HearMe is committed to
protecting your privacy. We want you to feel free to express yourself
within the HearMe community, and are committed to ensuring that
you are in control of what you share with the rest of the community,
and with HearMe.
Information Collection & Use
Registration
In order to use HearMe, you must first complete the registration
form. During registration you are required to give contact information
such as your email address. We use this information to contact
you about services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
Please see below for Information and Sharing Disclosure.
Communications from the Site
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on products, services,
special deals, or promotions. Out of respect for your privacy,
we present the option not to receive these types of communications.
Please see the "Choice and Opt-out."
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your
email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect
for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please
see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare
occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our
service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send
you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications,
which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive
them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide
us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username
and password. We will also communicate with you in response
to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and
to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email
or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Orders
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and billing address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. We will use this information to contact you and confirm your orders.
Uses of Information
HearMe's primary goal in collecting personal information is to
provide you, the user, with a customized experience on HearMe. This includes personalization services,
interactive communications, and many other types of services.
Personally identifiable information:
Agents
We use outside credit card processing companies to bill you
for HearMe services. These companies do not retain, share, store
or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
We use outside email delivery
systems to contact you and provide you with pertinent information
via email. These companies do not retain, share, store or use
personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable
information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is
necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial
proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
Choice/Opt-out
This email is a commercial advertisement sent in compliance
with the CANSPAM Act of 2003.We have no desire to send you information that is not wanted.
To stop future messages from HearMe, visit the following link:
UNSUBSCRIBE NOW (https://www.hearme.com/hm/optout.jsp)
or write to:
HearMe.com
Church Street Station
P.O. Box 3454
New York, NY 10008
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites,
we gather certain information automatically and store it in log
files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses,
browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit
pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which
does not identify individual users, to administer the site and
to track users' movements around the site.
We do not link this automatically-collected
data to personally identifiable information except during special
promotions such as free trials when subscription IP addresses
are temporarily tied to personally identifiable information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file
that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes.
We use session ID cookies on this site to maintain your subscription
and maintain your account. We do not link the information we store
in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit
while on our site. We use session cookies to make it easier for
you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you
close your browser.
Clear Gifs
We employ a software technology
called clear gifs that help us better manage content on our site
by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny
graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies,
and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast
to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive,
clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the
size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie
the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers' personally
identifiable information.
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based
emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients.
This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications
and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would
like to opt-out of these emails, please see "Choice and Opt-out."
Links to Other Sites
HearMe contains links to other
sites that are not owned or controlled by HearMe. Please be aware
that we, HearMe, 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 HearMe.
By visiting this Site, all
visitors consent to the collection, maintenance, and processing
of their personal and non-personal information in the United States.
HearMe Virtual Meeting Rooms
If you use a discussion meeting room
on HearMe, 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. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable
information you choose to submit in these forums.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer
desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by
making the change on your account or by contacting our helpful customer
support staff online.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you
enter sensitive information such as credit card numbers on our
registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure
socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we
receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of
electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive
to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are
granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL
employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.
Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information
on are kept in a secure environment.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can
contact our helpful customer support staff online by emailing support@hearme.com.
Business Transitions
In the event HearMe goes through
a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another
company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally
identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred.
You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership
or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement,
and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of
what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify
this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.
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.
This statement reflects the
privacy policy of HearMe with respect to the Web site located
at www.HearMe.com (the "Site"). This statement is intended to
inform casual visitors of HearMe, and visitors who participate
in HearMe, of the data collection and use practices of the Site.
Amendments to this statement will be posted at this URL and will
be effective when posted. Your continued use of this Site following
the posting of any amendment, modification, or change shall constitute
your acceptance thereof except if your personally identifiable
information will be used in a materially different manner.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or
suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
AVM Software
Attention: HearMe
Church Street Station
P.O. Box 3454
New York, NY 10008
