MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY
Mike's Technical Service respects the privacy of its customers, including when they create and simply use the website (including www.mts7.com. The following policy (the Mike's Technical Service "Privacy Policy") is designed to inform you, as a user of the Mike's Technical Service, about the types of information that Mike's Technical Service may gather about or collect from you in connection with your use of the Mike's Technical Service. It also is intended to explain the conditions under which Mike's Technical Service uses and discloses that information, and your rights in relation to that information.
BY CLICKING THE "I AGREE" BUTTON OR BY ACCESSING OR USING ANY PART OF THE MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO THE TERMS OF, THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND TO THE MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE TERMS OF SERVICE. IF YOU HAVE NOT READ AND UNDERSTOOD, OR IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF, THIS PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT MAKE ANY FURTHER ATTEMPT TO ACCESS OR USE THE MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE.
Changes to this Privacy Policy are discussed at the end of this document. Each time you use the Mike's Technical Service, however, the current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, each time you use the Mike's Technical Service you should check the effective date of this Privacy Policy (which appears at the end of this document) and review any changes since the last time you used the Mike's Technical Service.
Use of Mike's Technical Service Restricted to United States Residents
The Mike's Technical Service is located in the United States of America and is intended for use only by United States residents. Accordingly, Mike's Technical Service does not intend to, and will not knowingly, collect information from or about people who are located outside of the United States. You may not use this service if you are not a United States resident.
Gathering, Use and Disclosure of Non-Personally-Identifying Information
Users of the Mike's Technical Service Generally
"Non-Personally-Identifying Information" is information that, without the aid of additional information, cannot be directly associated with a specific person or entity. "Personally-Identifying Information", by contrast, is information such as a name, email address or mobile telephone number that, without more, can be directly associated with a specific person or entity.
Like most website operators, Mike's Technical Service gathers from users of the Mike's Technical Service Non-Personally-Identifying Information of the sort that Web browsers, depending on their settings, may make available. That information includes the user's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, operating system and browser type, and the locations of the Web pages the user views right before arriving at, while navigating and immediately after leaving the Mike's Technical Service.
Mike's Technical Service analyzes Non-Personally-Identifying Information gathered from users of the Mike's Technical Service to help Mike's Technical Service better understand how the Mike's Technical Service is being used. By identifying patterns and trends in usage, Mike's Technical Service is able to better design the Mike's Technical Service to improve users' experiences, both in terms of content and ease of use. From time to time, Mike's Technical Service may also release the Non-Personally-Identifying Information gathered from Mike's Technical Service users in the aggregate, such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Mike's Technical Service.
Web Cookies
A "Web Cookie" is a string of information that a website stores on a user's computer, and that the user's browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query to the website. Mike's Technical Service uses Web Cookies to track the pages that users visit during each Mike's Technical Service session, both to help Mike's Technical Service improve users' experiences (for example, by sparing users from having to repeatedly view the same welcome message) and to help Mike's Technical Service understand how the Mike's Technical Service is being used.
As with other Non-Personally-Identifying Information gathered from users of the Mike's Technical Service, Mike's Technical Service analyzes and discloses in aggregated form information gathered using Web Cookies, so as to help Mike's Technical Service, its advertisers and others better understand how the Mike's Technical Service is being used. Mike's Technical Service does not attempt to link information gathered using Web Cookies to Personally-Identifying Information.
MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE USERS WHO DO NOT WISH TO HAVE WEB COOKIES PLACED ON THEIR COMPUTERS SHOULD SET THEIR BROWSERS TO REFUSE WEB COOKIES BEFORE ACCESSING THE MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE MAY NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY WITHOUT THE AID OF WEB COOKIES. MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE USERS WHO REFUSE WEB COOKIES ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RESULTING LOSS OF FUNCTIONALITY.
Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personally-Identifying Information
Mike's Technical Service Registration and Age Verification
As defined above, Personally-Identifying Information is information that can be directly associated with a specific person or entity. Mike's Technical Service collects a range of Personally-Identifying Information from and about users. Much of the Personally-Identifying Information collected by Mike's Technical Service about users is information provided by users themselves at the time they create their Mike's Technical Service accounts. That information includes each user's username, first and last name, email address, birth date, gender, mobile phone number and zip code. The rest is information that users provide through their profiles.
Mike's Technical Service also collects additional Personally-Identifying Information from those users who participate in Mike's Technical Service's age-verification process. Mike's Technical Service will not collect such additional information without specifically asking for it. Mike's Technical Service will ask for debit or credit card account information in order to verify that the user is age 18 or over. Mike's Technical Service will also supplement that information with Personally-Identifying Information it gathers to verify the validity of account information provided through third-parties or may verify age through public sources. A user's debit or credit card account information provided for the purposes of the age verification process is not maintained by Mike's Technical Service.
Users of the Mike's Technical Service are under no obligation to provide Mike's Technical Service with Personally-Identifying Information of any kind, with the caveat that a user's refusal to do so may prevent them from becoming a user or from accessing materials suitable only for adults age 18 or older.
BY REGISTERING TO BECOME A USER OR BY PARTICIPATING IN MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE'S AGE-VERIFICATION PROCESS, YOU CONSENT TO THE USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS "COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION" SECTION. IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT TO SUCH USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, YOU MUST NOT REGISTER TO BECOME A USER OR PARTICIPATE IN MIKE'S TECHNICAL SERVICE'S AGE-VERIFICATION PROCESS.
Other Disclosures
Mike's Technical Service, however, will disclose Personally-Identifying Information only to those Mike's Technical Service employees, contractors, affiliates, vendors and suppliers who: (i) process Personally-Identifying Information on Mike's Technical Service's behalf or participate with Mike's Technical Service in the provision or operation of the Mike's Technical Service; and (ii) agree not to use or disclose Personally-Identifying Information received from Mike's Technical Service other than in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Mike's Technical Service also will disclose Personally-Identifying information under the following circumstances:
- By Law or to Protect Rights - Mike's Technical Service discloses Personally-Identifying Information when required to do so by law, or in response to a subpoena or court order, or when Mike's Technical Service believes in its sole discretion that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Mike's Technical Service, third parties or the public at large.
- Marketing Communications - Mike's Technical Service will email users about products and services that Mike's Technical Service believes may be of interest to them. Mike's Technical Service also will provide users' email information to third parties, so that those third parties may contact users directly about additional products and services. users, however, may opt-out of having their email information provided to third parties either at the time they register to become users or at any time after by logging in to their accounts at www.mts7.com or through any Internet-based Mike's Technical Service Partner Site. Even after opting-out, a user may continue to receive marketing emails from third parties to whom Mike's Technical Service already has provided the user's email information. users will be responsible for contacting such third parties directly to request cessation of further marketing emails. Mike's Technical Service will not itself, and will not provide mobile telephone information to others to, send marketing communications via mobile telephone text message except to those users who specifically consent to receive such messages.
- Business Transfers; Bankruptcy - Mike's Technical Service reserves the right to transfer all Personally-Identifying Information in its possession to a successor organization in the event of a merger, acquisition, creation of a separate business to provide the user Network, Mike's Technical Service's services or sale or pledge of Mike's Technical Service' assets as well as in the event of or bankruptcy or receivership. . Information about users, including Personally Identifying Information, may also need to be disclosed in connection with a commercial transaction where Mike's Technical Service, or its affiliates, is seeking financing, investment, support or funding. However, other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or other court, the use and disclosure of all transferred Personally-Identifying Information will be subject to this Privacy Policy, or to a new privacy policy if you are given notice of that new privacy policy and are given an opportunity to affirmatively opt-out of it. Personally-Identifying Information submitted or collected after a transfer, however, may be subject to a new privacy policy adopted by the successor organization.
- Unpaid Accounts - When a person or entity fails to pay any balance owed Mike's Technical Service in connection with the Mike's Technical Service, Mike's Technical Service may, as permitted by law, report that person or entity, including without limitation information concerning the balance owed and other of the person or entity's Personally-Identifying Information, to consumer credit reporting services, collection agencies and others.
Contests, Giveaways and Surveys
From time to time, Mike's Technical Service may offer Mike's Technical Service users the opportunity to participate in contests, giveaways and other promotions. Any information submitted in connection with such activities will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. From time to time, Mike's Technical Service may also ask Mike's Technical Service users to participate in surveys designed to help Mike's Technical Service improve the Mike's Technical Service. Any Personally-Identifying Information provided to Mike's Technical Service in connection with any survey will be used only in relation to that survey, and will be disclosed to third parties not bound by this Privacy Policy only in non-personally-identifying, aggregated form.
Collection and Use of Information by Third Parties
Third Party Vendors and Suppliers
Mike's Technical Service contractually prohibits its contractors, affiliates, vendors and suppliers from disclosing Personally-Identifying Information received from Mike's Technical Service, other than in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Third Party Websites
Third parties are under no obligation to comply with this Privacy Policy with respect to Personally-Identifying Information that users provide directly to those third parties or that those third parties collect for themselves. Mike's Technical Service neither owns nor controls the third-party websites and wireless websites accessible through the Mike's Technical Service. Thus, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information provided to or gathered by the third parties that operate them. Before visiting a third-party website or wireless website, whether by means of an advertisement or link on the Mike's Technical Service or otherwise, and before providing any Personally-Identifying Information to any third party, users should inform themselves of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website or wireless website, and should take those steps necessary to, in those users' discretion, protect their privacy.
Mike's Technical Service Partner Sites
In the same way that Mike's Technical Service does not own or control the third-party websites and wireless websites accessible through the Mike's Technical Service, Mike's Technical Service does not own or control the community of websites and wireless websites that provide access to the Mike's Technical Service (each a "Mike's Technical Service Partner Site"). Mike's Technical Service Partner Sites are independent contractors of Mike's Technical Service. Accordingly, Mike's Technical Service Partner Sites are not bound by this Privacy Policy. Before accessing a Mike's Technical Service Partner Site, whether to get to the Mike's Technical Service or for any other purpose, Mike's Technical Service users should inform themselves of the privacy policies and/or practices of that Mike's Technical Service Partner Site and, as in the case of any other third-party website or wireless website, should take those steps necessary to protect their privacy.
Protection of Personally-Identifying Information
Mike's Technical Service has implemented and maintains reasonable security procedures and practices to protect against the unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction or disclosure of Personally-Identifying Information.
Access
Mike's Technical Service wants users' Personally-Identifying Information to be accurate and complete. Mike's Technical Service permits users and others about whom Mike's Technical Service stores Personally-Identifying Information to freely update, correct, or delete that information. To do so, those individuals need only log in to their accounts at www.mts7.com, or contact Mike's Technical Service Customer Service at support@mts7.com.
Privacy Policy Changes
The Effective Date of this Privacy Policy is set forth below. Please make special note of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy. Mike's Technical Service may revise and update this Privacy Policy if its practices change, as technology changes, or as it adds new services or change existing ones. If any changes are made to this Privacy Policy you will know because the Effective Date of the Privacy Policy will change. If Mike's Technical Service ever chooses to use any Personally Identifying Information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information was collected, Mike's Technical Service will only do so with your permission. If you do not consent, your Personally Identifying Information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time that information was obtained but you may not be able to use the website or Mike's Technical Service services in the future. By using the website after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to the then-current privacy policy so check the Privacy Policy effective date regularly.
Disputes
Any disputes under this Privacy Policy will be subject to the Mike's Technical Service's Terms of Service. [www.mts7.com]
This policy is effective as of and was last updated on November 12, 2006.
