The Swingers Directory PRIVACY POLICY
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The Swingers Directory understands that your privacy is very important to
you. That's why we've developed this policy to ensure that your
privacy is protected while using our personals services.
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Table of Contents
A Special Note About Children
About The Swingers Directory and Information We Collect
Our Use of Your Information
Our Disclosure of Your Information
Your use of Other Users' Information
Control of Your Password
Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable
Information
Third Party Collections of Information
Security
Update/Delete
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1. A Special Note About Children
Children under eighteen years of age are not eligible to use our
services. We ask that children not submit information to us. |
2. About The Swingers Directory and Information
We Collect
The Swingers Directory is an online network which provides you useful tools
and communities to build relationships online. The Swingers Directory basic
service is FREE to all qualified members.
In our online ANONYMOUS registration form, we ask you to
provide us with certain information such as your age and the type
of relationship you are looking for. In addition, we collect address,
credit card, and bank information only from those who wish to acquire
Gold member privileges. However, NONE of the personally identifiable
information can be accessed or used by the public to identify a
specific individual.
In the course of using our site, we automatically track certain
information such as your IP addresses and e-mail addresses. Many
sites automatically collect this information. For your protection, as well as ours we log user access and maintain records of all emails sent using our systems. This information is kept solely for use in case of harrassment issues, use verification and to safe-guard against identity theft. If you choose to post messages in chat rooms or other message areas, we will only display such information about you as you choose to reveal.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters,
or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about
your activities or postings on the site, we may collect such information
into a file which is only accessed by authorized personnel. We may
also collect other users' comments about you in our complaints department.
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3. Our Use of Your Information
We internally use personally identifiable information of our users
to improve our marketing efforts, to statistically analyze site
usage, to improve our content and product offerings as well as to
customize our site's content and layout. We believe these uses allow
us to improve our site and better tailor your online experience
to meet your needs.
We may also use personally identifiable information about you to
deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to
your interests, such as targeted banners and promotions.
We also send periodic informational updates to our members via email.
We use personally identifiable information to resolve disputes,
troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. |
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
We reserve the right to use personal ad data and associated images in
other related websites and on-line endeavors.
We do disclose
information in aggregate to advertisers and for other marketing
and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we DO
NOT disclose to these entities any information that could be used
to personally identify you. Certain information, such as your
credit card number, and bank account number, are not maintained by us and not
disclosed in aggregate at all.
In order to maintain a healthy community, The Swingers Directory cooperates
with all law enforcement inquiries and with all third parties
to enforce their intellectual property or other rights.
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5. Your use of Other Users' Information
The Swingers Directory and our users do not tolerate spam, harassment,
or threats. |
6. Control of Your Password
You may not disclose your password to any third parties or share
it with any third parties. If, despite the foregoing, 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. |
7. Reviewing and Changing Your Personally
Identifiable Information
Once you register, you will be able to review and change much of
your personally identifiable information at The Swingers Directory including:
Your email address
Your city, state, zip code, country
Your password
Your profile
Please promptly update your information if it changes.
Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made
in our chat rooms or other message areas.
We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove
in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems and enforce our User Agreement. |
8. Third Party Collections of Information
Our policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information
we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information
to other parties on our system or other sites throughout the Internet,
different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal
information you disclose to them. While The Swingers Directory is working
closely with our partners to ensure the highest privacy to you,
we encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal
information to others. |
9. Security
The Swingers Directory has security measures in place to protect and prevent
the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.
The Swingers Directory uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality
of your personal identifiable information such as firewalls. While
"perfect security" does not exist on the Internet, our technical
experts at The Swingers Directory work hard to ensure your secure use of
our services. |
10. Update/Delete
The Swingers Directory Members have the following choices to modify or delete
their information from our database:
- Send an email to our customer
service rep.;
- Log in with your password and modify/delete your profile;
- Send a snail mail to The Swingers Directory at PO Box 21285., South
Euclid, OH 44121.
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