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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