Crank the Earth, Inc. (known as "CTE") recognizes that its customers, visitors, users and others (known collectively or individually as "Visitors") who use cranktheearth.com ("cte.com") value their privacy. This privacy policy applies to all of the products, services and cte.com offered by Crank the Earth, Inc., or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies and details important information regarding the use and disclosure of visitor and user information collected on the website.
Your use of cte.com and any personal information you provide on cte.com remains subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy and the Crank the Earth, Inc. Terms of Use.
Please notice that any comment or other content you post or send to cte.com becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy. Your messages and other information you make available in public areas of the CTE website will be seen by people and organizations not related to or controlled by CTE and may be used by others to contact you.
Crank the Earth, Inc. Privacy Policy applies only to cte.com and services that are owned and operated by CTE. While other websites may be displayed as links from within cte.com, those sites are owned and operated by others and they maybe have different privacy policies. When linking from cte.com to other websites, if you have privacy concerns, we urge you to review the privacy policies of those sites.
CTE. may use third-party advertising companies to serve or track ads on our website and other websites. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to measure advertising effectiveness and to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
Information Collection and Use
Crank the Earth, Inc. does not require that you register to view products. Registration is required to use certain interactive features such as blogging, posting comments, design submissions, voting, etc. CTE. collects personal information when you register with CTE, when you visit the website, when you make a purchase, or any time you provide information to cranktheearth.com about yourself. CTE 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, and other personally-identifying information ("Personal Information"). When you register with Crank the Earth, Inc. and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
CTE automatically receives and records other non-personally-identifying information ("Non-Personal Information") on our server logs from your browser even if you do not register with cranktheearth.com, such as your IP address, cranktheearth.com cookie information, and the pages you visit.
CTE uses Non-Personal Information for the following general purposes: to customize advertising information and content, execute on requests for products and services, improve our services, ways to contact you, conduct other types of research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Children Under 13
Crank the Earth, Inc. is committed to protecting the privacy of children. We do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information online from children under the age of 13. If CTE learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on cranktheearth.com without verified parental consent, then Crank the Earth, Inc. will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Crank the Earth, Inc. does not rent, sell, or share Personal Information with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services youíve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
CTE provides the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with CTE under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your Personal Information to help CTE communicate with you about offers from CTE and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
CTE provides Non-Personal Information to interested third-parties for purposes of understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on cranktheearth.com.
CTE uses both your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information to improve the quality and design of cranktheearth.com and to create new promotions, website features, functionality, and services by storing, tracking and analyzing User data, preferences, and trends.
CTE may share Personal Information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other forms of legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
CTE may share Personal Information if we believe it is necessary 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 Crank the Earth Inc.ís Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
CTE may transmit Personal Information if Crank the Earth, Inc. is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Crank the Earth, Inc. will notify active known users if there is a need to change this Privacy Policy based on a Crank the Earth, Inc. acquisition or merger.
In the unlikely event of a CTE bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, CTE may not be able to control how your Personal Information is treated, transferred, or used.
Keep in mind that any personal information, or comments that you voluntarily disclose on cte.com, for example in your comments or blogs, becomes publicly available. Your handle/account name is displayed to other Users when you send and/or post messages through cte.com.
Cookies and Web Beacons
CTE may set and access cte.com cookies on your computer. You may disable these cookies within your browser, but some portions of the website may require that your cte.com cookies be enabled.
CTE lets other companies that show advertisements on our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companiesí use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to CTEís cookies.
CTE may use web beacons in connection with emails sent to cte.com users, to let us know whether and when the email was opened. No Personal Information is transmitted through web beacons.
Confidentiality and Security
CTE uses commercially reasonable technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your Personal Information. CTE cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Information you transmit to cte.com and you do so at your own risk.
CTE limits access to Personal Information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with Personal Information to provide products or services to you or in order to perform their jobs.
Editing and Deleting Your Account Information
Users can edit their CTE account information at any time by visiting their account profile page. CTE reserves the right to use your Personal Information in order to send you certain communications relating to the CTE services, such as announcements, admin messages, etc. that are all a part of your CTE account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. You can deactivate your CTE account at any time by cancelling your account on the account profile page.
International Users
If you are a User accessing cte.com from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from the United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the cte.com website, which is governed by U.S. law and this Privacy Policy as incorporated in our Term of Use, you will be transferring your Personal Information into the United States and you consent to that transfer.
Privacy Policy Changes
CTE may update this Privacy Policy at any time in its sole discretion and without prior notice. CTE will work to notify Users about significant changes in the way we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your cte.com account and/or by placing a notice on the cte.com website.
Effective Date
This Privacy Policy was last modified on February 27, 2008.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us directly at: Privacy Policy Crank the Earth, Inc. 3555 W Ainslie St., Chicago, IL 60625 or email us at
privacy@cranktheearth.com