Effective Date:
April 01, 2006
The following Privacy Policy governs BCCMOBILE.com's online
information collection practices. Specifically, it outlines the
types of information that BCCMOBILE.com gathers about you while
you are using the BCCMOBILE.com website (the "Service"), and the
ways in which BCCMOBILE.com uses and doesn't use this
information. This Privacy Policy, including the children's
privacy statement, does not apply to any information you may
provide to us or that we may collect offline and/or through
other means (for example, at a live event, via telephone, or
through the mail).
Please read
this Privacy Policy carefully. By visiting the BCCMOBILE.com
website, you agree that your use of our Service, and any dispute
over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms
of Service. Because the Web is an evolving medium, we may need
to change our Privacy Policy at some point in the future, in
which case we'll post the changes to this Privacy Policy on this
website and update the Effective Date of the policy to reflect
the date of the changes. By continuing to use the BCCMOBILE.com
website after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy
Policy as modified.
Your
California Privacy Rights
California
Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light"
law, permits our customers who are California residents to
request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge,
information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed
to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding
calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a
list of the categories of personal information that was shared
and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we
shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year.
If you are a
California resident and would like to make such a request,
please submit your request in writing to:
Toby Boogerd
Online Privacy Coordinator
Information Technology Division
547 11th Avenue NE
Sioux Center, IA 51250
What Information is
Collected About Visitors?'
The
information that BCCMOBILE.com collects about you while you are
using the Service falls into two general categories:
1.
Information You Provide to Us.
BCCMOBILE.com may collect and store information, personal or
otherwise, that you voluntarily supply either while on the
BCCMOBILE.com website or in responding via email in connection
with a feature provided on the BCCMOBILE.com website. Some
examples of this type of information include demographic
information that you electronically submit when you sign up for
access to certain features on the Service, information (such as
your name or email address) that you electronically submit when
you register for surveys, sweepstakes or contests on the
BCCMOBILE.com website, information that you post on message
boards on the BCCMOBILE.com website, and information contained
in search requests or questions that you submit to the
BCCMOBILE.com website. If you decline to supply or provide
BCCMOBILE.com with certain information while using the Service,
you may not be able to use or participate in some or all of the
features offered through the Service.
2.
Information that is Automatically Collected.
BCCMOBILE.com also collects and stores information that is
generated automatically as you navigate through the
BCCMOBILE.com website. For example, to enhance your experience
on the BCCMOBILE.com website, BCCMOBILE.com uses a standard
feature found in browser software called a "cookie." Cookies
are small files that your web browser places on your hard drive
for record-keeping purposes. By showing how and when visitors
use the BCCMOBILE.com site, cookies help us track user trends
and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter
your preferences on certain areas of the BCCMOBILE.com site
where you have entered preference information before.
BCCMOBILE.com also uses web beacons (also known as "single-pixel
GIFs") to access cookies and to count users who visit the
BCCMOBILE.com site or open BCCMOBILE.com's HTML-formatted email
messages. Another example of information that BCCMOBILE.com
automatically collects as you navigate the BCCMOBILE.com site is
information about your computer's connection to the Internet.
This information allows us, among other things, to improve the
delivery of our web pages to you and to measure traffic on the
BCCMOBILE.com site.
In addition,
third party advertisers or third party ad servers that place and
present advertising on the Service also may collect information
from you via cookies, web beacons, clear .gifs or similar
technologies. These third party advertisers and ad servers may
use the information they collect to help present their
advertisements, to help measure and research the advertisements'
effectiveness, or for other uses. The use and collection of your
information by these third party advertisers and ad servers is
governed by the relevant third party's privacy policy and is not
covered by our privacy policy. Indeed, the privacy policy of
these third party advertisers and ad servers may be different
from our privacy policy. If you want more information about the
privacy policies of these third party advertisers and ad servers
or want more information on how to opt-out of the cookies that
some advertisers and ad servers may use, click
here.
How is this Information
Used?
BCCMOBILE.com
uses the information it collects from you while you are using
the Service in a variety of ways, including using the
information to customize features and advertising that appear on
the BCCMOBILE.com website. We also may provide your information
to third parties, such as service providers, contractors, and
advertisers, for a variety of purposes. For example, we may
provide our advertisers with information about you and other
visitors that will enable our advertisers to better target ads
to specific types of visitors.
BCCMOBILE.com reserves the right to use and to disclose to third
parties all of the information that BCCMOBILE.com collects
online about you and other visitors in any way and for any
purpose, with one important exception. BCCMOBILE.com will not
use the information that it collects online from you while you
are using the Service, nor will BCCMOBILE.com authorize third
parties to use such information, to mail or email promotional
offers directly to you unless you have specifically informed
BCCMOBILE.com that you would like to receive promotional offers
from BCCMOBILE.com and/or from third parties. If you choose to
receive these promotional offers, then your information may be
used for direct mail or email marketing.
Please also
keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal
information available for viewing by third parties online – for
example on message boards, through email or web logs, or in chat
areas – that information can be seen, collected and used by
others besides BCCMOBILE.com. BCCMOBILE.com cannot be
responsible for any unauthorized third party use of such
information.
The
BCCMOBILE.com website includes links to other websites and
provides access to products and services offered by third
parties, whose privacy policies we do not control. When you
access another website or purchase third party products or
services through the Service, use of any information you provide
is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site
you are visiting or the provider of such products or services.
We also make some content, products and services available
through our Service through cooperative relationships with third
party providers, where the brands of our provider partner appear
on the Service in connection with such content, products and/or
services. We may share with our provider partner any
information you provide, or that is collected, in the course of
visiting any pages that are made available in cooperation with
our provider partner. In some cases, the provider partner may
collect information from you directly; in which cases the
privacy policy of the provider partner may apply to the provider
partner's use of your information. The privacy policy of our
provider partners may differ from ours. If you have any
questions regarding the privacy policy of one of our provider
partners, you should contact the provider partner directly for
more information. In addition, certain affiliated
USA
TODAY divisions, such as the
USA
TODAY print newspaper, provide online services that are separate
from our Service and may be subject to privacy policies that are
different from ours. If you have any question about the privacy
policy that applies to the online service you are using, you
should click on the relevant link on the page of the service
that you are using..
Be aware
that BCCMOBILE.com may occasionally release information about
visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to
enforce our Terms Of Service agreement, or to protect the
rights, property or safety of visitors to our site, the public,
or BCCMOBILE.com.
Please also
note that as our business grows, we may buy or sell various
assets. In the unlikely event that BCCMOBILE.com, some or all
of our assets, or our site is acquired by another company,
information about our visitors may be among the transferred
assets.
Children's
Privacy Statement
This
children's privacy statement explains BCCMOBILE.com's practices
with respect to the online collection and use of personal
information from children under the age of thirteen, and
provides important information regarding your rights under
federal law with respect to such information.
·
This Service is not directed to children under the age of thirteen
and we do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under the age of thirteen as part of
the Service. We screen users who wish to provide personal
information in order to prevent users under the age of thirteen
from providing such information. If we become aware that we
have inadvertently received personally identifiable information
from a user under the age of thirteen as part of the Service, we
will delete such information from our records. If we change our
practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable
parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable
information from children under the age of thirteen as part of
the Service.
·
Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information
from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Service,
we also do NOT knowingly distribute such information to third
parties.
·
We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of thirteen to
publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable
contact information through the Service.
·
'Because
we do not collect any personally identifiable information from
children under the age of thirteen as part of the Service, we do
NOT condition the participation in the Service's online
activities of a child under thirteen on providing personally
identifiable information.
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