Stress Management Institute (“SMI”) the provider of this Internet site http://www.AboutStress.com and the pages within that domain and related services, collectively the “Site”, places a tremendous value on safeguarding your privacy. We have provided this Privacy Policy to inform you that we will never disclose any information about you. We want you to know about the limited information we collect, how we use that information, the restrictions and limitations of your information, how you can review or correct your information, and how you can opt-in or out of our different programs.

PRIVACY AND DATA COLLECTION

Collection of Information

As you navigate within the Site, we may be obtaining personal information such as asking you to tell us something about yourself (such as your name, address or email address). So we can understand more about what pages of our site are most viewed, and what is of little interest, we use software that tells us what parts of the site you have browsed, but we will never ever share this information with any other parties. If you choose to tell us your contact information, then we may contact you by online electronic communication (such as email), or by regular mail or telephone, ONLY should you request that. In a totally anonymous way, so you cannot and will not be identified, we may also be collecting information about activities in our Site on an aggregate (i.e., group) basis. This is commonly done by most websites. By visiting our Site, you expressly consent to the collection and restricted use by SMI of personally identifiable information as set forth above. In addition SMI may collect information about prospects through e-mail transmissions, or sales information you submit. SMI will NEVER make available or sell to any third party any personally identifiable information we collect about these prospects. SMI has no control over personally identifiable information which may be collected by website links during your use of their sites. It is your responsibility to use those sites and services at your own risk. SMI is not liable in any way for your use of their sites or services. By providing any information to SMI through a non-private chat or by posting to a bulletin board, you grant to SMI a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to any information (including but not limited to text, graphics, video, and sound, but excluding information which could identify you), notes, message or billboard postings, ideas, suggestions, concepts or other material (all such content being referred to as “User Content”). You hereby grant to SMI the right to sublicense, to reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works of, publicly display and publicly perform any material and other information (including ideas for new and improved products) of all such User Content. When you submit User Content to the Site, you agree that SMI has the right to publish or use such material for any type of use as outlined above, including promotional and advertising purposes.

Opt-Out Capability

If you do not wish to receive any communications from SMI, you have the right to select the “opt out” option during the registration process or at any time afterwards. You may “opt out” by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter you receive.

Subscriber Services and Registration Data

In order to access certain services “Subscriber Services” within the site, such as special updates on personal stress topics of interest, you will be asked to provide certain identifying information (the “Registration Data”) listed in an online registration form. Such users are thereafter supplied with a “login” and “password.” The information collected may include your legal name, address, telephone number, email address, subscriber name or “screen name,” areas of interest, password used to access Subscriber Services. SMI reserves the right to request any additional information necessary to establish and maintain your account for use of the Subscriber Services.

Registration Data is the property of SMI. SMI maintains a secured area on the Site for transmission of Registration Data, and stores all Registration Data in a database that uses industry standard security protection.

SMI will never sell, rent, swap or otherwise disclose your Registration Data to any third party. SMI reserves the right to use your Registration Data to send you information about SMI, the site, SMI products and services, and other topics in which you have registered an indicated interest, and subject to your ability to “opt out” as provided above.

You may access your Registration Data at any time through the Subscriber Services section of the site, and “unsubscribe” at any time. This area is password-restricted for your protection.

Use of certain parts of the SMI Site is conditioned on your provision of requested information. If you choose not to provide such information, you may not be able to access some of the Site. Although SMI will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of the Registration Data, it is important for you to know that any or all transmissions made by means of the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be secure. SMI has no liability for disclosure of Registration Data if they are due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties.