Chat Online Privacy Policy
Information Collection & Use
Registration
In order to use some areas of this Web site, you must first complete the registration form and create a user name and password. During registration you are required to give contact information such as name and email address. We use this information to verify that you are a real person interested in using such site features for their designed purpose.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and their email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Chat Online does not store this information.
Communications from the Site
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and a password. We will also communicate with you in response to inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email in accordance with your wishes.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and also with our advertisers. This information does not identify any individual users.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information
We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties.
Service Providers
We use other third parties to provide chat rooms and forums on our site. When you use such services, we will share information as necessary for the third party to provide that service.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by any law and also when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with judicial proceedings, court orders, or legal process served on our Web site.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we may gather certain information automatically and store it inside log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, the browser type, internet service providers (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating systems, date/time stamps, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which doesn't identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track user movements around the site and to gather demographic information on our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to any personally identifiable information.
We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies & log files to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site on the aggregate.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We may use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while you are on our site.
We use persistent cookies. A persistent cookie may remain on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided by your Internet browser's "help" file.
If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site will be limited.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See "Third Party Advertisers."
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by this site only and does not cover the use of cookies by any of our advertisers.
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google AdSense and PayPopUp.com, our advertising partners. We are required to share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third-party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements to users on this site.
These advertisers may use cookies and/or clear GIFs on this site, which allow them to recognize a user's cookie when an user visits this site. The information that they collect and share through this technology is in no way personally identifiable.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains many links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Chat Online. Please be aware that we, Chat Online, are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you are leaving our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every other Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, which are the main features of this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of those forums and chat rooms, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit on those forums and chat rooms.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information in our registration forms, we encrypt such information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted, both during transmission & once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable ways to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolutly secure.
Business Transitions
In the event Chat Online happens to go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another organisation, or sale of all or some of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets that are transferred.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we do decide to change our privacy policy, we will post any changes to this privacy statement so that you are all aware of what information we collect, how we use that information, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it relativly frequently. If we make any changes to this policy, we will notify you here.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: admin @ chat-rooms-online.com
