Privacy Policies of Home-Satellite.com

Last Update: March 19, 2007

The information collection, use, and dissemination practices of home-satellite.com and the web pages that are associated with the Websites are discussed in this policy.

1. Collection of Information.

1.1 Survey Information. On the Websites, the Company collects information from individuals when an individual fills in a form and/or any other surveys on the Websites; collectively, the "Surveys". In the Surveys, the Company asks an individual to provide his or her name, street address, telephone number, zip code, birth date, gender, email addresses, and other information from time to time. Completing the Surveys is completely voluntary. The Company hereby informs visitors to its websites that it will use the information collected in the Surveys to target advertising to the interests of the individuals and that the Company may sell or transfer the information to third parties. Individuals are under no obligation to provide Survey Information, but they will not be able to use all the features of the Websites without providing Survey Information.


1.2 Other Information. In addition to the Surveys, the other occasions when the Company requests personal information are (1) when an individual requests assistance through our customer service department, and (2) when an individual voluntarily subscribes to our newsletter (together, "Other Information").

1.3 Cookie Information. The Company uses cookie technology to associate an individual's computer with information about the individual in our database ("Cookie Information"). A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent from Company servers to an individual's browser and stored on the hard drive of the individual's computer. You may wish to read more about cookies at www.cookiecentral.com. Visitors need to accept cookies to use all of the features and functionality of the Websites.

1.4 Outside Information. The Company may also receive information about users from third parties ("Outside Information").

1.5 No Information Collected from Children. The Company does not collect personal information from children who are younger than age 13. Because it does not collect such information, the Company has no such information to use nor to disclose to third parties.

1.6 User Information. As used herein, User Information means Survey Information, Other Information, Cookie Information, Outside Information and any other information the Company gathers or receives about users.

2. Use of User Information.

2.1 Discretion to Use Information. The Company may use the User Information for any legally permissible purpose in Company's sole discretion. The following paragraphs in Section 2 describe how the Company currently uses the User Information, but the Company may change or broaden its use at any time. As noted below, the Company may update this policy from time to time. The Company may make use of User Information for telemarketing, direct mail marketing, email advertising, targeted online banner advertising and package stuffers, among other possible uses.

2.2 Targeted Advertising. Based on the User Information, the Company attempts to customize and target advertising to an individual. The Company may, at its discretion, target advertising in email and direct mail. Due to the infancy of this technology, users should not expect to see immediate changes in the types of targeted advertising they see.

2.3 Email. The Company uses User Information to provide email marketing materials to users. The Company may maintain separate email lists for different purposes. If email recipients wish to end their email subscription from a particular list, they need to follow the instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe from the particular list. To unsubscribe from all Company email lists, please email us to info@home-satellite.com with subject "Please Remove Me".

2.4 Direct Mail and Telemarketing. The Company uses User Information to advertise, directly or indirectly to individuals over the telephone and using postal mail.

2.5 Use of Cookies. The Company may use the Cookie Information (1) to match a user's Cookie Information to Survey Information, (2) to track an individual's web browsing habits, (3) to determine which areas of our sites are most frequently visited. This information helps the Company to better understand the online habits of users so that the Company can attempt to customize and target advertising and promotions to users.

2.6 Profiles of Users. The Company uses User Information to make a profile of users of the site. A profile is created by associating the various sources of User Information.

2.7 Storage of User Information. The Company stores the User Information in a database on secure computers. Our computers have security measures (such as a firewall) in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. But notwithstanding such measures, the Company cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent the Company computers from being illegally accessed, and the data on them stolen or altered, and the Company assumes no responsibility for such actions.

3. Dissemination of User Information.

3.1 Sale or Transfer to Third Parties. The Company may sell or transfer User Information to third parties for the purposes of sending you offers of good or services via email, postal mail and telemarketing promotions.

3.2 The Company will transfer User Information to third parties when necessary to provide a product or service that a user orders from such third party while using our sites.

3.3 Legal Process. The Company may disclose User Information to respond to subpoenas, court orders and other legal processes.

3.4 Summary Data. The Company may sell or transfer non-individualized information, such as summary or aggregated anonymous information about users of our web sites as a whole or as sub-groups of users.

4. Privacy Practices of Third Parties.

4.1 Advertiser cookies. Advertising agencies, advertising networks, and other companies (together, "Advertisers") who place advertisements on our sites may set their own cookies on your computer and collect information from such cookies. The Company does not control the Advertisers' use of their own cookies and the Company disclaims any responsibility for such cookies and the use of information gathered from them.

4.2 Links. The Company's web sites sometimes contain hypertext links to the web sites of third parties. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other web sites.

4.3 Disclosure of Information in Chat Rooms or other areas of our web sites. Users should be aware that if they disclose personally identifiable information (for example, their name, address, telephone number, or email address) in chat rooms or other areas of our web sites, that information can be collected and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from third parties, among other things. Such activities are beyond the control of the Company, and we recommend that individuals use caution when disclosing personal information.

4.4 Affiliated Companies. The Company may disclose, transfer and sell User Information to entities affiliated with Company in Company's sole discretion.

5. Deleting User Information. Users have the ability to request deletion of their User Information by sending an email to info@home-satellite.com with subject "Please Remove Me".

6. More Information. For more information about protecting your privacy online, you may wish to visit www.netcoalition.com, and www.privacyalliance.org. If you have questions about this policy, please contact us at
info@home-satellite.com. The Company reserves the right to update this policy from time to time, so you should review this policy frequently.  If you wish to contact us by phone, please call customer service with any questions at (866) 380-3053.

DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement

This website is an online service provider as defined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We provide legal copyright owners with the ability to self-publish on the internet by uploading, storing and displaying various media utilizing our services. We do not monitor, screen or otherwise review the media which is uploaded to our servers by users of the service. We take copyright violation very seriously and will vigorously protect the rights of legal copyright owners. If you are the copyright owner of content which appears on this website and you did not authorize the use of the content you must notify us in writing in order for us to identify the allegedly infringing content and take action.

In order to more easily facilitate the process we have provided a form for your use. We will be unable to take any action if you do not provide us with the required information so please fill out all fields accurately and completely. Alternatively you may make a written notice via email, facsimile or postal mail to the DMCA AGENT as listed below. Your written notice must include the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or person authorized to act on behalf of the owner which expressly claims an exclusive right that is allegedly being infringed.
   

• Specific identification of the copyrighted work which you are alleging to have been infringed. If you are alleging infringement of multiple copyrighted works with a single notification you must submit a representative list which specifically identifies each of the works that you allege are being infringed.
   

• Specific identification of the location and description of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity with enough detailed information to permit this website to locate the material. You should include the specific URL or URLs of the webpages where the allegedly infringing material is located.
   

• Information reasonably sufficient to allow this site to contact the complaining party which may include a name, address, telephone number and electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.
   

• A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
   

• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Written notice should be sent to our designated agent as follows:

DMCA AGENT Email: info@home-satellite.com please put in the subject “DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement”

Please also note that under applicable law, 17 U.S.C. 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability.

Updated on March 1, 2008