Privacy Policy and Legal
Notices to Users of Cingular Wireless Web Sites
I. Privacy Policy:
Privacy for Web Visitors.
One can visit our Web sites with privacy. A Web site visitor can choose to
provide customer-specific information by ordering a product or service, sending
us e-mail, registering on a company Web site, or entering surveys, contests,
or sweepstakes. Any information provided by a Web site visitor is held strictly
confidential within Cingular Wireless, or its authorized agent and will not
be sold to any other organization or business.
Types of Customer Information.
On some Web pages users can order products, make requests or register to
receive information. Such customer-specific information will be used to fulfill
the specific request or purpose for which it was provided. In addition, such
voluntarily provided information may be occasionally used to offer products
and services that may be of interest.
Privacy of Online Personal Information.
While Cingular Wireless may use this information to contact or send materials
to you for marketing purposes, we will take commercially reasonable steps
to safeguard the information from unauthorized access. We will not make customer-specific
information that is gathered on our site available to unaffiliated organizations
for commercial purposes unrelated to the business of Cingular Wireless, except
with the customer's permission, as required by law, for safety reasons, or
to survey customer satisfaction, under nondisclosure protection. We use the
information
provided when placing an order to complete that order. We do not share that
information with outside parties except as necessary to fulfill the online
order (e.g., providing the "ship to" address to our shipper.) We
may also use that information to offer other products or services of interest.
We do not sell customer information from our Web sites to any outside party.
Use of Customer Information.
Information collected online may be used within Cingular Wireless, or by
an authorized agent to inform the user about services and products of potential
interest. Customers might be contacted by telephone, direct mail or e-mail
to keep them up-to-date on new products and services offered by Cingular
Wireless, or an authorized agent.
Subscribers to "My Wireless Window."
Subscribers to "My Wireless Window" will be asked for personal
information in the "My Info" section of our Web site where we collect
information to provide you with stock quotes, weather, lottery results, news,
etc. We use this information gathered from you to provide you with personalized
information through our "My Info" Web site and through your wireless
handset. We develop summary, not individual, reports for our advertisers.
An example of a summary report might be "100,000 people clicked on advertisement "X" today
and of those people, 60% had indicated an interest in a specific stock quote."
Use of Generic Data.
When you visit Cingular Wireless Web sites, we log general data, including
your domain name (e.g. aol.com; bellsouth.net, etc.), the name of the web
page from which you entered our sites, and how much time you spend on each
page. We use this information to continually monitor and improve our Web
site. None of this information is collected or stored on a personal, customer-specific
level.
Data Security.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and appropriate use
of information, appropriate physical, electronic and managerial safeguards
have been established to secure the information collected online. All information
obtained for online purchases of Cingular Wireless products and services
is encrypted and secured to prevent the possibility of credit card and other
customer information theft.
Cookies.
The term "cookie" refers to the files that are transferred from
a Web site to your computer's hard drive. The purpose of cookies is to enable
the host Web site to display tailored information to you and to track your
activities on the Web site. Some (usually newer) versions of web browsers
allow you to decide whether or not to accept cookie files, and some programs
notify you when a Web site is about to deposit a cookie file on your hard
drive or receive cookie files selectively. You can check your hard drive
for cookie files. For PCs, look for "cookies.txt" files on your
hard drive. On a Macintosh, look for "magic cookies."
Access by Children.
Cingular Wireless Web sites are not structured to attract children under
the age of 13. Cingular Wireless believes there is no information on its
Web sites, which is inappropriate for viewing by children. Ordering online
products and services from Cingular Wireless is limited to adults (ages 18+).
Other Web Sites.
The Web sites of Cingular Wireless may contain links to other Web sites.
We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of other sites.
Correction of Information.
To correct any inaccuracies, please contact us via e-mail.
Updates.
Because of the evolving nature of the technologies that we use and the way
that we conduct business, we may amend this policy from time to time. This
privacy statement will be updated to reflect any future developments in Internet
business practices.
Effective January 14, 2001.
II. Legal Notices:
Copyright.
All material on this Web site is copyrighted. ©2003 Cingular Wireless.
All Rights Reserved.
How You May Use Our Materials.
You may use, copy and distribute the materials found on Cingular Wireless
Web sites for internal, noncommercial, informational purposes only. All copies
that you make of the material must bear any copyright, trademark or other
proprietary notice located on the site which pertains to the material being
copied. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted
a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property
right in the material or the products, services, processes or technology
described therein. All such rights are retained by Cingular Wireless LLC,
its subsidiaries and/or any third party owner of such rights.
How You May Use Our Marks.
You are not authorized to use any Cingular Wireless name or mark in any advertising,
publicity or in any other commercial manner without the prior written consent
of Cingular Wireless LLC.
How We May Use Information You Provide to Us.
Do not send us any confidential or proprietary information. Any feedback,
data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like, which
you send to us will be treated as being nonconfidential and nonproprietary.
We assume no obligation to protect such information from disclosure and will
be free to reproduce, use, and distribute the information to others without
restriction. We will also be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or
techniques contained in information that you send us for any purpose whatsoever
including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products
and services incorporating such information.
Endorsements.
All product and service marks contained herein that are not Cingular Wireless
marks are the trademarks of their respective owners. References that we make
to any names, marks, products or services of third parties or hypertext links
to third party sites or information do not necessarily constitute or imply
our endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the third party, information,
product or service.
Content and Liability Disclaimer.
Material on Cingular Wireless Web Sites may include inaccuracies or typographical
errors. Changes may be periodically incorporated into this material. Cingular
Wireless may make improvements and/or changes in the products, services and/or
programs described in these materials at any time without notice. The materials
on Cingular Wireless Web Sites are provided "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY
OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied
warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. CINGULAR WIRELESS
DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS,
OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION, APPARATUS, PRODUCT OR PROCESS DISCLOSED
ON THE SERVER OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THE SERVER. IN NO EVENT SHALL
CINGULAR WIRELESS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING SPECIAL,
INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS,
REVENUE, USE, OR DATA WHETHER BROUGHT IN CONTRACT OR TORT, ARISING OUT OF
OR CONNECTED WITH ANY CINGULAR WIRELESS WEB SITE OR THE USE, RELIANCE UPON
OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY MATERIAL CONTAINED IN OR ACCESSED FROM ANY CINGULAR
WIRELESS WEB SITE.
III. Additional Language for Providers of Internet Access and/or Various
Other OnlineProviders:
Monitoring of Materials Transmitted by You.
We are under no obligation to monitor the material residing on or transmitted
to this server. However, anyone using this server agrees that Cingular Wireless
may monitor the server contents periodically to (1) comply with any necessary
laws, regulations or other governmental requests; (2) to operate the server
properly or to protect itself and its users. Cingular Wireless reserves the
right to modify, reject or eliminate any material residing on or transmitted
to its server that it, in its sole discretion, believes is unacceptable or
in violation of the law or these terms and conditions.
Access Services Liability Disclaimer.
THE USER OF THIS SYSTEM ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR THE USE OF
THIS SERVER AND THE INTERNET GENERALLY. CINGULAR WIRELESS AND ITS AFFILIATES
DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
WITH REGARD TO THE INFORMATION ACCESSED FROM, OR VIA, THIS SERVER OR THE
INTERNET, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. CINGULAR WIRELESS DOES
NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS,
OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION, APPARATUS, PRODUCT OR PROCESS DISCLOSED
ON THE SERVER OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THE SERVER. IN NO EVENT SHALL
CINGULAR WIRELESS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA, REVENUE OR PROFITS,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT, NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION ON THIS SERVER OR THE INTERNET GENERALLY.