Disclaimer
THE PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS TO EXPLAIN THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH USING THE SNEAKAPUFF SYSTEM.
SNEAKAPUFF IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR USE, MISSUSE OR ILLEGAL USE OF ITS PRODUCTS. ANY PRODUCTS SOLD BY SNEAKAPUFF ARE INTENDED FOR LEGAL TOBACCO/SMOKING BY ADULTS 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ONLY. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THE SYSTEM FOR EFFECTIVENESS. SNEAKAPUFF DOES GUARANTEE THE PRODUCT FOR MECHANICAL FUNCTIONALITY.
BY ENTERING THE SITE, YOU (1) SIGNIFY YOUR ASSENT TO SNEAKAPUFF TERMS OF SERVICE; (2) VERIFY YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE; (3) VERIFY TOBACCO PRODUCTS, PIPES, AND SMOKING ACCESSORIES ARE SOLD LEGALLY IN YOUR COUNTY/STATE/COUNTRY; (4) AGREE TO USE THE PRODUCTS OFFERED HEREIN FOR LEGAL AND INTENDED USES ONLY; (5) VERIFY YOU ARE NOT VISITING WITH ANY MALICE TOWARDS SNEAKAPUFF; (6) BY ENTERING THIS SITE YOU ARE OBSERVING ANY AND ALL LOCAL LAWS AND (7) IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY AND ALL LIABILITY RESULTING FROM THE PURCHASE AND/OR USE OF SUCH PRODUCTS. IF YOU ARE UNDER AGE 18 OR DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE OUR SERVICE OR SYSTEM.
U.S. SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and may complicate pregnancy.
Spam Policy
SneakAPuff encourages you to use our service as long as you abide by the SneakAPuff Terms of Service and Disclaimer and SneakAPuff’s prohibition on spamming and unethical marketing activities. The following are some examples of spamming that may violate the Terms of Service and SneakAPuff’s Spam Policy:
- Manipulating identifiers, such as e-mail headers, to disguise the origin of any content transmitted to or through SneakAPuff computer systems.
- Relaying e-mail from a third party’s mail servers without the permission of that third party.
- Using or causing to be used SneakAPuff computer systems to facilitate the transmission of unsolicited or unauthorized material. This includes any promotional materials, URL’s, junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any other form of unauthorized solicitation that you may upload, post, e-mail, transmit, or otherwise make available.
- Using robots or otherwise harvesting other’s e-mail addresses from the SneakAPuff site for purposes of sending unsolicited or unauthorized material.
- Uploading, posting, e-mailing, or transmitting the same message, URL, or post multiple times.
- Disrupting the normal flow of dialogue, or causing the screen to scroll faster than other users of the service are able to type, or otherwise acting in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to engage in real-time exchanges.
Violations of our Terms of Service or this Spam Policy may result in legal action against you and the termination, without notice, of your SneakAPuff ID and/or anything associated with it, including, but not limited to, e-mail accounts, deliveries, customer service posts and profiles. Nothing in this policy is intended to grant any right to transmit e-mail to or through SneakAPuff computer systems. SneakAPuff does not waive any rights by the failure to enforce this policy in every instance in which it might apply.
NOTICE: Sending unsolicited e-mail advertisements to or through SneakAPuff computer systems will use or cause to be used SneakAPuff servers located in Texas. Any unauthorized use of SneakAPuff computer systems is a violation of the SneakAPuff Terms of Service, Spam Policy, and certain federal and state laws, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.). Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.
Please report violations of this Spam Policy.
Privacy Policy
SneakAPuff takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how SneakAPuff treats personal information that SneakAPuff collects and receives, including information related to your past use of SneakAPuff products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
Information Collection and Use
General
SneakAPuff collects personal information when you register with SneakAPuff, when you visit SneakAPuff pages or the pages of certain SneakAPuff partners. SneakAPuff may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
When you register we ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services we may also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. Once you register with SneakAPuff and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
SneakAPuff collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.
SneakAPuff automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP Address, SneakAPuff cookie information, and the page you request.
SneakAPuff uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
SneakAPuff does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you have requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with SneakAPuff under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help SneakAPuff communicate with you about offers from SneakAPuff and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
We have a parent’s permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing SneakAPuff to collect and use their child’s information without consenting to SneakAPuff sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;
We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
We believe it is necessary to share 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 SneakAPuff’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We transfer information about you if SneakAPuff is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, SneakAPuff will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
SneakAPuff displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria – for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
SneakAPuff does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
SneakAPuff advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
SneakAPuff works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.
Cookies
SneakAPuff may set and access SneakAPuff cookies on your computer.
SneakAPuff lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to SneakAPuff’s cookies.
SneakAPuff uses web beacons to access SneakAPuff cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with SneakAPuff products and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
General
You can edit your SneakAPuff Account Information at any time.
New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the SneakAPuff service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the SneakAPuff Newsletter, that are considered part of your SneakAPuff account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
Confidentiality and Security
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
SneakAPuff may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address specified in your SneakAPuff account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, please see the contact us page for ways to connect.
Data Storage Policy
Account Information
When you register with SneakAPuff or submit information to SneakAPuff, a temporary copy of that information is routinely made to prevent accidental loss of your information through a computer malfunction or human error.
SneakAPuff keeps your account information active in our user registration databases in order to provide immediate access to your personalization preferences each time you visit SneakAPuff.
If you ask SneakAPuff to delete your SneakAPuff account, in most cases your account will be deactivated and then deleted from our user registration database in approximately 90 days. This delay is necessary to noneourage users from engaging in fraudulent activity.
Please note that any information that we have copied may remain in back-up storage for some period of time after your deletion request. This may be the case even though no information about your account remains in our active user databases.
Servers
The SneakAPuff computers (“servers”) that send your web pages and advertising banners process and store an enormous amount of information every day. These computer records are called log files.
Log files are used for analysis, research, auditing, and other purposes, as described above. After this information has been used, it is stored and is inaccessible. Until the information is stored, your SneakAPuff ID may remain in our active server log files.
