BAD GIRL SWIRL'S PRIVACY POLICY
Aside from wanting to know all your dirty little
secrets and bad girl confessions, Badgirlswirl.com fully respects
your privacy. Our staff, contractors, and others who help us operate
our web site follow this policy on privacy and fair information
practices for the online activities of Badgirlswirl.com, Inc.
By registering as a member of Badgirlswirl.com,
you agree to accept this Privacy Policy and are aware that our
policy may change over time as discussed below.
Overview of our Policy
The security of personal information is a high
priority at Badgirlswirl.com. We maintain our web site and
all associated data with technical, administrative, and physical
safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, destruction,
misuse, modification and improper disclosure. No computer system
or information can ever be fully protected against every possible
hazard, but Badgirlswirl.com is committed to providing reasonable
and appropriate security controls to protect our site against
foreseeable hazards.
The information you provide helps us and our third-party
service providers make Badgirlswirl.com more fun and useful for
you. It also enables us to give you updates about our services.
When you become a registered member of one of our sites, you may
receive updates about our services from Badgirlswirl.com and our
third-party service providers. Users should not receive any email
or postal mail from any other parties as a result of signing up
to become a member of Badgirlswirl.com unless the user has expressly
"opted-in" to receiving such email.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily
disclose personal information in public areas of Badgirlswirl.com,
such as the message boards and bad girl confessions, your information
can be viewed and possibly used by others. We advise users not
to disclose information that can be used to contact the user ("Personally
Identifiable information") that they do not wish for others to
obtain, such as full name, home address, or phone number.
Changes to this Policy
This Privacy Policy will always be available for
you to read. We will do our best to update this privacy and fair
information practices policy to reflect new features, services
and options, as well as any other changes with regard to the use
of personal information. By registering as a member of Badgirlswirl.com,
you agree to accept this Privacy Policy and are aware that our
policy may change over time. Continued use of Badgirlswirl.com
or other Badgirlswirl.com services will signify that you agree
to these changes.
About Children
Bad girls under 13. Badgirlswirl.com is not
directed to children under the age of 13. Badgirlswirl.com prohibits
registration by and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from anyone under 13. This requirement will be posted
at points of data collection within the site, such as registration
for services.
Note to Parents. If you have any concerns
about Badgirlswirl.com or its related services, please contact
us at comments@badgirlswirl.com.
Information Collection and Use
Below are more details about the information Badgirlswirl.com
gathers from you and how we use it.
A. Email Newsletters. In the future, Badgirlswirl.com
hopes to offer email newsletters. Only registered users
will be able to receive newsletters. At this time, we ask only
for your email address. You can use your Badgirlswirl.com email
account or an account that you may have with another service provider.
We will use your email address only to send you the newsletter(s)
that you sign up for. As a policy, we do not rent, sell,
or in any way share our newsletter subscriber lists to third parties
but we may send notices to the lists on behalf of third parties
and our newsletters may contain advertisements from
Badgirlswirl.com sponsors or advertisers. If you want to update
your email address or stop receiving our newsletter, follow the
procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any newsletter we send
you.
B. Membership Information. When you register
for membership on our site, we may ask for information about you
and your interests. We will do this to better understand what
you like and tailor the site to suit you better. At a minimum,
we require your name, birth date, gender, mailing address and e-mail
address. The more information you volunteer, the more we can tailor
the site and promotions to your interests.
C. Service Providers. When
you register for membership on Badgirlswirl.com, you will be automatically
registered to receive any free services we offer and some of your
Personally Identifiable Information may be transferred from Badgirlswirl.com
to those third-party service providers. By becoming a member,
you authorize us and our third-party service providers to send
you email updates and information about promotions offered by
Badgirlswirl.com, the service providers, and our advertisers.
We take care to require that our third-party service providers
only use our members data as necessary to provide the particular
service and to give you updates on that service providers
products and services. In addition, we do not allow our advertisers
to use our member list to send email directly to our members.
D. Email Updates to Members. Badgirlswirl.com
may periodically send service email updates announcing special
offers and new features to registered users. These email updates
will not be sent more than six times a year. If you want to update
your email address or stop receiving our email service announcements,
please follow the procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any
newsletter we send you.
E. Promotions. We may ask you for Personally
Identifiable Information at other times, including, but not limited
to, when you enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions sponsored
by a third party. If you choose to enter sweepstakes, contests
or promotions of this nature, we may share your Personally Identifiable
Information with the third party so they can contact you. The
third party may use that information to send you advertisements
or other notices, and it is possible that your information may
be shared with others.
F. Surveys and User Research. Badgirlswirl.com
may conduct email and web-delivered surveys from time to time,
as well as instant polls, to gather information about our audience.
It is important to remember that taking these surveys and polls
is entirely optional. You have no obligation to respond to them.
We share only the aggregate results of these surveys, not individual
data, with our advertisers and partners to help them better understand
our services and monitor the reach of their advertising on our
service. We also store some of the information that our users
provide in these surveys to help us understand your interests
and to make the site more useful for you.
G. Use of Cookies. On the Internet, a "cookie"
is a piece of information (a file) that a Web site transfers to
a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies
is common on the Internet. The process we use to serve advertisements
and to track use of our site involves cookies. Cookies help us
track the frequency and placement of advertisements. Cookies also
enable us to measure aggregate, or total usage and traffic to
our site and to specific offerings. This aids us in producing
content that best meets our users preferences. In
order to implement new services, we may use other types of cookies
as well. We also may use cookies to understand better what parts
of our site you like best. We may use that information to display
advertisements that we think will be of particular interest to
you. You may configure your browser to reject cookies, but this
may interfere with some functionality of the Badgirlswirl.com.
To find out more about changing your browser to reject cookies,
we suggest the EPIC Cookies Page [http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/cookies].
H. Other Third Parties. Badgirlswirl.com
may share non-personal, aggregate, or summary information regarding
our users with other third parties not mentioned in this policy.
This kind of information does not identify you individually.
I. Legal Authorities. Badgirlswirl.com may
also disclose Personally Identifiable Information in cases when
we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify someone
who may be violating Badgirlswirl.coms User
Agreement or may be causing injury to Badgirlswirl.coms
rights or property, other users, or anyone else. Badgirlswirl.com
may disclose Personally Identifiable Information of our users
to government authorities at our discretion.
Security
Badgirlswirl.com uses diligent efforts to protect
the security and integrity of the information you provide to us
once it is received on our systems. However, when you submit information
about yourself to Badgirlswirl.com over the Internet, the information
may travel over many systems that are not under the control of
Badgirlswirl.com. We take the protection of user data very seriously
and to that end provide extra assurances that your information
will not be intercepted.
Cancellations
Canceling Newsletters. You may cancel
participation in email newsletters by following the instructions
at the bottom of each newsletter.
Service Announcement Emails: You may
cancel participation in the service email announcements by
following the instructions at the bottom of each email.
Still Have Questions?
If you have any other questions about the Badgirlswirl.com
Privacy Policy, please contact us at comments@Badgirlswirl.com
or write to us at:
Badgirlswirl.com, Inc.
Attn: Privacy policy
590 York Street, Suite 4
San Francisco, CA 94110