Bee17.com Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of the users
of our Sites.
This Privacy Policy will advise you about our guidelines concerning
the use of your personal information, including, without limitation,
the reasonable efforts we make to protect your personal information in
accord with these guidelines, and about what choices you have
concerning our use of such information. Please read this policy
carefully. We may need to change this policy from time to time in
order to address new issues and reflect changes on our Sites. We will
post those changes here so that you will always know our policies
regarding what information we gather, how we might use that
information, and whether we will disclose that information to anyone.
Please refer back to this policy regularly. If you have any questions
or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail to
webmaster@Bee17.com or contact us at: TOLL FREE: (855) PHT-4B17
-- Scope Of Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of all the sites and
services owned or operated by Bee17.com (collectively "we,"
"us," or "our"), including Bee17.com, BodySource.com and any
other site that we may own or operate currently or in the future
(collectively, the "Site" or "Sites"). Unless we say otherwise, all
references to the Sites in this policy include all such sites. This
policy does not apply to your use of sites to which any of the Sites
link. This policy covers only information collected on the Sites and
does not cover any information collected offline by us.
-- Personal Identification Information
We may request personal identification information from you
(such as your name, street address, telephone number, credit card
number, e-mail address, and/or any other identifier that permits the
physical or online contacting of you) in connection with your use of,
or participation in, membership registration for Bee17.com, our
contests, sweepstakes, promotions, games, surveys, forums,
subscription registrations, content submissions, chats, bulletin
boards, discussion groups, requests for suggestions, visitors'
requests for free products or services, or additional information
(including via e-mail to us), and in connection with other activities,
services, features or resources we make available on any of our Sites.
In all of these cases, we will collect personal identification
information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information
to us. Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we reasonably
endeavor to ensure that we never intentionally disclose any personal
identification information about you as an individual user to any
third party without having received your permission (through opt-in or
similar procedures) except as provided for herein or otherwise as
permitted or required under law. Further, we may contact you based on
the information you provide online whether in connection with your
registration or in such places as the above described forums.
If you do provide us with personal information for any of these
activities, we may use it to conduct the activity. We may also use
cookie technology and Web beacons (discussed in detail below) to
improve your experience of these activities, including to remember
your preferences, customize the content and advertisements that you
see or authenticate your access to your personal information. In
addition, in the event that your personally identifiable information
is requested as part of our surveys, polls or promotions, such
personally identifiable information may be added to your registration
information.
We may also contact you to confirm your registration and
communicate about your account status, as well as regarding changes to
the Sites' Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy.
If you give us your permission, we may also use personal
identification information for internal or external marketing and
promotional purposes. On occasion, for example, we may send you
e-mails to introduce a product or a service that we think might be of
interest to the users of our Sites. For us to obtain your permission
to send you this information, we will give you an opportunity to
"opt-in" at the time our request for your personal information is
made. If you do "opt-in," you may choose to "opt-out" at any time,
even after you have provided personal information, by following the
procedures set forth below at the end of this Privacy Policy. Please
note, however, that under certain circumstances, if you initially do
not choose to "opt-in," or if you later "opt-out," you may not be
eligible for certain benefits for which a name, e-mail address,
telephone number or other personal identification information is
needed.
We have the following exceptions to these policies: We will
release specific information about you or your account to comply with
any valid legal inquiry or process such as a search warrant, subpoena,
statute or court order. We will also release specific information in
special cases, such as if there is an attempted breach of the security
of the Sites, or a physical or property threat to you or others. We
may also transfer user information, including personally identifiable
information, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the
sale of related assets or corporate division, or other fundamental
corporate change. We may provide access to your personally
identifiable information to our contractors who are performing
services for us in connection with our Sites or the services that you
have requested.
In addition, on occasion, we may collect personal identification
information from you in connection with optional contests, special
offers or promotions. We will share such information with necessary
third parties for the purpose of carrying out the contest, special
offer or promotion. Your participation in the contest, special offer
or promotion constitutes your consent to such disclosure and use of
such information.
Further, the information you enter when making a purchase or an
online donation will be shared with payment processors, financial
gateways, and your credit card company to authorize credit card
payments. Such information may also be shared with necessary third
parties solely for the purpose or carrying out the transactions.
Also, personal information that you submit may be shared with
Liberty Media, Inc., our parent company. Please see the Liberty Media
website for more information about Liberty Media's Privacy Policy.
Please note that if you give out personal information online -
for example, on one of our public forums such as a message board or
chat room, folder or chat IM feature - that information can be
collected and used by third parties. Although we strive to protect our
users' privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of information you
post in these forums and have no control over how such third parties
may use your information. You disclose such information at your own
risk.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your
information and password. You shall be responsible for all uses of
your registration, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to
immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your registration or
password.
-- Non-Personal Identification Information
We collect non-personal identification information through the
use of, without limitation, the following types of methodology:
"Cookie" technology: A "cookie" is an element of data that a
website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your
system.
"IP address tracking": An "IP address" is a number that is
assigned to your computer when you are on the Internet. When you
request pages from our Sites, our servers log your IP address.
"Web beacons": A "Web beacon," or "clear gif," is a small
graphic image on a webpage or web-based document that a website can
use to determine information about a user.
Non-personal identification information might include the
browser you use, the type of computer, technical information about
your means of connection to our Sites such as the operating systems
and the Internet service providers utilized, and other similar
information. Our systems may also automatically gather information
about the areas you visit and search terms you utilize on our Sites
and about the links you may select from within our Sites to other
areas of the World Wide Web or elsewhere online.
We use such information for our business purposes, and, in
particular, to administer the Sites, better manage advertising on the
Sites, and, in the aggregate, to understand how our users as a group
use the services, features and other resources provided on our Sites.
This way we know which areas of our Sites are favorites of our users,
which areas need improvement, and what technologies are being used so
that we may continually improve our Sites.
We may share this aggregate statistical information with our
partners, suppliers and other third parties, but we will not share any
individual names, personal navigational or other personal information.
For example, we may use a third-party advertising company to serve ads
when you visit our Sites. We may share demographic and preference
information with this company to allow them to display appropriate
advertisements for you.
We use a proprietary advertising server to display ads on our
Sites. In addition, advertisers may elect to use third-party
advertising companies to serve ads onto our Sites. Some of our
advertisers may display ads on our Sites that may use cookie
technology or Web beacons to (i) identify non-personal information
about our users (such as connection speed, browser and country of
origin) and (ii) track user behavior within our Sites. Advertisers
generally use such information to customize the display of ads within
our Sites. We will not permit such advertisers to collect any personal
information from our users within our Sites, however, you may choose
to voluntarily provide the advertisers with your personal information.
We do not have access to these cookies or any information that they
may contain.
Further, from time-to-time we contract with a third party web
analytics provider to help manage and optimize our Sites. We use this
service to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and
how visitors use our Sites. To do this, we use Web beacons and cookie
technology on the Sites. The type of information we collect includes
such information as the number of hits a webpage receives, type of
browser used, and number of times a visitor makes a purchase from a
particular promotion. By supplementing our records, this information
helps us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our
visitors, which products and services most interest our users, and
what kinds of offers our users like to see. Although this third-party
provider logs the information coming from our Sites on our behalf, we
control how that data may and may not be used.
-- Special Rules Relating To Children
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") requires
that we inform parents and legal guardians about how we collect, use,
and disclose personal information from children under 13 years of age.
Our Sites are not directed at children under 13 years of age but, we
recognize that with proper adult supervision some parents might permit
their children to visit our Sites and use our online services. COPPA
requires that we obtain the consent of parents and guardians in order
for children under 13 years of age to use certain features of our
Sites.
When your child attempts to register and/or provide personal
information to Bee17.com, we require a parent or legal guardian
to:
o Register their child by completing the Permission to
Participate Form and returning it, by facsimile or postal mail, to us
as set forth on the form;
o Review our Privacy Policy and verify that the child's
parent or guardian knows about and authorizes our information
practices related to children protected by COPPA; and
o Verify via email confirmation a second authorization that
the parent or guardian consents to these Terms of Use and Privacy
Policy. Send such email authorizations to webmaster@Bee17.com
Once parental notice and consent has been verified, the
information we collect will be treated the same as information
collected from any other user. Without verified parental notice and
consent, we will not knowingly collect personal information relating
to children under 13 years of age, and if we learn that we have
inadvertently collected such information, we will promptly delete it.
-- How Parents Can Access Their Children's Personal
Information
In compliance with COPPA, a parent or legal guardian may request
from us to review, delete or stop the collection of personally
identifiable information relating to their child or any child in their
legal custody who is under 13 years of age. You may do so by following
the instructions below regarding Access to/Correction of Information.
If you request that no further information about your child be
collected or used, we will be required to terminate your child's
ability to use any part of the service or feature that requires a user
to "sign in."
To learn more about COPPA, please visit this page:
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/privacyinitiatives/childrens.html
-- Links To Other Sites
Users will find advertising or other content on our Sites that
link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers,
advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not
control the content or links that appear on those sites. In addition,
those sites or services, including their content and links, may be
constantly changing. Those sites and services may have their own
privacy policies and customer service policies, or no policy
(policies) at all. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of
any third party sites or services before providing any of them with
your personal information.
-- Security Policy
Protecting your privacy and your information is a top priority.
We have taken reasonable measures to secure both your information and
our physical premises. We exercise reasonable care in providing safe
transmission of your information from your PC to our servers (unless
sent by a means outside of our control, such as e-mail). However, we
cannot guaranty that our measures will completely bar unauthorized
access to your information, and by using the Sites you assume this
risk.
-- Access To/Correction Of Information
If you would like to review any personal information we have
retained about you in our database, please send us an e-mail request
for this information at webmaster@Bee17.com. To help us address
your request, please specify which information you wish to review.
Once you have reviewed this information, at your request we will
correct personal information about you that you state is erroneous. To
request such a correction, please send an e-mail to
webmaster@Bee17.com. You should be aware, however, that it is
not always possible to completely remove or modify information in our
databases and servers although we will always make reasonable efforts
to do so upon your request. Please also understand that due to the
volume of traffic on the Sites and correspondence received, we cannot
make any representations about the timeliness of the making of such
modifications. In addition, we are unable to modify your information
in the records of any third party who has been provided with your
information in accordance with this policy.
-- Sales Tax
Customers making purchases at the Bee17.com Store with a
Ship To Address in the state of Texas will
have the current rate of sales tax added to their shopping cart.
-- Choice/Opt-Out
If you "opt-in" to receive information from us, you can change
your mind later. If at any time you would like to stop receiving such
information or opt-out of a feature, you may go back to
Bee17.com and unsubscribe. You should be aware, however, that
it is not always possible to completely remove or modify information
in our databases and servers, although we will always make reasonable
efforts to do so upon your request, and we are unable to have your
information removed from the records of any third party who has been
provided with your information in accordance with this policy.
-- Consent To Transfer
The Sites are operated in the United States. If you are located
in the European Union or elsewhere outside of the United States,
please be aware that any information you provide to us will be
transferred to the United States. By using our Website, participating
in any of our services and/or providing us with your information, you
consent to this transfer.
-- Your Acceptance Of These Terms
By using any of the Sites, you signify your acceptance of our
Privacy Policy, your promise to comply with the representations you
make and contained in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and your
understanding of the scope and limitations of the protections provided
under the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. If you do not agree to
these policies, please do not use our Sites. Your continued use of the
Sites following the posting of changes to our Terms of Use or Privacy
Policy will mean that you accept those changes.