Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 30, 2011. This Privacy Policy explains our policy regarding the collection, use, disclosure and transfer of your information by mettagroup.org. As we update and expand our services, this policy may change, so please refer back to it periodically. By accessing our website or otherwise using our service, you consent to our information practices.

Collection and Use of Information

Personal information means information that uniquely identifies you as an individual, specifically your name, postal delivery address, e-mail address, payment method (e.g., credit card, debit card or other payment method accepted by mettagroup.org). Non-personal information means any information that is not personal information.

When you interact with us, we may ask you to supply us with personal information so that we can provide, enhance and personalize our services and marketing efforts. For similar reasons, we may supplement the personal information you provide with publicly available information about you as well as information from other sources, as permitted by law. We use this personal information, for example, to process your registration, your orders and payments, and to communicate with you on these and other topics. We also use your e-mail address to send you newsletters, as well as messages about new mettagroup.org features, mettagroup.org special offers, promotional announcements, consumer surveys and other correspondence concerning our service. Occasionally, we may send these materials to you via postal mail. If you no longer want to receive the newsletters, other announcements, simply send us an email asking to be unsubscribed.

Disclosure of Information

We use other companies, agents or contractors to perform services on our behalf. For example, we have partnered with other companies to provide infrastructure and IT services, personalize and optimize our web pages, process credit card transactions, provide customer service, collect debts, analyze and enhance data, including users’ interaction with our website, and process consumer surveys. In the course of providing such services, these other companies may have access to your personal information. We do not authorize these companies to use or disclose your personal information except for the purpose of providing the services we request of them.

We may offer joint programs that will require personal information be shared with third parties in order to participate. By participating in such joint programs, you consent to our sharing of your personal information.

Mettagroup also reserves the right to disclose personal information when we reasonably believe disclosure is required by law, if we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to protect, establish or exercise legal rights, or in situations involving potential threats to physical safety. In connection with any reorganization, restructuring, merger or sale—or other transferring of assets—we reserve the right to transfer information, including personal information, provided that the receiving party agrees to respect your personal information in a manner consistent with our privacy policy.

Links to Other Sites

The mettagroup.org website contains links to sites operated by third parties whose policies regarding the handling of personal information may differ from ours. While we try to associate with reputable websites, mettagroup.org cannot be responsible for their information handling practices. These linked websites have separate and independent privacy statements, notices and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully.

Children

You must be 18 years of age or older to subscribe to the mettagroup.org service. In certain jurisdictions, the age of majority may be older than 18, in which case, you must satisfy that age in order to become a member. While individuals under the age of 18 may use the service, they may do so only with the involvement, supervision and approval of a parent or legal guardian, and are subject to our Terms of Use.

Accessing and Altering Your Information

We give you access to a broad range of information about Account History and your interactions with us in the “Account History” area of the website. You are responsible for updating and maintaining the truth and accuracy of the personal information you provide. If you want to access or alter your contact information or change your payment method, you should do so by visiting the “Account History” section of our website. You must be signed in to access “Account History.” With respect to your personal information, you can request access and that we correct or delete this data by emailing your request to admin@mettagroup.org.com. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, impede the provision or enhancement of or payment for the service or for which access or alternation is not otherwise required by local law.

Cookies and Other Technologies

As you interact with our service, we and our service providers may place cookies on your system. Cookies are small pieces of data sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your system for record keeping purposes. In general, cookies can make the Internet more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular system.

In addition to cookies, we and our service providers use a variety of other technologies, including pixel tags (web beacons), clear gifs or other technologies built into our application software or your mettagroup.org ready device to gather information on how users interact with our service. These technologies can help personalize the service for you and associate your interactions with our service to other information within Account History. They can show us, for example, popular pages, conversion rates, viewing patterns, click-through and other information that can be used to improve, operate and monitor our website and other aspects of our service. If your browser is set to not accept cookies, you will not be able to use the mettagroup.org service or website.

Security

Mettagroup.org takes information security seriously and uses administrative, technical, physical and managerial measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access. For example, we utilize Secure Sockets Layering, an industry-standard protocol to protect your transmissions to us and to encrypt the personal information that you send to us through the registration and sign-up process.

Unfortunately, no security system is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information and cannot assume liability for improper access to it. By using our service, including our website and user interfaces, or providing personal information to us through any means, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of the mettagroup.org service.

Changes to This Policy

As we update and expand our services, we may make changes to this policy. You should check back for updates to this policy from time to time. You acknowledge that your assent to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy subsequent to any changes made following your initial consent as well as, your use of the mettagroup.org website or continued use of our service after our posting of changes to this policy, means that you agree to be bound by such changes.

Transfer of Information

If you use or submit personal information to mettagroup.org, you consent to the transfer of your personal information outside your country of residence to any country where we have facilities or engage third parties, including the United States. You understand that the countries to which we may transfer information may have different level of data protection than your country.