More2Girls.com Privacy Policy
Effective Date: December 15, 2008.
More2Girls Inc. (“More2Girls”) is concerned about online privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose any personal information that individually identifies you or your child (e.g., name, address, phone number, e-mail address, etc.). Reference to “you” throughout this Privacy Policy is intended to address those visitors who are over the age of 13, and in the case of children under the age of 13, “you” should be read to apply to your child. This Privacy Policy explains our online information practices and the choices you, as a visitor to this website and subscriber to our magazine, can make about the collection and use of your information.
What personal information do we collect?
We collect personally-identifiable information from you (such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, etc.) when you voluntarily provide it to us through a number of features available on this website, as described below. In certain circumstances, where information is being collected from a child under the age of 13, we may require the child to provide the e-mail address of her parent or legal guardian.
When you use our website we may ask you to provide personal information if you:
• subscribe to the More2Girls magazine;
• register for a contest or other promotion;
• register as a user of our site;
• join a club through our site or magazine;
• participate in our tell-a-friend option; or
• otherwise participate in features of our website that ask for personal information.
We will only use the personally identifiable information that you provide for these activities for the purposes for which the information was provided. For instance, we may use the information to respond to your questions or comments, and to administer our promotions. We may also send you notices regarding changes to our Privacy Policy.
You may be given the opportunity to consent to receive future promotional communication from us. If you opt-in to receive such communications, we may use the information to communicate with you regarding our products, services, and promotions, to provide you with other information that you request, and/or to improve our product and service offerings. You will always have the opportunity to "unsubscribe" from receiving the e-mail or other communication at any time. If you do not expressly consent to receive such communication, we will not send it to you. Children under the age of 13 will not be permitted to opt-in to receive such promotional communication, however, we may allow their parents/legal guardians to opt-in on their behalf.
We do not require you to provide personally-identifiable information to play any games available on this website or through our magazine.
How do we gather data by automatic means?
We may collect non-personal information, such as IP addresses, the type of operating system in use, the type of browser being used by the visitor, the number and frequency of visitors to our website, and the site the visitor was on immediately before visiting this website.
We may offer many fun features on the website or through our magazine such as games and screen savers that do not require visitors to provide any personal information. In using these features, however, we may collect certain non-personal information from visitors by using small text files known as cookies. We use cookies for several purposes, such as to recognize visitors to our website or magazine, to determine the number of unique visitors to our website or magazine, to ascertain which website pages or magazine pages they visit, and to conduct internal reviews of our site and magazine. We do not associate information we collect via cookies with any of your personal information.
You are always free to decline cookies on websites, but in doing so you may not be able to use certain features on our website. The "help" segment of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to configure your browser to not accept new cookies, how to have the browser inform you when you receive a new cookie, and how to erase cookies from your hard drive.
We may also use web beacons to count page visits by our users, to access our cookies, and otherwise to improve your experience on this website and our magazine. If you have opted-in to receive emails with your consent (or parental consent as the case may be), we may also use web beacons in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails the recipients have opened and acted upon, allowing us to measure the effectiveness of our communications and marketing campaigns. Like cookies, web beacons do not collect or contain your name or your e-mail address.
How do we share personal information?
Except as described below, we do not sell, transfer or otherwise disclose to third parties the personally-identifiable information we collect on this website.
At times we provide your personal information to third parties who provide services on our behalf. These entities may use the information solely in conjunction with the specific services they provide for us (e.g. database maintenance, providing a contest prize, operation of a consumer survey, investigation of a complaint, etc.).
We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, but we will post a notice on this website letting you know about the sale or transfer.
We will also transfer or otherwise disclose personal information in response to judicial process, to comply with legal requirements, and, as permitted under provisions of law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on a matter related to public safety. We may also use the information as permitted by law to protect our rights or property, the website, or its users.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to the websites of that are owned and operated by third parties. These other websites may have their own privacy policies and would not be governed by this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of websites owned and operated by third parties. We encourage you to carefully read and review the privacy policy for each website you visit.
Chat rooms and message/bulletin boards/blogs
If you use chat rooms, message/bulletin boards and blogs that may be on our website, you should know that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., name, e-mail address, etc.) on a message/bulletin board, in a chat area, through a blog, or other interactive area where personal information can be posted, the information can be collected and used by other internet users. We strongly urge you to not include any personal identifiable information in usernames you create. This may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties. We undertake no obligations as to the security of information you voluntarily post in chat rooms, message/bulletin boards and blogs.
Invite-a-Friend
This site may, from time to time, include a tell-a-friend application that makes it easy for you to forward information or materials from our website or magazine to friends or family by e-mail. In order to address your e-mail message, the application will ask you to input the recipient's e-mail address and/or similar information (including your e-mail address). This information is only used by the application to address your message so that it can be properly sent. We will not retain any of the personal information collected for this purpose once the message has been sent.
Children's Privacy
Our website and magazine are directed to teenagers as well as children (individuals under the age of 13). Except in respect of contests as outlined below, if a child who is under the age of 13 is asked to provide personally-identifiable information, she will need to provide the e-mail address of her parent or legal guardian, and we will contact that parent or legal guardian to obtain their agreement to our use of their child’s information.
For contests, if a child under the age of 13 enters a contest and is selected to be eligible to win a prize, we will contact the parent/legal guardian (not the child) for prize fulfillment, including obtaining further information needed to award the prize and for any prize delivery. We do not use the child's personal information for any purpose other than enter the child into a contest and we not share the information with third parties except as described above in this Privacy Policy. With respect to contest entrants, we do not retain the child's personally-identifiable information in our database once the contest in question is complete and prizes have been awarded.
How We Protect Personally-Identifiable Information
The security of personally-identifiable information is important to us. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to help guard your personal information.
Your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy
By using this website, you signify your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this website or subscribe to our magazine. On occasion, it may be necessary for us to change the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will do so by posting updated text on this website, and your continued use constitutes acceptance of those changes. To ensure that you are aware of current privacy practices, we recommend that you check back from time to time.
We will not materially change how we handle previously collected information from you without providing you (or in the case of a child under the age of 13, their parent/legal guardian) with notice and an opportunity to choose how we use that information.
How to contact us
We welcome your feedback. If you have questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, or would like to do any of the following:
• see personal information that you have already sent us so that you can correct or update it delete your personally identifiable information from our files
• if your child under 13 has sent us personally identifiable information, see that personal information so that you can correct or update it
• if your child under 13 has sent us personally identifiable information, delete that personal information from our files
• ask that we not send you mailings or otherwise contact you
• report any violation of this Privacy Policy
please contact us at: info@more2girls.com
TOR_LAW\ 7022440\3