
very clear our policies regarding our data gathering
processes and seeks consent before obtaining personally
identifiable data from any individual.
Information We Collect
From Visitors:
For visitors to our website,
we gather only aggregate, non-personally identifying
data about your visit to our site. If you visit 10pays.com’s
website (whether you are using 10pays Banner Bar™
software or not), 10pays.com’s web servers or
those of our service providers log a number of basic
pieces of information, including the following:
• The URL (address) of
the page(s) requested;
• The time and date of the request(s) and the
duration of your visit;
• The “User Agent” (the make and
model of the web browser being used, including the
name and version of the operating system upon which
that web browser is running);
• The “Referrer” (the address of
the site whose link you followed to get to our website);
• The IP address and domain name of the computer
to which we are sending pages for display by your
web browser
For information about why we
gather and how we use this information, see the Purpose
Specification and Use Limitation sections of this
Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
From Members:
In our online registration form
for new members of our service, we require you to
provide us with your full name, full mailing address,
email address and a password. In addition, we require
your gender, birth date and a password question with
it’s corresponding answer, so that we may identify
you if you ever lose your password.
Certain information such as your
name, address, email address, and birth date constitute
“Personal Data” because that information
can be used to directly or indirectly identify you.
This information is collected and used according to
the terms of our General Membership Agreement and
as explained in this Privacy Policy. While you are
using the Banner Bar™ ad-serving service software,
we may automatically track certain information about
your computer and your internet surfing behavior.
This information includes:
• Your IP address;
• What browser you are using;
• What operating system you are using;
• Your connection speed;
• The speed of your computer’s processor;
• The amount of installed memory on your computer
and the video monitor resolution at which you are
currently using the Banner Bar service;
• The URL of the page you are visiting;
• The amount of time you have the Banner Bar
service active, and whether you are actively surfing
or not;
• Which of the Banner Bar optional services
you select;
• Search terms entered into the search area
on the Banner Bar;
• Programs running at the same time as the Banner
Bar service that may interfere with normal Banner
Bar operation and functionality.
For information about why we gather and how we use
this information, see the Purpose Specification and
Use Limitation sections of this Privacy Policy.
You Can Close The Banner Bar™ Service At Any
Time To Stop The Data Gathering Activities.
We collect no other user-entered
data from other active programs on your computer.
In addition, 10pays.com does not seek to record any
credit card numbers, account numbers, passwords, or
other personal data communicated in the course of
transactions engaged while the Banner Bar™ is
active. However, it is possible that in some instances,
the operation of certain websites may result in such
data being included in URL data, which can result
in that data being captured in the course of normal
operation of the Banner Bar™ service. Such instances
are rare and are the result of poor security practices
by those websites. In the unlikely instance that such
information is captured, while it may be stored in
our database, it will not be used or disclosed in
any manner that is inconsistent with our Privacy Policy.
Other
Data We May Request From Members:
If you earn enough funds such
that we reasonably believe that a tax reporting obligation
exists for us in your country, we may contact you
to request additional information. For example, we
may request the Social Security number of our U.S.
members or similar taxpayer identifiers for non-U.S.
members. If you are contacted and fail to provide
the information that 10pays.com legitimately requires
to comply with relevant law, the General Membership
Agreement provides that payments to you may be withheld
until that information is provided.
We may ask you for personal information
at other times, including, but not limited to, when
you enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored
by 10pays.com and/or when you report a problem with
any of our services. Any data collected at those times
will be used in accordance with this policy, unless
otherwise explicitly stated at the time of collection.
Many of those sweepstakes, contests, or promotions
will have terms of service agreements associated with
them and those agreements may differ from provisions
of this policy. Therefore, it is important that you
read and understand those agreements as the nature
of those offerings may require different data privacy
provisions that may supercede this Privacy Policy.
Message Boards:
If you utilize a message board
operated by 10pays.com, your use of those services
is governed by the Terms of Service agreement associated
with those services. If you choose to publish your
email address or publish other personal data, you
do so at your own risk. If you have concerns regarding
privacy issues related to the message boards, or wish
to have a message removed from the message boards
for privacy-related reasons, you should contact us.
About Cookies:
If you decide to join the 10pays.com
membership community, at the time you submit your
registration, and at any time you access your account
information, 10pays servers place a “session
cookie”. A cookies is a little piece of text
stored by your browser on your computer, at the request
of our server. Session cookies last until the conclusion
of your visit to our website and allows our servers
to correctly display pages based upon your account
information. This is one way we provide you the ability
to access your account statistics such as points and
referrals accumulated.
The process we use to serve advertisements
to the Banner Bar™ ad-serving window may involve
the use of persistent cookies. These cookies remain
stored over a longer period of time and help our ad
serving vendors to make sure that you do not see the
same ads repeatedly. Cookies received in this way
may be monitored by 10pays and/or our ad serving provider.
We have and maintain contractual arrangements that
restrict our partners, including any ad-serving company,
from using these cookies for anything other than fulfilling
their service to you and 10pays.com.
We may also use cookies to deliver content specific
to your interests, and to save your password so you
don’t have to re-enter it each time you connect
to the internet,
You are always free to decline
our cookies, if your browser permits, or to ask your
browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You
can also delete cookie files from your computer at
your discretion. Please note that if you decline or
ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent,
your Banner Bar service may not function properly
and we may experience problem keeping your account
statistics (including points earned) accurate.
Remember it is 10pays philosophy
and policy to use cookies only in a manner that enhances
your internet experience. For further information
regarding cookies and their uses, please visit your
local library, bookstore or browse the internet for
valid informational sites.
Sites Linked Via The
Banner Bar™ Service:
Information about you may be
collected by advertisers, merchants or other third
parties when you click through advertisements on the
Banner Bar™ service window or take advantage
of offers linked via those advertisements. We have
no control over the collection or handling of such
data and urge you to review the privacy policies of
those site before providing them with personal data.
The Banner Bar™ itself also contains links to
websites and 10pays.com is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such websites.
A Special Note About
Children:
10pays.com wants to help parents
protect the privacy of children. While 10pays.com
does not consider our website and/or our Banner Bar™
service to be directed towards children under the
age of 18, and does not knowingly accept members under
age 18 (20 in Japan), we realize that some children
may sign up as members providing incorrect information.
As such, during the time they are involved in our
community, certain information may be collected in
the normal manner about their use of our services.
To remove your child from the 10pays.com membership
community, please contact us. To protect against the
unintended removal of legitimate members, we may require
certain information to verify the parent/child relationship.
Purpose Specification Principle:
Philosophy: 10pays.com adheres
to the philosophy and principle that the purposes
for which personal data are collected should be specified
at or prior to the time of collection, and that any
subsequent use should be limited to the fulfillment
of the purposes not inconsistent with those purposes
previously specified.
How we deliver: We clearly specify
the purposes for which we collect personal information
in this Policy and restrict our usage of that data
to purposes reasonably related to those described.
Prior to any new data usage that may be beyond the
scope of previously disclosed purposes, we will disclose
such new uses and obtain the data subject’s
permission.
Visitors to Our Website:
We use information gathered from
visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get
a better understanding of where our visitors come
from and to help us better design and organize our
website. Although an IP address doesn’t necessarily
identify a visitor personally, it can sometimes suggest
a connection to a particular individual or their computer,
therefore we do not disclose the information contained
in these logs to third parties unless compelled to
by law. Information contained in our web server logs
may be used in the course of fraud investigations.
Members of Our Service:
We collect and process information
about you in order to provide the services described
in the General Membership Agreement. We will process
your information to administer your membership, determine
your eligibility for certain services, provide services
to you (such as the Banner Bar), and enable you to
take advantage of other member benefits. In addition
to the purposes specified under the Collection Limitation
portion of this agreement, we will use the personal
information provided by members to verify your identity,
to protect against fraud, and to send you updates
about your account, including new products and services
that may be specific to your membership and participation
in 10pays.com, as well as company news updates, and
notices regarding our policies and practices.
If you participate in the Banner
Bar™ service, we may use the residence address
information to send required tax notices and/or to
contact you for reasons necessitated by a contact
problem or other issue regarding your account. We
use the URL information to create profiles that enable
us to direct advertising to you that is more likely
to be of interest to you or relevant to your surfing
activities. We use your IP address to help diagnose
technical problems and to administer our website and
Banner Bar™ service.
The information we collect about
your computer during the installation and use of the
Banner Bar™ software is used in making sure
that we send the appropriate automatic upgrades for
the Banner Bar™ service software, as well as
to more accurately plan the system requirements for
future features and functionality.
If the Banner Bar™ service
software detects an incompatible program, it may cease
functioning altogether, or, in the case of software
that is believed to be used to defraud 10pays.com,
it may transmit that fact and any information to 10pays.com
that we may use to identify you and your usage in
order for us to determine whether fraudulent activity
has or is taking place. No other information about
the programs running on your computer is communicated
by the Banner Bar™ service software to 10pays.com.
Our Philosophy:
10pays.com adheres to the philosophy
and principle that personal data should not be disclosed,
made available, or otherwise used for purposes other
than those specified in accordance with the Purpose
Specification Principle, except with the consent of
the data subject (member) or as required by law.
How We Practice Our Philosophy:
10pays.com treats each member’s
personal information as confidential and does not
disclose it or use it except as stated in the General
Membership Agreement and as further explained in this
Privacy Policy. Specifically, 10pays.com will not
disclose personally identifiable information about
you to others unless:
• You give 10pays.com explicit
and specific prior permission, or
• The disclosure is required
by law or by a warrant authorized by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
We do not give, sell, rent, share,
or trade any identifiable personal information regarding
our members with any third party, with the exception
of third party contractors or service providers, such
as our ad-serving partners and/or member payment processors
and/or auditors, who work with the 10pays.com management
group both domestically and internationally. All parties
with whom we contract for such services are strictly
prohibited by the terms of those contracts from any
other use of the information.
It is 10pays.com’s policy
to comply with reasonable warrants issued by courts
to law enforcement officials. However, it is our policy
to oppose attempts to seek release of member information
by private parties through the use of civil subpoenas.
When served with a civil subpoena, our policy is to
notify the specified member of the request prior to
disclosure of any personal data, and we may require
the requesting party to seek court review of the appropriateness
and sufficiency of the subpoena before we will disclose
any of the requested member information.
10pays.com may share information
regarding overall group demographics in aggregate
or summary form with it’s customers, partners,
potential and/or existing advertisers, or other third
parties.
Our Philosophy:
10pays.com adheres to the philosophy
and principle that our members have a right to know
what type of information we maintain relating to them.
Additionally, we believe all members should have access
to any data we maintain on them at a reasonable cost,
and the ability to challenge the accuracy of that
data.
How We Practice Our Philosophy:
10pays.com provides it’s
members with access to their account information via
a secure (password protected) web interface. We allow
our members to correct and update that information
in a timely manner, following processes designed to
insure the integrity of the information.
Personal data recorded about
members, as described in the Collection Limitation
Principle section, will provided to members upon their
request, within a reasonable time period, and at a
reasonable cost, according to the policies designed
to assure the identity of the requesting party before
this personal data is released. If upon receipt of
the data, a member discovers errors in that data,
we will correct them upon request. You may update,
correct, access, or delete your personal data in accordance
with the following procedures.
Accessing and Updating
Your Personal Data Online and Offline:
You may update and correct your
personal data by using the “Account Update”
link found in our Members Zone area of our website.
There is no cost for updating information contained
on our website and all members are encouraged to maintain
up-to-date information about their contact addresses
and interests.
Subject to applicable law, any
requests for information not contained on our website,
may require the pre-payment of reasonable costs related
to providing such information, due to the volume of
data that may be involved and the costs of researching,
preparing, processing and shipping such data. You
may contact us with your request and we will provide
you with further information about the costs and procedures
(including identification verification) associated
with retrieving and shipping that data to you.
Objecting to Processing
of Your Personal Data:
You may object at any time to
our processing of your personal data by contacting
us and/or using the membership cancellation process
found under the “Cancel Membership” link
found in the Members Zone area located on our website.
All requests made in manners other than using the
cancellation process on the website will be subject
to identification verification procedures to protect
members account integrity.
Any member that elects to cancel
their membership for whatever reason will be subject
to forfeiture of referrals and accrued points and/or
credits that have not met the payment threshold.
Retention of Your Personal
Data:
You may quit the service at any
time and all personal data relating to you will be
taken out of active use for our advertising targeting
processes. Our data retention policy requires that
data pertaining to former members will be retained
for a reasonable period of time necessary to fulfill
our service obligations to members and to comply with
applicable laws, and will then be deleted according
to our normal practices.
Our Philosophy:
10pays.com adheres to the philosophy
and principle that any data collected should be relevant
to the purpose for which they are used and, to the
extent necessary for those purposes, should be kept
accurate and up-to-date.
How We Practice Our Philosophy:
As an ad-serving service, the
information we collect from our members in the aggregate
is the basis upon which we obtain value (advertiser
revenue) on behalf of our members. Therefore, the
nature of our business requires that we continuously
collect statistical data about our membership as a
whole. The relevance, accuracy, and currency of that
information are all critical to serving the interests
of our membership community by providing such information
in a useful and actionable ways to the revenue producing
advertisers in order to entice them to participate
in our program. While it is important that all members
do their part in keeping their information and interests
current, it is only those pieces of information in
group summary or aggregate form that advertisers or
other third parties are allowed to view. Keeping your
personal information confidential remains at the core
of our Privacy Policy.
Our Philosophy:
10pays.com adheres to the philosophy
and principle that we should provide our members with
information regarding changes in our practices and
policies with respect to their personal data, providing
them with reasonable opportunities to know what type
of personal information we retain, the purpose(s)
of their use, and other information regarding how
we adhere to the principles stated in this document.
How We Practice Our Philosophy:
10pays.com has a general policy
of openness about it’s practices and policies
regarding personal data of members. 10pays.com states
in detail what personal data it collects and why we
collect it.
10pays.com also maintains a policy of disclosing any
changes to our practices and policies. Any changes
to our Privacy Policy or procedures that materially
reduce the privacy protections encompassed therein,
including any material changes in corporate ownership
that impact upon the promises made in this Privacy
Policy, will be disclosed with sufficient advance
notice to allow those members affected to exercise
informed choices regarding their personal information.
10pays.com is a U.S. corporation
and all consumer data collected by 10pays.com is controlled
from our headquarters, however the data may physically
reside at numerous secure facilities around the globe
according to the practices and policies detailed under
the Security Safeguards section of this Privacy Policy.
We may also transfer or share your personal information
within the group of international service providers
that are used to provide member services. We do this
to improve the administration of services. All information
collected as a result of your membership in 10pays.com
will be controlled by either 10pays.com personally
and/or through contractual relationships with our
service providers who are required to adhere to our
Privacy Policy. By becoming a member of 10pays.com,
you give your consent to this transfer of your personal
data.
An important note for all members:
Please note that 10pays.com has centralized it’s
control of records in the United States but may perform
some of it’s data processing outside the United
States. To do this, 10pays.com may transfer your personal
data internationally to other vendors and/or service
providers located in other countries. Some of the
countries may have laws that protect personal data,
some may not. Regardless of applicable law, 10pays.com
will take all reasonable precautions to protect your
information according to the terms of this Privacy
Policy, no matter where we process or store your data.
Our Philosophy:
10pays.com adheres to the philosophy
and principle that personal data should be protected
by reasonable security safeguards against the loss,
unauthorized access, use, modification, or disclosure
of data.
How We Practice Our Philosophy:
10pays.com has security measures
in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration
of the information under our control. We use industry
standard accepted procedures and processes to safeguard
the confidentiality or your identifiable personal
information, such as firewalls, encryption, token
authentication, application proxies, monitoring technology,
and adaptive analysis of network traffic to track
abuse of our network and it’s data. However,
when you submit information about yourself to 10pays.com
over the Internet, the information may travel over
many systems that are not under the control of 10pays.com.
Since the Internet is not 100% secure, it is possible
that others may be able to intercept the information
that you are sending.
Our Philosophy:
10pays.com adheres to the philosophy
and principle that a corporate department should be
empowered to and accountable for assuring the entire
corporation complies with the measures that give effect
to the principles stated herein.
How We Practice Our Philosophy:
In addition to fostering a corporate
wide culture stressing the importance of all members
right to individual privacy, 10pays.com has a department
whose function is to ensure that the principle stated
in this policy are adhered to throughout the company.
For more information please contact us at privacymatters@10pays.com
Changing of Our Privacy
Policy
The Internet is a constantly
changing medium. As such, 10pays reserves the right
to modify our Privacy Policy from time to time as
10pays.com in our sole discretion sees fit. We encourage
all our members to visit our Privacy Policy page on
a regular basis.
Privacy
Policy dated 12/01/2006 |
