My Missed Connection takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
1. WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS
A. General. This policy covers how My Missed Connection treats personal information that My Missed Connection collects and receives, including information related to your past use of My Missed Connection products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
B. Companies Not Controlled. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that My Missed Connection does not own or control, or to people that My Missed Connection does not employ or manage.
2. INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
A. General
1. Collection. My Missed Connection collects personal information when you register with My Missed Connection, when you use My Missed Connection services, when you visit My Missed Connection pages or the pages of certain My Missed Connection partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes sponsored by My Missed Connection. My Missed Connection may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
2. Information Sought. When you register we ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, and location. Once you register with My Missed Connection and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
3. IP Address and Cookies. My Missed Connection automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, My Missed Connection cookie information, and the page(s) you request.
4. Use. My Missed Connection uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
B. Information Sharing and Disclosure
1. Sharing of Personal Information. My Missed Connection does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
(a) We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with My Missed Connection under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help My Missed Connection communicate with you about offers from My Missed Connection and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
(b) We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing My Missed Connection to collect and use their child's information without consenting to My Missed Connection sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;
(c) We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
(d) We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of [Internet Portal]'s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law; and
(e) We transfer information about you if My Missed Connection is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, My Missed Connection will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
2. Ad Targeting. My Missed Connection displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
(a) My Missed Connection does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
(b) My Missed Connection advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
3. COOKIES
A. Rights Reserved. My Missed Connection may set and access My Missed Connection cookies on your computer.
B. This Policy Not Applicable to Other Companies. My Missed Connection lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to My Missed Connection's cookies.
C. Web Beacons. My Missed Connection uses Web beacons to access My Missed Connection cookies inside and outside our network of Web sites and in connection with My Missed Connection products and services.
4. YOUR ABILITY TO EDIT AND DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION
AND PREFERENCES
A. General
1. Editing. You can edit your My Missed Connection Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
2. New Categories. New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
3. My Missed Connection Marketing and Newsletters. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the My Missed Connection service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the My Missed Connection Newsletter, that are considered part of your My Missed Connection account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
4. Account Removal. You can delete your My Missed Connection account by visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.
5. CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
A. Limited Access to Information. We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
B. Federal Compliance. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
C. Protection. Your My Missed Connection Account Information is password-protected.
D. SSL-Encryption. In certain areas My Missed Connection uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
6. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
A. Updates to the Policy. My Missed Connection may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address specified in your My Missed Connection account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
7. QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Feedback. If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form or you can contact us at: support@mymissedconnection.com
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