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Our Privacy Policy
Our website respects the privacy rights of the
individuals who visit us. We do not sell
any personally identifiable information.
- What
is personally identifiable information
- Information we
collect
- How is the
information used
- Children
13 years and younger
- Opt out
- What about
cookies?
- What
about "Spam"?
In order to personalize your experience
and provide you with opportunities to win prizes and
services, we may ask you to submit information such as
your name or your email address, or to share your
interests and opinions with us. You never have to answer
these questions, and you may decide not to share this
type of information with any site on the internet - not
just ours. However, if you decide not to share some
requested information, we may not be able to provide you
with some services which require this information, such
as giveaways, expert advice, free email service, or live
lessons. We are committed to working with our customers
to provide the best interactive service possible. We
welcome any feedback (Give us your feedback here
) you have so that we can better meet your
needs.
When you surf the internet, your
browser ( such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft
Explorer) automatically transmits some information to
Access Rock every time you access content on our site.
Examples of such information include the URL of the Web
page you were just on ( known as the " Refer"),
the IP (or Internet Protocol) address of the computer you
are using, or the browser version you are using to access
our site. All of this information is collected by Access
Rock and is used to help improve our offerings to you.
For instance, from this information we might determine
that few of our customers use older browser versions. All
of the information that is automatically submitted to us
by your browser is considered Anonymous Information.
Any information that you provide in
chat rooms or message boards is not confidential and can
be viewed by other users or third parties.
What is Personally Identifiable Information:
- Anonymous Information refers
to information that cannot be tied back to a
specific individual. For example, we may know how
many people visited this page today, but we do
not necessarily know their names, where they
live, or their date of birth. What we collect
from transactions such as this constitutes
anonymous information.
- Personally Identifiable
Information refers to information that
tells us specifically who you are such as your
name, phone number, or postal address. Is some
cases we may need this information in order to
sell or ship products to you, or if you use our
free email service, which uses your name as part
of a security mechanism to protect your messages
from being read by anyone but you. We hope that
you will find it beneficial to judiciously
provide Personally Identifiable Information to
Access Rock so that we may provide more
valuable free content and products to
you.
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Information
we collect:
We collect and store statistics and other info about
online activities. For example, how many people view a
page or the order in which pages are viewed. We do this
to better our design and marketing plan. We keep messages
from message boards and chat rooms for an indeterminate
amount of time.
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How
is the information used:
Access Rock uses information gathered by registered users
to aid in their online experience and to help find other
businesses which may have products which would be of
interest to the user. We may share your Anonymous
information with third parties who provide service to our
site and are affiliated with us.
- We pay attention to what our
customers do and do not use on our service and
modify our content appropriately.
- We match the patterns of usage
that our consumers exhibit on any page where we
serve advertising to create "imputed
profiles" about our anonymous customers. The
creation of an imputed profile allows us to
statistically model the demographic
characteristics of an otherwise anonymous
customer, without ever knowing that anonymous
customer's name or any other Personally
Identifiable Information about them. These
imputed profiles are used to target advertising -
primarily banners- to those anonymous customers.
- Access Rock never matches
"Who you are" with "Where you've
been" on the Internet because we do not use
personal data characteristics such as your name,
address or phone number to create these imputed
profiles but rather use primary demographic
characteristics such as your age or gender.
- We hope that, like many of our
customers, you will find it beneficial to
judiciously provide Personal Identifiable
Information to Access Rock so that we may provide
more valuable free content and products to you.
- We provide advertisements that
support our customers' specific requests for
information through keyword searches. Do a search
on "CD's", for instance, and you'll
usually see a banner advertisement from a CD
site.
- From time to time, we may share
anonymous information such as reported gender or
zip code with third parties for the purposes of
anonymous profiling.
- We develop summary-but not
individual-reports for our advertisers. An
example of a summary report might be "10,000
people clicked on Advertisement 'X' today, and of
those people, 25% had previously indicated they
had an interest in extreme sports. Our
advertisers, who make it possible for you to use
Access Rock for free, need this information to
determine how effective their advertising
investments are. We never tell our advertisers
who it was that saw or clicked on their
advertisements, unless you have specifically told
us it is acceptable to do so.
- Through our email notification
service, we will send registrants of Access Rock
outbound email communications on information we
think they will find useful, including
information about new products and services from
select partners. It is our policy to never send
messages to Members who have asked us not to do
so, either at initial registration or later
through an unsubscribe process. In every email
from us, we will remind you of your option to
change your preferences regarding receipt of
future email communications.
- If we believe that Access Rock
property or an individual's safety or security is
at risk, we will disclose this information to
proper court or law enforcement agencies.
- Any information you provide in
chat rooms or discussion boards, or other forums
is not confidential. Discretion should be used in
entering within such forums, as it may be
collected by third parties, and this is, for
instance, a leading source of unwanted email. We
do not use this information to target any
advertising to our customers, nor is it ever
willingly distributed to any third party, such as
an advertiser, except if subpoenaed.
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Children 13 years of age and younger:
Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to
register with Access Rock. They are only allowed to view
and use lesson content and other free services which do
not require registration. For customers 13 and older, we
retain all registration information and provide the
customer with access to all services.
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Opt out:
This site gives you the option to decide not to
receive communications from us or sites which work with
us. Please send us an email to customerservice@accessrock.com and tell us to remove your email address from
our database.
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What
about cookies?:
To enable certain features (members log in)
available within Access Rock, we will assign
"cookies" to your Internet browser(such as
Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer). A
cookie is a small text file that contains a unique
identification number stored on your computer. cookies by
themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any
user. This unique identification number automatically
identifies your browser - but not you - to our computers
whenever you interact on our site. When you visit our
site, a cookie in effect says to our server computers
"Hello, I'm browser # 999. What do you do just for
me?" Only when you agree to provide, such as through
registration, will we be able to know anything about you
other than the random number that our server computers
originally assign to your browser. If you ever have gone
to a Web page that automatically provides personalized
content without you having to "sign in," this
is almost certainly being accomplished with a cookie.
Since cookies are only text files, they cannot
"run" on your computer and have no ability to
search your computer for other information, or transmit
it to anyone. Other companies that place advertising on
our site may collect information about you when you view
or click on their advertising or content through the use
of cookies. Due to the way the Internet technically
operates, we cannot control this collection of
information - but we can control which companies are
allowed to place such advertising on our site.
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What
about "Spam"?:
Access Rock does offer you the ability to control the
email communications we make to you. It is our intention
to give you as much control over our relationship as
possible. First, the consumer always has the final word
on whether Access Rock - or any internet company - know
who you are. It is your choice to share Personally
Identifiable information with Access Rock and we
encourage you to consider only sharing information with
any site on the Internet if you receive true value in
Exchange for that information transfer and if you respect
the privacy practices of the firm. As mentioned earlier,
use discretion when entering discussion or chat rooms, as
it may be collected by third parties, and this is, for
instance, a leading source of unwanted email.
Access Rock does reserve the right to
send a one-time registration confirmation email, and
infrequent service Alert messages to it's customers to
inform them of specific changes that may impact their
ability to use a service they have previously signed up
for, regardless of email contact opt-in status. We also
reserve the right to contact you if compelled to do so as
is retaining these rights because in limited cases we
feel that we may need the right to contact you as a
matter of law or regarding matters which will be
important to you. These rights do not allow us to contact
you to market a new or existing service if you have asked
us not to do so.
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