Your privacy is important to us. By participating in the Council of Better Business Bureau's BBBOnLine® Privacy Program we have made a commitment to meet the programs' strict requirements regarding how we treat your information and have it verified by BBBOnLine. Further information about this program is available at http://www.bbbonline.org.

Animation.com is firmly committed to the respect of your privacy and the protection of your information. As part of the normal operation of services, we collect and, in some instances, disclose information about you. With the goal of protecting your privacy, this notice explains our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Our registration form requires users to give us contact information (such as your name and email address), unique identifiers (such as your password), and demographic information (such as your city and zip code).

Certain information, such as passwords and e-mail addresses, is collected in order to, among other things, verify your identity and for use as account identifiers in our database system.

Our site uses cookies to keep track of your use of our services. Cookies are stored on your computer, and are not stored on the Animation.com site anywhere. We use cookies to recognize you when you visit our site without requiring you to log in and, for example, to give you automatic access to your shopping cart exactly where you left it off during your last visit. We may also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests.

With your account, we collect information related to your purchase history, to your AdFolio, and to the performance of your ad campaigns. We use this information to provide you with a customized view of your marketing activities. We may also use this type of information in an aggregated form to produce statistics across business categories, and we may share such statistics with third-parties. Once they are produced, such statistics are no longer linked to any personally identifiable information.

When you purchase any product or value-added service we offer, we use a secure connection to a trusted financial institution to perform the transaction and through such contractor, we store your payment information, such as your credit card number, credit card expiration date, and billing address ("Financial Information").

Operational information you enter when you customize your banners (such as marketing message or website URL) is recorded as part of your purchase.

When you are on our website, you may be subject to advertising banners served by Engage Media. Engage Media may place information gathering devices such as cookies in your computer for purposes of improving their services.

You can access Engage Media's own privacy policy by clicking here.

2. Our Use of Your Information

We use customer contact information from the registration form to send you information about Animation.com and promotional material from some of our partners, if you have so authorized us in your profile. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information. Finally, we may use your IP address to help protect ourselves and our partners from fraud.

We use demographic and profile data to tailor your experience at our site, showing you content that we think you might be interested in, and displaying the content according to your preferences.

We use operational information to simplify for you the task of modifying banners in your Portfolio by pre-filling the appropriate fields with data extracted from your past sessions. We may use such operational information in aggregate and at an anonymous statistical level in order to better design future banner collections.

At anytime, you can opt-in or opt-out of our marketing marketing actions by accessing your account by logging in with your emailaddress and your password from the home page or by clicking here.

Contact Information: In the registration form, the required information is clearly identified by color or text style. You will not be able to register unless you enter a valid information in all required fields. However, you can leave all non-required fields blank if you do not wish to communicate such information.

Mailing Lists: If you do not wish to receive marketing information about our new product announcements or about some of our partners' offerings, you can uncheck the corresponding boxes in the registration form. The registration form is accessible when you register for the first time, or when you access your account profile as explained in Section 5 hereafter.

Financial Information: If you do not wish to enter your payment information online, you can put the items you want to purchase in the Shopping Cart, and contact us by phone (at (408) 354-5711)or by fax ((408) 884-2281) to complete your transaction with a live operator.

Operational Information: When you use our instant banner creation system, you agree to give us permission to use the information you enter as described in the foregoing section. Please do not use the system if you do not agree with our usage of your information, as stated in Section 2.

4. Our Disclosure of Your Information

We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described in this Privacy Policy and the Registered User Agreement without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Animation.com will never willfully sell or rent for consideration any personally identifiable information about you or your business to any third party without first receiving your permission.

Animation.com offers features and services where some of the information publicly available on the banners you create will be by necessity provided to partners offering complementary services on our website. Animation.com may do the following with such information: distribute information from your banners about your products and services, your website address (URL), your contact information, and other information you have entered in the banners, to such partners. Publicly available information means information available to the public from your banner ads, and may include the following: information about the products or services you offer, your marketing message, your business address, your URL, your business contact information, and other information you may have entered in your banners. In no event, however, will Animation.com disclose any of your Financial Information.

Animation.com may be required to disclose personally identifiable information to the government or by court order under certain circumstances, or by other legal situations that may arise requiring such disclosure. In addition, you authorize us to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate. For example, we may be required to disclose personally identifiable information to the government or by court order under certain circumstances, or other situations may arise requiring such disclosure. In addition, you authorize us to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate.

This site contains links to other sites. Animation.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

In the course of providing our service, Animation.com may share some personally identifiable information to third-parties who may have different privacy policies than our own Privacy Policy. Such third-parties provide complementary services such as advertising placement, website creation or hosting, on-line marketing services and are made aware through our legal agreements of our privacy and security policies and are bound to take reasonable precautions to similarly protect such information.

At anytime, you can access your account by logging in with your emailaddress and your password from the home page or by clicking here.

You can inspect and change any of the personally identifiable information that you have provided us upon registration. You can also change your preferences regarding notifications from us or from our partners.

Information security in a top priority concern of ours. This priority is emphasized in our Company's Employment Agreement, this Privacy Policy, and the contracts and agreements that we sign with certain partners and suppliers who are potentially dealing with your information. Employees who violate our policies and procedures regarding privacy are subject to disciplinary action and we make sure our partners and suppliers include terms in their privacy policy that are at least as comprehensive as the terms of this Privacy Policy. We safeguard information by regularly assessing security standards and procedures to protect against unauthorized access to personal information. We limit access to personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information to provide products and services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information, such as storing our database servers in locked, access-controlled locations as well as firewalls, password-protected electronic access, and encryption for particularly sensitive data such as passwords..

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Animation.com Registered User Agreement.

ANIMATION.COM WORKS WITH A THIRD PARTY THAT SERVES ADS TO THIS SITE. TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOW ENGAGE MANAGES THE PRIVACY OF INFORMATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH SERVING ADS ON THIS SITE, PLEASE GO TO:
http://www.engage.com/privacy/

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, please send an email to support@animation.com.

Or, you can send mail to the following postal address: PaceWorks, Inc. 16780 Lark Ave. Los Gatos, CA 95032