Denimology.com Privacy Policy
At Denimology, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our users and visitors. The following Privacy Policy outlines the information Denimology, Inc. ("Denimology") may collect and how we may use that information to better serve visitors and members of Denimology.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@denimology.com.
1. Children Under the Age of 13
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Denimology does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the Denimology from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the Denimology at any time or in any manner. If Denimology learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on Denimology without verified parental consent, then Denimology will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
2. Information We Collect
* Information Submitted by a user. Denimology collects personal information when you register or request information from us. The personal information we may collect is listed below:
o Login Name
o Password
o Email address
o Name
o Postal Code
o Instant Messenger User Names (for example AIM, Yahoo, MSN)
o Personal Preferences (Favorite Colors, Style Description)
* You may also submit information about other people. For example, you may enter a friend's email to invite to Denimology, or email links to Denimology. In this circumstance, we collect the following information about the recipient:
o Email address
* Non-submitted Information Collected. Denimology may also collect non-personal information not associated with your identity. We collect this data to improve Denimology. The non-submitted information we collect is listed below:
o IP
o Time
o File
o Data transferred
o Browser type and version
o Operating system
o Cookies
3. How We Use Your Information
Among our primary goals in collecting information is to provide you with a customized experience when visiting our site and to make our site more valuable to you. We use this information to closely monitor which areas of the site are used most and to determine which areas we need to focus on improving. This information is used exclusively by Denimology in aggregate form so that we may continue to improve the value of the services and information on Denimology for our members as a whole.
As a valued customer of Denimology, we will occasionally contact you, typically by e-mail (or any other way you prefer) in order to notify you of special promotions, and up-to-date news, custom-tailored to your personal interests. Of course, if you do not wish to receive this personalized information, you can remove yourself from receiving such information by changing the appropriate option on your user account.
Denimology uses your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose problems with our computer server, and to administer our web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you, and to gather broad demographic data. Your IP address contains no personal information about you.
Please note that, once you've logged on to our servers, we use cookies keep track of your application states and log in status. Cookies are small files that take up minimal room on your computer and cannot, by itself, damage your computer’s files. Cookies work by assigning a number to a user that has no meaning outside of the assigning web site, in this case, Denimology. If you do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, your browser allows you to deny or accept the use of cookies. There may, however, be some features on Denimology which requires the use of cookies in order to customize the delivery of information and content to you.
Except as described above, we will not monitor, edit or disclose any personal information about you or your account, without your prior consent unless we have a belief that such action is necessary to: (i) comply with legal process or other legal requirements of any governmental authority; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Denimology; (iii) enforce our Terms of Service; (iv) protect the interests of users of our services other than you or any other person; or (v) operate or conduct maintenance and repair of Denimology’s services or equipment as authorized by law.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
Denimology may share your details with third parties, such as the companies that provide prizes for our giveaway, if and when we do this it will be clearly stated on the sign-up form. You will have an opportunity to remove yourself from any such lists prior to your inclusion therein by emailing us at info@Denimology.com or by changing the appropriate option on your user account. Denimology does, however, perform statistical analysis of customer usage in order to measure interest in, and use of, the various parts of Denimology, and Denimology shares that information with current and prospective advertisers, and other interested third parties. But, this information is aggregated data only (statistics, etc.), and contains no personally identifiable information whatsoever.
Denimology cooperates with all law enforcement inquires and with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights.
You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas, on bulletin boards, or in classified areas within Denimology, that information might be collected and disseminated by third-parties, and result in, among other things, unsolicited inquiries, messages, and offers from third-parties. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and this third-party conduct is out of the control of Denimology. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Denimology also contains links to other web sites. Denimology is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
5. Security
The personally identifiable information we collect is securely stored within our database, and we use standard, industry-wide practices such as encryption, firewalls and (in some certain areas) SSL (Secure Socket Layers) for protecting your information. However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. We recommend that you not disclose your password to anyone.
6. Revisions and Amendments
If you have further privacy concerns please do not hesitate to ask us by contacting info@Denimology.com . This Privacy Policy is effective as of April 19, 2007. This Privacy Policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. Denimology reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, modify, change or update this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update or modification on www.Denimology.com. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on Denimology.
7. Notice Regarding Online Behavioral Advertising
We allow third party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our Web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g. click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice visit the NAI at http://www.networkadvertising.org. To opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices.