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Updated December 10, 2009
pickyGirls.com will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question. info@pickygirls.com
COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This website, pickyGirls.com, is owned and operated by U made U Media, LLC . Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At pickyGirls.com, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
pickyGirls.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interact with our website. By accessing pickyGirls.com, its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "pickyGirls.com") you acknowledge and fully understand pickyGirls.com Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Website Privacy Statement.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.
pickyGirls.com, its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "pickyGirls.com") is designed for 18 years of age and up.
INFORMATION pickyGirls.com GATHERS AND TRACKS
Information pickyGirls.com gathers about users:
pickyGirls.com gathers information through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because pickyGirls.com derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does pickyGirls.com divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
USAGE TRACKING
pickyGirls.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. pickyGirls.com does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
pickyGirls.com sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. pickyGirls.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.
USE OF INFORMATION
pickyGirls.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
pickyGirls.com creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
pickyGirls.com uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
PARTICIPATING MERCHANT SERVICE
Related services and offerings with links from this website, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in pickyGirls.com services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here. http://www.networkadvertising.org/
PERSONAL INFORMATION USERS
Visitors to our website can shop from pickygirls.com. Purchases are made through Amazon.com shopping portal (Powered by Amazon):
To fulfill purchase requests.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
pickyGirls.com has the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.
CONTACTING US
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general practices, please contact us at: info@pickygirls.com
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by pickyGirls.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Disclaimer: The picky Girls resource pages contain hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other organizations. These links and pointers are provided for the user's convenience. picky Girls does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this outside information. Further, the inclusion of links or pointers to particular items in hypertext is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to endorse any views expressed, or products or services offered, on these outside sites,or the organizations sponsoring the sites.
Attention:
pickyGirls.com, its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "pickyGirls.com") will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question. info@pickyGirls.com
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