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Texas Wedding Connection has created this
privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment
to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering
and dissemination practices for this website: www.txweddingconnection.com
Texas Wedding Connection website contains links to other
websites. Txweddingconnection.com is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control
provided by our Service Provider.
Thank you for visiting TXWEDDINGCONNECTION.com, The premiere online wedding fair of South Texas!. Your privacy is important to
us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice
explaining our online information practices and the choices
you can make about the way your information is collected and
used at this Texas Wedding Connection site. Click here for
a list of the Texas Wedding Connection businesses whose sites
are governed by this Privacy Notice.
The Information We Collect
At some Texas Wedding Connection sites, you can order products,
enter contests or subscribe to one of our services such as
our online newsletters. The types of personally identifiable
information that may be collected at these pages include:
name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number,
credit card information, and information about your interests
in and use of various products, programs, and services.
At some other Texas Wedding Connection sites, you can submit
information about other people. For example, you might submit
a person's name and e-mail address to send an electronic greeting
card and, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly
to the recipient, you might submit the recipient's name and
address. The types of personally identifiable information
that may be collected about other people at these pages include:
recipient's name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
At certain parts of some of our sites, only persons who provide
us with the requested personally identifiable information
will be able to order products, programs, and services or
otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information
when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser
you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type
of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac
OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider
(e.g., America Online, Earthlink).
How We Use the Information
We may use the information you provide about yourself to
fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services,
to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer
you other products, programs or services that we believe may
be of interest to you.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with you,
such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests
or when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill
a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you
about your account with us.
We use the information that you provide about others to enable
us to send them your gifts or cards. From time to time, we
also may use this information to offer our products, programs,
or services to them.
The information we collect is used to provide an interactive
experience. We use this information to offer you products,
programs, or services.
If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a
feedback), we may publish your screen name and other information
you have provided to us.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information
that we collect to improve the design and content of our site
and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience.
We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze
site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or
services.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response
to legal process, for example, in response to a court order
or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response
to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe
it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations
of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. In addition,
we may transfer information about you if we are acquired by
or merged with another company.
Affiliates, agents and contractors of Texas Wedding Connection
who have access to personally identifiable information are
required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent
with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information
for any purpose other than to carry out the services they
are performing for Texas Wedding Connection .
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against
unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure
you that personally identifiable information that we collect
will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with
this Privacy Notice.
Certain Texas Wedding Connection sites may disclose personally
identifiable information to companies whose practices are
not covered by this privacy notice (e.g., other marketers,
magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases, and
non-profit organizations) that want to market products or
services to you.
We may on occasion combine information we receive online
with outside records to enhance our ability to market to you
those products or services that may be of interest to you.
Finally, the Texas Wedding Connection sites covered by this
Privacy Notice will not use or transfer personally identifiable
information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described
above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt
out of these unrelated uses.
Cookies & Web Beacons
To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our web
pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place
in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies,
by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other
personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide
this information to us by, for example, registering at one
of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish the site
with personally identifiable information, this information
may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the
content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use
cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g.,
to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save
your password in password-protected areas, and enable you
to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies
to offer you products, programs, or services.
"Web beacons" or clear .gifs are small pieces of
code placed on a web page to monitor the behavior and collect
data about the visitors viewing a web page. For example, web
beacons can be used to count the users who visit a web page
or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing
that page. We may use web beacons on this site from time to
time for this and other purposes.
Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites, Ad Servers,
and Sponsors
Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose information
practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult
the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over
information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third
parties.
The Texas Wedding Connection sites covered by this Privacy
Notice sometimes may offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes,
or promotions) that is sponsored by or cobranded with identified
third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third
parties may obtain personally identifiable information that
visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity.
Texas Wedding Connection has no control over these third parties'
use of this information. The Texas Wedding Connection site
will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable
information if these third parties will obtain such information.
Some of the Texas Wedding Connection sites covered by this
Privacy Notice may use a reputable third party to present
or serve the advertisements that you may see at its Web pages.
These third party ad servers may use cookies, web beacons,
clear .gifs or similar technologies to help present such advertisements,
and to help measure and research the advertisements' effectiveness.
The use of these technologies by these third party ad servers
is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered
by our privacy policy. For more information on this site's
use of such third-party ad servers, please click here.
Our Commitment to Security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and
managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized
access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information
we collect online.
Updates & Effective Date
From time to time, we may update this privacy notice. We
will notify you about material changes in the way we treat
personally identifiable information by placing a notice on
our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and
review this policy so that you always will know what information
we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
The Privacy Notice posted on this site was updated on or
about September 1, 2005.
Children's Guidelines
Our Web Site meets the guidelines of TRUSTe's Children's program.
We do NOT:
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collect online contact information without prior parental
consent or parental notification, which will include an
opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information
and participation in the activity. Without prior parental
consent, online information will only be used to respond
directly to the child's request and will not be used for
other purposes without prior parental consent
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collect personally identifiable offline contact information
without prior parental consent
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distribute to third parties any personally identifiable
information with out prior parental consent
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give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute
personally identifiable contact information without prior
parental consent
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entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other
activity, to divulge more information than is needed to
participate in the activity
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving
communications from us and our partners at the point where
we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for removing their
information from our database to not receive future communications
or to no longer receive our service.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site,
you can contact privacy officer Dexter Miranda by sending
email to txprivacy@txweddingconnection.com
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