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 member’s data as necessary to provide the particular service and to give you updates on that service provider’s 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.com’s User Agreement or may be causing injury to Badgirlswirl.com’s 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