Community4Pets.com Privacy Policy
Effective April 25, 2007
About Community4Pets.com
Community4Pets.com is an online service that allows Members to search or post information about pets or people in order to share information with those who love pets. Community4Pets members can view each others' profiles, communicate with other members, share information on the service, share photos, post journals, replay and comments. Community4Pets members also can post information of themselves or thier pets to sell, adopt, breed pets. Community4Pets members can post pets lost or pets they found to find the owner of the pets. Community4Pets members can post classified ads. To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal and pet's information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of people who love pets. Community4Pets members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.
Community4Pets.com cares deeply about online privacy If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@Community4Pets.com.
Information Collection and Use by Community4Pets.com
Community4Pets.com collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Community4Pets.com service. Community4Pets.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: profiles of pets, zip code, area code, personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.
User Profile information including members' pictures, first names and thire pets' pictures and information are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the Community4Pets.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Community4Pets, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. Community4Pets.com allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, user member name, zipcode, areacode.
Community4Pet.com allows users send memo to other members. Community4Pet members can view, reply, send memo via My Memo Box pages.
We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "Receive Usefull Information " setting in the user "My Profile" page.
From time to time, Community4Pets.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on Community4Pets.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
Community4Pets members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our 'Invite your friends' page. Community4Pets.com does not store the email addresses.
Use of Cookies
Community4Pets.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from Community4Pets.com in order to use most functions on the site Please note that Community4Pets allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Community4Pets Privacy Policy.
Links
Community4Pets.com contains links to sites. Community4Pets.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on Community4Pets.com.
My Memo Box, Journals and WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
Community4Pets.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as My Account and My Profile.
Pet Care Services / Service Provider
Community4Pets.com users are able to search pet care service providers via 'Pet Care Services' page. Community4Pets.com users can search them by zip code, area code, or state / city within specified miles. Community4Pets.com users can use Advance search options to narrow down to the specific services predefined or custom services. Community4Pets.com service provider members can change thier services at any time by modifying information in My Account, Service Provider page. Community4Pets.com service provider members are solely responsible for the informaton input by them. Community4Pets.com is not responsible to any information input by Community4Pets.com service provider members.
Third Party Advertising
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by Community4Pets.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Community4Pets.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Security
Community4Pets.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords Community4Pets.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. The password is stored in encrypted text so that nobody including us can see your password. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time For any additional information about the security measures we use on Community4Pets.com, please contact us a privacy@Community4Pets.com
Sharing and Disclosure of Information Community4Pets.com Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, Community4Pets will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Community4Pets.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Community4Pets.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Community4Pets reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest hat acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of Community4Pets or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at: privacy@Community4Pets.com.