Privacy PolicyDeaf Friend Spot takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. What This Privacy Policy Covers This policy covers how Deaf Friend Spot treats personal information that Deaf Friend Spot collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Deaf Friend Spot products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Deaf Friend Spot does not own or control, or to people that Deaf Friend Spot does not employ or manage. In addition, certain Deaf Friend Spot associated companies have their own privacy statements. Information Collection and Use General Deaf Friend Spot collects personal information when you register with Deaf Friend Spot, when you use Deaf Friend Spot products or services, when you visit Deaf Friend Spot pages or the pages of certain Deaf Friend Spot partners. Deaf Friend Spot 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, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with Deaf Friend Spot and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. Deaf Friend Spot collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of products and services that we offer. Deaf Friend Spot automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Deaf Friend Spot cookie information, and the page you request. Deaf Friend Spot uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. Children Deaf Friend Spot does not allow a child under age 18 to register for any Deaf Friend Spot services. Deaf Friend Spot does not ask a child under age 18 for any personal information. Information Sharing and Disclosure Deaf Friend Spot does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances: We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Deaf Friend Spot under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Deaf Friend Spot communicate with you about offers from Deaf Friend Spot and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information. We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; We believe it is necessary to share information 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 Deaf Friend Spot's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. We transfer information about you if Deaf Friend Spot is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Deaf Friend Spot will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. Deaf Friend Spot displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area. Deaf Friend Spot does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad. Deaf Friend Spot works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. Cookies Deaf Friend Spot may set and access Deaf Friend Spot cookies on your computer. Deaf Friend Spot lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Deaf Friend Spot's cookies. Deaf Friend Spot uses web beacons to access Deaf Friend Spot cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Deaf Friend Spot products and services. Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences You can edit your Deaf Friend Spot Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time. New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Deaf Friend Spot service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Deaf Friend Spot Newsletter, that are considered part of your Deaf Friend Spot account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them. You can delete your Deaf Friend Spot account by visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted. Confidentiality and Security We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you. To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please read Security at Deaf Friend Spot. Changes to this Privacy Policy Deaf Friend Spot may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Deaf Friend Spot account or by placing a prominent notice on our site. Effective Date: June 1, 2004 |
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