Privacy Policy

Updated: Aug 26, 2009

Introduction

Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site, products, and services.

Collection of Information

You can browse our site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you register and give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to provide us with personal information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the United States.

We may collect and store the following personal information:

• E-mail address, community discussions, chats, correspondence through our site, and correspondence sent to us.
• other information from your interaction with our site, services, content and advertising, including computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information.
• information from other companies, such as demographic and traffic data

Marketing and Spam

We and our users do not tolerate spam. We do not rent or sell your e-mail information to third-parties. We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies and use it to improve and personalize our services, content and advertising.

Your e-mail address is not published, nor made available to any other WhatUCollect users. WhatUCollect users are not authorized to add other WhatUCollect users to any mailing lists (e-mail or physical mail) without their express consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, or protect anyone's rights, property, or safety.

We may also share your personal information with:

• Third parties to whom you explicitly ask us to send your information (or about whom you are otherwise explicitly notified and consent to when using a specific service).
• Law enforcement or other governmental officials, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity. In such events, we will disclose only the information relevant to the investigation, such as name, e-mail address, User ID history, and IP address.
• Other business entities. Should we plan to merge with or be acquired by that business entity, we will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information. If your personal information will be used contrary to this policy, you will receive prior notice.

Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community free from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity.

Third Party Advertising

We use GoogleAds when you visit our Web site. They may use some information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Cookies

WhatUCollect uses cookies on certain pages of our pages. You must not eat these cookies! Just kidding. A "cookie" is a small text file that contains a string of alphanumeric characters. There are two types of cookies that may be used at the WhatUCollect website: a persistent cookie and a session cookie. A persistent cookie gets entered by your Web browser into the "Cookies" folder on your computer and remains in this "Cookies" folder after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. A session cookie is held temporarily in your computer's memory and disappears after you close your browser or shut off your computer.

A few important things you should know about cookies are that:

• We offer certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.
• We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.
• Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session.
• You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of some of our sites or services.

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser (Google) may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser. Google's use of this cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. This cookie will contain an identification number for the ad that you clicked on, and/or will contain an identification number for the site that you were visiting when you clicked on the banner ad. These cookies contain no personally-identifiable information, nor will they be used to send you e-mail about other goods or services. Users may opt-out of this advertising service by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Activity Associated with Your Account

Your User ID and/or Username may be displayed on various pages of our site and is therefore available to the public. Activity on our site is traceable to your User ID or Username. Other people can see your collections (unless you choose to make them private), comments, profile page, and so on.

Account Protection

Your password is the key to your account. We recommend you use unique numbers, letters and special characters, and do not disclose your WhatUCollect password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, remember that you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately notify WhatUCollect and change your password.

Security

Your information is stored on our servers located in the United States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use many tools (encryption, passwords, etc.) to protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. However, as you probably know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not guarantee that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

Amendments

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted on the site.