This Privacy Policy informs
you about how You Have Got to Be Kidding Incorporated
(“YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com”) handles
your personal information gathered on or in connection
with the YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com Website (collectively,
the "Site"). This Privacy Policy does
not apply to any other website or offline point
of contact between YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com,
or any other company, and consumers.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you
with information about products or services that
may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal
information" (i.e. information that could
be used to contact you directly (without using
the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone
number or email address), "password information"
or "demographic information" (i.e. information
that you submit, or that we collect, that is neither
personal information nor password information;
this may include, but is not limited to, zip code,
postal code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth
date, browsing history information, searching
history information, registration history information,
and the content of communications sent to us and
communication posted on the Site, such as in user
forums). Please note that nowhere on the Site
do we knowingly collect personal information from
children under the age of 18, as we require that
all users represent to us that they are at least
18 years old.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal
information to help us efficiently operate the
Site, to contact you in connection with your transactions
and other activities on the Site (including, but
not limited to, confirmation emails or important
news that could affect your relationship with
YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com), and to forward messages
to you from other YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com users.
These types of communications, are known as "Operational
Communications." In some cases, Operational
Communications may also contain commercial messages,
such as banner ads and special offers. By registering
with the Site, you are agreeing to receive Operational
Communications.
We may also use personal information to send
you newsletters, information, offers and other
promotional materials for YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com's
services. We attempt to send you offers that are
of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive
offers or special event information. By registering
with YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com you are opting
in to receive such email. To stop receiving such
email (other than Operational Communications),
please send a request email to support@YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com
To operate the Site, including supporting your
activities on the Site, we may share your personal
information with our agents, representatives,
contractors and service providers so they can
provide us with support services such as authorization
of email origination, receipt or support services,
customer relationship management services, and
promotional fulfillment. We require these entities
not to use your information for any other purpose.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and
Password Information
Your personal information or financial information
may be passed on to a third party in the event
of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy.
We may also disclose personal information or password
information when we determine that such disclosure
is necessary to comply with applicable law, to
cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the
interests or safety of YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com
or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose
your personal information or password information
to affiliated legal entities and businesses with
whom we are under common corporate control. Whenever
personal information or password information is
disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose
your demographic information along with it, on
a non-anonymous basis. All of our affiliated legal
entities and businesses that receive your personal
information, financial information, or non-anonymous
demographic information from us will comply with
the terms of this privacy policy with respect
to their use and disclosure of such information.
How We Use Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We
may use demographic information to tailor the
Site and communications to your interests. We
may also share demographic information with advertisers
on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without
telling the advertisers your identity). One of
the reasons we may do this is to increase the
likelihood that our advertisers' goods and services
will appeal to YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com's users,
so that we may target specific ads at specific
demographic groups. Our sharing of demographic
information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e.,
we do not tell advertisers which particular YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com
users are members of which demographic groups),
subject to the rest of this privacy policy. When
you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask
you to remember that if that ad that is targeted
to a demographic group and you decide to give
the advertiser your personal information, then
the advertiser may be able to identify you as
being a member of that demographic group. Please
also be aware that we may disclose your demographic
information on a non-anonymous basis as described
above in the paragraph titled "Special Cases
in which we Share Personal and Password Information."
Our Security Precautions
The Site has industry standard security measures
in place to protect the loss, misuse and integrity
of the information under our control. Although
we make good faith efforts to store the information
collected by the Site in a secure operating environment
that is not available to the public, we cannot
guarantee complete security.
Information Displayed to Other Users
Information about your account is displayed to
other users in your profile, and this same information
may be available through automated script calls
and application program interfaces. This information
includes your account name, account type, the
date your account was established, whether or
not you are currently online, user rating information
and information that you choose to make available
to others. However, we will not display your actual
name, address, or credit card or bank account
numbers, except with your express permission or
as otherwise permitted by this privacy policy
and our terms of service.
You may choose to disclose personal information
in our online forums and chat rooms, via your
profile (as described above), or otherwise while
using the Site. Please be aware that such information
is public information and you should not expect
privacy or confidentiality in these settings.
Use of Other User's Information
The Site provides various means of communicating
with other users, including but not limited to
message boards, through which you may have access
to other members' names, email addresses and other
information. By using the Site, you agree that,
with respect to other user's personally identifiable
information that you obtain through your use of
Site, you may only use such information for: (a)
Site related communications that are not unsolicited
commercial messages, and (b) any other purpose
that such member expressly agrees to after adequate
disclosure of the purpose(s). Under no circumstances,
except as defined in this Paragraph, can you disclose
personally identifiable information about another
user to any third party without our consent and
the consent of such other member after adequate
disclosure.
Cookies
Like most websites, the Site uses cookies to keep
track of your activity on the Site and enhance
your experience on the Site. Cookies are strings
of text and numbers that can identify your computer
to us when you visit our Site. We also use cookies
to deliver content specific to your interests,
to save your password, and if you choose, to save
other personal information so you do not have
to reenter it each time you visit the Site. Third
party advertisers on the Site may also place or
read cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable
these cookies, the "help" portion of
the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how.
However, if you set your browser to disable cookies,
you may not be able to access certain areas on
the Site.
Your IP Address
Each time you visit the Site, we automatically
collect your IP address (which is a number that
can be used to identify your location) and the
web page from which you came. In order to administer
and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose
problems with our Site, we use your IP address
to help identify you and to gather broad demographic
information about you. We may also collect the
URL from which you came to our site and the URLs
visited on our site. A URL is the full address
of a Web site page. Please review this privacy
policy periodically as we may modify it from time
to time. This privacy policy was last revised
on May 1, 2008. Each time you visit the Site or
provide us with information, by doing so you are
accepting the practices described in this privacy
policy at that time.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered
Information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally
identifiable information in a manner different
from that stated at the time it was collected,
we will notify users by way of an email or by
providing 30 days notice on the Site. Please note
that we will continue to have the right to change
our privacy policy and practices, and how we use
your personally identifiable information, without
notice, as described in the first paragraph of
this Privacy Policy, provided that such changes
shall only apply to information gathered on or
after the date of the change.
How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences
and Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain
communications and modify personal information
or demographic information you have provided to
us, and to hide demographic information from,
or make demographic information visible to, the
public users of the Site, at anytime by going
to the "My Account" section of the Site.
Please be aware that it may take several hours
for the changes you make to take effect on the
public areas of the Site. We thank you for your
patience. Please note that changing or deleting
your information through the "My Account"
section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out of
receipt of email communications from YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com,
will only change or delete the data in our database
for purposes of future activities on the Site
and for managing future communications from YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com.
These changes and deletions will not change or
delete emails or information that we may have
already forwarded to other users or any other
third parties, all as provided above in this privacy
policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about this
privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or
your dealings with the Site, you can contact us
at support@YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com.
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