Privacy Policy
This is the privacy
policy of 5elementsharmonylife.com.com.
5elementsharmonylife.com.com
strongly believes in a consumer’s right to privacy. 5elementsharmonylife.com.com
does not engage in the collection, distribution, sale or use of personally
identifiable information about web users, such as name, phone number and street
address. 5elementsharmonylife.com.com does not conduct individual web user
“profiling”.
Usage tracking
For the web user to 5elementsharmonylife.com.com’s
website, our web server automatically collects information on your domain type,
browser used and your IP address for statistical purposes only, which will be
used to improve the content of our web page and not sold to other organizations
for any purpose. And since we gather certain types of information about our
users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and
conditions on the capture and use of those information.
Cookies
With respect to cookies,
we do place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your
computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information although it
will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have
specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie
can contain is the information you supply yourself. 5elementsharmonylife.com.com
uses cookies to track user traffic patterns and our advertising system delivers
a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates. Besides,
third parties ad server companies may also be placing and reading cookies in
your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads
being served on 5elementsharmonylife.com.com. You can refuse cookies by turning
them off in your browser. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before
accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You
do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.
Third Party
Advertisements
We also use third party
advertisements on 5elementsharmonylife.com.com to support our site. Some of
these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they
advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information
including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site,
and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for
geotargeting purposes or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited
(such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking and recipes
sites).
Processing and Storing
Your Data
Data Processing
The European Union
(“EU”) maintains strict privacy laws. These rules differ significantly from the
laws of the United States of America (“US”). To reconcile these differences,
the US and the EU have created a safe harbor (“Safe Harbor”) that defines
mutually acceptable privacy operations. For more information see
www.export.gov/safeharbor.
By providing information
to us, you acknowledge that we operate in the US and you agree to (i) permit us
to transmit and use your user Information anywhere necessary, including across
international boundaries, to better improve the services and transactions
provided by 5elementsharmonylife.com.com; and (ii) that such use by us shall be
subject to the terms and conditions stated in this Privacy Policy and the Terms
of Use.
Network Advertising
Initiative (“NAI”)
5elementsharmonylife.com.com
may also display advertisements from ValueClick who is a member of the Network
Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). The NAI is a cooperative of online marketing
and analytics companies committed to building consumer awareness and
establishing responsible business and data management practices and standards.
For more information, please visit www.networkadvertising.org.
You may also opt-out
from accepting the cookies at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
DoubleClick DART Cookies
5elementsharmonylife.com.com
may also use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which
places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit using
DoubleClick advertising (including some Google Adsense advertisements). This
cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests which is also
known as “interest based targeting”. The ads served will be targeted based on
your previous browsing history (for example, if you have been viewing sites
about food, you may see advertisements related to recipes, food, and cooking
utensils when viewing a non-related site, such as a site about travel). DART
uses non personally identifiable information. It does not track personal information
about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone
number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.
You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by
visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can always choose to
disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your
browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton
Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with
our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login
to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does
not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you
have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a website running
the advertisements, a new cookie will automatically be added again.
Log Files
As with most other
websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information
in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP
(internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site, your
screen resolutions and number of colors, the time you visited our site and
which pages you have visited throughout our site.
Children
To be consistent with
the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will
never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under
the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Electronic Newsletters
Policy
We may offer a free
electronic newsletters to users who subscribe voluntarily by providing their
name and email addresses. Subscribers may remove themselves from the mailing
list by following an unsubscribe link provided in every newsletters.
All email addresses
submitted to 5elementsharmonylife.com.com in regard to our newsletters or for
any other reason will be kept strictly confidential and private. You can be
assured our mailing list will NEVER be shared or sold as a whole or in part.
Website Advertisements
With respect to Ad
Servers, in order to bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have
relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our web pages.
As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect
information such as your domain type, your IP address, clickstream information,
and other details. These third parties may also be placing and reading cookies
in your browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of
ads being served. For further information, please consult the privacy policies
of the individual advertisers.
Any Changes in the
Privacy Policy
In the event if 5elementsharmonylife.com.com’s
policy on information practices change at some time in the future, we will use
only the data collected from the time of our policy change forward.
External Links
With regards to outside
links, this website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that 5elementsharmonylife.com.com
is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website, and to read the
privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information
collected by this website.
Use of Information
5elementsharmonylife.com.com
uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience
in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized
elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the
interests of our users.
As stated above, we use
information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic
newsletters and to enable users to participate in poll, surveys, message
boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular
schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions
when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are
doing. 5elementsharmonylife.com.com never shares newsletter mailing lists with
any third party, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information
to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on
traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather
how well each page performs overall. This helps us to continue to build a
better service to you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one
of the many measures of what interests our users. But we don’t track which
terms a particular user enters.
5elementsharmonylife.com.com
creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for
advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allow our advertisers to advertise
more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are
pertinent to their needs. Because we don’t track the usage patterns of
individual users, an advertiser or sponsors will never know that a specific
user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any
individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or
to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
Sharing of the
Information
5elementsharmonylife.com.com
uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs
and help our advertisers better understand our audience’s demographics. This is
essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about
individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or
valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the
public.
Opt-Out Policy
We give users options
whenever necessary and practical. Such choices include: Opting not to register
to receive our electronic newsletters and Opting not to participate in certain
interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any
personally identifiable information from our users.
Your Consent
By using this site, you
agree and consent to the collection and use of this information by 5elementsharmonylife.com.com.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this
page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
