Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains our practices for collecting and handling your personal information as an IGLUED Member.

IGLUED MEMBER PRIVACY POLICY

This policy covers personal information about you as a Member of the IGLUED Service (“IGLUED Service” or "Service"), including the personal information we collect through the sites, services and software that we use to provide you our Service. Some of these offerings may provide you with additional information and choices about your privacy, which you should read if you take advantage of these offerings.

The IGLUED Member Privacy Policy does not apply to other companies' Web sites and services that you may access outside the IGLUED Service. The personal information collected or received by these other companies is subject to their own privacy policies.

Personal Information Collected

Your IGLUED Member information consists of personally identifiable information collected or received about you when you interact with the IGLUED Service, including IGLUED sites and pages, services, and software (collectively IGLUED Service "offerings"). Depending on how you use the IGLUED Service, your IGLUED Member information may include:

  • registration-related information (such as name, home or work addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers);
  • information about your visits to IGLUED sites and pages, and your responses to the offerings and advertisements presented on these sites and pages;
  • information about the searches you perform through the IGLUED Service and how you use the results of those searches;
  • information about the IGLUED Service offerings that you use, including IGLUED premium services, and how frequently you use them;
  • information about your IGLUED preferences (such as a zip code for localization purposes);
  • customer service information about you as an IGLUED Member (such as account history, your or others' complaints, and your interactions with IGLUED support services online); or
  • other information specifically related to your use of a particular IGLUED Service offering.

Your IGLUED Member information may also include certain technical and diagnostic information gathered or received when you use the IGLUED Service. Some of the technical information that may be collected or received includes: the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), CPU type (e.g., Pentium), the manner in which you connect to the Internet (e.g., connection speed through narrowband or broadband access); Internet protocol address; other information about your geographic location; or data relating to computer malfunctions or problems occurring when you use your computer with the IGLUED Service. Additionally, we may collect information about other software on your computer for the limited purpose of protecting your security or improving your online experience.

Your IGLUED Member information may be supplemented with additional information, including publicly-available information and information from other companies.

Use of Personal Information

Your IGLUED Member information may be used:

  • to operate and improve the IGLUED Service and enhance your online experience;
  • to personalize the content and advertisements you receive;
  • to identify or remediate possible threats to your safety, security, privacy, or to your computer's security;
  • to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries;
  • to conduct research about your use of the IGLUED Service; and
  • to help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest.

IGLUED does not rent or sell your IGLUED Member information (such as name, address, telephone number, screen name and credit card information) to third parties. We may share IGLUED Member information in order to jointly present you offers with or on behalf of our business partners, but we do not allow these partners to use your IGLUED Member information for any other purpose. Except for these joint offers, IGLUED will only share your IGLUED Member information with third parties to provide products and services you have requested, or when we have your consent.

Your IGLUED Member information, including the contents of your private online communications, may be accessed and disclosed in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); in other circumstances in which IGLUED believes the IGLUED Service is being used in the commission of a crime; when we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person; or when necessary either to protect the rights or property of IGLUED, or for us to render the service you have requested.

IGLUED may use agents and contractors in order to help operate the IGLUED Service. We require agents and contractors that have access to IGLUED Member information to protect this information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, and prohibit them from using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for the IGLUED Service.

In the event that ownership of the IGLUED Service was to change as a result of a merger, acquisition, or transfer to another company, your IGLUED Member information may be transferred. If such a transfer would result in a material change in the use of your IGLUED Member information, we will provide notice of this change.

Cookies and Web Beacons

The IGLUED Service may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies in combination with your IGLUED Member information to enhance and personalize your experience on the IGLUED Service, including to operate and improve offerings through the IGLUED Service; to help authenticate you when you use the IGLUED Service; to remember your preferences and registration information; to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of IGLUED Service offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications (by determining which IGLUED Service e-mails you open and act upon); and to customize the content and advertisements provided to you through the IGLUED Service.

The IGLUED Service and its advertisers may also use ad network providers to help present advertisements on the IGLUED Service and other Web sites. These ad network providers may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies on your computer to help present, better target, and measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, using data gathered over time and across their networks of Web pages to determine or predict the characteristics and preferences of their audience. The IGLUED Service may share certain non-personally identifiable information about you as an IGLUED Service Member (such as age or zip code) with certain ad network providers to help them deliver more relevant advertisements through their ad networks. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by other ad network providers is subject to their own privacy policies, not the IGLUED Service's.

Our Commitment to Security

There are many ways for you to access the IGLUED Service or other IGLUED offerings, including through high speed and wireless connections provided by other companies. To help protect the IGLUED Member information you provide to IGLUED, we use a variety of safeguards, including

  • technical, administrative, and physical controls
  • encryption and authentication systems
  • passwords; and
  • agreements with contractors and vendors requiring them to protect the confidentiality, safety, and security of IGLUED Member information

Each and every IGLUED employee must acknowledge that they understand and will comply with the IGLUED Privacy Policy. IGLUED authorizes its employees to obtain access to IGLUED Member information only to perform their particular functions, and uses technological and other control procedures to help limit such access. Employees who violate our policies and practices are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination, or prosecution.

IGLUED has established these safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your IGLUED Member information, but cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, as a result of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or the policies of the IGLUED Service and its affiliates).

Your IGLUED Member information may be collected and stored in the United States or other countries.

Protecting Children

You must be 13 years of age or older to use the IGLUED Services. IGLUED has created a Parental Control feature that allows the parent to access the minor’s site.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about the IGLUED Service's Privacy Policy or its implementation, or if you have a concern or policy violation you wish to report, you may contact us by clicking here.

Keeping You Informed about Changes to this Policy

The IGLUED Service may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this Policy periodically.

Additional Information

Your California Privacy Rights: California privacy law allows California residents to obtain specific disclosures about a business's privacy practices if it shares information with other companies for direct marketing purposes. To make a request to IGLUED under California's privacy law, please contact us by clicking here.

Draft: 09-22-2008