Privacy Policy

V.I.O. is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following Privacy Policy ("Policy") to understand how your personal information will be treated as you use this web site and our other facilities. This Policy is incorporated into and should be reviewed along with the web site Terms of Use Agreement. The Policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically as your continued use of this web site constitutes your acceptance of these terms. The most current version of this Policy, which supersedes all previous versions, can be reviewed by clicking on the Privacy Policy at the bottom each page of this web site.

1. What personally identifiable information does V.I.O. collect from me?

V.I.O. collects information in several ways. Some personal information is gathered when you register or open an account. During registration, V.I.O. may ask for your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry or personal interests. The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to customize your experience.

In addition, we may ask you for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when you enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored by V.I.O. and/or one of our partners; when you make a purchase from V.I.O.; when you subscribe to newsletters, catalogs or other publications; or when you report a problem with our services. If you contact V.I.O. we may keep a record of that correspondence. V.I.O. also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. Whenever V.I.O. collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Policy on that page.

You understand that any information, image, video, picture, or other material included in any User Content that you post on this web site shall be considered publicly available and is not considered protected personally identifiable information subject to this Policy. Any User Content can be viewed, collected and used by others.

2. What are cookies and how does V.I.O. use them?

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, V.I.O. 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.

Generally, we use cookies in the following ways: (i) to offer certain features that are only available through the use of cookies, (ii) to help identify you each time you access the web site and provide personalized content, advertisements and information, (iii) to monitor and design our marketing activities, (iv) to monitor your activities such as submissions of User Content and track your status regarding subscriptions to newsletters, and participation in sweepstakes or promotions, and (v) to monitor the number of visitors to our web site. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your computer at the end of a session. You may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the Site that we do not control. (For example, if you view a web page created by another user, there may be a "cookie" placed by that web page.) You may wish to adjust your web browser to inform you whenever a cookie is to be used, or to reject all cookies automatically. If you elect not to accept cookies, however, some parts of the web site may not function properly or permit access. For more information about cookies, see www.cookiecentral.com.

3. How does V.I.O. use my information?

V.I.O.'s primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with an efficient browsing experience. This includes personalization services, interactive communications, online shopping, targeted advertisements, and other services. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach (for example, males over 35 years old). V.I.O. takes the advertisement and displays it to users meeting those criteria. In this process, the advertiser never has access to individual account information. Only V.I.O. has access to individuals' accounts. This kind of advertisement targeting also is done with banner ads. You will only receive special offers via email from V.I.O. if you have indicated in your account preferences that you would like to receive them. You can change your account preferences at any time.

V.I.O. may research 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. V.I.O. may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.

4. Who is collecting information?

When you are using the V.I.O. websites you may be asked for personal information which V.I.O. may share with its business partners in order to provide you with new or better services.. For example in order to provide a cobranded service to you offered by another provider, it may be necessary for us to share your personal information with our partner company.

Promotions run by V.I.O. may be sponsored by companies other than V.I.O. or may be cosponsored by V.I.O. and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. Please be aware that V.I.O. advertisers or web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those other parties' web sites are not covered by this Policy.

5. With whom does V.I.O. share my information?

Except as provided herein, V.I.O. will not provide your personal information to any third party. If at any time this policy changes, V.I.O. will disclose any such change in this Privacy Policy., Your continued use of this web site will constitute your acceptance of such changes. As a general rule V.I.O. will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances described below. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.

Business Partners & Sponsors: V.I.O. may disclose any of your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically disclosed to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Some or all data collected during a V.I.O. promotion may be shared with a sponsor. Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give V.I.O. permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your email address will be shared. If V.I.O. offers for sale, sells, or otherwise transfers ownership of any part of its business, V.I.O may disclose your personal information to any party involved in that transaction without any additional notice to you.

Credit Card Processors: If you purchase products or services from V.I.O. through use of a credit card, we will pass the transaction information through a reputable transaction processing company, under the terms of a transaction processing agreement that imposes upon them privacy protection responsibilities no less restrictive than those provided in the Privacy Policy.

Merchants: If you make a purchase from a merchant linked to V.I.O., the information obtained during your visit to that merchant, and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information, is provided to the merchants. This is to enable transactions to take place. Merchants linked to V.I.O. may have their own privacy and data collection practices. V.I.O. has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding the merchant, their offerings, and their privacy policies, check with that merchant.

From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you opt-in to receive information from these third parties, V.I.O. will share your name and email address, and other pertinent information with them.

Third Party Data and Data in the Aggregate: Under agreements imposing confidentiality and use restrictions at least as stringent as these here, V.I.O. may disclose aggregated user statistics (for example, 45% of our users are female) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

Other: V.I.O. may also disclose information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating V.I.O.'s Terms of Use Agreement or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) V.I.O.'s rights or property, other V.I.O. users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. V.I.O. may disclose information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, such as when necessary to comply with state and federal laws, to respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrants and for other similar purposes.

6. What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?

V.I.O. may, from time to time, send you email regarding our products and services. In addition, if you earlier indicated that you are interested in receiving offers or information from V.I.O. and our partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only V.I.O. (or agents working on behalf of V.I.O.) will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can edit your V.I.O. Account Information to no longer receive such offers and mailings. You will need your V.I.O. ID and password in order to access your V.I.O. Account Information.

On some types of V.I.O. promotions, we will ask for your email address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you choose the no-email option that some promotions offer. Occasionally these promotion-related email messages may include targeted advertisements.

We will notify you at the time of data collection if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not using the particular service or not participating in the associated promotions or contests.

7. What is V.I.O.'s policy on allowing me to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?

You may edit your V.I.O. Account Information at any time by using your V.I.O. ID and password. If you have forgotten your password, please click here to request a new password. For all other problems signing in to V.I.O., please click here.

If you are participating in a V.I.O. promotion and you wish to update your email address on the promotions mailing list or to quit a promotion and cease receiving promotion related email, please contact [email protected].

8. How does V.I.O. protect my personal financial information?

Keeping your personal financial information private is important to us. Knowing that you use certain services or features may help us to offer you better and more relevant content and advertisements. But as with all personally identifiable information, we do not make this available to any third parties without your permission (except as otherwise provided in this policy).

Please note that there are several places on our websites where you can transmit credit card information in order to complete a purchase transaction or for verification purposes. Any time we ask for a credit card number we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

9. What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

V.I.O. has implemented commercially reasonable technological and operational security processes to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration or unintentional destruction. While no security measure can guarantee against compromise, V.I.O. regularly reviews and updates its security measures in an effort to provide appropriate security for all information held by V.I.O..

You may edit your V.I.O. Account Information by using your V.I.O. ID and password. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. V.I.O. will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your V.I.O. 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.

10. What about children's privacy?

If you are under the age of 13 years old, then please do not use the V.I.O. web site. V.I.O. does not intend to collect or share personal information about users under the age of 13.

11. International users.

The V.I.O. web site is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed to users in the United States. If you are a user accessing the web site from any region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of this web site which is governed by U.S. law, this Policy, and the Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you explicitly and unambiguously consent to that transfer and to its use in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
(Rev. 7/07)