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PRIVACY POLICY FOR Velvet Chokers & OUR AFFILIATES, BLOGS
AND FORUMS
This Privacy Policy
describes the information collection and use procedures at
this website, located at VelvetChokers.com ("Site"),
and our affiliates, owned by Frank Julian. This notice describes
our online information collection and use practices at this
Site.
This privacy policy
is effective as of Jan this year. In the future, our Site
or our practices may change, and if appropriate, we will revise
this Privacy Policy accordingly, and post the update version
here. If we alter our practices in a manner that will significantly
impact the treatment of information you have already provided,
we will send you a notice of our new practices. If you do
not agree with the privacy practices described in this Privacy
Policy, you should not provide us with information.
Information Collection
and Use
There are several interactive
features this Site, including but not limited to, the ability
to register, upload content, create your own "fan club,"
rank and review user-submitted content and participate in
competitions. Information collected on this Site includes
email address, name, street address, website, PayPal®
information (if you are electing features such as "Get
Paid When You Win!"), as well as other information.
Information you submit
will be used to respond to your request. Additionally, if
you are the winner of a contest, Velvet Chokers and our affiliates
will disclose your information as part of a publicly available
winners' list, which may be posted on this Site or otherwise
disclosed elsewhere, such as advertising and promotional materials.
We may also use your information for other legitimate business
purposes, including sending you notices about Velvet Chokers
and our affiliates, its products and services, or asking for
your input and feedback on our products and services. If you
register for the first time on Velvet Chokers and/or our affiliates
as an artist or as a fan, we may share your username, email
address and zip code with our sponsors. If you previously
registered on Velvet Chokers and/or our affiliates and then
enter into a competition or sweepstakes, we may share your
username, email address and zip code with our sponsors.
As part of our regular
business conduct, and regardless of whether you have opted
out of having your information shared, we share information
with third parties who help us deliver your requested services.
We also will share your information in the event that there
is a change of corporate ownership. We may also share information
with government officials in order to cooperate with a legitimate
investigation. We may also combine the information you submit
to us with information we have collected from you in other
forums, such as through emails or offline, or with publicly
available information or information we obtain from third
parties.
Some of your user information,
including your user name, will be accessible to other registered
users. If you do not wish to have your information shared
with other users, you should deactivate your account and cease
use of the Site.
You may send messages
to friends about Site by using the "send to a friend"
feature, accessible at content pages. Information you submit
in this feature will not be stored by Velvet Chokers and our
affiliates, and will be used only to send the email you request.
This Site also uses
passive tracking technologies to log non-identifiable information
such as IP address, browser type and Site usage. The information
collected in this manner is used for site maintenance and
development. We may also employ "cookies" or similar
technologies provide additional functionality to the Site
and help us analyze Site usage more accurately. Some of the
features on our Site will only function if your browser is
set to accept cookies. Thus, if you decline to accept cookies,
certain features of our Site may not operate properly.
Velvet Chokers and our
affiliates uses pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help
manage online advertising. These GIF files are provided by
our ad management partners, such as but not limited to, DoubleClick.
These files enable DoubleClick and our other ad management
partners to recognize a unique cookie in your Web browser,
which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring
users to our website. The cookie was placed by us, or by another
advertiser who works with our ad management partners. With
both cookies and Spotlight technology, the information that
we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable.
It does not contain your name, address, telephone number,
or email address. For more information about DoubleClick,
including information about how to opt out of these technologies,
go to http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy.
Children on This Site
This Site is intended
for an adult audience, and children under the age of 13 are
not eligible to participate. Velvet Chokers and our affiliates
understands and attempts to comply with the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act, and for that reason uses age screens
to block children under 13 from providing personally identifiable
information. If you are a parent and believe that your child
has submitted Velvet Chokers and our affiliates with information,
please contact us at Support@VelvetChokers.com.
Links
From time to time we
may include at the Site links to other web sites as a service
to you. The third party sites are operated by companies that
are outside of our control, and your activities at those sites
will be governed by the policies and practices of those third
parties. We encourage you to review the privacy practices
of these third parties before disclosing any personally identifiable
information, as we are not responsible for the privacy practices
of those sites.
Exercising Options About
How We Use Your Information
If you are receiving
Velvet Chokers and our affiliates email advertisements and
no longer wish to receive those email messages, you may opt
out at the time you receive the message by following the instructions
in that email. Please allow ten days for your request to be
processed.
Google, as a third party
vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to
your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites
on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART
cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy
policy. http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Security and Data Storage
We use standard and
reasonable technological and procedural measures to protect
the information you provide. Data you provide to us will be
stored on our servers in the United States or abroad. By providing
us with your information, you understand and consent to the
international transfer of your data.
We urge you to take
steps to protect yourself as well. For example, select a neutral
username that does not include your name or other personally
identifiable information. Do not share your password with
anyone else, and to take measures to prevent it from unauthorized
access or disclosure. To learn more about how to protect yourself
online, we encourage you to visit the government website www.onguardonline.gov.
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