PRIVACY POLICY

(Last Revised December 2, 2008)

Important - - Please Read

This Privacy Policy describes the terms
of our commitment to your privacy.

Thank you for visiting the Home Shop web site. This policy describes the privacy practices of Home Shop regarding information collected from visitors to our web site. It contains information about what data is collected, the purposes for which we use the information, the circumstances under which we may share the information and the steps that we take to safeguard the information to protect your privacy. Home Shop reserves the right to change this policy.  It is your responsibility to regularly review this policy as your continued use of this web site constitutes your agreement to all changes.  As used herein, Home Shop means ________________________ and its affiliates.
PERSONS EXCLUDED FROM THIS WEBSITE ARE STILL COVERED:
In the event that a person excluded from this website nonetheless unlawfully views this site, that person remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and accompanying Terms of Use and is in violation of the accompanying Terms of Use. 
PERSONS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE ARE EXCLUDED FROM THIS WEBSITE:
This website is not lawfully accessible to persons under the age of 18 or who are otherwise covered by the provisions of the Child Online Privacy Act of 1998 (COPA).  If you are under the age of 18 you must leave this site immediately.  Fraudulent use of this website may make you subject to civil or criminal sanctions. 
VIEWING AND/OR USE AND/OR COMMUNICATION IS CONSTRUED AS ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY AND ACCOMPANYING TERMS OF USE:
Acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy and the accompanying Terms of Use are a portion of the consideration required for your right to visit the website.  If you do not accept these terms, you have no right to visit this site and you are fraudulently using this site. 
A NOTE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS (ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT OF 2003 (OPPA):
It is the intent of the Privacy Policy to comply with the California Act.  Various provisions throughout this Privacy Policy address requirements of the act.  In summary, you must presume that we collect electronic information from all visitors.  This is not usually personally identifiable.  If you purchase a product or service via this website (and thereby become covered by the Act), the purchase agreement you electronically sign prior to purchase allows the website to collect and archive all the personal information you provide and to transmit and/or transfer that personal information to third parties.  There is no way you can modify this information and you have no right to do so.  Under the terms of the purchase agreement, you have no right to view or receive any information about our database.  In the event that the website, under advice of counsel agrees to divulge information, the requesting party must submit whatever information is demanded by the website in insure that the website is releasing information to the correct party.  Other provisions of the OPPA may exempt this website from complying.  While we take measures to ensure that outside parties do not have access to any information we have about you, we do not warranty that outside parties will not breach our system and thus have access to your information.  (You should know that merchant service providers do not allow us access to your credit card information.)  This Privacy Policy also is subject to change without notice.  You are required to read it prior to using the website.  By interacting with the website you agree to the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy and accompanying Terms of Use.

WEB SITE USE INFORMATION:
Your privacy is very important to us. Our policy is to collect no personal information about you when you visit Home Shop’s web site, unless you affirmatively choose to make such information available to us.

In the provision of services to you, and subject to strict compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, information may be collected about you indirectly from monitoring or other means (e.g. recording of telephone calls and monitoring e-mails). In these circumstances, the information is not accessed on a continuous or routine basis, but it may be used for compliance or security purposes.

When you visit our web site, the web server automatically recognizes only the Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed the site. Our web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" and web server logs to collect information about how our web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our web site, and the web sites visited just before our web site. This is done so that the content of the site can continually be improved. This information does not result in the identification of your personal e-mail address or other personal information. These cookies expire after you leave our site.


PERSONAL INFORMATION THIS SITE COLLECTS:
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

If you deal with Home Shop in your individual capacity (e.g. as a private client), the typical information we collect about you would include:

  • Your name, address and other contact details;
  • Your age, occupation and marital status;
  • A personal identifier, depending on your country of residence, such as your Social Security Number, National Insurance Number, Tax File Number, etc.

Of course, you are not required to supply any of the personal information that we may request. However, failure to do so may result in our being unable to provide services to you. While we make every effort to ensure that all information we hold about you is accurate, complete and up to date, you can help us considerably in this regard by promptly notifying us if there are any changes to your personal information.

INFORMATION SHARING:
Home Shop only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Home Shop in the following limited circumstances:

  • We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
  • We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties be contractually bound to confidentiality and agree to process such information based both on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
  • We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Home Shop, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Home Shop will not sell your personal information. If your relationship with Home Shop ends, we will continue to treat your personal information, to the extent we retain it, as described in this policy. 


WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION:
We want you to understand when and with whom we may share personal or other information we have collected about you or your activities on our websites or while using our services.
Personal information.  We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated below or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared. We may share all types of personal information with:

  • Authorized service providers.   We may share your personal information with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf in connection with your request for real estate or mortgage services. These service providers may include marketing and customer services firms, credit card payment processors, as well as companies that support contests, sweepstakes, surveys, or other features offered through our websites, or that provide business analysis or website support. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.
  • Real estate agents / brokers. If you are not working with a real estate brokerage and have marked that you would like to be contacted by one of our affiliated real estate agents, we may share your personal information with real estate agents / brokers on our network with which you have expressed interest.  We will not share information with other real estate agents / brokers not disclosed to you. Because these parties may retain or use your personal information whether or not you obtain services from them, you should contact these parties directly concerning their privacy and information sharing practices.
  • Business partners.  When you express interest in promotions or services offered through our websites, we may share your expression of interest with the businesses with which we partner to offer you those products, services, promotions, contests and/or sweepstakes, and, as applicable, their affiliates. When you elect to engage in a particular offer or program, you authorize us to provide your e-mail address and other information to the business providing that offer or program.
  • Other Home Shop businesses.  We may share information we collect, including personal information, with the other Home Shop companies (some of which are nonfinancial companies). Sharing information with the other Home Shop companies enables us to provide you with information about a variety of products and services that might interest you. All Home Shop companies comply with the Home Shop Privacy Policy. The other Home Shop companies also will comply with applicable privacy and security laws and, at a minimum, in any commercial e-mail they send to you, will give you the opportunity to choose not to receive such e-mail messages from that company in the future. However, in no circumstance will Home Shop share with other Home Shop companies any personally identifiable information that you provide to us if that information bears on your creditworthiness.
  • Special notice to California residents: Home Shop will not share any personal information about you with other Home Shop companies to the extent prohibited by applicable California law or to the extent your prior consent to share is required by applicable California law.
  • Special notice to Vermont residents: Home Shop will not share any personal information about you with other Home Shop companies to the extent prohibited by applicable Vermont law or to the extent your prior consent to share is required by applicable Vermont law.
  • Other Situations. We also may disclose your information:
    • In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
    • When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our websites' terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.
    • In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Any third parties to whom we may disclose personal information may have their own privacy policies which describe how they use and disclose personal information. Those policies will govern use, handling and disclosure of your personal information once we have shared it with those third parties as described in this Privacy Policy. If you want to learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage you to visit the websites of those third parties. These entities or their servers may be located either inside or outside the United States.

 

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED:
We may use your personal information to:

  • Administer, operate, facilitate and manage your relationship with Home Shop. This may include sharing such information internally as well as disclosing it to third parties, as described in the following two sections, respectively;
  • Contact you or, if applicable, your designated representative(s) by mail, telephone, electronic mail, facsimile, etc., in connection with your relationship and/or account;
  • Provide you with information such as recommendations or advice concerning products and services offered by Home Shop; and
  • Facilitate our internal business operations, including fulfillment of our legal and regulatory requirements.

 

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO HOME SHOP:
If you choose to share personal information, such as by sending a message, or filling out an electronic form with personal information, the information will only be used for the purposes you authorized. Once you register with us and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. However, information will not be disclosed to third parties or government agencies, unless required by state or federal law. If information is required by law to be disclosed about you, then every effort to notify you about the disclosure in advance will be taken.  Except as stated in this privacy policy or at the time of collection, a user’s personally identifiable information will not be transferred outside our company or our service vendors unless notice is given at the time of collection or prior to transfer.

Information Security - How We Protect Your Privacy:
Home Shop is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. We limit access to your personal information to authorized Home Shop employees or agents and, as described above, our service providers are held to stringent standards of privacy. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect the information against loss, misuse, damage or modification and unauthorized access or disclosure. Some of the other central features of our information security program are:

  • The use of specialized technology such as firewalls;
  • Testing of the security and operability of products and services before they are introduced to the Internet, as well as ongoing scanning for publicly known vulnerabilities in the technology;
  • Internal and external reviews of our Internet sites and services;
  • Monitoring of our systems infrastructure to detect weaknesses and potential intrusions;
  • Implementing controls to identify, authenticate and authorize access to various systems or sites;
  • Providing Home Shop personnel with relevant training and continually updating our security practices in light of new risks and developments in technology.

 

PRIVACY AND THE INTERNET:
The following additional information will be of interest to you if you access Home Shop products or services through Home Shop web sites:

Users of private Home Shop web sites are required to identify and authenticate themselves prior to accessing our services. Generally, identification and authentication take place through the use of your user name and a password.

The private Home Shop web sites are built upon a secure infrastructure with multiple layers of protection, including measures ranging from proper physical security of our machines to system intrusion detection capabilities. Within such private sites, Home Shop uses industry standard encryption technologies to protect your information from external compromise.

Security is a cooperative effort between Home Shop and the users of the Home Shop web  sites. Please remember that your password is personal to you and should not be made available to any other person. Also, you should discontinue their use and notify us if you have any reason to suspect that someone else may be using them.

"Cookies" are small text files consisting of information stored by your Web browser. This information is used for administrative purposes and to improve your experience with our web sites. This information helps authenticate you (i.e. verify that you are who you say you are), an essential component of site security. Cookies also make it easier for you to navigate a Home Shop web site by, among other things, remembering your identity so that you do not have to input your password multiple times as you move between pages or services. You can set your web browser to inform you when cookies are set, or to prevent cookies from being set. However, if you decline to use cookies, you may experience reduced functionality, and declining to use authentication related cookies will prevent you from using the web site altogether.

"Clickstream" or similar data (e.g. information regarding which of our web pages you access, the frequency of such access and your product and service preferences) may be collected and shared internally within Home Shop in order to assess the usage, value and performance of our online products and services.
SPAM:) 2003 Mining Gold Corporation & IP Management LLC
By providing to this website information that forms the basis of communication with you, such as an email address, you waive all rights to file complaints concerning unsolicited email or spam from this website since, by providing such information, you agree to receive communication from us or other marketing organizations.  However, all email communication with you shall contain an 'unsubscribe' link where you may notify the website that you no longer wish to receive solicitations or information from the website and your name will be removed from the general solicitation database. 

Other Privacy Policies or Statements AND Changes to Policy:
This policy provides a general statement of the ways in which Home Shop protects your personal information. You may, however, in connection with specific products or services offered by Home Shop, be provided with privacy policies or statements that supplement this policy. This policy may be changed from time to time to reflect changes in our practices concerning the collection and use of personal information. The revised policy will be effective immediately upon posting to our Web site.

Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site:
We are not responsible for the practices employed by web sites linked to or from our web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our web site. The information practices of companies collecting data on our site or web sites linked to ______________________ are not covered by this privacy statement.

If you have other questions about our privacy policies, or have suggestions on how these policies can be improved, please feel free to contact us by telephone at ___________________ or by email at __________________________________.

CHOICE OF LAW:
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Florida, without regard to conflicts of laws provisions. Sole and exclusive jurisdiction for any action or proceeding arising out of or related to this Privacy Policy shall be in an appropriate state or federal court located in Orange County, Florida and the parties unconditionally waive their respective rights to a jury trial. Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of this web site must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of this Privacy Policy, or a portion thereof, to be unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to affect the intent of this Privacy Policy, and the remainder of the Privacy Policy shall continue in full force and effect. This Privacy Policy and the accompanying Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between Home Shop and you with respect to this site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications, agreements and understandings between Home Shop and you with respect to the subject matter hereof. A printed version of this Privacy Policy and the accompanying Terms of Use shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings.