Thursday, May 17, 2012

PennyBurners Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Commitment to Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this privacy policy notice explaining our data collection practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this policy notice easy to find, we make it available in the main navigational toolbar, which can be accessed from any page of this website.

Information we Collect

Personally Identifiable Information
We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, register on the site, place an order, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address. Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.
-Name
-Email
-Social Network Information:
We offer an optional FaceBook & Twitter integration that allows you to connect your PennyBurners account with your FaceBook & Twitter account. This will give us access to your avatar, profile information, birthday, friends/followers, and statuses.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information. Additionally, we track mouse-clicks, entry & exit pages, time spent on site, referral information, keywords used to find PennyBurners in search engines, and geo-location information based on your IP address(es).

Web Browser Cookies

Our Site may use "cookies" to enhance User experience. User's web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

How We Use Your Information:

PennyBurners collects and uses Users personal information for the following purposes:

Personalize User Experience
We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Site.
Improve Our Site
We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
Improve Customer Service
Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
Process Transactions
We may use the information Users provide about themselves when placing an order only to provide service to that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service.
To Administer A Content, Promotion, Survey Or Other Site Feature
To send Users information they agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to them.
Send Periodic Emails
The email address Users provide for order processing, will only be used to send them information and updates pertaining to their order. It may also be used to respond to their inquiries, and/or other requests or questions. If User decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, special promotions, related product or service information, etc. If at any time the User would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or User may contact us via our Site.
Protect Your Information & PennyBurners.com
This information allows us to better program our system to alert us to suspicious activity with each account, so we can identify & disable the account & IP address in question before information is compromised or a user's profile is damaged.

How we protect your information

Data Protection
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.
SSL
Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site's Cloud-Based CDN and its Users happens over a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures.

When our online store opens, we will have full 256-bit encryption between our servers, Cloud-Based CDN, and our users.
Preventative Maintenance
We employ "White Hats" to routinely report on the risk & vulnerabilities of PennyBurners.com. This allows us to ensure that if we do have any security holes, that we find them first, and avoid security breaches from malicious attackers.
Reputation Based Threat Assessment, Detection & Black Listing
We are fully integrated with several networks that bait, watch, monitor & report negative online behavior. Including spamming, exploit attacking, botnets, hacking, cheating and fraud, among others. Users with poor reputations are blocked from ever accessing PennyBurners.com. These IP addresses are updated every 15 minutes, and permanently blocked, forever. Users with suspicious behavior history will not see information that is personal & posted publicly on this site, and may be required to fill out a "Challenge Page" that ensures a real person is attempting to access PennyBurners, instead of a bot.
Email address obfuscation
We use software that automatically scrambles e-mail addresses on our web pages, thwarting bots from discovering and spamming them, while keeping them visible to humans.
Content Redundancy, Security & Delivery
Keeping your information safe means not losing your data, ever. We do this at the server level and build from there.
-Server
PennyBurners runs on two dedicated servers:
Intel Hexacore i7 Extreme Edition i7-990x 3.46 Ghz (12 virtual CPUs)
24 GB DDR3 RAM
(4) 120GB Corsair Solid State Hard drives (CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT)
-Setup in a RAID 1+0 configuration for data security & performance
Gigabit networking card
-Behind network & ISP firewalls
-Network
Our servers are secured in one of the most robust & redundant private networks in the world.
-CDN
We use a Content Delivery Network to deliver our content to the user, at the fastest possible speed. The CDN also allows the main server to not waste resources delivering all of the content itself, as our CDN handles all the delivery of static files.

-Anti-DDoS
We use an Anti-DDoS service that should be able to stop nearly _ALL_ DDoS attempts on our site.
-SQL/XSS/Injection Exploits & Hacks
Our CDN & Network use technology to block attempts at gaining unauthorized access to our database, using injection-based attacks.

Sharing your personal information

We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.

Third Party Websites

Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, affiliates, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website's own terms and policies.

Advertising

Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Google Adsense

Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses "non personally identifiable information" and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Changes to this privacy policy

PennyBurners has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our Site, revise the updated date at the bottom of this page and send you an email. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and terms of service. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.