The Appeal Design Privacy Statement
(last updated: January 2009)
The Appeal Design is committed to protecting your privacy. This The Appeal Design Privacy Statement applies to data collection and usage on The Appeal Design website and services; it does not apply to other online or offline The Appeal Design sites, products or services. Please read the The Appeal Design Privacy Statement below and also any supplementary information at the end of this statement for additional details about particular The Appeal Design sites and services that you may use.

The Appeal Design is a general audience web site, intended for users of all ages. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Privacy Statement.

Collection of your Personal Information
The Appeal Design collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home address, or telephone number for all users purchasing advertisements and opting into email marketing supplied by The Appeal Design.

If you choose to sign up for said items, Appeal Design will collect additional personal information, in order to authenticate the validity of the purchaser.
All of the registration information you provide will be stored by The Appeal Design.

The Appeal Design cautions you against providing personal information to strangers online, which they may use for illegal or harmful purposes.

The Appeal Design keeps track of the pages our customers visit within The Appeal Design, in order to determine what The Appeal Design sites and services are the most popular.

The Appeal Design also collects certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses.
Certain Appeal Design services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you register for or use such services, both The Appeal Design and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.

Use of your Personal Information
The Appeal Design and its operational service partners collect and use your personal information to operate The Appeal Design and deliver the services you have requested. These services may include the display of customized content and advertising based upon the information The Appeal Design has collected.
The Appeal Design does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, without your explicit consent. The Appeal Design also uses your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from The Appeal Design and its affiliates.

The Appeal Design may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

The Appeal Design does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Appeal Design may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
The Appeal Design may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

(a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Appeal Design or the site;

(b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Appeal Design, including its The Appeal Design Web site; or

(c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Appeal Design services or members of the public.

Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which The Appeal Design or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. The Appeal Design abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

Control of your Personal Information.
There are some The Appeal Design services and updates, that send out periodic e-mails informing you of technical service issues, product surveys, new feature announcements and news about The Appeal Design products and services. You will not be able to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered a part of the service you have chosen.

Security of your Personal Information
The Appeal Design is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of 128-bit encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Use of Cookies
The Appeal Design uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize The Appeal Design's pages, or register with The Appeal Design sites or services, a cookie helps The Appeal Design to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, preferred email address, and so on. When you return to The Appeal Design, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the The Appeal Design features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the The Appeal Design services or Web sites you visit.

Use of Web Beacons
The Appeal Design Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow The Appeal Design to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. The Appeal Design may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or The Appeal Design Newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon.

Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. The Appeal Design Web pages may also contain Web beacons placed there by third parties in order to compile aggregated statistics and to help determine the effectiveness of our joint promotional or advertising campaigns. The Appeal Design prohibits web beacons from being used to access your personal information.

Use of Third Party Ad Networks
The majority of the online banner advertisements you see on The Appeal Design Web pages are displayed by The Appeal Design. The Appeal Design maintains relationships with a number of the third-party ad networks currently operating

Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact The Appeal Design via e-mail . If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact:

The Appeal Design Privacy
The Appeal Design
1195 Milton Terrace
Suite 5406
Atlanta, GA, 30315

Changes to this Statement
The Appeal Design will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company and customer feedback. When The Appeal Design posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy Statement link on the front page of The Appeal Design. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how The Appeal Design will use your personal information, The Appeal Design will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. The Appeal Design encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Appeal Design is protecting your information.

Contact Information
The Appeal Design welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement. If you believe that The Appeal Design has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Appeal Design by telephone, e-mail, or postal mail.

The Appeal Design Privacy
The Appeal Design
1195 Milton Terrace
Suite 5406
Atlanta, GA, 30315

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