BlinkoGold respects your privacy, and has published this Privacy Policy to explain how BlinkoGold treats information you submit to BlinkoGold. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully prior to your access to and/or use of BlinkoGold.com or your registration for or use of a Service. If you do not agree to abide by this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use Blinkogold.com or register for or use any of the Services.

By submitting information to BlinkoGold, either by visiting or using BlinkoGold.com or registering for or using a Service, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions of BlinkoGold's Terms of Use and Service Agreement (the " Terms of Use "). This Privacy Policy is governed by the Terms of Use, which includes which includes disclaimers of warranties, limitation of liabilities and an agreement to arbitrate all claims. Each capitalized term not defined in this Privacy Policy will have the meaning set forth in the Terms of Use.

ACCESS TO AND USE OF BLINKOGOLD.COM AND THE SERVICES

You represent that you are of legal age to agree to the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy, or you are at least 18 years of age and have your parent's or legal guardian's permission to access and use Blinkogold.com and to register for, purchase and use the Services, as applicable. Neither Blinkogold.com nor the Services are intended to be used by, and are not directed to, children under 13 years of age. Additionally, some Services, such as the Chat Service, are not intended to be used by, and are not directed to, anyone under 18 years of age. If you register for, purchase and/or use the Chat Service, you represent you are at least 18 years of age. Blinko Gold does not ask visitors or users to provide age information. For this reason, Blinko Gold treats all visitors and users as being of legal age to agree to the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as at least 13 years of age and as having their parent's permission to access and use Blinkogold.com and to register for and to use the Services, and at least 18 years of age with respect to the Chat Service. In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), if Blinko Gold receives a complaint which states that a visitor or user is under 13 years of age, Blinko Gold will (i) request verifiable parental consent prior to gathering any additional personal information from such visitor or user, (ii) keep confidential and secure all personal information gathered from such visitor or user, (iii) provide the applicable parent(s) with access to any personal information gathered from the visitor or user, and (iv) provide the applicable parent(s) the opportunity to prohibit further collection of personal information from such visitor or user.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

While a mobile phone number is the only information that is gathered from users of the Services under normal circumstances, in order to provide you with access to certain Services, such as the Chat Services, or for sweepstakes purposes or refunds, you may also be required to provide Blinko Gold with certain personal information, such as your name, postal address, phone number, email address, Blinko Gold username and password, information regarding your personal interests and preferences, date of service, and demographic and usage information.

You acknowledge and agree that Blinko Gold may collect and process such personal information in connection with your registration for and use of the Services. You further acknowledge and agree that Blinko Gold may transfer your personal information outside of the United States for storage and processing. Blinko Gold makes no representation or warranty with respect to any duty to permanently store any personal information you may provide.

In order to provide you a better and more personalized Service as well as to keep you updated on our and third parties products and services we may collect other personal information that you voluntarily provide us such as information about your personal preferences, survey responses, details on your transactions and interactions with us. Personal information may also be contained in Postings or other User Generated Content you Post or submit to us via the Service or otherwise.

CHANGE OR UPDATE REGISTRATION DATA, OPT-OUT

To request a change, to update your Registration Data and to choose to opt-out of receiving marketing and promotional electronic messages, please contact customer service by clicking here. It is your responsibility to maintain and promptly update your Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.

We may always contact you via email or SMS for administrative or informational purposes, including follow-up messages regarding the administration of your subscription plan, any promotions you have entered or participated in, or offers you have accepted or services you have enrolled in or ordered or other transactions you have initiated in connection with our Service.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Blinko Gold uses your personal information to improve and customize the advertising and Content you see on Blinkogold.com, to fulfill your requests for certain products and Services, and, if you enter into a transaction with Blinko Gold or otherwise permit Blinko Gold and/or third parties , to contact you about special offers and new products. Your personal information may also be aggregated and used by Blinko Gold for market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity, to enforce the Terms of Use or any applicable Rules, for other internal purposes, and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. Blinko Gold will obtain your consent for any use of your personal information beyond those set forth in this Privacy Policy and the original uses for which you provided your consent.

You agree that Blinko Gold and/or third parties may use personal information about you to improve Blinko Gold’s marketing and promotional efforts, analyze website usage, improve Blinko Gold’s product offerings, customize the Content, customize the Services, and as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. You also agree that Blinko Gold and/or third parties may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of Blinkogold.com or a Service. By accepting the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Blinko Gold may share your personal information with third parties; you may at any time decline to permit the sharing of your Personal Information with third parties for direct marketing purposes by contacting our Customer Care service.

Among such third parties disclosure Blinko Gold may share some of your personal information with its affiliates, and you authorize Blinko Gold and its affiliates to use your personal information in connection with electronic communications to you, including, without limitation, email, text messaging, SMS, MMS, WAP, BREW and other means of mobile content delivery, and off-line offerings or campaigns. In addition, the following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide you with the Services:

• Advertisers. Blinko Gold, as the case may be, may ( i ) aggregate personal information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, Blinko Gold does not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally without your explicit consent; (ii) communicate personal information and disclose such information in a personally identifiable manner to advertiser and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes .
• External Service Providers. There are a number of separate services offered by third parties that Blinko Gold refers to as external service providers that may be complementary to your use of Blinkogold.com or the Services. If you choose to use these separate services, disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. With your consent, and for your convenience, Blinko Gold may provide some of your personal information to an external service provider offering such services. To prevent Blinko Gold’s disclosure of your personally identifiable information to an external service provider, you can decline such consent or simply not use their services. Because Blinko Gold does not control the privacy practices of these third parties, you should evaluate their practices before deciding to use their services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Blinko Gold may disclose your personal information to your mobile device service provider to secure collection of fees. Outside the transaction chain noted in this Privacy Policy, Blinko Gold does not disclose your personally identifiable information to external service providers unless you provide consent.
• Internal Service Providers. Blinko Gold may use third parties that Blinko Gold refers to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of Blinko Gold’s business, products and Services that Blinko Gold provides to you and, therefore, Blinko Gold may provide your personal information directly to these internal service providers (e.g. customer care, third party billing, the holding company Buongiorno spa). In some instances, the internal service provider may collect information directly from you. If you provide additional information to an internal service provider directly, then their use of your personally identifiable information is governed by their applicable privacy policy. Outside the transaction chain noted in this Privacy Policy, Blinko Gold does not disclose your personally identifiable information to internal service providers unless you provide consent.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Blinko Gold reserves the right, and you authorize Blinko Gold, to share or disclose your personal information, including, without limitation, any content, records or electronic communications of any kind, when Blinko Gold determines, in its sole discretion, that the disclosure of your personally identifiable information is necessary to identify or contact you or to bring legal action against you if:

• You are or may be violating the Terms of Use , this Privacy Policy or any applicable Rules;
• You are interfering with BlinkoGold's or a third party's rights or property;
• You are violating any applicable law, rule or regulation;
• Necessary or required by any applicable law, rule or regulation; and/or
• Requested by governmental authorities in the event of any investigation, act of terrorism or instance of local, regional or national emergency.

In addition, Blinko Gold cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example, without limiting the foregoing, Blinko Gold may be forced to disclose personal information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access your transmissions or communications. Therefore, although Blinko Gold uses industry standard practices to protect your privacy, Blinko Gold does not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private. Also, in the event of a spin-off, merger, acquisition, other extraordinary operation, or change of control of Blinko Gold, personal information collected by Blinko Gold about you will be considered a business asset and will be transferred to the applicable new entity.

COMMUNICATIONS

If you register for a Service, you will receive Blinko Gold’s email newsletter and special offers via SMS, unless you have requested otherwise at the time of registration or as set forth below. Blinko Gold maintains a strict "no-spam" policy and Blinko Gold fully complies with CAN-SPAM Act regulations.

You may unsubscribe from Blinko Gold’s electronic newsletters and special offers at any time by following the instructions set forth at the end of every newsletter or special offer. While all efforts are made to insure this information is viewable in all email browsers and on all mobile devices compatible with the Services, there may be cases where certain email browsers or mobile devices do not display the unsubscribe information correctly. If you are having problems unsubscribing, please contact customer service by clicking here and you will be removed within seven (7) business days. Please note that direct replies to any newsletter or special offer are processed by computer and are not always viewed by a human.

COOKIES

"Cookies" are alphanumeric identifiers in the form of text files that are inserted and stored by your web browser on your computer's hard drive. Blinko Gold and third party advertisers may set and access cookies on your computer to track and store preferential information about you. Blinko Gold and third party advertisers gather anonymous information about their users through cookie technology on an aggregate level only. Such aggregated information is used within Blinko Gold’s internal organization and is only shared with third party advertisers on an aggregated and non-personally identifiable basis.

WEB BEACONS

Web Beacons, also known as pixel tags and clear GIFs ("Web Beacons"), are electronic images that allow a website to access cookies and help track marketing campaigns and general usage patterns of visitors to those websites. Web Beacons can recognize certain types of information, such as cookie numbers, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page where the Web Beacons is placed. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with third parties through the use of Web Beacons on Blinkogold.com. However, through Web Beacons, we may collect general information that will not personally identify you, such as your Internet browser, operating system, IP address, date of visit, time of visit and path taken through Blinkogold.com.

• Internal use of Web Beacons. Blinko Gold may use Web Beacons internally to count visitors and recognize visitors through cookies. Access to cookies helps Blinko Gold personalize your experience when you visit Blinkogold.com.
• Email. Blinko Gold may include Web Beacons in HTML-formatted email messages that Blinko Gold sends to you. Web Beacons in email messages helps Blinko Gold determine your interest in and the effectiveness of such emails.
• External use of Web Beacons. Blinko Gold may also use Web Beacons externally. For example, Blinko Gold may report aggregate information about visitors, such as demographic and usage information, to its affiliates and other third parties. Blinko Gold may also include other companies' Web Beacons within Blinkogold.com.

SECURITY

Personal information you submit to Blinko Gold is password protected for your privacy and security. In the unlikely event that an unauthorized third party compromises Blinko Gold’s security measures, Blinko Gold will not be responsible for any damages directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized third party's ability to view, use or disseminate such information.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Blinkogold.com may include links to third party websites. Such links are not an endorsement by Blinko Gold of those websites and/or the products or services offered on those websites. Third party websites may have different privacy policies, and Blinko Gold is not responsible for the privacy practices of those third party websites. If you click on a link to a third party website, Blinko Gold encourages you to check the privacy policy of that website, as it may differ substantially from this Privacy Policy. Blinko Gold makes no representations or warranties nor is Blinko Gold responsible for the privacy policies of any websites other than Blinkogold.com. If you decide to access any third party links appearing on Blinkogold.com, you do so at your own risk.

TRANSMISSIONS, SUBMISSIONS AND POSTINGS

Blinko Gold welcomes the submission of comments, information and feedback regarding Blinkogold.com and the Services. However, as set forth in detail in the Terms of Use , Blinko Gold does not want to receive certain kinds of information from you, including any confidential or proprietary information, without prior written consent of Blinko Gold. Although Blinko Gold does not regularly review your transmissions, submissions or postings, Blinko Gold reserves the right (but not the obligation), at its sole discretion and at any time, to edit, refuse to post or remove your transmissions, submissions or postings. You hereby acknowledge and agree that Blinko Gold may review transmissions, submissions or postings made by you to determine, in its sole discretion, your compliance with the Terms of Use , this Privacy Policy and any applicable Rules, and that Blinko Gold shall have the unrestricted right to use such information for any purpose and without compensation to you.

OTHER TERMS

To review other applicable terms and conditions that apply to this Privacy Policy, including, without limitation, intellectual property rights, disclaimer of warranties, limitation of liability and resolving disputes, please review the Terms of Use .

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Blinko Gold reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to update, amend and/or change this Privacy Policy without prior notice and at any time. Updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted here. You are encouraged to revisit this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to review any changes that have been made. Your continued access and use of Blinkogold.com and any Services following the posting of any such changes shall automatically be deemed your acceptance of such changes. Blinko Gold’s last update to this Privacy Policy was made and posted on December 28, 2006.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Residents of the State of California, under title 1.8 of the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California, a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed Personal Information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, the law provides that if the company has a privacy policy that gives either an "Opt-out" or "Opt-in" choice for use of your Personal Information by third parties for marketing purposes, the company may instead provide you with information on how to exercise your disclosure choice options.

Blinko Gold has a comprehensive Privacy Policy and provides you with details on how you may decline to permit the use of your Personal Information by third parties for direct marketing purposes. Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties that received your Personal Information for marketing purposes during the preceding year.

If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise your third party disclosure choices, you must send a request to our customer care services at the following address. We are not responsible for notices that are not sent properly, notices that are illegible or do not have complete information.

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS

If you have questions, comments, concerns or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us via any of the methods set forth below:

Via email: care@blinkogold.com
Via Fax: 786-513-0967
BlinkoGold
Attn: BlinkoGold Customer Service
485 Alberto Way, Suite 210
Los Gatos, CA 95032