1. Submitting Personal Information

Getting Started, Inc. provides simple to use services, including but not limited to search and registration (the "Services"). Getting Started, Inc., its websites, and affiliates (collectively "Getting Started") may collect any or all of the following types of information: (a) traffic data, (b) cookies, (c) contact information and other personally identifying information.  Getting Started may transfer any information in its possession in connection with a sale of assets of the company, a sale of the company, or a merger.

Getting Started understands that the protection and security of your account information, and any other information that is personally identifiable, is of utmost importance. Personally identifying information from users is collected when the user fills out the registration form, or in other site locations when users knowingly submit such information to Getting Started (for example, when donating, purchasing goods or services, or searching for information).

When subscribing to our services, you are submitting personal information which you knowingly agree will be published on the web as part of our services.

We may disclose to third parties certain aggregate information contained in your registration data or related data, provided that, such information will not include personally identifying information, except to provide products or services you have requested, or in the good faith belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with the law, legal process, or in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process, and/or to establish and/or exercise our legal rights and/or to defend against legal claims, and we will also share your information at such times and under such circumstances that we determine, in our sole discretion, that it is necessary to share the information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Getting Started Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.

2. Cookies

A cookie is a small, encrypted data string our server writes to your hard drive that contains your unique User ID for our Web site. Cookies help us to identify returning visitors to our websites, which allows us to give you a more personalized, useful experience on our website.

As do most major web sites, this website may use cookies. Cookies are information from the website that is stored on your hard drive. Cookies save you time because you do not need to manually reenter the information stored on your hard drive. Cookies also helps Getting Started upgrade the website by showing when and how users utilize the website.

Cookies do not by themselves contain any personally identifying information, but may be combined by Getting Started with other personally identifying information already submitted. Some third parties on the website (such as advertisers) may send cookies to your hard drive, and such third party cookies are subject to the policies of those third parties.

Your web browser in its default mode probably accepts cookies from this website and all others. You may set your browser software to reject cookies, however, the website may not function correctly.

 3. Traffic Data

Please be assured that we do not collect personal information about you from the website unless you provide it to us. This means that you can visit our Web sites without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself (such as your e-mail address).

As you browse the site, our web servers collect information about your visit, not about you personally. Via web server logs, we monitor statistics such as:

How many people visit our site
Which pages people visit on our site
From which domains our visitors come (e.g., aol.com)
Which browsers people use to visit our site

We use these statistics to improve our website, to monitor its performance, and to make the website easier for you and other visitors to use.

We use your IP address and referring URL to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. The information is used to determine statistical usage of our website. The aggregated data may be disclosed to potential and current advertisers providing them with information about the number of people visiting our pages.

 4. Third Party Advertising

Getting Started may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our site, and it may also allow the companies that show advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their own cookies on your computer. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous. These cookies are set and subsequently accessed on an Internet User’s computer after the user interacts with, views, or clicks on a targeted ad. If you do not wish to have other companies’ cookies set on your computer, do not interact with, view or click on the targeted ads. These other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not the Getting Started Privacy Policy, and as such, their privacy policy may materially differ in both form and substance from the Getting Started Privacy Policy.

We use Paypal, Inc. (www.paypal.com) as the payment processor and you agree to the privacy policy of their website when donating or paying for goods and services provided by Getting Started. Their privacy policy may change over time, and if you no longer agree with it, you need to contact them.

 5. Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, Getting Started has put in place physical and electronic procedures to safeguard and secure the information it collects online. However, data security is a constantly evolving art and science. You should consider any communication that you transmit to Getting Started (such as data, questions or answers, comments, or suggestions) as non-confidential, and you agree that Getting Started will not be liable or responsible if information that belongs to you is intercepted and used by an unintended recipient.

 6. Other Information

Getting Started uses reasonable efforts not to collect, use or disclose individually identifiable information from children under the age of 13. The Services are not targeted at children, and children may not register for any portions of the Services that require registration.

 7. Emails

Getting Started and/or third parties may, from time to time, send e-mail messages to you containing advertisements, promotions, etc.  Getting Started makes no representation or warranty with respect to the content of any such e-mail messages or any goods or services which may be obtained from such third parties, and you agree that neither Getting Started nor such third party shall have any liability with respect thereto.
 

8. Privacy Policy Updates

Getting Started may from time to time update this policy. We will notify you about any significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending you a notice to the primary email address specified in your Getting Started account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

 9. Questions and Suggestions

Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by postal mail to:

Getting Started, Inc.
Privacy Policy Issues
PO Box 563
Roma, TX 78584

Privacy Policy was last revised on Jan 6, 2010.