TWIP Privacy Policy Notice
TWIP recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use
www.twip.org or other web sites owned or operated by TWIP (the "TWIP Sites")
(collectively or individually "Users") value their privacy. This Privacy
Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of
User information collected on the TWIP Sites. TWIP provides this Privacy
Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue
using the TWIP Sites.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the TWIP Terms
of Use. Your use of the TWIP Sites and any personal information you provide
on the TWIP Sites remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and
our Terms of Use.
Please note that any picture, image, or other content posted at the direction
of Users onto the TWIP Sites becomes published content and is not considered
personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.
The Information TWIP Collects
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User Provided Information: You provide certain personally identifiable
information (such as your name and email address) to TWIP when choosing
to participate in various activities on the TWIP Sites such as uploading
pictures, posting messages in our forums or in the picture comments section,
entering contests or sweepstakes, taking advantage of promotions, responding
to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.
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Cookies Information: When you visit the TWIP Sites, we may send one or
more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters
- to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. TWIP uses both
session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after
you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on
subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following
your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and
disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser
to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
some features of the TWIP Sites may not function properly if the ability
to accept cookies is disabled.
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Log File Information: When you use the TWIP Sites, our servers automatically
record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit
any website. These server logs may include information such as your web
request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language,
referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain
names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount
of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and
one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
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Clear GIFs Information: When you use the TWIP Sites, we may employ "clear
GIFs" (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns
of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner).
In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our
users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
The Way TWIP Uses Information
- If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the TWIP
Sites, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide
to you the features and functionality of the TWIP Sites.
- Any personal information or picture content that you voluntarily disclose
online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public
profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and
used by others. Your account name (not your email address) is displayed
to other Users when you upload pictures or send messages through the TWIP
Sites and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any
pictures that you submit to the TWIP Sites may be redistributed through
the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general
public.
- We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information
to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except
as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability
to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further
consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying
you of major TWIP Site changes or for customer service purposes).
- We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable
information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser
type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the TWIP
Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services
by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
- We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember
information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or
the next time you visit the TWIP Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized
content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing
campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors,
pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status
in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.
When TWIP Discloses Information
- We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable
information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses
or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf.
We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance
with our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use
of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security
measures.
- We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name
or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial
or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program
or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
- We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous
User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number
of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding
the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions,
and/or functionality on the TWIP Sites.
- We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable
information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that
such action is necessary to comply with international laws (such as Copyright
Laws) or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
- TWIP also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information
and/or non-personally-identifiable information that TWIP believes, in good
faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions
against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party
claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect
the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property,
or personal safety of TWIP, our Users or others.
Your Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information
through the TWIP Sites, in which case TWIP may not be able to provide certain
services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information
and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.
Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the TWIP Sites cannot
be removed and remain subject to our Terms of Use.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as
requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you
profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining
the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
Please contact TWIP with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice,
your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices
using this contact form.
Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
TWIP allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks,
to serve advertisements within the TWIP Sites. These third-party ad servers
or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements
and links that appear on the TWIP Sites. They automatically receive your
IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such
as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of
their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.
TWIP does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party
ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific
program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
However, please note that if an advertiser asks TWIP to show an advertisement
to a certain audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment
(for example, men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content)
and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude
that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The
advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the TWIP Sites,
such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable
information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party
ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their
practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. TWIP's
privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of,
such other advertisers or web sites.
Our Commitment To Data Security
TWIP uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards
to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We
cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit
to TWIP and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission
of information, TWIP makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the
security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee
that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed
by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
If TWIP learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify
you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. TWIP
may post a notice on the TWIP Sites if a security breach occurs. Depending
on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security
breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach
(or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should
notify us using this contact form.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event that TWIP is acquired by or merged with a third party entity,
we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign
the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger,
acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of
our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment
for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles
affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how
your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
Changes and updates to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be revised
periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please
revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use
your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice
in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued
use of the TWIP Sites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice
and any future revisions. For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may
be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal
information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your
consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.
Date Last Modified:
This Privacy Notice was last modified November 6, 2006.
Contact Information:
Please contact TWIP with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice.
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