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We at Seattle Stuff understand 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 SweepstakesBlogs.com.
Table of Contents
A Special Note About Children
About SweepstakesBlogs.com 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
Other
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 Seattle Stuff and Information We Collect
Seattle Stuff is an online network which provides you useful tools and communities to build relationships and share information about Seattle and items for sale, for example.
In our online registration form, we ask you to provide us with certain information such as your birth date other personally identifying information. In addition, we use PayPal, a third-party payment processor, to collect address, credit card, and bank information only from those who wish to acquire upgraded member privileges.
At your own discretion, you may choose to post additional facts about yourself on your profile, such as your name, location, etc. While some members freely elect to include their names and other personal information in their profile, it is not required and it is never sold, rented, or shared with any third parties.
In the course of using our site, we may automatically track certain information such as your IP address and email address. Many sites collect this sort of information. We may tie your IP address to your personally identifiable information. If you choose to post messages in our site, chat rooms or other message areas, we will only display such information about you as you choose to reveal. If you post to a blog on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you post there can be read, collected, or used by blog readers, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these blogs. We reserve the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use these services in a manner inconsistent with our Terms of Use or at our sole discretion.
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.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we may ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We may automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Seattle Stuff temporarily stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user`s computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies. A session ID cookie simply terminates once a user closes the browser. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies or any third-party sites you may visit from clicking a link on our site.
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 process member payment and monetary transactions, to comply with applicable law, 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 use personally identifiable information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement.
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 send periodic informational updates to our members via email. These emails may contain advertisements. Your email is never sold, rented, or shared to any third party. You will only receive an email from our site and only if you have an account.
Users who no longer wish to receive our emails and communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the logging into your account and clicking the option to delete your blog account or you may mail us at OTEC, Inc. 1509 E Madison St. #101, Seattle WA 98122 to opt-out.
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will reflect any such change in our Privacy Policy section on this site. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email account holders, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
We DO NOT sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party without your permission. 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 name, address, etc. are not disclosed in aggregate at all.
In order to maintain the Seattle Stuff community, Seattle Stuff.com cooperates with all law enforcement inquiries and with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site. We use a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
5. Your Use of Other Users` Information
You may not use other user’s information for commercial purposes, to spam, to harass, or to make unlawful threats. Seattle Stuff reserves the right to terminate those who misuse other user’s information or who otherwise violate the Seattle Stuff Terms of Use.
6. Email This Page to a Friend Service
The terms applicable to the Email This Profile to a Friend service apply to your use of that service. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use the service to send spam. We do not use the email addresses you enter for any purpose other than to send your email. We do not rent or sell these email addresses, either. We discard the email addresses after they have been used to send your email.
7. 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.
8. 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 Seattle Stuff.
Please promptly update your information if it changes by logging in to your account and following the screen prompts. We strongly urge you to periodically change your password to help reduce the risk of unauthorized access to your account information.
9. 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 Seattle Stuff 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.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. If you would like more information about this practice and your choices, click here.
10. Security
Seattle Stuff has security measures in place to protect and prevent the loss, misuse, and consideration of the information under our control. Seattle Stuff uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information. While "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet, our technical experts at Seattle Stuff work hard to ensure your secure use of our services.
11. Update/Delete
Seattle Stuff Members have the following choices to modify or delete their information from our database:
12. Other Information
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Seattle Stuff is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at the above address.
SeattleStuff .com PRIVACY POLICY
Effective on: (01/21/2012)
