PRIVACY POLICY
AvoiditNYC has provided this privacy policy because we value your right to privacy. This policy is effective as of January 7, 2010 and governs the collection of personal information through this website on or after this date.
This policy describes the types of information AvoiditNYC collects from its users and how that information is used. Please read this policy carefully before providing us with any personal information. If you have questions about this policy, please Contact Us.
Information we collect.
1. Unregistered users
We encourage you to register with us in order to take advantage of AvoiditNYC's many personalization features. However, you may choose not to register and take advantage of any feature of our site where registration is not required.
If you do not register then we do not collect any information from you.
If you visit our site by "clicking-through" from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the Web site from which you reached our site in order to determine what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information. Regardless of what information was transmitted to us, however, we don't keep it unless you register with us.
2. Registered users
If you choose to register with us, you'll be able to add content to our site. For example, you may post your own reviews and participate in our discussion forums. In addition, you will benefit from the ability to personalize your AvoiditNYC site experience. The benefits of registering will increase over time as we get to know you better and introduce new features. We encourage you to register so that you can experience everything that AvoiditNYC has to offer!
If you register with us, we will collect personal information from you in addition to the non-personal information described above. That personal information may include your name, email address, user name and password, as well as contact information for other people that you provide to us. The information we collect may vary, but we only collect the information that you manually enter into our forms or otherwise authorize us to collect. We also place small files known as "cookies" (and/or similar technology) on your computer's hard drive to maintain the integrity of our content and to provide our users with a better site experience. A cookie may contain information that allows us to track your path through our Web site and to determine whether you have visited us before. However, unless you register with us, it contains no personally identifiable information that would allow us to identify you. Cookies cannot be used to read data off of your hard drive, and cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other Web sites. We use cookies in this manner to help us understand how visitors use our site, and to help us to improve our site. Cookie files will also help us recognize you each time you visit our site. In that way, we can save your preferences from visit to visit and present you with a customized Web site. Additionally, authorized AvoiditNYC personnel may update your registration information to accurately reflect any new information included in communications received from you.
If you visit our site by "clicking-through" from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the Web site from which you reached our site in order to determine what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information. We may or may not retain that information; if we do, then we will only use it in accordance with our privacy policy, regardless of the policy of the partner site from which you came to us.
If you reach our site through one of our partners (whether or not you have registered with our partner), and you choose to register with us, we may be required to give our partner some or all of your registration information. We will only do so in accordance with this policy, but we cannot control how our partner uses the information. If you have questions about our partner's privacy policy, you should review their policy before providing information to us. Of course, you can ensure that the personal information you provide to us is not shared with our partners (except in accordance with this policy), by visiting us directly instead of clicking-through from one of our partners.
How we use the personal information we collect.
We use the personal information we collect to help both of us! As we mentioned above, registering with us allows you to personalize our Web site so that it is most useful to you. It also allows you to log into our site automatically each time you visit, rather than manually typing your user name and password every time. We may also use your personal information to periodically contact you with news or important information from AvoiditNYC, to provide you with other information or invitations related to your membership of the AvoiditNYC community, and to request your feedback on our site.
In addition to these communications, if you have provided an email address, we may use your personal information to send you notifications about special offers or to tell you about opportunities available from our partners. You may opt-out of any or all marketing communications from AvoiditNYC by accessing your member profile and changing your e-mail notifications.
We may also use certain information that you provide in order to present you with advertising that you may find interesting. This benefits both of us. It benefits us because advertising helps pay the bills, and we can charge our advertisers more if they know that their ads will be seen by somebody more likely to find it useful. It benefits you because you see advertising that may actually be interesting to you, rather than annoying.
Disclosure of your personal information.
AvoiditNYC does not sell or rent any personal information to any third party, other than our partners, as discussed in this policy. We may aggregate personal information from all of our users and provide that information in the aggregate to other parties, including advertisers, for marketing and promotional purposes. However, if we do so, that information will not be in a form that will allow any third party to identify you personally.
We also may share your personal information with third-parties specifically engaged by AvoiditNYC to provide services to AvoiditNYC (such as market research firms, marketing services providers and advertising agencies), in which case we will require those parties to agree to use any such personally-identifiable data solely for the purpose of providing the specified services to AvoiditNYC. As you might expect, AvoiditNYC must cooperate with legal authorities, and may in some circumstances be required to disclose personally identifiable information in response to requests from law enforcement authorities, or in response to a subpoena or other legal process. We don't expect this to happen, but if it does, we will provide only the information required. In other words, we will not simply turn over our database in response to a specific legal requirement. We can also turn over information about you if we believe we must in order to prevent a violation of the law, and by accepting this policy, you consent to our doing so, in our sole discretion. You also consent to our disclosing information about you in the course of legal proceedings if we are legally required to do so, if we reasonably believe that doing so may mitigate our liability, or if doing so will assist us in enforcing our legal rights. We also may share your information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, and in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Your profile on AvoiditNYC will be publicly viewable and identifiable via your user name. AvoiditNYC will not share your email address with any other members nor display it any public manner. If you choose to participate in our member-to-member communications programs, you may be contacted by other AvoiditNYC members, using AvoiditNYC as an intermediary. All AvoiditNYC members will have the option to turn off the member-to-member communication features at any time by changing your notifications in your user profile.
Any use of any area of the Site in violation of the Site Terms and conditions may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Interactive Areas and/or the Site. In order to cooperate with legitimate governmental requests, subpoenas or court orders, to protect AvoiditNYC's systems and customers, or to ensure the integrity and operation of AvoiditNYC's business and systems, AvoiditNYC may access and disclose any information it considers necessary or appropriate, including, without limitation, user profile information (i.e. name, email address, etc.), IP addressing and traffic information, usage history, and posted Content. AvoiditNYC's right to disclose any such information shall take precedence over any terms of AvoiditNYC's Privacy Policy.
How you can review and update your personal information.
You can review and update the personal information you have provided through the registration process by visiting your member profile.
Steps we take to protect your personal information.
AvoiditNYC has implemented security procedures to help protect the personal information stored in our systems. But please know that there is no way for us to guarantee the security of your personal information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so. If we make material changes that will affect personal information we have already collected from you, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes. If our Privacy Policy changes at any time we will post the changes to our website. If you are concerned about how your information is used, please review this Privacy Policy periodically to check for any changes.
