My Currency, Co. takes your privacy seriously.  The following statement describes My Currency's privacy policy as it relates to My Currency's web site and associated applications (the "Service").  The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you of the following:

• • What kind of information, including personally identifiable information, is collected from you;
• • Who collects the information;
• • How the information is used;
• • With whom the information may be shared;
• • What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information;
• • The security procedures that are in place to protect the information; and
• • How you can correct inaccuracies in the information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collected Information
Non-Personally Identifiable Information.  Non-personally identifiable information is information that, by itself, cannot be tracked to a specific individual.  My Currency may collect non-personally identifiable information while you are visiting the Service.  While providing services and features, My Currency may collect web surfing data such as your IP address, web pages on the Service that have you visited, time and date, and whether or not you clicked on advertisements.  We use different types of technologies to collect this information, including cookies and single-pixel GIFs.

 

If your browser is configured to accept the cookies, these cookies will be used to recognize your computer when you revisit the Service to provide you with a superior web surfing experience --  for example, by allowing us to learn how you use the Service and to show you advertisements we think you would want to see.  However, if you wish, you can configure your browser to block cookies.

 

Advertisements of third-party advertisers may be displayed on the Service.  If you choose to click on an advertisement or link, My Currency may provide non-personally identifiable information to the advertiser and/or web publisher.  Also, the advertiser or web publisher may use cookies or other technologies to collect information when you are visiting their web sites.  The information advertisers or other third parties collect is governed by their individual privacy policies, not by My Currency's Privacy Policy.

 

Personally Identifiable Information.  While providing various services or features, we may ask you to provide personal information.  For example, if you choose to register at the Service, you will be asked to provide your email address, gender, age, user name, and at your option name.  If you choose to create a profile at the Service, you may elect to provide information, such as your name, telephone number, street address, email address, age, gender, stocks of interest, and income range.

 

Another feature that may be provided through the Service allows you to invite a friend to register at the Service.  If you use this feature, we will ask you to provide your name and email address along with your friend's name and email address.  We will send one email message to your friend inviting the friend to register.  We will not use this information for any other purpose.

 

If you upload, post, and/or distribute to any public portions of the Service web site such as the message boards, wikis, blogs, or any forums, including but not limited to, information, questions, feedback, data, comments, suggestions, information, text, data, software, sounds, photographs, podcasts, audio, audiovisual, video, images, graphics, messages and other content or materials of any nature ("User Submissions"), that information, along with your user name or other personally identifiable information, may be viewable by other users.

 

If you do not want other users to know your email address or other personally identifiable information, do not provide it with any User Submissions.  Also, to limit the amount of personal information disclosed you may consider providing a user name other than your actual name.

 

In order to determine the credibility of user's User Submissions, we may count the number of times other users copy or drag your User Submissions to their profile page.  Your credibility rating may be used to direct users searching for certain information to your User Submissions.

 

 

Use of Collected Information
Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information.  My Currency may use non-personally identifiable information collected to improve the quality of the Service - for example, by diagnosing service or technology problems, by assessing and maintaining security, by increasing ad placements on web pages that are receiving more web traffic and presenting you with ads that we think you would be interested in seeing, or by allowing you to log in or access your profile information automatically.  We may also use the information to count and recognize returning users.

 

My Currency may perform analysis on the non-personally identifiable information to determine user demographics, interests, and behavior and may market the Service by sharing aggregated non-personally identifiable information with potential advertisers or partners.  For example, we may provide demographic or usage information to an advertiser so they may see how many registered users are from a specific geographic area or clicked on a certain ad in the previous month.  My Currency also may provide your non-personally identifiable information to contractors so that they can perform services for us.

 

Use of Personally Identifiable Information.  My Currency does not intentionally provide personally identifiable information to third parties except under the following conditions:  If you provide personally identifiable information as part of an inquiry about products or services provided by one of the advertisers or partners, we will provide that information to that advertiser or partner so that they may attempt to provide you with information regarding the products or services about which you inquired, only if you indicate that this is acceptable by either selecting the advertisement or otherwise.

 

My Currency may use the personally identifiable information provided by users for internal purposes, such as sales, human resources, marketing, and administration.  We may share this information with third parties who provide My Currency with administrative services.  If My Currency shares any of the information collected from you with a third party, their use of that information will be governed by the third party's privacy policy.

 

If you provide personally identifiable information or other User Submissions to your profile and make your profile (or a portion thereof) publicly available, or if you provide personally identifiable information to other public areas of the Service, including the forums, blogs, wikis, or message boards, other users of the Service will have access to this information.  In addition, any user may download or copy posted User Submissions.  You can make areas of your profile private to avoid sharing the personally identifiable information in it with others.

 

"Commercial users" are those users who pay My Currency a fee to host content and tools that are specific to their business or profession.  Public areas of the Service's web site will be accessible to Commercial users, including advertisers and retailers.  Your posting of personally identifiable information will make it available to these Commercial users, as well as other advertisers and users.

 

Sharing of Information
My Currency may release information when necessary to comply with the law or a court order or an investigation.  My Currency also may release information to law enforcement to protect its rights, property, or other interests, including those of its customers or users or to prevent illegal activities or violations of My Currency's Terms of Use (available at www.my-currency.com/privacypolicy.php).

 

In the event that My Currency, in whole or in part, establishes a partnership with another company, or is acquired by or merged with another company, collected information may be transferred to the partner or the acquiring or merging company.

 

Child Privacy
My Currency does not offer services to, or target, persons under the age of 13.  In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, any information we receive from people we believe to be children under 13 will be purged from our database.

 

Deletions and Updates
You can delete your account by contacting us at [email protected].  My Currency also allows users who choose to provide personally identifiable information on their profile to edit their profile to ensure that it is correct and up-to-date or set the privacy setting to public or private by signing into their account and selecting the "edit account settings" button on their profile page at www.my-currency.com.

 

Security
My Currency makes significant efforts to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the collected information.  These measures may include the use of secure server technology.  Be aware, however, that the Internet is not 100% secure.  Therefore, we cannot ensure the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet, and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure. 

Many areas of the Service are password-protected.  To increase the security of the Service, please do not share your passwords with anyone.

 

Links
The Service may contain links to other web sites, including advertisers.  In addition, User Submissions may contain links to other web sites.  My Currency is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of web publishers, advertisers, or other web sites that may be linked to My Currency's Service.

 

Effective Date
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time by posting the changes on this page.  Please check the effective date at the bottom of this page to determine if the privacy policy has been modified since you last reviewed it.  We also may notify you about significant changes to the privacy policy by sending you a notice to the primary email address specified in you account or by placing a prominent notice on the Service.  Your continued use of our web site and Service following posting of the updated privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.

 

Acceptance of Privacy Policy
BY USING OUR SERVICE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE.

 

The Privacy Policy was last revised on January 23, 2007

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