(The Entire Contents
of this Document Should be Regarded as "The Privacy
Statement", but not limited to, and including,
the following)
Welcome to the website
for America's Political Communication System™.
America's Political Communication System™ will
provide its services with the following terms of privacy.
COMPANY SPECIFIC
DEFINITIONS
Company: America's Political Communication
System™ Incorporated
Website: Any public Internet/World
Wide Web service purchased by America's Political Communication
System™ and actively used for the purpose of the
Company's business. Specifically (at this time), this
refers to all content provided under the domain name
http://www.americapcs.com.
User: Any individual that visits, uses or participates
in any website, web application or other electronic
communication interface developed by America's Political
Communication System™.
Member: Any individual that is a User
and has a registered account with America's Political
Communication System™ that allows that individual
to use the special Membership features of our technology
and website
Host: Includes (but not limited to)
an individual, association, organization, political
committee, etc that has purchased a Host account from
America's Political Communication System™ which
allows rental of a personal Host Forum and access to
all the applications and tools for managing that Host
Forum.
Host Forum: An area of the website
specific to a particular Host. For Members and Users,
this area provides access to applications such as (but
not limited to) the Collaborative Conversation™
Control Panel, Message Boards, Contributions Collection
for the Forum Host, etc.
America's Political Communication System™ will
collect information from Members such as first name,
last name, address, city, state, zip code, email address,
phone number, gender and date of birth. America's Political
Communication System™ will also collect a preferred
Username and password from the User, which will grant
that individual access to his/her Member account.
America's Political Communication System™ will
also collect voting information for Members who participate
in the Collaborative Conversation™ polling system.
America's Political Communication System™ will
collect information from Hosts such as first name, last
name, address, city, state, zip code, email address,
phone number, committee specific information and website
URL. America's Political Communication System™
will also collect a preferred Username and password
from the Host, which will grant that individual access
to the Host's account.
America's Political Communication
System™ will collect and store all content created
through Forum Message Boards.
America's Political Communication System™ will
collect credit card information or checking information
for Members who use the Contributions Collection service.
Any credit card information collected will be transmitted
through a secure credit card transaction service. America's
Political Communication System™ WILL NOT store
or keep any credit card or checking information within
the Company's own databases or records.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
America's Political Communication System™ will
not share, rent, sell or otherwise disclose personally
identifiable information to third parties without obtaining
Member's or Host's consent. America's Political Communication
System™ will disclose to third parties only:
A ) demographical information based on Member
voting results (Member identity WILL remain anonymous
in ALL demographical information released)
B ) information to the financial institution
that processes Host or Member credit card transactions;
C ) information that does not include
personally identifiable information; and/or
D ) information that is already publicly
available.
NO LIABILITY FOR ACTS
OF THIRD PARTIES
Computers, computer networks and transmission made by
means of the Internet and computer networks cannot be
made absolutely secure.
AMERICA'S POLITICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM™ WILL
HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES ARISING FROM DISCLOSURE
OF INFORMATION AND/OR REGISTRATION DATA ARISING FROM:
A) Member OR Host's DISCLOSURE OF SUCH
INFORMATION IN PUBLIC AREAS;
B) ERRORS IN TRANSMISSION;
C) UNAUTHORIZED ACTS, INTRUSIONS OR
INTERCEPTIONS; AND/OR
D) COMPLIANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY
ADVERTISEMENTS, FORUM
POSTING AND PUBLIC MEMBER COMMUNICATION
All user advertisements and postings to public areas
of the website including without limitation Forums,
Chat Rooms and Bulletin Boards (collectively, the "Host
Forum"), can become public and, therefore, care
should be taken in disclosing personal information.
Postings made in the Host Forum Areas may not be deleted
by Users or Members. When communicating directly with
another Member, Members may exchange personally identifiable
information at Member's discretion.
AMERICA'S POLITICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM™ DISCLAIMS
ALL LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES ARISING FROM ANY User'S OR
Member'S DISCLOSURE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION.
Any information disclosed to other Members, Hosts or
third parties, in the Public Areas, through email or
outside of our system, can be used by others and may
result in unsolicited email messages or other communication
from third parties.
MEMBER AND HOST
ACCESS TO COLLECTED INFORMATION
Members may access his/her registration data at any
time through the Member Account Management areas of
the website. This area is password-protected. Once a
Member registers, he or she may review and change certain
fields of personally identifiable information such as
first name, last name, email address, city, state, zip
code, phone and country. Please be sure to update email
address changes promptly.
Hosts may access account registration data at any time
through the Host Account Management areas of the website.
This area is password-protected.
America's Political Communication System™ can
not be held responsible for lost communications due
to outdated or invalid Member e-mail information.
CONTROL OF PASSWORD
Passwords should be:
A) non-obvious;
B) regularly changed; and
C) not disclosed to any third parties.
If a third-party learns of a password, the password's
owner may lose control over his/her postings and/or
personally identifiable information, and may be responsible
for actions performed with his/her account. If, for
any reason, a password is suspected to have been compromised,
it should be changed immediately. Members and Hosts
are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality
of account name and password. User shall be responsible
for all uses of its account, whether or not authorized
by Member or Host. Members and Hosts agree to immediately
notify America's Political Communication System™
of any unauthorized use of its account.
LOST OR STOLEN
INFORMATION
America's Political Communication System™ does
not store Member credit card information in any of its
own databases or records. All credit card transactions
are processed through a secure, third-party, transaction
processing system. In the event of a lost or stolen
credit card, User should contact his/her bank or financial
instituition to cancel any transactions processed through
our website.
PARTNERS AFFILIATES
AND LINKS
America's Political Communication System™ may
become affiliated with many other sites, businesses
and service providers, all of whom have privacy practices
independent of America's Political Communication System™.
America's Political Communication System™ disclaims
any responsibility or liability for any other sites"
privacy policies or activities. Once a User or Member
follows a hyperlink within the website or utilizes or
purchases any third party service or product, the User
or Member may be entering a relationship with a third
party or another website where America's Political Communication
System™'s privacy policy does not apply.
DISCLOSURE IN
EVENT OF IMPROPER USE OR MISCONDUCT
Not withstanding anything herein to the contrary, America's
Political Communication System™ shall be permitted
to disclose Member and Host information and registration
data, including personally identifiable information,
to third parties as follows:
A) in response to a request by law enforcement authorities;
B) in response to any court-ordered subpoena or other
process under color of law; and/or
C) when America's Political Communication System™
reasonably believes that a Host, User or Member has
breached the terms of
service agreement with America's Political Communication
System™ , violated the rights of any third party,
or violated any law, statute or regulation.
OWNERSHIP OF
INFORMATION
All information collected, including Registration Data,
is the property of AmericaPCS, Inc., and is subject
to and protected by state and federal law.
UPDATES
AmericaPCS, Inc. reserves the right to change or update
at any time this Privacy Policy, or any other AmericaPCS,
Inc. policy or practice. Any changes or updates will
be effective immediately upon posting to the AmericaPCS,
Inc. Website.
Regarding submitting information
to America's Political Communication System™,
see our Member and User Terms of Service Agreement.
By transmitting information via this website, you grant
to America's Political Communication System™.
an unrestricted irrevocable license to use, reproduce,
display, modify, perform and distribute such information
and AmericaPCS, Inc. is free to use the information,
including any ideas, know-how or techniques contained
therein free of charge for any purpose whatsoever.
This website may contain other proprietary notices and
conditions of use, the terms of which must also be observed
and followed.
Copyrights, Intellectual
Property Rights and Trademarks(2) The materials on this
web site are Copyright © 2004.
All rights reserved.
You are hereby authorized to view, copy, print and distribute
these materials subject to the following conditions:
The materials may be used for internal purposes only.
Any copy of these materials or any portion thereof must
include the above copyright notice.
Any product, process or technology described in these
materials may be the subject of other intellectual property
rights reserved by America's Political Communication
System™ and are not licensed hereunder.
AmericaPCS, APCS, Collaborative Conversation™
and the AmericaPCS logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of America's Political Communication System™.
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