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Pnosis.com ("Pnosis") recognizes that its customers, visitors,
users, and others who use http://www.pnosis.com/ or other web sites
owned or operated by Pnosis (collectively or
individually "Users") value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details
important information regarding the use and disclosure of User
information collected on Pnosis. Pnosis provides this Privacy
Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or
continue using Pnosis.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the Pnosis
Terms of Use. Your use of Pnosis and any personal information
you provide on Pnosis remains subject to the terms of this
Privacy Notice and our Terms of Use.
Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the
direction of Users on Pnosis becomes published content and
is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this
Privacy Notice.
The Information Pnosis Collects
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User Provided Information: You may provide certain personally
identifiable information (such as your name and email address) to
Pnosis when choosing to participate in various activities on the Pnosis
Sites such as subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists. Thanks dude (or dudette) we really hope to keep in touch and will do our level best to keep you happy though we may fail.
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Cookies Information: When you visit the Pnosis Sites, we may send one
or more cookies - a small text file of software code - to your computer
that uniquely identifies your browser. Pnosis reserves the right to use
both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie
remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by
your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can
be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A
session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your
browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to
indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the
Pnosis Sites may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies
is disabled.
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Log File Information: When you use Pnosis our servers
automatically record certain information that your web browser sends
whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include
information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address,
browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs,
platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages
viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on
particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more
cookies that may uniquely identify your browser
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Clear GIFs Information: When you use Pnosis we may employ
"clear GIFs" (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online
usage patterns of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a
non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may also use clear
GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are
opened by recipients. We actually have no idea what this means, but we hope our tech guy does. Whatever it is, sounds cool, no? "Web beacons!"
How Pnosis Uses Information.
- Well, the most obvious thing is that if you subscribe to the Newsletter we will send you the Newsletter whenever we send it out.
- If you submit personally identifiable information to us then we use your personal information to operate,
maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of Pnosis.
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Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose
online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, etc.) becomes
publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Any
videos that you submit to Pnosis, which we may allow you to do at some point, may be redistributed through
the internet and other media channels and may be viewed by the general
public
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We may use your email address to send commercial or marketing messages
to you either embedded in other communications or by themselves. You
will have the ability to unsubscribe and no longer receive these
transmissions. We may use your email address without further consent
for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of
major Pnosis site changes or for customer service purposes). We
will not, without your permission, share your email address with third
parties not associated with Pnosis or a sister site except as part of a specific
program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or
opt-out.
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We may, if we can ever afford it, use both your personally identifiable information and certain
non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage
data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to
improve the quality and design of Pnosis and to create new
features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking,
and analyzing User preferences and trends. Until we can afford, we'll just struggle along as best as we can.
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We intend to use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a)
remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during
your visit or the next time you visit the Pnosis Sites; (b) provide
custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the
effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics
such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track
your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and
contests. If we haven't done it yet it probably just means that it is simply indecipherable to us.
When Pnosis Discloses Information
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We may provide personally identifiable information and
non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated
companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing
such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to
process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we
use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to
use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
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We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name
or email address) with other, third-party companies for their
commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a
specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to
opt-in or opt-out.
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We do have the right to share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous
User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types,
number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in
understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services,
advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Pnosis Sites.
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We may release personally identifiable information and/or
non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or
in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with
state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond to a
court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
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Pnosis also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable
information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that Pnosis
believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our
Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and
defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist
government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity
of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal
safety of Pnosis, our Users or others.
Your Choices
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You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable
information through Pnosis, in which case Pnosis may not be
able to provide certain services to you. When and if we have profiles
pages, for example, you may update or correct your personal profile information and
email preferences at any time. Please note that media files
uploaded by Users to the Pnosis Sites cannot be removed and remain
subject to our Terms of Use.
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To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps
(such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before
granting you certain site access. You are responsible
for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account
information at all times.
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Please contact Pnosis with any questions or comments about this Privacy
Notice, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or
opt-out choices by emailing us at
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If we aren't completely buried with other work -- and can understand your question -- someone may eventually get around to writing you back. But if you're seriously concerned about something in the privacy policy here we urge to just go to some other site instead with a privacy policy you like better.
- Finally, we reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time in any way so it's up to you to keep track of any new policies, even if they are less restrictive than this one.
July 4, 2007, very slightly revised April 3, 2008
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