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BullShitZone.com Privacy PolicyThis site is owned and operated by Vitriol Consult and AxlPro. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Vitriol Consult, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it. If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, they should first contact BullShitZone.com by sending an e-mail to admin@BullShitZone.com A Special Note About ChildrenChildren are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that minors (under the age of 16) do not submit any personal information to us.Information Collection:BullShitZone.com gathers two types of information about users:1. Information that users provide through voluntarily registering or subscribing to our service. These are voluntary submissions requesting personal information so that we are able to provide a personalized and effecient service. 2. Information BullShitZone.com gathers through log files and aggregated tracking information. These files contain absolutely no personal information. Information Use:BullShitZone.com Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:1. Voluntary Subscription and Use of serivce: 1.1 Online Registration. Gathers e-mail, gender, date of birth, country, post code/zip code and marital status. This information is used to allow us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs and to customize our service to make your experience easier. 1.2 Members may further optionally choose to include in their profiles a personalized description, their sexual orientation, religion, employment status, photos, likes and dislikes, and other information helpful in determining matches and a personalized experience. 1.3 Registered members may choose whether they wish their profile to be searchable/viewable by other registered members using the website. Your viewable profile does not include any identifying information about you, except the username you chose upon registering and your photo. 2. Log Files and Aggregated Tracking Information: 2.1 Like most web sites we use log files located on our servers. These include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. 2.2 We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of our Websites. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. We also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a "cookie". Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits. 2.3 We use a third party advertising company, to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. The third party may also collect anonymous information about your visits to our Web site, principally through the use of action beacons and/or cookies. How We Use Your InformationWe use information in the files we maintain about you, and the other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Websites to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms and Conditions. At times, we may look across multiple members to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information to identify members multiple Member ID No. or aliases.You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyse site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our Site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs. You agree that in order to assist our members to meet each other we may feature members' profiles on our site and in our editorials and newsletters that we send out from time to time to our members. Disclosure of InformationThough we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site. Under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or members may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our Websites. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications always remain private.As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed. Financial Information.Under some circumstances we may require some additional information, such as, but not limited to credit card details. We use this financial information, including your name, address, and other information, as well as to bill you for use of our services. We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for services and/or products, to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information on the Websites, you consent to our providing of your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for products or services of third parties offered on the Websites, or by participating in programs offered on the Websites that are administered by third parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties. Any of these various third parties may be authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that you submit to us.Advertisers.We aggregate (gather up data across all our members' accounts) personally identifiable information and may disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we never disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your email address, password, credit card number, are never disclosed to marketing advertisers. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.External Service Providers.There may be a number of services offered by external service providers that help you use our Websites. If you choose to use these optional services, and in the course of doing so, disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their private policy.Other Corporate Entities.We share much of our data, including personally identifiable information about you, with our parent and/or subsidiaries that are committed to serving your online needs and related services, throughout the world. To the extent that these entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other members. Our parent and/or subsidiaries will follow privacy practices no less protective of all members than our practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible that iDate and/or its subsidiaries, or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that BullShitZone.com would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the service. You will receive notice of such event (to the extent it occurs) and we will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.Legal Requests.BullShitZone.com cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement and other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.Business TransitionsIn the event BullShitZone.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users’ personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)We do not share any aggregated demographic information with any 3rd parties.Your Use of other Members InformationOur services might also include access to instant messaging and SMS messaging. As a member you have access to the Member's ID No., and you might gain access to other contact information of the Member(s) through the regular use of the instant messaging and SMS messaging. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree that, with respect to other Members' personally identifiable information that you obtain through instant messaging communication, SMS and email, BullShitZone.com hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for: (a) BullShitZone.com related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, and (b) any other purpose that such member expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). In all cases, you must give Members an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another member to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other member after adequate disclosure. BullShitZone.com and our members do not tolerate Spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a BullShitZone.com member to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report Spam from other BullShitZone.com members, please contact us at spam@BullShitZone.com.Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your ProfileFollowing registration, you can review and change the information you submitted during registration through the My Account Menu including: Your password and e-mail address. You can also change your registration information such as: username, city, state, zip/post code, country, phone number, profile, likes and dislikes, desired date profile and saved search criteria.Upon your written request, we will suspend your membership, contact information, and financial information from our active databases. Such information will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our policy and applicable law. To de-activate your profile so that others cannot view it, visit the Account Summary section of My Account. We will retain in our files and databases information you have requested to suspend or remove for certain circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our terms and conditions. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored 'back up' systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests. Control of Your PasswordYou are responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your BullShitZone.com password or login information to any third parties. If you choose to share this information with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password and therefore should review each third party's privacy policy. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.LinksThis Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, BullShitZone.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.SecurityAll voluntary information collected on BullShitZone.com is stored on a different, non-puclic access, area of our server to the web site and employs secure data networks protected by industry standard firewalls, Secure Socket Layers and password protection systems. BullShitZone.com treats data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by members inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.Notification of ChangesIf we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.If, however, we are going to use voluntarily submitted personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify all those concerned via email. |
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