Information collected and used by The Website

The Website collects user-submitted account information including name, email address and age to verify new accounts and send notifications regarding The Website service. The Website collects additional data that is included in member profiles. This data includes but is not limited to: occupation, interests, school affiliations, gender, and location.

The Website also collects non-personally identifiable information including IP address and browser type.

Use of information members submit to The Website

Email addresses are used to send notifications related to the service(s) the user has signed up for, as a confirmation when a The Website member has requested to add another The Website member as a friend, and to invite new friends to join The Website. A user may choose to stop receiving email notifications from The Website at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. When the user sends email or other communication to The Website, The Website may retain those communications in order to process the user's inquiries, respond to the user's requests and improve The Website's services.

Use of non-personally identifiable information

The Website uses your IP address and browser type for the general administration of the website.

Sharing of collected information with third parties

Except in cases where members are expressly informed otherwise, The Website does not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information unless required by law to do so. In certain circumstances, The Website may share profile information and aggregate usage information in a non-personally identifiable fashion to advertisers or other third parties for the purpose of delivering more targeted advertising, products and services to members. In these instances The Website will only disclose information that will be used to personally identify you if you grant permission through an opt-in process. The Website reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of The Website or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.

Communications to Members

When you provide personal information to The Website, you become a meber of The Website. As a member, you will receive periodic pieces of email inviting you to learn more about educational and related offers from third-party sponsors.

Communications to Non-members

When members choose to use The Website's Invite-a-Friend service, the member is prompted to input their friend's email address. The Website will automatically send an email to that address with a message inviting the recipient to join The Website community. The Website stores these email addresses for the purpose of automatically adding the invitee to the member's friend list upon signing up, and also to send reminder notifications of the invitation.

Use of cookies

The Website uses cookies to manage sessions on the site, remember user preferences, and to ensure members do not continually see the same advertisements. Cookies must be enabled in order for members to use The Website service. Information stored in cookies will never contain any personally identifiable information.

Links

The Website contains links to other websites. The Website is in no way responsible for the privacy practices employed by other sites. We recommend that when users leave our site they read the privacy policy as stated on that site. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by The Website.

Correcting/updating or removing information

Members can update their information at any time by clicking on the link found at the bottom of all emails sent from The Website.

Email choice/opt-out

The Website members no longer wishing to receive email notifications from this service may modify their account settings using the instructions included in every email sent from The Website directing the recipient how to opt-out of future emails sent from The Website.

Third party advertising

Advertisements seen on The Website are delivered to users by our third party advertising partners. These partners may use cookies when showing ads to our users. These cookies may be used to determine which site the advertiser's advertisement was displayed on and whether or not the advertisement was clicked. This information helps our advertising partners to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of the most relevance to you. The Website does not have access to the cookies placed by third parties. The Website privacy statement applies only to The Website and does not apply to use of cookies by any third parties.

Changes in our privacy policy

The Website reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time. In the event that this policy is changed, these changes will be posted to the site so that our users are aware of the information collected on the site, how this information is used, and under what circumstances, if any, we will disclose this information. Should The Website use member's personally identifiable information in a way materially different than that which was posted at the time a user submitted this information, The Website will notify members either via email or by posting a prominent notice on the site.

Contacting The Website

Should you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, or any practice of this site, or your interaction with the site, please contact us at privacy@paidsamples.com