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We are deeply committed to protecting your privacy and taking all
reasonable steps to protect all data and information supplied to
Elephant ventures. We protect your privacy in a variety of ways
including using industry accepted security measures to protect
against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our
system.
The Elephant Ventures Privacy Policy is designed to ensure the
safety and accuracy of Internet users' personal information, whether
gathered on this site or by our clients. We are in the e-mail
business, and understand the importance of personal information
security. We are absolutely committed to personal privacy on the
Internet.
We enable our clients to reach their customers with highly
personalized communications narrowly tailored to their interests.
Our technical and marketing efforts bring us into contact with
millions and millions of consumers. Therefore, privacy is absolutely
critical to the way we do business. To that end, we strive to only
work with companies guarding any personal information they collect
from their existing or potential customers. Elephant Ventures is a
permission-based marketing company and seeks to uphold the privacy,
security and comfort level of everyone with whom we come in
contact.
Elephant Ventures collects data from Internet users including
non-personally identifiable information from its site's visitors, IP
address of their server and what pages they visited. We use this
information to continuously improve our site's functionality.
Elephant Ventures also collects personally identifiable information,
including e-mail addresses, from those visitors who opt-in to
receive some information from us, make inquiries or comments. We use
this information to directly respond to visitors' communications. If
a customer joins an online marketing program with any of our
clients, they typically submit some personally identifiable
information to participate in this program. However, the type and
amount of information collected varies, and each of our clients
specifies what information is collected.
Elephant Ventures utilizes the industry's leading data security
solutions and has implemented policies and procedures to ensure the
physical and electronic security of data stored by Elephant
Ventures. Elephant Ventures employs permission-based marketing
principles: it requires its clients to communicate only to users who
affirmatively express an interest in receiving e-mails relevant to
their interests in a particular company or product. Permission to
receive e-mails may be granted and taken away; in other words
customers may "opt-in" and "opt-out". If a customer chooses to
opt-out, the Elephant Ventures client is required to stop sending
messages to that customer. Elephant Ventures puts a high value on a
customers' ability to discontinue receiving unwanted e-mail.
Elephant Ventures utilizes Cookie technology for purposes of web
site traffic analysis such as the time/date of the visit, the
time/date of last visit, the page viewed, the referrer, transaction
information for eCommerce pages, and other data. Elephant Ventures
tracks click behavior in the e-mails it sends out. This data is used
to update specific user-profile information, ascertain the areas of
most interest to opt-in e-mail recipients, and to personalize e-mail
messages to them.
Elephant Ventures does not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any
personal information whether gathered by Elephant Ventures itself or
received from its clients. When Elephant Ventures, on behalf of its
clients, collects personally identifiable information from opt-in
participants in those clients' marketing programs, such information
belongs to those respective clients and is subject to their policies
on sharing of the end user information.
Elephant Ventures is a general audience site and is not directed
to children under the age of 13. Whether for itself or for its
clients, Elephant Ventures will not knowingly collect or maintain
personally identifiable information from or about anyone under 13.
Elephant Ventures will make the best effort to assist its clients in
complying with privacy laws and adhering to the highest industry
standards on privacy.
If you have received unwanted, unsolicited email sent via our
system or purporting to be sent via this system, please forward a
copy of that email with your comments to abuse@elephantventures.com
for review.
If you would like to unsubscribe from ALL Elephant Ventures
lists, please visit our Global Unsubscribe page.
We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time.
This policy was last updated: July 8th, 2004.
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