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Friend SHACK understands and respects that your privacy should always remain strictly under your control. It is because of this philosophy that you can be confident that the information you divulge to friend SHACK will not be accessible to people whom you have not authorized. Neither will it be sold or otherwise distributed to third parties other than in accordance with this policy without your consent. Friend SHACK is not a source of unsolicited email.
As a friend SHACK member, your personal info, like your real name, your email address, or your birthday will never be shown to any members on any pages. Friend SHACK uses this information to personalize your experience. When you get a friend SHACK message for example, an alert is sent to your email address telling you that a new message is waiting for you. You birthday is used to calculate your age. Your age is displayed to other members.
Friend SHACK also collects other data, which may include your IP address and what browser you are using. Friend SHACK uses this information to statistically analyze site usage and to customize our site's content, layout and services. The resulting information will allows friend SHACK to improve the site and better understand and serve our users. It is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis only.
As a matter of policy, friend SHACK does not sell, rent or lend any of your personal information to third parties other than in accordance with this policy without your consent. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be used in the normal routine to provide a friend SHACK range of services to you.
Service Management. Friend SHACK uses your personal information to provide the services you request. Friend SHACK uses your personal information to: troubleshoot problems; measure consumer interest in friend SHACK's services, inform you about offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect friend SHACK against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce friend SHACK's Terms of Use; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
By becoming a member of friend SHACK, you agree that we may use personal information about you to improve friend SHACK's marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve friend SHACK's content and product offerings, and customize the site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve the site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using the site.
By becoming a member of friend SHACK, you agree that we may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the site. By accepting the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. You may make changes to your email notification preferences at any time.
Law Enforcement. Friend SHACK cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect you and friend SHACK's service. Therefore, in response to a genuine request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, friend SHACK can disclose personal information about you. Third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the site. Therefore, although friend SHACK uses industry standard practices to protect your privacy, friend SHACK does not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.
Friend SHACK does not sell, rent or lend email addresses for any other purpose than in direct association with your use of friend SHACK's service or as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
Friend SHACK will not send any unsolicited information, including email. You will, however receive emails which form an essential part of the service.
Cookies are a standard internet technology, and many major web sites use them to provide useful features for their members. Cookies allows friend SHACK to store and retrieve login information on a user's system. They provide friend SHACK with data that friend SHACK can use to improve friend SHACK's service to you. If you so choose, you can save your login or password so you don't have to re-enter them each time you visit friend SHACK's site.
Cookies themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of friend SHACK's web site if you do so.
Friend SHACK may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on the site. All amended terms shall automatically be effective immediately after posting on the site. Friend SHACK might notify you in accordance with its importance.
You always have the option not to become a member or to cancel your membership at any time.
If you are a member and no longer wish to participate in friend SHACK you can sign in to the site and click on the 'Profile' at the top of the page; then select 'Delete my profile' and follow the simple instructions.
This action will cancel your membership and delete your details from the system, expect your email address and the date you've joined the first time. You will be assured that, friend SHACK will not contact you directly at the email address we have on record for you, other than to respond to requests you may make to friend SHACK in the future.
If you have any questions about friend SHACK's privacy statement, the practices of this website or your dealings with this website, you can contact us here.
Last updated: 2005-12-09 13:36 EST