HotRedirect is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many services. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

HotRedirect collects information in several ways from different parts of our web sites.

Some personal information is gathered when you register. During registration, HotRedirect asks for your name, e-mail address, gender, country, age group, education level, occupation and personal interests. The more accurate your information is, the better we are able to customize your experience. Once you register you are no longer anonymous to HotRedirect - you are given a HotRedirect subdomain and are able to take full advantage of our Members' Only Utilities.

In addition to registration we may ask you for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when you enter promotion sponsored by HotRedirect and/or our many partners; when you tell your friend about us using our Tell-A-Friend service; and when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. If you contact HotRedirect we may keep a record of that correspondence. Wherever HotRedirect collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our site. This includes personalization services, interactive communications and many other types of services, most of which are completely free to you. In order to provide services free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, we are able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and hence better service, to you.

In our role of delivering targeted advertisements, HotRedirect plays the middleman. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach. HotRedirect takes the advertisement and displays it to users meeting that criteria. In this process, the advertiser never has access to individual account information. Only HotRedirect has access to individuals' accounts. This kind of advertisement targeting is done with banner ads as well as promotional e-mail.

HotRedirect does research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. HotRedirect may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.

COOKIES: HOW THEY ARE USED

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, HotRedirect uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. All sites on HotRedirect where you are prompted to log-in or that are customizable require that you accept cookies.

Generally, we use cookies to:

(1) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you "Log In" and is modified when you "Log Out" of our services.

(2) Target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.

(3) Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of HotRedirect of web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on HotRedirect a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites.

Advertising networks that serve ads onto HotRedirect may also use their own cookies.

HotRedirect also collects IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. In addition, HotRedirect's Tell-A-Friend and Hot Announcer includes IP addresses in outgoing mail message.

SHARING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

As a general rule, HotRedirect will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the Terms of Service for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.

Business Partners & Sponsors: HotRedirect may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Details of shared use can be found in the Terms of Service. Some or all data collected during a HotRedirect promotion may be shared with a sponsor. If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data. Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give HotRedirect permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your e-mail address will be shared. If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.

Other: HotRedirect may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Service or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) HotRedirect's rights or property, other HotRedirect users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. HotRedirect may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

USER'S CHOICE REGARDING COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

HotRedirect (or sponsors and agents working on behalf of HotRedirect) may, from time to time, send you e-mail regarding our products and services. Such e-mail may occasionally include targeted advertisements. If you do not want to receive such mailings, you can delete your account at the Members' Area. You will need your subdomain name and password in order to access the Members' Area.

You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be prompted when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those HotRedirect services that require login.

HotRedirect does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions.

SECURITY

Your HotRedirect Account Information is password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your Account Information by using your subdomain name and password.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. HotRedirect will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited e-mail. Also remember to log out of your HotRedirect account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.

As a global company HotRedirect has international sites and users all over the world. When you give HotRedirect personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information, such as to the United States or other countries. In addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that information. Whenever HotRedirect handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, HotRedirect takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, HotRedirect cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

OTHER

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through e-mail, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.