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PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: October 25, 2011

PeopleFinders.com respects the privacy of our users and we have developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy is intended to describe for you our treatment of personally identifiable information that you provide to us as a user of PeopleFinders.com or our services, or otherwise provide to us through other means such as e-mail marketing from us or our partner web sites, the information we collect, how that information may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our web site or services, or transacting business with us. By using our web site, including, without limitation, signing up for offers and/or continuing to receive information from PeopleFinders.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy, and you are acknowledging that we are not providing you with a consumer report, and are certifying that you will not use the information obtained from us for any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. §1681, et seq.).

Confi-Chek, Inc. (the parent company of PeopleFinders.com) has been awarded TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. TRUSTe's mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trustmark and innovative trust solutions. If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us. If you are not satisfied with our response you can contact TRUSTe here. The TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected through this Web site.

1. Information we collect about you

In General. We may collect personal information that can identify you, such as your name and e-mail address, and other information that does not identify you.

• Information you provide. We may collect, sell, or share any personal information you enter on our web site such as name, email address, phone number, address, and credit card information or provide to us in some other manner, including through e-mail marketing by us, and our partners and affiliates. We only share with our partners and affiliates when you affirmatively choose to participate in our special offers. Please see below under "How you can access your information" about how to opt-out of any sharing. This includes identifying information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number, and, if you transact business with us, financial information such as your payment method (valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information) (Please see "How we protect your personal information", below).
  
  
• Searching for people When you are searching for people, you may enter third party personal information such as their name, address, phone, email or social security number. We only use the data you input to provide you with a request and do not use it for any other purpose.
  
  
• Tell-A-Friend. If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and for tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at http://www.peoplefinders.com/contact-us.aspx to request that we remove this information from our database.
  
  
• Widgets. Our Web site includes Widgets, which are interactive mini-programs that run on our site to provide specific services from another company (e.g. displaying the news, opinions, music, etc). Personal information, such as your email address, may be collected through the Widget. Cookies may also be set by the Widget to enable it to function properly. Information collected by this Widget is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it.
  
  
• Information from other sources. We may also periodically obtain both personal and non-personal information about you from our partners and affiliates, and other third parties, and supplement it with our account information or other information we have collected.

Use of cookies and other technologies to collect information. We use various technologies to collect information from your computer and about your activities on our web site.

• Information collected automatically. We automatically collect information from your browser when you visit our web site. This information includes your IP address, your browser type and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us (see "Cookies", below), and the referring web site address.
  
  
• Cookies. We employ "cookies" to help customize your access to our web site, and also for the delivery of targeted advertisements. A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive containing information about you. Through the use of a cookie, we may collect personal information about your online activity on our web site, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our web site. Cookies have many benefits to enhance your experience at our web site and to facilitate the receipt of targeted advertisements. For instance, by setting a cookie on our web site, you do not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our web site. Even in the case where you reject a cookie, you may still use our web site. We use cookies to track, monitor and target the interests of our users to further enhance the experience on our web site, and for subsequent advertising and/or delivery purposes. To find out more about cookies, please visit http://www.cookiecentral.com/.
  
  
• Other Technologies. For the purpose of formatting and delivering future marketing or sales campaigns (either electronic or direct), we may employ pixel tags (also known as clear gifs) to track: 1) the pages that our users visit on affiliate and/or partner web sites; and 2) user opens of, and clicks on, our targeted e-mail advertising. We reserve the right to employ user source information, including applicable category and interest(s), for the marketing of targeted e-mail messages on behalf of our clients. This source information may be shared with our third party marketing partners, and we reserve the right to retain cookie and pixel tag data indefinitely.
  
  
• Information collected by third-parties. We may also work with other businesses to bring select retail opportunities to our users from us, our partner web sites, or our marketing partners, including affiliated third party advertisers. These e-mail campaigns may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect aggregate information about users who view or interact with the e-mail marketing material. Users may remove themselves from a specific mailing list by utilizing the unsubscribe options that are present at the end of each e-mail we send on behalf of the list owner. Unsubscribing from one list will not automatically unsubscribe a user from all lists.

2. How we use the information we collect

In general. We may use information that we collect about you to:

• Deliver the products and services that you have requested;
• Manage your account and provide you with customer support;
• Perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others;
• Communicate with you by e-mail, postal mail, and/or telephone about products or services that you have indicated interest in or opted into from our partners and affiliates, or other third parties (Please see below under "How you can access your information" about how to opt-out of any sharing);
• Develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our web site and other sites;
• Enforce our terms and conditions;
• Manage our business; and
• Perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.

Financial information. We may use financial information or payment method to process payment for any purchases made on our web site, to pre-qualify you for credit card and other offers that you might find of interest, to protect against or identify possible fraudulent transactions, and otherwise as needed to manage our business.

Job applicants. If your personal information is submitted through our web site when applying for a position with our company, the information will be used solely in connection with considering and acting upon your application. We may retain your personal information for a period of time, but only for the purpose of considering your application for current or future available positions. This information may be shared with our partners and affiliates for the purpose of evaluating your qualifications for the particular position or other available positions, as well as with third-party service providers retained by us to collect, maintain and analyze candidate submissions for job postings.

Please review "Your choices about collection and use of your information," below.

3. With whom we share your information

We want you to understand when and with whom we may share personal or other information we have collected about you or your activities on our web site or while using our services.

Personal information. We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated below or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared. We may share personal information with:

• Authorized service providers: We may share your personal information with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include sending direct and electronic mail, removing duplicate information from user lists, analyzing data, providing marketing analysis, and supporting our web site functionality. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.
  
  
• Business partners: We may collect, sell, or share any personal information you enter on our web site or provide to us in some other manner with your consent, including via e-mail marketing. We may work with other businesses to bring select retail opportunities to our users via e-mail marketing campaigns by us, or our partner web sites/co-brands, or our marketing partners, including affiliated third party advertisers. We will not share your personal information for third party marketing purposes with these third parties without your consent. The other businesses we work with may include: (a) providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation; (b) e-mail marketers; and (c) telemarketers. When you open, preview or click on the advertising portion of our e-mails and/or those of our marketing partners and/or affiliates, you have agreed to the terms set forth in our Privacy Policy, and agree that as a function of opening, previewing or clicking on the advertising portion of our e-mails, you will receive new or additional marketing communications from us. These e-mail campaigns may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with the e-mail marketing material. There are a number of places on our web site and in e-mail campaigns where you may click on a link to access other web sites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy. These third-party web sites may independently solicit and collect information, including personal information from you, and, in some instances, provide us with information about your activities on those web sites. We recommend that you consult the privacy statements of all third-party web sites you visit by clicking on the "privacy" link typically located at the bottom of the web page you are visiting.
  
  
• Direct mail partners. With your consent, we will share our e-mail/postal mailing list with selected providers of goods and services that may be of interest to you.
  
  
• E-mail lists. Users may remove themselves from a specific mailing list by utilizing the unsubscribe options that are present at the end of each e-mail we send on behalf of the list owner. Unsubscribing from one list will not automatically unsubscribe a user from all lists.
  
  
• Other Situations. We also may disclose your information:
  • In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
    
    
  • When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our web site terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.
    
    
  • In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy. The personal information which you provide to us is an asset of the company and may be included in the assets transferred in the event of a substantial corporate transaction.
    
    
  • When we deem it necessary or appropriate including, without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third-parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time to time, the Federal Trade Commission’s enabling regulations, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. §1681 et seq.).

Any third parties to whom we may disclose personal information may have their own privacy policies which describe how they use and disclose personal information. Those policies will govern use, handling and disclosure of your personal information once we have shared it with those third parties as described in this Privacy Policy. If you want to learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage you to visit the web sites of those third parties. These entities or their servers may be located either inside or outside the United States.

Aggregated and non-personal information. We reserve the right to provide aggregate or group data about PeopleFinders.com users for lawful purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes the demographics, usage, or characteristics of PeopleFinders.com participants as a group, without disclosing personally identifiable information. By opening a PeopleFinders.com account, you agree to allow PeopleFinders.com to provide such aggregate data to third parties. By agreeing to these terms, you hereby consent to the disclosure of any record or communication to any third party when PeopleFinders.com, in its sole discretion, determines the disclosure to be appropriate.

If you use a blog or post your story testimonial on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at the email address bellow. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. All users who have posted testimonials on the site have given their permission to post their personal information on the site and are able to have their information removed by contacting us via email.

4. Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

5. Third-party reports

The information contained in our reports comes from proprietary sources and third party suppliers, and is beyond our control to edit, modify, or change. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such information.

6. How you can access your information

If you have an online account with us, you have the ability to review and update your personal information online by logging into your account http://www.peoplefinders.com/reports/. You can also review and update your personal information by contacting us. More information about how to contact us is provided below.

You can opt-out of having your information shared with third parties when you first signup. You can also update your preferences accessing "My Account" and updating your settings, or by contacting us via email.

7. Your choices about collection and use of your information

You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may result in you being unable to use certain features of our web site because such information may be required in order for you to have personalized recommendations presented to you; register as a user; purchase products or services; ask a question; or initiate other transactions on our web site.

At any time you can choose to no longer receive commercial or promotional e-mails or newsletters from us by unsubscribing. In every marketing e-mail communication we send, there is an unsubscribe hyperlink that allows the recipient to unsubscribe from that specific marketing program by simply clicking the hyperlink provided and following the instructions provided. We attempt to process all such unsubscribe requests in a prompt fashion. You can also unsubscribe by logging into “My Account”, “Email Preferences” and Opting out of receiving promotional emails. However, after unsubscribing, we cannot guarantee that you will never receive another marketing mailing from us, because we may obtain your e-mail address in the future through a different e-mail marketing program that you have opted into. We can guarantee, however, that if you should ever receive another e-mail marketing communication from us, you will be able to remove your e-mail address via the unsubscribe hyperlink. If you no longer wish to receive offers via phone, you may unsubscribe by logging into “My Account”, “Phone Offers” and Opting out as with e-mail offers above. Unsubscribing from one marketing list will not automatically unsubscribe a user from all marketing lists. We may send you other types of transactional and relationship e-mail communications, such as service announcements and administrative notices, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.

8. Advertising and Remarketing

We partner with third party ad networks, including Google, to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partners, including Google, uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. We will market or advertise our people search services to those users of third party's site who have previously visited the PeopleFinders’ site. This is called "Remarketing". Generally, advertisements that are part of our remarketing campaigns will be focused on our people search capabilities. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Users may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.

9. How we protect your personal information

We take industry appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they may do so only for permitted business functions. When users submit information at our web site, their information is protected both online and offline. The privacy of your personal information is very important to us and access to your information is strictly limited, and not accessible to the public. The servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure physical environment. We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information under our control. Currently, we use Secure Socket Layer Software ("SSL") to protect data and to secure any transactions. SSL encrypts information, including credit card numbers, names and addresses as they are transmitted over the Internet. Please be advised that, although we take every reasonable technological precaution available to protect your data, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot warrant that your information will be absolutely secure and any transmission of data at or through our web site is at your own risk.

Please refer to the Federal Trade Commission's web site at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm for information about how to protect yourself against identity theft.

To the extent that user credit card-specific information (or alternate user payment method information, such as PayPal, Google Check-Out, etc.) is collected by us and/or any of our partners and affiliates, this information will be kept in confidence and will not be shared with any third parties (other than consumer credit agencies) without the user's prior informed consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, PeopleFinders.com, our partners, affiliates and/or subsidiaries reserve the right to share with third parties the fact that we have credit card information on file for specific users but we will not share the specific credit card information with third parties without the user's prior informed consent.

We value your privacy and, upon request, can block your records from being shown on PeopleFinders.com from databases we control. We are unable to remove any information about you from databases operated by third parties. If you would like us to remove your records from PeopleFinders.com, please fill out the form here.

After receiving your letter, we usually complete the opt-out request within 7 to 10 business days. If you include a self-addressed envelope, we will send back a letter confirming that the opt-out was completed.

This information will be kept confidential and is used to ensure complete suppression of your records. Or, if you would prefer, there is an online service that will remove you from certain public records databases, credit offers, and other lists. Please refer to OptOut.com (www.optout.com). Please note that this is not a free service.

10. No Rights of Third Parties

This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the web site.

11. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, and/or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. All Privacy Policy changes will take effect immediately upon their posting on the PeopleFinders.com web site. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

We recommend that you check our web site from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies. Your continued use of the PeopleFinders.com web site or acceptance of our e-mails following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept these changes and agree to continue receiving e-mails from us.

12. How to contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email or in writing at:

PeopleFinders.com
Customer Service
1821 Q Street
Sacramento, CA 95811

13. Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of California, in addition to the rights set forth above, you have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share certain categories of personal information with third parties and our partners and affiliates for their direct marketing purposes. California law gives you the right to send us a request at a designated address to receive the following information:

• The categories of information we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year;
• The names and addresses of the third parties that received that information; and
• If the nature of the third party's business cannot be determined from their name, examples of the products or services marketed.

We will try to respond to your queries in a timely fashion.

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