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Privacy Policy

Amended & Restated
Last Updated: May 31, 2007

ThinWallsTalk.com takes your privacy seriously. Please read this to learn about our policy regarding visitor and member privacy.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers ThinWallsTalk.com's treatment of personally identifiable information that ThinWallsTalk.com collects when you are on the Web site located at www.ThinWallsTalk.com, and when you use ThinWallsTalk.com's services. This policy also covers ThinWallsTalk.com's treatment of any personally identifiable information that ThinWallsTalk.com's business partners share with ThinWallsTalk.com.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that ThinWallsTalk.com does not own or control, or to people that ThinWallsTalk.com does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

ThinWallsTalk.com collects personally identifiable information when you register for a ThinWallsTalk.com account and when you use the service. ThinWallsTalk.com may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners.

When you register with ThinWallsTalk.com, we ask for your email address, and zip code. You may also be requested to provide additional information to ThinWallsTalk.com after you have registered, providing information such as your name, your age, your education level, and your income range. Once you register with ThinWallsTalk.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

ThinWallsTalk.com also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, ThinWallsTalk.com cookie information and the page you requested.

ThinWallsTalk.com uses your information for three general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see on our pages, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and in some cases, to contact you.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

ThinWallsTalk.com will not provide your personally identifiable information to other companies or people except in the following instances:

  • We have your consent to share the information;
  • We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
  • We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of ThinWallsTalk.com to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.);
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or
  • We find that your actions on our Web sites violate the ThinWallsTalk.com Terms of Service, or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.
Cookies

Your Internet browser has a feature called "cookies" which may store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to our site. ThinWallsTalk.com may set and access ThinWallsTalk.com cookies on your computer. However, cookies tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information.

ThinWallsTalk.com allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to ThinWallsTalk.com's cookies.

ThinWallsTalk.com uses web beacons to access our cookies within our network of web sites and in connection with ThinWallsTalk.com products and services.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

ThinWallsTalk.com gives you the ability to edit your ThinWallsTalk.com Account Information and preferences at any time.

You may request deletion of your ThinWallsTalk.com account by sending an email to staff@thinwallstalk.

Security

Your ThinWallsTalk.com Account Information is password-protected for your privacy and security.

In certain areas, ThinWallsTalk.com uses SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

ThinWallsTalk.com may edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

Business Transfers

If there is an acquisition of ThinWallsTalk.com's business (whether by merger, reorganization, sale of all or substantially all of the assets or capital stock of ThinWallsTalk.com, or otherwise), your information could be sold as part of that transaction and your personally identifying information potentially could be used by the purchaser. However, if the purchaser materially changes this Privacy Policy or the information handling practices as described in this Privacy Policy, you will be notified through a notice posted on this page of the site.

Privacy of Children

ThinWallsTalk.com is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and do not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 13 years of age. This requirement is clearly posted during the registration process.

Questions or Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions complete a feedback form or send an email to staff@thinwallstalk.
By using this site, you indicate acceptance of the Terms of Service.
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