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URBAN
OUTINGS LLC PRIVACY POLICY
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. |