Privacy Policy
Step-Ups.com strives to offer its visitors the many advantages of Internet
technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience. We may use
Personally Identifiable Information (your name, e-mail address, street address,
telephone number) subject to the terms of this privacy policy. We will never
sell, barter, or rent your email address to any unauthorized third party.
Period.”
How we gather information from users
How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting,
the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. For
example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for access to
certain portions of our site or request certain features, such as newsletters or
when you make a purchase. You may provide information when you participate in
sweepstakes and contests, message boards and chat rooms, and other interactive
areas of our site. Like most Web sites, Step-Ups.com also collects information
automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to
our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider
or use cookie technology to recognize you and hold information from your visit.
Among other things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing
you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control
the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our
site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through
other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with
information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies,
but if you do you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or may be
asked to re-enter your user name and password, and we may not be able to
customize the site’s features according to your preferences.
What we do with the information we collect
Like other Web publishers, we collect information to enhance your visit and
deliver more individualized content and advertising. We respect your privacy and
do not share your information with anyone.
Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you)
may be used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about your
usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to help
enhance our site and services (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or
what features are most attractive). Aggregated Information may occasionally be
shared with our advertisers and business partners. Again, this information does
not include any Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to
identify you individually.
We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on Step-Ups.com to
communicate with you about your registration and customization preferences; our
Terms of Service and privacy policy; services and products offered by
Step-Ups.com and other topics we think you might find of interest.
Remarketing or similar audiences are may be used for the purpose of improving visitor interaction campaigns
so as to advertise online appropriately. Third-party vendors, including Google, may show our ads on sites
across the Internet. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s
past visits to this website. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Ads Preferences Manager.
Alternatively, you can point your visitors to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the
Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
Personally Identifiable Information collected by Step-Ups.com may also be
used for other purposes, including but not limited to site administration,
troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions, administration of
sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you. Certain third
parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (our Web
hosting service for example) may access such information. We will use your
information only as permitted by law. In addition, from time to time as we
continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other
companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the
transferred assets. We may also disclose your information in response to a court
order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by
law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or to
law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary. Please
note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements
Step-Ups.com expects its partners, advertisers and affiliates to respect the
privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our
partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through
our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices.
For example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view as part of a
frame on a Step-Ups.com page, certain content that is actually created or hosted
by a third party. Also, through Step-Ups.com you may be introduced to, or be
able to access, information, Web sites, features, contests or sweepstakes
offered by other parties. Step-Ups.com is not responsible for the actions or
policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies
of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated
by a third party.
While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third
parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your
preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our
advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the
advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before.
Other features available on our site may offer services operated by third
parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather information.
Step-Ups.com does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the
resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of
such third parties.
You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Personally
Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat areas, that information
can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without
our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or
third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Step-Ups.com and this
policy.
Children
Step-Ups.com does not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable
Information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we
discover we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of
this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe
Step-Ups.com has any information from or about anyone under 13, please contact
us at the address listed below.
Contacting Us.
We can be reached by contacting:
Step-Ups.com
Email: privacy@step-ups.com
Changes to this Policy
Step-Ups.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please
check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site
following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those
changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be
used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information
was collected.
Governing law
This policy and the use of this Site are governed by [your state] law. If a
dispute arises under this Policy we agree to first try to resolve it with the
help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location: Los Angeles.
Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation will
be shared equally by each of us.
If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through
mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration at the
following location: Los Angeles, under the rules of the American Arbitration
Association. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered
in any court with jurisdiction to do so.
Step-Ups.com is controlled, operated and administered entirely within
California. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to
and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any
party.
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