Minglelink, Inc. ('Company') may change or add to this Privacy Policy so we encourage you to review it periodically.  In order to track any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will include a historical reference at the end of this document. 

This Privacy Policy will tell you:

• Your California privacy rights.
• How we collect information and what information we collect.
• How we may use information.
• How we may share information.
• Your choices regarding the sharing of information.

Click on any of the above links to go directly to the corresponding section of this Privacy Policy.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/YOUR AGREEMENT

Company websites are not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18.  By using our website or submitting information to us, you consent to the Company's use and sharing of the information collected or submitted as described in this Privacy Policy.  If you are not 18 years of age or older and/or you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, do not provide us with any information or use any of the products or services offered or provided on Company websites or through Company technology. 

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Beginning January 1, 2005 under California's "Shine the Light" law, California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use are entitled to either:  (1) a list detailing the categories of information shared and the entities to which such information was provided; or (2) to be notified of a mechanism by which a consumer may opt-out of having their information shared with third parties.  We have elected the second option.  To opt-out of having your information shared with third parties, click here to Contact Us and follow the opt-out instructions. 

HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION AND WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Website Registration Forms

We collect information about you when you register on one of our websites.  This registration information may include, but is not limited to your:

• e-mail address
• name
• mailing address
• telephone number
• date of birth
• gender

Offer Forms

We also collect information about you when you complete a survey, invite forms, enter your specific interests, or offer form on one of our websites or web pages.  This information may include, but is not limited to:  your e-mail address, name, mailing address, telephone number, date of birth, gender, and payment information; information about your background, interests, health, education, career goals, and shopping preferences; and any other personal information or unique preference information you provide to us or our advertisers. 

Distribution Partners 

Website operators that license our ad serving technology pass information to us so that we may serve advertisements to you.  The information passed may include, but is not limited to, your IP address, e-mail address, name, mailing address, telephone number, date of birth, and gender. 

Publisher Partners

When you complete a registration or offer form that is hosted by one of our website publisher partners on our behalf, the website publisher partner may submit all or a portion of the information that you submitted on the form to the Company.  This information may include, but is not limited to:  your e-mail address, name, mailing address, telephone number, date of birth, gender, and payment information; information about your background, interests, health, education, career goals, and shopping preferences; and any other information you provide to our website publisher partner.   

Marketing Partners

We may receive information about you, including but not limited to your e-mail address, first name, last name, mailing address, and telephone number, from third party marketing partners that provide us with consumer data to manage on their behalf. 

Automatic Information/Digital Identifiers 

We may automatically receive and store certain types of information about you through the data sources listed above.
You may be familiar with the term 'cookies,' which are unique alphanumeric identifiers that store information on your computer.  A cookie is placed on your computer when your web browser accesses our website.  We use cookies for tracking transactions and the user characteristics explained in detail throughout this Privacy Policy.  If you choose, there are utilities available for purchase from independent software providers to install on your computer as well as tools/preferences you can choose through most web browsers to make website visits anonymous.  Of course, cookies let you have a more satisfying website experience, so we recommend that you leave them turned on.
We also collect information through our web server applications.  This information includes your Internet Protocol or 'IP' address, date/time stamp, browser type, and referring URL.
Additionally, we may use pixel tracking technology to track the completion of transactions with us or our advertisers, the source information for those transactions, and your IP address, date/time stamp, browser type, and referring URL.

Use of Cookies

We currently use cookies in our Chat areas and for our own advertising purposes. We use third-party advertising technology to serve ads when you visit our Web site and sites upon which we advertise. This technology uses information about your visits to this Web site and the sites upon which we advertise, (not including your name, address, or other personal information), to serve our ads to you. In the course of serving our advertisements to you, a unique third-party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. In addition, we use web beacons, provided by our ad serving partner, to help manage our online advertising. These web beacons enable our ad server to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits this site and to learn which banner ads bring users to our Web site. The information we collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable. To learn more about our third party ad serving partner, cookies, and how to "opt-out," please contact <memberservices@minglelink.com>

Government Forms 

The Company may be required to create, collect, maintain, and submit certain information required by the government, such as IRS Forms W-9 and 1099.  This information, which may include your taxpayer identification number, will not be used, shared, transferred, or sold for marketing purposes. 

HOW DO WE USE THIS INFORMATION? 

We may use the collected information for any legally permissible purpose in our sole discretion, including but not limited to those explained below.

Ad Serving 

Our ad serving technology may show advertisements to you based, in part, on your IP address, the demographic and geographic information you submitted to the Company during the website registration process, and other socio-economic, psychographic, purchase behavior, and lifestyle information that we obtain from third parties.
We also use third party advertising companies.  These companies may use and optimize information (not including your name, mailing address, e-mail address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Pre-select/Pre-fill Offers 

Our website technology may pre-select certain offers for you to view based on the demographic and geographic information you submitted to the Company during the website registration process.  Additionally, this technology may pre-fill some or all of the offers' data fields with the information you submitted during the website registration process.  We may not show all of the pre-filled data fields to you.

Upsell

We utilize customized post transactional technology to help advertisers generate sales, while providing you with a series of great offers we think may be of interest to you.  The way it works is simple:  once you purchase a product or service from one of our advertisers, you will be offered additional products or services that we think may be of interest to you.  If you elect to purchase products or services from an advertiser in the post transactional channel, we will share the information that you provided during the initial transaction with that advertiser, including but not limited to your credit card information.  This information sharing is done to enhance and simplify your purchasing experience.  Your information will only be shared with an advertiser in the upsell channel after you have elected to purchase their product or service.         

Customer Service and Fulfillment 

We may use your information to service your account, verify your identity or claimed account status, and to fulfill rewards earned through Company websites.   

Credit Card Preauthorization

By submitting your credit card information to us or to one of our advertisers, you are authorizing the Company to periodically verify that your credit card account is valid and has credit available by charging, and thereafter crediting, a small sum to the card.

Marketing 

We may use your information in our online (e.g., e-mail marketing) and offline (e.g., telemarketing, cell phone text messaging and direct mail) marketing programs.  If you would like to be removed from these programs, click here to Contact Us and follow the opt-out instructions.  

HOW DO WE SHARE INFORMATION? 

We may share the collected information for any legally permissible purpose in our sole discretion, including but not limited to those explained below.  

Within the Company

We may share information we collect with affiliated companies, including our parent company and other subsidiaries of our parent company.  This Privacy Policy does not apply to affiliated companies and their collection, use and sharing of information.  

Service Providers

We may share your information with various service providers and vendors that are not part of the Company, including but not limited to e-mail service providers that provide us with technology to deploy commercial email, vendors that sell the products or services for which you have qualified through one of our websites, and shipping companies that we utilize to ship products to you.    

Advertisers 

When you participate in an offer by completing a form, we will transfer the information you submitted on the form to the applicable advertiser. 
When you answer 'yes' or 'no' to a survey question, some or all of the information that you submitted during the website registration process will be transferred to advertisers that we believe may be of interest to you.

When you select 'yes' next to an offer, we will transfer some or all of the information that you submitted during the website registration process to the applicable advertiser. 

Ad Serving Companies   

We may use third party ad networks or ad serving companies to serve advertisements on our websites.  We pass information about you to these companies so that they can deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of interest to you.  The information passed to these companies may include, but is not limited to, your IP address, e-mail address, name, mailing address, telephone number, date of birth, gender, and any other information you provide to us.  Web pages that are served by these companies will state that they are 'powered by' or 'ads by' the applicable company and will contain a link to that company's privacy policy. 

Marketing Partners

When you register with MingleLink.com and you leave the box checked stating "Yes, I want to receive offers and information from online-minglelink.com" - You explicitly authorize us to share your information with Datran Media to contact you via email. If you would like to be removed from these programs, click here to Contact Us and follow the opt-out instructions.

Data Enhancement/Appending/Validation

We may use third party service providers to enhance our database with additional elements, including but not limited to age ranges present in your household, whether you own or rent a home, the length of time you have lived at your residence, whether you are a mail order buyer or responder, household income, and gender.  Further, we may use third party service providers to append telephone numbers to other data points we have in our database.  We also may use third party service providers to validate the data we have in our database. 

Additionally, we may share, license or sell your information to third parties for use in their data validation, enhancement, information verification services, and, to the extent permitted by law, individual reference or look-up services.   

Governmental Agencies or Other Companies

We may share your information with law enforcement officials or governmental agencies:  (1) in response to their request; (2) when permitted or required by law; or (3) to establish our compliance with applicable laws, rules, regulations, or guidelines.
We may share your information with third parties for suppression or opt-out purposes.
We also may share your information with third parties when:  (1) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; (2) investigating fraud that has already taken place; (3) enforcing or applying existing terms and conditions and/or other agreements; (4) protecting the rights, property or safety of our websites, our users or others; or (5) responding to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. 
In all cases, this information is not provided to these entities or persons for marketing purposes. 

Right to Transfer

Should the Company choose to sell or transfer business assets, it is possible that the information we possess may be transferred as part of that transaction.  The Company may decide to retain a copy of the information post sale or transfer.

 COMPANY CUSTOMER CHOICES

E-mail

By completing and submitting a Company registration form, you are consenting to receive commercial e-mail from the Company and Datran Media, LLC.  If, after you have shared your e-mail address with the Company, you decide that you do not want to receive e-mail from the Company and Datran Media, LLC, you can discontinue e-mail by clicking here to Contact Us and following the opt-out instructions.  If you have registered or submitted information under more than one e-mail account, you must submit separate unsubscribe requests for each account.

Request for More Information

As it relates to e-mail communications or any other questions you might have about our Privacy Policy, click here to Contact Us. or write to us at MingleLink, Inc. 63 Via Pico Plaza, Ste. 516 San Clemente Ca 92672

WHAT HAPPENS IF I HIT A LINK TO ANOTHER SITE FROM A COMPANY WEBSITE?

Our websites may offer links to other websites.  Other websites have their own terms of use and privacy and security policies.  If you choose to visit one of these sites, you should review the policies that govern that particular site. 

APPLICATION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected by or submitted to the Company.  Other affiliated entities of the Company may obtain information independently from transactions and experiences with you or from other sources.  This Privacy Policy does not pertain to that information.

WHAT IS THE POLICY WITH RESPECT TO COMMUNICATING WITH CHILDREN?

We recognize the unique privacy concerns regarding children.  We are committed to carefully protecting privacy where children are involved no matter the point of contact.  In particular, our intention is to fully comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ('COPPA').  Per COPPA guidelines, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.  If a parent or guardian is made aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personally identifiable information through any point of contact, click here to Contact Us and we will delete the information about the child referenced from our files.

SECURITY

 There is no such thing as complete security on the Internet or otherwise.  The Company uses various security techniques on our websites to help protect against the loss, misuse or modification of information we've collected from you.  When you access your personal information or transmit personally identifiable data to us, that information is stored on servers that we have taken steps to protect from unauthorized access or intrusion.  While we strive to protect your information, the Company cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.  You acknowledge and assume this risk when communicating with the Company, its partners and affiliates.

Membership

Minglelink, Inc. gives trial members and paid members an option for modifying or removing their information from our database. Your privacy is one of our highest priorities. 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). [To learn more about SSL, follow this link http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html ]

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 means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

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 comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

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 homepage.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE OVER PRIVACY IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AS WELL AS THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS WEBSITE (INCLUDING LIMITATIONS ON DAMAGES AND ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES).  YOU AGREE THAT THE COMPANY'S LIABILITY FOR ANY BREACH OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE VALUE OF THE TRANSACTIONS OR SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY THE COMPANY TO THE EXTENT SUCH CLAIM IS NOT OTHERWISE BARRED BY OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

Revisions: May 30, 2008

Start Date: Dec 01, 2007