General Notice
By visiting our web sites, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Notice & Policy (Herinafter "Privacy Notice"). For the purpose of this notice, Cliffmichaels.com, Cliff Michaels & Associates, inc, Cliff Michaels, Cliff's Blog, affiliates and affiliate web sites, representatives, independent contractors, employees, agents, attorneys, third-party content or technical providers, licensees, licensors, and assigns will collectively be referred to as Cliffmichaels.com. At Cliffmichaels.com, we value your trust and respect your privacy. We do not share your information with third parties unless it is with your authorization. All information submitted on our websites is confidential and used to better serve our users. The following types of information may be collected about you — how we use or maintain that information is also described below:
Contact Information We Gather
Cliffmichaels.com may collect personal and business information such as, but not limitred to, name, company, e-mail, phone, address, credit card, billing information. Said information may be used by Cliffmichaels.com without any compensation or consideration to the user. Further, by a user submitting content to Cliffmichaels.com, which may include the user name, photos, text, video, testimonials, contest submissions, or other information, including intellectual property, user grants Cliffmichaels.com the right to review and categorize such content, and to use such content in connection with its web activities. If Cliffmichaels.com desires to utilize the user's content other than in connection with its web activities, the user will be notified via email, telephone, or regular mail of its desire and a formal agreement may be negotiated.
Website Information
When you visit any of our websites, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have previously visited a Cliffmichaels.com website. A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is an alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide personalized features and storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits.The information can be used for authentication, identification of a user session, user's preferences, shopping cart contents, or anything else that can be accomplished through storing text data. Cliffmichaels.com uses cookies for many different purposes, such as identifying which products and services you've already purchased and to track sales made to users referred by affiliates who may receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from Cliffmichaels.com websites, you may have an unpredictable user experience, may not access all features, and may not be be able to make purchases or subscribe to certain products, services, or live events. We may retain any data you provide to us in an email or other information you provide to us online.E-mail
Communications
To help us make e-mails more efficient, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from Cliffmichaels.com. We also compare our user list to lists received from third party services, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our users.
Information from Other Sources
In order to offer you better services and pricing, we might receive information about you from other sources that share your account information such as online services, trade associations, schools, for-profit, non-profit, and other organizations that you may be affiliated with. Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily; account information, purchase or redemption information, and page-view information from some merchants with which we operate co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising, or other services; search term and search result information from some searches conducted through the Web search features; and search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links).
Security
Whenever Cliffmichaels.com handles information that you enter on our websites, regardless of where this occurs, we take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Notice. No data transmission over the Internet will be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Cliffmichaels.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing. It is the user's responsibility to protect against unauthorized access to user's password, session, and computer. It is required for all users to log out and log off with each session when using Cliffmichaels.com.
How Cliffmichaels.com may share and disclose information
Information about our users is an important part of our business. We are not in the business of selling it to others. We share user information only as described below and with subsidiaries that either are subject to this Privacy Notice & Policy or who follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
We routinely provide your name, mailing address, and email address to unaffiliated third parties that manage our mailing lists and prepare communications with users of our website.
We may also provide your information from time to time to third-party service providers if you have checked the box on our web page indicating your desire to receive email and promotions from us and our affiliates and/or our partners.
We may provide aggregate information, such as the number of users who visit a particular linked site, to other parties.
In addition, information about you in our possession may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, as well as in the unlikely event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which your personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company.
We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of CliffMichaels.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection. However, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from users for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
Children's Privacy
Although our websites may be accessed by children under the age of 13, we will not knowingly collect or use any personal information from such children. If we become aware that we have collected any personal information from children under 13, we will promptly delete such information from our databases.
Cliffmichaels.com does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use Cliffmichaels.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Other Websites Cliffmichaels.com May Link To
Our websites may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that Cliffmichaels.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. Each website should be checked for its own privacy policy. Any information you share with such a website is subject to its policies and practices and is independent of Cliffmichaels.com.
Our business changes constantly, as may our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Governing Law
By choosing to visit our websites you agree that any dispute related to this privacy notice or Conditions of Use will be governed by the law of the State of California. You also agree to arbitrate such disputes and to abide by any limitation on damages contained in our Conditions of Use or any other agreement we may have with user.