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PickyGuide is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe online experience for all our users. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected online through PickyGuide and governs online data collection and usage by PickyGuide. PickyGuide requests information about you in order to provide you with the most efficient and enhanced service – to display custom, personalized content and send newsletters, emails, features, promotional material, surveys and other updates to our users. We also use collected information to evaluate and administer our service, respond to any problems that may arise and to gauge user trends to determine what part of our services are most popular with users. PickyGuide collects personally identifiable information such as names, email addresses and demographic information such as age, gender and zip code. We also may collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring website address. This information is collected both during registration on a site or in response to specific requests, for example when signing up for a newsletter, entering a contest or answering a survey. Information collected at one PickyGuide website will be available within the PickyNetwork family of Websites. Sometimes we will give you the opportunity to opt in to offers from third parties not affiliated with PickyGuide. If you decide to accept these offers, we will provide, with your consent, your information to the third party. However, you should note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information users consent to give to third parties not affiliated with PickyGuide. Any information users give to another party is governed by the rules of that party's privacy policy, which may differ from this Privacy Policy. PickyGuide is not responsible for information given to other parties. Please review their privacy policies prior to providing any information to third parties. We may extend offers to users on behalf of our partners about a particular product or service that may be of interest to you, but we will never give out your name or personal information at any time without your permission. As result, although PickyGuide may receive a fee from our partners for this service, PickyGuide sends all the offers so that your personal information is never shared with any outside third party. You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose information online (whether through PickyGuide’s services or any other service available online), personal or otherwise, that information can be collected and used by others. For example, if you use chat, forums, bulletin boards, your e-mail or if you post personal information online, you may receive unsolicited messages from others. PickyGuide has no control over this use of your personal information. We allow users of our website to send articles or links by email to other parties who may be interested in them. We do not retain any email addresses (unless you are a member who already has voluntarily provided your email address) of either the sender or recipient of such articles or links after they are sent. We may, at times, produce reports for advertisers containing aggregate information about our users such as demographic, age and online usage information. This allows us to work more closely with advertisers to provide content and offers that are most relevant to our users. We will never include any personal information of our users in these reports. We reserve the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request; to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our site and our property; to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation. Some of our web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (single-pixel gifs). These images allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We also may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information but they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our website usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, originating IP address, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. Some of our Web pages may also contain web beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help us determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. Your browser offers "cookies" which, if you allow their use, store small amounts of data on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information about you and therefore cannot be used to identify you personally. Cookies simply assist us in tracking which of our features you like best. Cookies also enable us to customize our content according to your preferences. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser and our websites are viewable even if you disable the cookie function on your browser. However, if you disable cookies, some advanced and customized features of our site, as well as other websites, will not be available to you. We may also place a cookie on your browser so that our website recognize you as a unique, anonymous user. This will enable us to make sure that you do not see the same ad over and over, to sequence ads in a series, and to measure more accurately the number of unique visitors across the PickyNetwork. Some of the ads displayed in our Websites are provided by outside companies. These ads contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our websites, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our advertisers and we do not have access to this information. We use a reputable third party to serve some or all of the advertisements that are placed within our sites and they may use information (not including personally identifiable information) about your visits to our sites and other sites to assist in serving advertisements to you. PickyGuide employees are made aware of its privacy practices through periodic communications and training. We limit access to private and confidential data only to those employees with a specific need to retrieve this information and we store data on multiple service systems, in controlled, secure environments. To maintain our level of security, we conduct both internal reviews and external audits of our security measures and procedures on a regular basis. In developing our business, we might sell certain assets or the company, or parts of it, may be sold, merged or otherwise transferred. In such transactions, user information, whether personally identifiable or otherwise, may be one of the transferred assets. We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to maintain the highest protection for our users and to comply with a changing environment. We recommend that you check the policy when you visit our site to be sure you are aware of and understand our current policy. If we make material changes to this policy or in how we will use or collect your personally identifiable information, we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. We will not make changes in how we handle previously collected personal information that have retroactive effect unless legally required to do so. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please E-mail us.
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