ThePrickIndex.com Privacy Policy

Last updated on 1/20/2008

Our site requires you to give us contact information (name and email address). We use this information to verify your identity, allow users of ThePrickIndex.com to send you messages about our company, and provide you with the opportunity to participate in promotions we offer. We may also use this information to verify your identity, solicit offers to you from us or our partners, and other various types of marketing.

You hereby acknowledge and agree that, from time to time during the term of this Agreement, ThePrickIndex.com may telephone call, send emails, mailings or faxes our or third parties products and services, and you hereby expressly consent to receiving such emails, mailings, facsimiles and telephone calls.

Please note this policy applies only to information collected by ThePrickIndex.com online and our website and does not impact information collected by other third parties who link to or from this website. We collect personally identifiable information (name and email address) from you when you submit a story or send a postcard on the ThePrickIndex.com. ThePrickIndex.com may sell, share or transmit your personally identifiable information (names, address, phone numbers, etc.) to any persons or companies outside of our company, ThePrickIndex.com

Use of Data

In our efforts to continually improve our product and service offerings, we collect and analyze demographic and profile data about our users' activity on our website. We identify and use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our website and track fraudulent activity. Your IP address may also be used for other types of data.

We will occasionally ask you to complete optional online surveys. These surveys may ask you for contact information and demographic information (like zip code, age, or income level). We use this data to understand who the users of ThePrickIndex.com are and for marketing.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small file placed on your computer to track and store data for your user experience. Cookies are useful for enabling the browser to remember information specific to a given user. ThePrickIndex.com may place both permanent and temporary cookies in your computer's hard drive. The content in this cookie has not been permanently established as of writing of this privacy policy on 1/18/2008 and your use of ThePrickIndex.com acknowledges as agreement to this. In order to use ThePrickIndex.com, you may be required to allow your browser to accept permanent cookies. We also may use session based cookies to track information regarding your usage and assist in remembering items you have entered. In order to use ThePrickIndex.com, you may need to set your browser's preferences to allow per-session cookies (most Web browsers automatically accept cookies).

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may utilize cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) for their own purposes. Any information that these third parties collect is at their own discretion and ThePrickIndex.com is not liable for their actions in any manner whatsoever. ThePrickIndex.com links to other websites that may collect personally identifiable information about you. ThePrickIndex.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those linked websites. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

We may also disclose your information in response to a court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary to give such information to law enforcement authorities. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases.

Security

Due to the currently free nature of our server, no secure server settings are in place as on one is currently transferring payment information. We may change this in the future as our site requires it.

Opt-Out

If you prefer not to receive e-mail and other communications sent directly from our advertisers or promotional partners, you may contact us to do so. If you decline at the time you provide us such information, we will not share the Personally Identifiable Information you provide with non-Affiliated advertisers for such purposes, though we may on occasion send you information on their behalf. If you would like to opt-out of receiving emails from us or third parties, you may do by notifying us at info@ThePrickIndex.com .

We may use Personally Identifiable Information (your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number) subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Hold Harmless

The internet is not a perfect form of communication. There are many tools that persons use to scan websites for persons personal information. Should you choose to voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on ThePrickIndex.com; the information can be viewed publicly and can be attained and used by third parties without our knowledge. This may result in unsolicited materials, phone calls, emails and other solicitations from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of ThePrickIndex.com and this policy. Your use of this website is an agreement to hold ThePrickIndex.com harmless for any of these acts.

Notice of changes to this Privacy Policy

ThePrickIndex.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes is an acceptance by you of these changes.

Governing law

Please read the Terms of Use for all information relating to this topic.

In the event case of any conflict between the terms of this policy and any other information of our Privacy Policy, the terms of this written policy shall control.

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