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FMIM Website Privacy Policy (Last Updated on August 30, 2008) FMIM respects the privacy of all of its users and is committed to protecting such privacy in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy explains FMIM Inc.'s and its subsidiaries' (collectively, "FMIM") treatment of your personally identifiable information collected in connection with your activities on or related to all FMIM websites referencing this Privacy Policy (the "FMIM Sites") and all services made available on the FMIM Sites (collectively, unless noted otherwise, the "FMIM Services"). This Privacy Policy also explains how you can ask questions and make suggestions about our privacy practices and review and update your personal information. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully and to check back periodically as this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies or websites which are not owned or controlled by FMIM. Business contact information such as the name, title, business address, email address or telephone number of a business or professional person or an employee of an organization is not considered Personal Information. "Non-Personal Information" is information of an anonymous nature, such as your Internet Protocol Address (IP Address), the domain you may have used to access a FMIM Service, the type and version of browser or operating system you may be using, and the website you may have come from and visit next. Aggregate information, such as demographic statistics of our users (e.g. average age or geographical allocation of our users), number of visitors and average time spent on a FMIM Service, is also considered Non-Personal Information. Non-Personal Information is collected or derived by us in the course of operating the FMIM Services. For example, our Web servers may automatically collect Non-Personal Information which is provided through your browser or stored on a Cookie (as defined herein) or through a Web Beacon (as defined herein) when you choose to visit a FMIM Service. Non-Personal Information is used by FMIM as described in this Privacy Policy. a. Providing you with the FMIM Services and information you have requested from us, including your use of the FMIM Sites. We may from time to time use your Personal Information to contact you about changes, enhancements or similar notices related to the FMIM Services; b. If you indicated that you were interested in receiving offers or information from FMIM or certain of our selected sponsors or advertisers, FMIM may send you email materials and other mailings about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. If at any time you would like to end your subscription to any such email materials, follow the directions posted at the bottom of the email material; c. If you enter a contest or other promotion offered on a FMIM Site, we may, under the rules of the promotion, use your name and certain other information to administer the promotion, such as contacting, announcing and promoting the winners of the promotion; or d. FMIM may also use Personal Information if it has reasonable grounds to believe the information could be useful when investigating a contravention of a federal, provincial or foreign law or in order to protect or defend a legal interest. We will only disclose your Personal Information to third parties: a. Where you have specifically given us your consent to disclose your Personal Information for a designated purpose; b. Who are acting on our behalf as our agents, suppliers or service providers, solely to enable us to more efficiently provide you with the FMIM Services. Such entities act under strict contractual controls, requiring them to maintain the confidentiality of all such Personal Information and to use such information solely for purposes related to the provision of the FMIM Services; c. As may be set out in the Terms and Conditions applicable to a FMIM Service, to facilitate the provision of such FMIM Service, such as fulfilling legal requirements; d. As required by law, including by an order of any court, institution or body with jurisdiction or authority to compel the production of information, or in order to protect or defend a legal interest; or e. In connection with a FMIM corporate re-organization, merger or amalgamation with another entity, or a sale of all or a substantial portion of the assets of FMIM provided that the Personal Information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information. The majority of the advertisements which are displayed in connection with the FMIM Services are served through reputable third party advertisement serving partner(s), in accordance with their policies as described on their own website. In certain areas, such as when you provide credit card information to us, we work to help protect the security of your credit card information during transmission by using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology. You can help protect the security of your Personal Information as well. For instance, never give out your password, since this is what is used to access your account or registration information. Also remember to log out of your account and close your browser window when you finish using a FMIM Service or surfing the Web, so that other people using the same computer won't have access to your information. If you are unsure whether we have a record containing any of your Personal Information and would like to confirm whether or not we do, please send an e-mail indicating all e-mail addresses that you may have given us. If you decide at any time that you do not want to receive any e-mail materials to which you have subscribed, you may choose to unsubscribe to these e-mails by following the instructions at the end of the message. In addition to FMIM's practices related to IP Addresses, Cookies or Web Beacons, Non-Personal Information is used generally by FMIM to monitor and improve the operation of the FMIM Services, to perform statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our users, to measure user demographics and interests regarding specific FMIM Services, to describe our services to third parties such as prospective business partners and advertisers and to analyze how and where best to use our resources. No Personal Information will be disclosed during these activities. FMIM may also use Non-Personal Information to inform our sponsors and advertisers as to the performance of a particular sponsorship (such as a contest) or advertisement. In such case we may disclose to those third-party sponsors and advertisers the overall aggregate demographics available regarding, for example who participated in a contest or who saw and "clicked" on an advertisement. No Personal Information will be disclosed to these sponsors and advertisers as part of this process; only information in an anonymous, aggregate form will be disclosed. b. FMIM may use your IP Address to display more appropriate and relevant content and advertising, such as content and advertising based on your geographic area. Aggregate information derived from IP Addresses may be reported by FMIM to its advertisers and partners. For example, FMIM may report to its advertisers the estimated total number of users accessing a particular FMIM Site from a specific province; c. FMIM may use your IP Address to facilitate the diagnoses and remedy of a technical problem reported by you or our technical team. b. Measure aggregate user traffic and demographic statistics related to the FMIM Services and advertisements (e.g. number of users, average time spent, average age and similar statistics). This information helps us to better understand when to update, change or offer new services and provides us with details as to the performance of third party advertisements and content. This information may be reported, in aggregate form only, to our current and prospective sponsors, advertisers and business partners. No Personal Information will be disclosed in such reports; c. Displaying advertisements. FMIM and third party advertising providers used by FMIM may use Cookies when serving advertisements. Cookies are used on many major web sites. Most browsers are initially set up to accept Cookies. If you prefer, you can reset your browser either to notify you when you have received a Cookie, or to refuse to accept Cookies. You should understand that while FMIM does not require you to use Cookies, certain FMIM Services will not function properly if you set your browser to not accept Cookies. Certain FMIM Services may contain electronic images known as “Web Beacons” -- sometimes called single-pixel gifs -- that allow FMIM to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web Beacons are not used to access your Personal Information; they are a technique used to compile aggregated statistics about FMIM Service usage. Web Beacons collect only a limited set of information including a Cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon resides. Certain FMIM Service web pages may also contain Web Beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help FMIM determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns. |
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