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This MyMonte.com Online Privacy Statement applies to data collected by MyMonte.com through the majority of its Web sites and services.
Collection of Your Personal Information
At MyMonte.com, we ask you to provide personal information,such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number.We may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age,gender, preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase or sign up for a paid subscription service, we may ask for additional information, such as your credit card number and billing address, which is used to create a MyMonte.com billing account.
We may collect information about your interaction with MyMonte.com sites and services. For example, we may use web site analytics tools on our site to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our site, the pages you view within our site, your browser add-ons, and your browser's width and height. We may also use technologies, such as cookies and web beacons(described below), to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on our sites and services. Additionally,we collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses.
Use of Your Personal Information
MyMonte.com collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve its sites and services. These uses may include making the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information; performing research and analysis aimed at improving our products,services and technologies; and displaying content that is customized to your interests and preferences.
We also use your personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory service communications such as welcome letters, subscription reminders, information on technical service issues, and security announcements. Additionally, with your permission, we may send you information about MyMonte.com forum postings and services, and/or share your personal information with MyMonte.com partners so they may send you information about their products and services.
Personal information collected on MyMonte.com sites and services may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which MyMonte.com or its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities. MyMonte.com abides by the safe harbor framework as setforth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union, the European Economic Area, and Switzerland.
Sharing of Your Personal Information
Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal information outside of MyMonte.com and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent. Some MyMonte.com features allow you to choose to share your personal information with MyMonte.com members so that they can contact you.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, hosting websites, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those service providers will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality ofthe information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose. We may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (
protect the rights or property of MyMonte.com or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the services; or © act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of MyMonte.com employees, customers or the public. We may also disclose personal information as part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.Accessing Your Personal Information
You may have the ability to view or edit your personalinformation online. In order to help prevent your personal information frombeing viewed by others, you will be required to sign in with your credentials (usernameand password).
MyMonte.com - You can access and update your profile on MyMonte.comby visiting your MyMonte.com Profile.
Communication Preferences
You can stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from MyMonte.comsites and services by following the specific instructions in the e-mail youreceive.
You may also have the option of proactively making choicesabout the receipt of promotional e-mail, telephone calls, and postal mail fromparticular MyMonte.com sites or services by visiting and signing into thefollowing pages:
The MyMonte.com Profile allows you to choose whether youwish to receive communications from MyMonte.com, to subscribe or unsubscribe toposts, threads or forums.
Security of Your Personal Information
MyMonte.com is committed to protecting the security of yourpersonal information and information collected for analytics purposes. We use avariety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personalinformation from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we storethe personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access,which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highlyconfidential information (such as a credit card number or password) over theInternet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the SecureSocket Layer (SSL) protocol.
If a password is used to help protect your accounts andpersonal information, it is your responsibility to keep your passwordconfidential. Do not share this information with anyone. If you are sharing acomputer with anyone you should always log out before leaving a site or serviceto protect access to your information from subsequent users.
Collection and Use of Children's Personal Information
Many MyMonte.com sites and services are intended for audiencesover 13 years of age and MyMonte.com does not knowingly collect any personal information fromchildren. When a MyMonte.com site does collect age information, and usersidentify themselves as under 13, the site will attempt block such users from access.
Use of Cookies
MyMonte.com Web sites use "cookies" to enable youto sign in to our services and to help personalize your online experience. Acookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web pageserver. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a Web server inthe domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to runprograms or deliver viruses to your computer.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to store yourpreferences and other information on your computer in order to save you time byeliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information and to displayyour personalized content on your later visits to these sites.
When you sign in to a site using your MyMonte.com accountcredentials, we store your unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in anencrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page topage at the site without having to sign in again on each page. When you signout, these cookies are deleted from your computer, unless you select otherwiseduring sign-in. We also use cookies to improve the sign in experience. Forexample, your username may be stored in a cookie that will remain on yourcomputer after you sign out. This cookie allows your username to be pre-populated,so that you will only need to type your password the next time you sign in. Ifyou are using a public computer or do not otherwise want this information to bestored, you can select the appropriate radio button on the sign-in page, andthis cookie will not be used.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Webbrowsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browsersetting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, youmay not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of MyMonte.comsites and services that depend on cookies.
If you choose to accept cookies, you also have the abilityto later delete cookies that you have accepted. Please see the helpdocumentation specific to your browser for details on deleting your cookies.
Use of Web Beacons
MyMonte.com Web pages may contain electronic images known asWeb beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to assistin delivering cookies on our sites and allow us to count users who have visitedthose pages and to deliver co-branded services.
MyMonte.com may also employ Web beacons from third partiesin order to help us compile aggregated statistics regarding the effectivenessof our content or other operations of our sites. We prohibit Web beacons on oursites from being used by third parties to collect or access your personalinformation.
Controlling Unsolicited E-mail and Posts ("Spam")
MyMonte.com is concerned about controlling unsolicitedcommercial e-mail and post content, or "spam." MyMonte.com has astrict Anti-Spam Policy prohibiting the use of a MyMonte.com account or other MyMonte.com-providede-mail account to send spam. MyMonte.com will not sell, lease or rent itse-mail subscriber lists to third parties. While MyMonte.com continues toactively review and implement new technology, such as expanded filteringfeatures, there is no currently available technology that will totally preventthe sending and receiving of unsolicited e-mail. Using junk e-mail tools andbeing cautious about the sharing of your e-mail address while online will helpreduce the amount of unsolicited e-mail you receive.
Enforcement of This Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you shouldfirst contact us by using our forum.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our services and customer feedback. If there are material changes to this statement or in how MyMonte.com will use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing the change or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how MyMonte.com is protecting your information.
Contacting Us
MyMonte.com welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you have questions about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact a staff member privately or post in this thread.
