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Not only do we respect your privacy, we protect your privacy.
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Just say "No!" We are occasionally contacted by third parties who, for marketing purposes,
want to purchase our mailing list and other sensitive customer information
derived from our database of more than nine million customer accounts.
We always say "No".
Although there is no law forbidding us from selling such information,
we are serious in our commitment to
safeguard the sensitive information you provide us. We have never sold such personal information
about our customers to outside parties -- not even once -- and we don't intend
to.
As
a general rule, when you use our service on the internet, there are only
three kinds of information we can collect about you: (1)
Information that you voluntarily provide to us or authorize, such as your name,
address, credit-card and other account information as submitted on the
Registration Form, (2) "Log information" about the areas of our service
that you visit (this data -- such as whether you are using Internet Explorer or Firefox -- is accessible from the general internet environment),
and (3) private correspondence, such as the contents of e-mail messages you exchange
with us.
Log information bears greater explanation: Log information typically consists of
such things as your browser type (i.e., Firefox or MSIE), your IP address
(i.e., 102.316.52.11), the domain name from which you are visiting
(i.e., "aol.com"), and which pages of our Service that you visit. Like all internet
services, we analyze our log files to better understand which areas of our service
are more popular than others. And like most other large-scale internet
properties, we also use this information to "customize" the experience
to match your tastes. For example, if you first visit our service by searching an
internet portal for a search term such as "voyeur" and clicking upon a banner or link to our service,
we may set a "cookie" on your computer which records the
term as a "search preference" (Note: Everyday log-analysis programs such as
WebTrends include such tracking of keyword-specific traffic as a regular
feature - indeed, using such tools, the administrators of most websites on earth
track traffic originating from search engines by searched keyword). Later, as
you navigate through this Service, you will likely observe that the content you see
on this Service tends to be tailored to match your recorded search preference. Note:
such cookies are "secure" in that they cannot be read by other internet
companies, but can only be read by the web site which placed the cookie.
We also use your recorded "search preference" information to better
target and allocate marketing expenditures. For example, if we learn
that, in aggregate, individuals who search portals for terms such as "voyeur"
are more likely to purchase goods and services from us than individuals
who search for terms such as "livecams", we may allocate greater portions
of our marketing budget to targeting the former group, and a smaller portion of
the budget to target the latter group. By optimizing marketing strategies in
this manner, we have conserve important financial capital that can be deployed toward
development efforts which improve our service platform and provide a richer
customer experience for all.
Speaking of cookies, another kind of cookie that we may set is an "identification cookie". This cookie is written whenever you successfully use your login and password to
access a restricted area of our service; the identification cookie is available only to
individuals who have already been verified as adults, through our pre-existing verification
procedures. When our servers observe this identification cookie on your computer,
they recognize you and therefore might deliver unfiltered content as opposed to filtered
content - in effect, another form of customized content tailored to suit your indicated
preferences.
Another question that should concern you: "Do we outsource to other
companies any privacy-sensitive functions such as management of our email
newsletter system, web hosting, or our e-commerce platform?" The answer is "No".
Because we are so
committed to safeguarding the integrity of your personal information, we have
elected to not use such services, despite the fact that they are
reasonably-priced and simplify the management task of running a large and
complex website operation.
For a more expansive discussion of our Privacy Policy, including
instructions for disabling cookies
click here.
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