Privacy Policy
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By visiting, using and submitting information to www.esweeps.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. The www.esweeps.com Internet website is owned and operated by Electronic Sweepstakes Corporation, a Florida corporation ("eSweeps"). www.esweeps.com provides its users with sweepstakes entries and offers for products and services from eSweeps and selected third parties. eSweeps appreciates that you care how information about you is collected and shared, so eSweeps created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to disclose our current policies regarding your privacy and the use of your personally identifiable information. In addition, we take further measures to prevent unauthorized interception of your personally identifiable information, as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Applicability of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is intended to apply to you, eSweeps and the Internet website located at the URL www.esweeps.com ("www.esweeps.com"). This Privacy Policy is a statement of eSweeps' current policies with regard to how information about you is collected by eSweeps via www.esweeps.com, used and shared with third parties by eSweeps.
Information Transmitted, Submitted or Posted to www.esweeps.com
If you transmit, submit or post any information to www.esweeps.com, including, without limitation, personally identifiable information, you automatically grant eSweeps and its affiliates the royalty-free, non-exclusive right and license to use, share, loan, rent, sell, compile, format, adapt and/or to incorporate the same.
Personally Identifiable Information is Provided by You
eSweeps requires that you voluntarily register and provide personally identifiable information to enter our sweepstakes and enable you to utilize the offerings and features of www.esweeps.com. By submitting your personally identifiable information via www.esweeps.com, you are authorizing eSweeps and its affiliates to post such information on www.esweeps.com, or otherwise use, share, loan, rent, sell and/or disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties selected by eSweeps in eSweeps' sole discretion.
Third parties who receive your personally identifiable information are selected by eSweeps to bring you carefully selected deals, offers and features. By submitting your personally identifiable information via www.esweeps.com, you are also authorizing those third parties to directly contact you regarding marketing and promotions of products and services. Once your personally identifiable information is released to those third parties, eSweeps is no longer responsible for its use and/or disclosure.
The personally identifiable information that eSweeps requests from you includes your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, demographic information and financial information. The information that you provide must be accurate, complete and current in order to enter our sweepstakes and participate in www.esweeps.com's offerings and features. eSweeps will specifically ask you for any personally identifiable information requested, and your providing such information will always be on a voluntary basis.
eSweeps' Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information
eSweeps uses your personally identifiable information within eSweeps' internal organization and shares, loans, rents and/or sells your personally identifiable information to its affiliates and third parties. Potential uses of your personally identifiable data may include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: (i) notification of awards of sweepstakes prizes; (ii) notification of future promotions and future emails, telephone calls and direct mailings regarding website updates, upcoming events, new products and services and online order statuses; (iii) notification of taxation and regulatory authorities regarding awards of sweepstakes prizes; (iv) checking qualifications for user registration; (v) editorial and feedback purposes; (vi) creation of profiles and inclusion in databases; and (vii) billing purposes.
eSweeps also reserves the right to share or disclose your personally identifiable information when it determines, in its sole discretion, that the disclosure of such personally identifiable information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against you if you may be: (i) such disclosure is required by any applicable law, rule or regulation; (ii) violating any applicable law, rule or regulation; (iii) causing intentional or unintentional injury to another; or (iv) interfering with anothers rights or property, including eSweeps' or its affiliates' rights or property.
Correcting, Updating or Changing Selections Regarding Your Personally Identifiable Information
Once you provide personally identifiable information to eSweeps via www.esweeps.com, you must inform eSweeps of any changes to, or updates of, any personally identifiable information that you provided. You may at any time request a copy of the personally identifiable information that you provided, elect to revoke ("opt-out") the information provided, update that information, or change any selections you have made with regard to eSweeps' use of that information.
In order to access, update or change selections for use of personally identifiable information that you provided, please contact eSweeps either at the postal address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy, or via email at info@esweeps.com. In order to opt-out of providing your personally identifiable information, please contact eSweeps either at the postal address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy, or via email at remove@esweeps.com. eSweeps will accordingly furnish you with a copy of your personally identifiable information, or change its records to remove, update or change selections regarding your personally identifiable information.
If you opt-out of providing your personally identifiable information, eSweeps and its affiliates will no longer use your personally identifiable information or share it with third parties. However, keep in mind that your opting-out of providing your personally identifiable information cancels your ability to enter our sweepstakes and utilize our offers and other features of www.esweeps.com.
eSweeps' Use of Cookies
Like many other Internet websites, eSweeps utilizes "cookies" to automatically track and store anonymous preferential information about you as you use and navigate www.esweeps.com. "Cookies" are alphanumeric identifiers in the form of text files that are inserted and stored on your hard drive by your web browser. Cookies track your personal preferences and activities, but in no way contain or refer to any personally identifiable information. Information collected from users by eSweeps' cookies includes, but is not limited to: (i) type of web browser; (ii) IP addresses; (iii) type of computer used; and (iv) home server domain names.
eSweeps' use of cookies allows eSweeps to aggregate certain information about its users. The aggregated information helps eSweeps to serve you better by compiling user preferences and statistical data to improve the offerings and features of www.esweeps.com. eSweeps may use the aggregated information to, among other things: (i) develop products; (ii) improve content; (iii) track and report advertising click-throughs; and (iv) customize website layouts. eSweeps may also share, loan, rent, or sell this aggregated information to its affiliates and third parties, but keep in mind that the aggregated information contains absolutely no personally identifiable information.
If you do not want www.esweeps.coms cookies to be inserted into your hard drive, you can disable your hard drives ability to accept and receive cookies through your web browser. However, keep in mind that if you disable your hard drives ability to accept and receive cookies, you may not be able to fully utilize all of the features of www.esweeps.com.
Security of Your Submissions and Transmissions
eSweeps utilizes its best efforts to protect the security of any information submitted or transmitted by you via www.esweeps.com, including, but not limited to, personally identifiable information. However, in the unlikely event that an unauthorized third party compromises eSweeps' security system, eSweeps is not responsible for any occurrences or damages directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized third partys ability to view, use or disseminate your submissions or transmissions to www.esweeps.com, or your personally identifiable information.
Links to Other Internet Websites on www.esweeps.com
www.esweeps.com may contain links to other Internet websites. This Privacy Policy applies solely to www.esweeps.com. eSweeps makes no representations or warranties about, nor is it responsible for, the privacy practices of other Internet websites. When you enter a linked Internet website, eSweeps encourages you to read the privacy policy of that linked website, as its privacy policy may differ substantially from that of this Privacy Policy.
Access and Use by Minors
www.esweeps.com is not intended to be accessed or utilized by persons under the age of 18. All sweepstakes, offers and features on www.esweeps.com are open only to United States residents at least 18 years old. The entries of all winners under the age of 18 shall be voided by eSweeps. eSweeps does not intend or purposefully attempt, to award prizes to, or gather information from, children under the age of 18.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
eSweeps developed this Privacy Policy as a manifestation of our firm commitment to disclose our current privacy and confidentiality policies to you. However, the Internet is rapidly evolving. With this in mind, eSweeps reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time in its sole discretion and without notice.
Any information we collect from you is subject only to our most current Privacy Policy. You are advised and encouraged to visit www.esweeps.com on a regular basis to review our most current Privacy Policy, and review any changes that may have been made. Unless you elect to opt-out of our Privacy Policy, you agree to be bound by our most current Privacy Policy, including any changes that have been made since you originally provided eSweeps with information.
If at any time you wish to opt-out of this Privacy Policy, please contact eSweeps either at the postal address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy, or via email at remove@esweeps.com. However, keep in mind that your opting-out of this Privacy Policy cancels your ability to enter our sweepstakes and utilize our offers and other features of www.esweeps.com.
Last Updated:
July 27th, 2006
Special Notification for California Residents
Individual customers who reside in California and have provided their personal information to us may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us within thirty days of receiving such a request, we will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified in this paragraph.
Your Questions, Comments & Complaints
eSweeps encourages you to provide eSweeps with feedback regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have questions, comments or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@esweeps.com. If you feel that eSweeps is not abiding by this Privacy Policy at any time, please immediately contact us via email at info@esweeps.com.
Governing Law; Arbitration
This Privacy Policy is to governed and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Florida, without regard for principles of conflicts of laws. Any civil action, claim, dispute or proceeding arising out of, or relating to, this Privacy Policy shall be referred to final and binding arbitration, before a single arbitrator, under the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association in Palm Beach County, Florida. You and eSweeps shall select the arbitrator, and if you and eSweeps are unable to reach agreement on selection of the arbitrator within thirty (30) days after the notice of arbitration is served, then the American Arbitration Association shall select the arbitrator.
Judgment upon any award rendered by the arbitrator shall be final, binding and conclusive upon you and eSweeps, and your and eSweeps' respective administrators, executors, legal representatives, successors and assigns, and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, in no event shall either you or eSweeps be entitled to punitive, special, indirect, or consequential damages, and both you and eSweeps hereby waive your rights to any punitive, special, indirect, or consequential damages, including, but not limited to, damages for any loss of profit, revenue or business.
Miscellaneous
If any portion of this Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable by any arbitrator, this Privacy Policy as a whole shall not be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, but only that portion of this Privacy Policy that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken from this Privacy Policy.
The headings contained in this Privacy Policy are for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Privacy Policy, and shall not limit or otherwise affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Privacy Policy.
All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made in this Privacy Policy, as may be amended by eSweeps from time to time, shall survive your opting out of this Privacy Policy and the termination of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy represents the entire understanding and agreement between you and eSweeps regarding the subject matter of this Privacy Policy, and supersedes all other previous agreements, understandings and/or representations regarding the same.
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