Privacy

Last revised January 7, 2012
This website, together with a network of related content and social networking
websites (each, a “Site,” and collectively, the “Company Sites”), is owned and
operated by or on behalf of K2 Global (“K2 Global”), K2 Global,
Kyle Jason and/or certain other K2 Global subsidiaries and
affiliated companies (collectively, “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). This Privacy
Policy describes the type of information we may collect from you and how we
may use and share that information. This Privacy Policy also explains the
choices you can make about the ways this information is used by us.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. In addition, please review the Terms of
Service provided at each Site, which governs your use of the Company Sites. By
accessing and using any of the Company Sites (including, without limitation, any
social networking features, communities or other interactive content offered on
the Sites), you agree to accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of
Service provided on the Site. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not
use the Site. Please note that certain features or services discussed in this
Privacy Policy may not be offered on the Company Sites at any particular time.
APPLICABILITY AND USER RESTRICTIONS
Unless specifically stated otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies to information
collected on the Company Sites, which also may be governed by separate or
additional policies and does not apply to information about you collected by our
affiliated providers, third party web sites (e.g., ad serving and tracking services),
applications or offerings linked to or otherwise accessible from the Company
Sites. The information collected or received by such affiliated providers and third
parties is subject to their own respective privacy policies, which we encourage
you to review. We are not responsible for compliance with other websites’ privacy
policies or practices.
The Company Sites are not directed to children under the age of thirteen (13).
Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (”COPPA”), we use
reasonable commercial efforts to adhere to the prohibition on the collection of
personal information online from children under the age of thirteen (13) without
first obtaining verifiable parental consent. The Company Sites prohibit
registration by, and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information
from, anyone under the age of thirteen (13). Company Site use and membership
is void where prohibited by law.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE
IT
Whether you are a Company Site visitor or a registered member, we take certain
steps to protect your information. Collection of information is usually grouped into
two categories: Personal Information, which is information that is personally
identifiable to a specific member (further defined below), and aggregate
information, which is general demographic information that does not identify any
individual member. We may use or disclose aggregate information for any
purpose.
The Company adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral
Advertising (the “Principles”), developed by leading industry associations to apply
consumer-friendly standards to online behavioral advertising across the Internet.
To learn more about the Principles, please go to www.aboutads.info.
User Content
Please note that whenever you publicly disclose information about yourself online
(e.g., through email, social networking platforms, forums, message boards, chat
areas, or similar web pages), such information may be collected, exported and
used by people that you do not know. Posting personal information in public
places may result in unsolicited communications, including unwanted email
messages or other forms of contact. Always be smart about the information you
provide online. We bear no responsibility for any action or policies of any third
parties who collect any information you may disclose on the Company Sites.
Personal Information
As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means personally
identifiable information collected online about an individual, such as a first and
last name, a physical street address, an e-mail address, a telephone number, a
social security number, or any other information that permits the physical or
online contacting of a specific individual. You can browse the Company Sites
without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about
yourself. However, there are certain features and services (including social
networking) that may not be available for your use without providing Personal
Information. If you choose to provide us with Personal Information, you consent
to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers. Further, you
consent to e-mail or other marketing communications sent by us, unless you
unsubscribe from such messages or opt-out, as described below.
Registration
Certain features and services of the Company Sites may require you to first
complete a registration form and create a user name and password. During
registration you are required to provide certain Personal Information. We may
use this information to contact you about the services on our Site in which you
have expressed interest. In addition to Personal Information collected for
registration purposes, we may collect and store the following:
(a) your responses to the offerings and advertisements presented on the Sites;
(b) information about the Sites’ services or features that you use, and how
frequently you use them;
(c) commercial transaction-related information (such as credit card or other
preferred means of payment, billing or shipping information, or a history of
products purchased through the Company Sites);
(d) your responses to or entries for surveys, sweepstakes, and contests and
requests for services, products, newsletters or information;
(e) customer service information about you as a user of a Company Site,
including any suggestions you submit to us for review;
(f) community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through our
Sites, and correspondence sent to us;
(g) your activity on the Company Sites, including adding a friend, sharing a photo
or video, or accessing an application;
(h) your activity on certain third party sites or services for which you have
consented to connect or share through your account on a Company Site;
(i) information from other companies, such as demographic and traffic data; and
(j) other information from your interaction with our Sites, services, content and
advertising, including computer and/or mobile device connection and location
information, browser type, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites,
ad data, IP address and standard web log information.
Profile and Preference Information
So that you can make the most of our social networking features, your member
name, profile photo and certain other profile information associated with your
account with a Company Site or with any third party sites shared by you through
a Company Site will not be private. Depending on your privacy settings, you can
control other information shared on your member page. If you do not wish to
share photos of yourself with other members, then delete them or do not post
them.
We may combine information that you provide us with other information about
you that we may obtain through your use of the Company Sites in order to
provide promotions and marketing offers tailored to your preferences and to
improve the content of the Company Sites for you.
Cookies
To enhance your experience with the Company Sites, we may use "cookies."
Cookies are small data files that we place in your computer’s browser when you
visit the Company Sites. We may use cookies for a number of purposes, such as
tracking usage patterns, measuring the effectiveness of advertising, to help serve
advertisements, limiting multiple responses and registrations, facilitating your
ability to navigate the Company Sites, and as part of a verification or screening
process. Cookies automatically identify your web browser whenever you visit the
Company Sites, help us determine which areas are popular and further
personalize your experience on the Company Sites. If you do not wish to allow
for use of cookies, you can generally opt-out of providing this information by
setting your browser to reject cookies. However, please be aware that some
areas of the Company Sites may not provide you with an acceptable user
experience if you have disabled the use of cookies.
Web Beacons and Similar Technologies
The Company Sites and our e-mail messages may contain a small graphic image
called a web beacon that monitors and collects certain limited information about
the viewer of the web page or e-mail message. Web beacons typically are very
small (generally 1-by-1 pixel) and invisible to the user, but, in general, any
electronic image viewed as part of a web page or e-mail message, including an
advertisement or HTML content, can act as a web beacon. We may use web
beacons or similar technologies for a number of purposes, including without
limitation, to count visitors to our web pages or to monitor how our users navigate
the Company Sites, and we may include web beacons or similar technologies in
e-mails in order to count how many e-mails (or particular articles, links, etc.) that
we send are actually opened. Additionally, our advertising providers may use
web beacons or similar technologies to personalize and measure the
effectiveness of their advertisements using data gathered over time from users of
the Company Sites. If you would like more information about the information
collection practices of some of these third party advertising companies and to
learn which of these companies allow you to opt out of this type of information
collection, please click here.
IP Address and Log Files
Upon visiting the Company Sites, we may collect and store your browser type
and IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer the
Company Sites, to help identify and analyze user trends, to customize content
and advertisements offered to you, and to gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION WITH THIRD
PARTIES
Third Party Content
When you are visiting the Company Sites, certain content may be served directly
by third parties. This third party content may use cookies, web beacons,
Javascript or other technologies. We do not have access to or control the use of
such technology by third parties, including the information they collect or how
they use such information.
Applications and Websites
The Company does not own or operate certain applications or websites (e.g.,
games or tools) accessible through the Company Sites. As a result, when you
use these third party applications or websites, we may share your information
along with the location of your computer or mobile device to enable your use of
such services and for age verification and security purposes, among other
purposes. For example, the Company may offer you the option to connect your
member profile and activity on the Company Sites with certain third party
services such as Facebook, Foursquare or Twitter (“Third Party Services”).
When you consent to publish your information or activity on the Company Sites
to any Third Party Services, such information will be viewable by the
communities on such Third Party Services and may be used by such Third Party
Services in accordance with their posted privacy practices. Similarly, if another
member in your friend list uses a third party application or website, it may receive
your non-private member information so that you may be separately linked with
your friend. If the application or website seeks any further information, your
consent should be requested. We cannot guarantee that such applications or
websites will follow our privacy practices, so we encourage you to always review
their information sharing policies and to report any application or website that
may be in violation of our privacy practices.
Online Shopping Services
Company Sites may offer shopping services either directly or through a partner
that operates a service under contract with us. If a Site offers shopping or other
commercial services, the customer order form will ask you to provide certain
Personal Information, including credit card or other payment data. The financial
information that you provide will be used by the Company or its partners to bill
you for products and services that you request and for any other uses to which
you have consented. By giving the Site your payment data and related Personal
Information, you are authorizing us to give that information to the merchant and
credit card company and/or you are authorizing the Company’s partner directly to
confirm and fulfill your order. In addition, the Company and/or its partners will use
contact information from the order form to fulfill your orders and for customer
service purposes. The Company will not otherwise use or distribute your financial
information without your prior approval.
Other Third Parties
Our employees, agents and contractors must have a “need-to-know” business
reason to obtain access to your Personal Information. We may share your
Personal Information with those who help us manage or provide content or other
services for the Company Sites (e.g., forum administration, order fulfillment,
statistical analyses, data processing), or with outside contractors, agents or
sponsors who help us with the administration, judging and prize fulfillment
aspects of contests, promotions and sweepstakes. Such outside contractors,
agents or sponsors may temporarily store some information on their servers, but
they may only use your Personal Information to provide the Company Sites with
a specific service and not for any other purpose. We may also provide your
Personal Information to a third party where you have chosen to receive certain
information and have been notified that the fulfillment of such a request requires
sharing your Personal Information. We also may share your Personal Information
with any affiliated companies and partners if we have a business reason to do so.
Legal Compliance
We may access or disclose your Personal Information without your consent in
order to: (i) protect or defend our legal rights or property, including those of our
affiliated companies or their employees, agents and contractors (including
enforcement of our agreements); (ii) protect the safety and security of other users
of the Company Sites or members of the public, including responding to claims
that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone’s
rights, property, or safety; (iii) protect against fraud or for risk management
purposes; or (iv) comply with the law or legal process. In addition, if any
Company Site is sold to or merges with another company not owned by or
affiliated with Company, we may transfer your Personal Information to any
acquiring or merging party as part of that transaction.
YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES
The following sub-headings apply only to those Company Sites for which user
registration is available.
Access to Personal Information
You have the opportunity to correct, update or remove Personal Information you
have provided to us at any time. Upon entering any Company Site, you may sign
in using your previously issued login name and password. After signing in, click
on "My Page" and you will have the option of either modifying or deleting your
member profile settings through the “Edit Profile” or “My Account” links. If you
have forgotten your login name or password, click the "Forgot your password?"
link, and following verification, your login name and/or password will be sent to
your email address.
Activity Associated with Your Member Name
Your member name is displayed to other members throughout the Company
Sites and depending on your activity (e.g., blogging) on any Sites, may also be
available to the public. All of your activity on our Sites is traceable to your
member name. Therefore, if you associate your name with your member name,
the people to whom you have revealed your name will be able to personally
identify your Company Site activities.
Opt-Out
You may opt-out of receiving e-mail communications from us at any time by
either following the instructions to unsubscribe within an email you receive from
this Site or by logging in to your account and selecting “Email Alerts” under the
“My Account” link. As explained above, if you choose not to provide us with
information sought on registration or sign up forms, it is possible that you will not
be able to access or use certain features of certain Company Sites.
Your Member Profile
When you register with certain Company Sites, you may set up your member
profile, upload photos, provide additional information, search, add friends, send
messages, perform searches and engage in other activities. Information
transmitted during such activities is collected so that the Company may provide
you with services and personalize certain features. Any content you post on the
Company Sites is at your own risk. Certain privacy options exist on the Company
Sites that allow you to limit access to your profile. However, such privacy options
are not always available or perfect. We are not responsible for circumvention of
any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Company Site.
Furthermore, the Company cannot control the actions of third parties with whom
you choose to share your profile or Personal Information. Because of the
foregoing, the Company does not guarantee that any content or Personal
Information you post on a Company Site will not be accessible by unauthorized
persons. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of
your user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other
users have copied or stored your user content.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on any Company Site
is a violation of the Site’s Terms of Service and should be reported to
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Friend Referrals
The Company Sites may allow you invite a friend to view or use certain features
or services Company Sites, including online shopping services. To refer a friend,
information including your friend’s email address is required. Such information is
collected and stored to send this one-time invitation, to allow for your friend’s
registration and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may
contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to request that we remove this
information from our records.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Company employs reasonable security measures consistent with standard
industry practice to secure information collected through the Company Sites. We
also use internal protections to limit access to your Personal Information to only
those people who need the information to perform a specific request. However,
we cannot guarantee that your Personal Information will never be disclosed in a
manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (e.g., as a result of unauthorized or
otherwise unlawful third party access), and you transmit such information to us at
your own risk.
Account Protection
Your member profile is password-protected so that you and only you have
access to this information. Please use a unique combination of numbers, letters
and special characters and do not disclose your Company Site password to
anyone for greater protection. If you share your computer with other people, or
use a publicly accessible computer, sign out of your account and close your
browser window when you are done. If you do share your password or your
Personal Information with others, remember that you are responsible for all
actions taken under your member profile. If you lose control of your password,
you may lose substantial control over your Personal Information and may be
subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. If your password has been
compromised for any reason, we encourage you to change it immediately or
notify us to change your password on your behalf.
If Abuse Occurs
Although we make every effort to ensure that our e-mail list is safe, the Internet is
such that we cannot guarantee that our list is invulnerable to attacks. If you
believe there has been a breach of our security, please contact us at once at
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CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service at
any time. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of
this page the policy’s new effective date. We encourage you to refer to visit this
Privacy Policy frequently to stay informed regarding our current privacy practices.
Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that
we have about you and your activity on our Company Sites.
As the owner of this Site, the Company retains all ownership rights to the
information collected at this Site. In the event the Company goes through a
business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of
all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information will likely be among the
assets transferred.
CONTACTING US
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy,
please feel free to contact us any time by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or
at Privacy Request, c/o K2 Global, 3817 Old Farm Rd, Portsmouth, VA 23703 USA, Attn: Legal Department.
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K2 Global
3817 Old Farm Rd.
Portsmouth, VA 23703
(757) 435-3252