Privacy Policy

At Your Survival, we understand that your information is a very personal matter, and we appreciate the trust you place in us to treat your information carefully and sensibly. This document outlines the types of personal information we collect and use when you use our services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

This notice provides highlights of the full Your Survival Privacy Policy, which describes in detail the privacy practices that apply to the Your Survival website and Your Survival Premium Membership.

Personal information and other data we collect

Personal information and other data we collect

Your choices

Safeguarding your information

How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or its implementation, you may contact us through our contact form.

At Your Survival, we understand that your information is a very personal matter, and we appreciate the trust you place in us to treat your information carefully and sensibly. As part of our commitment to honoring your privacy, we provide this policy ("Privacy policy") to make you aware of the choices you have about the way your information is used and to explain how we guard your information. We hope this policy will help you make informed decisions about sharing information with us.

This policy answers the following questions:

If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or its implementation, you may contact us through our contact form.

Information collection and use

We collect personal and non-personal information to customize the content and advertising you see, fulfill your requests for products or services, improve our services, and contact you. We will also use your information to pre-fill fields to save you from entering the same information over and over again. By knowing about you, we can deliver more helpful safety information, programs and tools, and offer you the most relevant services.

There are many services on our site that can be enjoyed as a visitor. In addition, premium services are available for purchase through our site.

Information you provide

We collect personal information when you voluntarily provide it to us or authorize us to collect it on your behalf.

Registration: When you register for the site, we collect personal information from you such as your email address, password, and address. Registering allows you to use personalized features and content whenever you come to our site; build a public profile; participate in online discussions; develop and maintain a personal record; and rate or review content blogs.

Community features: Throughout our site, there are safety tools, questionnaires, and community features that ask for additional information, including your contact information, demographic information, personal information, family and friends. In some cases, you can use the tools as a visitor, but saving and retrieving your results requires you to register and log into the site.

Opinions and polls: Occasionally, you may be asked to give your opinion when you visit our site. We use information from opinion polls to better understand the needs of our users and to gather information about trends and issues. Questions and answers are stored, but they are not linked to identifying information about you and will not be shared with third parties.

Log information: When you visit our site, our servers will automatically collect log information. This information may include your Web page request, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We collect log information so that we can properly administer our system and gather aggregate information about how our site is being used, including the pages visitors are viewing.

Cookies: We and our partners collect anonymous information about your use of our site through cookies. The cookie does not tell us who you are. Only you can tell us that.

The information collected by cookies helps us generate customized content and also allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our site and for what purpose. For contests or sweepstakes, we may use cookies in order to track your progress and the number of entries in some promotions. For polls, we may use cookies to help ensure that an individual can't vote more than once on a particular question or issue. We do not store any identifying information in any cookies on your computer.

Information that we obtain from third parties

When you make a purchase from us, such as buying a Your Survival Premium Membership, we may use your name and shipping address to obtain additional information about people in your neighborhood. This is average information for people who live within your 9-digit ZIP code (ZIP+4). The information can include average household income, presence and age(s) of children, presence and age(s) of elderly parents, size and value of dwellings, and other census data. We will use this information, combined with information you provide to us and information collected by our systems, to better understand the characteristics of the visitors to our site and to develop new products, services and content areas. The information will also allow us to tailor content, advertising and offers to your interests and needs.

When we associate information that we obtain from third parties with personal information that we have collected under this policy, we will treat the acquired information like the information that we collected ourselves. We will not share information we obtain from third parties in personally identifiable form. However, we may share aggregated, non-personal information, as described in this policy, that may include information we obtained from third parties in a form that does not permit you to be identified. We will only obtain and use this kind of information from third parties if you give us permission to do so, for example by selecting "Full personalization" in My account.

Information disclosure to third parties

We know how important it is to keep the information you've entrusted to us confidential. We will not rent, sell or share personal information about you with third parties except to provide you with a product or service you request or under certain circumstances as described below. In all other cases, we will ask for your permission before we disclose your personal information.

Disclosure for legal reasons: We may release personal information to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others, a threat to homeland security, a threat to our system or network, or cases in which we believe it is reasonably necessary to investigate or prevent harm, fraud, abuse, or illegal conduct. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your personal information to a third party, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order.

Agents and contractors: Contractors sometimes have access to your personal information in the course of assisting in operating our business and providing products or services to you. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content for the operation and maintenance of our site. Some of these relationships may be with companies that co-brand portions of their site and services, or that provide services to you on our behalf. Co-branded sites may have their own privacy policies posted on their sites. If you visit a co-branded site, please read the privacy policy that is posted on that site. Access to your personal information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function. Contractors have an obligation under their contracts with us to keep your information confidential and to comply with our privacy and security policies.

Aggregated, non-personal information: We may share aggregated information about you with third parties. This is information that is combined with the non-personal information of other users and does not allow you to be identified or contacted. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this aggregated information. We also may not limit the third parties' use of the aggregated information.

Changes in our corporate structure: If all or part of our company is sold, merged or otherwise transferred to another entity, the personal information you have provided at this site may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will take steps to ensure that, without your consent, any personal information that is transferred will not be used or shared in a manner inconsistent with the Privacy Policy under which it was collected.

Choice and control over your personal information

Whenever reasonably possible, we offer you choices when we ask for personal information and we tell you why we collect different types of information. You may always decline to provide personal information to us and/or refuse cookies in your browser, although some features or services may not function properly as a result. To make it easy for you to make the choices that are right for you, we provide the following controls:

Communications

Email communications: Email communication that you send to us via the email links on our site may be shared with a Customer Care representative or employee that is most likely to be able to address your inquiry. Anything you provide in your email will be used only for the purposes of answering your email. From time to time, we may send you service-related emails, such as a welcome email when you register with our site.

Newsletters and alerts: At various places on the site, you will be given the option to receive recurring information and to set alerts and reminders. You can unsubscribe from newsletters by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any newsletter. You can manage your alerts in the My Alerts area of the site.

Community

Our site features Community areas where your friends, family and people with similar interests can share information and support one another. These community areas consist of blogs, forums and Virtual Meeting places.

Please remember that any information that you post in public areas is, by design, open to the public and, depending on the privacy setting, may appear in search engine results. For forum postings you cannot make the postings private.

Forum postings, ratings and comments: By default, when you post to a forum, or comment on another user's blog, story or profile, your post will be associated with your screen name.

Information related to Premium Membership

Certain services are available only to Your Survival Premium Members. This section of the policy describes how we collect and use data related to these services. You can obtain additional information about Your Survival Premium Membership at premium services.

Information we collect from third parties on your behalf: As a Your Survival Premium member, you will be able to store personal information for yourself and your family and friends. Access to this information may require an additional level of registration and authentication, and we may verify your identity before you can store and retrieve information on the site. With a Premium Membership, you have the ability to store additional pages.

Efforts we take to safeguard your personal information

We are committed to protecting the security of your information through procedures and technology designed for this purpose by taking these steps:

We may provide an additional level of authentication when you begin to receive data from third parties.

What you can do to help keep your information secure

Choose your passwords carefully: Always create a password that's easy for you to remember but difficult for someone else to figure out. Don't use your name, address, phone number, initials, Social Security number, license plate or birthday. Don't use names of your friends, family or pets, company names, common numerical sequences or the word "password."

Suggestion: Use a mix of special characters, numbers, and upper- and lowercase letters. Also, remember to change your password frequently and never give your password to anyone.

Log out and close your browser: Open browsers invite snoops. When you finish your online session, close your browser to erase any information it may have temporarily stored on your computer.

Install antivirus software and spyware protection: Viruses are dangerous. Many viruses are sent as email attachments. They can slip into your system without your knowledge the moment you open the email. Some viruses such as Trojan Horses can capture the contents of your system, including your passwords. Installing up-to-date antivirus software and running it will help thwart these and other unwanted programs.

Spyware is a program or technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization, often without their knowledge, and includes programs like hijackers and keyloggers. The best way to identify whether or not spyware is installed on your computer is to run and regularly update antispyware programs. Similar to antivirus software, antispyware software identifies and helps you remove spyware.

Changes to this Policy: We may update this Policy at any time. We may also make nonmaterial changes to our Policy that generally will not affect our use of your personal information. If you don't agree with the new policy, you always have the option of closing your account. Please see instructions for closing your account above. Our current policy, identified by its effective date, will be posted on the Site, and you should check it frequently.

Effective: June 21, 2007