A2zPuzzles's Privacy Policy

Date of Last Revision: March 2, 2009.

A2zPuzzles's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using A2zPuzzles, located at www.A2zPuzzles.com and its directly associated domains (collectively, "A2zPuzzles" or "Website"). By using or accessing A2zPuzzles, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This privacy statement covers the site www.A2zPuzzles.com and its directly associated domains. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices herein.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact our staff through the form on our contact page. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact our parent company A2zNews.com, LLC. at info@a2znews.com

The Information We Collect

When you visit A2zPuzzles you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.

When you register with A2zPuzzles, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name and email address along with any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

When you enter A2zPuzzles, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all A2zPuzzles visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to A2zPuzzles. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.

When you use A2zPuzzles, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, join groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friends list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.

You post User Content (as defined in the A2zPuzzles Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on A2zPuzzles is a violation of the A2zPuzzles Terms of Service and should be reported through the form on our contact page.

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the site, and may send up to two reminders to them. A2zPuzzles stores this information to send invitations and reminders, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, to allow you to see invitations you have sent, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us through the form on our help page to request that we remove this information from our database.

A2zPuzzles may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the A2zPuzzles service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.

By using A2zPuzzles, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Children Under Age 13

A2zPuzzles does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for A2zPuzzles or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on A2zPuzzles. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us through the form on our contact page.

Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

We recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

Use of Information Obtained by A2zPuzzles

When you register with A2zPuzzles, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on A2zPuzzles. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by A2zPuzzles that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by A2zPuzzles primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it (e.g., posting to your blog), other A2zPuzzles users may be able to supplement your profile.

Profile information you submit to A2zPuzzles will be available to users of A2zPuzzles depending upon your privacy settings. Your profile name and optional profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the A2zPuzzles site and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request.

A2zPuzzles may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message, or someone posts a reply to one of your tracked posts, or a post that you have subscribed to are updated, you may receive an email and/or personal message at the site alerting you to that fact.

Generally, you may opt out of such notifications under your "My Account" page within the site, though A2zPuzzles reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.

A2zPuzzles may use information in your profile in an anonymous manner without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a group like a band or movie and for personalizing advertisements and promotions. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you put a favorite movie in your profile, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a screening of a similar one in your town. But we don't tell the movie company who you are.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

A2zPuzzles allows you to choose the information you provide to friends and networks through A2zPuzzles. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We may share your information anonymously with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:

• Your News Feed and Blog may aggregate the information you provide and make it available to your friends and network members according to your privacy settings. You may set your preferences on your My Account page or on individual blog entries.
• We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about A2zPuzzles, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use over a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the A2zPuzzles-specified purposes.
• We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the A2zPuzzles world. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (e.g., messaging is disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.
• We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the A2zPuzzles service or using the A2zPuzzles name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
• We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through on-site offers.
• We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on A2zPuzzles. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on A2zPuzzles, and we may share customer information with that company only in connection with your use of that store or service.
• If the ownership of all or substantially all of the A2zPuzzles business, or individual business units owned by A2zNews.com, LLC. were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

When you use A2zPuzzles, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, forum and blog listings or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, forum and blog listings or other items, this information may become publicly available.

Links

A2zPuzzles may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. Generally, links to external sites will be opened in a new browser window so that you may be aware that the visited site is not part of A2zPuzzles. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by A2zPuzzles and does not apply to other websites linked to by A2zPuzzles.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on A2zPuzzles are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. A2zPuzzles does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on A2zPuzzles unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by A2zPuzzles and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on A2zPuzzles is readily available through the profile editing tools under your "My Account" page. A2zPuzzles users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their A2zPuzzles account may do so by notifying us on our Contact page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of A2zPuzzles.

Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on A2zPuzzles, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another A2zPuzzles user) you generally cannot remove such communications. If you notify us directly on our Contact page, we will try to assist in deleting offensive or updating incorrect content such as forum posts, blog entries or broek links at your request.

Security

A2zPuzzles takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), the payment processor (Paypal) encrypts that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of A2zPuzzles Web Site, please contact us through the form on our contact page.

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

Your use of A2zPuzzles, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page or announcements area. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us online here. You may also contact us by mail at 4800 Whitesburg Drive, Suite 30-131, Huntsville, AL 35802.