Each time you visit
the Seekingfun Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page
from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and
to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify
you and to gather broad demographic information about our users.
Cookies Like most Websites, the Site may use cookies to keep track of your purchases
and other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We may
also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your
password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information
so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site. Third party advertisers
on the Site may also place cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these
cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell
you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be
able to access certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect From You. In order to operate the Site and to provide
you with information about products or services that may be of interest to you,
we may collect "personal information" (i.e. information that could
be used to contact you directly (without using the Site) such as full name,
postal address, phone number or email address), "financial information"
(i.e. credit card numbers or passwords) or "demographic information"
(i.e. information that you submit, or that we collect, that is neither personal
information nor financial information; this may include, but is not limited
to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth date, purchase
history information, browsing history information, searching history information,
registration history information, and the content of communications between
you and other members over the Site), subject to the rest of this paragraph.
Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1) "non-public
information", which consists of purchase history information and one-on-one
communications between you and other users of the Site; and 2) "public
information", which consists of all other demographic information. We ask
that you do not enter personal information or financial information into your
“Profile” (for example, don’t use your address or passcode
as your username, or include your name, contact information or address in your
written responses), because if you do then it may be posted publicly on the
Site, and the information will then be treated as "demographic information"
that is "public information." Please note that nowhere on the Site
do we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of
18, as we require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years
old.
Information Other
Websites Collect From You On the Site, we may place links to other Websites
operated by other parties. Some of these other Websites may contain our brand
names and trademarks and other intellectual property that we own; others do
not. When you click on these links and visit these other Websites, regardless
of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual
property, you need to be aware that we do not control these other Websites or
these other Websites’ business practices, and that this privacy policy
does not apply to these other Websites. Consequently, the operators of these
other Websites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may
use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were
collected on the Site. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and
remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
How We Use Personal InformationWe use your email address and your other personal
information to help us efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection
with your transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not
limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship
with Seekingfun), and to forward messages to you from other Seekingfun users.
These types of communications, are known as "Operational Communications."
In some cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages,
such as banner ads and special offers. We also use personal information to send
you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for Seekingfun’s
or third parties’ goods or services. We attempt to send you offers that
are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information.
The Site may provide you with options to decline to receive communications from
Seekingfun (other than those contained in Operational Communications). Some
of these options may only be for a certain category of communications; others
may be more general. By posting a profile on the Site, you are opting in to
receive the Seekingfun by Mail email. To stop receiving Seekingfun by Mail,
contact suppprt@seekingfun.com. To operate the Site, including processing your
transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal
information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers
so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit
card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer
relationship management services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional
fulfillment. We may require these entities not to use your information for any
other purpose. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products
or services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to
receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing
to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount
or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, you
consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties. Those
third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own
privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them
directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information
by them. 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 you submit to us. In some cases, we
may enter into a promotional relationship with another company in which we prominently
display their brand name or trademarks on pages of the Site. These pages are
known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these companies are known as “Co-Branded
Companies.” If the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded
Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may
share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded
Companies may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy
policies. You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly
regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.
Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so
submitted to such Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in which we are entitled
to use and disclose any other information you submit to us.
Please read the
information below under the heading "Special Cases in which we Share Personal
and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your
personal information.
How We Use Financial Information We use your financial information to check
your qualifications, to bill you for products and services and 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 Site, you consent to
our providing 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 Site, or by participating in programs offered on the Site 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. Additionally, if the page on which you submit information
is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded
Page, then we may share your financial information with the associated Co-Branded
Company. Any of these various third parties (including Co-Branded Companies)
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. Please read the information below under the heading "Special
Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more
ways in which we may share your financial information.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information. Your personal
information or financial information may be passed on to a third party in the
event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose
personal information or financial information when we determine that such disclosure
is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement
or to protect the interests or safety of Seekingfun or other visitors to the
Site. We also may disclose your personal information or financial information
to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated
legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control.
Whenever personal information or financial information is disclosed under this
paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information along with it,
on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal
entities and businesses that receive your personal information, financial information,
or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with the terms
of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
How We Use Public
Information and Other Demographic Information. We may review all demographic
information. We may use public information to enable other users to find your
profile, to determine whether they are a match for you and to communicate with
you. We may use demographic information to tailor the Site and communications
to your interests. We may also share demographic information with advertisers
on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without telling the advertisers
your identity). One of the reasons we may do this is to increase the likelihood
that our advertisers’ goods and services will appeal to Seekingfun’s
users, so that we may target specific ads at specific demographic groups. Our
sharing of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do
not tell advertisers which particular Seekingfun users are members of which
demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy policy. When you respond
to an advertisement, however, we ask you to remember that if that ad that is
targeted to a demographic group and you decide to give the advertiser your personal
information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as being a member
of that demographic group. Please also be aware that when we disclose your financial
information or personal information to a Co-Branded Company, as described above,
we may also disclose to that Co-Branded Company your demographic information,
other than the content of one-on-one communications between you and other members.
Please also be aware that we may disclose your demographic information on a
non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph titled "Special
Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information." Also, to read
further details about how we may use your public information, see our Terms
of Use .
Our Security Precautions. The Site has security measures in place to protect
against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Our secure server software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the best
software available today for secure commerce transactions. We try to encrypt
all of your personal and financial information as it travels over the Internet
and we store your financial information on our servers in encrypted form. Your
information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks which
may be located outside of the state, province, country or other governmental
jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these
computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the
laws in your country or jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered Information. If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email or by providing 30 days notice on the Site. Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable information, without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, provided that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after the date of the change.
If you have any
questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the Site,
or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us at support@Seekingfun.com.
This document was updated September 1, 2003.