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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy as of August 25, 2010.

MyBlazon’s Privacy Policy : main statement
This Privacy Policy applies to MyBlazon's websites. MyBlazon believes in the responsible use of personal information. We understand that without the trust and respect of the Internet community we’d have nothing. So we’ll strive to honor the privacy of anyone who uses the services we provide.

Your Personal Information at MyBlazon
MyBlazon is the sole owner of the personal information collected on its Websites and we collect personal information from our users at several different points on these Websites. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

MyBlazon asks for personal information only when it’s necessary in order to deliver value-add service to you. We require certain pieces of information so we can provide you a personalized experience. At any point you can view and edit this personal information, or send us an email stating that you require some modification. And while we may use this information for research and to improve the site and services we offer you, except as stated herein or as you specifically give us permission, we promise not to pass on personally identifiable information to third parties.

Here are some of the information that we require for basic registration at MyBlazon:

1. Your email address.
2. A password for your account. (We remind you not to reveal your password to anyone).
3. In addition, you are invited to "opt in" to receive a regular newsletter or occasional email from our Websites, and you are free to opt out from either of these services at any point in the future.

You have the option of providing more private information to personalize your experience:


4. Your gender and date of birth. (For our own demographic reports - so we can build a better site for our audience).
5. Your zip code so we can tailor content to your local area.
6. Some information about you that you would would like to share
7. This data will be saved by MyBlazon in our databases.
8. Your full name (optional), which can be used to personalize the email messages that are sent on your behalf when you invite friends to the service, and may also be used (at your option) by friends who are searching for your profile. However, your full name is not displayed within the website except to yourself when you are logged in.

Lastly, in general on the Websites, you may provide information for your Public Profile to introduce yourself to other members of our Websites, including the information listed above, or other information, but are under no obligation to do so.

The information that you provide for your Public Profile or for your Band Profile will be publicly displayed without restriction on our Websites. By providing such information for public display on MyBlazon.com you recognize that it may be considered public domain and as such may be viewed, copied, or re-distributed by anybody who visits our Website. This public information includes without limitation the values and qualities you may have selected to build you blazon as well as the blazon and coat of arms that we have generared for you and that you may have customized, and any other information you choose to make available such as your own name, others’ names, images, and biographical information.

Cookies
Be aware that our Websites use “cookies”. Cookies are small packets of information we place on your hard drive for tracking purposes - essentially a code number that we use to recognize you when you come back to the site. Only the information you volunteer, however, or the choices you make while visiting the site, can be stored in a cookie. A cookie cannot determine your email address, for example, unless you type it in. Allowing a website to create a cookie does not give that or any other site access to the rest of your computer, and only the site that created the cookie can read it.

Our Websites also use permanent cookies that store an encrypted session id code. This means we are able to “recognize” you when you come to the site, without the need for you to log in.

If your browser is set to reject cookies, you will not be able to log in to the site and hold an account. You will, however, be able to browse most of the site freely.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for processing your order.

Log Files
We log IP addresses to track which users have made what page requests, what browser that person was using, what their cookie was, and at what time the request was made. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. This logging process does not store any personally identifiable information.

Emails
Except for administrative emails (like important changes to this privacy policy, for example), and for the emails related of your use of the service (image generation for instance), all other emails we send are under your control. We issue many types of email communication. The following is a non-comprehensive list: (1) we send a registration email when you first become a member (2) we send a regular opt-in newsletter (3) we provide an opt-in subscription to occasional emails for the announcement of new site features, special events, etc (4) we send invitations or “add friend requests” at the request of your friends who are users of our service; we may send one follow up email to such invitations if they do not generate a response the first time (5) we notify you of updates that have happened to your account, your profile page (6) we may notify you when you receive messages from other members of the service
In order to make it easier for you to invite friends to use our services, we enable an easy ”address book import” from other online services (such as Hotmail, etc) – this address-book import will only function if you provide a username/password for the other online service, and we use this information to import your address book, but we do not save it. Furthermore, any user who receives unwanted invitations from our service is able to block future unsolicited invitations.

Security Systems
This website takes reasonable precautions to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, all employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices and are regularly reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage.

Sharing
We will share user profile and demographic information with our partners and advertisers, for purposes including, but not limited to, the delivery of targeted advertising. This information will not be linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We may implement certain promotion(s) or feature(s) from time to time which require us to share your personally identifiable data with third parties. In these cases we will only share your personally identifiable data if you elect to use such promotion(s) or feature(s) and we will enter into agreements with such third parties which restrict their use of such personally identifiable data to purposes related to the delivery of such promotion(s) or feature(s). Though we make reasonable efforts to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us or one of our Websites.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In particular, Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies when serving ads on MyBlazon website. This cookie enables Google to serve ads based on what sites you visit across the Internet, whether it's to show targeted ads when you visit MyBlazon. You may opt out of the use of Google's "DART" cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site 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.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name, telephone number and shipping address). Contact information (including telephone number and address) will be used to notify the winners and award prizes and by giving us your phone number you acknowledge and agree that we may contact you by telephone in connection with such survey or contest . Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. We sometimes partner with third parties to implement our surveys and contests. Personally identifiable information may be initially received by and passed on to MyBlazon by such third parties.

Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time email invitation to visit the site, and may send one follow-up invitation to friends that did not respond. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending these emails. The friend may contact us at privacy [-at-} @MyBlazon.com to request the removal of this information from our database.

Partner Sites
We have partnered with third parties to enable you to sell or buy mechs with your coat-of-arms or realted products. At times you may be viewing pages hosted by one of these or other partners - although it may look as if you are still at one of our Websites. To tell where you are, simply check the address of the page in your browser’s address window.

BETA Disclaimer
The MyBlazon website is (currently) “Beta” software. While we strive to maintain all of the above privacy precautions, the software is not devoid of risk of “bugs” and software faultiness that is common with Beta software. So we disclaims and limits our liability with respect to such “Beta” software, including limitation of its any liability regarding privacy issues set forth in this policy.

Merger
MyBlazon may assign any or all of its rights hereunder and may transfer data collected or acquired hereunder in the event of a merger or acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of MyBlazon.

More information...
If you wish to learn more about our privacy policies please contact us at privacy {-at-} myblazon.com

If we decide to materially change our privacy policy, we may notify users by way of an email. In the event that MyBlazon, or a portion of its business is acquired, the acquiring party will only acquire your personally identifiable information subject to the terms of this privacy policy.