PhotoAdvantage.NET is a service of PhotoAdvantage, LLC. If you are a registered user of PhotoAdvantage.NET, this Privacy Policy applies to your use of all sites and services hosted through PhotoAdvantage.NET. PRIVACY POLICY Thank you for registering your user name to obtain enhanced access to the services offered and provided by PhotoAdvantage, LLC. PhotoAdvantage.NET is intended as a resource and tool to help you, a professional or aspiring professional photographer, to develop your photography talents and business techniques. By registering your username, you gain access to a list of services not available to the public as a whole. When you register with and use PhotoAdvantage.NET, you provide PhotoAdvantage.NET with personally identifiable information (i.e. email, user ID, address, other personal information). This Policy explains the information practices that apply to your personal information, as well as the choices you can make about the ways this information is used by PhotoAdvantage.NET. Registering a user name with PhotoAdvantage.NET is optional. This Privacy Policy applies only to information PhotoAdvantage.NET collects about you as a user of our site and services. This policy does not apply to information about you collected by PhotoAdvantage.NET's affiliated providers, or third party web sites and offerings linked to or otherwise accessible from PhotoAdvantage.NET. The information collected or received by PhotoAdvantage.NET affiliated providers and these third parties is subject to their own privacy policies. Collection of your User Information Your user information consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you interact with PhotoAdvantage.NET web sites, services and offerings as a registered user. Depending on how you use our services, your user information may include: registration-related information (such as name, home or work addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, birth date or gender); information about your visits to PhotoAdvantage.NET sites and pages, and your responses to the offerings and advertisements presented on these websites and pages; information about the searches you perform through PhotoAdvantage.NET and how you use the results of those searches; information about PhotoAdvantage.NET services or offerings that you use, and how frequently you use them; information about how long you have used services from PhotoAdvantage.NET and how you came to register with our services; transaction-related information (such as credit card or other preferred means of payment, billing or shipping information, or a history of products purchased through PhotoAdvantage.NET); customer service information about you as a PhotoAdvantage.NET user or subscriber; or other information specifically related to your use of a particular service or offering. Your user information may also include certain technical information gathered or received when you use PhotoAdvantage.NET. Some of the technical information that may be collected or received includes: the type of browser you are using (e.g., Safari, Firefox, InternetExplorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., WindowsXP, Windows Vista, or OSX), CPU type (e.g. Pentium), your manner of connecting to the Internet (e.g., connection speed or service providers); other information about your geographic location; and the domain name of your Internet service provider. Your user information may be collected and stored in the United States. Additionally, PhotoAdvantage.NET will use your user identification, or similar technologies, to authenticate you on PhotoAdvantage.NET and enable you to take advantage of service offerings. How Your User Information is Used Your user information is used to operate and improve the websites, services and offerings available through PhotoAdvantage.NET; to personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; to fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services; to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; to conduct research about your use of PhotoAdvantage.NET; to help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest; and to complete financial transactions requested by you. It may be necessary to share some of your personal information with our partner service providers. If you do not want your information shared, you must not use this service. Your personal information however, is never sold or transferred for gain. Affiliated providers that receive your user information may use this information according to their applicable privacy policies. Your user information will not be shared with third parties unless it is necessary to fulfill a transaction you have requested, in other circumstances in which you have consented to the sharing of your personal information, or except as described in this Privacy Policy. PhotoAdvantage.NET may use your user information to present offers to you on behalf of business partners and advertisers. These business partners and advertisers receive aggregate data about groups of network users, but do not receive information that personally identifies you. If you use an available PhotoAdvantage.NET communications tools to disclose information about yourself publicly (e.g. blog posts or via email made available by PhotoAdvantage.NET), other online users may obtain access to any information you provide. The contents of your online communications, as well as other information about you as a PhotoAdvantage.NET user, may be accessed and disclosed in response to legal process (e.g. a court order, search warrant or subpoena); in other circumstances in which we believe PhotoAdvantage.NET is being used in the commission of a crime; when we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person; or when necessary either to protect the rights or property of PhotoAdvantage, LLC. or its affiliated providers, or for us to render the service you have requested. We may use agents and contractors in order to help operate our services. If such agents and contractors have access to personally identifiable information, they are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carryout the services they are performing for PhotoAdvantage.NET. In the event that ownership of PhotoAdvantage.NET was to change as a result of a merger, acquisition or transfer to another company, your user information may be transferred. If such a transfer results in amaterial change in the use of your user information, PhotoAdvantage.NET will provide notice about the choices you have to decline to permit such a transfer. Your Choices About Your User Information PhotoAdvantage.NET provides you with access to your registration and any billing or shipping information; the ability to edit this information at the control panel area; and the ability to cancel our services at any time through email notification. Additionally, some PhotoAdvantage.NET services (e.g. personal websites) may offer you the ability to control what information is collected or used when you use these services. Cookies and Google Analytics PhotoAdvantage.NET may use cookies, Google Analytics, or similar technologies, in combination with your user information to enhance and personalize your experience on PhotoAdvantage.NET, including to operate and improve offerings through PhotoAdvantage.NET; to help authenticate you when you use PhotoAdvantage.NET; to remember your preferences and registration information; to enable a shopping cart; to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of our network offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications; and to customize the content and advertisements provided to you through PhotoAdvantage.NET. PhotoAdvantage.NET and its advertisers may also use ad network providers to help present advertisements on PhotoAdvantage.NET and other Web sites. These ad network providers use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies on your computer to help present, better target, and measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, using data gathered over time and across their networks of Web pages to determine or predict the characteristics and preferences of their audience. Our Commitment to Security PhotoAdvantage.NET has established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your user information, but cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, as a result of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or the policies of the network and its affiliated providers). To protect your privacy and security, PhotoAdvantage.NET uses passwords to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to any of your user information. Special Note for Parents PhotoAdvantage.NETis intended for a legal audience, and children under the age of thirteen are not permitted to register with PhotoAdvantage.NET. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, please review this privacy policy and other policies with a parent or guardian. How to Contact Us If you have any questions or concerns about PhotoAdvantage.NET's Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact us at this email address: info@photoadvantage.net. Changes to this Privacy Policy and Additional Information PhotoAdvantage.NET may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to PhotoAdvantage.NET's information practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice. You may be provided other privacy-related information in connection with your use of offerings from PhotoAdvantage.NET, as well as for special features and services not described in this Policy that may be introduced in the future. Your California Privacy Rights: California privacy law allows California residents to obtain specific disclosures about a business's privacy practices if it shares information with other companies for direct marketing purposes. To make a request to PhotoAdvantage.NET under California's privacy law, please send an e-mail to: info@photoadvantage.net.