Privacy Policy
The BoomerEcards policy may be updated, revised and re-posted from time to time. This policy applies to site visitors who comply with the BoomerEcards.com Terms of Service.
We do not share information on specific individuals with marketing companies. We are an anti-SPAM site. We will not promote the practice of unsolicited mailings of any kind.
We do collect certain individual information to facilitate card sends, card pickups, and the personalization of our site.
E-mail Addresses: We do not use the e-mail address contained in an E-Card for direct marketing purposes nor do we compile e-mail address to build mailing lists to sell to or share with marketers. We do use these addresses: to facilitate card delivery and to assist in card pickups. E-mail addresses are also used help protect a recipients' privacy right to know the identity of a card sender.
IP addresses and Info shared with Card Recipients: Card senders share with card recipients certain information beyond their notes (for example: e-mail addresses, IP addresses). This is a necessary to facilitate card delivery and to protect the privacy of card recipients. IP addresses of card senders are printed on cards to protect the privacy of card recipients and to protect card recipients from anonymous abuse or harassment. BoomerEcards is not intended as to be used as an anonymous mail service.
Summary Demographics: We do share demographic "site summary information". Such summaries are compiled from individual information but do not include specifics on individuals. This information is gathered via cookies, card sends, surveys, newsletter signups, and personalization. These summaries highlight broad demographic trends on our site (for example: browsers used, geographic breakdowns). This information is used to improve our site and business, it is also used to attract site advertisers and new business opportunities.
Cookies: Cookies may be set upon user's browsers during site visits, both by BoomerEcards.com and its site advertisers. Our site uses cookies to track user sessions and to gather site usage statistics. We also use cookies to save your site customization preferences and to save user passwords so they don't have to be re-entered upon each site visit.
Subscriptions: Our site's subscription registration form requires users to give us their email address. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor a visitor's experience at our site -- displaying content that might interest visitors, and displaying content according to visitor preferences. This information is shared with advertisers only on an aggregate basis. We do have an opt-in e-mail newsletter/subscription. We only send this newsletter to e-mail addresses that have requested this e-mail delivery. We ask individuals to only sign themselves up for this posting.
Sites to which we Link: BoomerEcards does contain advertising and content links to other sites. We do not police the privacy practices of these linked sites nor are we responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Individuals visiting these links should be attentive to the policies and practices of these sites and act with discretion.
Ad Serving Partners: We often use outside ad companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.
BoomerEcards OFTEN WORKS WITH A THIRD PARTY THAT SERVES ADS TO THIS SITE.
BoomerEcards may release individual information to legal, corporate or internet authorities if there is reasonable suspicion that an individual has not complied with our Terms of Service. Examples of such non-compliance includes the use of our card system for harassment, SPAM, profanity, pornographic dissemination or illegal activity.
We do not disclose any information that could be used to identify you personally. For example, we may tell our business partners how many customers in certain demographic groups sent certain ecards.
Notwithstanding the above policies, we reserve the right to disclose your personal information to appropriate third-parties if we are required to do so by law or we believe that such action is necessary:
- To comply with legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order;
- To protect the company's rights and property;
- To investigate reports of users sending material using a false e-mail address or users sending harassing, threatening, or abusive messages;
- To protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website and/ or the BoomerEcards .com service;
- During emergencies, such as when we believe someone's physical safety is at risk.
Your Internet Protocol (IP) address can be accessed by recipients in the source of the ecard HTML. Under certain circumstances, recipients, their legal representatives, and/ or law enforcement authorities may be able to combine this with information disclosed by ISPs to determine the source of a particular communication. By using this service, you knowingly and voluntarily assume any risks associated with such disclosure
What visitor information is collected upon a BoomerEcards.com visit?
Cookie Markers
Why? How is this used?
Unique visitor counts, User preference settings
What information is collected during a BoomerEcards send?
Your name and e-mail address, Recipient names and email addresses, card note, Sender's IP address, browser type.
Why? How is this used?
Card delivery, Site support, Broad demographic reports, recipient privacy, Card pick up assistance.
How can I review, edit or delete this information?
An opportunity for editing is provided after a "card build" and before a site send.
What information is collected during a BoomerEcards pickup?
IP of Pickup person
Why? How is this used?
Site support, Broad demographic reports, Recipient privacy, Card pick up assistance
Questions and Comments_If you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding our website's privacy policy, or regarding any other aspects of our websites, go to: http://www.boomerecards.com/contact.html
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change the Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted at: http://www.boomerecards.com/privacy.html |
