We at Senior 2 Senior ("we" or "Senior 2 Senior") have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the Senior 2 Senior Website and double blind email communications between Senior 2 Senior members (collectively, the "Site") but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between Senior 2 Senior, or any other company, and consumers. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. 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.
All member portraits and profiles are screened by real people for appropriateness before being posted to the site. That includes making sure that the portrait and profile do not include any specific identifying information. In addition, all communication between members is done through Senior 2 Senior's double-blind email system, with members using an anonymous display name and not their real email address. This ensures that no personal contact information is revealed until a member is ready to do so.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
· This policy covers how Senior 2 Senior treats personal information that Senior 2 Senior collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Senior 2 Senior products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
· This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Senior 2 Senior does not own or control, or to people that Senior 2 Senior does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
General
· Senior 2 Senior collects personal information when you register with Senior 2 Senior, when you use Senior 2 Senior products or services, when you visit Senior 2 Senior pages or the pages of certain Senior 2 Senior partners, when you participate in any polls, and when you enter any promotions or sweepstakes. Senior 2 Senior may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
· When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. When you register with Senior 2 Senior and sign in to our services, you are not totally anonymous to us.
· Senior 2 Senior automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Senior 2 Senior cookie information, and the page you request.
· Senior 2 Senior uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Children
· Children under 18 are not allowed to register with Senior 2 Senior. Any profile suspected to have been created by a person under 18 is deleted.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
· Senior 2 Senior does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
o We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Senior 2 Senior under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Senior 2 Senior communicate with you about offers from Senior 2 Senior and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
o We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
o We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Senior 2 Senior's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
o We transfer information about you if Senior 2 Senior is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Senior 2 Senior will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
· Senior 2 Senior may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria—for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
o Senior 2 Senior does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
o Senior 2 Senior advertisers may include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
Cookies
· Senior 2 Senior sets and accesses Senior 2 Senior cookies on your computer. Like most Websites, Senior 2 Senior uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activity on the site and to enhance your experience. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and 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 Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
General
· You can edit your Senior 2 Senior Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
· You can delete your Senior 2 Senior account by visiting your Account page.
Confidentiality and Security
· We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
· We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
· Senior 2 Senior may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Senior 2 Senior account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
· If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us.
Effective Date: January 1, 2007
