Privacy
Policy
Last
Update: May 14, 2009
Make IT
Seven Inc. respects the privacy of all of its users and is committed to
protecting such privacy in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy explains Make IT Seven Inc. Inc.'s and its
subsidiaries' (collectively, "Make IT Seven Inc.") treatment of your
personally identifiable information collected in connection with your activities
on or related to all Make IT Seven Inc. websites referencing this Privacy Policy
(the "Make IT Seven Inc. Sites") and all services made available on the
Make IT Seven Inc. Sites (collectively, unless noted otherwise, the "Make IT
Seven Inc. Services"). This Privacy Policy also explains how you can ask
questions and make suggestions about our privacy practices and review and update
your personal information.
We urge you
to read this Privacy Policy carefully and to check back periodically as this
Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Please note that this Privacy
Policy does not apply to the practices of companies or websites which are not
owned or controlled by Make IT Seven Inc.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
In the
course of operating the Make IT Seven Inc. Services, we may collect two types of
information about our users: Personal Information and Non-Personal Information.
"Personal
Information" is personally identifiable information, such as your name,
address, email address, birth date and gender. Personal Information is collected
by us when you choose to provide it to us when registering for a Make IT Seven
Inc. Service, such as when you choose to subscribe to a Make IT Seven Inc.
Service, enter a Make IT Seven Inc. promotion or choose to receive a Make IT
Seven Inc. newsletter. In addition, if you choose to contact any of our customer
service representatives, we may keep a record of that correspondence so that we
may fully address the subject matter. We may also
receive Personal Information from our business partners and other third parties,
provided that such third parties confirm to us that you have permitted them to
share such information.
Business
contact information such as the name, title, business address, email address or
telephone number of a business or professional person or an employee of an
organization is not considered Personal Information.
"Non-Personal
Information" is information of an anonymous nature, such as your Internet
Protocol Address (IP Address), the domain you may have used to access a Make IT
Seven Inc. Service, the type and version of browser or operating system you may
be using, and the website you may have come from and visit next.
Aggregate information, such as demographic statistics of our users (e.g.
average age or geographical allocation of our users), number of visitors and
average time spent on a Make IT Seven Inc. Service, is also considered
Non-Personal Information.
Non-Personal Information is collected or derived by us in the course of
operating the Make IT Seven Inc. Services. For
example, our Web servers may automatically collect Non-Personal Information
which is provided through your browser or stored on a Cookie (as defined herein)
or through a Web Beacon (as defined herein) when you choose to visit a Make IT
Seven Inc. Service. Non-Personal Information is used by Make IT Seven Inc. as
described in this Privacy Policy.
USE OF
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal
Information may be used by us for the following purposes:
a.
Providing you with the Make IT Seven Inc. Services and information you have
requested from us, including your use of the Make IT Seven Inc. Sites. We may from time to time use your Personal
Information to contact you about changes, enhancements, or similar notices
related to the Make IT Seven Inc. Services;
b. If you
indicated that you were interested in receiving offers or information from Make
IT Seven Inc. or certain of our selected sponsors or advertisers, Make IT Seven
Inc. may send you email materials and other mailings about products and services
that we feel may be of interest to you. If at any
time you would like to end your subscription to any such email materials, follow
the directions posted at the bottom of the email material;
c. If you
enter a contest or other promotion offered on a Make IT Seven Inc. Site, we may,
under the rules of the promotion, use your name and certain other information to
administer the promotion, such as contacting, announcing and promoting the
winners of the promotion; or
d. Make IT
Seven Inc. may also use Personal Information if it has reasonable grounds to
believe the information could be useful when investigating a contravention of a
federal, provincial or foreign law or in order to protect or defend a legal
interest.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will not
sell or rent your Personal Information to anyone.
We will
only disclose your Personal Information to third parties:
a. Where
you have specifically given us your consent to disclose your Personal
Information for a designated purpose;
b. Who are
acting on our behalf as our agents, suppliers or service providers, solely to
enable us to more efficiently provide you with the Make IT Seven Inc. Services.
Such entities act under strict contractual controls, requiring them to maintain
the confidentiality of all such Personal Information and to use such information
solely for purposes related to the provision of the Make IT Seven Inc. Services;
c. As may
be set out in the Terms and Conditions applicable to a Make IT Seven Inc.
Service, to facilitate the provision of such Make IT Seven Inc. Service, such as
fulfilling legal requirements;
d. As
required by law, including by an order of any court, institution or body with
jurisdiction or authority to compel the production of information, or in order
to protect or defend a legal interest; or
e. In
connection with a Make IT Seven Inc. corporate re-organization, merger or
amalgamation with another entity, or a sale of all or a substantial portion of
the assets of Make IT Seven Inc. provided that the Personal Information
disclosed continues to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy
by the entity acquiring the information.
LINKS TO
OTHER SITES AND ADVERTISEMENTS
A Make IT
Seven Inc. Service may contain links to other websites and services. While we
try to link only to sites and services that share our high standards and respect
for privacy, please understand that we are not responsible for the content of,
or the privacy practices employed by, other companies or websites. This Privacy
Policy applies only to the Make IT Seven Inc. Services referencing this Privacy
Policy.
The
majority of the advertisements which are displayed in connection with the Make
IT Seven Inc. Services are served through reputable third party advertisement
serving partner(s), in accordance with their policies as described on their own
website.
SECURITY
The
security of your Personal Information is important to us. Make IT Seven Inc.
takes technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to
protect Personal Information that you provide to us.
We instruct our employees with access to your Personal Information that it is to
be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy
and the laws applicable to each specific business.
In certain
areas, such as when you provide credit card information to us, we work to help
protect the security of your credit card information during transmission by
using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.
You can
help protect the security of your Personal Information as well. For instance,
never give out your password, since this is what is used to access your account
or registration information. Also remember to log
out of your account and close your browser window when you finish using a Make
IT Seven Inc. Service or surfing the Web, so that other people using the same
computer won't have access to your information.
CHANGES
TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY?
Make IT
Seven Inc. may from time to time change this Privacy Policy as new Make IT Seven
Inc. Services are added or old ones changed. Changes will be effective when
notice of such change is posted at a Make IT Seven Inc. Site. Please check this
Privacy Policy regularly for updates by checking the date of "Last Update" at
the top of this document.
ADDITIONAL PRIVACY PROCEDURES
Privacy
procedures specific to a Make IT Seven Inc. Service can be found on a Make IT
Seven Inc. Site at the location of the particular Make IT Seven Inc. Service, or
in additional terms referenced at such Make IT Seven Inc. Site.
Those procedures are an addendum to this Privacy Policy, and are provided
to you at the place where they will be of most use to you.
ACCESSING AND CHANGING ACCOUNT / REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Make IT
Seven Inc. provides you with the means to access, update, edit or delete any
account or registration information you may have provided to us at any time on
your own by going to the appropriate page in the account or registration section
of the relevant Make IT Seven Inc. Service, and changing or deleting such
information as desired.
If you are
unsure whether we have a record containing any of your Personal Information and
would like to confirm whether or not we do, please send an e-mail indicating all
e-mail addresses that you may have given us.
If you
decide at any time that you do not want to receive any e-mail materials to which
you have subscribed, you may choose to unsubscribe to these e-mails by following
the instructions at the end of the message.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS?
If you have
questions, comments or suggestions about this Privacy Policy or Make IT Seven
Inc.'s privacy practices that were not answered here, send us an e-mail.
Make IT
Seven Inc. USE OF NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Non-Personal Information is collected or derived by us in the course of
operating the Make IT Seven Inc. Services. For
example, our Web servers may automatically collect Non-Personal Information
which is provided through your browser or stored on a Cookie or through a Web
Beacon when you choose to visit a Make IT Seven Inc. Service.
In addition
to Make IT Seven Inc.'s practices related to IP Addresses, Cookies or Web
Beacons, Non-Personal Information is used generally by Make IT Seven Inc. to
monitor and improve the operation of the Make IT Seven Inc. Services, to perform
statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our
users, to measure user demographics and interests regarding specific Make IT
Seven Inc. Services, to describe our services to third parties such as
prospective business partners and advertisers and to analyze how and where best
to use our resources. No Personal Information will be disclosed during these
activities.
Make IT
Seven Inc. may also use Non-Personal Information to inform our sponsors and
advertisers as to the performance of a particular sponsorship (such as a
contest) or advertisement. In such case we may disclose to those third-party
sponsors and advertisers the overall aggregate demographics available regarding,
for example who participated in a contest or who saw and "clicked" on an
advertisement. No Personal Information will be disclosed to these sponsors and
advertisers as part of this process; only information in an anonymous, aggregate
form will be disclosed.
IP
ADDRESSES
An IP
Address is the unique number which is assigned to every direct Internet access
point. Many IP Addresses can generally be associated with certain Internet
service providers or large organizations. IP Addresses do not contain any
Personal Information. When you, through your browser, request a web page or
similar Internet information from another computer on the Internet, your browser
automatically provides that computer with an IP address to which it will send
the requested information.
Make IT
Seven Inc. and IP Addresses:
a. Whenever
you request a Make IT Seven Inc. Service web page or certain other similar Make
IT Seven Inc. content, your browser automatically provides our computers with
your IP Address, to which our computers will send the requested information.
Each such request is logged by our computers with information including the IP
Address of the computer that requested the page and is stored by our computers
as needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
b. Make IT
Seven Inc. may use your IP Address to display more appropriate and relevant
content and advertising, such as content and advertising based on your
geographic area. Aggregate information derived from IP Addresses may be reported
by Make IT Seven Inc. to its advertisers and partners. For example, Make IT
Seven Inc. may report to its advertisers the estimated total number of users
accessing a particular Make IT Seven Inc. Site from a specific province;
c. Make IT
Seven Inc. may use your IP Address to facilitate the diagnoses and remedy of a
technical problem reported by you or our technical team.
COOKIES
AND WEB BEACONS
A “Cookie”
is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is
transferred (through your browser) from a web site to the hard drive of your
computer. The Cookie identifies your browser and will NOT let a web site know
any personal information about you, such as your name and address. Since Cookies
are only text files, they cannot run on your computer, search your computer for
other information or transmit any information to anyone.
Make IT
Seven Inc. may use Cookies to:
a. Monitor
website usage and improve the operation and performance of the Make IT Seven
Inc. Services and to make our Make IT Seven Inc. Services easier and more
convenient to use. For example, Cookies help us remember who you are through
your browser settings so that we can offer and provide more personalized
services (e.g. language preference). Cookies also
allow us to save passwords and preferences for you so that you will not have to
re-enter them the next time you visit a Make IT Seven Inc. Service;
b. Measure
aggregate user traffic and demographic statistics related to the Make IT Seven
Inc. Services and advertisements (e.g. number of users, average time spent,
average age and similar statistics). This information helps us to better
understand when to update, change or offer new services and provides us with
details as to the performance of third party advertisements and content. This
information may be reported, in aggregate form only, to our current and
prospective sponsors, advertisers and business partners. No Personal Information
will be disclosed in such reports;
c.
Displaying advertisements. Make IT Seven Inc. and third party advertising
providers used by Make IT Seven Inc. may use Cookies when serving
advertisements.
Cookies are
used on many major web sites. Most browsers are initially set up to accept
Cookies. If you prefer, you can reset your browser either to notify you when you
have received a Cookie, or to refuse to accept Cookies. You should understand
that while Make IT Seven Inc. does not require you to use Cookies, certain Make
IT Seven Inc. Services will not function properly if you set your browser to not
accept Cookies.
Certain
Make IT Seven Inc. Services may contain electronic images known as “Web
Beacons” -- sometimes called single-pixel gifs -- that allow Make IT Seven
Inc. to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded
services. Web Beacons are not used to access your Personal Information; they are
a technique used to compile aggregated statistics about Make IT Seven Inc.
Service usage. Web Beacons collect only a limited set of information including a
Cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on
which the Web Beacon resides. Certain Make IT Seven Inc. Service web pages may
also contain Web Beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help Make
IT Seven Inc. determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.