Privacy policy
We are not going to sell your personal information to anyone! No If's, And's or But's!!! We will only provide your information under the order of a recognized court providing a search warrant for such information! Or in an emergency situation, in my best judgement, may provide information to recognized law enforcement agencies! - Founder.... Now to the legal section.
Privacy Policy
We at BostonErotic.com, have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our
firm commitment to protecting your personal information and informing you about
how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities
in which you engage, and data gathered, on the BostonErotic.com Website, Please
review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time.
This privacy policy was last revised on April, 2005. Each time you visit the
Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices
described in this privacy policy at that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically
collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer
and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use
your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information
about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and
other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also
use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password,
and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do
not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site. Third party advertisers
on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable
these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers
will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you
may not be able to access certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about products
or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal information"
(i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly (without using
the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address),
"financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords) or
"demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that
we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information;
this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender,
username, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history information,
searching history information, registration history information, and the content
of communications between you and other members over the Site), subject to the
rest of this paragraph. Demographic information is divided into two categories:
1) "non-public information", which consists of purchase history information
and one-on-one communications between you and other users of the Site; and 2)
"public information", which consists of all other demographic information.
We ask that you do not enter personal information or financial information into
your ?Profile? (for example, don't use your address or passcode as your username,
or include your name or address in your written responses), because if you do
then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and the information will then be
treated as "demographic information" that is "public information."
Please note that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect personal information
from children under the age of 18, as we require that all users represent to
us that they are at least 18 years old.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other parties. Some
of these other Websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual
property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit
these other Websites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names,
trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do
not control these other Websites or these other Websites' business practices,
and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other Websites. Consequently,
the operators of these other Websites may collect different kinds of information
about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than
we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you to review their
privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to help us efficiently
operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other
activities on the Site (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or
important news that could affect your relationship with BostonErotic.com, and
to forward messages to you from other BostonErotic.com users. These types of
communications, are known as "Operational Communications." In some
cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages, such
as banner ads and special offers.
We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for BostonErotic.com or third parties' goods or services. We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. The Site provides you with options to decline to receive communications from BostonErotic.com (other than those contained in Operational Communications). Some of these options may only be for a certain category of communications; others may be more general. By posting a profile on the Site, you are opting in to receive the BostonErotic.com by Mail email. To stop receiving BostonErotic.com by Mail, go to the "Email Options" section of your account settings and change your desired frequency" to "Never."
To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us.
In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with another company in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages of the Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these companies are known as ?Co-Branded Companies.? If the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us. Some Co-Branded Pages may contain an action tag (also known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel .gif file) that a third party, such as the advertising company Avenue A, may use to read cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on your browser at other (non-BostonErotic.com) web sites before your visit to BostonErotic.com. This technology is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements on such other Websites that promote Co-Branded Pages.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is authorized to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.
Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways in which we may share your personal information.
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you
for products and services and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate
and similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase,
or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial
information, on the Site, you consent to our providing your financial information
to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine are necessary
to support and process your activities and transactions, as well as to your
credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include the credit
card companies and banking institutions used to process and support the transaction
or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products
or services of third parties offered on the Site, or by participating in programs
offered on the Site that are administered by third parties and that require
you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to
our providing your financial information to those third parties. Additionally,
if the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed
by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your financial
information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Any of these various third
parties (including Co-Branded Companies) may be authorized to use your financial
information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third
parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have
no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their
actions or omissions. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all
such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which
we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that you submit to
us. Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases
in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways
in which we may share your financial information.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third
party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We
may also disclose personal information or financial information when we determine
that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate
with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of BostonErotic.com
or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your personal information
or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses,
and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common
corporate control. Whenever personal information or financial information is
disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information
along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated
legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information, financial
information, or non-anonymous demographic information from us will comply with
the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of
such information.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to
enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether they are a match
for you and to communicate with you. We may use demographic information to tailor
the Site and communications to your interests. We may also share demographic
information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis (i.e., without
telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may do this is
to increase the likelihood that our advertisers' goods and services will appeal
to BostonErotic.com users, so that we may target specific ads at specific demographic
groups. Our sharing of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous
(i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular BostonErotic.com users are
members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy policy.
When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask you to remember that if
that ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you decide to give the advertiser
your personal information, then the advertiser may be able to identify you as
being a member of that demographic group. Please also be aware that when we
disclose your financial information or personal information to a Co-Branded
Company, as described above, we may also disclose to that Co-Branded Company
your demographic information, other than the content of one-on-one communications
between you and other members. Please also be aware that we may disclose your
demographic information on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph
titled "Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information."
Also, to read further details about how we may use your public information,
see our
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under our control. Our secure server software
(SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for
secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and financial
information as it travels over the Internet and we store your financial information
on our servers in encrypted form. Your information may be transferred to and
maintained on computer networks which may be located outside of the state, province,
country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country
or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy
laws as protective as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered Information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will
notify users by way of an email or by providing 30 days notice on the Site.
Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy policy
and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable information, without
notice, as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, provided
that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after the date
of the change.
How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal Information
and Public Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify
personal information or demographic information you have provided to us, and
to hide demographic information from, or make demographic information visible
to, the public users of the Site, at anytime by going to the section of the
Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes you make
to take effect on the public areas of the Site. We thank you for your patience.
Please note that changing or deleting your information through the "Account
Settings" or "My Profile" section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out
of receipt of email communications from BostonErotic.com, will only change or
delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Site
and for managing future communications from BostonErotic.com. These changes
and deletions will not change or delete emails or information that we may have
already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other third
parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us at support@BostonErotic.com.