SECRETSITE.COM IS ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED TO PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF OUR USERS' PERSONAL INFORMATION. THE FOLLOWING POLICY EXPLAINS OUR INFORMATION GATHERING AND DISSEMINATION PRACTICES. USE OF SECRETSITE.COM CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRACTICES OUTLINED WITHIN THIS POLICY.
REGISTRATION AND OVERVIEW
When you register to use SecretSite.com, you will find there are profile pages which request User-submitted contact and profile information such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, zip code, gender, etc. This information allows Members of SecretSite.com to better identify, connect and interact with friends, groups, networks and interests. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. Therefore, when you register as a Member of SecretSite.com, we ask for your honest responses to this information, and you represent that your responses are correct and accurate. This will help us serve you more efficiently and effectively.
REVIEWING AND CHANGING YOUR PROFILE
At any time, you can review and revise your personal profile, and who will be given access to your personal profile.
WAYS WE USE DATA
We use data to send personalized, targeted information to the User in their e-mail messages or on our Web site; to send advertising and promotions that allow us to provide our service to the Users; to send opt-in e-mail offers about products and services of interest or special deals from our partner sites based on the Users' chosen interests; to send confirmation of profile changes; to contact Users for feedback and surveys; to send Users news about new or enhanced features and services of SecretSite.com; and as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
SecretSite.com will never send unsolicited "spam" to any Member.
SecretSite.com does use industry standard security measures to protect your information so that it is not made available to unauthorized parties. We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We protect your information by placing it on a secure portion of the Site and by regularly backing up data, performing consistency checks with independently recorded log files to prevent tampering, and restricting access to information on our servers via several User uthentication technologies. While it is our goal to safeguard personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you submit such information at your own risk and hereby release SecretSite.com, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from any liability. Our systems, like all computers, are susceptible to "hackers" and others who illegally seek and gain access to information stored on the computers' hard drives and other memory storage devices. To better protect your personal information, please do not disclose any passwords to unauthorized people. Employees of SecretSite.com are all familiar with our security policies and access of your personal information is only available to those employees who need such access to perform their particular job functions.
I.P. ADDRESSES / OPERATING SYSTEM / BROWSER TYPE
When you visit SecretSite.com or click on one of our links, we may automatically record your I.P. address, operating system, and browser version. We use this information to generate usage statistics and to ensure our site and emails are accessible to the widest possible audience. We may also use I.P. addresses to track abuse of our system and for system administration, diagnostic analysis, site tracking and reporting of aggregate usage information.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
From time to time, this site (and our e-mails) will contain links to other sites. Should you provide information directly to any party other than SecretSite.com, different privacy policies may apply to those parties and their use of your information. Before disclosing any personal information, you should review any applicable privacy policy. SecretSite.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the Content of other Web sites. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by SecretSite.com.
DISCLOSURE OF DATA
We request demographic information:
(1) To tailor our subscribers' SecretSite.com experience. With this information we can provide our Users with content we think they might be interested in. We believe we will be able to provide Users with a better service if demographic information is provided.
(2) We collect certain information from you in order to process your order. We require your name, address, zip code, date of birth, e-mail address, and credit card information. We may transfer, sell, or use the information we collect from you to third parties (with the exception of credit card numbers) for the purpose of targeted off line marketing or telemarketing opportunities.
(3) We will divulge your private information if required to do so by law and/or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud and situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person.
(4) Furthermore, we may provide your personal information to the police or other investigating and law enforcement agencies to assist them in the investigation of any suspected violations of law. We also have the right to share your name and contact information with our attorneys in the event of serious violations of conduct.
(5) If served with a subpoena, search warrant, or court order, we would be compelled to provide the
required information. We may or may not provide you notice of the existence of the subpoena, search
warrant or court order, or with advance notice of our compliance.
When you register with SecretSite.com and you leave the box checked stating "Yes, I want to receive information and offers from online-secretsite.com" - you explicitly authorize us to share your information with Datran Media to contact you via email.
CHILDREN
Children are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with your parents or guardians.
FORUMS / CHAT ROOMS / INSTANT MESSAGES / ETC.
SecretSite.com gives you the opportunity to create and send messages to other SecretSite.com Members as well as the general public. We provide powerful tools for you to share information, so please be aware that this information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by others to send you unsolicited communications and advertisements. Please exercise discretion in deciding what information you choose to disclose.
LINKS
When we provide you with links in our e-mails, they may include a special tracking code unique to you that allows us to determine which Content and advertisements are most popular.
COOKIES
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer. The first time a User provides an e-mail address to SecretSite.com, we put a cookie on the PC of that User so that when the User returns to SecretSite.com, operating the same PC, SecretSite.com will be able to personalize the experience for the User by providing special features that could be useful. Cookies are a standard Internet technology, and many major Web sites use them to provide useful features for their Members. Cookies allow us to store and retrieve login information on a Users' system. They provide us with data that we can use to improve the quality of our service and make it easier to use. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. SecretSite.com does not require Users to enable the use of cookies on their browsers in order to access the site and participate in any of the activities offered to Users. In addition, a User may, at any time, request that SecretSite.com
remove any and all information about his or herself stored in any SecretSite.com database.
SecretSite.com will never use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie.
ACQUISITION
SecretSite.com reserves the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership such as acquisition by or merger with another company. If an acquiring company should plan to materially change this privacy policy, we reserve the right to notify or not to notify you beforehand.
CHANGES IN PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, SecretSite.com may update this privacy policy and reserves the right to post or not to post any notice of any significant changes on our website. You should visit this page periodically to review any such changes to the privacy policy.
UNSUBSCRIBE
You may unsubscribe from our services at any time. To unsubscribe from SecretSite.com publications, or membership, please e-mail:
subscriptions@secretsite.com
CONTACTING THE WEB SITE
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
support@secretsite.com
SecretSite.com
P.O. Box 61447
Honolulu, Hawaii 96839 |