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Introduction.
(i) Posiadlosc.com (the "Site"), which is owned and operated
by Illinois Star, Ltd. provides form to cell phone SMS delivery
service that facilitates the sending and receipt of SMS messages on cell
phones based on the cell phone number of the recipient (the "Service").
(ii) Illinois Star, Ltd. fully appreciates the need to protect
the privacy of users of the Site and/or the Service (individually, a "User"
and collectively, the "Users"). As a result, your privacy is
very important to us, and this Privacy Policy identifies and explains
the types of information we may gather along with potential users and
uses of that information.
(iii) Illinois Star, Ltd. reserves the right to change all or
a portion of this Privacy Policy at any time with or without individual
notice to you, and your continued use of the Service or the Site constitutes
your binding acceptance of any such changes. You may always review the
most current version of our Privacy Policy.
(iv) Please be advised that use of the Site and the Service are subject
to and controlled by Illinois Star, Ltd.'s Terms of Service. By
using the Service, you evidence your complete acceptance of the Terms
of Service, which creates a binding contract between us with respect to
your duty to comply with the Terms of Service.
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Information Gathered by Illinois Star, Ltd.
(i) Illinois Star, Ltd. may gather personal information about
you that is provided or transmitted by Users of the Site and/or the Service.
We may also gather aggregated tracking information regarding overall usage
of the Site and the Service, such as but not limited to tallies of page
views and click-through activity. This information is used to help us
understand how Users are using the Site and the Service.
(ii) The following are some but not necessarily all of the methods that
may be used us to obtain information from and about Users:
(a) Registration & Support: We may obtain information that is provided
during any voluntary or mandatory registration process or request for
technical support, which may include without limitation the User's name,
postal address, e-mail address, cell and landline phone numbers, wireless
service providers and certain demographic information, such as age and
gender.
(b) Cookies & Web Beacons: We may obtain information about you by
using cookies, which are small data files transferred from a website server
to the hard drive of your computer or other network device. Cookie files
are commonly used to track the pages on the Site that Users visit. The
only personal information that cookies contain is information you have
transmitted to the Site by navigating on the Site. Cookies do not read
information stored on your hard drive or files generated by cookies deriving
from other website servers. Additionally, we may obtain information about
you by using web beacons that allow us to count the number of Users who
have visited a particular page or component of the Site.
(c) Usage Tracking: Illinois Star, Ltd. may track usage patterns
on the Site, but does not correlate the usage information with the identity
of individual Users. As a result, this usage tracking generates only anonymous
information. We may also gather information associated with a User's Internet
browser, such as but not limited to browser type, domain name and MIME
type. Further, we may track and record "key words" entered into
any search functionality on the Site, but such information is not correlated
with the identity of individual Users.
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Uses of the Information by Illinois Star, Ltd.
(i) Information obtained by Illinois Star, Ltd. may be used internally
by Illinois Star, Ltd. and its affiliated companies ("Affiliates")
to evaluate the Service and the Site, and to make improvements thereto.
(ii) Affiliates are companies: (a) in which Illinois Star, Ltd.
has an ownership interest; (b) that have an ownership interest in Illinois Star, Ltd.; (c) that merge or consolidate with Illinois Star, Ltd., or result from an IPO; or (d) that are acquired by or acquire
Illinois Star, Ltd.
(iii) Illinois Star, Ltd. may also use your personal information
to facilitate suspension or termination of a User's access to or use of
the Site and/or the Service as permitted under the Terms of Service.
(iv) AIllinois Star, Ltd. reserves the right to disclose your
personal information to courts, law enforcement authorities and/or other
relevant third parties when such disclosure is necessary or advisable,
at Illinois Star, Ltd.'s sole discretion, to bring legal action
or pursue other relief when a User or third party is or may be: (a) violating
the Terms of Service; or (b) causing injury or other harm to, or otherwise
violating Illinois Star, Ltd.'s property or other legal rights,
or those of other Users or third parties.
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Fees.
(i) Currently, Users may use the Service free of charge, but Illinois Star, Ltd. reserves the right at any time to charge fees for access
to and/or use of all or a portion of the Service.
(ii) Receiving short text messages may triger additional fees assesed
by your cellular telephone service provider. Illinois Star, Ltd.
is not responsible for those fees and/or charges if any. You, the User
of the Service hereby agrees to pay for any and all such charges as they
may be assesed/charged to you by your mobile telephone service provider
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Security.
(i) We use security practices and systems to protect your personal information
that is retained by us, but Illinois Star, Ltd. cannot guarantee
absolute or protection of this information given the open
nature and resulting instability of the Internet and World Wide Web.
(ii) Accordingly, Illinois Star, Ltd. makes no representations
or warranties as to the effectiveness of its security and assumes no liability
for security breaches made possible by any failure in its security practices
or systems, or any failure in the security of your computer equipment,
your ISP or other networks and communications providers.
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Commercial Uses of Personal Information.
(i) Illinois Star, Ltd. will not release your name or any personal
contact information to advertisers or for other third party commercial
purposes without your prior approval.
(ii) Upon such approval, Illinois Star, Ltd. may disclose, sell
for its own account or otherwise release your personal information: (a)
to third parties with an interest in contacting you for purposes of promoting
goods and services that may be of interest to you; and (b) for any other
commercial or lawful purposes that serve our business needs and/or the
needs or interests of Users.
(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, Illinois Star, Ltd. may
at any time disclose, sell for its own account or otherwise release aggregated
User statistics and any other anonymous information we have collected:
(a) to describe our products and services to existing or prospective partners,
advertisers or other interested third parties; or (b) for any other lawful
purpose.
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