This Privacy Statement sets forth PowerBarClub’s information gathering and dissemination practices regarding personal information collected by PowerBarClub directly from individuals ("you") in connection with the website located at http://powerbarclub.com and related affiliate URLs ("Websites").
What We Collect
PowerBarClub may collect various types of personal information from you in connection with the Websites. Such data may include identifying information and contact information (names, titles, addresses, phone and mobile numbers, email addresses, etc.), financial and payment information, information about interests, products ordered or provided, IP addresses, and other interaction and transaction-related data.
We may use personal information collected in connection with the Websites to contact you, to send you information about PowerBarClub applications or its partners, advertising, to provide services to you, and for other purposes related to our business.
We may ask you to provide your credit card or other financial account information to enable us to charge your account when you purchase services from us. All information you will be asked to provide is protected during transmission using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption to prevent it from being intercepted as it is transferred over the Internet. We provide this information only to third parties involved in processing payments for the services we provide and as otherwise provided in this Privacy Statement.
We use your unique network address, or IP address, to identify location, help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer the Websites.
We use cookies to identify members (session ID cookie). Currently we do not use them to recognize return visitors or to track promotions or campaigns.
PowerBarClub may disclose to third parties information we collect from you in connection with the Websites (i) non-personally identifying information (demographics, geography and interests) as requested by advertisers or to provide services requested by you, (ii) as necessary to process payments, (iii) to our subcontractors, service providers and other agents in connection with the provision of services to you (provided such subcontractors and service providers are under a duty to maintain the confidentiality of such information), and (iv) in connection with requests from law enforcement officials, government agencies, or otherwise as required in connection with legal proceedings. In addition, we may transfer information we collect from you to a third party in connection with a merger or sale of our business or assets, in which case the resulting entity or transferee will be permitted to obtain and use such information subject to the terms of this Privacy Statement.
If you would like to contact PowerBarClub regarding the use of your personal information collected in connection with the Websites, the types of third parties to whom we disclose such information, or to access, correct, amend, or delete your personal information collected in connection with the Websites that is stored on our systems, please send an email to privacy@powerbarclub.com with your request.
The Websites contains links to external websites and/or advertising to external websites. PowerBarClub is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third parties or their websites.
PowerBarClub implements industry-standard security measures designed to prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, destruction or alteration of the personal information we collect via the Websites.
PowerBarClub may update this Privacy Statement from time to time to reflect changes in its services and customer feedback, and such changes shall become effective promptly after they are posted. PowerBarClub encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Statement to be informed of any changes. This Privacy Statement was last updated on October 21, 2009.
At PowerBarClub, we take permission seriously. By creating an account and agreeing to our Terms, you are also agreeing to this anti-spam policy.
While the CAN-SPAM laws are helpful reducing the spam problem, they are not broad enough. Our definition of spam is more stringent than laws in most countries and includes what we believe to be true permission.
Our definition of permission is simple. PowerBarClub has zero tolerance for spam. The following are some specific examples for better understanding of PowerBarClub’s Spam Policy.
To send email to anyone representing PowerBarClub opportunities, you must have clearly obtained their permission. This could be done through:
- An email newsletter subscription form on your web site.
- An opt-in checkbox on a form. This checkbox must not be checked by default, the person completing the form must willingly select the checkbox to indicate they want to hear from you.
- If someone completes an offline form like a survey or enters a competition, you can only contact them if it was explained to them that they would be contacted by email AND they checked a box indicating they would like to be contacted.
- Customers who have purchased from you .
- If someone gives you their business card and you have explicitly asked for permission to add them to your list, you can contact them. If they dropped their business card in a fishbowl at a trade show, there must be a sign indicating they will be contacted by email about that specific topic.
Basically, you can only email someone who has clearly given you permission to email them specifically about the subject you’re contacting them about.
- Methods not covered by the examples above do not mean permission. Here are some examples to be perfectly clear. By epresenting PowerBarClub opportunities, you agree not to import or send to any email address which:
- You do not have provable permission to contact in relation to the topic of the email you’re sending.
- You haven’t contacted via email in the last 2 years. Permission isn’t forever and these people change email addresses or may not remember giving you their prior permission.
- You scraped or copy and pasted from the web. A published email address doesn’t mean they want to hear from you.
Some people might have given you their email address, but if you don’t have permission to email them a message then you are not permitted will most likely be marked as spam and reported to PowerBarClub.
PowerBarClub has numerous reporting and monitoring services to ensure you comply with our anti-spam policy. These monitor blacklists and abuse reporting across the board from ISPs to Spam Cop. We are notified of any spam complaints directly.
If we receive spam complaints we will terminate your account with PowerBarClub immediately.
It’s common sense. If the recipient of your email doesn’t recognize who you are or isn’t interested in what you’re communicating, they’ll think you’re a spammer. It’s that simple.
If you want to report spamming activity by one of our users, contact our abuse department at: privacy@powerbarclub.com
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