SavetoWorld.com, Inc., a California corporation, (“STW”) is engaged in the business of selling telecom and related products and services over the Internet through its web site http://savetoUSA.com (“Website”).  STW routinely, in its course of business, receives personally identifiable information such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card number (“Personal Information”).  In an effort to secure our customer’s trust and confidence, we have taken various measures to protect your privacy relating to you and your transactions conducted on our Website, through our customer call center, or through any of our active affiliates.  This Privacy Policy describes the Personal Information we obtain from you, what we do with your Personal Information, the safeguard measures we have in place to protect it, and to what extent you can control our use of such Personal Information.  By using the Website, the user agrees, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Statement.  In addition to our Privacy Policy, please review the Terms and Conditions of Use. 

When you provide Personal Information to our Website and our customer service call center, you hereby consent to the manner in which STW collects, manages, protects, and discloses your Personal Information in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

Who May Use the Web Site:
The Website is not intended or designed to attract users under the age of 18. We do not collect Personal Information from any person we know to be under the age of 18. If you are under 18, we ask that you not send us any Personal Information.

Active Collection of Information
The Website actively collects your Personal Information from its users such as first and last name, age, city and state, email address, gender, birth date, and other personally identifiable information through sign-up forms, applications, voluntary surveys, and purchases.

When you purchase products or services from our Website, you must submit payment information, including your credit or debit card number, as well as your zip code.  Such information may be recorded and filed by STW to process your orders.  In addition, when you return previously purchased products or request a refund or exchange, you may be asked to give your name, address, driver’s license, and other identifiable information.  STW collects this information to prevent fraud and identity theft.  If a user contacts any employee or affiliated person, a record of that correspondence may be kept. 

Passive Collection of Personal Information
STW reserves the right to passively collect information related to usage of its Website such as time spent on the Website, areas visited, and sites linked to and from the Website. Please be advised that the Website may collect additional information and may install cookies on customer’ hard drives.

Security of Personal Information:
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure of Personal Information in our custody and control. We are committed to employing reasonable technology in order to protect the security of our Website.  However, even with the best technology, no website is 100% secure.  We will take commercially reasonable measures which we believe are appropriate to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction, and, where possible, will ask that any third parties to whom we may transfer such information to take comparable steps to protect that security.

Usage of Personal Information
Your use of this Website constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.  In accordance with this Privacy Policy, your Personal Information may be used for record keeping, to improve the content of our site, to customize the site to your preferences, to communicate information to you (if you have requested it), site management, fulfillment of requested purchase orders, and marketing and research purposes to those who have consented to such marketing.  

Disclosure of Personal Information
STW will not disclose Personal Information collected from users of the Website to third parties, except to companies with which the Website is actively affiliated, to contractors we use to support our business (technical support, delivery services, and financial institutions) whereby we will require such third parties to treat such Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and in connection with the sale, assignment, or other transfer of the business of this Website to which the information relates. STW may hire third parties to review certain Personal Information to advise it on demographic and marketing related issues, but only after such third parties have agreed to maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of any Personal Information contained in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

Other Uses of Personal Information
STW also uses Personal Information, including information provided to us from our Service Providers, to continually assess and improve the products and services we offer. To serve you better, we may combine the Personal Information that you give us with publicly available information and information we receive from or cross-reference with our marketing partners and others. We use that combined information to enhance and personalize your service experience with us, to communicate with you about our products and services that may be of interest to you, and for other promotional purposes.

Promotional Information and Marketing Materials
We would like to inform you of products and services, sales and special offers that might benefit you. When you register online or participate in a survey, you will have the opportunity to sign up for e-mails about our products, services, sales and special offers.  We may also send you mail, email or call you with information about our product and service offerings if you have provided us with your name and address, email address or phone numbers at our, Call Center or Website. If you would like to stop receiving such promotional information from STW, please see the "Privacy Preferences/Opt-Out" section of this Privacy Statement.

Disclosure of Personal Information
We enter into marketing relationships with advertisers or other companies that provide products or services that we believe may be of interest to Prograde customers.  We will share your Personal Information with those marketing partners in order to help them send you information that we believe will be of interest to you.  We may share non-identifiable aggregated information with these companies. We may also provide Personal Information to any of our affiliated businesses.  We will not disclose your telephone number or credit card account information for these purposes.

Disclosures of Personal Information in Legal Proceedings: If STW or any of our service providers are requested by law enforcement officials or judicial authorities to provide Personal Information on individual users, STW or the applicable Service Provider may, without your consent, provide such information. In matters involving claims of personal or public safety, STW or the applicable Service Provider may provide your Personal Information to appropriate authorities without your consent or court process. STW or our Service Providers also will provide your Personal Information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or contravention of law, or in litigation involving STW, the applicable Service Provider, or otherwise as required by law. We may also disclose Personal Information to assist in debt collection where you owe a debt to us.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
If this Privacy Policy is modified, the revised policy will be posted on this site within a reasonable time.  Please check this site periodically, specifically before you provide any Personal Information. This Privacy Policy was last updated on April 12, 2007.

Application of United States Law
The Website is intended for users from the United States and those not governed by privacy policies of other countries. Users from outside the United States are advised not to disclose Personal Information to STW. Information sent to us will be housed on servers located in the United States. Do not send us information unless you consent to the application of U.S law and to the use and disclosure of your information consistent with this Privacy Statement.

Call Centers: When you call one of our Call Centers about a product, service,  and billing question or for customer service, you may be asked for Personal Information that identifies you along with additional information we need to help us promptly answer your question, such as your name and address and a phone number where we might contact you. We may retain this information to assist you in the future.

Site Registration: Registration is an optional service provided by our Website. You do not have to register to browse on our Website, but you do have to register to purchase products or services on our Website. When you register, you are asked for information such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, a password that you select, and your interests, if you choose to register them. Your registration information may be used to help make your online shopping quicker and easier, by pre-filling certain parts of your personal information. When you register you will have the opportunity to sign up for future marketing information from STW.

Access to Personal Information by Companies that Work with or on Behalf of STW: Some of our operations, such as our electronic commerce, may be managed by service providers who are unaffiliated companies. These companies may share Personal Information with their affiliates and with service providers whom they engage to perform services related to our Website or the operation of our business. Examples of these services include payment processing and authorization, fraud protection and credit risk reduction, product customization, order fulfillment and shipping, marketing and promotional material distribution, Website evaluation, data analysis and, where applicable, data cleansing. These companies may have access to your Personal Information on a confidential basis only to the extent necessary to perform their functions. In no event will we authorize these companies to use your Personal Information for any reason other than to provide you with those specific services.  If your purchases are being shipped to you, your shipping information will be shared with our delivery service providers (U.S. Postal Service, UPS, or other delivery companies we or you select). Our delivery service providers are asked not to use your Personal Information for any purpose other than making the delivery.

Access to Personal Information: You may request access to the Personal Information that we have about you. If you are a registered user with our Website, you can access your profile information at any time by clicking on the "My Account" link at the top of any page on the Sites on which you registered.  For further instructions on accessing the Personal Information that STW may have about you, please see the "Contacting Us" section of this Privacy Statement.

Privacy Preferences / Opt-Out: We now offer an on-line preference page located within the My Account section on www.savetoUSA.com where you can register and change your preferences to receive or not receive marketing materials. You may also update what product/lifestyle preferences you prefer, which may determine what offers and promotional materials you may receive. You may update these preferences at any time, but you must first register by creating an account before you can update any of your preferences. Please allow sufficient time for your preferences to be processed.  You may also change your marketing preferences or remove yourself from our mailing list by clicking on an "unsubscribe" hyperlink contained in promotional emails we send you or by contacting us at: STW, 1911 US Highway 1, Suite 201, North Palm Beach, FL 33408 or by e-mailing us at privacyconcerns@savetoUSA.com.

Information Sharing Disclosure Requests: If you are a California resident, you have the right to request one Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure per year which will identify the third parties with whom STW or any of our affiliates has shared the Personal Information we have collected from you. You may request the Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure by writing to us at. STW, 2245 First Street, Suite 210B, Simi Valley, CA 93065.  Attn: Privacy Manager or by e-mailing us at management@savetoworld.com.  We will respond to your request for a Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure within 30 days.

Secure Shopping: When you place orders on our Website, all of your order information, including your card number and delivery address, is transmitted through the Internet using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. SSL technology causes your browser to encrypt your order information before transmitting it to our secure server. SSL technology, an industry standard, is designed to prevent someone other than operators of our Website from capturing and viewing your Personal Information. Since any order information you provide to us on our Website will be transmitted using a secure connection, if your Web browser cannot support this level of security, you will not be able to order products through our Website. The most recent versions of Netscape Navigator™, Mozilla Firefox™, and Microsoft Internet Explorer® can support a secure connection and can be downloaded for free from the Netscape, Mozilla, and Microsoft web sites respectively.

Passwords: To provide you with an increased level of security, online access to your Personal Information is protected with a password you select. We strongly recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone. STW will never ask you for your password in any unsolicited communication (including unsolicited correspondence such as letters, phone calls or e-mail messages).

Our Privacy Statement and Outside Links: This Privacy Statement only applies to this Website. Our Website may include links to the web sites of our business partners, vendors and advertisers. These other sites are outside of our control. Please be aware that these websites may collect information about you, and operate according to their own privacy practices which may differ from those contained in our Privacy Statement. Please read carefully that web site's own privacy policy, as once you are leave our Website, any information you submit is no longer in our control.

Contacting Us: If you have any questions concerning our Privacy Policy, a member (or any other user of this Web Site) may contact us at SavetoWorld.com, Inc. located at 2245 First Street, Suite 210B, Simi Valley, CA 93065, Attn: Management, or e-mail us at management@savetoworld.com using the following information. Last Updated April 12, 2007

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