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In general, McCane Consulting does not collect, store
or disclose personally identifying information except in very
specific instances, such as when you enroll as an advertiser,
merchant, or customer in one of our Services, as defined below.
When we collect such information, the provider will have a
choice regarding whether to provide their information, how we
will use the information, and to whom it may be disclosed.
The situations in which we will collect and use personal
information are specifically described below.
McCane Consulting
provides several different services. These services include
(at this time), RECaLL (located at recall.maxbaud.net),
SellitHere Online Auctions (located at www.sellithere.com),
and Freenews (located at freenews.maxbaud.net)
(the "Services"). The Services may also be located on third
party web sites and/or applications. The services are made
available by McCane Consulting. McCane Consulting
values its users and understands their concerns about their
personal privacy. To this end, McCane Consulting engages
in consistent information practices and uses its best efforts
to make clear disclosures regarding those practices. This
privacy policy is part of that continuing effort.
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| What does this Privacy Policy cover? |
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This Privacy Policy applies to collection, use, storage and
disclosure of information by McCane Consulting. If there are any
exceptions, we will clearly disclose them prior to collecting
any information, and will give you an opportunity to choose
not to participate or provide the information.
Please be aware that, as part of the Services, McCane
Consulting provides links to Web sites operated by third parties,
and also provides search results and similar services to third
parties for display on their own Web sites or applications. McCane
Consulting is not responsible for the information collection or privacy
practices or the content of those third party Web sites or
applications. Also, please be aware that some of the banner
ads on McCane Consulting's web sites are provided by third parties, which may collect
cookies as part of the process of serving those ads. These
cookies are typically used for the purpose of tracking
performance of the banner ads. McCane Consulting does not determine which
information will be collected by these third parties. Please see
the paragraph below regarding Third Party Banner Ads.
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| Third Party Banner Ads |
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McCane Consulting uses various third-party advertising companies to serve
ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use
information (not including your name, address, email address
or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web
sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and
other sites about goods and services that may be of interest
to you. McCane Consulting may at times use the keywords that you are
searching for to provide targetted banner ads to you if we
feel that they might be of interest based on your keywords
(and no other personal information).
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| What information does McCane
Consulting
collect and how is it used? |
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McCane Consulting may collect any or all of the following three types of
information: (a) traffic or clickstream data, (b) cookies, or
(c) contact information and other personally identifying
information. McCane Consulting's collection and use of each type of data
is described below, as well as the ways (if any) in which the
data may be shared with third parties.
(a) Traffic or Clickstream Data. Data about traffic
and usage is not personally identifying or identifiable, and is
not supplemented or combined with personally identifying or
identifiable information. McCane Consulting may share information it
collects with certain selected third parties, but only in
aggregated, anonymous form. For example, we may tell an
advertiser that we had a certain number of visitors or page
views to specific areas of our web site. We do provide portions
of this aggregated information to all users in the form of our
"recent searches" feature. McCane Consulting's web servers automatically
collects some information regarding use of the Services, for
example, our servers collect information about the site from
which you entered our site to enable McCane Consulting to calculate and
pay our affiliates, information about the most frequently
searched terms to help our advertisers provide the most
relevant search results, information about usage to check for
fraudulent behavior or other abnormalities and to ensure that
our Services are technically superior. In addition to the
foregoing applications, McCane Consulting uses the information (in
aggregate form) to better design our Services.
(b) Cookies. Like many sites, McCane Consulting collects
information about online behavior using cookies. Our cookies
contain identification information that enables us to see how
our users are interacting with our site and how frequently they
are returning, as well as to streamline their experiences
using the Services. All of the information stored in these
cookies is created by us without any knowledge or use of
personally identifiable information. Our cookies lets us know
about repeat visitors and if we are delivering quality products
and services. McCane Consulting may also use cookies to identify which
sites our repeat visitors are coming from, so that we can place
more of our online advertising on these sites, and can, where
necessary, pay our affiliates and other business partners. To
McCane Consulting, using information within cookies is an anonymous way to
survey how we are doing and to look for ways to improve our
Services. You may set your browser software to reject cookies,
but you may not be able to use all of the features of the
Services. McCane Consulting may share information about usage of the
Services with third parties, but only in aggregated, anonymous
form. In the course of serving advertisements to this site,
our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique
"cookie" on your browser.
(c) Contact Information or Personally Identifying
Information. McCane Consulting can obtain access to your name, e-mail
address and other contact information only (1) when you become
an advertiser/merchant with McCane Consulting, provide comments, submit a
problem, or request information from McCane Consulting and provide your
name or return contact information, (2) when you register for
Sellit-Here Online Auctions™ (more on this below), or
(3) in connection with special offers or contests.
Contact information provided in connection with problems,
comments or requests is used only to respond to those
problems, comments or requests. This information is not stored
or used in connection with traffic or clickstream data and is
provided to a third party only as necessary to respond to the
comment, problem or request.
While you may use Sellit-Here Online Auctions™
anonymously, you must register in order to buy or sell items
on the site. As part of the registration process, you
will be asked to provide certain information, including contact
information and other personally identifying information.
Providing some of the requested information is optional. McCane
Consulting
will use registration information to provide updates, and
other business purposes related to making available the
features and functions of
Sellit-Here Online Auctions™. McCane Consulting also may
use registration information to make users aware of new products
or special offers or promotions. McCane Consulting will abide by requests
from you (in accordance with the procedure below) to
discontinue such use. McCane Consulting stores personally identifiable
information obtained through registration securely (as
described below) and considers it part of the assets of its
business. With your permission, McCane Consulting will provide certain
registration information to third parties for use in marketing
and in designing or providing their own services.
Finally, you may choose to provide contact information, other
personally identifying information, and demographic
information in order to participate in optional surveys or
contests, which are run for promotional purposes. McCane
Consulting uses
such information to send you information about its products
and to notify you if you win the contest. Finally, from time
to time, but only with your permission, McCane Consulting may provide
certain of its users' registration information to selected
third parties who wish to participate in special promotions
offered in conjunction with McCane Consulting. Users may opt-out of
receiving such communications at any time by contacting McCane
Consulting.
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| Is data stored by McCane
Consulting secure? |
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McCane Consulting has designed our data security to safeguard and secure
the information we collect online. Unfortunately, data
security is not an exact science and is rather more of an art
or talent. Some people use their talent for good others for
evil, so it will probably never be possible to absolutely
guarantee the safety of information that is connected to a
public network. For this reason, you should consider any
information that you give to McCane Consulting (such as personal data,
questions or answers, comments, or suggestions) as
non-confidential, and agree that McCane Consulting will not be held
liable or responsible if information that belongs to you is
intercepted and used by an unintended recipient.
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| Does McCane Consulting collect personally
identifying information from or about children? |
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McCane Consulting makes reasonable efforts not to collect, use or
disclose any individually identifiable information about
children. Although our services are targetted towards
families (especially those with children), we will not allow
persons under the age of majority (in Missouri, USA)
to register for personalized services.
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| What information can McCane
Consulting
provide to US Government Agencies? |
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McCane Consulting will fully comply with any US Government Agency which
presents the proper documentation to request specific data.
There are certain types of data which in aggregate are not
personally identifiable, but which can be used to follow the
activities of individuals on our (or any other) web site. For
example, every visitor to our site must have an IP (internet)
address, and unless special efforts are made by that individual
to block their address, we can provide information for specific
addresses at specific times (going back to the opening of our
web site). This information will also contain what sites a
specific visitor came from, and what keywords they searched for.
As you can imagine, if the Government can figure out that you
were on a site, they can then follow your trail backwards
from site to site examining your activities.
In the event that McCane Consulting must contact a Government agency
about a users activities, we will provide any and all
necessary information that the Government needs during their
investigation of our claim. This information would be limited
to activity logs and cookie data, unless an individual has
signed up for any of our Services.
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