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Smart-Opinions.com has created this Privacy Policy/Statement to demonstrate further our firm commitment to helping this website’s users to understand better what information we acquire from them and how that information is used.
The following discloses the information we gather and our dissemination practices for Smart-Opinions.com and other websites under our control.
It is part of our regular operation of services to collect data from you, and in some cases, we may also disclose them. This Privacy Statement describes which information we gather from our users and what happens to the collected data. By accepting this Privacy Policy and agreeing to our Terms and Conditions, you express your consent to our gathering, use, and disclosure of information in the manners that are described in this Statement. This Privacy Policy is incorporated and into and subject to the terms of Smart-Opinions.com’s Terms and Conditions.
individuals under the age of 18 are not eligible to use our services and we ask individuals under the legal age of 18 or minors Not to submit any of their personal information to us.
Our main goal as to why we collect data from our users is to provide them with an efficient, smooth, and a well-customized experience. This helps us provide you with services and products that we believe best suits your needs and to customize our services to serve you well and make your experience easier. You agree that to help our members meet each other, we may feature members’ profiles on our Editorials and Newsletters that we send out to members from time to time. Information such as your name, address, and telephone number will remain confidential and will not be posted on your public profile. Your profile may be viewable to other members of this website. Profiles may include members photos and descriptions, individual essays, likes and dislikes, and additional information that may help in finding the perfect match for you. Your viable profile will not contain any identifying information about you, except the username you will come up with when signing up to Smart-Opinions.com.
Please note that any and all identifiable information you provide us will be stored and processed on our servers in different datacenter locations. The laws with regards to holding personal data may differ in the United States compared to European countries, but we will explain below that any and all information you provide will be kept and transmitted in a confidential, safe, and secure environment.
Cookies Policy
We use and store cookies to automatically track certain information based on your use and your behavior on our website. We use this information to gather, for internal research on our members’ interests, demographics, and behavior, to better understand our members and provide better service to our community. This may include bhut not limited to the URL from which you came from (whether this URL is from our website or not), which URL you go to next (whether this URL is from our website or not), the browser you are using, and your IP address.
We use a particular device known as “cookies” on certain pages of our website. These “cookies” are small files that are placed on your computer and can assist us in providing you with more customized services. We also offer certain services that are only available through these cookies. These also help us provide you with the information you best need based on your interests. Most of these cookies are “session cookies”, which means they are automatically deleted from your browser at the end of every session or when you are done using our website. You can always decline our cookies if your browser permits.
We use a third-party advertising company to serve ads on our behalf across the internet. The third-party may also collect anonymous data from you concerning your visits to our website. This is mainly done with the use of a specific technology device known as Web Beacon or an Action Tag, which we place in certain pages on our website, or in an HTML email that allows the third-party advertising company to collect anonymous data. The third-party company may use the information about your visits to our websites as well as on others to provide you with ads, services, products, and goods that you may find interesting.
We use the information in the files that we store about you, as well as the other data we get from your past and current activities on our website to help resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and enforce our Terms and Conditions. At times, we may look at different members’ profiles to identify the problem and/or resolve disputes. We may also examine your profile to determine members' multiple member ID no. or aliases.
You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to further improve our marketing and promotional campaigns, our content, our product offerings, and to analyze site usage as well as to customize our website’s layout, content, and services. These practices help improve our site and business as well as better tailor it to meet your needs.
You agree that we may use your personal data to contact you and deliver information that may be targeted to your interests at times, such as product offerings, targeted banner advertisements, communications related to your use of the website, and administrative notices. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressively agree to receive the aforementioned information.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, Smart-Opinions.com cannot assure, guarantee, or promise that all of your private communications and all personally identifiable information about our members will never be disclosed in other manners outside and are not in any way described in of this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting and foregoing), we may be enforced to disclose information to the government, law enforcement agencies and/or third parties. Under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully access or intercept private communications, or other members may abuse and misuse the information they gather from other members of the website. Therefore, although we use industry and standard practices to keep all of our members’ information safe and to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect that all your private communications and personally identifying information will always remain private.
As a matter of Policy, we never sell or rent any personally identifying information about you to any third party. However, the following may describe several ways as to which personally identifiable information may be disclosed.
Financial Information : Under certain circumstances, we may require additional details from our members, including, but not limited to, credit card information. We use this information, along with your name, address, and other information to bill you for our services. Additionally, we use your financial information to check whether you are qualified to acquire our paid services, as well as to enable promotional programs such as discount and rebate, in which you may choose to participate.
By electing to purchase and create any form of financial transaction with our website, you consent to provide us with your financial information to us and our service providers and third parties that we deem can assist us in processing your activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third companies may include the credit card company and/or the banking institutions that support and assist with the transactions and activities done.
By registering, purchasing, or making any reservations for the products and/or service presented by third party companies in this website, or by participating in the programs administered by third parties and that require you to provide your financial information to use them, you consent to us providing your financial information to those third parties. Any of these third-party companies may be authorized to use your financial information with accordance to our contractual arrangements with them and in accordance to their own Privacy Policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not held responsible or liable for their actions with regards to their use and disclosure of your financial information and/or other personally identifiable information. Additionally, you consent that we may use and disclose all such data so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that our members send to us.
Advertisers : We gather personally identifying data from across our website and all its members and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers as well as other third-party companies for promotional and marketing purposes. However, we do not provide any information that could lead these third-party companies and advertisers to identify you in these cases personally. Specific details including, but not limited to, your name, email address, password, bank details, and credit card information are never disclosed to any third-party advertisers. We may require the help of third-party advertisers to post ads on our behalf. They may employ cookies and action tags (also known as web beacons or single pixel GIFs) to measure their advertising success. Any and all information that these third parties collect via action tags and cookies is entirely anonymous.
External Service Providers : There may be several services offered by external service providers that can promote better use of our website. If you opt to get and use these optional services, you may disclose information to these external service providers in doing so and/or permit them to collect data from you. With that, their use of your information is governed by their own Privacy Policy.
Other Corporate Entities : We share the majority of your information, including personally identifiable information about you and other members, with our parent and/or subsidiary companies that are also committed to providing you with your online needs and other related services throughout the internet and the globe. To the extent that these corporate entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat other information gathered from other websites. Our parent and/or subsidiary will follow the same Privacy Policy practices that are described in this Policy to protect all members of this website allowed by applicable law.
It is possible that Smart-Opinions.com and/or its subsidiary may be acquired by another business entity or merge with another one. Should such an event occur, members should expect that we will share some or all of your information with the new business entity to continue and provide you with our services. You will receive notice of such event (in the event it occurs), and we will require that the new combined entity will follow the same privacy practices that are disclosed within this Privacy Policy.
Legal Requests : We cooperate with the government for law enforcement inquiries, as well as third parties to enforce laws, such as fraud, intellectual property rights, and other rights. We can, and you authorize us to disclose any information about you to these law enforcers and other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, deem as appropriate and necessary with regards to investigation of fraud, and intellectual property infringements, as well as other illegal activities or may expose us for you to legal liability.
Our services include the access and use of community sections and instant messaging. As members of this website, you will have access to other member’s ID numbers, and you might also gain access to additional information of another member (s), including their contact details through the regular use of our services, including chat rooms and community sections. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree that concerning other members’ personally identifiable information that you obtain through chat rooms, community sections, and email, we hereby grant to you a license to use the information only for: a) your company-related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, and b) any other purpose that the member has expressly agreed to after enough disclosure of the use (s). In all and any cases, you must give other members a chance to remove themselves from your database as well as an opportunity to review what information you have collected from and about them.
In addition, under no circumstances, except the ones described and defined in this section, you can not disclose a member's personally identifiable information to any third party members without our consent and the consent of the member(s) involved after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). Smart-Opinions.com and our members do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not allowed to add any member of Smart-Opinions.com to your mailing list, whether it be email or physical mail, without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report spam from other Smart-Opinions.com members, please contact us.
Right after registration, you can check your profile and review the information you have provided during the process through the Member “Account Settings” section, including, but not limited to: your email address and password. If you wish to change your email address or your password, we keep track of the earlier ones you have used. You can also change certain information you have submitted upon registration, including your name, address (including city, state, zip code, and country), phone number and other predefined criteria.
Upon your written request, we can suspend your membership, contact information, as well as financial information we have stored on our active databases. All these will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible. You may also choose to delete your account and consequently delete all your information by going to Member “Account Settings” section.
We will retain for limited time the information you have requested to be removed on our files in certain circumstances, such as to troubleshoot problems, resolve disputes, and enforce our Terms and Conditions. Furthermore, information is never completely removed from our database due to legal and technical constraints, including stored “back up” systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be deleted immediately and entirely from our databases in response to your written requests. Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible based on your account activity.
You have the sole responsibility for all the actions taken with your log-in detail and password, including fees. Therefore, we recommend that you do not disclose your Smart-Opinions.com password to any third-party companies or other Smart-Opinions.com members. If you wish to disclose your log-in detail and password to these third parties for additional services, you have the sole responsibility for all the actions taken with your log-in detail and password. Therefore, we recommend that you review each third-party company’s Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
If you lose control over your password, you may also lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason at all, we recommend that you change it as soon as possible.
This document only discusses the use and the disclosure of the information we gather from you, unless otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy. If you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are on our website or owned, managed, and handled by our parent company, or from other sites from the internet, different rules apply as to how they will use and disclose the information you have shared with them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers, they adhere to their own Privacy Policies. Smart-Opinions.com does not control the Policies these third parties have, so you are subject to ask questions before fully disclosing your personal information to others.
Smart-Opinions.com uses industry-standard practices to guarantee the safety and confidentiality of every member’s personally identifiable information, including “firewalls” and secure socket layers. Smart-Opinions.com treats any information as an essential piece of asset and that must be protected from any unauthorized access and loss. We employ different security techniques to protect your information from any unauthorized access by members from in and out of our company. However, “perfect security” does not exist anywhere on the internet.
This Privacy Policy forms part of the website Terms and Conditions and as such shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Delaware. You agree to submit any dispute arising out of your use of this website to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the state of Delaware.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on the feedback of our members as well as our need to be accurate with our data collection and disclosure practices. Your continued use of the Services after the date any such changes become effective constitutes your acceptance of the new policy.
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