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We at 18-60s.com, have created this privacy policy
to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your personal information and
informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to
transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the
18-60s.com Website, 18-60s.com Messenger and email communications between
18-60s.com members (collectively, the "Site") but does not apply to any other
Website or offline point of contact between 18-60s.com, or any other company,
and consumers. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify
it from time to time. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with
information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this
privacy policy at that time. If users have questions or concerns regarding this
statement, they should first contact the Privacy Officer at 18-60s.com.
Your IP Address
Like most Websites, each time you visit the Site, we may
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 may use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad
demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses 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 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.
18-60s.com, INC. IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR USERS WHO INTENTIONALLY OR OTHERWISE
DISCLOSE PRIVATE INFORMATION IN THE PUBLIC AREAS OF THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT
NOT LIMITED TO PROFILES, EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE OR PUBLIC FORUMS WHICH ARE
PUBLICLY VIEWABLE BY USERS.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other parties. Some of
these other Websites 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 Information
We 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
18-60s.com), and to forward messages to you from other 18-60s.com 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
18-60s.com's goods or services. We attempt to send you
offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special
event information.
By posting a profile on the Site,
you are opting in to receive the 18-60s.com newsletter by email. To stop receiving
18-60s.com newsletter, go to the website, sign in, select my profile and delete your account with us.
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 or order fulfillment.
We require these entities not to
use your information for any other purpose.
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."
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, your details will never be passed from 18-60s to a co branded company without your consent.
Those who contact
you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for
the use of your personal information by them.
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
18-60s.com 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
class="subheader_smalllinks2"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 18-60s.com'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
18-60s.com 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 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.
How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal Information and
Public Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify
personal information or demographic information you have provided to us, and to
hide demographic information from, or make demographic information visible to,
the public users of the Site, at anytime. by making such changes on the
18-60s.com website. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the
changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the Site. We thank you
for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your information
through the Site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications
from 18-60s.com, will only change or delete the data in our database for
purposes of future activities on the Site and for managing future
communications from 18-60s.com. These changes and deletions will not change or
delete emails or information that we may have already forwarded to other users
or credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided above in
this privacy policy.
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