TheLeadsNetwork.com provides various online and offline marketing campaigns to consumers and hosts a web site http://www.competitiveinsurance.net . Through these vehicles, we serve as a conduit through which special offers are made available to consumers by our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties. Please note that because our role is limited to ensuring that our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties reach their targeted audience, we cannot be held responsible for these offers, including, but not limited to, the availability of product inventory, the time necessary to fulfill special offers, or any other circumstance related to the special offers that we send to consumers. For questions about any aspect of these offers, please contact the provider of the relevant offer.

TheLeadsNetwork respects Internet users' concern about the privacy of their personal information. Therefore, we have created this Privacy Policy in order to explain our practices with respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of personal and non-personal information provided by recipients of our marketing messages, visitors to our Web site, and our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties.

By participating in marketing campaigns presented by TheLeadsNetwork or visiting our Web site, you agree, without limitation, to the practices described in this Privacy Policy and also accept, without limitation or qualification, all terms and conditions concerning these campaigns and Web site. We may at any time revise these terms and conditions. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit them to review the then-current terms and conditions to which you are bound.


Collection of Information

• E-Mail Marketing

In general, we may collect personal information from recipients of our marketing campaigns and visitors to our Web site when they voluntarily provide it to us by (1) completing our registration form or a survey, (2) electing to use one of our services, or (4) contacting us (including our webmaster, customer service representatives, or other employees) by email. We may also collect information about consumers to whom we direct our marketing campaigns from our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties. As part of these activities, we may ask individuals to provide us with information including, but not limited to, name, physical address, email address, telephone number, birth date, gender, username, password, other unique identifiers, areas of interest, categories of offers and specific offers that they may be interested in receiving, and demographic information (such as income level).

• Non-Personal Information

As part of the standard operation of our Web site and the web pages that you access via hyperlinks in our online marketing campaigns ("Other Web Pages"), we may collect certain non-personal information from visitors including, but not limited to, their browser type (e.g., Netscape or Internet Explorer), operating system (e.g., Windows or Macintosh), IP address, and the domain name from which they accessed the site (e.g., lycos.com). In addition, we may collect information about visitors' browsing behavior, such as the date and time they visit our Web site or Other Web Pages, the areas or pages of our Web site and Other Web Pages that they visit, the amount of time spent viewing our Web site and Other Web Pages, the number of times the visitor returns to our Web site and Other Web Pages, and other click-stream data. We may use cookies (small text files that are stored on the hard drives of visitors computers when they access our Web site) to collect this information, which may be combined with visitors' personal information. We may also use cookies for other purposes, including, but not limited to, retrieving information previously provided by recipients of our marketing campaigns and visitors to our Web site and remembering the passwords of visitors' to our Web Site and Other Web pages. We may also allow unaffiliated third parties, such as advertisers, to serve cookies to visitors of our Web site and these cookies may collect consumers' personal information. Visitors to our Web site are always free to decline cookies, but in doing so they may not be able to use certain features on our Web site. The "help" segment of the toolbar on most browsers explains how to configure a browser to not accept new cookies, how to have the browser inform a user when they receive a new cookie, and how to erase cookies from their hard drives. We may use web beacons or other tools to collect the above-described non-personal information, which may be combined with other personal information that we collect. We may also use web beacons and other tools to track information about visitors to our Web site and Other Web Pages after they leave these locations. Web beacons may also be used for purposes such as accessing cookies, counting page visits, and otherwise facilitating visitors' online experience.


Use of Information
We may use information collected from recipients of our marketing campaigns, visitors to our Web site, and our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties for any of the following purposes in either the online or offline arena: (1) to provide individuals with targeted offers based on their specific requests or their stated preference to receive certain categories of offers; (2) to send individuals information and promotional materials from our company as well as from our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties, (3) to deliver targeted display advertisements and offers through online marketing communications, such as emails, banner advertisements, and pop-up advertisements (by matching criteria provided by our advertisers with information collected from our visitors); (4) to enable our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties to communicate with individuals; (5) to administer contests and sweepstakes offered on our Web site, Other Web Pages, or on our partners' Web sites; (6) to contact visitors to our Web site or registered members of our marketing campaigns when necessary; (7) to help address problems with our Web site or marketing services; (8) to administer our Web site; (9) to conduct internal reviews of our Web site (e.g., to determine the number of visitors to specific pages within the site); (10) to help us better understand recipients of our marketing campaigns and visitors' use of our Web site; and (11) to protect the security or integrity of our Web site and Other Web Pages that are accessible through our online marketing campaigns. Non-personal information will be used for these purposes as well as for conducting internal reviews and monitoring of our Web site and Other Web Pages that are accessible through our online marketing campaigns and providing a greater online experience for our visitors.


Disclosure of Information
We may transfer or otherwise disclose information collected from recipients of our marketing campaigns, visitors to our Web site, and our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties to our employees and independent contractors, to our subsidiaries and affiliates, and to our consultants, other business associates, and suppliers, if the disclosure will enable that party to perform a business, professional, or technical support function for us. Disclosure of information may also be necessary to respond to judicial process, to provide information to law enforcement agencies, or to facilitate investigation of matters of public safety, as permitted by law.

We may also disclose information we collect from recipients of our marketing campaigns, visitors to our Web site, and our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties to other marketing partners, advertisers, and third parties who may use the information in connection with their business operations, such as to send targeted offers, marketing materials, and other communications to them. In addition, we may share, rent, sell, or transfer any of the personal information provided by you or from our marketing partners, advertisers, or other third parties. We are not responsible for the practices of our marketing partners, advertisers, or other third parties.


Security
We have implemented certain physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect from recipients of our marketing campaigns, from visitors to our Web site, and from our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties.

Visitors should consider any electronic communication that they transmit to us (such as data, questions or answers, comments, suggestions, or other communications) to be non-confidential. We will not be liable or responsible if information that belongs to an individual is intercepted and used by an unintended recipient, or is otherwise accessed and used without our written permission. By participating in our marketing campaigns or visiting our Web site, you assume this risk.

Opt-Out Policy
We offer visitors to our Web site and recipients of our marketing campaigns the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and to opt-in and opt-out of receiving communications from our marketing partners, advertisers, and other third parties. If you have subscribed to our service and wish to stop receiving any future communications from us, please email us at support@competitiveinsurance.com . These unsubscribe options are also included in email communications that you receive from us (whether sent on our own behalf or on behalf of third parties) Please note that if you wish to stop receiving communications from any of our marketing partners, advertisers, or other third parties you must communicate with these entities directly. We are unable to process unsubscribe requests for any of our marketing partners, advertisers, or other third parties.

We take all reasonable measures to ensure that your unsubscribe requests are fulfilled in a timely manner. However, despite these precautions, there is always the chance that after you unsubscribe you may receive additional communications from us that may have resulted from an inadvertent technical or other processing error. If this happens, please notify us of those communications by writing to support@competitiveinsurance.com and we will take immediate steps to rectify the situation.


Children
Our online marketing campaigns and Web site are not directed to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from, children under 18.


Third Party Web Sites
Our Web site and Other Web Pages that are accessible through our online marketing campaigns may contain links to other third party web sites (such as those of our advertisers), which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the activities and practices that take place on these web sites. Accordingly, we recommend that you review the privacy policy posted on any web site that you may access through our Web site.


Unforeseen Circumstances
In the event that TheLeadsNetwork or any of its assets are acquired by a third party, personal information acquired by us may be one of the assets transferred.


Changes To This Privacy Policy
There may be times when we need to amend, modify, remove, or change various aspects of this Privacy Policy, and we reserve the right to do so at our discretion. We recommend that you revisit this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current privacy practices. You can be assured that any changes that we make will not be applied retroactively and that we will not materially change how we handle previously collected information without your consent. Your continued use of our services following any changes signifies your acceptance of these changes.

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