AZ BB Forum Privacy Policy - Event Date: 16 Oct 2011

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to the AZ Baby Boutique's Forum. Because we ask for some basic personal information during registration, we want you to be fully informed as to how this information is gathered and used.

Registration

Some basic personal information is required in order to register with the AZ Baby Boutique's Forum:

• Name - Your first and last name help us to personalize your online experience. For example, your "My Forum" list of favorite online communities may feature your first and/or last name.

• E-mail Address - By providing your e-mail address, you can receive important messages via your existing email account. These message board notifications, personalized My Forum newsletters, and messages sent to you by other AZ Baby Boutique's Forum members rely on the email address that you provided when you register.
  

• User Name - You can use any name that you desire because this is how you are identified (the name that everyone can see) when you participate in a forum. While many other aspects of your account can be updated regularly, your user name cannot be changed.

Information on AZ Baby Boutique Forum Requests

• When you register, you are asked to give demographic information (like birth year, occupation, and gender). We ask you to tell us a little about yourself so we can better understand the types of people who register for our forum. This information can also be used to provide you with content that may be of interest to you and to show you any advertisements that are relevant to your demographic information.

• At times, AZ Baby Boutique's Forum may use outside ad companies to display ads on our sites. These ads may contain cookies. While AZ Baby Boutiques Forum uses cookies in other parts of our sites, the ad companies also use cookies with their displayed advertisements and AZ Baby Boutique's Forum may not have access to this information.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

• No one under the age of eighteen (18) years old is allowed to participate in the AZ Baby Boutique's Forum.

Participation

• Participation describes information that is provided "actively" - meaning, you choose to submit this information to us when you join the AZ Baby Boutique's Forum or update your account at any point after having joined.

• Some other information is provided "pa*sively" - meaning, that the AZ Baby Boutique's Forum obtains this information when you log-in to your AZ Baby Boutique's Forum account and use our service. This is done primarily through the use of "cookies."

• Cookies are used on AZ Baby Boutique's Forum to verify your log-in information and to optionally store your pa*sword in your browser so that you do not need to type it in on the log-in screen each time you return to visit.
  
  
•  Any time that you point your browser to a 'members-only' area, AZ Baby Boutique's Forum checks your browser's cookie file to see if you have already logged in, and if you have, you will be taken directly to the page that you have requested.
  
  
• If you have not registered, you will be directed to the AZ Baby Boutique's Forum log-in screen, where you can quickly and easily log-in to your account or signup for AZ Baby Boutique's Forum if you are not yet become a member. Cookies are also used in conjunction with some ad banners to determine their effectiveness with demographic information.

Cookies

• AZ Baby Boutique's Forum uses cookies to customize your experience while using our services. A cookie is a small text file that many web sites write to your browser's temporary folder when you visit a web site. A cookie can only be read by the site that places it; so AZ Baby Boutique's Forum cannot learn about your browsing history based on any other cookies in your browser.

• Most browsers allow the option of displaying a warning before accepting a cookie or refusing all cookies.

NOTE: Declining cookies while participating in AZ Baby Boutique's Forum may result in some of the features not working properly for you.

Advertising

• AZ Baby Boutique's Forum may use third-party advertising companies and advertising networks to serve advertisements to you on our behalf when you visit our forum site. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other forum or web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

NOTE: Personally identifiable information such as your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number are not shared with advertisers without your permission.

• AZ Baby Boutique may use personally identifiable information in order to fill in forms on third-party sites we use to present advertising offers. But this information will not be shared and it will not be stored by any third parties if you decline these offers.

• Among the third-party advertising companies that AZ Baby Boutique's Forum uses are Google. For more information on their privacy policies, please consult the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

AZ Baby Boutique & Non-AZ Baby Boutique Forums

• AZ Baby Boutique's Forum, along with many other companies, relies on our web hosting partner to host our online communities and related data. Participation in any given hosting company includes the sharing of some of your personal information with the hosting company in addition to AZ Baby Boutique.

• You will be warned before your information is shared with our hosting company and you will have the opportunity to decline if you so desire.
  
  
• Any company with which your information is shared will have it's own privacy policy. As a registered user, you may receive informational e-mail messages from AZ Baby Boutique's Forum from time to time. All registered members are required to receive such communications. If you wish to stop these emails, you may terminate your membership at any time.

Public Forum

• AZ Baby Boutique's Forum hosts message boards, chat and other services for both public and private forums. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in a public forum becomes public information.
• In addition, information that is disclosed in a private forum may be disclosed by other forum participants. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

• AZ Baby Boutique's Forum site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information that is under our control. AZ Baby Boutique's Forum servers have strict security measures in-place to prevent an intruder from retrieving any personal information about our users.

Termination

At any time, you can elect to terminate your membership with AZ Baby Boutique's Forum.

• Simply go to your My Forum page, scroll down to the "My Info" menu on the left-hand side of the page, and select the "My Preferences" link.

• On the "My Preferences" page scroll down to the "Account Status" section.

• Check the box next to "Want to cancel your account?" and scroll down to the bottom of the page to the "Submit" button.

• Click on the "Submit" button to cancel your account.

NOTE: Upon termination, your account information will not necessarily be removed entirely from AZ Baby Boutique Forum - this is to reserve your identity so that no one else can create a new account with your member name or e-mail address; it also allows you the privilege of reactivating your account, at a later date, if you wish to use the AZ Baby Boutique's Forum again.

• The termination of your AZ Baby Boutique's Forum membership will not automatically terminate any affiliated memberships or registrations you have formed through the AZ Baby Boutique's Forum.

• If, after having joined a AZ Baby Boutique partner's service, you wish to be removed, you should contact that service directly to have your membership terminated.

Summary

In this electronic era, when personal information can easily be obtained through various sources, AZ Baby Boutique appreciates the sensitivity of any private information that you disclose to us. It is our intention to treat your account information with the highest level of care and confidentiality.



Edited by TommyB - 19 Oct 2011 at 2:52am