Privacy and Safeguarding Information
T-Star Media, LLC (“T-Star”), and its website TheComet.com, is committed to providing our customers with the finest quality and service. We understand that the safety and privacy of your personal data is of great concern to you, and we want to assure you that it is also of great concern to T-Star and we want to do everything reasonably possible to keep your trust.
The fact that you have trusted us with your personal information is very significant to us and we take steps to maintain its security. We have appropriate physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in place to protect and secure the information we collect. Our security procedures are regularly reviewed along with the latest technological developments. To safeguard against unauthorized access, you are required to login to certain secure areas of our web site using a username and password. Both the user name and password are encrypted when sent over the Internet. If you are unable to provide the correct password, you will not be able to access these areas.
Unfortunately no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our web site, and you do so at your own risk.
TYPES OF INFORMATION GATHERED
By using our services and viewing this website, you are consenting to the information collection, use and disclosure practices described in this privacy policy. T-Star may gather the following types information: (i) personal information given voluntarily while using a feature of this website, for example, during the registration process or purchase, including name, address, phone number, email address, birth date, and financial information, such as credit card; (ii) information gathered as a result of voluntary participation in a survey or poll, or when communicating with our webmaster or customer service team members; and (iii) information gathered automatically when visitors visit our site.
Also, if you participate in any blog, forum or chat room on our site, any personal information that you post on the website may be shared with other participants in the forum. In any of these situations, the recipient of the personal information may be located in the United States or another jurisdiction that may not provide an equivalent level of date protection to the laws in your home country.
WHAT WE DO AND DON’T TO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
T-Star may use personal information to confirm your orders, deliver products and services that you request, register you as part of our website, prevent criminal activity on your account, bill you for your purchases, conduct market research via surveys sent to you, respond to your inquiries, or verify and ship a contest prize. We may also use your personal information to help make T-Star products, services, and programs more useful to you and our other customers. Additionally, we may use personal information to provide you with information, product or service alerts, new product or service announcements, savings and special awards, event invitations, personally tailored coupons, and program and promotional information and offers. We may also disclose your information as required by law.
T-Star will not sell or otherwise share personally identifying information with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide services to you at your request, or as required by law. T-Star will share this information with certain business partners to provide requested service that we do not provide directly, but only if these businesses also agree not to use this information to solicit.
Users can opt-out any time to discontinue use of their data by sending a request via email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or within their T-Star user-account.
CONSENT
To improve T-Star’s online services, we use “Cookies” to automatically receive and record certain information on our server logs from your browser, which may include your IP address, session time, click path analysis, and the pages you request. T-Star will only use this type of data in an aggregate form which does not identify you personally. Cookies allow us to make our service more user-friendly; and our website more effective and safer.
You can stop the use of Cookies by changing the settings on your browser, but please be aware that in some cases, this can lead to certain services and website functions to become unusable.
CHILDREN
Parents should always supervise their children while online. The T-Star website is not designed nor intended to collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. So that we may comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we ask that children under the age of thirteen not provide any personal information on this website.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
If you are located outside the United States, please note that this site is hosted on our computer servers in the United States. Any personal information collected through this site may be transferred to the United States and other countries that might not provide an equivalent level of protection as the data protection laws in your home country. Your use of the T-Star website or submission of any personal information will therefore constitute your consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of your home country.
USER RIGHTS TO ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
Visitors and users of T-Star’s website can request (free of charge) access to any information held about them and its origin; any recipients of their data and the reason for the storage of such data.
UPDATES TO PRIVACY POLICY
T-Star may add, modify, or remove portions of our privacy policy, so we encourage you to review it periodically. If you have previously accepted one of our special offers or agreements, those applicable terms and your continued use will apply to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information. In the case of a conflict, however, this privacy policy supersedes those prior policies or agreements. If our practice in using and/or sharing personal information changes in the future, those changes will be reflected in this privacy policy. You can determine the date this privacy policy was last updated by referring to the modification date found at the top of this privacy policy.
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS
T-Star is always interested in what our customers have to say. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
