PenpalPost.com Privacy Disclosure
This statement discloses the information gathering process and the privacy and dissemination practices for the PENPAL POST Web site. PENPAL POST has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protect your personal privacy.
PENPAL POST is an internet penpal portal designed to provide an easy way to meet and contact other people on the net. This is a service provided for free.
PENPAL POST is a membership-based service that does not collect credit card numbers, addresses, and bank information. Any visitors to PENPAL POST may choose to browse the Site, search the profiles, view any articles, and/or contact other users by signing up for a free membership.
PENPAL POST's registration form requires users to provide contact information such as an email address and demographic information (such as city, age or gender). PENPAL POST also occasionally runs contests and conducts online surveys that ask visitors for contact information such as name and email address and demographic information such as country or age.
PENPAL POST does not sell any of the submitted info. All the data submitted are used only for the purpose of account creation and displaying penpal ads on this site. But do remember that anyone can access these information online. We don't have any control on what visitors on this site will do with the said information submitted. This is the reason we highly discourage people to mention phone numbers, postal addresses and other private information on profiles.
PENPAL POST contains links to other web sites and PENPAL POST is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.
Private, Public and Aggregate Information obtained by PENPAL POST
PRIVATE INFORMATION is any information that allows others to contact a user other than through PENPAL POST or allows the collection of information about the user other than what is displayed on the site.
PUBLIC INFORMATION is personal information that may be displayed on the site, such as gender, age, ethnic background, appearance, and more. This information is meant to be seen by members and visitors to the site. Members can post images of themselves. Please note that images posted can be used by PENPAL POST on our site. Posting images constitutes agreement with the fair use of the images involved.
AGGREGATE This is information we collect such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered from all visitors to the site. As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files may include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), and the time you visited our site.
Use of Information Obtained by PENPAL POST
PRIVATE INFORMATION: We use email addresses submitted by members when forwarding or notification of penpal replies. Responders' email addresses are not disclosed to the original sender. We may use a user's email or other contact information to send news and updates regarding our site.
Email and other submitted personal information may also be used in private correspondence with the user for customer service issues. All other private information submitted by the user is confidential and will not be disclosed except as required by law or to protect members of PENPAL POST.
PUBLIC INFORMATION: Public information supplied by the user is intended to be viewed by registrants and subscribers to the site. This information is used by registrants and subscribers for searching, matching and contact purposes.
AGGREGATE: We use your server, IP address, and browser-type related information in the general administration of our website.
Use of Cookies
We currently use cookies for login purposes on PENPAL POST.
We also use third-party advertising technology on PENPAL POST to support our site. This technology may use information about your visits to this Web site, (not including your name, address, or other personal information), to serve ads to you. In the course of serving advertisements to you, a unique third-party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser and/or use web beacons when they advertise on our site. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited.
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Change/Delete
PENPAL POST gives members an option for modifying or removing their information from our database. Your privacy is one of our highest priorities. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.
If you have any questions about the Privacy Statement of PENPAL POST, please contact support.