Websocials Inc. respects your right to privacy on the Internet. We voluntarily adhere to the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information. This policy summarizes what personally identifiable information we may collect, and how we might use this information. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy, please do not hesitate to contact us. This policy may be updated, revised and re-posted from time to time. This policy applies to all persons who access and utilize our website.
Registration:
When you register to use the Websocials Services provided on this site, we collect information and demographic data specific to you. This information will be used to contact you regarding the status of your membership with us. This information may also be used by us to contact you for promotional purposes. If you choose to register for a level of membership which requires a membership fee you will be required to provide financial information (like your credit card number and expiry date). We will only use this information in the course of providing our service to you. Personal profile information that is accessible to other users of the site is not linked in any way to your personally identifiable information, for other members to see. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you use an actual name as your nickname and/or provide a personal photograph, some of your information may become personally identifiable information.
Security Safeguards:
All user information we collect is protected against unauthorized access and protected by the latest Internet security protocols.
Use of Collected Information:
We will only collect personally identifiable information (such as name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) and other demographic information that you voluntarily provide through our website or e-mail correspondence. We use this information from your registration form to send you information about our site and, with your permission, to send you promotional emails from us and/or our partners or affiliated advertisers. This information is shared with advertisers and other partners on an aggregate basis for advertising and promotional purposes. Periodically we will be sending you details concerning activities and promotions on our site or exciting news about affiliated sites, which we believe you may find of interest or we may ask these affiliated sites to contact you directly. If you decide to get unregistered from the website, we reserve the right to use your personal information in any ongoing advertising campaigns. You do have the option to opt-out of receiving some or all of these messages and promotions, either by un-checking the applicable option boxes under your user profile where such option boxes have been provided, or by emailing us at [email address] to request that you be removed.
Contests and Surveys:
Periodically, We will encourage members to participate in contests and surveys. The information we collect from these contests and surveys is used to identify site usage trends and demographics so that we may improve our site to better meet user needs or to attract site advertisers and new business opportunities.
Demographics:
Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor a visitor's experience at our site -- displaying content that might interest visitors, and displaying content according to visitor preferences. This information is shared with advertisers only on an aggregate basis. We do share demographic "site summary information". Such summaries are compiled from individual information but do not include specifics on individuals. This information is gathered via cookies, card sends, surveys, newsletter signups, and personalization. These summaries highlight broad demographic trends on our site (for example: browsers used, geographic breakdowns...). This information is used to improve our site and business and to attract site advertisers and new business opportunities.
Cookies:
Cookies may be set upon user's browsers during site visits, both by our site and site advertisers. Our site uses cookies to track user sessions and to gather site usage statistics. We also use cookies to save your site customization preferences and to save user passwords so they don't have to be re-entered upon each site visit. We often use outside ad companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our advertising company, and we do not have access to this information.
Sites to which we Link:
Our site does contain advertising and content links to other sites. We do not police the privacy practices of these linked sites nor are we responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Individuals visiting these links should be attentive to the policies and practices of these sites and act with discretion.
Release of Individual Information:
We will release individual information about a user for the following:
To comply with the requirements of law. To protect the rights, property and integrity of our site by or from a user who is not complying with the Terms of Use. Examples of such non-compliance include the use of any part of our site or system for harassment, SPAM, profanity, pornography dissemination or illegal activity. To protect individual or commercial safety where we have reason to believe a danger exists. To validate credit information and collect debts.
Change of Ownership:
In the event Websocials Inc. 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. Users will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days prior to a change of ownership or control of their personal information. If as a result of the business transition, the users’ personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection they will be given choice consistent with our notification of changes section.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions or suggestions or comments regarding our privacy policy or any other page of this site, please contact us. |