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Guardian Network takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

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This policy covers how Guardian Network treats personal information that Guardian Network collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Guardian Network products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Guardian Network does not own or control, or to people that Guardian Network does not employ or manage.

Guardian Network collects personal information when you register with Guardian Network and become a member, when you use Guardian Network products or services, when you visit Guardian Network pages or the pages of certain Guardian Network partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Guardian Network 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, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, and occupation. Once you register with Guardian Network and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Guardian Network 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.
Guardian Network automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Guardian Network cookie information, and the page you request.
Guardian Network 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.

Guardian Network does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've 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 Guardian Network under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Guardian Network communicate with you about offers from Guardian Network and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

We transfer information about you if Guardian Network is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Guardian Network will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Guardian Network 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.

Guardian Network 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.

Guardian Network 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).

Guardian Network works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you've requested please read our detailed reference links.

Guardian Network 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 Guardian Network's cookies.

Guardian Network uses web beacons to access Guardian Network cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Guardian Network products and services.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Guardian Network service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Guardian Network Newsletter, that are considered part of your Guardian Network account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

You can delete your Guardian Network account by logging in to your account from the Guardian Network Home Page then click on the SUPPORT button which is on the Left Nav bar on the bottom and complete the form. Once you request to cancel your account we will delete all your data and it will never be able to be retrieved. We will also notify your Guardians that you cancelled your account and that they are no longer required to be your Guardian.

We will not be able to access any of your personal information. Therefore, please do not supply us or any of our staff (support persons) with your passwords or login information. Only your name and email address will be in our system and available to our employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. Click here to read more about Security

Guardian Network 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 email address specified in your Guardian Network account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Guardian Network takes your security seriously and takes reasonable steps to protect your information. No data transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. The following is a summary of the measures Guardian Network takes to protect your information and descriptions of ways we implement these measures for different types of information you may provide to us.

Guardian Network continues to evaluate and implement enhancements in security technology and practices, however we can only take steps to help reduce the risks of unauthorized access. Each individual using the Internet can take steps to help protect their information and further minimize the likelihood that a security incident may occur. We describe some of those measures and provide links to information that may be helpful in these pages and within our Security Center.

Security Steps We Have Taken

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Guardian Network uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption when transmitting certain kinds of information, such as financial services information or payment information. An icon resembling a padlock is displayed on the bottom of most browsers window during SSL transactions that involve credit cards and other forms of payment. Any time Guardian Network asks you for a credit card number on Guardian Network for payment or for verification purposes, it will be SSL encrypted.

The Guardian Security Key is an additional optional layer of security to control access to sensitive information or services on Guardian Network. Users are asked to create a security key during the sign-up process. Please note that the Security Key automatically "times out" after an hour and requires the user to sign in again to access Security Key protected areas.
Secure Storage

Guardian Network maintains reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Vendors and Partners

Guardian Network works with vendors and partners to protect the security and privacy of user information.

Employee and Contractor Access Information

Guardian Network limits access to your personal information about you to those employees who we reasonably believe need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. Only your contact information, such as phone, email address and street address can be accessed. The information that you store on our site detailing your "Personal Information" (including files and/or images that you upload) are, of course, your personal information too. As additional security, this is encrypted when it is collected and is always stored in an encrypted format. No one can read this information (not even us) until it is properly released after your death to the people you have selected.

Security Steps You Can Take

The following is information about topics that you may want to learn more about and steps you can take to help maintain your account and computer security when online.

    * Ten Essential Security Tips
    * About Passwords
    * Choosing Your Password
    * Password Scams
    * Viruses, Trojan Horses and Worms
    * Spyware
    * Software
    * Interacting Online With Strangers
    * Shared Computer

If you believe your Guardian Network account has been compromised, please report the incident using our contact form.

If you have been contacted by someone about your Guardian Network account asking for a password, birth date or other personal information, please contact us. Please include the full headers and the HTML source code of the email you received.

If you are a member of the security community and need to report a technical vulnerability please click here to contact us.

In the event that you believe that your personal safety is at risk or if you believe that you may be the victim of identity theft or other illegal conduct, please contact the appropriate federal, state or local law enforcement agencies directly.

When your web browser or email application requests a web page or email from another computer on the Internet, it automatically gives that computer the address where it should send the information. This is called your computer's "IP address." (IP stands for "Internet protocol.") For most users accessing the Internet from a dial-up Internet service provider (ISP), the IP address will be different every time you log on.

Guardian Network receives IP addresses from all users because this information is automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page.
Your IP address is also stored in our user registration databases when you register with Guardian Network.
IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including to:

Diagnose service or technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.

Send the most appropriate advertising based on geographic area or information derived from your IP address. Many IP addresses are commonly associated with Internet service providers, universities, or major corporations in specific regions or localities. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.

Estimate the total number of users visiting Guardian Network from specific countries or regions of the world.

Assist merchants in Guardian Network Stores and Guardian Network Shopping to track visits to and business at their stores.

Help determine which users have access privileges to certain content that we host.

When a Guardian Network web page is requested and viewed, that request is logged on our servers with information including the IP address of the computer that requested the page.
Guardian Network Mail includes IP addresses in outgoing mail message headers, as specified by standard Internet protocol.
Guardian Network Messenger sometimes uses a peer-to-peer connection during its operation, including times when you may be using it for instant messaging (text conversations), file sharing and webcam streaming. Peer-to-peer means that your computer connects directly to the other user's computer in the conversation without needing to go through Guardian Network servers. As such, your IP address is available to users you share a peer-to-peer connection with.

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.

Each web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Guardian Network's Practices Regarding Cookies

Guardian Network uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: