PLEASE
READ BEFORE USING OUR TRADEMARKED, VECTORIZED LOGOS
Owned by Seven Stars & Stripes Inc.
Our Logos are trademarked and for optimal display
vectorized. They may not be sold, transferred
or added without written permission of Seven Stars
& Stripes Inc.
Permission of display of
our logos or trademarks are in NO WAY, SHAPE, OR
FORM, granting you permission to use the logos commercially;
nor does it use grant, or lease ownership of any
of the logos & trademarks to you or your corporation.
Seven Stars & Stripes
Inc. shall not be held liable for the unauthorized,
improper, and illegal use of any of the logos and
trademarks.
In many countries it is permitted
to use copyrighted material for noncommercial purpose.
However commercial display of some of the marks
requires permission from the copyright holders.
We assume no responsibility
for ANY damages or ANY wrong doing that the purchaser
may cause by using the logos & trademarks in
ANY way.
Everything
contained within this website, the books, e-newsletters,
logos and merchandise is original material created
by our Seven Stars and Stripes American Dream team
unless otherwise noted. A US ® was applied
for in 2004 (or ©2004 if you prefer) by Seven
Stars and Stripes Inc. with all rights reserved.
In other words, it's against the law for you to
copy any graphics off our site, copy the idea, design,
or cut and paste any recognizable chunks of HTML,
JavaScript or else.
Though
we have reserved all rights, if you're interested
in reproducing something from this site, just ask.
Contact us.
Seven Stars and Stripes Privacy Policy
/ Copyright Policy Last Updated February , 2005
Last Updated on December, 2004
Seven Stars and Stripes has
adopted information management guidelines that serve
as the basis for our mission and a customer and
advertiser relationships. These guidelines were
developed with the knowledge that Internet technologies
are rapidly changing, and business models
are still not established. Accordingly, guidelines
are subject to change. Any such changes will be
posted on this page. If the changes represent a
material departure from our current practices with
respect to the use of personal information, the
changes will be posted on this page three days prior
to taking effect and registered users will be notified
via email.
Seven Stars and Stripes ®
on the Web is not responsible for the content or
the privacy policies of Web sites to which it may
link.
Seven Stars and Stripes and Services from Seven Stars and Stripes :
While
reading Seven Stars and Stripes ®
is offered free of charge, we do charge fees for
our trade marked products and services,
Products and Services from Third Parties or Partners:
Seven Stars and Stripes ®
may offer products or services from our partners
or third parties. Where you are so notified during
the purchase process, the information you provided
at registration may be shared with the provider
of the product or service. However, we will never
share your billing and Pay Pal information, which
Seven Stars and Stripes ®
collects and stores to enable the purchase of these
products. This information will only be shared with
third parties who perform tasks required to complete
the purchase transaction. Examples of this include
fulfilling orders and processing credit card and
Pay Pal payments.
Contests, Special Offers, Surveys:
On
occasion, Seven Stars and Stripes ®
also collects additional personal information from
subscribers in connection with optional contests
or optional special offers. If this information
is to be shared with a third party, we will notify
you at the time of collection.
Additionally,
Seven Stars and Stripes ®
may collect additional personal information from
subscribers in connection with optional surveys.
Information that you provide in answer to optional
survey questions may be shared, but only in the
aggregate, with advertisers and partners unless
we notify you at the time of collection.
Cookies:
Seven Stars and Stripes ®
employs cookies to recognize you and your access
privileges on Seven Stars and Stripes ®,
as well as to track site usage. Subscribers who
do not accept cookies from the domains www.SevenStarsAndStripes.com
www.AmericanDreamTown.com and other affiliates cannot access most
areas of Seven Stars and Stripes ®
.
We
use a 2nd party advertising server to display ads
/ banners on our site. In addition, advertisers
may elect to use third-party advertising companies
to serve ads onto our Web site. During the course
of serving these advertisements, the third-party
advertisers may place or recognize a unique "cookie"
on your browser. We do not have access to these
cookies or any information that they may contain.
Acceptance of cookies from domains other than Seven Stars and Stripes ® is optional.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs):
We
use a 2nd party advertising serving system to display
ads on our site. In addition, advertisers may elect
to use third party advertising companies to serve
ads onto our website, and in these instances may
use a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a.
Web Beacons/Web Bugs/action tags) to help better
manage advertising on our site. Clear gifs are tiny
graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function
to cookies. Clear gifs may ping or alert the advertiser's
server about the online movements
of Web users. For instance, advertisers may place
a clear gif allowing them to recognize an existing
cookie on your browser if from the same service.
The main difference between cookies and clear gifs
is that clear gifs are invisible on the page and
are much smaller, about the size of the period at
the end of this sentence. Please understand that
we do not have access to any information collected
by these clear gifs nor additional information they
may be tied to by the advertiser.
IP Addresses:
The
Seven Stars and Stripes ®
logs IP addresses, or the location of your computer
on the Internet, for systems administration and
troubleshooting purposes. We do not use IP address
logs to track your session or your behavior on our
site.
Log Files:
Log
data is only used in aggregate to analyze usage
of our web site.
What does Seven Stars and Stripes ® do with the
information it gathers/tracks?
Statistical
Analysis and Banner Advertising: Seven Stars and Stripes ®
may perform statistical analyses of user behavior
in order to measure interest in the various areas
of our site (for product development purposes) and
to inform advertisers as to how many consumers have
seen or "clicked" their advertising banners.
We also use demographic
and preference information to allow advertising
banners on our Web site to be targeted, in aggregate,
to the users for whom they are most
pertinent. This means that users see advertising
that is most
likely to interest them, and advertisers send their
messages to people who are most
likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer's
experience and the effectiveness of the ads. In
this statistical analyses and banner advertisement
targeting, we will disclose information to third
parties only in aggregate form. Personal information
about you as an individual subscriber will not be
provided to any third party without your consent,
except under the circumstances described in Compliance
with Legal Process below.
E-Mail:
If
you so elect at registration or in the Seven Stars and Stripes®
section of our Member
Center,
Seven Stars and Stripes ®
will periodically send you promotional
email about services offered by Seven Stars and Stripes ®
and its advertisers. Additionally, the email address
provided by you at registration may be used by Seven Stars and Stripes ®
to contact you regarding; (1) account status (including
confirmation of registration); (2) major changes
to the website and or to the Subscriber Agreement
and Privacy Policy; and (3) participation in user
surveys, asking for feedback on the website and
existing or prospective products and services, as
well as information to better understand our users.
User surveys greatly help us to improve our mission
and website, and any information we obtain in such
surveys will not be shared with third parties, except
in aggregate form. (Effective as of December 1st, 2004).
We
use e-mail links located in the Site Help area our
Member
Center
to allow you to contact us directly with any questions
or comments you may have. We will use your email
address to respond directly to these questions or
comments.
Except
as permitted by this policy, Seven Stars and Stripes®
does not send unsolicited e-mail.
Data Security:
To
prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy,
and ensure the appropriate use of information, we
have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial
procedures to protect the information we collect
online.
With whom does Seven Stars and Stripes ® share
the information it gathers/tracks?
Seven Stars and Stripes ®
shares the information it gathers, in aggregate
form only, with advertisers and other partners.
We will not release personal information about you
as an individual to third parties, except under
the circumstances described in Compliance with Legal
Process below.
Programs from Our Partners:
During
the registration process, new users who select to
register for certain featured offers from our partners
will begin receiving e-mail from these companies.
You will only receive e-mail messages from these
companies if you elect this opt-in service. Seven Stars and Stripes ®
may use this information as set forth in this privacy
policy. Should you decide to discontinue your e-mail
subscription or would like more
information on these companies, please contact our
affiliate or our partners directly.
Compliance with Legal Process
We
may disclose personal information if we are required
to do so by law or we in good faith believe that
such action is necessary to (1) comply with the
law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend
our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse
or unauthorized use of American Dream Town®;
or (4) protect the personal safety or property of
our users or the public (among
other things, this means that if you provide false
information or attempt to pose as someone else,
information about you may be disclosed as part of
any investigation into your actions).
Thank
You
Seven Stars and Stripes Inc.
President
Thorsten Piosczyk
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its subsidiaries and affiliates which may appear
on any of our web sites, books, magazines or merchandise:
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