At MADMavens.com no account or personal information is retrieved from our servers when a member or visitor browses the public (pre-login) areas of our web sites. Although MAD Mavens uses web site data to improve the content and services offered to its web site visitors, such data is reported on an aggregate, anonymous basis, and we associate no personal information with such gathering of data. Such data may include number of visitors to the site, to particular pages, the length of a visitor's stay, and the domain name of the site visitors connect from.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that web sites leave on your hard drive or browser to facilitate your experience of the site or to track your web site usage. At MADMavens.com, we do use cookies to improve download times for repeat visitors, but we do not gather any personal information. We may also use cookies to determine the path visitors take to our web sites and to identify visitors who arrived at our site from a banner on a third party web site. Please be assured that any information that we gather by use of a cookie is compiled on an anonymous aggregate basis.

Third parties may also create cookies when you access their sites through links posted on our sites. We do not have access to these cookies or any information that these cookies contain. Please contact the third party site for more information on their policies regarding cookies. Although we expect third parties to adhere to our privacy policies, terms, and conditions of use, we are not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties.

Security

Our servers use SSL technology. This technology protects you from having your information intercepted by anyone other than MADMavens.com while it is being transmitted to us. We work hard to ensure that our web sites are secure and that they meet industry standards. In additions to encryption technology, we use other safeguards such as firewalls, authentication systems (e.g. passwords and personal identification numbers) and access control mechanisms to control unauthorized access to systems and data.

Hyperlinks

MADMavens.com's web sites may contain hyperlinks or “links” to other sites, and other sites may “link” to our sites. Web sites linking to and from our sites may have privacy policies different from MADMavens.com's. This Web Site Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by our web sites. MADMavens.com is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of sites you link to, and we have no control over the use or protection of information provided by you or collected by those sites. If you elect to link to a co-branded web site or to a linked web site, you may be asked to provide registration or other information to them. Please note that the information you are providing is going to a third party, and you should familiarize yourself with the privacy policy provided by that third party.

Nonpublic Personal Information

In the event that you provide MADMavens.com with nonpublic personal information about yourself (e.g. name, address, phone number, e-mail address) for the purpose of receiving information about our products and services, or if you are a MADMavens.com member and we obtain from you or from other sources nonpublic personal information about you in the course of providing you with our products and services, the following are the steps we take to safeguard such nonpublic personal information.

Security Procedures

MADMavens.com restricts access to nonpublic personal information about you to:

• Those of our employees and affiliates who need to know that information in order to provide the products and services you receive from us.
• Those unaffiliated third parties whose access to such information is permitted by law and who need to know that information in order to assist us in providing you with the products and services that you receive from us.
• To protect the security of nonpublic personal information, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards for guarding the information we collect about you (see MADMavens.com security technology, above).

Information We Collect

In providing you with products and services, or information about such services, MADMavens.com may collect the following types of personal information:

• Information we receive from you on applications, whether written or electronic, or on other forms (including on-line forms). This information could include your name, address, phone number, and so forth.
• Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others. This information could include your purchases through us, our affiliates, and others, and your use of various products and services that we and our affiliates provide.
• Information about you obtained in connection with our efforts to protect against fraud or unauthorized use of your account(s) with us.

Information We Disclose

At the present time, MADMavens.com does not disclose any nonpublic personal information except as permitted by law. We, however, reserve the right to disclose nonpublic personal information in the future to unaffiliated third parties. We will make these disclosures in order to provide you with full access to products or services that we think may be of interest to you. In addition, upon receiving your consent, we will disclose your personal information to unaffiliated third parties.

Categories of Parties to Which We May Disclose

MADMavens.com may disclose the types of personal information listed above (see information we collect) to the following types of third parties:

• Companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other such organizations with which we have joint marketing agreements.
• Publishers and other direct marketers of products related to philanthropy, such as newsletter or book publishers.
• We may also disclose personal information to other nonaffiliated third parties as permitted by law, such as in response to a subpoena or legal process or in order to complete a transaction which you initiated and authorized.

Web Site Privacy Statement Updates

MADMavens.com may, from time to time, make changes to this Web Site Privacy Statement. We recommend that frequent visitors to our web sites reread this Web Site Privacy Statement periodically to learn of any updates and changes we have made to this Statement. Should you become a MADMavens.com member by obtaining a user ID and password and completing account forms on-line, we will notify you of any changes we make to this Statement in the following manner. The first time you log on one of our web sites after we have modified our Web Site Privacy Statement, we will require you to click-through our revised Statement. You will not be able to access your account information or place any product orders until you agree to the terms of the revised statement.

Right to Opt Out of Information Sharing

If you prefer that we not disclose your Personal Information to unaffiliated third parties, you may opt out of those disclosures (other than disclosures permitted by law). If you wish to opt our of disclosure to nonaffiliated third parties, you may e-mail us using our contact form, stating that your wish to opt out of all information sharing of your non-public personal information.

Online Services

If you register for our online products or services, we retain your user ID and password and other information about your use of our web sites in order that we may recognize you as a registered user. We may obtain your e-mail address from you or from another source. We may send you e-mail offers for our as well as our affiliates' products and services.