BlueStarHighway.com Privacy Policy
1. Introduction.
This Privacy Policy describes how Ausili Productions LLC, d/b/a/ BlueStarHighway.com (“BlueStarHighway.com”), treats personal information collected and received as a result of your use of the BlueStarHighway.com web site and the services provided by BlueStarHighway.com through that web site and through other internet sites and on-line systems or software operated by or for us (collectively, the “Service”), including information related to your use of our products and services. Users of the Service and the BlueStarHighway.com web site are referred to as “you” or “your.” BlueStarHighway.com is referred to herein as “BlueStarHighway.com,” “we,” “our” or “us.” The term “Personal information” means information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. We may use personal information subject to the terms of this privacy policy. This policy applies only to information collected by BlueStarHighway.com online. It does not apply to information collected or obtained by BlueStarHighway.com or its affiliates through other means. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that BlueStarHighway.com does not control. All capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the BlueStarHighway.com Terms of Use.
2. Information Collection & Use.
Registration
In order to upload Supplied Content to the Service, you must first complete the registration form and/or create a user name and password. During registration you must provide contact information, including your name and email address. We use this information to contact you about the services on the Service.
You may have the option to provide demographic information (such as income level and gender) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on the Service.
BlueStarHighway.com is the owner or licensee of the information collected through the Service and on the BlueStarHighway.com web site. BlueStarHighway.com collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
Orders
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address, phone) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date, billing address, CCV).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
Application Forms
If you purchase certain products or services related to the Service, we may require that you provide financial information, which would include certain personally identifiable information, including your name, address, phone number and credit card number. This information may be necessary to process your application and to contact you. Credit card transactions will be processed using secure socket layer encryption technology (SSL).
Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on the Service. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information such as name and shipping address, and demographic information such as your zip code.
We may use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic or personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys), to send participants an email newsletter or other communications.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about the Service, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. BlueStarHighway.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at blue@bluestarhighway.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Uses of Information
We also collect information in an effort to make your visit to the BlueStarHighway.com site and use of the Service more useful and enjoyable, for example, by delivering more individualized content and advertising. We may also use personal information collected on the Service to communicate with you regarding our Terms of Use and privacy policy, products and services offered by the Service and other BlueStarHighway.com affiliates and partners, processing e-commerce transactions, administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other topics we think you might find of interest. We may share this information with other BlueStarHighway.com business units and affiliates, including for example our affiliated publications (collectively, “Affiliates”), and with our agents who may provide services or communicate with you on our behalf.
Personal information we collect may also be used for other purposes including administration and troubleshooting of our web site and the Service. We may also provide access to such information to third parties who assist us by providing technical support for the operation of our web site and the Service, web hosting services, newsletter services and other services such as billing, processing, shipping, promotions management or email management.
Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. As one example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive. Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners, but cannot be used to contact you individually.
Children
BlueStarHighway.com does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any personal information from a child under 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe BlueStarHighway.com has any information from or about anyone under 13, please contact us at the address listed below.
3. Communications from the Site
Information Regarding Products and Services
We will occasionally send you information on various products and services. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page when we initiate this service. We will provide you with the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice/Opt-out” section below.
Newsletters
If we offer a newsletters, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. We will provide you with a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice/Opt-out” section below.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if the Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might notify you by email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. Please see the “Choice/Opt-out” section below.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We may also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a “profile” of your preferences for use on a session-basis only.
Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.
ID/Address Verification
We may use a third party or third party software to verify your identity and/or address and, for example, confirm the existence of a business, in connection with providing the Service.
Enhancement of Profile Information
We may purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested. We may tie this information to the personally identifiable information users have provided to us in order to enhance users’ information profiles.
4. Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information:
We share personally identifiable information only with our parent company, subsidiaries and/or affiliated companies. We do not share personally identifiable information with Third Parties.
We may use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services, and sales agents to assist us in making sales. We may share personally identifiable information with them as necessary for the third party to provide its respective service. These third parties have assured us, or we shall seek their assurances, that they do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any purposes other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy and as necessary to provide their services.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us.
5. Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at blue@bluestarhighway.com. Or, you may contact us at the address below.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
6. Log Files
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information consist of all or some of the following: internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
7. Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on the Service. The cookies we use are “session cookies,” which expire when you close your browser.
If you reject cookies, you may still use the Service, but your ability to use some areas of the Service, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on the Service. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See the “Third Party Advertisers” section below.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by BlueStarHighway.com and the Service only. It does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or other third parties.
8. Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on the Service are delivered to users by Google through its AdSense program. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on the Service and to record information about what ads your browser is shown. Google also uses the DoubleClick DART cookie. Google does not collect or serve ads based on personal information without your permission. Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick DART cookie and the cookie for the Google content network by clicking “opt out” at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. For more information on Google’s privacy practices, see: (i) http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html; (ii) http://www.google.com/privacy_cookies.html; and (iii) http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Google’s policies and procedures supersede anything contained in the BlueStarHighway.com Privacy Policy with respect to the ads appearing on the Service served by Google or DoubleClick.
9. Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by BlueStarHighway.com. Please be aware that we, BlueStarHighway.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites, nor for anything else those third party sites do or fail to do. We advise you to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. BlueStarHighway.com’s Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by the Service.
10. Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
Please be aware that if you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums, nor for any consequences of your disclosure of such information or its use by others as a result.
11. Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire the Service, you may correct or update it by making the change on our account management page or you may delete or deactivate your account by emailing Customer Support at blue@bluestarhighway.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.
12. Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable and reasonable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at blue@bluestarhighway.com.
13. Business Transitions
In the event BlueStarHighway.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred.
14. Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
15. Contact Us
BlueStarHighway.com
1017 Court Street
St. Joseph, Mi 49085
Tel.: 269-519.9781
Email: blue@bluestarhighway.com
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