Midlifebachelor.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our web site. The information contained herein may change from time to time, so we advise you to periodically review this policy.
This policy will let you know:
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you.
2. What cookies are and how they are used.
3. How your information is used.
4. Who is collecting your information?
5. With whom your information may be shared.
6. How you can access, update or delete your information.
7. How Midlifebachelor.com treats your personal and financial related information.
8. What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of my information?
9. What else you should know about your online privacy.
What personally identifiable information does Midlifebachelor.com collect from me?
Midlifebachelor.com collects information in several ways from different parts of our web site. Some personal information is gathered when you register for our online forums. During registration, Midlifebachelor.com asks for your name and e-mail address, among other personal information. The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to customize your experience. Once you register, you are no longer anonymous to Midlifebachelor.com – you are given a Midlifebachelor.com ID number and User Name and are able to take full advantage of Midlifebachelor.com’s many offerings.
In addition to registration, we may ask you for personal information at other times; for example when you submit a listing or potential content for this web site; and when you report a problem with our site or services. If you contact Midlifebachelor.com, we may keep a record of that correspondence. Wherever Midlifebachelor.com collects personal information, an effort is made to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.
We use third-party companies to serve ads and collect non-personally identifiable information (e.g., the pages you visit, and which links you click, which ads you see and click on, and the categories of search terms you enter) when you visit our web site. These companies may use the information outlined above (which does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These companies often use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here (link to the NAI universal user opt-out).
Specifically but not necessarily exclusively, midlifebachelor.com uses Google and the DoubleClick DART cookie: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on midlifebachelor.com. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to midlifebachelor.com users based on their visit to midlifebachelor.com and to other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads and collect information when users visit our site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on our site, other websites and other forms of media about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, check out http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
What are cookies and how does Midlifebachelor.com use them?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Through the use of cookies Midlifebachelor.com can track and store information about your use of our web site; thus allowing us to customize and tailor certain services to you. Any Midlifebachelor.com site that requires you to log-in or a site that is customizable requires that your computer accepts cookies.
Generally, Midlifebachelor.com uses cookies to:
(1) Remind us of who you are and to access your Midlifebachelor.com account information (stored on our computers). Upon “Sign In”, the cookie is set and is modified upon “Sign Out”.
(2) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Midlifebachelor.com is given a unique cookie, which is used to determine the extent of repeat usage by a registered user and to track advertising based on user interests and behavior.
(3) Measure traffic patterns regarding Midlifebachelor.com’s website–i.e. where you have visited and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand our users’ habits so that we may improve the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on our site.
(4) Advertising networks that serve ads on Midlifebachelor.com may also use their own cookies to track trends in a similar matter.
How does Midlifebachelor.com use my information?
Midlifebachelor.com’s primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our website. This experience may include such services as interactive communications and online shopping to name a few (most of these services are completely free to you). In order to provide services free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, Midlifebachelor.com can deliver more relevant advertisements and content and better serve you.
Who is collecting information?
When you are on a Midlifebachelor.com site and are asked to enter personal information, you are sharing that information with Midlifebachelor.com alone, unless otherwise stated. If you wish for your data to remain private, you can choose not to allow data transfer by not using that particular service.
With whom does Midlifebachelor.com share my information?
As a general rule, Midlifebachelor.com will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information without your consent. Please see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for our services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared. The following describes some special circumstances where your information may be disclosed.
Business Partners & Sponsors: Midlifebachelor.com may disclose some or all of your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but notification of disclosure will be provided to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Details of shared use can be found in specific Terms of Service or Use Agreements. Some or all data collected during a Midlifebachelor.com promotion may be shared with the sponsor of that particular promotion. Again, notification of disclosure will be provided to you prior to any transfer of data.
Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give Midlifebachelor.com permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your e-mail address will be shared. If more information is to be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.
Other: Midlifebachelor.com may also disclose user information in special cases where we have reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Midlifebachelor.com’s rights or property, other Midlifebachelor.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Midlifebachelor.com may disclose user information when we believe, in good faith, that the law requires it. Additionally, Midlifebachelor.com may disclose user information for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain and improve our products and services.
What is Midlifebachelor.com’s policy on allowing me to update, correct or delete my personally identifiable information?
You may edit your Midlifebachelor.com forum account information at any time by using your Midlifebachelor.com User Name and Password. If you have forgotten your password, please request a new password from us by sending us an email. We will email you back with instructions – which will include a means that you can positively identify yourself to us as the true and correct original account holder.
Your Midlifebachelor.com forum account can be deleted or deactivated, but in doing so, you will be unable to post to any forum of the Midlifebachelor.com. Please contact [email protected] for further instructions about deleting or deactivating your Midlifebachelor.com forum account.
If you are participating in a Midlifebachelor.com promotion and wish to update your e-mail address on the promotion’s mailing list or wish to quit a promotion and cease receiving promotion-related e-mail, please contact [email protected]
How does Midlifebachelor.com protect my personal and financial-related information?
Keeping your personal and financial-related information private is vitally important to us. As with all information, Midlifebachelor.com will never rent or sell your personal or financial-related information.
What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of my information?
Your Midlifebachelor.com forum Account Information is password-protected so that you are the only one having access to your personal information. You may edit your account information by using your Midlifebachelor.com forum username and password.
For security purposes, we recommend that you not divulge your password to anyone. Midlifebachelor.com will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited e-mail. We also suggest that you sign out of your Midlifebachelor.com account and close your browser window when you are done with your visit. This practice will ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence should you be using a computer in a shared environment.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While every measure is taken to protect your personal information, Midlifebachelor.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services. You transmit information at your own risk. As specified above, security protection is of utmost importance to Midlifebachelor.com, and we put our best efforts forward to maintain security on our systems.
What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, whether it be on a message board or through an e-mail, that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online, it is accessible to the public, and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Again, we suggest maintaining the secrecy of your password and exercising caution whenever you are online.
Additional Information
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to [email protected] If you do not receive acknowledgement from Midlifebachelor.com or if your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe.
Also see…
- Electronic Frontier Foundation – a civil liberties organization working to protect your rights online.
- Electronic Privacy Information Center – established to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure.
- Privacy Issues Page – from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).
- The EPIC Cookies Page – definitions, links, and news.
- How to Protect Your Privacy – information from the Federal Trade Commission.
