Privacy
Policy
The DimeClubs.net
operates under the The BlueKnight Group, LLC ("BKG")
(referred to as "Our" and/or "We") owns and operates as a
website and a Affiliate Program at for several
products. The BlueKnight Group, LLC may also publish
various eBooks (hereinafter collectively referred to as the
"Sites"). "You" refers to the person using the Sites. We
strive to offer You the many advantages of Internet technology
and to provide an interactive and personalized
experience. We may use "Personally Identifiable
Information" (name, e-mail address, street address, telephone
number, IP address, financial information, social security
number and/or other form of tax identification number, and
other information) subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We will never sell, barter, or rent your email address to any
unauthorized third party. We employ specific security measures
when storing, retrieving, or accessing any form of financial
information and/or social security number and/or other form of
tax identification number.
How We Gather Information
From Users How we collect and store
information depends on the page you are visiting, the
activities in which you elect to participate and the services
provided. For example, you may be asked to provide information
when you register for access to certain portions of our site or
request certain features, such as newsletters or when you make
a purchase. You may provide information when you participate in
any of Our programs, on or by the Sites and other interactive
areas of the Sites. Like most websites, we also collect
information automatically and through the use of electronic
tools that may be transparent to You. For example, we may log
the name of your Internet Service Provider or your IP address,
or use information available through the Internet, cookie
technology, other forms of technology, and technologies yet to
be conceived and/or implemented, to recognize You and hold
information from your visit. Among other things, these
technologies, in whole or in part and in any possible
combination, may store your user name and password, sparing You
from having to re-enter that information each time You visit,
identify your account number, or may control the number of
times You encounter a particular advertisement while visiting
the Sites, or be used to Our advantage to market products and
services on behalf of Us or Our Advertisers, or in any other
way we see fit. (To learn more about "IP addresses" or
"cookies", find information by use of an Internet search
engine.) As we adopt additional technology, We may also
gather additional types and categories of information about You
and Your use of the Sites, its Programs, Your use of the
Internet, and/or Your implied topics of interest, usage, or
research, and do this through other means.
In certain instances, you
can choose not to provide us with information, for example by
setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but, if you
do, you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or
may be asked to re-enter your user name and password, or we may
not be able to customize the site's features according to your
preferences, or you may not be able to become a Participant in
some or all of the programs. Furthermore, in some
instances (as detailed in the Terms and Conditions as well as
in the paragraph below entitled "Taxpayer Identification
Number") if you fail to provide us with information we request,
you may be ineligible to participate in some or all of the
programs and/or services offered through the Sites.¹
What We Do With the
Information We Collect Like other web services,
We collect information to formulate lists of topics, categories
of interest and/or use, and Your implied specific areas of
interest. This may be used to enhance Your visit, deliver more
individualized content and advertising, to affect our
accounting methodology, to secure our database(s), to protect
Us from illicit usage of the Sites, or to disable certain
services or programs for use by You. We respect your privacy
and do not share your information with anyone outside of Our
organization and any subsidiaries We may have. Additionally,
real time transmission of the information may occur to affect,
enable, or enhance other programs and services.
Aggregate Information
(information that does not personally identify You) may be used
in many ways. For example, we may combine information about
your usage patterns with similar information obtained from
other users to help enhance the Sites and the services offered
therein (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or what
features are most attractive). Aggregate Information may
occasionally be shared with or sold to BlueKnight Group, LLC
and its licensees and subsidiaries, our advertisers, Our
business partners, or the general public. Again, this
information does not include any Personally Identifiable
Information about You or that would allow anyone to identify
You individually. Additionally, periodic transmission of the
aggregate information may occur to affect, enable, or enhance
other programs and services.
We may use Personally
Identifiable Information collected by and/or retained on the
Sites or through any of our Affiliate's links, to communicate
with You about your registration and customization preferences;
our Terms and Conditions (aka License/Terms and Conditions (of
Use)/Terms of Service), this Privacy Policy, or any other legal
documents contained on the Sites or any other legal documents
which pertain to your participation; services and products
offered, now or in the future, BlueKnight Group, LLC; or any
other topics we think you might find of interest. Any
such communication may be in the form of email or by telephone
or any other means suitable to the type of communication,
including any new information delivery technologies that might
become available.
Personally Identifiable
Information collected by and/or retained on the Sites or
through any of our Affiliate's links, may also be used for
other purposes, including but not limited to site
administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce
transactions, administration of sweepstakes and contests, and
other communications with You. Certain third parties who
provide technical support for the operation of the Sites (our
Web hosting service for example), in general, may access such
information. We will use your information only as permitted by
law. In addition, from time to time, as we continue to develop
our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other
companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information
may be among the transferred assets. We may also disclose your
information in response to a court order, at other times when
we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, in
connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us,
and/or to law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it
appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you
with notice prior to, or after, disclosure in such
cases.
Occasionally BlueKnight
Group, LLC is approached by companies and professional
associations seeking to inform our Members, Participants,
Purchasers, and Affiliates, about products or services that may
be of interest to them. We review these requests and when, in
our judgment, we think the information would be of benefit to
these persons or entities, we cooperate in getting you this
information. We view receiving such information as a benefit
for those who are seeking new tools to help them run their
online business. In such cases, we would provide you with
this information directly, rather than provide your Personally
Identifiable Information to the outside companies and
professional associations. We may initiate the communication of
any information or advertising for Our direct or indirect
financial gain and it is done so without any compensation due
to You or any other recipient of the information.
Financial
Information We may use third party
merchant payment verification and processing companies to
obtain payment and approvals and to bill users for goods and
services. We do not have complete control over the actions or
intentions of the third party payment processors or how they
use the information that you may provide during a payment
transaction and therefore have no responsibility for their use
of the data specific to the transaction. These payment
processors, and/or Your own financial institution may, in some
circumstances, make secondary use of Your personal information
and purchasing history; it is Your responsibility to contact
the payment processors and/or Your financial institution for
information regarding their specific usage of the information
conveyed during transactions.
On most purchases and
transactions on the Sites, or through our Affiliates' links,
BKG will normally collect and record merchant/payment
processing information. Much of the determination on what
information is collected and/or archived before, during, and/or
after a purchase transaction, is based on the provisions and/or
limitations of the payment processor systems that are
implemented on each of the Sites, and this may vary from site
to site. Purchases will normally be done via third party
merchant transaction or other payment providers and such
information during the post sale transaction of data and the
data communication between their computer(s) and our
computer(s) may not be encrypted nor protected with SSL or any
other form of encryption software, in some
cases.
The actual account access
credentials information is not supplied to Us, but is available
only for purposes of processing and completing the purchase
transaction. The account and/or credentialization information
is only disclosed to specific third parties as necessary to
complete the purchase transaction, or during the process of
financing the transaction. Additionally, notifications
delivered in the form of email to Us will be delivered
unencrypted and clearly readable in standard character sets
defined by or within the geography of delivery or by or within
the receiving computers configuration. During the entire
process of placing and paying for an order, there may be
several steps in the process where data is transmitted
unencrypted and this is variable between Users partly based on
the configuration of web browser technology or by any other
means they access the Sites, or by the payment method and/or
payment or merchant transaction processor chosen or available
at the time of purchase, or by any third party provider used by
the merchant transaction or associated payment processor, all
of which is beyond Our control. Your payment processor ids,
payment processor transaction identifiers, dates and times of
transactions, contractual obligations or details specific to
the transactions, checksums, electronic forms of signature, and
any other useful information for identifying or explaining or
replicating the transaction may be stored temporarily or
permanently on the Sites.
Requesting Your
Personally Identifiable Information and/or Financial
Information Upon written request we
may provide You with access to information that we maintain
about You including, but not limited to, financial information
(e.g., payment processor and/or merchant account information),
unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or
password), transaction information (e.g., dates on which
You made purchases, amounts and types of purchases),
participation history (e.g. dates on which you subscribed to
lists at the Sites), and/or contact information (e.g., name,
address, phone number). You may also obtain some or all
of this information directly from your Affiliate Back Office
(also referred to as your "Profile). Upon request, we
offer You the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact
information, financial information, and/or transaction
information as further detailed in this Sites' Terms and
Conditions.
Affiliated Sites, Linked
Sites and Advertisements.
We expect Our members, partners, advertisers, and Affiliates to
respect the privacy of Our Users. Be aware, however, that third
parties (including, but not limited to, our members partners,
peers, advertisers, Affiliates, BlueKnight Group, LLC entities
and personnel, other content providers, or other advertising
services) (collectively referred to as "Promotional Partners")
whose websites may be accessible through the Sites, may have
their own privacy and data collection policies and practices.
For example, during Your visit to the Sites, or websites that
the Sites provide advertising services to, You may link to or
view, certain content that is actually owned, created, hosted
by a third party, or hosted or advertised by another service,
or websites far removed from and unrelated to the Sites. Also,
through the Site, You may intentionally or unintentionally be
introduced to, or be able to access, information, other
websites, programs, products, services, features, contests or
sweepstakes offered by other parties. We are not
responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties.
You should check the applicable privacy policies of each of
those third parties when providing information on any page
operated by a third party.
While on the Sites, our
Promotional Partners or other third parties may use cookies or
other technology to attempt to identify some of your
preferences or retrieve information about you. For example,
some of our advertising is served by third parties and may
include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether
you have seen a particular advertisement before. Other features
available on the Sites may offer services operated by third
parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather
information. AHI does not control the use of this technology by
third parties or the resulting information, and is not
responsible for any actions or policies of such third
parties.
You should also be aware
that if you voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable
Information on message boards or in chat areas which may be
accessible through the Sites, that information can be viewed
publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without
our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other
individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the
control of AHI and this Policy.
¹Taxpayer Identification
Number (Affiliates Only)
Individuals or entities who register as Affiliates (hereinafter
"Payees") AND who are due any monies from their participation
in the AHI Affiliate Program, must provide their Taxpayer
Identification Number (either their social security number or
employer identification number if a United States citizen or
resident, or other form of identification provided by their
country of origin or residence) to AHI. AHI cannot make any
payments to said Payee until the Payee submits their
appropriate Taxpayer Identification Number and supporting
Identification to AHI (as required by the Affiliate Agreement
of the Sites).
Furthermore, AHI may not
pay any monies to any United States resident or citizen that
would cause such Payee's cumulative earnings to meet or exceed
$600 during a calendar year, until that Payee submits an
original, signed copy of IRS form W-9 as per instructions
contained in the Sites' Terms and Conditions. We are required
to collect this information from each Payee in order to report
each Payee's earnings to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service,
(and/or to the taxing authorities of any nation, state, or
political subdivision whose laws or regulations we are
obligated to respect), and to issue IRS form 1099-MISC to the
Payee and to the IRS. (To read more about the IRS Regulations
that govern our operation, visit http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99928,00.html.)
If you are neither a
citizen nor a resident of the United States, You do not need to
provide a U.S. taxpayer identification number, but in this case
we are required to withhold a portion of any monies that may be
due to You and remit them to the IRS. (You are still required
to provide us with Personal Identification as required in the
Sites' TERMS AND CONDITIONS.) For more information on
withholdings for foreign persons or entities, click here. (You
must apply to the IRS for a refund of this money if you do not
owe any United States
income taxes
or are not subject to any laws pertaining to United States
income taxes.) You should not be asked for (and You should
never provide) Your taxpayer identification number, unless You
are applying for a Program that entitles you to earn monies
(whether such monies are derived from credits converted to
cash, or otherwise).
Children
We designed this Policy to comply with the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). BlueKnight Group, LLC does
not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable
Information from or about children under the age of 13 except
as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any
information from a child under the age of 13 in violation of
this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If
you believe BlueKnight Group, LLC has any information from or
about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us at the
address listed below.
User Emails or
Testimonials If you are a customer and
send an email to the Sites, to AHI, or to BlueKnight Group,
LLC, or if you communicate with any of them by phone or mail or
other means, the party you are communicating with collects
information about your communication. By communicating with the
any of them, you give your permission to collect, archive,
retrieve, and otherwise use any information collected as the
Network sees fit.
Any communication which,
in our sole discretion, we deem to be a testimonial, may be
publicized for commercial purposes.
Legal
Disclaimer BlueKnight Group, LLC
uses reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed
to Us secure. We will use your information only as
permitted by law. Though we make every effort to preserve user
privacy, we may need to disclose Personal Identifiable
Information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith
belief that such action is necessary to:
1) Conform to the edicts
of the law or to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a
court order, or legal process served on either AHI or
BlueKnight Group, LLC;
2) Protect and defend the
rights or property of the Sites or visitors to the
Sites;
3) Identify persons who
may be violating the law, any legal notice, or the rights of
third parties (including those violating the Terms and
Conditions of the Sites);
4) Cooperate with the
investigations of purported unlawful activities;
In addition, from time to
time as we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy,
merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such
transactions, user information may be among the transferred
assets. We may also disclose your information in connection
with the collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or to law
enforcement authorities whenever we deem it appropriate or
necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior
to, or after, disclosure in such cases.
BlueKnight Group, LLC
does not endorse, nor is it responsible for the accuracy of the
privacy policies and/or terms and conditions and/or terms of
use/service of each or any of the advertisers within the Sites.
The entities which advertise and/or place ads with BlueKnight
Group, LLC are independent third parties and are not affiliated
with The BlueKnight Group, LLC and are neither owned nor
operated by BlueKnight Group, LLC, unless otherwise stated on
such site. Furthermore, BlueKnight Group, LLC is not
responsible for any breach of security, misuse of information,
or for any other actions of any third parties that may receive
the information.
Changes to This
Policy
We reserve the right to change this policy at any time. Please
check this page and the Site's Terms and Conditions
periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Sites
following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will
mean You accept those changes. Information collected prior to
the time any change is posted will be used according to the
rules and laws that applied at the time the information was
collected.
Your
Acceptance of These Terms
By agreeing to receive information from Us, by downloading
any BKG eBook or report, or by participating in
the BKG Affiliate Program, you agree to this Privacy
Policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change,
modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. All
Privacy Policy changes will take effect immediately upon their
posting on the Sites. Please check this page periodically for
changes. Your continued use of the Site or acceptance of any
email from AHI following the posting of changes to these terms
will mean that you accept these changes.
Governing
Law
This policy and the use of this Site are governed by the laws
of the State of Indiana, in the County of Lake, United States.
If a dispute arises under this Policy we agree to first try to
resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon online
mediator. Any costs and fees (other than attorney fees)
associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each of
us.
If it proves impossible
to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through online
mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding
arbitration online, under the rules of the American Arbitration
Association. Judgment upon the award rendered by the
arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do
so.
In no case shall
the User have the right to go to court or have a jury trial.
Users will not have the right to engage in pre-trial discovery
except as provided in the rules; you will not have the right to
participate as a representative or member of any class of
claimants pertaining to any claim subject to arbitration; the
arbitrator's decision will final and binding with limited
rights of appeal.
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