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|  Teen Voices and Your Privacy We respect your privacy. We follow this policy to protect you and the information you provide to us when you visit our site. By registering at Teenvoices.com you agree to accept this privacy policy and understand that this policy is subject to change at any time. The security of your personal information is a high priority at Teenvoices.com. We maintain these Web sites and all associated data with technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification, and improper disclosure. No computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard, but Teenvoices.com is committed to providing reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect against foreseeable hazards. Please see below for specifics of use. Please keep in mind that when you give information about yourself in areas of Teenvoices.com, such as the message boards and chats, your information can be viewed and possibly used by others. We advise you not to disclose information that can be used to contact you in any way ("Personally Identifiable Information") such as your full name, home address, or phone number. Only when entering personal information into a registration or purchasing form online is the information secure. Teen Voices and Women Express cannot verify the accuracy of information that other visitors post on the site. Please be smart about your Internet use. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY This Privacy Policy will always be available on this page for you to read. We will update this Privacy and Fair Information Practices Policy to reflect new features, services, and options, as well as any other changes with regard to the use of personal information. The Teenvoices.com home page will reflect timely notifications of any significant update to our Privacy Policy. The new terms of the Privacy Policy will take effect 30 days from the posting of the updated policy. ABOUT CHILDREN Kids under 13 Teenvoices.com is not directed to children under the age of 13. We will not accept registration by and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. Teen Voices and Women Express, Inc., comply with the Children Online Privacy Protection Act. Note to Parents If you have any concerns about Teenvoices.com or its related services, wish to find out if your child is a member of one of our services, or wish to cancel your child's membership, please contact us. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE A. E-mail Newsletters If you want to update your e-mail address or stop receiving the newsletter, follow the procedures to unsubscribe at the bottom of any newsletter we send you or contact us. B. Membership Information When you register for membership on one of our sites, we ask for information about you and your interests. We do this so we can better understand what you like and tailor the site to suit you better. At a minimum, we require your name, birth date, gender, e-mail address, and zip code. The more information you volunteer, the more we can tailor the site to your interests. C. E-mail Updates to Members Teenvoices.com may send service e-mail announcements to registered users. If you want to update your e-mail address or stop receiving our e-mail service announcements, please contact us. D. Promotions We may ask you for Personally Identifiable Information at other times, including, but not limited to, sweepstakes, contests, or promotions sponsored by a third party. If you choose to enter sweepstakes, contests or promotions of this nature, we may share your Personally Identifiable Information with the third party so they can contact you. The third party may use that information to send you advertisements or other notices, and they may share your information with others. E. Surveys and User Research Teenvoices.com conducts e-mail, Web-delivered surveys, and instant polls from time to time to gather information about our audience. It is important to remember that taking these surveys and polls is entirely optional. You have no obligation to respond to them. We share only the aggregate results of these surveys, not individual data, with our advertisers and partners to help them better understand our services and monitor the reach of their advertising on the sites. We also store some of the information that our users provide in these surveys to help us understand your interests and to make the site more useful for you. F. Other Third Parties Teenvoices.com may share non-personal, aggregate, or summary information regarding our users with other third parties not mentioned in this policy. This kind of information does not identify you individually. G. Legal Authorities Teenvoices.com may disclose Personally Identifiable Information of our users to government authorities at our discretion in cases when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify someone who may be violating Teenvoices.com Guidelines or may be causing injury to Teenvoices.com rights or property, users, or anyone else. ACCESS TO OTHER SITES THROUGH TEENVOICES.COM Gurrlfriend Pages and other Links Throughout Teenvoices.com you will find links to independent Web sites, not operated by Teenvoices.com that are connected to our network for our users. Such sites are operated by external, third-party service providers, and we are not responsible for the practices of these sites. Other sites may set their own cookies, collect data, or solicit personal information. It is always a good idea to check the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of any site before offering any personal information. SECURITY Teen Voices and Women Express diligently strive to protect the security and integrity of the information you provide to us once our systems receive it. However, when you submit information about yourself on Teenvoices.com over the Internet, the information may travel over many systems outside the control of Teenvoices.com. We take the protection of user data very seriously and to that end provide extra assurances that your information will not be intercepted. In the case of shopping pages, for example, the credit card information you submit is protected by secure servers. CANCELLATIONS Cancelling Membership To cancel your membership, please contact us and indicate your username. Canceling Newsletters To cancel newsletters, please contact us and indicate your username. Service Announcement Emails To cancel participation in service e-mail announcements, contact us and indicate your username. STILL HAVE QUESTIONS? If you have any other questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us or write to us at: Teen Voices |
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