Collection of Information: Cookies; Personal
For each visitor to an AnnotatedEarth Web site, AnnotatedEarth's Web server automatically recognizes and stores information such as the visitor's IP address/Domain name combination. We use this information to understand visitor traffic patterns through our sites for purposes such as enhancing its usability. Your computer provides this information automatically each time you log on, unless you've activated blocking technology available in some browsers.

 

When you visit AnnotatedEarth's sites or advertisements appearing thereon, or use one or more of the AnnotatedEarth Web site services, we may use an industry-wide technology called "cookies" which stores certain information on your computer and which will allow us to customize your experience to better match your interests and preferences or to simply facilitate your signing in to use the services. Most browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. However, if you block or erase cookies, we may not be able to restore any preferences or customization settings you previously specified and our ability to personalize your online experience would be limited. Please refer to your browser instructions or "help" screen to learn more about these functions.

 

Additionally, AnnotatedEarth may ask you to provide "personal information", meaning individually identifiable information that you provide on our Web sites such as your email address, name, mailing address, telephone number, social security number, credit card number, or persistent identifier (such as a customer number held in a cookie) which is associated with individually identifiable information, to enable you to participate in contests, chat rooms, on bulletin boards, to fill out a registration, or to order products and services using these sites. AnnotatedEarth may combine the information you provide on our Web sites with other information we may collect from you or from third parties so that we can more effectively tailor our site, services and offerings to you. If you provide AnnotatedEarth with personal information, you shall have the right, on reasonable prior notice, to inspect, change, amend or delete such information. Instructions on how to update personal information will be given at the point of data collection.

 

Unless you instruct us otherwise, AnnotatedEarth may contact you to provide information about products, services, promotions, contests, or other activities or offerings that may be of interest to you. You can instruct us whether or not you wish to be contacted by checking or removing the check from the box indicating your preference as applicable at the place where your information is collected, or by other means (such as an email request). In addition, with each communication you receive from AnnotatedEarth, you will be given the opportunity to indicate if you do not wish to receive future communications.

 

Unless it is for the purposes you have requested or originally agreed, AnnotatedEarth will not share the personal information you provide on the AnnotatedEarth Web sites with any other parties, except (a) with your consent; (b) as may be required by law or court order; (c) to persons or companies with whom AnnotatedEarth contracts to carry out the internal operations of the site or our business; or (d) under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety or property of our users, the public or ourselves.

 

Additionally and with your consent, AnnotatedEarth may share your personal information with other affiliated AnnotatedEarth.com companies (i.e., (i) AnnotatedEarth.com Corporation, (ii) any company of which more than 50% of its outstanding shares are owned by AnnotatedEarth.com, directly or indirectly, or (iii) any company with the name "AnnotatedEarth" as a part of its trade name) who may want to contact you about products, services or other offerings that may be of interest to you. Further, only with your consent, AnnotatedEarth may share your personal information with specific third parties outside of the AnnotatedEarth.com group of companies who may want to contact you about products, services or other offerings that may be of interest to you. Please consult the respective privacy policies of each of these companies for further clarification as to their own privacy policy. AnnotatedEarth will seek to obtain your consent at the place where the information is collected either by an "opt-out" or "opt-in" method, or by other means (such as an email request). If you consent to receiving communications from any of these affiliated AnnotatedEarth.com companies, or third parties, you will need to communicate with them directly if you later decide that you no longer wish to receive their communications. Until we advise you, except as indicated above for the initial decision made with your consent to share your personal information with AnnotatedEarth.com affiliates and/or specific third parties outside of the AnnotatedEarth.com group of companies, changes or amendments to your personal information must be given both to AnnotatedEarth and to each such AnnotatedEarth.com affiliate or other company directly as these changes, amendments and/or deletions will not be exchanged among AnnotatedEarth and other AnnotatedEarth.com affiliates or third parties.

 

Security
While AnnotatedEarth cannot guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur, rest assured that AnnotatedEarth takes great care in maintaining the security of your personal information and in preventing unauthorized access to it through the use of appropriate technology and internal procedures.

 

Notice To/Regarding Children Under the Age of 13
AnnotatedEarth believes that children using the Internet require special protection, and we urge parents or guardians to explain Internet safety to their children. Parents are urged to spend time online with their children to become familiar with the types of content available on the AnnotatedEarth sites and the Internet in general. Control tools are available from online services and software manufacturers to help create a safer environment for children.

 

If a child under 13 years of age wishes to participate in any AnnotatedEarth Web site activity, or wishes to take advantage of a product or service offering, available to children, and to do so necessitates the furnishing of any of the child's personal information, please note the following:

 

(i) Before any collection of a child's personal information takes place at a web site directed to children or where AnnotatedEarth is knowingly collecting children's personal information, the child will be asked to provide his/her parent's or guardian's e-mail address. AnnotatedEarth will then send an e-mail (the "Initial Notification") to the parent/guardian indicating, among other things, the information that the child is requested to provide, the intended use(s) of the information and information on how the parent/guardian can, at their election, delete the child's information from AnnotatedEarth's database or records. Upon receipt of the Initial Notification, a parent or guardian may respond back to AnnotatedEarth to grant his/her consent or to deny consent, in which case AnnotatedEarth will delete the parent or guardian's e-mail address. Upon AnnotatedEarth's receipt of the parent/guardian consent, AnnotatedEarth will send a confirming e-mail to the parent/guardian's e-mail address,

 

(ii)The e-mail address of the operator collecting or maintaining personal information from children through this Web site are: parents@AnnotatedEarth.com,

 

(iii) The types of personal information collected from children may include the name, e-mail address, home address, telephone number and/or any other information reasonably necessary for the child to participate in a particular activity. This information may be collected directly and/or passively (e.g., through a web server that automatically recognized and stores information such as a visitor's IP address/domain name combination),

 

(iv) The information collected may be used for purposes such as fulfillment of a requested transaction, record keeping, marketing back to the child, or making it publicly available through a chat room or by other means,

 

(v) Unless specific consent is obtained from the child's parent or guardian, the child's personal information will not be disclosed to third parties who are not contractors hired to carry out the internal operations of the Web sites, other than as may be required or permitted by law. We have required, or will require, such contractors to agree to use personal information of site visitors only for the purposes of carrying out these operations and to keep such information confidential. A parent or guardian has the option of consenting to the collection and use of the child's personal information without consenting to the disclosure of that information to third parties,

 

(vi) AnnotatedEarth is prohibited from conditioning a child's participation in an activity on the child's disclosing more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity,

 

(vii) A parent can review and have deleted the child's personal information, can refuse to permit further collection or use of the child's information, and can revoke or limit consents previously given. For instructions on how to do so, please send an e-mail to: PIM@AnnotatedEarth.com and

 

(viii) If AnnotatedEarth desires to use a child's information for purposes other than that for which the parent/guardian consent was previously given, AnnotatedEarth will not do so without first getting the parent/guardian consent.

 

Use and Disclosure of Anonymous Aggregated Information
AnnotatedEarth may also collect, aggregate and maintain anonymous information about the visitors to our Web sites, such as visitors' hobbies, interests, purchasing habits, music preferences, and the like. This data can then be used to tailor AnnotatedEarth's Web site content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our visitors. In addition, AnnotatedEarth may also share such aggregate information about our visitors with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties; for example, to inform them about the percentage of male/female visitors or percentage of visitors within a particular age range.

 

Consent to Processing:
By providing any personal information to the AnnotatedEarth Sites, all users, including without limitation users in the member states of the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in the United States of America.

 

Policy Governs Use; Changes to Privacy Policy
The terms of this policy will govern the use and any information collected while it is in place. AnnotatedEarth reserves the right to change this policy at any time, so please re-visit this page as often as you wish. Changes to this privacy policy are effective at the time they are posted to this site.

 

Questions:
If you have any questions or comments about our personal information practices or about this privacy statement, please feel free to send us an email at policy@AnnotatedEarth.com