Privacy Policy

INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

Personal Information

At various locations on our website, including registration forms, FORUMS, surveys, and polls, we may request that you supply us with "personal information," including your name, email address and date of birth. You will know when we are collecting personal information, because we collect personal information only when you voluntarily submit it to us through our online form. Although you do not have to provide us with any information to visit our website, you may not be able to fully utilize all of the services on our website if you choose not to provide certain information. If you do choose to give us personal information through our website, we will collect and retain that information. All information that The Digital Diaries collects from you will adhere to this privacy policy and will be used for the sole purpose of providing you a highly interactive experience with our site. No personal information collected from our members will ever be sold or leased to any third party.

Non-Personal Information

When you use our website, we may also collect "non-personal information." We consider "non-personal information" to be information that, by itself, cannot be used to identify or contact you personally, such as demographic information (your age, gender, zip code, etc.). Non-personal information may also include technical information, such as your IP address, the type of browser you are using, the websites you visit immediately before and immediately after you visit our website, and other anonymous data involving your use of our website. Non-personal information may also include information that you provide us through your use of our website, such as the terms you enter into the search functions of our website. We reserve the right to use or disclose non-personal information in any way we see fit.

Cookies

Like most web sites, The Digital Diaries uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file that resides on your computer and allows The Digital Diaries to recognize you as a member when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use our website. Cookies also help us understand how members use The Digital Diaries, which allows us to continually improve the service. Like the information you enter at registration, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site.

One type of cookie, known as a "persistent" cookie, is set when you log in to your The Digital Diaries account if you check the "remember me on this computer" box. The next time you visit The Digital Diaries web site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing member so you will not need to log in before using the service. In order to change your e-mail address or password, however, you will need to re-enter your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Additionally, if you log out of The Digital Diaries site you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a "session" cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to The Digital Diaries site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.

Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit The Digital Diaries web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave The Digital Diaries. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information may be used to analyze overall trends to help us improve The Digital Diaries service, but is not linked to personally identifiable information in any way.

Children

In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly provide access to The Digital Diaries to persons under the age of thirteen (13). If The Digital Diaries later learns that a member is under the age of thirteen (13) we will take appropriate steps to remove the member's information from the database and restrict the individual from future access to the The Digital Diaries service.

USE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Our Services and Website

We use your personal information to provide you any services that you may request or require, to communicate with you and to allow you to participate in online polls or surveys. We use aggregated non-personal information about our users to understand our website's demographics, such as the percentage of male and female users, the geographic distribution of our users, the age ranges of our users, a combination of these or other demographics. We may also use the personal or non-personal information we collect to analyze how our website is being used, and to improve the content of our website, and marketing and promotional efforts.

Email Communications

If you send us an email with questions or comments, we may use your personal information to respond to your questions or comments, and we may save your questions or comments for future reference. However, aside from our reply to such an email, it is not our standard practice to send you email unless you request a particular service that involves email communications.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

Aggregate Information

Except as specifically set forth in this Policy, we do not share your personal information with any non-affiliated third party without your permission. We may disclose aggregate information derived from personal information, such as demographic information, and our statistical analyses to third parties, including advertisers or other business partners. This aggregate information does not include your personal information.

Service Providers

We sometimes engage unaffiliated businesses to assist us in providing you certain services. For example, we may use third parties to provide advertising, marketing and promotional assistance, provide email services, or facilitate our online services. In those instances, we may need to share your personal information with them. We will not send you email unless you have opted-in. Additionally, you may opt-out at any time. We require these companies to use your personal information only to provide the particular product or service and do not authorize them to use your personal information for any other reason.

Business Transactions Involving The Digital Diaries

As THEDIGITALDIARIES.COM continues to develop, we may buy, sell or combine with other businesses. If so, personal and non-personal information that we or other businesses have collected will likely be transferred as part of the transaction. If we sell a business, we will attempt to ensure that requests made of us regarding email communications will be honored.

Third Party Advertisers

We use third-party advertising companies to deliver specific advertisements to you, which appear on pages throughout our website. These companies collect non-personal information about your visits to our website and other websites in order to provide advertisements about products and services that may be of interest to you. These companies may also aggregate your non-personal information for use in targeted advertising, marketing research, and other similar purposes. These companies may place their own cookies on your computer. If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting and using this information, you may visit each third party advertiser's website directly and opt-out.

Other Disclosures

We may disclose personal information when we are required or requested to do so by law, court order or other government or law enforcement authority or regulatory agency; to enforce or apply our rights and agreements; or when we believe in good faith that disclosing this information is necessary or advisable, including, for example, to protect the rights, property, or safety of THEDIGITALDIARIES.COM, our users, or others.

LINKS

Our website may contain links to other websites. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors or other websites to which we provide links from our website. You should check the applicable privacy policy of the website sponsor when clicking through to other websites.

ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Any questions you may have regarding this Policy, the accuracy of your personal information or the use of your personal information, or any requests that we correct, update, or remove your information in our databases, should be directed via email to info@thedigitaldiaries.com.

After receiving a request to change your information, we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that all of your personal information stored in databases we actively use to operate our website will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as reasonably practicable. However, we reserve the right to retain in our archival files any information we remove from or change in our active website databases. We may retain such information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our terms and conditions of use. In addition, it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us. A copy of your personal information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate.

This Policy is effective as of August 1, 2007. We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time, and will post any changes to this Policy as soon as they go into effect. Please refer back to this Policy on a regular basis.