Privacy Policy
(Effective Date: June 1, 2006)
The vicina.info is committed to protecting your privacy. We know that you care about how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will use that information carefully and sensibly in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our privacy practices. By visiting vicina.info, you agree that your use of vicina.info, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy and other Agreements.
The Information We Collect and How We Use It
The information we collect falls into two categories:
- personal information that you provide to us when you register to use vicina.info, and
- certain anonymous information that we collect as you navigate through vicina.info.
Below is a description of each type of information we collect and how we use it:
- Registration Information Anyone may visit vicina.info and read its contents, but only registered users may post information or comments or use certain vicina.info services. We require users to register to encourage responsible and courteous conduct. In our registration process, we require you to provide your name, e-mail address, postal code and geographical location. We use this information to create a unique registration profile for you, to communicate with you regarding your registration, and to verify that you are not under the age of 13. We also may ask you to provide, at your option, your street address and certain demographic information. This information will help us to better understand our audience, but is not required as a condition of registering; you may decline to provide any or all such optional information. Once you register with vicina.info and sign in to our site, you are not anonymous to us, though you may use an assumed member name when posting to the site if youd prefer to remain anonymous to other members of vicina.info community and other visitors to the site.
- E-mail Address We require you to provide your e-mail address as part of the registration process. When you register with our site, we will send you an e-mail confirming your registration. We may use your e-mail address to send you administrative e-mails from time to time containing announcements and communications regarding vicina.info service. If you do not wish to receive administrative e-mails from us, please do not register to use our site. You also may elect to receive regular newsletters or information updates from us or to receive commercial e-mails from us that advertise our services and the products or services of our advertising partners. Even if you choose to receive commercial e-mails, we will not share your e-mail address with our third-party advertisers, though we may send you advertising materials on their behalf. Our newsletters, information updates and advertising e-mails will be sent to you only if you request them on an opt-in basis. Once you have opted in to receive such e-mails, you may unsubscribe from them at any time by following the simple instructions included in each e-mail.
- Browser-Level Information and Cookies When you visit vicina.info, our web server automatically collects limited information about your computer configuration, such as the type of browser software you use, the operating system you're running and your IP address, and we also use cookies to track which pages of our site you visit. This information does not contain your personal information or otherwise tell us who you are. We use this information to make our site as useful as we can for as many users as possible. We use cookies to prevent you from having to re-enter your log-in information each time you visit the site. If you leave vicina.info to visit our advertisers Web sites, some of those advertisers also may place cookies on your computer. We don't have access to those cookies or to any information they contain, and the use and collection of your information by such third-party advertisers is governed by the advertisers Privacy Policy, which may be different from ours. Because cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our Web site, you can set your browser to decline cookies and can delete them from your computer. However, if you don't accept cookies, you may need to re-enter your log-in information each time you visit our site, and you may not be able to take advantage of various features on our site that are available to other visitors.
Security
The vicina.info has taken steps to protect the confidentiality of the personal information it collects from members of the vicina.info community. Information we gather on vicina.info is stored within vicina.info controlled databases (or databases hosted on our behalf) on servers maintained in protected environments, and we limit access to your personal information to this web site employees who we believe need to see that information to provide you with services or otherwise do their jobs. However, no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that the information that you supply to us won't be intercepted during transmission over the Internet. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your account, especially on a shared computer, by logging out when you are finished using our site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Because the web is an evolving medium, we may need to change our Privacy Policy at some point in the future, in which case we'll post the changes to this Privacy Policy on this Web site and update the Effective Date of the policy to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the Web site after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.
