Privacy Policy

The Web­site

This Web­site presents infor­ma­tion and con­tent that is owned, licensed, or pro­vided by Actual Objects LLC, its sub­sidiaries and affil­i­ates (“Actual Objects”). The Site may also include ser­vices pro­vided by third par­ties and dis­trib­uted through the Site by virtue of a license, grant or some other form of agree­ment between the third party and Actual Objects and its cus­tomers. When used in this Pri­vacy Pol­icy, “we”, “us” and “our” mean Actual Objects.

Vis­it­ing Our Website

You can browse our Web­site with­out pro­vid­ing any per­sonal or indi­vid­u­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion. You also may be able to set your browser to reject cook­ies. If you do that, the Web­site may be less func­tional for you.

There are times when you may choose to give us per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion about you. For exam­ple, you may wish to reg­is­ter to post entries, com­ments or arti­cles on the Web­site, receive e-​​mails from us, receive invi­ta­tions, attend events, to beta-​​test new ser­vices, pre­view new con­tent, or pur­chase goods and ser­vices avail­able through the Site. We need cer­tain infor­ma­tion from you to reg­is­ter you, authen­ti­cate you, and process your entries and pay­ments, where necessary.

Kinds of Infor­ma­tion We Collect

We col­lect infor­ma­tion that you vol­un­tar­ily give us, as well as Site Vis­i­tor­ship Data as defined below, on this Website.

Per­son­ally Iden­ti­fi­able Information

In order to uti­lize cer­tain fea­tures of the Web­site, you may be asked to pro­vide per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion such as your e-​​mail address, name, mail­ing address, tele­phone num­ber, social secu­rity num­ber, credit card num­ber or per­sis­tent iden­ti­fier (such as a cus­tomer num­ber held in a cookie) which is asso­ci­ated with per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion, as well as other infor­ma­tion, which you may pro­vide vol­un­tar­ily. We col­lect such per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion that you give us so that we may:

• pro­vide infor­ma­tion about Actual Objects and the Site;
• tell you about prod­ucts and ser­vices, and pro­vide infor­ma­tion to our third party mar­ket­ing partners; 
• notify you about new con­tent and upcom­ing events, games, tools and other fea­tures avail­able on the Site;
• respond to your requests for information; 
• process sur­vey results and con­test entries;
• process online pur­chases and pay­ments you request;
• fil­ter the prod­ucts and ser­vices we provide;
• authen­ti­cate reg­is­tered cus­tomers; and
• post your com­ments and content.

By pro­vid­ing any per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion to the Web­site, you fully under­stand and unam­bigu­ously con­sent to the col­lec­tion and pro­cess­ing of such infor­ma­tion in the United States of Amer­ica. We will pro­vide you rea­son­able access to per­sonal infor­ma­tion that you pro­vided through the Web­site and the rea­son­able abil­ity to review and cor­rect it. To pro­tect your pri­vacy and secu­rity, we will also take rea­son­able steps to ver­ify your iden­tity, such as requir­ing a pass­word and user ID, before grant­ing access to your data, where applicable.

Site Vis­i­tor­ship Data

Site Vis­i­tor­ship Data is infor­ma­tion about the way a web­site is used that is not asso­ci­ated with an individual’s iden­tity. We use aggre­gate anony­mous data regard­ing online behav­ior to bet­ter under­stand how peo­ple use our Web­site. To that end, we may use aggre­gated, anony­mous online traf­fic behav­ior along with infor­ma­tion from third par­ties to track usage trends and thereby improve our Web­site. We may also use this aggre­gated, anony­mous infor­ma­tion to develop reports that we may share with third party mar­ket­ing part­ners and cus­tomers. The kind of infor­ma­tion we may col­lect includes:

• your Inter­net Pro­to­col (IP) address;
• the pages vis­ited on our site;
• the links clicked on our site
• any prod­ucts or ser­vices you review;
• the fea­tures used;
• how long a vis­i­tor stays; and
• con­tent, images and adver­tise­ments you select,
• the domain name of the site from which vis­i­tors con­nect to our Site and the site to which vis­i­tors con­nect through our service.

Most Site Vis­i­tor­ship Data is col­lected using data col­lec­tion tools such as web bea­cons, cook­ies, embed­ded web links, and other com­monly used information-​​gathering tools. We use Site Vis­i­tor­ship Data to develop, man­age, and improve the Web­site. Some­times we may aggre­gate Site Vis­i­tor­ship Data with per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion from reg­is­tered mem­bers. We may use that infor­ma­tion to:

• man­age the Website;
• help resolve problems;
• ana­lyze use of the site; and
• notify you about prod­ucts or ser­vices that we, our third party mar­ket­ing part­ners, and mem­bers may offer from time-​​to-​​time.

We may use third-​​party adver­tis­ing com­pa­nies to serve ads when you visit our web­site. These com­pa­nies may use Site Vis­i­tor­ship Data as well as other infor­ma­tion (not includ­ing your name, address, email address, or tele­phone num­ber) about your vis­its to the Site and other web­sites in order to pro­vide adver­tise­ments about goods and ser­vices that may be of inter­est to you. If you would like more infor­ma­tion about this prac­tice and to know you choices about not hav­ing this infor­ma­tion used by these com­pa­nies, please visit the applic­a­ble adver­tis­ing com­pany web­site. For infor­ma­tion on Google’s data col­lec­tion prac­tices, please click here.

Cir­cum­stances may arise where, whether for strate­gic or other busi­ness rea­sons, Actual Objects decides to sell, buy, merge or oth­er­wise reor­ga­nize busi­nesses. Such a trans­ac­tion may involve the dis­clo­sure of per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion to prospec­tive or actual pur­chasers, or the receipt of it from sell­ers. It is our prac­tice to seek appro­pri­ate pro­tec­tion for infor­ma­tion in these types of transactions.

Infor­ma­tion Security

We may rec­om­mend or require the use of encryp­tion tech­nolo­gies for cer­tain types of com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­ducted through this Web­site. While we may pro­vide those tech­nolo­gies and use other rea­son­able pre­cau­tions to pro­tect con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion and pro­vide suit­able secu­rity, we do not guar­an­tee that infor­ma­tion trans­mit­ted through the Inter­net is secure, or that such trans­mis­sions will be free from delay, inter­rup­tion, inter­cep­tion or error.

Dis­clo­sure of Information

Actual Objects will not release any per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion to third par­ties with­out your con­sent except as follows:

1. Any­one pro­vid­ing us their per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion grants Actual Objects and its affil­i­ates, the right to use their infor­ma­tion inter­nally with­out restric­tions for the pur­poses that include with­out lim­i­ta­tion, research, mar­ket­ing, and con­tent and lead development.
2. Actual Objects may share infor­ma­tion we col­lect with our cus­tomers and third party mar­ket­ing part­ners. If we do so, we will request that they treat this infor­ma­tion in accor­dance with this Pri­vacy Pol­icy and to refrain from dis­clos­ing or using your per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion for pur­poses other than for the pro­vi­sion of ser­vices to you or for the ben­e­fit of Actual Objects. Our cus­tomers and third party mar­ket­ing part­ners may also send you spe­cial pro­mo­tions, event invi­ta­tions and offers for related ser­vices, at their sole discretion. 
3. We may dis­close infor­ma­tion col­lected on this site, includ­ing per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion, to third par­ties as required or per­mit­ted by law. For exam­ple, we may dis­close information: 
   • to reg­u­la­tors;
   • to law enforce­ment author­i­ties who sub­poena it;
   • to ven­dors who pro­vide us with ser­vice; or
   • to com­pa­nies that may acquire part or all of an affil­i­ated company.

Actual Objects is not respon­si­ble for the pro­tec­tion of the infor­ma­tion you pro­vide to other web­sites. You should be aware that when you vol­un­tar­ily dis­close per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion on other web­sites, such infor­ma­tion can be col­lected and used by oth­ers and may result in unso­licited communications.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tions

From time to time, we may send e-​​mail to users regard­ing cur­rent projects, spe­cial offers, invi­ta­tions to events, prod­uct test­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and updates to the Site, press releases and announce­ments con­cern­ing the ser­vices we pro­vide, as well as impor­tant changes in our Terms and Con­di­tions and this Pri­vacy Pol­icy. By pro­vid­ing us your e-​​mail address, you con­sent to receiv­ing such com­mu­ni­ca­tions via e-​​mail. If at any time you decide for any rea­son that you no longer wish to receive such com­mu­ni­ca­tions, you may opt out of receiv­ing them by using one of the fol­low­ing methods:

• Select the “opt out” or “unsub­scribe” link, or fol­low the opt-​​out instruc­tions included in each sub­scrip­tion communication.
• Where applic­a­ble, return to the web page(s) where you orig­i­nally reg­is­tered your pref­er­ences and fol­low the opt-​​out instructions. 
• E-​​mail us. Be sure to pro­vide your name, email and postal address, and spe­cific rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion about the par­tic­u­lar ser­vice you no longer wish to receive.

Please be aware that when you opt out of receiv­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions, it may affect the ser­vices you have cho­sen to receive from us where accept­ing the com­mu­ni­ca­tions is a con­di­tion of receiv­ing such services.

Hyper­links and Referrals

Web­sites acces­si­ble via our Web­site (through hyper­links, ban­ner adver­tise­ments or oth­er­wise) have their own pri­vacy poli­cies and data col­lec­tion, use and dis­clo­sure prac­tices. Please con­sult each site’s terms and con­di­tions and pri­vacy pol­icy prior to use. When you click on a hyper­link, spon­sored link or ban­ner adver­tise­ment, a new browser win­dow or frame con­tain­ing a third party’s web­site may appear in the fore­ground with the Web­site remain­ing in the back­ground. Any time that you have moved to a new win­dow or frame con­tain­ing a third party’s web­site, you will no longer be on the Web­site, and are no longer pro­tected by this Pri­vacy Pol­icy or our Terms and Con­di­tions. We do not, even peri­od­i­cally, review the pri­vacy poli­cies or terms of use for third party sites and we are not respon­si­ble or liable for their pri­vacy prac­tices, avail­abil­ity, the ser­vices they may pro­vide, or the com­plete­ness of their content.

Children’s Pri­vacy

We do not know­ingly col­lect or dis­trib­ute per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion from minor chil­dren. If you are the par­ent or guardian of a minor child and believe that they have dis­closed per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion to us, please con­tact us by e-​​mail so that we may delete the minor’s infor­ma­tion. You can learn more about children’s pri­vacy and the Children’s Online Pri­vacy Pro­tec­tion Act (COPPA) at the Fed­eral Trade Commission’s web­site at:

http://​www​.ftc​.gov/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​/​p​r​i​v​a​c​y​i​n​i​t​i​a​t​i​v​e​s​/​c​h​i​l​d​r​e​n​s​.html

Effec­tive Date

This Pri­vacy Pol­icy is effec­tive as of Jan­u­ary 1, 2010. We reserve the right to change this Pri­vacy Pol­icy at any time. If we change it, we will post the then-​​current Pri­vacy Pol­icy on this page. Any changes to this Pri­vacy Pol­icy will be effec­tive as of the day they are posted.

Con­tact Us

It is impor­tant for us to know what vis­i­tors have to say about our Web­site. To con­tact us with your ques­tions or com­ments please email us at support@​actualobjects.​com.