Plain-English Privacy Policy

We don't collect information about you unless we ask for — and obtain — your consent first. And we only collect information from form pages or email messages, so you know exactly what information you're giving us.
 
We tell you why we need that information, and only use it for its stated purpose, nothing else.
 
We never make that information available to anyone else except to process payments via our respective banks and/or credit card companies, to deliver goods to you, or in response to a valid order of a properly constituted court with appropriate jurisdiction. We will notify you of any such order upon proper service of that order upon us by a duly authorised officer of the court.
 
We use cookies to prevent some pop-up windows from appearing more than once during your visit to our site. These are session cookies only, which expire when you leave this site. We also use cookies to link you to the Profit Clinic affiliate who referred you to our service in order to ensure their entitlements and to protect you against any improper conduct on the part of the affiliate.

No personal data is stored unless we receive your permission to do so, such as orders from you for goods or services.
 
Once we've finished with your information, we delete it.

Earnings Disclaimer

Every reasonable effort has been made to accurately represent our products and services. Any examples given of earnings are for illustrative or demonstration purposes only and are not to be interpreted as a promise or guarantee of earnings.

Earning potential is entirely dependent upon personal effort and the effective use of our products and services. We provide products and services for use by business owners on the understanding that business success requires vision, time, effort and self-discipline on the part of those involved.

Any claims made of actual earnings or examples of actual results can be verified upon request. Your level of success in attaining the results claimed in our materials depends on the time and effort you invest, your finances, knowledge, skills, resources and your technical and marketing skills, plus other variable factors beyond our control.

Since these factors vary widely between individuals, we cannot guarantee your success or income level. Nor do we accept responsibility for any of your decisions or actions.

Materials found on our web site may contain information that includes or is based upon forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable laws and regulations. Forward-looking statements give our expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts.

They use words like “anticipate”, “estimate”, “expect”, “project”, “intend”, “plan”, “believe”, “opinion” and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with a description of potential earnings or financial performance.

Any and all forward-looking statements made here or in any of our literature or collateral materials are intended to express our opinion of earnings potential only. Many factors will be important in determining your actual results and no guarantees are made that you will achieve results similar to ourselves or anybody else. No guarantees or warranties are given, express or implied, that you will achieve any results whatsoever from use of our system or information.

Anti Spam Policy

Our autoresponders, by themselves, are not Spam. Their use is conditional upon your strict use of the verified opt-in model of email distribution. This means that your recipients must express interest in your information by sending you an email, filling out a form, making a purchase or otherwise contacting you first. In addition, all Autoresponder messages sent from zip-cart autoresponder accounts must have...

• a functioning Unsubscribe link and
• a valid name and contact address for you

so that recipients may opt-out of your list at any time, and you must honour each request promptly.

Users of zip-cart.com are strictly prohibited from sending unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or SPAM from their zip-cart accounts, whether those messages are sent directly by the account holder, by third party or by any affiliate or similar agent acting on the account holder's behalf. As such, zip-cart.com and The Profit Clinic reserve the right to terminate the account of any user breaching this condition, without notice and without compensation.

All lists used in conjunction with the services provided by zip-cart.com must be 100% opt-in. We require clients to provide proof of opt-in for any or all list subscribers on demand.

"The Internet is not a free resource. Access to and a presence on the Internet comes at a cost to the participants, the service provider, and the recipients of those services made available by the Internet"...

"Every recipient of every E-Mail message bears a cost, either direct (cost per message received, an incremental increase in connection charges) or indirect (higher service fees to recoup infrastructure costs associated with the additional Internet traffic which such mass-mailings create). In addition, other resources, such as the disk space and time of the recipient, are consumed."

"Because the recipients have no control over whether or not they will receive such messages, the aforementioned costs are realized involuntarily, and without consent. It is this condition (the absence of consent to bear the costs of receipt of a mass-distributed message) that has shaped the Internet Community's viewpoint - that the act of sending SPAM constitutes a willful theft of service, money, and/or resources."

Source: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3098.php

This has also become the basis of legal precedent against SPAM or UCE.

zip-cart.com may charge a US$100 administration fee for each Spam complaint received against your account. This fee may be applied toward disputing the complaint with the complainant, the reporting service or black list service, and resolving the complaint with our host. This applies to spam complaints we receive including, but not limited to, those generated by your affiliates or use of your ad tracking links.

Any merchant found to be involved in a SPAM/UCE campaign involving the services provided by zip-cart.com in any way, including flooding newsgroups, distributing messages to recipients who did not request them, or any other abuse of our system that contravenes any relevant legislation, will be subject to the following:

• The account will be closed immediately, without obligation of notice or compensation to the account holder.
   
• A US$500.00 penalty fee will become payable by the offending account holder.
   
• The terms of our Privacy Policy will no longer apply. All relevant information will be provided to investigating authorities, courts of law or anti-Spam organisations.
   
• All information stored within the offending account will be confiscated, with no right of retrieval by the account holder.

Further, you will be held accountable for any monetary damages, costs, fines, awards, penalties or losses suffered by zip-cart.com and The Profit Clinic as a result of your contravention of our Terms of Service and Spam policy, directly or indirectly. This may include, but is not limited to, loss of Web/Domain hosting, costs of securing further Web/Domain hosting, and punitive damages related to loss of clients and subsequent revenues and profits.

Where other clients of zip-cart.com suffer financial losses, costs or penalties of any kind as a consequence of your actions, we reserve the right to pass on all details in our possession to enable them to pursue legal remedy against you.

Ambush Selling Policy

We don't like One-Time Offers (OTOs) very much because they typically prey on people's fear of loss. They're usually a form of manipulative selling that goes against the principles of Fourth Generation™ Selling, which guide everything we do in our business.

In other words, we don't believe in ambushing you, just because you've already bought from us, to pressure or manipulate you into buying even more from us using blatant emotional blackmail.

But, like most things in life, what makes the real difference between good or bad, ethical or unethical, desirable or undesirable, isn't so much WHAT you do as WHY and HOW you do it... your motives and methods.

For example, selling is WHAT you have to do to make a profit in business. There's simply no other way. To make a profit you have to sell something for more than it costs you. End of story. But being pushy and manipulative isn't WHAT you do when selling... it's WHY and HOW you do it. The most successful sales professionals are NEVER pushy or manipulative.

We're happy to reward you if you're decisive and know what YOU want.

So we offer OTOs with some of our products. Those rewards may be a one-time only special price on Master Resale Rights or similar. But One-Time Offers are never the ONLY way to get your hands on our products. They're available to you at any time — just not at that special price.

So you won't find any hype or manipulative tactics on our OTO pages. Just an attractive one-time offer — IF it's something you need and want right now. Otherwise, you can get it at the regular price at any time if now isn't the right time for you. The choice is yours, and we won't insult you by trying to get you to buy through the use of pushy emotional manipulation.

Live Event Cancellations Policy

Our Cancellations Policy is clear and acknowledges the reality that any cancellation less than fourteen (14) days prior to an event for which you've registered creates extra costs for us, whether we can fill your place or not…

• Cancellations must be notified to our office by email, telephone or mail to be eligible for refund. (Please note: we cannot accept faxes.)
   
• If you cancel at least fourteen (14) days prior to the event for which you've registered and paid, we will refund your payment in full.
   
• If you cancel at least seven (7) days, but less than fourteen (14) days, prior to the event we will refund your payment, less a 25% cancellation fee, unless we can fill your place, in which case we will refund your payment, less a 12.5% cancellation fee.
   
• If you cancel less than seven (7) days prior to the event, no refund will be made unless we can fill your place, in which case we will refund your payment, less a 25% cancellation fee.
   
• If you fail to attend an event for which you've registered, no refund will be made except under genuinely extenuating circumstances, at our sole discretion.

Sales Letter Policy

We normally include the author's own sales letter for each Resale Rights product we offer to let you see how they promote their own product. The sales letter is often a reliable indicator of how the author views the people they target with their products — which can tell you a lot about its real usefulness to you.

If they use strong emotional appeals to greed, laziness, fear of loss, desperation, gullibility or if they cynically hold out false hope of instant, effortless riches, then it's a reasonable assumption that they see YOU as just another Employee/ Consumer/ Imitator to be exploited and abused.

But don't be too hasty... it's not always the case. (Besides, we simply refuse to offer products that are abusive or exploitative, or which tend to encourage abuse or exploitation.)

Sometimes an author will create an excellent product about their specialist topic, then turn around and create a blaring, hype-riddled, over-the-top sales letter, simply because they don't know any better... after all, that's how the "Gurus" say you should do it. (Which is true, of course, if you're a "Guru", because that's the audience you always target, always with those kinds of manipulative selling tactics.)

You can always tell when this is the case, though. These sales letters are typically badly written and presented and look just the same as all the other "magic formula", "silver bullet", "killer copy" sales letters that are all as boring, patronising, and irritating as each other. And they almost always conclude with clumsy, ham-fisted attempts at emotional blackmail designed to get the idiot reader (that's how they view you) to set aside all common sense and buy for no better reason than that "I might decide to double the price or take it off the market at any time".

Just the right basis for making a rational, objective business decision, right?