At WordsUP.com we are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers, which is why we do not sell, rent, or loan any personal identifiable information regarding our customers to any third party without their express consent. We hope the policy below will answer all of your questions regarding how we treat information gathered from visitors to wordsUP.com. Feel free to contact us with any questions you have.

The purpose of this WordsUP privacy policy is to inform you, as a welcome visitor to WordsUP.com, what kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit WordsUP.com, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, the information.

This policy applies only to WordsUP.com and not to other companies' or organizations' Web sites to which we link. You should carefully review the privacy policies of those web sites in order to determine how they treat your personal information.

Information About All WordsUP.com Visitors
In general, our site automatically gathers certain usage information like the numbers and frequency of visitors to WordsUP.com and its areas, much like television ratings that tell the networks how many people tuned in to a program. Such data is only used in the aggregate. This aggregate data helps us determine how much our customers use different parts of the site, so we can make improvements and assure that it is as appealing as we can make it for as many of you as possible. We may provide statistical "ratings" information, never information about you personally, to our WordsUP, Inc. partners, advertisers, sponsors, and other companies with whom we do business about how our users, collectively, use WordsUP.com in order for them to provide you with the best possible Web experience. These statistical ratings do not contain any personally identifiable information about you or any of our users.

Cookies
WordsUP may use a standard technology nicknamed "cookies" that tells us how and when pages in our site are visited, and by how many people. We use cookies to make your visit to our website easier. The use of cookies has become an industry standard used by most major Web sites. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can reset your browser to notify you when you've received a cookie or, alternatively, to refuse to accept cookies. Personally identifiable information is not collected by these cookies and we do not combine information collected through these cookies with other personally identifiable information to tell us who you are or even what your screen name or e-mail address is. Please continue to review our privacy policy from time to time so that you are aware of our current policy with respect to cookies.

WordsUP, its advertisers and ad servers may also use cookies, as well as small pieces of code called "web beacons" or "clear gifs," to determine on an anonymous basis which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them, but do not use these technologies to collect personally identifiable information unless you give us permission to do so.

IP Addresses
We collect and analyze traffic on our web site by keeping track of the IP addresses of our visitors. An IP address is a unique number assigned to your computer when you are using your browser on the Internet. We log this information so that we can monitor things like the number of visitors visiting the web site; however, we do not link your IP address to any personally identifying information.

Communications from WordsUP
If you have chosen to receive communications from WordsUP.com, we may send you surveys or solicit your feedback. We use surveys to gauge user interest in new products and premiums we may offer. We will ask for your feedback on site features. We will use the information we gather to improve our site and provide a more meaningful experience for our users. We may also use the information to alert you to offers and products from WordsUP.com or to inform you of third-party products/services that we believe might be of interest to you. We will not sell, rent, or share personally identifiable information to third parties without your express consent. If you do sign up to receive information from WordsUP and later change your mind, you are free at any time to opt-out by following the procedures outlined in Opt-Out/Changing Your Status, below.

Information You Provide
We share and disclose such information only as follows: WordsUP.com will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when: 1) we have your consent to share the information; 2) we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; 3) we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of WordsUP.com to provide a product or service to you (unless we tell you differently these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide them beyond what is necessary to assist us).

When you place an order in the WordsUP online store, to process your order efficiently, we collect the following information: name, billing address, shipping address, e-mail address, and phone numbers ("Personal Information"). This information is used by WordsUP, Inc. and is stored in a secure environment. When placing an order by credit card, this information is also used by our secure payment processing firm, Authorize.net, along with your credit card information, for the sole purpose of processing your payment. We have complete confidence in the security and privacy of your information at Authorize.net. The Authorize.net Privacy Policy states, "Personally identifiable consumer information is used to process payment transactions and for no other purpose."

Use of Information You Provide
Personal Information is acquired only for the purposes of fulfilling orders, providing a high level of customer service, gaining knowledge internally regarding what our customers want and mailing circulars and special offers from WordsUP, if you choose to receive this information on the order screen. We do not give or sell Personal Information to any other party, except to those of our employees and agents who we rely on to handle this information on our behalf in accordance with the above purposes. If at any time you do not want to receive offers and/or circulars from us, you can always remove yourself from our mailing list by sending an e-mail via Contact Us, indicating "NO SNAIL MAIL" in the subject line along with your name, address and zip code.

Opt-Out E-mail Policy
We ask that you tell us when you do not wish to receive periodic e-mails from us. We will only send e-mail for customer service purposes and to those visitors who have indicated that they wish to receive other types of e-mail from us. If at any time you wish to stop receiving e-mail from us, you can always remove your name from our mailing list by sending an e-mail via Contact Us stating that you wish to unsubscribe and indicating in the subject line of the e-mail "NO E-MAIL".

Disclosure Exceptions
Notwithstanding the above policies, we reserve the right to disclose your personal information to appropriate third-parties if we are required to do so by law or we believe that such action is necessary:

• To comply with legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order;
• To protect the company's rights and property;
• To investigate reports of users sending material using a false e-mail address or users sending harassing, threatening, or abusive messages;
• To protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our web site and/or the WordsUP.com service; or during emergencies, such as when we believe someone's physical safety is at risk.

Security of the Information You Provide
Access to your Personal Information is provided only to our employees and agents who have a need to know such information for the purpose of fulfilling your order and offering our high level of customer service. For payment processing, we've chosen Authorize.net, a leader in internet security transactions, to process credit card transactions. Authorize.net provides sophisticated encryption and authentication tools to protect the security of your credit card information. Specifically, every page in the ordering process that requests credit card information uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, which is designed to render information unreadable should anyone try to intercept it. The SSL technology is today's standard of exchanging confidential information over the internet. You can tell you are sending information securely by the unbroken key icon or closed lock icon on that should appear at the bottom of your internet browser's window (depending on what browser you use). These icons will appear when you are processing your credit card payment. In addition, you will see our site address change slightly, from http: to https: indicating a secure server connection is being used.

Your Acceptance of these Terms
By using our Web site, you agree to accept the wordsUP.com privacy policy. Make sure you read this policy carefully, because if you do choose to use our Web site, you automatically agree to this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Web site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our Web site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

Contests and Promotions
Occasionally, WordsUP.com may sponsor contests and/or promotions on our sites or in our e-mail products. Participation in such contests is purely voluntary. In order to enter a contest or promotion, you may be asked to provide personally identifiable information. Any personally identifiable information you provide in conjunction with any contest shall become the property of WordsUP and you hereby consent to receive special promotions and offers from WordsUP and its advertisers, consistent with this Privacy Policy. In the event that you are awarded any prizes or other consideration, you give WordsUP permission to use your name, likeness, portrait, recorded voice, and biographical information to advertise, publicize, or promote WordsUP, its products and services, and no additional consideration shall be paid for such rights. By entering, you agree to all of its terms and conditions, which will be clearly outlined in the rules. Where a contest or promotion is not sponsored by WordsUP.com, the identity of the sponsor will be clearly disclosed in the rules. Neither WordsUP.com nor its affiliates can be responsible for actions or policies of third-party contest sponsors. Users are encouraged to review the relevant privacy policy of the sponsor before entering.

Sale of Assets
In the event that WordsUP, Inc. and/or its affiliates or subsidiaries are ever sold, acquired, merged, liquidated, reorganized, or otherwise transferred, we reserve the right to transfer our user databases together with any personally identifiable information contained therein, to a third-party acquiring WordsUP, Inc.'s assets. In the event we do so, we will place a prominent notice of the sale on the homepage of our site, with links to information as to how you can change your privacy preferences.

Use Common Sense in all your Online Activities
Even the best policy can't protect your online privacy and security in all circumstances. Unscrupulous advertisers, hackers, and scam artists may be searching the Internet looking for new targets. Your best protection is to understand the limits to privacy on the Internet and use common sense in all of your on-line activities.

Be aware that e-mail is an inherently insecure form of communication. Remember that third parties are sometimes able to illegally intercept your unencrypted messages, including online greetings. Anytime you visit a chat room or post a message to an on-line bulletin board, your e-mail address can be accessed by advertisers looking to compile lists for unsolicited commercial e-mail (also known as spam). Beware of scams in which persons unknown to you request your screen name, password, or credit card information. Make sure you verify the identity of anyone asking for personal information.

If you have any questions about the privacy policy, please feel free to Contact Us.