Privacy Policy

We are committed to your privacy. This Policy is designed to provide transparency regarding our data practices, provide Users with details about how we collect and use data that you may provide through your use of the Services, explain how that data may be disclosed by us, and as well as your choices concerning the data we collect. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at: [email protected].

1. Information We Collect and How We Collect It.
   (a) Personal InformationWhen you create a Profile on our site, we ask you for a user name, email address, password and a first name or nickname. We may also collect other personal information that you choose to disclose in material that you submit to us, in comments that you post on our site or when you otherwise disclose Personal Data to us or third parties when using the Services.

    

   (b) Location Data. We and our Affiliates may collect location information in relation to a User’s Device and use of the Services (“Location Data”) with respect to you. If you use the Services, then you are providing consent to collect Location Data such as the physical location of your Device which will be used to provide you with certain features of the Services. This Location Data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you. Location Data is aggregated with data from Devices of other Users to enhance the quality of Content Users provide to us and to enhance the quality of the Services we provide to you. We may also share your Location data with third parties. Location Data is shared anonymously in a form that would not personally identify you.

   (c) Use Data. When you send or receive Content using our Services, we collect data about that Content. We and our Affiliates also collect usage, viewing, and technical data when you open emails sent by us or our Affiliates and when you access Linked Sites.

   (d) Log Information. When you browse our Services, you do so anonymously, unless you have previously created a Profile with us. However, we may log your IP address to give us an idea of which part of our Services you visit and how long you spend there. However, we do not link your IP address to any Personal Data unless you have logged into our Services. Also, our Services may use a standard technology called a ‘cookie’ to collect information about how you interact with our Services. Please see Section 8 below for more information.

   (e) Aggregate Data. Certain aspects of our Services are set up to collect and report aggregate information. Aggregate information is data we collect about the use of the Services or about a group or category of products, services or Users, from which individual identities or other Personal Data has been removed. In other words, information about how you use the Services may be collected and combined with information about how others use the Services. Aggregate data helps us understand trends and User’s needs so that we can better consider new features or otherwise tailor our Services. This Policy does not restrict what we can do with aggregate information.

   (f) Analytics. We use Google’s ‘Google Analytics’ and other tools to collect information about your use of our Services. We use the following Google Analytics’ Advertising Features: Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, and other integrated services that require Google Analytics to collect data via cookies and anonymous identifiers. In addition, we may use other Google tools from time to time, as determined by us. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by ‘Google Analytics’ and other Google tools is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. Analytics tools collect information such as how often Users visit our Website, what pages Users visit when Users visit our Website, the other websites Users accessed prior to accessing our Website, the IP address assigned to a User on the date that User visits our Website, and may also collect certain Personal Data. We use the information gathered by analytics tools to improve our Services. We may combine the information collected through the use of analytics tools with Personal Data, and you give us express permission to do so. Our analytics tools may plant a cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique User the next time you visit our Website. You can prevent Google Analytics from using your data by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser that is available from Google, but if you do so, certain features of our Services may become unavailable. See Section 7 below for more information.

   (g) Device Information. We may collect data about the computer or Device you use to access our Services, including the hardware model, operating system and version, IP address, MAC address, unique device identifier (‘UDID’), phone number, and mobile carrier information.

   (h) Cookie and Flash Cookie. We collect information through technology, such as cookies, flash cookies and web beacons, including when you visit our Services or Linked Sites. Please see Section 8 below for further information, including information regarding ‘Do Not Track’ and how to disable cookies.

   (i) From Third Parties. We acquire information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the information you provided or we collected automatically. Local law may require that you authorize the third party to share your information with us before we can acquire it.

2. How We Use It.
   We use, allow access to, or disclose your Personal Data to third parties with whom we partner in order to:
   (a) enable us to provide the Services to you;
   (b) notify you regarding Services, your Profile, or fees;
   (c) increase the usability of the Services;
   (d) provide information about promotional offers and market products and services to you;
   (e) allow you participate in promotional offers;
   (f) investigate objectionable use of the Services;
   (g) respond to requests for assistance from our customer support team; and
   (h) analyze trends and use of our Services;
   (i) to personalize your experience with our Services; and
   (j) carry on our business, as determined by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
3. Who We Share It With.
   We will not share Personal Data with companies other than our Affiliates except in the following circumstances listed below.. We will share Personal Data with companies other than our Affiliates:
   (a) When you have enabled us to share your Personal Data with another company or Affiliate, such as: in sending you offers and promotions about their products and services; or allowing us to share your personal data with third parties or Linked Sites, such as Social Media Accounts. Once we share your Personal Data with another company, the information received by the other company becomes subject to the other company’s privacy practices.
   (b) When required by law or by court order.
   (c) To protect our rights and property, to prevent fraudulent activity or other deceptive practices of Users or third parties, or to prevent harm to others.
   (d) If we are acquired by or merged with another company, or if our assets are sold to another company. In all of these circumstances, you understand and agree that our Terms of Service and this Policy will be assigned and delegated to the other company.
   (e) To perform tasks for us or in connection with our business. We may use third parties to help operate the Services and perform other aspects of the Services. You agree we may share your Personal Data with our Affiliates and other third parties that provide services to us in connection with our business (such as website or database hosting companies, address list hosting companies, e-mail service providers, analytics companies, distribution companies, and other similar service providers that use such information on our behalf). Unless otherwise stated, these third parties do not have any right to use the Personal Data we provide to them beyond what is necessary for them to assist us, as determined by us.

4. Your Choices
   (a) You may select how Content and Personal Data is shared with Users and third parties and how Content and Personal Data is viewable to Users and third parties using the privacy settings accessible on your Profile. Any information, Personal Data, or Content that you voluntarily disclose for Posting to the Services becomes available to other Users and/or the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy settings that you select using your Profile.
   (i) Public Profile. If you select to your Profile ‘public’ Content you Post and your Profile will be viewable by the public and other Users. We make every effort to prevent undesired disclosure of Content or Personal Data. However, we are not responsible for how others may use Content or Personal Data that is disclosed by you to Users or third parties using our Services.

    

   (ii) Private Profile. However, you also have the option to make your Profile ‘private’. Any Content that you make public is searchable by other Users and third parties and subject to use by others. If you elect to make your Profile ‘private’, then your Profile and the Content you Post will not viewable by anyone other than us and you. To change your privacy settings on the Services, please change your Profile settings. Once you have Posted Content or made it public, that Content may be re-shared by others.

   (b) You may choose whether to receive from us emails containing offers and promotions for our products and services, or products and services that we think may be of interest to you. At any time, you may opt out of receiving such offers and promotions by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link that appears at the bottom of every email.
   (c) You may request access to the Personal Data we hold about you and that we amend or delete it and we request third parties with whom we have shared the information do the same.

   (d) The Services may allow you to use the Services or a third party application on your Device invite other Users and/or third parties to view your Location Data on the Services or a Linked Site. If you use such functionality of the Services, then you should use caution when determining to whom you want to make your Location Data available. If you choose to Post an invitation to view your Location Data on third party Social Media Accounts, then, depending on the privacy settings of your Social Media Accounts, it is possible that persons in addition to those to whom you intended to invite to view your Location Data could have access to such information. Accordingly, you should use caution when making such an invitation via third party Social Media Accounts and you should carefully review the privacy practices of such Social Media Accounts.

   (e) If you remove information, Personal Data, or Content that you Post to the Services, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Services, or if other Users or third parties copied or saved that information.

5. Children’s Privacy.
   We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Should we learn that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will take steps to immediately delete it.
6. Security of Your Personal Information.
   We exercise care and prudence in protecting the security of Personal Data provided to us. We carefully protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Specifically, we or our payment processors use the Secured Socket Layer (SSL) encryption when collecting, storing, or transferring sensitive data. Personal Data is stored in password-controlled servers with limited access. However, you have a significant role in Profile security. Someone may see or edit your Personal Data if that person gains access to your Profile.
   WE TAKE THESE PRECAUTIONS IN AN EFFORT TO PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION AGAINST SECURITY BREACHES. HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT SUCH INFORMATION MAY NOT BE ACCESSED, DISCLOSED, ALTERED, OR DESTROYED BY BREACH OF SUCH FIREWALLS AND SECURE SERVER SOFTWARE. BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO ASSUME THESE RISKS.

7. Your Profile.
   Users may review and update Personal Data by logging into their Profile. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as password and username, before granting access to any Personal Data. If your Profile is terminated by you or us, we will remove your name and other Personal Data from our publicly viewable database. If you close your Profile, we have no obligation to retain your information, and may delete any or all of your Profile information without liability. However, we may retain Content related to you if we believe it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse or for our business purposes, as determined by us. We may also retain and use your Content if necessary to provide Services to other Users. We disclaim any liability in relation to the deletion or retention (subject to the terms of this Policy) of Content or any obligation not to delete the Content and you release us from liability in relation to the deletion or retention (subject to the terms of this Policy) of Content or any obligation not to delete the Content.
8. Use of Cookies and Do Not Track.
   (a) We and our Affiliates may use cookies, clear GIFs (also known as ‘web beacons’), or local shared objects (sometimes called ‘flash cookies’) on the Website or in electronic communications to you in order to help personalize the Services. Cookies are small data files sent by a Web site or application and stored on your computer or device at the request of that site or app. A cookie stores information related to your browser to enable us to recognize your browser on return visits to our Site and to remember your preferences. Most browsers can be set to detect browser cookies and to let you reject them, but refusing cookies may make it difficult to use the Site. To learn more about browser cookies, including how to manage or delete them, look in the Tools, Help or similar section of your Web browser, or visit allaboutcookies.org.
   (b) Local shared objects, such as “Flash cookies,” may be stored on your computer or device through a media player or other software installed on your computer or device. Local shared objects operate a lot like cookies, but cannot be managed in the same way. Depending on how local shared objects are enabled on your computer or device, you may be able to manage them using software settings. For information on managing Flash cookies, click here.

    

   (c) A pixel tag (also known as a “clear GIF” or “web beacon”) is a tiny image – typically just one-pixel – that can be placed on a Web page or in an email to you, to tell us when you have displayed that page or opened that email. These technologies allow us to assign a unique customer number to you.

   (d) Third parties, such as ad networks, analytics companies and social networking platforms, may collect personal information about your use of our Website and other third-party online properties or services. These companies may use information about your site visits and your general geographic information derived from your IP address, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These advertisements may appear on this Site and on other Web sites. These companies may employ cookies, clear GIFs and other tracking technologies to cause relevant ads to be displayed to you. For information about the privacy practices of third-party advertising companies that serve ads on our Site, visit [analytics and ad network privacy policy links]. For more information about third-party advertisers and how to prevent them from using your information, visit the NAI’s consumer website by clicking here. Our Site does not honor “do not track” signals transmitted by users’ web browsers. Please visit these links if you would like to opt out of certain tracking. If you do want to opt out, you need to do so separately for each of your devices and for each Web browser you use on each device.

9. Linked Sites.
   The Services and/or third parties may provide links to Linked Sites and data provided by third parties. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by Linked Sites, nor are we responsible for the information or materials that third-party data contains. This Policy applies solely to information collected by us through the Services; thus when you use a link to go from the Services to a Linked Site, this Policy is no longer in effect. We encourage Users to read the privacy policies of Linked Sites before proceeding to use them. When you conduct e-commerce with a Linked Site, certain Personal Data s may be collected by the Linked Site and made available to us.
10. Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control.
    We may engage third parties to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include but are not limited to scheduling, hosting, data storage, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from User lists, analyzing Content, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid ads and links), processing payments, and providing customer service. We will provide such entities with access to certain information needed to perform their functions, but will take measures to ensure that they may not use it for other purposes.
11. Changes to our Policy; Miscellaneous.
    We reserve the right to change this Policy, our Terms of Service, and our other Policies at any time. We will notify you about changes to this Policy by placing the updated Policy on the Services. You agree that your use of the Services after such notification will constitute acceptance by you of such changes to our Policy. This Policy is and any disputes in connection with this Policy are subject to our Terms of Service and our other Policies which are each hereby incorporated herein by reference. In the event of any conflict between: (a) the provisions of this Policy and our Terms of Service, our Terms of Service shall control, and/or (b) the provisions of our Terms of Service and any Subscriber Agreement, the provisions of the Subscriber Agreement shall control and the remaining provisions of our Terms of Service shall be supplemental.
12. Your California Privacy Rights
    Visitors who are California residents may request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to [email protected].
13. Questions or Comments Regarding this Policy.
    We value your comments and opinions. If you have questions, comments or a complaint about compliance with this Policy, you may send a written notice to us at: [email protected].