Privacy Policy:
Short Form: I do not share, sell, or trade the email addresses or content of the
members of this community unless necessary for activities such as contests, web site statistics, affiliate links, Google ads, and newsletter sign ups..
As to the personal information that I receive (cities in which community
members lives, what members like to do) that information is kept offline.
I gather and save the information so that I can ensure that the content of the
site is relevant to the community’s needs.
In other words, I want to make sure that members in Mountain View with
teenagers are made aware of activities in that area that they might enjoy or
that members in San Francisco know which are the free days for the San Francisco Zoo.
Thanks for your trust.
Marian
A More Detailed Explanation:
Privacy Policy
It is Family Centric Media’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Family Centric Media collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Family Centric Media’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Family Centric Media’s visitors use its websites. From time to time, Family Centric Media may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Family Centric Media also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments and entering contests. Family Centric Media only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Family Centric Media choose to interact with Family Centric Media in ways that require Family Centric Media to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Family Centric Media gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Family Centric Media does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Family Centric Media may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Family Centric Media may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Family Centric Media does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Family Centric Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it for business purposes on Family Centric Media’s behalf or to provide services available at Family Centric Media’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Family Centric Media’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Family Centric Media discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Family Centric Media believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Family Centric Media, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Family Centric Media website or email list and have supplied your email address, Family Centric Media may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Family Centric Media and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Family Centric Media takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
How your information may be shared
Family Centric Media will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone, unless the user has opted in to have their information shared. For example, if you enter a contest and choose to receive notifications about the results of the contest, we may provide your information to the promoter of the contest for the purpose of them notifying you of the results and in some cases to be signed up for their email list as determined through an opt/in out tick box on the page where you entered the contest. If you have opted in to receive information from one of our partners, we will do our best to ensure that they provide a clear and easy way to unsubscribe, but cannot be held liable for ways that their privacy policy differs from that of Family Centric Media. In addition, if you win a contest, we may provide your contact information to the promoter for the purposes of arranging the prize to be delivered to you or picked up. Family Centric Media also periodically will allow third party companies sponsor dedicated emails to our email list, however the emails are sent directly from Family Centric Media and your personal information is not shared with the third party except in the case where you have opted in to have your information shared. These third party companies who sponsor contests and content on Family Centric Media have their own respective privacy policies if you choose to provide them with your information on the third party website.
Family Centric Media takes your privacy very seriously. We do not sell your personal information. The only time your information may be transferred to a third party would be in the case where you clicked on an affiliate link and we needed to provide limited information in order to facilitate the purchase, or if you won tickets/prize as part of a sweepstakes and we needed to provide limited information in order to facilitate the winner(s) to be chosen and for the tickets/prize to be fulfilled. In rare occasions, a third party will run a sweepstakes form on Family Centric Media and will collect entries, but this is only in cases if it is clearly denoted that the sweepstakes information is being shared with the third party.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Family Centric Media uses cookies to help Family Centric Media identify and track visitors, their usage of Family Centric Media website, and their website access preferences. Family Centric Media visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Family Centric Media’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Family Centric Media’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Family Centric Media, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Family Centric Media goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Family Centric Media may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy and that there may be changes to the policy
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Family Centric Media and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Family Centric Media may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Family Centric Media’s sole discretion. Family Centric Media encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.