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This Privacy Policy is intended to cover all
visitors to this website, all customers, all
subscribers to vision newsletters, all ECI
Vision Plan members and all marketing
affiliates. Persons who visit this web site,
whether solicited or unsolicited, are described
herein as “Visitors” and are parties to
this Privacy Policy. Persons who order an ECI
Vision Plan or product sold or advertised
from this website are called “Customers”
herein and are subject to this Privacy Policy.
Subscribers to vision newsletters are referred
to herein as “Subscribers and are parties to
this Privacy Policy. Persons who join an
organization or marketing endeavor which
promotes this web site are called
“Affiliates” herein and are covered by this
Privacy Policy. This website, its agents,
owners, operators, and employees are referred to
collectively as “Website” “Site”
and/or “Seller”. |
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| PERSONS UNDER 18 YEARS OF
AGE ARE EXCLUDED FROM THIS WEBSITE |
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website is not lawfully accessible to persons
under the age of 18 or who are otherwise covered
by the provisions of the Child Online Privacy
Act of 1998 (COPA). If you are under the age of
18, you must leave this site immediately.
Fraudulent use of this website may make you
subject to civil or criminal sanctions. |
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| ABOUT THE PERSONAL
INFORMATION THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND HOW IT IS
USED |
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Visitor, Customer, Subscriber, or Affiliate
Information Obtained From Registration |
| Registration means the Visitor,
Customer, Subscriber or Affiliate takes active,
positive steps to communicate information to
this website. This can include pages, banners or
pop ups where you register for a newsletter; it
can include your participation in surveys or
quizzes; it can include requesting information
from the website via email or mail; it may be
from joining an affiliate program or other
membership organization, paid or unpaid; it may
be from ordering an ECI Vision Plan
Membership or a product. |
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| Certain Customers will complete
credit card information via fax or regular mail
and fill in a form rather than using regular
secure merchant service processing. This
information is kept at the highest level of
security and is never divulged to anyone except
the merchant service provider or for the purpose
of communication with the customer. |
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| Online Ordering |
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ordering via SSL, encrypted communication
provided by shopping cart services supporting
merchant service companies like Visa and Master
Card provides information to the website but
does not provide complete credit card numbers.
In the process of online ordering, the customer
provides, name, address, city, state, email
address, phone number CVS (back of card) number,
and occasionally a member password. This
information is used to deliver Membership
fulfillment materials or product, but under the
Membership Agreement, you also approve its use
for customer service and marketing/solicitation
purposes. |
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| Visitor Email Inquires |
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Website visitors who wish to communicate with
this website do so under two conditions. First,
they give their permission for contact by the
website; Second, they acknowledge and understand
that their email address may or may not be used
to solicit them, but it is added to the
website’s general email database. |
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| Information Obtained From
Visitor Interaction With Banners, Pop Ups or
Site Advertisers |
| Visitors clicking on banners,
pop-ups or hyperlinked advertising, appearing on
this website must assume that information is
being collected about them. This site is not
responsible for the use of information collected
in such a fashion. Visitors must assume that |
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information will be collected, |
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that “cookies” will usually be
placed on their hard drive, |
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that website takes no responsibility
over the accuracy or contents of
advertisers that contain viruses or
worms or other computer code that causes
their computer or software harm, and |
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that website assumes no responsibility
for the data that is garnered from the
click itself or that the advertiser
collects. |
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| Information Obtained From
Referring Email or Referring URLS |
| If you send a friend an email
from this site or if you send the url to a
friend, you must assume that some data is
collected about your email address and that of
your friend. You must assume that referred
emails may appear to come from your email. You
must accept full responsibility for sending an
email from this site to a friend and agree to
indemnify this site for any damage, intentional
or unintentional that results from said
referrals |
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| Information Obtained From
Electronic Means and “Cookie” |
| Many websites, including this
one, collect information about your computer,
your email address, your IP address. This
information is not usually of a personal nature,
but it may help define your viewing habits and
product preferences even though this website may
or may not have any idea who you are. |
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| “Cookies” is web jargon
for bits of computer code placed on your hard
drive. Websites use this to keep you “logged
in”, to keep track of search criteria, to
monitor use, to password protect use of the site
or use of products sold by the site. Cookies
also can be used to obtain information about
your computer configurations or your use of your
computer. |
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| Cookies can be used to
electronically gather information about you.
Again it may or may not be personal information,
but it is information and by using this site you
are expressly giving permission to use
“cookies”
and to use the information gathered from their
use to benefit you. You also give permission to
collect, archive, retrieve, and use any
information collected for product design,
product offers to you or joint venture partners,
affiliates, and marketing organizations. |
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| HOW INFORMATION MAY BE USED |
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Information That is Not Shared |
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Credit card information or other financial
information is not usually known to the website.
However, in the event that it is made known,
that information is never revealed to anyone
except to processing authorities or law
enforcement agencies. However, the provider of
such information gives express permission to use
it in fraud investigation or for litigation. |
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| Spam |
| By providing to this website
information that forms the basis of
communication with you, such as an email
address, you waive all rights to file complaints
concerning unsolicited email or spam from this
website since, by providing such information,
you agree to receive communication from us or
other marketing organizations. However, all
email communication with you shall contain an
“unsubscribe” link where you may notify
the website that you no longer wish to receive
solicitations or information from the website
and your name will be removed from the general
solicitation database. |
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| DATA SECURITY |
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| This website takes measures to
protect its data that contains information
related to you. However, as a consideration for
viewing this site or interacting with this site
in any manner, you waive all claims of any
nature against this site concerning the loss,
alteration, or misuse of information. You must
assume that it is possible for your personal
data to be obtained by others, such as “hackers”
and used in an inappropriate manner that may
cause you harm and that you agree that this site
is not responsible for damages to you. |
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| QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR
REPORT OF INCIDENTS |
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| You may direct questions,
comments or reports to:
support@ecivisionplan.com |
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| REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY
POLICY WITHOUT NOTICE |
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| This Privacy Policy is dynamic.
It will continually change. You may not assume
that it remains the same and you agree to check
the policy each time you visit the site for
changes. Unless, in the sole opinion of the
website, this policy changes so drastically as
to suggest a posted notification on the site or
via email, you will receive no notification of
any changes. Your continued use of this site
indicates your acceptance of the terms of this
Privacy Policy or any modifications. |
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| LASTEST UPDATE |
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| This Privacy Policy was last
updated on: February 1, 2004 |
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| DISPUTES |
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| As part of the consideration
that the Website requires of the Visitor to
view, use or interact with this site, Visitor
agrees to use binding arbitration for any claim,
dispute, or controversy of any kind (whether in
contract, tort or otherwise) arising out of or
relating to the purchase of a ECI Vision Plan
Membership, including solicitation issues,
privacy issues and terms of use issues. |
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| Arbitration shall be conducted
pursuant to the rules of the American
Arbitration Association which are in effect on
the date a dispute is submitted to the American
Arbitration Association. Hearing will take place
in the city or county where Eye Care
International, Inc. (the owner of this
website) is located. Visitor agrees that the
applicable law to be applied shall, in all
cases, be that of the state where ECI is
located. |
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| The arbitrator’s decision will
be final and binding with limited rights of
appeal. The prevailing party shall be reimbursed
by the other party for any and all costs
associated with the dispute arbitration,
including attorney fees, collection fees,
investigation fees and travel expenses. |
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| ECI CONTACT INFORMATION |
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| Owner
of This Website |
Eye Care International
1511 North Westshore Blvd, Suite 925
Tampa, Florida 33607
support@ecivisionplan.com |
