hitRECord.org Privacy Policy

Last Modified: January 4, 2010

Welcome to the hitRECord.org LLC (“hitRECord.org”) web site and online services (the “hitRECord.org Site”). hitRECord.org values the privacy of our members and others who visit and use the hitRECord.org Site (individually, “You” or collectively, “Users”). We take your privacy seriously and make it a priority to protect personally identifiable information that we obtain from and about individuals both online and off-line.

This Privacy Policy describes what information we gather from you, how we use that information, and what we do to protect it. By using the hitRECord.org Site (whether or not you are a registered member), you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not want information about you to be used in the manner set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not use the hitRECord.org Site.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the hitRECord.org Terms of Service. Your use of the hitRECord.org Site and any personal information you provide on the hitRECord.org Site are subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and hitRECord.org’s
Terms of Service.

The Information hitRECord.org Collects:

• User-provided Information: You may provide to hitRECord.org what is generally called “personally identifiable” information (such as your name, password, gender, email address, postal mailing address, home/mobile telephone number). From time to time, hitRECord.org may also ask you optionally to provide other information. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, you are giving hitRECord.org the permission to use and store it consistent with this Privacy Policy. Therefore, please understand that when you sign in with hitRECord.org, you are not anonymous to us.
• “Cookies” Information: When you visit the hitRECord.org Site, whether or not you are a registered member, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer. Cookies remember information about your activities on a website. hitRECord .org may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the hitRECord.org Site. Persistent cookies can be removed. Please review your web browser “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. However, without cookies you will not have access to certain services on the hitRECord.org Site. Third party advertisements displayed in connection with the hitRECord.org Site may also contain cookies set by internet advertisers. We do not control these cookies and users of the hitRECord.org Site should check the privacy policy of the advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies.

The Way hitRECord.org Uses Information:

• hitRECord.org collects personally identifiable information when you register as a member in order to establish and enhance our relationship with you. hitRECord.org generally uses the information you provide or that we collect to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on the hitRECord.org Site. We will use your email address, without further consent, for non-marketing or administrative purposes such as notifying you of major site updates. If you have given hitRECord.org consent, we may use your personally identifiable information to provide you with information about hitRECord.org’s features, services and other offerings that may be of interest to you.
• hitRECord.org uses all of the information that we collect from Users to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our Users, to improve the way the hitRECord.org Site works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.
• hitRECord.org may use “cookies” information to: (a) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the hitRECord.org Site; (b) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and (c) track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities.

When hitRECord.org Discloses Information:

• hitRECord.org discloses automatically collected and other aggregate non-personally-identifiable information with interested third parties to assist such parties in understanding the usage, viewing, and demographic patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the hitRECord.org Site.
• hitRECord.org’s employees, agents and contractors must have a legitimate business reason to obtain access to the personally identifiable information you may provide to register as a member of hitRECord.org. We may share your personally identifiable information with companies that provide services to us, including outside contractors or agents who help us manage our information, but they may only use your personally identifiable information to provide us with a specific service and not for any other purpose.
• hitRECord.org may also disclose User information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright law) or respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant. In some cases, we may make such disclosures without first providing notice to Users.
• hitRECord.org also reserves the right to disclose User information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; protect hitRECord.org from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of the hitRECord.org Site; or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of hitRECord.org, our Users, or others.
• In the event that hitRECord.org is acquired by or merged with a third-party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.

Your Choices:

You may, of course, decline to share your personally-identifiable information with hitRECord.org, in which case hitRECord.org will not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality found on the hitRECord.org Site. If you register as a member of hitRECord.org, you may update, correct, or delete your profile information and preferences at any time by emailing us at support@hitrecord.org.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you account access or making corrections to your information. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Third-Party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites:

The hitRECord.org Site may be linked to internet websites operated by other companies. Some of these websites may be co-branded with our name or logo, even though they are not operated or maintained by us. hitRECord.org may also permit other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the hitRECord.org Site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks may use technology to send, directly to your browser, some of the advertisements and links that appear on the hitRECord.org Site. These advertisers may automatically receive your IP address if this happens. These advertisers may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party websites and third party ad servers or ad networks. hitRECord.org’s Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other third party advertisers or web sites. Please be aware that hitRECord.org does not warn you when you have chosen to link through to another website from the hitRECord.org Site.

Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy:

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, hitRECord.org does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information on the hitRECord.org Site from persons under 13 years-of-age. If hitRECord.org learns that personally-identifiable information of persons less than 13-years-of-age has been collected on hitRECord.org without verifiable parental consent, then hitRECord.org will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 13 has obtained a hitRECord.org Site account, then you may alert hitRECord.org at support@hitrecord.org and request that hitRECord.org delete that child’s personal information from its systems.

Our Commitment to Data Security:

hitRECord.org uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to hitRECord.org, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, hitRECord.org makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

If hitRECord.org learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. hitRECord.org may post a notice on the hitRECord.org Site if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

International Visitors:

The hitRECord.org Site is hosted in the United States and is intended solely for visitors located within the United States. If you nonetheless choose to use the hitRECord.org Site from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personally identifiable information outside of those regions to the United States and by providing your personally identifiable information on the hitRECord.org Site you consent to that transfer.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy:

This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically without further notice to you and this will be reflected by a “Last Modified” date above. If we make a material change that would enable us to use any information previously collected under this Privacy Policy in a less restrictive manner we will take reasonable steps to obtain your consent to any such new use or disclosure. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. Your continued use of the hitRECord.org Site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future revisions.

hitRECord.org Contact Information:

Please contact hitRECord.org with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, our third-party disclosure practices, or your consent choices by email at support@hitrecord.org or by mail at:

HitRECord.org LLC
6613 Val Jean Ave
Van Nuys, CA 91406