ConsciousOne, Inc., Consciousone.com, Consciouscards.com, and Wisdomflash.com, (hereinafter ConsciousOne) is dedicated to protecting your privacy. To demonstrate this commitment to our users, we have agreed to fully disclose our information practices. This privacy statement details our user information handling practices and identifies: 1. What personally identifiable information ConsciousOne collects. 2. What personally identifiable information third parties collect through the Web site. 3. What organization collects the information. 4. How ConsciousOne uses the information. 5. With whom ConsciousOne may share user information. 6. What choices are available to users regarding collection, use and distribution of the information. 7. What types of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under ConsciousOne's control. 8. How users can correct any inaccuracies in the information. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement please contact: privacy@consciousone.com This privacy statement covers all information that is collected through ConsciousOne Web site. ConsciousOne agrees to notify users of: Information Collection and Use Information Collection ConsciousOne Inc is the sole owner of the information collected on Consciousone.com, Consciouscards.com, and Wisdomflash.com. We collect information from our users at several different points on our Web site. Registration In order to use this Web site, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration the user is required to give contact information including username and password. We use this information to contact the user about services on our site for which he or she has expressed interest. Order We request information from the user on our member form. To register for a course a user must provide contact information such as name, email, and financial information such as credit card number, expiration date and card billing address. This information is used for billing purposes only. If we have trouble processing an order, the information is used to contact the user. Information Use Profile We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that details their viewing preferences. Consequently, collected information is tied to the user's personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the site for the user. This profile is used to tailor a user's visit to our Web site, and to direct pertinent marketing promotions to them. We do not share your profile with third parties. If your profile is shared it will be in aggregate form only. Cookies A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. By setting a cookie on our site, users would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If users reject the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. See the "Profile" section. Log Files Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to enable our Web-based service. We use a tracking utility called AssocTrac that uses log files and cookies to track how you got to the site and who referred you. See the Profile section below. Communications from the Site Special Offers and Updates We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Participants in the free membership program will receive promotions and special offers via email. Participants in the free member program may opt out of these promotions, however, doing so may jeopardize your free member account status. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections. Newsletter If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Out of respect for your privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections. Service Announcements On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their account. However, these communications are not promotional in nature. Customer Service We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account we reply via email or phone, in accordance with the users wishes. Sharing Legal Disclaimer Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site. Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable) We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personally identifiable information. These are the instances in which we will share users' personal information: We DO NOT Share Personal Information with Third Parties. We may share information with our wholly owned subsidiary sites. Business Transitions In the event ConsciousOne goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users' personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Users will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for thirty (30) days prior to a change of ownership or control of their personal information. If as a result of the business transition, the users' personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection they will be given a choice consistent with our notification of changes section. Choice/Opt-out Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for information. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us at remove@consciousone.com Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside party. Participants in the free membership program may jeopardize their account status by opting out. Please see Special Offers and Updates. Links ConsciousOne may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we, ConsciousOne, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this ConsciousOne. Surveys & Contests From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). Contact information will be used or shared with the contest or survey sponsors to notify the winners and award prizes. Anonymous Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Users' personally identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests, they may not use users' personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes. Tell-A-Friend If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Conscious One will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. ConsciousOne stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. The friend may contact remove@consciousone.com to request the removal of this information from our database. Security ConsciousOne takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via ConsciousOne, their information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration form asks users to enter sensitive information such as a credit card number, that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when users are just 'surfing'. While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing department or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure that our users' information is protected. Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure environment, in a secured facility If users have any questions about the security at our Web site, users can send an email to support@consciousone.com. Enhancement of Marketing Profile We purchase third party marketing data and add it to our existing user database to better target our advertising and provide pertinent offers that we think our users would be interested in. We use this information to enhance or overlay the 'profile' of individual users. This aggregate marketing data is therefore tied to the users' personally identifiable information. See also the "Profile." Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal Information If a user's personally identifiable information changes, or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users' personally identifiable information. This can usually be done at the member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at support@consciousone.com or contact us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. Notification of Changes If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. If, however, we plan to use our users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will promptly notify said users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted, nor will their personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices. Contact Information If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: ConsciousOne, Inc. 350 South Crenshaw Blvd. Suite A200 Torrance Ca 90503 310-781-7800 privacy@consciousone.com