THE FAM CLUB’S PRIVACY POLICY
1) Our Commitment to Privacy
Our
Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the
highest-quality products and services with the highest level of integrity in
dealing with our clients and partners. The Policy is designed to assist you in
understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you
provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our
site and our products and services. This statement will be continuously
assessed against new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs.
2) Registration
During registration you are
required to provide contact information (such as name and valid email address).
We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which
you have expressed interest. You must
submit certain demographic information (e.g. gender, date of birth) to us;
other demographic information is optional. We encourage you to submit optional
information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site:
THEFAMCLUB.com may also use
your profile to generate aggregate reports and market research. Members can
modify registration data associated with their account, and can control
selected private information from being disclosed on their personal page. Notes and online chat communications are
retained and are only accessible by the designated recipients, except that
THEFAMCLUB.com personnel involved in maintenance of the system may have access
to them.
3) What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you
may provide us with two types of information: personal information you
knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web
site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse
our Web site.
a.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
b.
Credit Card Information
c.
If you choose to purchase products or services from
us or our partners, you may need to give personal information and authorization
to obtain information from various credit services. For example, you may need
to provide the following information:
i.
Name
ii.
Mailing address
iii.
Email address
iv.
Credit card number
v.
Home and business phone number
vi.
Other personal information (i.e. mother’s maiden
name)
vii.
Age Restriction
4) Email Information
In addition to providing the
foregoing information to our partners, if you choose to correspond further with
us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with
your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these
electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information
received by mail and telephone.
5) Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web
sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies"
(see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to
collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered
through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits,
the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just
before and just after our Web site. This information is collected on an
aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
6) What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web
browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to
access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s
Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a
user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web
site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s
transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from
Web page to Web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet.
Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
7) How Do We Use Information We Collect from
Cookies?
We use Web site browser
software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about
our Web site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Web
site and better serve our customers. This information assists us to design and
arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually
improve our Web site to better meet the needs of our customers and prospective
customers.
Cookies help us collect
important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies
lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move from one
page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our
Web site and evaluate our Web site’s visitor capacity. We do not use these
technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally
identifying information about you although they do permit us to send focused
online banner advertisements or other such responses to you.
8) How Do We Use the Information That You
Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use
personal information for purposes of administering our business activities,
providing customer service and making available other products and services to
our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the
information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site,
new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used
to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our
traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy
of our customers’ personal information. As a customer, you will be given the
opportunity, at least once annually, to notify us of your desire not to receive
these offers.
9) Sharing Information with Affiliates
From time to time you may notice
offers from outside companies advertised on our Web site. We take measures to
select product or service providers that are responsible and afford privacy
protections to their customers. However, we cannot make any representations
about the practices and policies of these companies.
10)
Sharing
Information with Strategic Partners
We may enter into strategic
marketing alliances or partnerships with third parties who may be given access
to personal information including your name, address, telephone number and
email for the purpose of providing you information regarding products and
services that we think will be of interest to you. In connection with strategic
marketing alliances or partnerships, we will retain all ownership rights to the
information, and we will not share information regarding your social security
number or other personal financial data.
11)
Children
& Teen Online Privacy
The Service is not directed to
children under the age of 14. After
Note to Parents: If you have
any concerns about the Service or its related services, or if you wish to find
out if your child is a member of one of our services, or if you wish to cancel
your child's membership, please contact us at administrator@thefamclub.com with your inquiry
and/or request.
12)
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.
13)
Notice
of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use
the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web
site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our
client, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to
receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an
offer or by sending us an email request at info@nationsbestmls.com
14)
How Do
We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential
personal credit card information to us on our Web site, it goes to a reputable secure server software which encrypts all
information you input before it transmits.
The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches the
payment providers website.
Other email that you may send
to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in
place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that
you do not send confidential information such as Social Security or account
numbers to us through an unsecured email.
15)
How Do
We Protect Your Information?
Information
Security. We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard
the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access
or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
Valuation
of Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our operations
and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and
procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our
information.
Employee
Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate values, ethical
standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of customer
information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to
confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information
to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
16)
How Can
You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all
your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in
our database by emailing administrator@thefamclub.com
17)
Do We
Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate
information about our customers, sales, Web site traffic patterns and related
Web site information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this
information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise
provided in this Privacy Policy.
18)
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information
when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith,
believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
19)
What
About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the
practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the
information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are
provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the
users of our Web site.
20)
Information
Sharing in Chat, Blogs, IM, & Forums
Whenever you voluntarily
disclose personal information on forums, through email, or in chat areas, that
information can be collected and used by others. If you post personal
information in public places, others may send you unsolicited email messages.
Always be smart about the information you provide online.
If you use a blog, bulletin board, instant messenger or chat room on
this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you
submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums,
and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for
the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
21)
Access
to Personally Identifiable Information
If your
personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service,
you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our
member information page or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the
contact information listed below.
22)
Mergers,
Acquisitions & Transitions
In the event THEFAMCLUB.com
goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another
company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally
identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will
be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your
personal information.
23)
Changes
in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the
homepage, 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.
24)
ONLINE
SAFETY GUIDELINES
THEFAMCLUB.com is committed to
providing a safe environment for our members to express themselves and meet new
people in the community. To ensure safe
and positive experiences for all users, we have written guidelines for our
members to follow. The guidelines and tips are for parents and teens.
If your teenager is new to
online social communities, we encourage you to talk to them about their online
experience and review the following things with them:
1.
Terms of Service for understanding of rules of THE
FAM CLUB.
2.
Make sure your teens take caution in interacting
with other members.
3.
Suggest they talk to you if they want to meet an
online friend in person so you can advise them on the proper safety precautions
and make sure that initial meetings occur in a public with friends or a trusted
adult present.
4.
Make sure your child does not lie about his or her
age. We have an age restriction because
there may be certain age specific content on the site that maybe inappropriate
for those less than younger than 14. If
your teens lie about their age, it may expose themselves as well as others to
inappropriate content and interaction.
5.
Talk to your teens about the dangers of giving
personal information to strangers.
6.
Talk to your teens about what to do if they are
bullied or harassed by another member.
7.
To report a member for harassment, please contact
us at administrator@thefamclub.com
8.
Think before you submit! This is a pubic
environment and anyone will be able to see what you add to your personal page.
Remember, your friends, teachers, parents, or employers may happen to see what
you have written and uploaded? Think about this before you add anything.
9.
There are some people who join the site just so
they can instigate and annoy other members. Don’t feed into negative energy.
10. Try to
stay away from provocative screen names.
Other members may get the wrong idea about who you are and what your
intentions are.
11. Don't
harass or bully another member if you disagree with them in a chat room or a
forum post.
12. Don't
disrespect yourself or others by uploading inappropriate photos and/or text.
13. Pages
that have inappropriate posts and comments violate our Terms of Service, may be
shut down.
14. Use
your common sense and trust your instincts.
