Our Privacy Policy
- Defend-Me.com (collectively "Defend-Me.com/Company/we/us/our") is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information you may provide to us when visiting this site and using any of our services. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat information we receive when you transmit data to Defend-Me.com. Please note that our Privacy Policy may be changed at any time. Any changes become effective when posted at Defend-Me.com
Information Collection
- If you request or submit information to us by sending an e-mail to us, or e-mail via the "mail to:" function or filling out a "contact" form or any kind of form or any marketing material, we may save your e-mail address as well as any other information you may provide. This information may be used to contact you in the future by mail, e-mail, or phone to fullfill your requests, answer questions, send your our newsletter, provide you with marketing offers or to convey information about our solutions or services that we feel may benefit you.
We may also give users the option of receiving useful product or services information (such as updates, alerts and associated service/product offerings), via opt-in permission based email. We fully ensure your privacy and value your trust. We will never sell, rent, lease or trade your personal information to any third party. Likewise, your information will not be shared with a third party in any other way unless Defend-Me.com is required to do so by law. Defend-me.com may engage the services of a third party from time to time and may provide certain information that includes personal information in order for the third party to perform such services. Any third parties who provide services to Defend-Me.com have agreed not to disclose your information or use it for any other purpose, and are asked to implement or adopt a Privacy Policy that is no less stringent than Defend-Me.com's Privacy Policy. You may opt out of receiving emails from us at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email or by visiting our website at www.defend-me.com/optout/ By choosing to enter and submit any information when prompted, you are consenting to Defend-Me.com's collection, use, and disclosure of such information for the purposes as outlined herein. BY SUBMITTING ANY FORM, INFORMATION OR EMAIL, WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE CONTACTED EVEN IF YOUR NAME IS ON A FEDERAL OR STATE "DO NOT CALL LIST" OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF "DO NOT CONTACT LIST".
Information Collected by Others
- This notice addresses only the policy of Defend-Me.com's website and not any other sites that users access via links from our site. Defend-Me.com is not responsible for the information collection policies of other sites, nor for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our website, nor for the information or content contained therein. Sometimes links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to our visitors. Users are advised to review the privacy policy & information collection practicies of other websites they visit.
Web Site Usage
- We may automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information when you access our online services. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors navigate our sites on an aggregate basis, including but not limited to the number and frequency of visitors, length of visits, etc.
How Information Is Used When Collected.
We may use information collected in the following ways:
- To send you information or promotional messages you requested
- To contact you to reconfirm or verify accuracy of information provided
- To register you as a customer
- To open and maintain a support account for you
- To send email notifications about new, existing, enhanced products or services
- To send information on special offers, or to obtain your feedback to help enhance existing features or provide added products and services
- To enable us to personalize content, advertising and promotions based on preferences, needs, suggestions or recommendations
- To provide notice of issues with your membership or any other services rendered
We may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce our service agreements or terms of use (for example protect our intellectual property rights), and your compliance with the applicable End User Agreement(s). We may also disclose or use your personal information when we, in good faith, believe that the applicable law may require us to do so.
Cookies
- We define a cookie as any string of data and information that is automatically stored on your computer upon access to our services. Defend-Me.com employs cookies to assign temporary identification numbers to machines that access our services. This information enables us to assess our marketing efforts, deliver faster service capabilities to our customers or to our affiliates and/or other sales partners, prevent denial of service attacks on our systems, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions. All Defend-Me.com cookies are 1) of limited duration, 2) devoid of any personally identifiable information. Our cookies are mainly maintained to track our marketing efforts, if applicable our affiliates and/or other sales partners to ensure proper credit for their sales and tracking activities relating to their affiliate relationship with us (if any). The products and services we promote, their websites and other websites accessible from Defend-Me.com are not governed by this privacy policy and Defend-Me.com makes no representation as to their practices for dealing with your personal information. We recommend that you check the privacy policy of any website at the beginning of your visit.
Security
- The personally identifiable information we collect about you (if any) is stored in limited access servers. We maintain such safeguards to protect security of servers and your personally identifiable information. We retain personally identifiable information only as long as necessary to serve our customers, provide customer service or maintain your account with us. We do not ask for nor store credit card information on files, servers or any computers in our posession.
Policy Modifications
- We may change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you in order to reflect our practices and provide greater protection for your information. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted promptly here, so please check back periodically.
Acceptance of Terms
- By using Defend-Me.com, or our other properties & website(s) linked through this website(s) and any services or products Defend-Me.com may offers, accessing this web site, clicking on any links on Defend-Me.com or our other properties & website(s), using or purchasing services & products from vendors that we may promote, you are consenting to the practices relating to information collection and use that are described in this Privacy Policy.