Privacy Policy

Notice of Change

AT.COM has made changes to its privacy policy to provide you with additional information on:

How AT.COM may share your registration information with trusted partners to bring you offers we think are of interest to you, and how you can change your information sharing preferences;

The information passively collected upon your visits to AT.COM (such as the website you visited immediately prior to coming to AT.COM, or your web-browser and IP address information), and how AT.COM uses such information to personalize its service to you;

Overview

Please read this statement to understand how we will treat the personal information that you give to us. Our privacy procedures include the following:

We disclose our privacy practices and procedures in this document.

We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes without providing you with a choice to opt out from such disclosure, which you can exercise during registration or by editing your My Account preferences any time.
We prohibit the third parties that we use to store and organize your information from disclosing or using your information without our consent or in violation of this privacy policy.

We allow all users to opt out at any time from receiving e-mail messages and other electronic communications from AT.COM and third parties including selected AT.COM partners or from having information shared for marketing purposes with third parties including selected AT.COM sponsors or business partners. We allow users to access their profiles and change information, communication and sharing preferences as they deem necessary, by accessing the My Account page.

Since this policy may change over time as we modify or expand our service, we suggest that you check back from time to time in order to understand how we treat your information. Your use of the AT.COM Website constitutes your agreement to the terms of this privacy policy. If we decide to materially change our privacy policy, we will prominently post those changes on this page thirty (30) days prior to the change or send you an email informing you of the change fourteen (14) days in advance, and provide you an opportunity to opt-out, so that you are always aware of what personal information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Your continued use of the AT.COM Website constitutes your agreement to any such changes.

Privacy Disclosures

What Personally Identifiable Information of yours is collected?

  1. How the information is used
  2. With whom the information may be shared
  3. What happens when you leave AT.COM to go to other sites
  4. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information
  5. What kind of security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under the company’s control
  6. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to privacy@at.com or by mail to:

AT.COM
c/o Stormwest Corporation
120 North Robinson Avenue
Suite 2800
Oklahoma City, OK 73102.

What Personally Identifiable Information of yours is collected?

Registration Data

During registration, AT.COM collects personal information including your name, address, email address, birth date, gender and zip code. You never have to answer any questions, and you can decline this exchange of information at any time. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with some of the services dependent upon the collection of this information, such as a personalized start page a personalized stock portfolio, a sweepstakes entry, or the purchase and shipment of products and prizes to people who visit our network.

AT.COM may also collect your credit card information and billing address when you sign up for paying premium services. In addition to your log-in password. a secure pin number is added for additional protection and security of your credit card information. This information is further protected by encryption.

Information collected online is often defined as being either anonymous or personally identifiable:

“Anonymous Information” refers to information that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. For instance, we may know that 10,000 people visit this Privacy Policy today, but we do not necessarily know their names, where they live, or their date of birth.
“Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII” refers to information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name, phone number, or postal address.
The amount of Personally Identifiable Information that you choose to disclose to us is completely up to you. In our effort to provide personalization and opportunities for prizes and services, we may at times ask you to submit information such as your name or email address, or to share your interests and hobbies with us. Instances when PII is collected include when you register to receive goods or services from one or more of our partners; When you enter into a contest, sweepstakes or promotion sponsored by AT.COM and/or one of our partners; When you fill out a user survey; When you contact customer service.

Other Data

AT.COM also collects data related to the areas of AT.COM that you visit and how often you visit those areas. This includes co-branded sections of AT.COM that are part of our overall service.

In addition, when you surf the Internet, your Internet browser (such as Netscape Navigator® or Microsoft Internet Explorer) automatically transmits some information to AT.COM every time you access content on one of our sites. Examples of such information include the URL of the Web page you were just on (known as the “Refer”), the IP (or Internet Protocol) address of the computer you are using, or the browser version you are using to access our site. All of this information may be collected by AT.COM and used to help improve our offerings to you. Such information is only used (1) in aggregate form, for reporting purposes or (2) in connection with your personally identifiable information, to comply with a court order, a subpoena or other legal process

Cookies and Tracking Pixels

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a web site’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. As a standard practice, AT.COM assigns a cookie with an anonymous identifier to each end user.

AT.COM uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:

AT.COM does not require users to accept cookies in order to enter or view the site. However, if you reject cookies, you may not be able to access certain features. You can set your browser to reject cookies, or to notify you when AT.COM or another company sends you a cookie. If you have questions about how to change your browser’s “cookie” settings, please contact the software manufacturer. Please note that some areas or features of AT.COM will be significantly slower, or may not function at all, if cookies are disabled.

Information Collected by Advertising Networks

Some of the ads that may appear on the AT.COM site may be delivered to you by third party web advertising providers. In the course of delivering an ad to you, these advertising providers may collects certain non-personally identifiable information about your visits to this and other Web sites through the use of cookies or similar technology. This information is used, among other reasons, to deliver tailored ads to you.

When you are on AT.COM, advertisers and/or our partners may place their own cookies on your computer, even if you remain solely on the AT.COM site. AT.COM does not allow third party companies to set cookies on our domain, however, such third parties may set cookies on their own websites which you may visit from AT.COM. AT.COM does not control the use that these parties make of the information obtained through the cookies they place. If you have questions or concerns regarding cookies sent to you by companies other than AT.COM, we encourage you to contact those companies directly.

Third party advertiser may also use tracking pixels that count new registrations on AT.COM. This allows the third party advertising companies to know how many new users have registered with AT.COM as a result of their advertising for AT.COM, or to track how many users have viewed a particular advertising offer displayed on AT.COM. The information collected by such tracking pixels is used in aggregate only for reporting purposes and is not used in connection with your personally identifiable information.

We may also offer you access to software products (”AT.COM Software Products”) which are installed on an individual user’s computer, such as the AT.COM Toolbar or Instant Messenger. If you use these products, AT.COM may collect additional information about you. For example, you can create bookmarks or personalized links that are accessible through the AT.COM Toolbar. Importantly, all AT.COM Software Products are spy-ware and ad-ware free. AT.COM Software Products do not collect or report information about your activity on websites other than AT.COM. In addition, AT.COM Software products do not present you with ads, such as pop-up or so-called “contextual marketing” while you are on other web sites. AT.COM Software products include software that allow us to distribute updates and fixes, but such updates will occur only upon prior notice to you, except for the limited case where notice is not possible due to technical problems or an emergency that requires us to update the application in order to maintain existing functionality or to comply with the law. All such updates shall be governed by and made in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any applicable end user license agreements. For a complete list of AT.COM Software Products and more information on how these products work and can be uninstalled, click here.

Children Under the Age of 13

As a matter of policy, AT.COM does not knowingly collect PII from anyone under the age of 13 or allow such persons to register.

Tell-a-Friend feature

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. AT.COM.com does store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Your friend may contact us at privacy@at.com request that we remove this information from our database.

How is the information is used?

We use the personal information you supply us, including your registration data, to enhance our services; fulfill your requests for products, programs, or services; personalize your experience and provide you or permit others to provide you with special offers we think you will find valuable. You may at any time consult and modify your information sharing preferences via the My Account page. We also use other information obtained from user site traffic patterns to better provide you with a personalized experience and special advertising offers and promotions. We view personalized advertising as beneficial to our users.

**AT.COM* uses the information described above to do, among other things, the following:*

Personalize and enhance the AT.COM site and service such as providing you with your personalized weather, horoscope, and advertisements we believe will be of interest to you.

We may also use the information we collect to develop summary reports for our advertisers. An example of a summary report might be “100,000 people clicked on this link and of those people, 35% were registered users above the age of 25.” We provide this information to assist our advertisers in determining how to promote their products. We do not tell our advertisers who it was that saw or clicked on their advertisements unless you have told us this is acceptable.

Unless you have opted out of receiving special offers, emails or other communications from selected third parties, we also may provide a report to our advertisers which tells them who responded to a particular offer. For example, we might send you an email, launch a new window within your internet browser, or send you other advertisements in electronic form which offer you a discount on a particular good or service. If you click on that e-mail or advertisement or accept an offer or discount contained therein, we may provide the advertiser with the information necessary to provide you with that discount or offer.

AT.COM may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide personally identifiable information to appropriate governmental authorities. If requested by law enforcement or judicial authorities, we will provide this information upon receipt of the appropriate documentation. AT.COM may also provide information to law enforcement to protect its property and the health and safety of individuals as permitted by statute.

Other companies that place advertising on our site may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising or content through the use of cookies (using the same techniques as described above). Due to the way the Internet technically operates, we cannot control this collection of information. As the consumer, you should contact these advertisers or content providers that place information on the AT.COM Website directly if you have any questions about their use of the information they potentially collect.

Information that you provide while using products such as AT.COM Message Boards is available for all to see. Discretion should be used in entering Personally Identifiable Information within such forums, as it may be collected by third parties. AT.COM does not actively associate the message content entered by our users in AT.COM Message Boards with those users’ registration information. Our server computers will retain this information, however; and it is potentially available for distribution to third parties – most obviously law-enforcement agencies acting under subpoena power, per the terms of this section of our Privacy Policy. We do not use this information to target any advertising to our users, nor is it ever willingly distributed to any third party, such as an advertiser, except if subpoenaed.

With whom the information may be shared?

AT.COM may disclose your personally identifiable information to selected and trusted third parties and will at all times provide you with an opportunity to opt out. If you opt out of sharing your personally identifiable information, we will not disclose such information to any third party, except in special situations described below, such as to comply with the law or administer the site. You can elect to opt-out at anytime by updating the preferences in your My Account page. You can also elect not to use certain services or participate in certain promotions if you do not want your information shared with the third parties who are sponsoring or administering such promotions.

In the event that all or substantially all of AT.COM's stock and/or assets are transferred or sold to another entity, AT.COM may transfer personally identifiable information to the acquiring entity. If, as a result of such a business transition, your personally identifiable information will be used in a materially different manner, you will be given choice consistent with our policy regarding notification of changes.

AT.COM may disclose your personally identifiable information if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, a subpoena, or other legal process. AT.COM may also disclose personally identifiable information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Service or to protect the safety of our users and the public or under confidentiality agreements with certain third parties which assist us in developing, operating and maintaining AT.COM.

What happens when you leave AT.COM to go to other sites?

AT.COM does not control the information collection and distribution policies on Internet domains other than those Internet domains that are under the control of AT.COM itself. When you are on the AT.COM Website, you may be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. For example, if you “click” on a banner advertisement or an AT.COM Website search result, the “click” may take you off the AT.COM Website site. These other sites may independently collect data, solicit personal information, or send their own cookies to you. AT.COM is not responsible for any use of the information including click-stream data, that you may create when using such third party sites.

We also offer you access to “co-branded” services that are jointly provided by AT.COM and selected companies. In many cases, these co-branded services will contain AT.COM Website branding, but may not be hosted by AT.COM. You may notice that you are on a co-branded site if the pages say “provided by”, if standard AT.COM branding is not displayed on the top of the page, or if you are asked to subscribe for any service or provide additional information. In such cases, if you use the co-branded service, AT.COM may be entitled to receive information about what you do when using that service. If you elect to provide additional personal information using a co-branded service, the information you provide may be shared or jointly retained by the provider of that service in accordance with that provider’s privacy policies and terms of service. We encourage you to read the privacy polices of these other companies and to contact these companies directly if you have any questions about their use of this information. When you are using a co-branded service, we will attempt to make sure that there is a link to the service provider’s applicable privacy policies and terms of service.

What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of personal information?

You can always choose whether or not to disclose personally identifiable information and that choice will not prevent you from using the AT.COM Website. Please note, however, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with some of the services dependent upon the collection of this information, such as a personalized start page a personalized stock portfolio, a sweepstakes entry, or the purchase and shipment of products and prizes.

You can choose at anytime to opt out of receiving emails from AT.COM or from having your personally identifiable information shared with selected companies. If you want to opt out, you can do so by editing your preferences with respect to email or the sharing of information. If you elect to “opt out” we will not, as applicable, share your personal information with third parties or send you emails. However, we may continue to use your personal information for internal purposes, to conduct sweepstakes and promotions, to enhance your user experience or as necessary to administer the site or comply with applicable law.

We reserve the right to send a one-time registration confirmation email, and infrequent Service Alert messages to users to inform them of specific changes that may impact their ability to use a service they have previously signed up for, regardless of email contact opt-in status. An example of a Service Alert message would be notification of the impending closing of an account that is believed to be abandoned. And finally, we also reserve the right to contact you if compelled to do so as part of a legal proceeding or if there has been a violation of our Terms of Service.

AT.COM is retaining these rights because in limited cases we feel that we may need the right to contact you as a matter of law or regarding matters which will be important to you. These rights do not allow us to contact you to market a new or existing service if you have asked us not to do so, and issuance of these types of communications is rare.

Children Ages 13-17

We will not share the PII of users who are 13 to 17 years old with any third party – even if that user gave us permission to do so during registration – except in cases where the information is being shared with a nonprofit organization that offers bona fide outreach and support services to children. In cases where minors have volunteered information in the context of a peer counseling or mentoring environment on the AT.COM Website, this information will be shared with that nonprofit organization. As reflected in this Privacy Policy, we will provide PII about our users age 13-17 to law enforcement or judicial authorities upon request and receipt of proper documentation. Additionally, if we believe that AT.COM property or an individual’s safety or security is at risk, we will provide this information to proper court or law enforcement agencies.

Although AT.COM will not share the PII of users who are 13-17 years old with any third party, the AT.COM Website includes co-branded web properties, sponsor pages and links to other sites where you may be offered an opportunity to provide PII directly to a third party. If you elect to provide such information, we recommend that you review the privacy practices of that party. For more information on co-branded sites, see the section entitled “What happens when you leave AT.COM to go to other sites”, above.

What kind of security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under the company’s control?

AT.COM operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our users. Even your registration account password is encrypted before it is sent to our computers.

AT.COM takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you use these services at your own risk.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. AT.COM will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. You the consumer are ultimately responsible for the security of your AT.COM Member Name and password.

How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information?

AT.COM believes strongly in providing you with the ability to access and edit the personal information that you have provided to us. To update the information retained about you, or to deactivate your account, please contact us at accounts@at.com.

Last Updated: November 14, 2006