Welcome to Urban Outings, a social activities club for gay men, operated by Urban Outings LLC ("Urban Outings"). The Urban Outings Privacy Policy may be found below.

PLEASE NOTE THIS POLICY DISCLOSES THE INFORMATION GATHERING AND DISCLOSURE PRACTICES OF URBAN OUTINGS LLC. This statement applies to all information provided by you: (1) while using any World Wide Web Sites owned and maintained by Urban Outings LLC; (2) while participating in events and trips produced or sponsored by Urban Outings; and/or (3) for your purchase and/or use of any products and services offered by Urban Outings and its commonly held affiliates.

Your use of the Urban Outings Website and/or aforementioned events, trips, products and services constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Urban Outings Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use Agreement. You are responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with all of these terms.

Urban Outings LLC has created this privacy policy because we value our members and recognize the importance of information collected from our members. If you have comments or questions, please e-mail us at customerservice@urbanoutings.com.

PRIVACY POLICY

URBAN OUTINGS GATHERS OR MAY GATHER THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

ONLINE TRACKING

Our Website may utilize technologies, including cookies to keep track of the contents of your shopping basket, to administer our site, to gather broad demographic information, to deliver content requested by you or specific to your interests, to customize our Website for you, and to save your password and member name so that you don't have to enter it each time you visit.

Members who do not want to receive cookies can instruct their Web browsers to refuse them; however, doing so may prevent certain parts of Urban Outings’ site from working (e.g., anything that requires login, including member chat, personals, or message boards). Other organizations that place advertising on Urban Outings sometimes have the ability to assign a different cookie to you in a process that we do not control.

ONLINE/OFFLINE REGISTRATION

Membership to Urban Outings is completely optional. Urban Outings’ registration forms require users to give contact information (e.g., your name, address and e-mail address) and demographic information (e.g., your birth date). Information designated is primarily used to send members information and announcements about their Urban Outings’ account and club participation. At times Urban Outings may share names, mailing and e-mail addresses and demographic information with carefully selected organizations.

ONLINE/OFFLINE PURCHASES

When purchasing products or services from Urban Outings, you may be asked for credit card billing and shipping information. This information is transmitted using a secure, encrypted form. We ensure encryption through the use of standard SSL encryption technologies. This credit card, billing and shipping information is gathered to bill customers for goods and services purchased and to ship merchandise. Only billing vendors have access to financial information and only for the purpose of billing customers. At times Urban Outings may refer users to other Websites to purchase products. User activity on those sites is covered by the privacy policies on those sites.

ONLINE/OFFLINE SURVEYS

At times Urban Outings may conduct surveys asking for specific contact or demographic information. These surveys are always optional. At times Urban Outings may share both the results of, and individual entries in, surveys with the sponsors of the survey. Results of surveys may be shared with partners and advertisers.

ONLINE/OFFLINE CONTESTS

At times Urban Outings may run contests where we ask for contact or demographic information. These contests are always optional. At times Urban Outings may share both the results of, and individual entries in, contests with the sponsors of the contests. Results of contests may be shared with partners and advertisers.

MESSAGE BOARDS, CHAT ROOMS, POLLS, AND COMMUNITY TOOLS

Urban Outings provides many venues for member interaction and community, which may include message boards, chat rooms, online polls, and other tools. In some cases use of such tools (e.g., chat rooms and message boards) may reveal a user's member name or e-mail address and may permit users to publish certain personal information (e.g., Web page links and content ratings) on the Urban Outings Website. In all cases, users affirmatively choose to expose or place this information in public areas of the Urban Outings Website, and thereby agree that such information may be viewed by or forwarded to anyone. Users who do not want this information to be publicly available should not use these optional features on the Urban Outings Website. The result of polls may be shared on the Urban Outings Website.

URBAN OUTINGS MEMBERSHIP PROFILES

Urban Outings permits users to submit personal information for use in our Membership section. This information is stored for the purposes of member self-publishing and interaction and we may also use this information to customize your Urban Outings experience. By registering for Urban Outings Membership and submitting your user information, you understand that anyone may have access to and forward this information. As with all parts of the Urban Outings Website, we will not use Urban Outings Member Profiles to knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Further, Urban Outings reserves the right to remove any profile content (visual or text) that we deem inappropriate for any reason at our sole discretion.

Urban Outings may permit users to submit additional adult-oriented personal information for use in the Urban Outings Service. This information is also stored for the purposes of member self-publishing and interaction and to customize the user's Urban Outings Website experience. By registering for Urban Outings Services and submitting your user information, you understand that anyone may access and forward this information. Urban Outings will not knowingly collect information from those under the age of 18.

MEMBER FEEDBACK

Urban Outings stores feedback members send to us. This feedback is used to administer and refine Urban Outings Website, products and services and at times may be shared with Urban Outings partners.

IP ADDRESSES/CLEAR GIFS

Urban Outings may track individual IP addresses and uses clear GIFs to help diagnose problems with our service, to administer our site and to gather broad demographic information. User IP address information is used only for our internal purposes. Information gathered through our use of clear GIFs cannot be traced to an individual user and is used only for our internal purposes.

ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURE SCENARIOS

Notwithstanding anything else in this policy, Urban Outings may also disclose personal and aggregate information when required by a valid legal mechanism such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, or when we deem it necessary, in our sole discretion, to protect our rights and the safety of others, or our members, employees, or properties.

Urban Outings believes that members' private communications in chat rooms, e-mail, and instant message-like conversations should generally remain confidential. Urban Outings does not read or disclose private communications unless ordered to do so through a valid legal mechanism such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, to protect the company's rights and property, or during emergencies when we believe safety is at risk. Please remember that what you write or post in public areas such as chat rooms and message boards is available to all Urban Outings members, and in many cases other visitors to the Urban Outings Website. Also keep in mind that Urban Outings is not responsible for what other users may do with private communications you've had with them.

Urban Outings reserves the right to share some or all of your personal information with its parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures or other companies under common control with Urban Outings, in which case Urban Outings will require such entities to honor this privacy policy. If Urban Outings is acquired by another company, that company will obtain the member information collected by Urban Outings and will assume the rights and obligations set forth in this privacy policy may be regarding that information.

OFF-SITE LINKS

Urban Outings provides links to other sites. Urban Outings is not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of these other sites.

SYNDICATED URBAN OUTINGS CONTENT

Urban Outings may syndicate its content to and distribute its content through other sites on the Internet. Although you may see the Urban Outings logo on these pages, your activity on these sites is governed by the privacy statement on the site you're visiting.

DELETE/DEACTIVATE INFORMATION

Urban Outings is not responsible for removing information from third-party lists or databases with whom users have previously authorized us to share their information.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact us at customerservice@urbanoutings.com.

AD SERVER

Urban Outings may use reputable third parties to serve some of the advertisements you see on the pages of the Urban Outings Website. We may use clear GIFs, pixel tags, or other technologies provided by our ad serving company to help manage our advertising. These clear GIFs allow our ad serving company to recognize a browser's cookie when the browser visits the Urban Outings Website. This allows us to learn which banner ads bring users to our site. The information we collect and share through this technology is not linked to any information that would allow our ad server to personally identify our users

CHANGE POLICY

From time to time we may revise this privacy notice. If we make a material change, we will post a notice on the Urban Outings Website or notify you by e-mail.

By using Urban Outings Websites, participating in Urban Outings events and trips, and/or purchasing Urban Outings products and services, you assent to the Urban Outings Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this Website, participate in Urban Outings’ events and trips, and/or buy Urban Outings products and services.

If you would like to comment on our policy or have questions regarding its application, please contact us at customerservice@urbanoutings.com.