Privacy Policy

By visiting, using and/or submitting information to Mason CityInsuranceRates.com and the local sites in its network, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Mason City Insurance Rates takes your privacy seriously, and has published this Privacy Policy to explain how Mason City Insurance Rates treats all information you may submit to Mason CityInsuranceRates.com , except that information which is submitted pursuant to a sweepstakes entry. Refer to the Official Rules and Privacy Policy for each individual sweepstakes for Mason City Insurance Rates 's specific policies regarding information sharing and disclosure pursuant to sweepstakes entry.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

Many of the features of Mason CityInsuranceRates.com are available to you without your providing personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information generally includes information that could be used to determine your identity, such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and birth date. The following are certain situations in which Mason City Insurance Rates may collect personally identifiable information from you:

  • Registration for Newsletters and Sweepstakes Mason City Insurance Rates collects personally identifiable information from you if you register online for one of Mason City Insurance Rates 's newsletters and when you enter Mason City Insurance Rates 's sweepstakes. When you register online with Mason City Insurance Rates , Mason City Insurance Rates asks for personally identifiable information like your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, personal interests and other demographic information.
  • Use of Forums. If you choose to transmit, submit or post information through Mason City Insurance Rates 's chat rooms, bulletin boards or other forums (the Forums), Mason City Insurance Rates will collect that information you provide. Mason City Insurance Rates retains this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law and pursuant to Mason City Insurance Rates 's Terms of Use.
  • Forms. Mason City Insurance Rates may collect personally identifiable information from you if you choose to fill out any forms, profiles, or surveys on Mason CityInsuranceRates.com .
  • Correspondence. If you send Mason City Insurance Rates personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send Mason City Insurance Rates correspondence about your activities or postings on Mason CityInsuranceRates.com , Mason City Insurance Rates may choose to collect such information into a file specific to you.
  • Business Partners. Mason City Insurance Rates may receive your personally identifiable information from one of Mason City Insurance Rates 's business partners.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

Mason City Insurance Rates uses your personally identifiable information as follows:
  • to improve Mason City Insurance Rates 's marketing and promotional efforts, analyze site usage, improve Mason City Insurance Rates 's content and product offerings, and customize Mason City Insurance Rates 's content, layout, and services;
  • to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use ofwww.Mason CityInsuranceRates.com
  • to fulfill your requests for certain products and services;
  • for market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity, to enforce Mason City Insurance Rates 's Terms of Use, for other internal purposes, and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection; and
  • as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Policy and the Terms of Use.

Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information

Unless you are entering one of Mason City Insurance Rates 's sweepstakes, Mason City Insurance Rates does not currently sell your personally identifiable information. The following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business:

  • Advertisers. Mason City Insurance Rates may aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes. For example, Mason City Insurance Rates may aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose it to network advertisers in a non-personally identifiable manner as set forth in the section entitled "Network Advertisers," set forth below.
  • External Service Providers. There are a number of separate services offered by third parties, including, without limitation, Mason City Insurance Rates 's affiliates, that Mason City Insurance Rates refers to as external service providers that may be complementary to your use of Mason CityInsuranceRates.com (e.g. realtors, mortgage brokers, lenders, financial institutions, credit card issuers, information aggregators). If you choose to use these separate services, disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. With your consent, Mason City Insurance Rates may provide some of your personal information to the external service provider offering such services, for your convenience. To prevent Mason City Insurance Rates 's disclosure of your personally identifiable information to an external service provider, you can decline such consent or simply not use their services. You should evaluate the practices of external services providers before deciding to use their services.
  • Internal Service Providers. Mason City Insurance Rates may use third parties that Mason City Insurance Rates refers to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of Mason City Insurance Rates 's business, product and service operations that Mason City Insurance Rates provides to you (e.g., technology, Forums, newsletters/alerts, analytical tools, advertising campaign management) and therefore Mason City Insurance Rates may provide some of your personal information directly to these internal service providers. These internal service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with Mason City Insurance Rates or other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the information Mason City Insurance Rates provides them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced Mason City Insurance Rates related operation, unless you have explicitly agreed or given your prior permission to them for additional uses. In some instances, the internal service provider may collect information directly from you. In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the internal service provider, and all additional information you provide them and their additional uses will be strictly up to you. If you provide additional information to an internal service provider directly, then their use of your personally identifiable information is governed by their applicable privacy policy.

Personally identifiable information and other personal information collected from you may also be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger, reorganization, other transfer or bankruptcy (a Transfer) involving Mason City Insurance Rates and/or its affiliates. Mason City Insurance Rates specifically reserves the right to transfer personally identifiable information collected from Mason CityInsuranceRates.com , and any of its databases, together with any personally identifiable information contained therein, to a third party in connection with a Transfer, and nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to interfere with the ability of Mason City Insurance Rates to transfer all or part of its business and/or assets (including Mason CityInsuranceRates.com ) to an affiliate or independent third party at any time, for any purpose, without any limitation whatsoever.

Network Advertising

Mason City Insurance Rates may use third-party advertising companies for marketing, advertising and promotional purposes, as well as to serve advertisements to you. Using third-party advertising companies helps us and third-party advertisers better determine which advertisements or content to serve to you. For example, the third-party advertisers may use information regarding your visits to Mason CityInsuranceRates.com and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services, that third party advertisers believe will be of interest to you.

The types of information that may be collected by third-party advertising companies include the following:
  • the type of Internet browser you use;
  • the type of computer operating system you use;
  • the domain name of a Web site you visit, as well as information related to Web sites and Web pages you are viewing when an advertisement is requested;
  • whether or not you visit specific pages of Mason CityInsuranceRates.com or other Web sites;
  • the location of your Internet service provider's point of presence;
  • the date and time of a visit to a Web site;
  • search keywords passed from another server;
  • the number of times you have clicked on an advertisement; and
  • other interactions between you and a Web site.

If you would like to opt-out of third-party advertising companies' use of such information, go to www.SavingsSavy.info/unsubscribe

Newsletters and CAN-SPAM Compliance

Mason CityInsuranceRates.com sends only verified newsletters, specifically requested by Mason City Insurance Rates subscribers. Subscriptions to Mason CityInsuranceRates.com newsletters are verified by sending an e-mail. Mason CityInsuranceRates.com is fully compliant with the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003.

Cookie Technology

"Cookies" are alphanumeric identifiers in the form of text files that are inserted and stored by your Web browser on your computer's hard drive. Mason City Insurance Rates , its external service providers, internal service providers, and third-party advertising companies, may set and access cookies on your computer to track and store preferential information about you. Mason City Insurance Rates , and its external service providers, internal service providers, and third-party advertising companies gather anonymous information about you through cookie technology on an aggregate level only. For example, a third-party advertising company may assign a cookie (and a Web beacon, described below) to you, to limit the amount of times you see a particular advertisement or to help better determine which advertisements to serve to you. Please note that most Internet browsers will allow you to stop cookies from being stored on your computer and to delete cookies stored on your computer.

Security

Personally identifiable information you submit to Mason City Insurance Rates is password-protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas Mason City Insurance Rates uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions. In the unlikely event that an unauthorized third party compromises Mason City Insurance Rates security measures, Mason City Insurance Rates will not be responsible for any damages directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized third party's ability to view, use or disseminate such information.

Links to Other Web sites

Mason CityInsuranceRates.com may include links to other third party Web sites. Such links are not an endorsement by Mason City Insurance Rates of those Web sites and/or the products or services offered there. Third party Web sites may have different privacy policies and Mason City Insurance Rates is not responsible for the privacy practices of those third party Web sites. If you click on a link to a third party Web site, Mason City Insurance Rates encourages you to check the privacy policy of that Web site, as it may differ substantially from that of this Privacy Policy.

Access and Use of Mason CityInsuranceRates.com

Mason CityInsuranceRates.com is intended to be accessed and used only by adults and is not directed to children under the age of 18. Mason City Insurance Rates does not knowingly permit registration or submission of personally identifiable information by anyone under the age of 18.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Mason City Insurance Rates reserves the right to update, amend and/or change this Privacy Policy at any time in its sole discretion and without notice. Updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted here. Any information Mason City Insurance Rates collects from you online is subject only to Mason City Insurance Rates 's most current Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to revisit this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to review any changes that have been made. Mason City Insurance Rates 's last update was July 1, 2008. Your continued access and use of Mason CityInsuranceRates.com following the posting of any such changes shall automatically be deemed your acceptance of the same.

Questions or Concerns

If you have questions, comments, concerns or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy, send an e-mail to info@Mason CityInsuranceRates.com

Governing Law; Arbitration

You agree that: (i) Mason CityInsuranceRates.com shall be deemed solely based in the State of California; and (ii) Mason CityInsuranceRates.com shall be deemed a passive Web site that does not give rise to personal jurisdiction over Mason City Insurance Rates , either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than the State of California. This Privacy Policy is to be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of California, without regard for principles of conflicts of laws. Any civil action, claim, dispute or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy shall be referred to final and binding arbitration, before a single arbitrator, under the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association.

THEREFORE, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO COURT TO ASSERT OR DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS AND YOU GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN OR BRING CLASS ACTIONS. BY USING WWW.Mason CityInsuranceRates.com YOU CONSENT TO THESE RESTRICTIONS.

You and Mason City Insurance Rates shall select the arbitrator, and if you and Mason City Insurance Rates are unable to reach agreement on selection of the arbitrator within thirty (30) days after the notice of arbitration is served, then the American Arbitration Association shall select the arbitrator. Arbitration shall not commence until the party requesting it has deposited One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) with the arbitrator for the arbitrator's fees and costs. The party requesting arbitration shall advance such sums as are required from time to time by the arbitrator to pay the arbitrator's fees and costs until the prevailing party is determined or the parties have agreed in writing to an alternate allocation of fees and costs.

Judgment upon any award rendered by the arbitrator shall be final, binding and conclusive upon you and Mason City Insurance Rates and your and Mason City Insurance Rates 's respective administrators, executors, legal representatives, successors and assigns, and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, in no event shall either you or Mason City Insurance Rates be entitled to punitive, special, indirect or consequential damages and both you and Mason City Insurance Rates hereby waive your and Mason City Insurance Rates 's respective rights to any punitive, special, indirect or consequential damages, including, but not limited to, damages for any loss of profit, revenue or business.

If any portion of this Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable by any arbitrator, this Privacy Policy as a whole shall not be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, but only that portion of this Privacy Policy that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken from this Privacy Policy.

The headings contained in this Privacy Policy are for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Privacy Policy, and shall not limit or otherwise affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Privacy Policy.

All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made in this Privacy Policy, as may be amended by Mason City Insurance Rates from time to time, shall survive your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.