Privacy Policy
SPONSOR: [Game Theory]
This Service is available to
subscribers of most mobile wireless networks, such as Virgin Mobile USA, AWCC, AT&T, Cincinnati Bell and Verizon Wireless.
But those mobile network operators do not sponsor the Services in
any way, and are not responsible for the promotion or any any of the contents
of the Services.
This
privacy statement covers the site [www.bestgossiponline.com]. ("Site"). All capitalized terms have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Site's terms and conditions [terms & conditions.].
If
you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please contact
Customer Service at [contact Customer Service.]
Information Collection & Use
By participating in the Service, you will receive regular
messages which include content and service information. In order to participate,
you must first enter your cell phone number and opt-in with the personal
identification number sent to your cell phone. During registration, you are
required to give your contact information (such as cell phone and/or email).
We only use this information to contact you about the services on our
site in which you have expressed interest. We also from time to time use this
information in order to identify and present other products and services to you
that we believe may interest you. We do
not share, sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties
for promotional purposes unless expressly stated.
Surveys
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in surveys
on our site. If you participate, we will request certain demographic
information from you. Participation in these surveys is completely
voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this
information. The requested information typically includes demographic
information (such as age and gender). We use this information to rate our
performance and help enhance user experience for our targeted audience.
We
may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys; that company
is prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any
other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information
you provide through the survey with other third parties unless we give you
prior notice and choice.
Third Parties
We provide you the opportunity to participate in surveys and promotions through
the Site and the Service. If you participate, we will request certain
personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or
auctions is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not
to disclose this information. The requested information typically
includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and
demographic information (such as zip code).
We
use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor
site traffic, personalize the site, to send participants an email newsletter.
We
use third party service providers to conduct these surveys and prize
fulfillment; those companies are prohibited from using our users' personally
identifiable information for any other purpose.
Service-related
Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related
announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For
instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might
send you an email.
Generally,
you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in
nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to
deactivate your account.
We
and our subscriptions servicing provider are the sole custodians of the
information collected on our website. All
of our employees who have access to personally identifiable information are
obliged to respect the confidentiality of that information.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you
enter sensitive information (such as your mobile number) to register, we
encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). [To
learn more about SSL, follow this link
[follow this link.].]
We
follow generally-accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive
it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic
storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially
acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its
absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us at email us.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a
user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do
not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable
information you submit while on our site. We use cookies and other similar
interfaces that the standard internet software installed on your computer makes
available to website proprietors such as ourselves for monitoring and tracking
the identity of the websites you browse.
We
use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to
make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when
you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an
extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following
directions provided in your Internet browser or client software's "help" file.
We
set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don't have to enter it
more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the
interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. We also use
cookies and these other interface methods to collect information about your
browsing history that lets us identify and present further products or services
that we believe may be of interest to you.
In our databases, your browsing history is maintained anonymously, and
we do not relate your browsing history to any personally identifiable
information, such as your cell phone number.
If
you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some
areas of our site, such as surveys, will be limited.
Some
of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We
have no access to or control over these cookies. See "Third Party Advertisers."
This
privacy statement covers only our own use of cookies, and does not cover the
use of cookies by any advertisers. See the "Third Party Advertisers"
section.
Clear
Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web
Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what
content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online
movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's
computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are
about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the
information gathered by clear gifs to our customers' personally identifiable
information.
Third
Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to
users by a third party advertising network, such as Google or Yahoo.
We share Web site usage information about users for the purpose of targeting
our Internet banner advertisements on this site.
Advertising
networks uses cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow it to recognize
a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that they collect
and share through this technology is not personally identifiable.
.
Changes
in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this
privacy statement, the page, and other places we deem appropriate 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 we make material changes to this policy, we will
notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Legal Disclaimer
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 to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal
process served on our Web site. We are
the only ones responsible to you for complying with this Privacy
Statement. You have no right, and waive
any right you may otherwise have, to pursue any of our service providers or
your mobile phone carrier for any violation of this Privacy Statement.