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SM has established this
Privacy Policy to explain how it protects and manages the personal information
that it collects from you (the customer) online. 1. Consent for Collection,
Use and Disclosure Your use of the SM site
and/or your registration for SM products and services constitute your consent
to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If
you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the SM
site. SM may occasionally update
this Privacy Policy. When it does, SM
will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. In addition, SM will seek a customer’s prior
consent, by email, for any new uses or proposed disclosures of information
collected from the customer prior to the change. SM will notify customers by email of changes to this policy that
will affect information collected from them in the future. In certain circumstances, however, SM will
not inform and obtain the consent of the customer, such as in connection with
an investigation of a breach of an agreement, contravention of laws, an
emergency where the life, health or security of an individual is threatened,
the collection of a debt or in compliance with the request of a law enforcement
agency or a court order. A customer may withdraw his
or her consent for collection, use and disclosure at any time by sending an
email to unsubscribe@successmaxonline.com.
Please note that, if you do, IMC may suspend its provision of products
and services to you. When you
unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee period for any SM product and you
request a refund, the guarantee will be honored. 2. Accountability SM collects, at the time of
your registration and your sign-on to its web site, certain “personal
information” (information that personally identifies you) including but not
limited to your name, email address, home or work address, telephone number,
and information about your computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address,
operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times, and referring
web site addresses). SM has implemented this
Privacy Policy to protect personal information received from its customers, and
to respond to any inquiries. The
Privacy Policy also provides that SM will use appropriate contractual means to
establish a comparable level of protection for personal information which is
sent for processing by third parties on SM’s behalf. SM has designated
responsibility for your personal information to its Privacy Officer, who
ensures compliance with the principles in this Privacy Policy. Other SM individuals may be delegated to act
on behalf of the Privacy Officer. 3. Purposes for Collecting
Personal Information IMC collects and uses
personal information for the following Identified Purposes: (a) to understand customer
needs regarding SM’s services; (b) to develop and provide
our web site and our products and services for our customers; (c) to fulfill your requests for products, services or information; (d) to communicate with
customers and site visitors, when necessary, and to inform customers of
upgrades, as well as of other products and services available from SM, its
affiliates and third parties; (e) to allow customers to
access limited-entry areas of SM’s site; (f) to personalize some of
our services and products for you and to deliver targeted advertisements and
offers from SM and third parties; (g) to bill accounts and
maintain payment records; (h) to comply with any
applicable law, regulation, legal process or government request; (i) to respond to a
legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable belief, that you are violating
the rights of any third party or any of the agreements or policies that govern
your use of the SM site or any SM product or service; (j) to protect the services,
products or rights of SM, including but not limited to the security or
integrity of the SM site; and (k) to identify and resolve
technical problems concerning SM’s site, products and services. SM also uses personal
information in an aggregate form (i.e., not individually attributable to you)
for its business analysis, operational, marketing and other promotional
purposes. If we hire other companies to
provide some products or services on our behalf, then we will only provide
those companies the personal information they need for the Identified Purposes,
and we will limit their rights to use and further disclose your personal
information as appropriate in the course of their work for us. 4. Limiting the Collection of
Personal Information SM limits its collection of
personal information to only that information which is necessary for the
Identified Purposes. SM does not direct
its site to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal information from
children under the age of thirteen. When you visit the SM web
site, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you
have visited the SM site previously. SM
uses cookies to allow SM to determine which products and services you have
already purchased so that SM does not provide redundant information to you,
and, if you are an SM affiliate, to track SM sales made to customers referred
by you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you choose to not have your browser
accept cookies from the SM web site, you may not be able to view all the text
on the screens, or to experience a personalized visit, or to subscribe to
certain service and product offerings on the SM site. 5. Disclosure, Processing and
Retention SM does not sell, rent or
disclose your personal information to anyone else, except: (a) to someone you have designated
to act as your agent, for one or more of the Identified Purposes (listed in
Section 2, above); (b) to SM’s employees,
independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates, consultants, business
associates, service providers, suppliers and agents, acting on SM’s behalf for
any of the Identified Purposes; (c) as necessary if SM has reason to believe that disclosure is
necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally)
with SM’s rights or property, other users of SM’s web site, products or
services, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities; and (d) to respond to judicial
process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection
with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law,
or otherwise as required by law. In addition, as we continue
to develop our business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses
or entities, or we may merge with another company. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the
transferred business assets. Also, in
the event that SM or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your
personal information may be one of the transferred assets. Your information may be
stored and processed in the United States, or in any other country in which SM
or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By using this web site, you consent to any
such transfer of information outside of your country. After your account becomes
inactive (that is, if you request to be removed from our database), SM will
keep your personal information in its archives. Your information will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons
or to prove SM’s compliance with any applicable law. 6. Accuracy of Personal
Information SM will use reasonable
efforts to keep customer personal information accurate for the Identified
Purposes, and for minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate customer
decisions based on such information.
Customers are responsible for informing SM about changes to their
personal information. You can do this
by calling 708-746-5340 or sending an email to our privacy department. SM will
use new or updated personal information it receives from customers to update
its own records. 7. Security Safeguards SM will use reasonable
efforts to protect customers’ personal information. 8. Access to Personal
Information SM will afford you a
reasonable opportunity to review the personal information in your file, if you
so request by calling 708-746-5340, writing to: SuccessMax LLC ... or upon request to the
Privacy Officer. If SM is not able to provide
access to some aspect of a customer’s personal information, it will provide
reasons for denying access such as; that by doing so would likely reveal
personal information about a third party, or that it is confidential commercial
information or attorney–client privileged communications, or that the
information relates to a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law, or
that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or
security of another individual. Customers have the right to
request that inaccurate or incomplete information be amended as appropriate, by
contacting SM or the Privacy Officer as described above. SM will promptly correct such personal
information. Anti-Spam Policy SuccessMax LLC. (“SM”)
Anti-Spam Policy (Last updated October 20,
2006) SM is committed to
permission-based email marketing practices, and as a result has established
this no-tolerance Anti-Spam Policy. SM
will occasionally update this Anti-Spam Policy. When it does, SM will also revise the “last update” date at the
top of this Anti-Spam Policy. For
changes to this policy, SM will notify you (the customer) by placing a notice
on its web site home page. 1. What is Spam? Spam is commercial email or
unsolicited bulk email, including “junk mail”, which has not been requested by
the recipient. It is intrusive and
often irrelevant or offensive, and it wastes valuable resources. Spam messages are the opposite of permission-based
email, which are normally anticipated, personal, relevant and/or associated
with a pre-existing business or personal relationship. Inappropriate newsgroup activities,
consisting of excessive posting of the same materials to several newsgroups,
are also deemed to be spam. 2. Preventing Spam Customers of SM products and
services have agreed during their registration process, upon accepting the
Terms of Use, to comply with this Anti-Spam Policy. Specifically, each customer agrees not to use the SM products or
services to send unsolicited email or bulk email, whether or not for commercial
purposes. SM reserves the right to
determine in its sole discretion what constitutes actionable spam, as well as
what measures are necessary in response to such spam activities. 3. How SM Helps You to Avoid
Spamming SM has developed its Internet
marketing tools to incorporate a strict permission-based philosophy. This anti-spam philosophy is implemented
through the following: (a) Communication and Agreement – The Terms of Use that you have
agreed to as part of registering for the SM products and services state how and
for what purposes you can collect your site visitor addresses, and that you
will follow the SM Privacy Policy and Anti-Spam Policy. (b) Unsubscription – Each email created using SM products contains an
“unsubscribe link”. If your web site
visitors use the link to request that they be unsubscribed, your subscriber
lists will automatically be adjusted to eliminate the prospect of sending
unwanted email to such persons.
Additionally, each person on your subscriber list has the option of
unsubscribing through a web-based method provided on the SM web site. Customers of SM who try to remove the
unsubscribe link will be warned that they are doing so, and if they persist in
having the link removed or deactivated in any way, then SM will have the right
to terminate their account. (c) Purchased Mailing Lists - Mass mailings to purchased email lists
are not allowed. SM only allows opt-in
mailing lists. Purchased or inherited
lists are by definition not opt-in.
Similarly, you cannot use an email list relating to particular subject
matter, and then use it for an unrelated topic. 4. Laws Restricting Spam Spam laws vary from state to
state, and from country to country.
This SM Anti-Spam Policy has been developed to conform to the highest
commercially reasonable standards. As a
result, and without limiting the general prohibitions against all spam
activities, the following are expressly prohibited: (a) Use of false headers, or other false information, to identify the
point of origin or the transmission path of the email, or to hide the true
origin of the email sender, (b) Unauthorized use of a third party’s internet domain name without
the permission of such third party, to make it appear that the third party was the
point of origin of the email, (c) Use of any false or misleading information in the subject line of
the email, and (d) Assisting any person in using the products or services of SM for
any of these previously mentioned activities. 5. Questions to Ask Yourself To help in establishing
whether you are participating in activities constituting spam, ask yourself the
following questions: (a) Are you sending email to non-specific addresses, such as
info@domain.com or sales@domain.com? (b) Have you deliberately falsified your transmission path
information or originating address? (c) Are you sending email to mailing lists or distribution lists,
which then send indirectly to various other email addresses? (d) Have you imported for use a purchased list of any type? (e) Are you continuing to mail to anyone who has asked to be deleted
from your mailing list? (f) Does your email not provide a fully functioning link to
unsubscribe? (g) Does you email subject line contain false or misleading
information? (h) Have you used a third party’s email address or domain name
without the party’s consent? If you answer yes to any of
these questions, you are likely involved in spam activities, and should contact
SM customer support service at support@myemailmanager.com. 6. Measures to Enforce the
Anti-Spam Policy Any IMC customer found to be
using SM products or services for spamming purposes may, at SM’s discretion, be
immediately cut off from use of all SM products and services and/or fined US$
1,000 per occurrence, with no refund of fees that have been paid. SM warns all of its customers
when signing up that if they participate in spamming activities they will be
subject to the loss of SM services, fines and possible legal action. SM has the right to actively
review its customers’ subscriber lists and email for suspiciously large
broadcasts. If SM finds any customers
to be spamming, it will issue a warning, and if the activities are serious
enough, SM will take action immediately.
If SM has any reason to believe that the customer, despite warning being
given, threatens to or is continuing to send spam, then SM may take action
immediately, including disabling the customer’s account and/or reporting the
customer and the incident to the proper authorities. SM does not attempt to censor
any content, nor to curtail the business of its customers. However, spam activities do not fall within
uses authorized by SM, and will not be tolerated. 7. Reporting Spam If you believe that you have
received spam from or through SM’s facilities, please send a complaint from
your email account along with the unsolicited email, with completed header, to
abuse@myemailmanager.com. Please
provide any other information that you believe may help us in our investigation. SM does not investigate or take any action
based on “anonymous” spam complaints. 8. False Spam Complaints SM supports the efforts of
various organizations working to responsibly eliminate spam activities. However, if an individual has opted-in to
receive email from a customer of SM, and then falsely or maliciously files a
spam complaint against SM or its customers, SM will cooperate fully with the
appropriate agencies to ban the complainant from use of anti-spam software and
the Internet community. Acceptable Use Policy & Privacy
Statement
(Last updated October 20,
2006) 1.0 Acceptable Use Policy: SuccessMax LLC is solely
focused on providing entrepreneurs with the high quality, ethical tools and
information they need to market their businesses on the Internet. None of the information or tools provided on
the SuccessMax LLC web sites are intended for unethical or illegal marketing
practices, including but not limited to: 1.1 Spam: SuccessMax LLC does not
participate in spamming and maintains a zero tolerance spam policy. Those who
enter into business relationships with SuccessMax LLC (including, but not
limited to, affiliates and joint venture partners) and choose to promote
SuccessMax LLC, SuccessMax LLC products or services, or SuccessMax LLC affiliated products or services using spam
will have their relationship with SuccessMax LLC immediately terminated. 1.2 Harvesting E-mail
Address: Tools and resources provided
by the SuccessMax LLC are neither intended nor permitted to be used for the
harvesting of e-mail addresses. Those who have found ways to abuse any of these
tools and resources and use them for mass harvesting or spamming will have
their relationship with the SuccessMax LLC immediately terminated. 1.3 Unauthorized Opt-In: In order to protect our
opt-in e-mail list, we are currently in the process of implementing a system by
which we will record the IP addresses of all subscriptions, sales, and affiliates.
If an e-mail address is subscribed to our system without the owner’s
permission, the host of the IP will be contacted and pursued to terminate the
user. 1.4 Fraud: SuccessMax LLC will pursue and prosecute to the fullest extent of
the law any individual(s) who attempt to use our systems, software, or services
for the purpose of fraudulent transactions. SuccessMax LLC maintains
ethical practices and will not tolerate any misuse of our tools and resources
by any third party. If misuse occurs, we will do everything in our power to
immediately terminate the relationship and prevent any further misuse. 2.0 Privacy Statement: SuccessMax LLC supports the
right of personal privacy and corporate security on the Internet. SuccessMax LLC will never sell or market
names, e-mail addresses, or any other privileged information about our clients
or subscribers. 3.0 Unsubscribe Policy: SuccessMax LLC respects the request of any individual asking to
have his/her e-mail address opted-out of our database. As well, every e-mail
sent by the SuccessMax LLC provides an automated unsubscribe option at the
bottom of each e-mail. All other unsubscribe requests can easily be processed
by sending an e-mail, including the e-mail address you wish to remove, to
unsubscribe@successmaxonline.com. 4.0 Why is this information
collected? Information may be used by
the web site to complete the activity for which it was provided, whether the
activity is a one-time event, such as returning the results from a web search,
forwarding an e-mail message or placing an order; or a recurring event, such as
providing a subscription service or allowing access to an online address book
or electronic wallet. Information may be used for
the technical support of the web site and its computer system. For example, to
process computer account information, to secure and maintain the site, or to
verify web site activity by the site or its agents. Information may be used to
enhance, evaluate, or otherwise review the web site, service, product, or
market. 5.0 Who has access to this
information? This web site, entities for
whom it is acting as an agent, and/or entities acting as its agent have access
to this information. An agent in this instance is defined as a third party that
processes data only for the completion of the stated purpose, such as a
shipping firm. 6.0 What kind of information
does this web site collect? Unique identifiers issued by
a web site or service for the purpose of identifying an individual over time. Mechanisms, such as HTTP cookies,
for maintaining an active connection with an individual or for automatically
identifying an individual who has visited a particular site or previously
accessed particular content. 7.0 Contact Information: We invite you to contact us
if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the
following address: SuccessMax LLC You may contact us by e-mail
at mailto:support@marketingtips.com.
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