Introduction
The Social Place Corporation wants our users to always be aware of any information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Website Administration
Use of Information Collected
We respect each member’s rights to privacy. All information that is gathered is treated with great care for your security. To that end, we collect and use information throughout our website only as disclosed in this privacy policy. This statement applies solely to information collected on this website during registration and member profile and preferences setup. For each visitor to our website, our web server automatically recognizes no information regarding domain or email addresses. The information we collect is used to improve the content of our website and membership validation for security purposes. It is also used to notify visitors about updates or pertinent information about our website. Our member’s information is NEVER shared with other organizations for commercial purposes. If in the event that we make a material change in the way we collect or use your personal information, you will be notified by email or through a prominent notice on our website.
User Registration
During registration, a user must give certain contact information, but we never sell or give away this information. It is only gathered to contact the user about services on our website for which he/she has expressed interest in. Registration is not required to view basic information about the website, but it is required in order to receive the full benefits The Social Place Corporation provides to our members. A user must provide contact information such as name, address, email and credit card. If we have trouble processing the transaction, we will use this information in order to contact the user. When we process certain types of sensitive information during signup, we use a secure web page that will provide a secure protected transaction for the user.
Notification of Changes to Privacy and Security Policy
If The Social Place Corporation makes any changes to its privacy and security policy, we will post these changes to this privacy and security policy statement and an email notification will be sent to all registered users.
Conflict Resolution
The Social Place Corporation is committed to resolve any disputes or problems with our members within a timely fashion. We are dedicated to customer service and want to make sure that all our members are having great experiences with the services that we provide. If a problem should arise, you should contact us at support@thesocialplace.com for immediate resolution. Please send a detailed email with contact information so we could resolve the problem as quick as we can.
The Social Place Corporation Contact Information
If any of our members or site users have any questions or suggestions regarding our service or this privacy and security policy, please contact us at info@thesocialplace.com.
Usage of Your Email
We use your email address for many reasons at The Social Place Corporation. Your email is used to forward communications from other members, to receive social events notifications, newsletters from The Social Place Corporation, and updated site information. For your protection, when you receive emails from other members, it comes through The Social Place Corporation first, then sent to your personal email. This sort of email protection allows us to send members emails without knowing other members personal email addresses. This sort of information security is what The Social Place Corporation provides to our members.
Cookies
Cookies are used on the website in order to store specific information about a user logged in. This will aid the website to show specific information directed to that user's preferences. In no way do we store user specific secure information within these cookies. They are mainly basic settings on the website such as geographical location or username.
Security Procedures
The Social Place Corporation realizes how your personal information is very important to you, as a user of an online website. We will try in every aspect to keep your information secure once we have collected it. But as a user you need to realize that data transmission over the Internet cannot be 100% guaranteed secure. Because of this, The Social Place Corporation will try its best to secure your information transmitted, but we cannot assure or warrant the security of any information that you provide through our website. The Social Place Corporation does operate on secure data networks that are password protected and are not available to the general public. When all sensitive data information is passed through the network, we provide a security protocol called Secured Sockets Layer (SSL). This is the Internet Industry standard using data encryption and web server authentication to make sure your information is secure. An SSL certificate is issued to ensure authentic and accurate information of a secured Web Server. This ensures that only The Social Place Corporation is able to decrypt the data that you transmit. The Social Place reviews its security policy on a regular basis, making changes when it is only necessary.
Your Financial Information
All of your financial information that The Social Place Corporation collects, mainly credit cards, is used to bill you for the services that we provide, as well as check your credit qualifications. By making a purchase on the website, or accessing any financial transaction or activity on our website, you automatically consent to allowing us to provide your financial information to your credit card issuer for their assistance in processing your transaction. Your financial activity on the website also allows us to contact any third party we determine as necessary to process your transaction. These third parties may include banking institutions and/or credit card institutions used to process and verify your financial transaction. Additionally, you agree as a member 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.
Limited Access to Information
The Social Place Corporation has it in their best interests to guard your personal information carefully and securely. Your individual information that you provide us will be used only by The Social Place Corporation to provide you with updates about our website, our products and services. The Social Place Corporation will not disclose your information to any third party affiliates, unless expressed elsewhere in this Privacy and Security Policy. The Social Place Corporation may share aggregate information collected through The Social Place Corporation with non-affiliated third parties. Aggregate information DOES NOT identify you, but is a summary of all the users combined. This could be how many users are within a certain age bracket, or even how many of your users are smokers. This aggregate information assists advertisers in determining how they can best promote their products.
Managing your Personal Information
The Social Place Corporation realizes that your information may change at any time. So we allow you to change any part of your personal profile at any time through our website. Just login to your account and make any necessary changes to your information.
Making Changes to Your Information
All members of The Social Place Corporation have password protected accounts that are set up by the member. If you want to change any information, all you need to do is login to your account and click to the My Profile section. From here you can edit or delete any personal information.
Availability Policy
Our network will be available almost all of the time, excluding time for regular site updates or server patches. We realize that having access to your information is important to you as a user at any time, so The Social Place Corporation has implemented a policy specific to information availability. This policy allows you to have access to your information at any time. If an accident occurs with the website or servers, thus making access to our system information unavailable, this information will not be accessible until the site is back up and running. If you feel that we are not abiding by our Information Availability policy, please contact us at info@thesocialplace.com.
Protecting Your Personal Information
The Social Place Corporation strongly recommends that you do not let anyone know your password to the website. We will never ask for your password in any conversations, either email or phone. Also, as a security measure, we ask that once you are finished looking at the website, you should log out of your account and close your browser. This will help to ensure that you will not have anyone else access your account without your knowledge or consent.
Contact The Social Place Corporation
If you would like to contact The Social Place Corporation, please email info@thesocialplace.com.
Last updated Monday, July 18, 2005 |
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