Privacy Statement


Around The Rings is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Around The Rings Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Around The Rings website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Around The Rings collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Around The Rings also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Around The Rings. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Around The Rings for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Around The Rings Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Around The Rings public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Around The Rings does not read any of your private online communications.

Around The Rings encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Around The Rings so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Around The Rings is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Around The Rings and Around The Rings family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Around The Rings collects and uses your personal information to operate the Around The Rings Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Around The Rings also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Around The Rings and its affiliates. Around The Rings may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Around The Rings does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Around The Rings may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Around The Rings may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Around The Rings, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Around The Rings does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Around The Rings keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Around The Rings, in order to determine what Around The Rings services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Around The Rings to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Around The Rings Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Around The Rings or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Around The Rings; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Around The Rings, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Around The Rings Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Around The Rings pages, or register with Around The Rings site or services, a cookie helps Around The Rings to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Around The Rings Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Around The Rings features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Around The Rings services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Around The Rings secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Around The Rings secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Around The Rings will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Around The Rings encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Around The Rings is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Around The Rings welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Around The Rings has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Around The Rings at sheila@aroundtherings.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.


  

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