Last Revised May 12th, 2009

MyTrustSeals.com's Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”)

Version 1.4

This Privacy Policy is designed to explain how MyTrustSeals.com and its affiliates (hereafter, individually and collectively, "we", “us” or ""): (i) collect, track, retrieve, compile, merge, use, process, disclose, distribute, share, sell and transfer Information (as such term is defined in Section 1 below), (ii) with whom the Information may be shared and sold; (iii) what choices are available to you regarding collection, use, distribution, sharing and selling of the Information; (iv) how you can correct inaccuracies in the Information; (v) the kind of security procedures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of Information that is under our control; and (vi) covers your access to and use of the entire network of MTS Websites ("MTS Websites") together with any and all services, content, products and offers both online and offline provided by, for or on behalf of MTS (individually and collectively, the “MTS Network”).

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that MTS does not own or control, or to people that MTS does not employ or manage. In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we may post separate privacy notices to describe how particular services collect, track, compile, merge, use, process, disclose, distribute, share, sell and transfer Information; such privacy notices are incorporated herein by this reference. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

By accessing or using the MTS Network, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This is our entire and exclusive privacy policy and it supersedes any earlier version. This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use and End User License Agreement(s).

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy about how Information is collected, tracked, compiled, merged, used, processed, disclosed, distributed, shared, sold and transferred, please contact by clicking this link.

PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT ANY AND ALL INFORMATION WE MAY GATHER FROM YOU THROUGH YOUR, REGISTERING FOR, ACCESS AND/OR USE OF THE MTS NETWORK AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION OR DATA WE MAY GATHER FROM YOU, OUR PARTNERS OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY BY ANY OTHER MEANS, OR THAT YOU OR ANY OF THEM MAY OTHERWISE PROVIDE TO US, WHETHER PERSONAL, NONPUBLIC OR UNIDENTIFIABLE, MAY BE SHARED OR SOLD TO OUR PARTNERS OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

1. Collection of your Information and Data

A. The information and data provided by you or retrieved or collected by, for or on our behalf consists of your personally identifiable information, non-personally identifiable information, including all data and information obtained through the use of cookies, Web beacons, or other technologies when you register with, access, communicate, use or interact in anyway (individually and collectively “Interact”) with the MTS Network. Depending on how you Interact with the MTS Network, the information and data provided by you or collected or retrieved by, for or on behalf of MTS may include:


Personal information, such as your first, middle and last name, a home or other physical address, telephone number(s), email address(es) or other online contact information, such as a persistent identifier, such as a customer number held in a cookie or processor serial number, that is combined with other available data that identifies an individual, account information (user name and password), and any other information from or about an individual that is combined with any of the above;

Click stream data, such as your visits to websites and pages and your responses to offerings, promotions and Advertisements;

Content of messages and emails and other information related to your use of the MTS Network;

Information about the services or offerings that you use, and how frequently you use them;

Information uploaded by you to your profile;

Information obtained by us through communications received by you;

Transaction-related information with us and with some of our vendors and business partners, including, credit card or other preferred means of payment, billing or shipping information, or a history of products or services purchased;

Customer service information about you as a MTS Network user or subscriber;

Your browser, including your IP address, cookie and Web beacon information (discussed in detail below), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), CPU type (e.g. Pentium), your manner of connecting to the Internet (e.g., connection speed through narrowband or broadband access); the page you request together with other information about your geographic location; and the domain name of your Internet service provider;

Any other information or data provided by you or collected, retrieved or tracked by us;

All of the above, individually and collectively “Information”
We may enhance or merge your personally identifiable information with data or information collected from other services, sources or third parties to provide a better user experience, including customizing content and Advertisements for you and to use, share and sell in offline or online marketing and other business purposes. Once you register with the MTS Network and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.


2. Cookies and Web Beacons and Other Similar Technologies and Uses Thereof

The MTS Network and certain of its advertising partners and affiliates use cookies. A “cookie” is a small text file that contains a string of alphanumeric characters. There are two types of cookies that may be used: a persistent cookie and a session cookie. A persistent cookie gets entered by your Web browser into the “Cookies” folder on your computer and remains in this “Cookies” folder after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent Interaction with the MTS Network or third party website. A session cookie is held temporarily in your computer's memory and disappears after you close your browser or shut off your computer. The MTS Network and certain of its advertising partners and affiliates may also use Web beacons (also called “clear GIFs”, “action tags” or “pixel tags”) in conjunction with cookies. Web beacons are small strings of code that are placed in a Web page that is designed to allow the site owner or a third party to monitor who is visiting such page by collecting the IP address of the computer that the Web beacon is sent to, the URL of the page the Web beacon comes from, and the time it was viewed. Web beacons also may be associated with cookie information.

The MTS Network and certain of its advertising partners and affiliates may use cookies and Web beacons in combination with click stream data such as behavioral data, IP addresses, log files, referring URLs, traffic data and other Information, including combining with your personal information, to enhance and personalize your experience on the MTS Network, to help authenticate you when you use the MTS Network; to remember your preferences and registration information; to enable a shopping cart; to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of MTS Network offerings, Advertisements, and e-mail communications (by determining which e-mails you open and act upon); and to customize the content and Advertisements provided to you by us and our business partners through the MTS Network. Information obtained through cookies and Web beacons or about Internet usage may be combined with other Information, including your personal information, from any other cookie or source. MTS may place a cookie on your hard disk on behalf of a sponsor when such sponsor's web page is shown, so that the sponsor can measure the effectiveness of such web page. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies can only be accessed or read by the domain that placed them. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use certain features of the MTS Network that depend on cookies. If you would like to stop receiving MTS promotional communications or change your Information preference settings, please click here

3. How Information is Used

MTS uses Information for the following general purposes to:

help us, our business partners, customers and clients better understand the demographics of our/their target audience(s) as well as to support our and their marketing of products and services and selection and delivery of Advertisement(s);

provide you with information and materials about products, services, news and events;

present offers and Advertisements, both offline and online, to you on behalf of MTS and our business partners and advertisers;

direct marketing

to determine or predict user characteristics, behavior, or preferences;

report and assess service levels;

customize the Advertising and Content you see;

operate and improve the websites, software, services, products and offerings available through the MTS Network ;

verify access rights to content, services or software;

contact you;

conduct research;

provide reporting for internal and external clients and customers;

provide security;

monitor; and for any other business purposes.

4. Who We Share and Sell Information With and How They Use It

We may share or sell your Information, including your nonpublic personal information, for compensation with third parties; such third parties may include, but are not limited to, our affiliates, marketing companies, advertising agencies, data compilers, advertisers, data companies, data brokers, and, to the extent permitted by law, individual reference and look-up service programs. Such Information may be used by such third parties to provide you with information, advertisements, commercial communications and materials on products and services that may be of interest, for direct marketing or any other business purpose.

MTS may use agents and contractors in order to help operate, update, enhance and provide the MTS Network. If such agents and contractors have access to non public personally identifiable information, they are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice or restricted from using or disclosing such Information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for the MTS Network.

5. Evites and Other Communications to and Uses of Non-members Email Addresses

During our registration process and after a person becomes a MTS Network registered member (“Member(s)”) you can invite friends and other persons to join the MTS Network by sending invitation emails.

You understand, acknowledge and agree that by providing us your user name(s) and password(s) you are granting MTS access to your address book(s) to retrieve all data within, you have the right to and voluntarily identified or provided such data including all recipient email addresses located therein, MTS did not induce you to send such invitation(s), you initiated the transmission of such email invitations when you clicked the “Click Here to Add Your Friends” link (or similar link), and that we have permission to upload all such email addresses that remained selected to our database once you click the "Click Here to add your friends" (or similar link) so that: (i) the recipients may be added to your Friend's list; (ii) we may send invitations to join the MTS Network to the recipients. Recipients of invitations or other electronic promotional communications from us may contact us to stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail by following the specific instructions in the e-mail they receive. Without limiting any of the foregoing, we will discontinue sending reminder invitations upon their joining the MTS Network.

You may prevent MTS email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by contacting us here.

6. Third Party Advertising

Advertisement(s) sent to you via or appearing on the MTS Network may be delivered to you by MTS or one of our affiliates or advertising partners. As discussed above, our affiliates and advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an Advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their Advertisement(s) and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted Advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies placed by MTS and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or any other third party.

7. Public Disclosure of Information by You and How such Information May Be Used, Shared or Sold

If you use MTS Network communications tools to disclose information about yourself publicly (for example, in chat rooms, your profile or online message boards made available by the MTS Network), other online users may obtain access to any Information you provide. In addition, the contents of your online communications, as well as other Information about you as a MTS Network user, may be accessed and disclosed in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); in other circumstances in which MTS believes the MTS Network is being used in the commission of a crime; when we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person; when necessary either to protect the rights or property of MTS, the MTS Network or its affiliated providers, for us to render the service you have requested; or for us to use for any other business purpose.


8. Data integrity

MTS processes personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed. We take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary. and as further set forth in Section 10 below.


9. Choices About How We Use and To Whom We Share and Sell Personal Information With

By registering with the MTS Network or our vendors' sites, users allow MTS and its affiliates to make their personally identifiable information available to third parties in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. MTS offers you choices for the collection, use, sharing and selling of your personal information. You may also choose not to receive promotional e-mail from MTS by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. These communications choices do not apply to mandatory service communications that are considered part of certain MTS services, which you may receive periodically unless you cancel such MTS service. If necessary, we will contact you within a reasonable period of time after we receive your request(s). Because the choices you make in connection with your personal information may not take effect immediately, it is possible, amongst other things, that you may receive a communication(s) during the period in which your request is being processed. Notwithstanding, all personally identifiable information provided by a user may be used by MTS to support its business services described above.

If a user in our database has notified us in accordance with the terms herein and indicated that they do not want to have their personal information shared or sold to third parties, MTS will limit the use of such information to the suppression, validation and enhancement of existing information held by third parties about its users. For example, marketers may use Information about a registrant provided by MTS, such as "opt-out" information, to suppress or drop the registered user's name from a file of potential customers. Additional Information may be used to verify and/or validate the accuracy of existing data on the registrant that was lawfully acquired by such third party. In addition, our information customers may use Information supplied by MTS to enhance or append personally identifiable data to their file for use in direct or online marketing subject to the terms of their own privacy policies.

Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, we are not responsible for removing your personal information or any other Information from the lists of any third party who has previously been provided your Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

For more information on how to opt in or opt out of sharing of your personal information please contact us here.


10. Access and Updating Personal Information

When you Interact with the MTS Network, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. Currently, MTS does not offer users a means by which to completely delete personal data in order to maintain a master suppression file. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical, i.e., requests concerning Information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide Information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

11. No Information from Minors

You must be at least 13 years of age to interact with and use the MTS Network. It is your responsibility to determine whether the MTS Network is inappropriate for your child.

We have no intention of collecting personal information from children under the age of 13. When we become aware that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected without such child's parent or guardian's consent, we will use all commercially reasonable efforts to delete or suppress such information from our database.


12. Disclosure

We may disclose any kind of Information, including your personal non public information, when we believe it necessary for the conduct of our business, or where disclosure is required by law, regulation or other government authority or to prevent harm to yourself or others. Notwithstanding anything else, in the event that ownership of MTS was to change as a result of a merger, acquisition or transfer to another company or person or upon any other corporate reorganization your Information may be transferred by us without your consent .


13. Security of your Personal Information

MTS uses industry standard security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the Information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the Information collected by the MTS Network in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Further, while we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this Information. Lastly, unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of Information. For any additional information about the security measures we use on the MTS Network, please contact us


14. Linking to Other Sites.

Please note: A link on the MTS Network or from an Advertisement delivered by MTS or any of its affiliates, business partners or third party does not imply our endorsement of that Advertisement, service or product. We do not control the Advertisements to which we link and assume no responsibility for their content or privacy policies. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results. Any information that you provide to linked websites or Advertisements, or other third parties, is provided directly to such third party and is subject to that third party's privacy policy. Therefore, you should carefully review the privacy policies that apply to any websites or Advertisements you Interact with from the MTS Network or any advertisers or other third parties you respond to. This privacy policy applies solely to Information collected by or provided to MTS.


15. Changes to Privacy Policy

MTS reserves the right to change the provisions of this Privacy Policy at any time. MTS will post those changes on the privacy page of the MTS web page located at http://www.MyTrustSeals.com/privacy.php so you can be aware of what Information we collect and how we use, merge, compile, share or sell it. Your Interaction with the MTS Network following the posting of such changes to the MTS Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of any such changes. We encourage you to review our privacy policy frequently to make sure that you understand how MTS collects, tracks, compiles, uses, shares, sells and transfers Information. If we are going to use your or other users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you and those users via email or by placing a prominent notice on our MTS Website(s).


16. Notice to All Members

If you are unsure whether this privacy policy is in conflict with the applicable local rules where you are located, you should not submit your personal information to the MTS Network. Members and anyone else who Interacts with the MTS Network who submits personal information do thereby consent to: (i) the international transfer and/or storage of such information to a country which may be deemed to have inadequate data protection and (ii) the collection, compiling, merging, using, sharing, selling, distributing and transferring of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy.

17. Contact Us

If you have any questions about the MTS Network, our company or service, you should first consult our website http://www.MyTrustSeals.com. This site includes links to company information, answers to frequently asked questions, and all of MTS's current policies and practices. If you have further questions or concerns, please contact us or write to MyTrustSeals.com, 11523 Palmbrush Trail #219, Bradenton, FL 34202.


18. Special Notification for California Residents

Except as stated herein, individual customers who reside in California and have provided their personal information may request information regarding disclosures of this information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us at the following mailing address: CA Privacy Request, ATTN: MTS Support, 11523 Palmbrush Trail #219, Bradenton, FL 34202. 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 or if such person has been given the opportunity to opt in or out of sharing of such person's personal information.