In order to use certain features of USA4real.com (such as the upstream radio player), you must first complete the registration form and/or create a user name and password. During registration you are required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
You have the option to provide demographic information (such as your city, state, age and gender) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.
USA4real.com will only send you our e-mail newsletter(s) with special promotions that will benefit your total experience by becoming a member of our family. By no means are our members obligated to keep receiving e-mails. You have the option to be removed from our e-mail list at anytime by contacting our support team. Each e-mail will have a remove link that will lead you directly to a form where you may choose to no longer receive our e-mails.
USA4real.com is the sole owner of Upstream Radio, each of its city search websites (such as la4real.com), and all the information collected on USA4real.com. USA4real.com collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
Orders
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
Any communications with you will be for quality and assurance purposes only. We do not sell or share your contact or credit card information with any other individuals or companies.
Application Forms
If you apply to be a franchisee, for employment with our company on our site, or to hire USA4real.com to promote an event, we require that you provide certain personally identifiable information, including your name, address, phone number, pending the circumstance, we may ask for a credit card number, and/or social security number. This information is necessary to process your application and to contact you.
This information collected will be necessary and one of our delegated representatives will be in contact with you in regards to your applications via e-mail or by phone in order to serve your request best.
Social Security Numbers
We require your social security number to provide us that you are an American citizen or visitor with employment authorization when in regards to employment or becoming one of our franchisees. When you enter your social security number on our registration application forms, we encrypt it using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
We use this so you may be identified and contacted to claim the winning, receive our company e-mail newsletters, and you may also benefit from other special offers such as discounts to businesses in your area.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site or our Artists, we will ask you for your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site and Artist profile. USA4real.com does not store this information.
Uses of Information
USA4real.com uses information strictly to inform our users on the latest news, information, promotions, and events in the user's surrounding area. Anyone who signs up for our free information is under no obligation to continue to use our services. USA4real.com provides this free service to promote the businesses, the events, and special promotions on their city sites.
Our advertisers may choose to discontinue by refusing to renew their contract. A reinstatement may include additional fees.
Communications from the Site
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals, promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our cities registration page.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. You may opt-out of these communications. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a "profile" of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
WE DO NOT SHARE YOUR PROFILE WITH OTHER THIRD PARTIES.
Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources. i.e. entertainment businesses such as restaurants, nightclubs, comedy clubs, etc.
Enhancement of Profile Information
We purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested. To enrich our Profiles of individual customers, we tie this information to the personally identifiable information they have provided to us.
Information Sharing and Disclosure:
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. USA4real.com promotes and advertises in cooperation with its advertisers. Advertisers pay us to put their logo/product in cooperation with our name on our websites, e-mails, and promotional materials. We do not sell our e-mail list or information to anyone.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information:
We do not Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties.
Agents
We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Service Providers
We use other third parties godaddy.com and paypal.com to provide our Internet, hosting and merchant services on our site. When you sign up for our e-mail newsletter, or purchase tickets, merchandise or other products through our site, we will share contact, billing, shipping, and demographic information as necessary for the third party to provide that service.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Other Third Parties
Every business that has an account with us is considered a third party. Whenever you purchase products or merchandise from their business via our online USA4real.com market place, you are conducting business with our approved partner. Any complaints will be noted, but USA4real.com is not responsible or liable for any claim of loss on your behalf.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, at the time when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at optout@usa4real.com. We offer an opportunity to opt-out of certain communications on our website usa4real.com, or you may contact us at 1-877-35-4Real to opt-out.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
Log Files
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information in order track the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing in specific areas.
We use a third-party tracking service, godaddy.com that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate appropriate where USA4real.com's traffic originates.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file.
We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don't have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See "Third Party Advertisers."
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by USA4real.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. See the "Third Party Advertisers" section.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by our advertising partners. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by USA4real.com. Please be aware that we, USA4real.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by USA4real.com.
Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. We reserve the right to terminate any account for use of pornography, any illegal activity, and extensive profanity.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on your member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at support@usa4real.com.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information such as credit card number and/or social security number on our registration, online application or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Learn more by clicking the link below. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q245152
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us at support@usa4real.com.
Business Transitions
In the event USA4real.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via e-mail and a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
USA4real
8306 Wilshire Blvd. #565
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
1-877-35-4real
support@usa4real.com
