PRIVACY POLICY

Your privacy is serious business with Don't Be Stupid, Inc. In order to make your visits to Dontbestupid.com pleasant as possible, we do collect certain information from your computer each time you visit us and sometimes we ask you for personal information. Please take a couple of minutes and read and understand our privacy policies so that you understand how we treat your personal information. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with this site, you can contact: Don't Be Stupid, Inc., 2 Shelter Lane Oakland, New Jersey 07436 / Tel 1-201-788-6324 / Fax 1-201-485-8404 or email us at info@dontbestupid.com.

Remember - If you register with Dontbestupid.com, sign up for any of our programs, purchase something from Dontbestupid, Inc. or enter any of the contests or promotions, you agree to these terms. As we update and expand our services, this policy might change, so check it out from time to time. Information Collection and Use Personally identifying information, or just personal information, includes your name, home or other address (like your school), e-mail address, telephone number, or any other information that tells another person who you are. Our site may use order forms and registration forms for users to request Don't Be Stupid information, products and services. We may collect contact info (like e-mail address, name, address and phone number) and financial information (like credit card numbers) through these forms. Contact info from the forms is used to send orders to our customers, to send information about our products and services and for purposes of record keeping. Users may opt-out receiving future mailings and are given the opportunity to so each time you register or order online.

We may send you e-mail notices about products, companies and events that we think might interest you. At any time you can change your user information. Contact info@Donbestupid.com In addition, we make information available to selected companies who have services, products and offers that we also think might interest you. If you do not want to receive these messages, email us at info@Dontbestupid.com. We make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy wherever we ask you for personal information. Below are more details about the information Dontbestupid, Inc.gathers from you and how we use it.

Cookies

We try to provide you with services, products and offers customized to your interests. In order to do that, we use "cookies" to keep and sometimes track information about you. A "cookie" is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to: access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver better and more personalized services; estimate our audience size for our advertisers; assist in processing items in your shopping basket; track the number of entries in our promotions, sweepstakes and contests; and identify which areas of our site you have visited. We may also match information obtained from cookies with data provided by you or collected by third parties. We analyze this data both in the aggregate (like, half of our users are guys) and in connection with individual users (like, John Doe visits Dontbestupid.com Stories the most). This information lets us give you the services you want that are connected with your interests. We also provide the analysis of our users (as a group, or course) to prospective partners, advertisers and other third parties. You can opt to have your browser reject cookies. If you do that, you'll need to re-register with Don't BeStupid.com every time you visit our site in order to participate in certain promotions and other things. You should also know that companies that advertise on our site may use their own cookies. This privacy statement does not cover how these companies use their cookies.

Surveys and Polls

In order to gather information about our audience, Don'tBeStupid.com conducts surveys and polls of our users from time to time. These surveys and polls are sometimes asked on behalf of a particular client, sometimes for a group of clients, or sometimes just for fun. Any data we collect from the survey is edited before we release it to a client. We may be paid for some or all of this survey data. All surveys are optional and any prizes offered for participating in a Don'tBeStupid.com survey are awarded based on a random drawing. When you participate in a survey, you are completely anonymous. Your answers are immediately separated from your personal information. We only ask for name and email in order to award random prizes. If you do give us your name or e-mail address in some section of the form where it wasn't supposed to be included, we will delete it before releasing the data outside Dontbestupid.com The survey reports we sent out to clients would include aggregated data, like 80% of the boys said X and 64% of the girls said Y. If we ask you for a zip code it is only so that we can compare likes and dislikes and attitudes from all different parts of our Dontbestupid.com membership. We will not participate in any survey initiative on behalf of a client, which will not protect your privacy.

Promotions

We may ask you for personally identifiable information at other times, including, but not limited to, when you enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored by us or a third party. If you don't want your information collected by these third parties, or us you can decide not to participate in the promotion, contest or sweepstakes. Other Third Parties Dontbestupid.com may share non-personal, aggregate, or summary information regarding our users with other third parties not mentioned in this policy. This kind of information does not identify you individually.

Legal Authorities

We may disclose user information to government authorities at our discretion. We also may disclose user information when we have a reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, other Don'tBeStupid.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Business Transfer In the event that Dontbestupid, Inc.or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, customer information will be one of the transferred assets. Dontbestupid.com contains message boards that are provided as a free service to users who agree to abide by the following rules. Dontbestupid, Inc., assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, currency completeness or usefulness of information, views, opinions, or advice in any material provided in a message board contained on this website. In addition, Dontbestupid.com does not endorse any opinions or recommendations posted by others. The information provided is the sole responsibility of the person or persons communicating it. Any user who violates the following rules may be permanently banned from using the message boards. Further, Dontbestupid.com reserves the right to change these rules at any time and for any reason. You agree to refrain from the following activities while using this website: Harassing, threatening, embarrassing or causing distress or discomfort to another individual or entity. Transmitting any information, data, text, files, links, software, communications or other materials that are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful or racially or otherwise objectionable. Impersonating any person, including but not limited to a Dontbestupid.com employee. Posting or transmitting any advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of solicitation, including but not limited to "junk mail", "spam", chain letters", or unsolicited mass distribution of email. Posting or transmitting third party copyrighted information or in any way infringing on the intellectual property rights, contractual rights, or fiduciary rights of others. Starting a thread in a message board that has to do with a stock or stocks (any message found under such thread may be deleted without prior notice). Providing false information on your registration form or impersonating someone else. Access to other sites through Dontbestupid.com You should be aware that when you are on Dontbestupid.com you will have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites not operated by Dontbestupid, Inc., These sites, some of whom are Dontbestupid, Inc. advertisers, may collect personally identifiable information about you. Dontbestupid, Inc. does not control sites that are operated by others and is not responsible for the information practices of these sites and this privacy statement does not address the information practices of those web sites or advertisers.

Security

We maintain this site and all associated data with technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification and improper disclosure. However, no computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard. But Dontbestupid.com is committed to providing reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect our web sites and their information against foreseeable hazards.

Disclaimer of Warranties

You Expressly Understand And Agree That: Your use of the service is a your sole risk. The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Dontbestupid.com expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Dontbestupid, Inc. makes no warranty that 9I) The service will meet your requirements, (ii) The service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (iii) The results that may be obtained from the use of the service will be accurate or reliable, (iv) The quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you through the service will meet your expectations, and (v) any errors in the software will be corrected. Any material downloaded or other wise obtained through the use of the service is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material. All right, title and interest not expressly granted by Dontbestupid, Inc are expressly reserved by Dontbestupid, Inc. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from Dontbestupid, Inc.or through or from the service shall create any warranty not expressly sated in the terms of the service.

Limitation of Liability

You expressly understand and agree that Dontbestupid, Inc shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising out of or connected with the subject matter of this agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, except as expressly stated in this agreement, Dontbestupid, Inc makes no representations or warranties of any kind, either express or implied, as to any matter including, without limitation, implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability or otherwise which would extend beyond the express representations and warranties contained in this agreement. You expressly understand and agree that Dontbestupid, Inc. shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including but not limited to, for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses (even if Donbestupid, Inc. has been advised of the possibility of such damages) resulting from: (I) The use of the inability to use the service; (ii) The cost of procurement of substitute goods and services resulting from any goods, data, information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from the services; (iii) Unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; (iv) Statements or conduct of any third party on the service; or (v) Any other matter relating to the service in no event will Dontbestupid, Inc.be liable for any damages of any kind. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties of the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, some of the above limitations may not apply to you. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, representation or promise of Dontbestupid, Inc.except as expressly stated in this agreement.

Intellectual Property

All material, information and content is owned by us or is used with permission. You may not share, duplicate, use, or retransmit anything from our site without Dontbestupid, Inc. express written permission. Furthermore, you are not allowed to post or distribute any material you do not own or which you do not have permission to use (Please read the Dontbestupid, Inc. Service agreement). Violation of this policy may result in copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights violation and subjects you to civil or criminal penalties. Dontbestupid.com is a trademark of Don't Be Stupid, Inc. All other marks that appear throughout these websites belong to Don't Be Stupid, Inc. and are protected by U.S. and international copyright and trademark laws. Any use of any of the marks appearing throughout these websites without the express written permission of Don't Be Stupid, Inc. is strictly prohibited.