Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on October 11, 2012
Privacy Statement
Bachar Samawi Ventures / Samawi Earnings Research / Bachar Samawi (and or anyone designated by Bachar Samawi to operate www.samawi.net), publisher and operator of www.samawi.net is committed to maintain and respect the privacy of persons who visit, register, or make a purchase on any of the websites we publish and operate, including www.samawi.net (“Sites”). We are committed to maintain the privacy of your personal information, which you may provide us while visiting or using our Sites.
This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received from you when you visit Sites. Such Sites may contain links and linked advertisements to external sites or Third Parties, who may provide you with information, services and products to buy. Please note this Privacy Policy does not govern such Third Parties, and you should consult Privacy Policy of such Third Parties.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
You can access our home pages, and most of the content in Sites without the requirement of providing any personal information.
Sometimes, you are required to provide personal information to access a subscription-based section of Sites, or to purchase a product or service.
Sometimes you are required to provide information to receive certain complimentary offers.
Sometimes, you are required to provide personal information to participate in certain polls or surveys.
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
PII is used to contact you and/or determine your specific identity. If you register or make a purchase or subscribe to a subscription service offered by Sites, such information may include your name, address, e-mail address, personal preference data such as interests, etc… , payment information, such as credit card number, expiration, billing address, etc…. Payment information is currently collected by our payment processor, who currently is Paypal. Paypal is a Third Party, and they do not share your credit card information with us. However, they may share your name and address with us, or any questions we asked them to ask you, in order for us to provide you proper service for the product you require. We may change our payment processor in the future, in which case we would continue not to see your payment information. We may decide to process our own payments, in which case such payment information would naturally become known to us. In such case, we will amend this Privacy Policy. You should consult the Privacy Policy of Paypal.
You may also voluntarily provide PII to enable the delivery of a complimentary offer.
We do not, knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen.
When conducting surveys, we may also collect PII and other survey specific questions such as shopping habits, opinions, etc…. Such Surveys are voluntary, and you do not have to participate.
Web Site Usage Information
We automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information from you when you visit the Services. Such information can include your computer name, web browser version, referrer, page views, and other accepted log information. This information tells us how our visitors and subscribers use and navigate our Sites, including the quantity and frequency of visitors and subscribers to each web page. We also record the length of such visits.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, placed on your hard drive by a web page server. They typically cannot be used to run programs or cause a computer virus. Typically, only its sender can read a cookie.
We currently do not place cookies on your computer. If we change that in the future, we will amend this Privacy Policy.
How we use information we collect
Information we collect from you is used in the following ways:
1- To enable you to receive service or product you requested
2- To improve our services, add additional services, products or features
3- To send you emails about products, services, features, or new offers (unless you opt-out)
4- To contact you
5- To customize our products, services or advertisements
6- To determine our user base characteristics which we may share with Third Parties
7- To complete polls or surveys
We can aggregate information collected from all individual sites under Sites.
If we outsource some of our functions, or hire Third Parties, we may provide such Third Parties with your PII and other information for the purpose of providing required service on our behalf, such as billing, mailing, etc…. We would require such Third Parties not to share any of such information outside our company.
We may use third parties, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to deliver ads to you on our behalf. These third-party ad servers may be supplied with or have access to your PII solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf. They also may also collect and use non-PII about your visits to the Services and other Web sites in order to present advertisements that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice or to opt out of having this information used by third-party ad servers to provide targeted ads, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
We may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce our Subscriber Agreement or Terms of Use (for example, when necessary to protect our intellectual property rights). We may also disclose or use your personal information when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so. Otherwise, we will not share your information with Third parties, other than otherwise already disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
Merchant memberships, corporate subscriptions
If your access to Sites is provided by your employer, or under your merchant name, we may notify your employer when you access Sites. In doing so, we may reveal limited amounts of your PII such as your name or email address. In some cases, your employer providing your access may provide us with limited amounts of personal information about you to facilitate your access to Sites and so that we may identify you when providing it with user and usage information.
Your ability to chose
We offer you the opportunity to choose whether to receive certain communications from us at the time you give us your PII, if PII was requested. You can update such communication preference by emailing us at support@samawi.net, If more than one site requested it, then you should email more than one site.
Advertisements for our services
When you view an ad for a service or product of ours, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Our advertising company may also use Web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) to note which pages on Sites you visit after viewing our ads. The information that is collected through the use of these images is not personally identifiable and is used only to track response to our advertising efforts.
Data Protection and security
The personally identifiable information we collect about you is stored in limited-access databases, computers and servers. We will maintain safeguards to protect the security of these servers and your personally identifiable information.
Requests to correct, review, or delete your information
You may review and update the personally identifiable information/registration information that you have provided to us by emailing us at support@samawi.net .
Data retention
We retain your information for as long as necessary to permit us to use it for the purposes that we have communicated to you and comply with applicable law or regulations.
Amendments
When we make any material change or amendment to this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting a notice on the home page of this site that the policy has been updated and by changing the date on this page noting when the policy was last updated.
Transfer to U.S. or other countries
Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where we have facilities, and by subscribing to our services, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your country.
Comments and questions
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us at support@samawi.net .
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