Privacy Statement

Your privacy is important to Grand Overview Communications, Inc (GRO™).  This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that GRO™ collects, and the ways in which GRO™ uses that personal information.

Personal information collection

This notice applies to all personal information collected or submitted through any Web site of GRO™ and its affiliates. Personal information that you provide to GRO™ will be collected and used, with your voluntary consent, only as provided in this Privacy Policy. GRO™ generally will not require that you provide more personal information than may be necessary to participate in the applicable activity.

GRO™ may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:

• Information about your use of this web site
• Information that you provide using for the purpose of registering with the website.
• Information about transactions carried out over this web site. 
• Information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to the web site services.
• Any other information that you send to GRO™.

Using personal information

GRO™ may use your personal information to:

• Administer this web site.
• Personalize the web site for you.
• Enable your access to and use of the web site services.
• Publish information about you on the web site.
• Send to you products that you purchase.
• Supply to you services that you purchase.
• Send you statements and invoices.
• Collect payments from you.
• Send you marketing communications.

Where GRO™ discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub- contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement. In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, GRO™ may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

On different pages of the Web site, you may be able to register a product; purchase a subscription to the Web site; join a club, order products; make requests; enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions; play games; test games or other activities on the Web site; or request newsletters, updates, product and promotional information and/or materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages may vary, but could include:

• Name
• Street Address
• Shipping Address
• E-mail Address
• Telephone Number
• Demographic information (e.g., age, age range, gender, grade in school, likes/dislikes, hobbies, interests, and/ or
• purchase history information)
• Credit/ Debit Card or other payment information

We also collect certain anonymous or non-personal information when you visit some of our Web site pages. Such information might include the Web site pages that you visited, the type of browser you use (e.g., Netscape or Internet Explorer), the level of encryption that your web browser supports, the type of operating system you use (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), the name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink), the query that you entered into a search engine via a website or which led you to the Web site, and other types of “click stream” data. We use this anonymous or non-personal information for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, as well as for technical, research and analytical purposes, including for instance, to rate and improve the design and content of the Website and to enable us to personalize your experience. We may also use this information in the aggregate to analyze how the Website is used and to offer you products, services, promotions, sweepstakes and contests.

Securing your data

GRO™ will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. GRO™ will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers. Information relating to electronic transactions entered into via this website will be  protected by encryption technology.

Promotions 

GRO™ may collect personal information in connection with its promotions. You may be asked to provide personal information such as an e-mail address, street address or phone number so that GRO™can let you know if you have won a prize. For other GRO™ promotions, your name or street address may be requested so that GRO™ can send you products or information by postal mail.

Resumes

Some GRO™ web sites allow for the online submission of resumes in conjunction with job applications. Personal information collected by us in allowing for resume submission will be used solely for the purpose of accepting and evaluating candidate submissions for job postings, as further explained in the relevant portion of the applicable GRO™ websites. This information may be shared within the company and with third parties assisting GRO™ with its recruitment efforts, in both cases, in confidence and when there is a legitimate business purpose and reason for accessing it.

Customer Feedback

GRO™ may use non-identifying and aggregated information to obtain feedback from its customers about the company, a Web site, or GRO™’s other products or services. Such information may be used to help GRO™ improve the products and services that it offers or to anticipate customer trends or desires. Such aggregated data  may be shared with GRO™’s advertisers, licensees and promotional partners, but only in aggregated form and without any information that could be used to identify any specific individuals. For instance, GRO™ may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area of the Web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out the Web site registration form, but GRO™ will not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals. In specific instances, GRO™ may ask users if they would like to volunteer to participate as a “tester” of a new or proposed activity or to evaluate a new product or service. If a user expresses interest in participating, GRO™ may contact that user by e- mail or postal mail in connection with the test program or evaluation.

Cookies and Web Beacons

GRO™ may use cookies and web beacons to collect information about how visitors use its Websites. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer by a web page server. Cookies allow web sites to “remember” a user's activities on a web site as well as a user's visits to a site. Cookies are used to track visitor activity on the Web site, such as the number of unique visitors over a given period or how people found the Web site. Cookies are also used to track visitor activity: where they went, what they did, and how long they stayed. Cookies may be used to save your password so you do not have to re- enter it each time you visit the Web site.

GRO™ may also use "web beacons" through a third party content server that monitors your use of a Web site. Web beacons (or web bugs) are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a web page for the purpose of transferring data, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the web beacon appears, the URL (Uniform Resource Locater) of the page on which the web beacon appears, the time the page containing the web beacon was viewed, the types of browsers that fetched the web beacon and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable e-mail, web beacons let us know whether you received and opened GRO™’s e-mail. On their own, cookies or web beacons do not contain or reveal any personal information. However, if you choose to furnish a Web site with personal information, this information can be linked to the data stored in the cookies/web beacons.

By accepting this Privacy Policy, you specifically agree to GRO™’s use of cookies and web beacons as described herein. You may adjust your browser to reject cookies from GRO™ or from any other web site. Additionally, by setting your web browser to display HTML e-mails as text only, you may be able to prevent the use of some web beacons. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information. However, certain areas of the Web site may only be accessible in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of a Web site’s content.

Collection of Information by Third Party Partners

In certain countries other than the United States, some of the online games and services related thereto, may be provided to you by third party distribution partners. To the extent that a third party distributor is providing services related to your account, you will be advised of this at such time, and you understand and agree that each such distributor will collect and use your personal information in accordance with its own privacy policies (which you will have access to when you register to play). To the extent that GRO™ collects or retains any of your personal information, its use will continue to be governed by the terms of this Privacy Policy.

No Sharing of Personal Information with Other Web site Users

As an added precaution to protect children and other Web site users, GRO™ will not share your personal information with other Web site users and GRO™ prohibits Web site users from sharing, or soliciting, personal information about themselves or  others, such as real first and last names, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses or street addresses, with other Web site users, particularly when using any of the chat functions of any Web site. GRO™ reserves the right to immediately suspend or terminate any online account and any related subscription, without a refund, for violations of this policy, as more specifically provided in the Terms of Use for the Web sites.

Disclosure to Third Parties

GRO™ will only disclose personal information to third parties with your consent or in the limited instances set forth in this Privacy Policy. Your personal information may sometimes be shared with other GRO™ affiliates and subsidiaries, who will be bound by the same terms set out in this Privacy Policy. In addition, in the course of daily operations, authorized GRO™ employees may be provided with access to your personal information. Any use of such personal information by GRO™ employees will be strictly in accordance with this Privacy Policy. GRO™ reserves the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and/or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights; the rights of a third party; the health, safety or wellbeing of any person or entity; and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena or other legal process. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, imminent danger to life or property that might be avoided or minimized by disclosure of such information, or situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use, or as may otherwise be required by law. Personal information that is provided by a minor may also be shared with the minor’s Parents and/or school officials in appropriate circumstances. For purposes of disclosure to third parties, chat transcripts will be disclosed only in the same limited instances as personal information, except that the chat transcript may reflect the statements of either or both parties involved. In addition, we may transfer information about you as part of a business transaction involving GRO™, such as a merger with, or acquisition by, another company.

From time to time, GRO™ may provide personal information to agents and contractors of GRO™ who are performing services for GRO™. We may, for instance, use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, or a credit card processing company to handle payment transactions on the Web site. Such third parties are required to protect this personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for GRO™.

GRO™ does not share personal information about you with companies that may want to market their products or services to you (e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases). If we intend to share personal information about you to such companies in the future, we will ask for your permission at the relevant site where we request such information.

We may occasionally combine information we receive online with outside records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services that may be of interest to you. If you register with the Web site, we provide you with an opportunity to express your preferences with respect to receiving details about other products and services from GRO™, affiliated businesses and selected third parties, as well as information about other or new products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you, whether from GRO™ or from affiliated businesses and selected third parties (such as licensees).

You may at any time change or update your account preferences online or you may contact the Web sites Customer Service for assistance. We will only use personal information that you have provided to us online in the ways that you have approved. We will not use or share personal information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above, without also providing you with an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses, as described more fully below.

Choice: Opt-Out, Updates, and Removal of Personal Information

You may let GRO™ know that you do not want your personal information used for a particular purpose, and you may change or update these preferences at any time. You  will have the ability at any time to update, correct or remove any personal information that has been provided online to GRO™ about yourself , either by accessing your account preferences with your user name and password, or by contacting the Web sites Customer Service via e-mail or postal mail at the address provided below.  In response to a customer request, GRO™ will only release personal information collected from a customer to the e-mail address on file with GRO™. It is the customer’s responsibility to maintain the security and integrity of that e-mail address.

Business Transactions

Your personal information may be transferred to another company as part of a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of GRO™’s assets. You will be notified by prominent notice on our Website for a period of at least thirty (30) days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information. In the event that the transition will take place in less than thirty days from the date of posting of such Web site notice, GRO™, at its election in its sole discretion, may send you notification of such transfer to the e-mail address on file for you.

Cross-border data transfers

Information that GRO™ collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which GRO™ operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world. You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Updating this statement

GRO™ may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this web site.  You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.  

Other websites

This web site contains links to other websites.  GRO™ is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Contact GRO™

Should you have other questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by e-mail or postal mail at the  or at GRO™'s corporate offices:

• by email to Legal@grandoverview.com ; or
• by post to:Grand Overview Communications, Inc.

Attn: Legal Affairs
P.O. Box 1835
Chicago, IL 60690