Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for The Single Girls' Guide to Great Shopping

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

The privacy of the visitors to The Single Girls' Guide to Great Shopping is important to us. The following is information on the types of personal information we receive and collect when you visit our site, and how we safeguard your information. We will never sell or rent your personal information to any third party. Period.

Children Under the Age of 13

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information from persons under 13 years of age, and our website is not directed to persons under 13. Children under 13 years of age are not eligible for contests or giveaways on our site. If we learn that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on The Single Girls' Guide without verified parental consent, we will delete the information.

Information We Collect

1. Information Submitted by a User

The Single Girls' Guide does not require registration to use the site. However, the site does collect personal information when you post a comment or enter a giveaway or contest. That information may include: Name or alias, email address, IP address, and in the case of contest winners, mailing address. If you subscribe to The Single Girls' Guide by email, your email address will be recorded by the Feedburner service.

2. Non-submitted Information Collected

The Single Girls' Guide may also collect non-personally identifying information not associated with your identity to improve the site. This information may includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), your country, city, or state, the browser you used to visit, the time you visited, and which pages you viewed while visiting.

3. Cookies and Web Beacons

We do not use cookies to store information about visitors to our site. However, we do use third party advertisements to support the site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send the advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, or whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for targeting purposes to help show appropriate ads to you, the visitor.You can choose to disable or selectively turn off cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this may affect how you are able to interact with various websites. For example, entirely blocking cookies can cause the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

How We Use Your Information

The Single Girls' Guide uses your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose problems with our computer server, and to administer our web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you, and to gather broad demographic data. Your IP address contains no personally identifying information. For example, it does not include your name, email, or mailing address.We will not disclose any personal information without your prior consent, unless we have a belief that such action is necessary to: (i) comply with legal process or other legal requirements of any governmental authority; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of The Single Girls' Guide; (iii) protect the interests of users of our services other than you or any other person; or (iv) operate or conduct maintenance and repair of our services or equipment as authorized by law.

We do not sell or rent personal information about users to any third parties. Period. If you voluntarily disclose personal information in comments, that information might be collected and disseminated by third parties, and result in, among other things, unsolicited inquiries, messages, and offers from third parties. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.The Single Girls' Guide also contains links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those web sites.

Security

The personally identifying information we collect is securely stored within our database, and we use industry-wide practices for protecting your personal information. However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

Revisions and Amendments

If you have further privacy concerns please do not hesitate to ask us by emailing contact@singlegirlsshoppingguide.com. This Privacy Policy is effective as of August 12, 2008. This Privacy Policy is not intended to, and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or obligations on behalf of any party. The Single Girls' Guide to Shopping reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, modify, change or update this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update or modification on the sites. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting.