Your privacy is critically important to us. At thebargainingbride.com we have a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals: (Note, this privacy policy is available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we’d appreciate a link to thebargainingbride.com somewhere on your site.)
If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.
It is thebargainingbride.com’s (“thebargainingbride.com”) policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, thebargainingbride.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. thebargainingbride.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how thebargainingbride.com’s visitors use its website. From time to time, thebargainingbride.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
thebargainingbride.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments and reviews on thebargainingbride.com. thebargainingbride.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter and reviewer IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment or review was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to thebargainingbride.com’s websites choose to interact with thebargainingbride.com in ways that require thebargainingbride.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that thebargainingbride.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a member account at thebargainingbride.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with thebargainingbride.com – by purchasing access to the Featured listing service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, thebargainingbride.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with thebargainingbride.com. thebargainingbride.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
thebargainingbride.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, thebargainingbride.com may monitor the most popular listings, events, or articles on the thebargainingbride.com site. thebargainingbride.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, thebargainingbride.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
thebargainingbride.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on thebargainingbride.com’s behalf or to provide services available at thebargainingbride.com’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using thebargainingbride.com’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. thebargainingbride.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, thebargainingbride.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when thebargainingbride.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of thebargainingbride.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of thebargainingbride.com website and have supplied your email address, thebargainingbride.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with thebargainingbride.com and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. thebargainingbride.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. thebargainingbride.com uses cookies to help thebargainingbride.com identify and track visitors, their usage of thebargainingbride.com website, and their website access preferences. thebargainingbride.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using thebargainingbride.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of thebargainingbride.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If thebargainingbride.com, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that thebargainingbride.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of thebargainingbride.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by thebargainingbride.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
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.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, thebargainingbride.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in thebargainingbride.com’s sole discretion. thebargainingbride.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Change log:
December 26, 2011: Effective date of Privacy Policy