Bcelibate.com, Privacy Policy
Your Privacy Rights
Last Updated: November 1, 2009
Information we collect about youIn General. We may collect
personal information that can identify you such as your name and email
address and other information that does not identify you. When you provide
personal information through our website, the information may be sent
to servers located in the United States and other countries around the
world.
Information you provide. We may collect and store any
personal information you enter on our website or provide to us in some
other manner. This includes identifying information, such as
your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number, and, if you
transact business with us, financial information such as your payment
method (valid credit card number, type, expiration date or
other financial information). We also may request information about
your interests and activities, your gender and age, and other demographic information such as your hometown, your gender or your username.
Information
from other sources.
We may also periodically obtain both personal and
non-personal information about you from business partners, contractors
and other third parties and add it to our account information
or other information we have collected. Examples of information that we
may receive include: updated address information, purchase history, and additional demographic information.
Information
about others.We may also collect and store personal information about
other people that you provide to us, such as their name, address and
email address. If you use our website to send others (friends,
relatives, colleagues, etc.) a product as a gift, we may store your
personal information, and the personal information of each such recipient in order to process those requests or facilitate future activities.
Use
of cookies and other technologies to collect information.
We use
various technologies to collect information from your computer and
about your activities on our site. Information collected
automatically. We automatically collect information from your browser
when you visit our website. This information includes your IP address,
your browser type and language, access times, the content of
any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us
(see “Cookies” below), and the referring website address.
Cookies.When you visit our website, we may assign your computer one or
more cookies, to facilitate access to our site and to personalize your
online experience. Through the use of a cookie, we also may
automatically collect information about your online activity on our
site, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the
searches you conduct on our site. Most browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to
decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in or use some of the interactive features offered on our website.
Other
Technologies.We may use standard Internet technology, such as web
beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use of our site.
We also may include web beacons in advertisements or
promotional or other e-mail messages or to determine whether messages
have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this
manner enables us to customize the services we offer our website
visitors to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall
effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming or other activities.
Information
collected by third-parties.
We may allow third-parties, including our
authorized service providers, advertising companies, and ad networks,
to display advertisements on our site. These companies may use
tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about
users who view or interact with their advertisements. Our
website does not provide any personal information to these third
parties. This information allows them to deliver targeted
advertisements and gauge their effectiveness. Some of these
third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks that are
members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies (www.networkadvertising.org).
How we use the information we collectIn General.We may use information that we collect about you to:
- deliver the products and services that you have requested;
- manage your account and provide you with customer support;
- perform
research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products,
services, or content, or products, services or content offered by
others;
- communicate with you by e-mail, postal mail, telephone
and/or mobile devices about products or services that may be of
interest to you either from us or other third parties;
- develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our site and other sites;
- verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with contests and sweepstakes;
- enforce our terms and conditions;
- manage our business; and perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
Financial
information.We may use financial information or payment method to
process payment for any purchases made on our website, enroll you in
the discount, rebate, and other programs in which you elect to
participate, to protect against or identify possible fraudulent
transactions, and otherwise as needed to manage our business.
Job
applicants.If your personal information is submitted through our
website when applying for a position with our company, the information
will be used solely in connection with considering and acting
upon your application. We may retain your personal information for a
period of time, but only for the purpose of considering your
application for current or future available positions. This
information, which may include your name and contact information, prior
education and experience, and other information you provided to us, may be shared for
the purpose of evaluating your qualifications for the particular
position or other available positions, as well as with third-party
service providers retained by us to collect, maintain and analyze candidate submissions for job postings.
Please review “Your choices about collection and use of your information” below.
With whom we share your informationWe
want you to understand when and with whom we may share personal or
other information we have collected about you or your activities on our
web site or while using our services.
Personal information.We do not share your personal information with others except as
indicated below or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to
opt out of having your personal information shared. We may share personal information with:
Authorized
service providers:We may share your personal information, which may
include your name and contact information (including email address)
with our authorized service providers that perform certain
services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders,
providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business
and sales analysis, supporting our website functionality, and
supporting contests, sweepstakes, surveys and other features offered
through our website. We may also share your name, contact
information and credit card information with our authorized service
providers who process credit card payments. These service providers may
have access to personal information needed to perform their functions
but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other
purposes.
Business partners:
When you make purchases or
engage in promotions offered through our website or our services, we
may share personal information with the businesses with which
we partner to offer you those products, services, promotions, contests
and/or sweepstakes. When you elect to engage in a particular merchant's
offer or program, you authorize us to provide your email
address and other information to that merchant. We will always provide
you with the opportunity not to share information with these businesses.
Direct
mail partners.
From time to time we may share our postal mailing list
with selected providers of goods and services that may be of interest
to you. If you prefer not to receive mailings from these
providers, you can notify us at any time by opting out at the time you
register for our site, or at any time thereafter by visiting the
“Account Settings” page for your account.
Other Situations.
We also may disclose your information, including personal information:
In
response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order,
or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government
agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend
against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases,
we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
When
we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to
investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity,
suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the
rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or
others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our website terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.
In
connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale
of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale,
or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Any third
parties to whom we may disclose personal information may have their own
privacy policies which describe how they use and disclose personal
information. Those policies will govern use, handling and
disclosure of your personal information once we have shared it with
those third parties as described in this Privacy Policy. If you want to
learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage you to visit the
websites of those third parties. These entities or their servers may be
located either inside or outside the United States.
Aggregated
and non-personal information.We may share aggregated and non-personal
information we collect under any of the above circumstances. We may
also share it with third parties to develop and deliver
targeted advertising on our websites and on websites of third parties.
We may combine non-personal information we collect with additional
non-personal information collected from other sources. We also may
share aggregated information with third parties, including advisors,
advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting
general business analysis. For example, we may tell our advertisers the
number of visitors to our website and the most popular features or services
accessed. This information does not contain any personal information
and may be used to develop website content and services that we hope
you and other users will find of interest and to target content and advertising.
Third-party websitesThere
are a number of places on our website where you may click on a link to
access other websites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy.
For example, if you click on an advertisement on our website,
you may be taken to a website that we do not control. These third-party
websites may independently solicit and collect information, including
personal information, from you and, in some instances, provide us with
information about your activities on those websites. We recommend that
you consult the privacy statements of all third-party websites
you visit by clicking on the “privacy” link typically located at the
bottom of the webpage you are visiting.
How you can access your informationIf
you have an online account with us, you have the ability to review and
update your personal information online by logging into your account
and clicking on your account settings. You can also review and
update your personal information by contacting us at the email address
provided below in the “How to contact us” section of this privacy policy. More information about how to contact us is provided below.If
you have an online account with us, you also may choose to resign and
close your account at any time by visiting the “Account Settings” page
for your account. After you close your account, you will not
be able to sign in to our website or access any of your personal
information. However, you can open a new, separate account at any time
or re-activate your previous account by following instructions
we will give you at the time you close your account. If you close your
account, we may still retain certain information associated
with your account for analytical purposes and recordkeeping integrity,
as well as to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, enforce our terms
and conditions, take actions we deem necessary to protect the
integrity of our web site or our users, or take other actions otherwise
permitted by law. In addition, if certain information has
already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy
Policy, retention of that information will be subject to those third
parties' policies.
Your choices about collection and use of your informationYou
can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may
result in you being unable to use certain features of our website
because such information may be required in order for you to
register as a member; purchase products or services; participate in a
contest, promotion, survey, or sweepstakes; ask a question; or initiate
other transactions on our website.
At any time you
can choose to no longer receive commercial or promotional emails from
us by visiting the “Account Settings” page associated with your
account. When you register on our website, you will be given a
choice as to whether you want to receive e-mail messages about special
offers. You may modify your choice during registration on the
registration page, or later by visiting the “Account Settings” page
associated with your account. You also will be given the opportunity,
in any commercial e-mail that we send to you, to opt out of
receiving such messages in the future. It may take up to 10 days for us
to process an opt-out request. We may send you other types of transactional
and relationship e-mail communications, such as service announcements,
administrative notices, and surveys, without offering you the
opportunity to opt out of receiving them. Please note that
changing information in your account, or otherwise opting out of
receipt of promotional email communications will only affect future
activities or communications from us. If we have already
provided your information to a third party (such as a service provider)
before you have changed your preferences or updated your information, you may have to change you preferences directly with that third party.
You
may tell us not to share your personal information with third parties
for direct marketing purposes by checking the appropriate opt-out
selection at the time you register on our site, or by visiting the “Account Settings” page associated with your account after you have registered.
In
certain places on our site we may ask for your phone number.
In those
places where we ask for your phone number, we will always tell you how
your phone number will be used – either to provide you a
service you requested from us or to call you to inform you about one of
our products in which you have expressed an interest. We will not call
you for marketing purposes unless you provide us your phone number
specifically to receive such calls. If you have previously provided us
your phone number but no longer wish to be contacted by phone
by us, you can visit the “Account Settings” page associated with your
account to let us know your wishes. Under our Do Not Call policy you
may instruct us not to call you for marketing purposes by informing
anyone who contacts you by phone in our behalf that you do not wish to
receive marketing calls from us. You can also instruct us at
any time not to call you for marketing purposes by informing our
Customer Service department by phone or email. We will implement your instructions
as soon as possible, and in no event later than 30 days after receiving
your instructions. We have policies and procedures in place and train
our employees to honor your request. Please note that we may still need to call you for servicing or other non-marketing purposes.
How we protect your personal informationWe
take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and
procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from
unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, only
authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and
they may do so only for permitted business functions. In addition, we use
SSL encryption in the transmission of your sensitive personal
information between your system and ours, and we use firewalls to help
prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your personal information.We
want you to feel confident using our website to transact business.
However, no system can be completely secure.Therefore, although we
take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and
you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or
other communications will always remain secure. Users should also take
care with how they handle and disclose their personal information and
should avoid sending personal information through insecure email.
Please refer to the Federal Trade Commission's website
athttp://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm for information about
how to protect yourself against identity theft.
Information you provide about yourself while using our serviceWe
provide areas on our websites where you can post information about
yourself and others and communicate with others or upload content such
as photographs. Such postings are governed by our Terms of
Use. In addition, such postings may appear on other websites or when
searches are executed on the subject of your posting. Also, whenever
you voluntarily disclose personal information on publicly-viewable web
pages, that information will be publicly available and can be collected
and used by others.
For example, if you post your email
address, you may receive unsolicited messages. We cannot control who
reads your posting or what other users may do with the information
you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to exercise discretion and
caution with respect to your personal information.
Children's privacyAlthough
our website is a general audience site, we restrict the use of our
service to individuals age 18 and above. We do not knowingly collect
personal information from children under the age of 13.
Visiting our websites from outside the United StatesThis
Privacy Policy is intended to cover collection of information on our
website from residents of the United States. To view the privacy policy
that applies to our users and members in the United Kingdom
and Canada, please click here. If you are visiting our website from
outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be
transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States
where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The
data protection and other laws of the United States and other
countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country.
Please be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that
your privacy is protected. By using our services, you
understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities
and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this privacy policy.
No Rights of Third PartiesThis
Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or
require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the
website.
Changes to this Privacy PolicyWe will
occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our
practices and services. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we
will revise the “last updated” date at the top of this Privacy
Policy. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use,
and/or share your personal information, we will notify you by sending
an e-mail to the e-mail address you most recently provided us in your
account, profile or registration (unless we do not have such an email
address), and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes
on our website. We recommend that you check our website from time to
time to inform yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies.
How to contact usIf
you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our
information-handling practices, or if you would like to request
information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please contact us by e-mail at cs@Bcelibate.com
Linked information:
Cookies:A
cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for
record keeping purposes. Cookies can be either session cookies or
persistent cookies. A session cookie expires when you close
your browser and is used to make it easier for you to navigate our
website. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended
period of time. Cookies on our website do not link to or store your personal information.For
example, when you sign in to our website, we will record your user or
member ID and the name associated with your user or member ID in the
cookie file on your computer. We also may record your password
in this cookie file, if you indicated that you would like your password
saved for automatic sign-in. For security purposes, we will
encrypt any usernames, passwords, and other user or member
account-related data that we store in such cookies. In the case of
sites and services that do not use a user or member ID, the
cookie will contain a unique identifier. We may allow our authorized
service providers to serve cookies from our website to allow them to
assist us in various activities, such as doing analysis and research on the effectiveness of our site, content and advertising.
You
may delete or decline cookies by changing your browser settings. (Click
“Help” in the toolbar of most browsers for instructions.) If you do so,
some of the features and services of our website may not function properly.
We
may allow third-parties, including advertising companies, and ad
networks, to display advertisements on our site. These companies may
use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect
information about users who view or interact with their advertisements.
Our website does not provide any personal information to these third
parties, but they may collect information about where you, or
others who are using your computer, saw and/or clicked on the
advertisements they deliver, and possibly associate this information
with your subsequent visits to the advertised websites. They also may
combine this information with personal information they collect from
you. The collection and use of that information is subject to
the third-party's privacy policy. This information allows them to
deliver targeted advertisements and gauge their effectiveness. Some of
these third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks
that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a
single location to opt out of ad targeting from member
companies (www.networkadvertising.org). This policy covers the use of
cookies by Bcelibate.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by
any advertisers.
Web Beacons:Web beacons (also known as
clear gifs, pixel tags or web bugs) are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the
online movements of web users or to access cookies. Unlike
cookies which are stored on the user's computer hard drive, web beacons
are embedded invisibly on the web pages (or in email) and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
Web
beacons may be used to deliver or communicate with cookies, to count
users who have visited certain pages and to understand usage patterns.
We also may receive an anonymous identification number if you come to our site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website.