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Layman Terms
Your personal info is completely safe from any third party access as
well as any type of unsolicited SPAM attempts. We will only
provide your information under the order of a recognized court
providing a search warrant for such information. Or in an emergency
situation, in my best judgment, may provide information to recognized
law enforcement agencies.
Privacy Policy
We at AddEverybody ,have created this privacy policy to demonstrate
our firm commitment to protecting your personal information and
informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies
to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered,
on the Website, Please review this privacy policy periodically as we
may modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised
on September 13, 2006. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with
information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in
this privacy policy at that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we
automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you
came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to
diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help
identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your
purchases and other activity on the Site and enhance your experience
on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your
interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other
personal and financial information so you do not have to reenter it
each time you visit the Site. Third party advertisers on the Site may
also place or read cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable
these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will
tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you
may not be able to access certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about
products or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect
"personal information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact
you directly (without using the Site) limited to your email address,
"financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords) or
"demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that
we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial
information; this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal
code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth date, purchase history
information, browsing history information, searching history
information, registration history information, and the content of
communications between you and other members over the Site), subject
to the rest of this paragraph. Demographic information is divided into
two categories: 1) "non-public information", which consists of
purchase history information and one-on-one communications between you
and other users of the Site; and 2) "public information", which
consists of all other demographic information. Please note that
nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect personal information from
children under the age of 18, as we require that all users represent
to us that they are at least 18 years old. Children under the age of
16 are prohibited from joining, sorry.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other
parties. Some of these other Websites contain our brand names and
trademarks and other intellectual property that we own; others do not.
When you click on these links and visit these other Websites,
regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks
and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do not
control these other Websites or these other Websites' business
practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other
Websites. Consequently, the operators of these other Websites may
collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and
disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were
collected on the Site. We encourage you to review their privacy
policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their
actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to help
us efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with
your transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not
limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect
your relationship with , and to forward messages to you from other
users. These types of communications, are known as "Operational
Communications." In some cases, Operational Communications may also
contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.
We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information,
offers and other promotional materials for or third parties' goods or
services. We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such
as important site updates, exclusive offers or special event
information. The Site provides you with options to decline to receive
communications from (other than those contained in Operational
Communications). Some of these options may only be for a certain
category of communications; others may be more general. By posting a
profile on the Site, you are opting in to receive the by Mail email.
To stop receiving by Mail, go to the "Email Options" section of your
account settings and change your desired frequency" to "Never."
To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and
supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal
information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service
providers so they can provide us with support services such as
authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt
or support services, customer relationship management services, order
fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require
these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information
Your personal information will NEVER be shared with any outside party.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public
information to enable other users to find your profile, to determine
whether they are a match for you and to communicate with you. We may
use demographic information to tailor the Site and communications to
your interests. We may also share demographic information with
advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without
telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do
this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers' goods and
services will appeal to users, so that we may target specific ads at
specific demographic groups. Our sharing of demographic information
with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which
particular users are members of which demographic groups), subject to
the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement,
however, we ask you to remember that if that ad that is targeted to a
demographic group and you decide to give the advertiser your personal
information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being
a member of that demographic group.
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our secure
server software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the best
software available today for secure commerce transactions. We encrypt
all of your personal and financial information as it travels over the
Internet and we store your financial information on our servers in
encrypted form. Your information may be transferred to and maintained
on computer networks which may be located outside of the state,
province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you
reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer
networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the
laws in your country or jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered Information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was
collected, we will notify users by way of an email or by providing 30
days notice on the Site. Please note that we will continue to have the
right to change our privacy policy and practices, and how we use your
personally identifiable information, without notice, as described in
the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, provided that such changes
shall only apply to information gathered on or after the date of the
change.
How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal
Information and Public Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and
modify personal information or demographic information you have
provided to us, and to hide demographic information from, or make
demographic information visible to, the public users of the Site, at
anytime by going to the section of the Site. Please be aware that it
may take several hours for the changes you make to take effect on the
public areas of the Site. We thank you for your patience. Please note
that changing or deleting your information through the "Account
Settings" or "My Profile" section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out
of receipt of email communications from , will only change or delete
the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Site
and for managing future communications from . These changes and
deletions will not change or delete emails or information that we may
have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any
other third parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy. |