PRIVACY POLICY Your privacy is very important to us. You experience on the Internet should be enjoyable and rewarding, whenever possible, and we want to make it so. We want you to be able to use the Internet's vast resources of information, tools, and opportunities. This Privacy Policy file is our commitment to privacy and security. This Privacy Policy file will tell you how we collect information from all end users of our Internet Services, Websites, - those who access our services/websites but do or do not have accounts ("Visitors") as well as those who may or may not purchase Products and Services and/or pay a monthly service fee to subscribe to the Service ("Members") - what we do with the information we collect, and the choices Visitors and Members have concerning the collection and the use of such information. We ask that you read this Privacy Policy carefully. usarmyoption.com strives to offer its visitors the many advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience. We may use Personally Identifiable Information (your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number) subject to the terms of this privacy policy. We will never sell, barter, or rent your email address to any unauthorized third party. Period. How we gather information from users How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. For example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for access to certain portions of our site or request certain features, such as newsletters or when you make a purchase. You may be providing information to receive alerts, news, offers from us relating to your needs. You may provide information when you participate in sweepstakes and contests, message boards and chat rooms, and other interactive areas of our site. Like most Web sites, usarmyoption.com also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use cookie technology to recognize you and hold information from your visit. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or may be asked to re-enter your user name and password, and we may not be able to customize the sites features according to your preferences. What we do with the information we collect Like other Web publishers, we collect information to enhance your visit and deliver more individualized content and advertising. We respect your privacy and do not share your information with anyone. Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to help enhance our site and services (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive). Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners. Again, this information does not include any Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to identify you individually. We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on usarmyoption.com to communicate with you about your registration and customization preferences; our Terms of Service and privacy policy; services and products offered by usarmyoption.com and other topics we think you might find of interest. Personally Identifiable Information collected by usarmyoption.com may also be used for other purposes, including but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions, administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (our Web hosting service for example) may access such information. We will use your information only as permitted by law. In addition, from time to time as we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets. We may also disclose your information in response to a court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or to law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases. Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements usarmyoption.com expects its partners, advertisers and affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a usarmyoption.com page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through usarmyoption.com you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web sites, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. usarmyoption.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party. While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Other features available on our site may offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather information. usarmyoption.com does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties. You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of usarmyoption.com and this policy. Children usarmyoption.com does not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe usarmyoption.com has any information from or about anyone under 13, please contact us at the address listed below. Contacting Us We can be reached by contacting: usarmyoption.com Email: info@wayofthearmy.com Changes to this Policy usarmyoption.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected. Personal Information That Our Company Collects and How It Is Used Introduction. Our company collects information in different ways from Visitors and members who access the various sections of our Services and networks of Web sites in our Service and Products. We use this information to provide a customized experience so you can use our Products and Services, and generally, do not share this information with third parties. However, we may disclose personal information collected if we have received your permission beforehand or in very special circumstances, such as when we believe that such a disclosure is required by law or other special cases described below. Registration: Members may be asked to provide certain personal information when they sign up for our Products or Services including name, address, telephone number, billing information (such as credit card number), and the type of personal computer that is being used to access the Product and / or Services. The personal information collected from Members during the registration process is used to manage each Member's account (such as for billing purposes). This information is not shared with third parties, unless specifically stated otherwise or in special circumstances. However, in instances where our company and a partner or advertiser jointly promote our Products and / or Services, we may provide the partner or advertiser certain personal information, such as the name, address, email address and / or username of persons who subscribed to the Services / Products / Website as a result of the joint promotion for the sole purpose of allowing us and the partner to assess the results of the promotion. Our company may receive commissions in the form of pay per click, pay per lead, or sign ups from the persons who access our Services / Products / Websites. In this instance, personal information may not be used by the partner for any other purposes. We may also generate non-identifying and aggregate profiles from personal information gathered during the members or visitors registration (such as total number, but not the names, of Members or Visitors). As explained in more detail below, we may use this aggregated and non-identifying information to sell advertisements that appear on our Services / Products / Websites and receive commissions. Our Company Partners and Sponsors: Some products and services may be offered to Visitors and Members in conjunction with an affiliate, independent contractor seller or a non-affiliated partner. To provide Visitors and Members some of these products and services, the partner may need to collect and maintain personal information about the Visitors and Members. In these instances, you will be notified before any such data is collected and / or transferred and may decide not to use that particular service or feature. In addition, our partners / advertisers / co ventures may have advertisements or co-branded Web Pages that are co-sponsored by an affiliate, non-affiliated partner or independent contractor seller. Our company may share non-identifying and aggregate information (except as described above), but not personal information, with such partners so that we may administer the co-branded products or services offered. Online Shopping: At some Web Sites, you may / can purchase products and services or register to receive materials, such as a newsletter, catalog or new product and / or service updates. In many of these cases, you may be asked to provide contact information, such as your name, email address, address, phone number, age, and credit/debit card information. If you complete an order for someone else, such as an online gift order sent directly to a recipient, you may be asked to provide information about the recipient, such as the recipients's name, address, phone number, email, and age. Our company has no control over third parties' use of any personal information you provide when placing an order / such an order. Therefore, we advise you exercise care when doing so. If you order services or products directly from our company / website we will use the personal information you provide only to process that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order. Online Advertisements: Our company may display our online advertisements. In those cases we share the aggregated and non-identifying information about our Visitors and Members collected through the registration process as well as through online surveys, sweepstakes, contests, giveaways, and promotions with these advertisers. Also, In some cases, we use this aggregated and non-identifying information to deliver a tailored advertisement(s) or joint ventures. For instance, an advertiser or joint venture company tells us the audience they want to reach and provides us with an advertisement tailored to the audience they want to reach. Based upon the aggregated and non-identifying information we collected, we may then display or send the advertisement to the intended audience. Our company does not share personal information about its Visitors or Members with these advertisers or joint venture companies. Responses to Email Inquiries: When Visitors or Members send email inquiries to our company, we will answer the email inquiry we receive using the return email address. Our company does not use the return email address for any other purpose and does not share the return email address with any third party. Voluntary Customer Survey, contests, sweepstakes, giveaways, and promotions: We may periodically conduct both business and individual customer surveys, contests, sweepstakes, giveaways and promotions. We encourage our customers to participate in these surveys, contests, sweepstakes, giveaways, and promotions because they provide us with important information that helps us to improve the types of products and services we offer and how we provide them to you. Your personal information and responses will remain strictly confidential, even it the survey, contests, sweepstakes, giveaways, and promotions is conducted by a third party. Participation in our surveys, contests, sweepstakes, giveaways, and promotions are voluntary. We take the information we receive from individuals responding to our Customer Surveys, Contests, Sweepstakes, Giveaways, and Promotions and combine (or aggregate) it with the responses of other customers we may have, to create broader, generic or specific responses to the survey questions (such as gender, age, residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry sector, or other demographic information). We then use the aggregated information to improve the quality of our services to you, and to develop new services, products, and programs. This aggregated, non-personally identifying information may be share with third parties, affiliates, co-ventures, and advertisers. Promotions: Our company / website may offer polls, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, games, content, or other promotions that are cosponsored, sponsored, branded or cobranded with third parties, affiliates, co-ventures and advertisers. In certain instances, our company may have to supply personally identifiable information of the winners to the third parties. Our company has no control over third parties use of this information. You may be entered in a sweepstake, contest, drawings, poll, or other promotions, simply by making a purchase from us or by providing us with personally identifiable information for some other reason or purpose. When the winning entries are chosen, only the names and personally identifiable information of the winners are shared with the entity administering the sweepstakes, contests, promotions, drawings, so that they can notify the winners. Also, these winners pictures, names, and testimonies may be posted on our companies website, product, or service. Special Cases: It is our company's policy not to use or share the personal information about Visitors or Members in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses. However, we may disclose personal information about Visitors or Members, or information regarding your use of the Services or Web sites that is accessible through our products or services. For any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including: credit agencies, collections agencies, law enforcement, merchant database agencies, or to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Child Online Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such Private Information; to disclose information that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal actions against someone who may be violating our Acceptable Use Policy or Terms of Service, or other user policies; to operate the Services properly; or to protect our company and our Members. Notice of Compliance to California Residents: Your California Privacy Rights Under The California Online Privacy Protection Act and the California Business and Professions Code. This privacy policy identifies the categories of personally identifiable information that our company / website collects through our Web Site, online service or online product / program, about individual consumers who use or visit our company's commercial Web Site or online service / product and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom our company may share that personally identifiable information. Our company does not maintain a process for our individual customer / consumer who uses or visits our commercial Web Site or online service to review and request any changes to any of his or her personally identifiable information that is collected through our Web Site or online service. See the section below entitle "Revisions To This Policy" for a description of the process by which our company notifies consumers who use or visit our commercial Web Site, Online Service, of material changes to our company's privacy policy for this Web Site or online service. The effective date of this privacy policy is listed at the end of this privacy policy under the heading, "Last Update." For the purposes of this policy and California compliance, the following definitions apply: Depending upon the visitor's activity in our commercial Web Site or online service, the following "personally identifiable information" may be collected, in addition to information set forth in other sections of this document. The term "personally identifiable information" means individually indentifiable information about an individual consumer collected online by our company from an individual and maintained by our company in an accessible form, and may include any of the following: 1. A first and last name 2. A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city of town. 3. An email address 4. A telephone number 5. A social security number 6. Any other identifier that permits the physical or online contacting of a specific individual. 7. Information concerning a user that the Web Site or online service collects online, from the user, and maintaining it in a personally identifiable form, in combination with an identifier described within this privacy policy. Under the California Law SB 27, California residents have the right to receive, once a year, information about third parties with whom we have shared information about you or your family for their marketing purposes during the previous calendar year, if any, and a description of the categories of personal information shared. To make such a request, please send an email to privacyrequest@wayofthearmy.com and please include the phrase "California Privacy Request" in the subject line, the domain name of the Web Site you are inquiring about, along with your name, address and email address. We will respond to you within thirty days of receiving your request. Cookies and How Our Company Uses Them. A "cookie" is a small data file that can be placed on your hard drive when you visit certain web sites. Our company may use these cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track information for statistical purposes in order to improve the products and service we provide and also to manage our telecommunications networks. If you are a Visitor or Member we may use the cookie to save your settings and to provide you with a customizable and personalized services. These cookies do not enable third parties to access any of your customer information. Please be informed that if you visit other Web Sites where you are prompted to log in or that websites that are customizable, you may be required to accept cookies. Advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control nor have control over the use of these cookies and expressly disclaim responsibility for any information collected through them. Our Company Commitment to Children's Privacy. Protecting the children's privacy is very important to us. It is our policy to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and all other applicable laws. Therefore we restrict our Web Site to persons 16 years or older. YOU MUST BE SIXTEEN (16) YEARS OR OLDER TO ACCESS THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ACCESS THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY REASON. DUE TO THE AGE RESTRICTIONS FOR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, NO INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THIS WEBSITE, FALLS WITHIN THE CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (COPPA) AND IS NOT MONITORED AS DOING SO. Public Forums: Please remember that any information you may disclose in any Member Directory, or other public areas of our Web Sites or the Internet becomes public information. Therefore, you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these public areas. Our Company's Commitment to Data Security: Any Services and Websites we sponsor and / or place on the web have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. While we make effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally gaining this information. Where to Direct Questions About Our Privacy Policy: If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices described here, contact us through the contact information provided on this Web site. Revisions to This Policy: Our company reserves the right to revise, amend, change or modify this policy, our Terms Of Service Agreement, and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner, by updating this document and posting it. Your use of this site after such changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of these changes. Please consult this privacy statement prior to every use for any changes. Last updated: October 3, 2011. Copyright © 2011 - 2016 usarmyoption.com