PRIVACY POLICY
teencrunch.com knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy (the Privacy Policy). By visiting teencrunch.com's web site, submitting information or using any of our products or services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in the Privacy Policy.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers teencrunch.com's treatment of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") that teencrunch.com gathers when you are accessing teencrunch.com's web site and when you use teencrunch.com services. The types of Personal Information collected include your full name, address, e-mail address and telephone number. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that teencrunch.com does not own or control, or to individuals that teencrunch.com does not employ or manage.
What Personal Information Does teencrunch.com Collect?
The information we gather from customers enables us to personalize and improve our services. We collect the following types of information from our customers:
Personal Information You Provide to Us
Registration - A user must register in order to use this site. During registration, a user may be required to provide certain categories of information, such as name, address, e-mail address, a password, date of birth, gender, and country of citizenship. In addition, a user may choose to provide other categories of information, such as hobbies and other interests. teencrunch.com encourages its users to provide all of these fields of information so that users may maximize their enjoyment of the site.
Optional Information - At various other points during your visit to teencrunch.com, you may be asked to provide information about yourself. For example, you may wish to participate in a survey or a contest. Participation in surveys or contests or the use of other services which require the input of additional information is completely voluntary on your part, and you have the choice about whether to disclose the information necessary to use these features of our site.
Messages and Bulletin Boards - We collect the e-mail addresses of those who post messages to our bulletin board, the e-mail address(es) from user's profiles (if supplied), the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, and information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations.
We may receive and store any information you enter on our web site or provide to us in any other way. The Personal Information you provide may be used for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing the site, providing demographic information to advertisers and/or communicating with you about offers from us or our partners.
Personal Information Collected Automatically
We may receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our web site or services. teencrunch.com may choose to automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, teencrunch.com cookie information, and the page you requested. Generally, our service may automatically collect usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site and its components. teencrunch.com generally only uses this data in aggregate form, that is, as a statistical measure, and not in a manner that would identify you personally. However, if you have registered with teencrunch.com using our site and your browser accepts cookies, teencrunch.com may automatically collect individualized information regarding your visits to teencrunch.com's site ("Individual Site Usage Information") to provide you with a more personalized customer experience. As part of this use of information, we may provide aggregate information to our partners about how our customers, collectively, use our site. If you do not wish to have your Individual Usage Information collected, please see the "What About Cookies" section below for further information.
What About Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we may transfer to your computer's hard drive through your browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. teencrunch.com cookies do not collect Personal Information; however, we may combine the general information collected through cookies with other Personal Information in connection with our collection of Individual Site Usage Information (as described above). If you do not wish to have your Individual Site Usage Information collected, most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. If you choose to disable cookies, however, your experience on our site may be diminished and some features may not work as they were intended.
Will teencrunch.com Share Any of the Personal Information it Receives?
We neither rent nor sell your Personal Information to anyone. We share your Personal Information only with your consent or to business partners and affiliates as described below:
Agents - We may employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you. Unless we tell you differently, teencrunch.com's agents do not have any right to use Personal Information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us.
Partners - To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our site. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. From time to time, we may also make the e-mail addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your e-mail address with other companies or organizations, please let us know by e-mailing us at the below address.
Business Transfers - In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if teencrunch.com or it parent(s), or substantially all of their assets, were acquired, customer information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, regardless of your opt status, and that any acquirer of teencrunch.com may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this policy.
Protection of teencrunch.com and Others - We may release Personal Information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with any law; enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of teencrunch.com, our employees, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
You hereby consent to our sharing of Personal Information for the above purposes.
A Note About Kids
We do not direct any of our content specifically at children under thirteen (13) years of age, and we understand and are committed to respecting the sensitive nature of children's privacy online. If we learn that a user of our website is under the age of thirteen (13), we will promptly delete that account, including any personal information concerning that user. If you or your child has inadvertently registered on the site, the account and all personal information may be removed from the teencrunch.com database by emailing us at the below address.
Effective Date of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 21, 2006. Your use of this site indicates an acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy. teencrunch.com reserves the right to update or amend this Privacy Policy at any time.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
teencrunch.com may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected. If we make changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our web site.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy this Privacy Policy, please send us a detailed message to info@teencrunch.com. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
Please refer also to our Terms of Service