Caribbean Folklore’s Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using Caribbean Folklore, located at www.caribbeanfolklore.com and its directly associated domains (collectively, "Caribbean Folklore" or "Website").
By using or accessing Caribbean Folklore, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please let us know at Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. .
The Information We Collect
When you visit Caribbean Folklore you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and certain Website use information collected by us as you interact with our Website.
When you register with Caribbean Folklore, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your gender, country of origin and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.
When you enter Caribbean Folklore, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Caribbean Folklore visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to Caribbean Folklore. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this feature, which tracks your use but is also for your convenience.
When you use Caribbean Folklore, in addition to enjoying our content offerings, as part of your Community membership you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend or other network list.
You post or share content on the Website at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users and Community Members with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that content that you share on Caribbean Folklore will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on Caribbean Folklore. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of content that you share may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users of Caribbean Folklore have copied or stored content shared by you.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on Caribbean Folklore is a violation of the Caribbean Folklore Community Guidelines and should be reported to us at Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. . You can also use the on-line reporting facility provided on the first page of your user profile.
If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email in your name inviting him or her to visit Caribbean Folklore, and may send up to two reminders to them. Caribbean Folklore stores this information to send invitations and reminders, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, to allow you to see invitations you have sent, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. to request that we remove this information from our database.
By using Caribbean Folklore, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Children Under Age 13
Caribbean Folklore does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for Caribbean Folklore or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on Caribbean Folklore. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please let us know at Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. .
Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18
We recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
Use of Information Obtained by Caribbean Folklore
When you register with Caribbean Folklore, you create your own profile and have options with respect to privacy settings. Your profile information is displayed to people logged on to Caribbean Folklore, and information elected to be private will be displayed to those groups that might be specified in your privacy settings. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by Caribbean Folklore that we think you may find valuable.
Profile information that you submit to Caribbean Folklore will be available to users of Caribbean Folklore who belong to at least one of the groups you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., friend, country of origin). Certain information designated as public will be available in search results across the Caribbean Folklore network and those limited pieces of information may be captured by third party search engines and made available to others using such search engines to locate you. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they are logged on to the Caribbean Folklore network, and have a relationship to you that allows such access based on your privacy settings.
Caribbean Folklore may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message, you may receive an email or instant message alerting you to that fact. Generally, you may modify the settings on your profile page to disable the on-line communications facility, but Caribbean Folklore reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you choose by such conduct not to receive notifications.
Caribbean Folklore may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in the Caribbean Folklore network or various groups within the network like something such as a particular activity or product and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you Caribbean Folklore. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you. However, please note again that the information used is aggregated and so we never reveal who you are as an individual to any advertiser.
Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
Caribbean Folklore is about us sharing information with you, and you sharing information with others, while providing you with privacy settings that limit access to information you designate private. We allow you to be aware of what information you choose to provide to others through Caribbean Folklore. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. Caribbean Folklore limits access to site information by third party search engine "crawlers" in order to protect your privacy. Caribbean Folklore takes action to block access by these engines to personal and other profile information, which is available only to other Community Members and depending also on your privacy settings. We would not and do not provide individual contact information to third party marketers without your express permission. We share your information with third parties only in certain limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:
- We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about Caribbean Folklore, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the Caribbean Folklore-specified purposes.
- We may occasionally provide demonstrations and demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the Caribbean Folklore network. Such demonstrations and accounts have only limited access and capabilities and reasonable steps are taken to limit possible misuse.
- We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Caribbean Folklore service or using the Caribbean Folklore name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
- We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on Caribbean Folklore. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on Caribbean Folklore, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.
- If the ownership of all or substantially all of the Caribbean Folklore business, or individual business units owned by Caribbean Folklore were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
When you use Caribbean Folklore, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in a group with you), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, or other items, this information may become publicly available.
Links
Caribbean Folklore may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Caribbean Folklore.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on Caribbean Folklore are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. Caribbean Folklore does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. However, third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on Caribbean Folklore unless you choose to share it with them.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Caribbean Folklore and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on Caribbean Folklore is readily available through the profile editing tools. Caribbean Folklore users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Caribbean Folklore account may do so. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of Caribbean Folklore.
Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on Caribbean Folklore, however (e.g., sending a personal message to another Caribbean Folklore user), you generally cannot remove such communications.
Security
Caribbean Folklore takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Even if you log in to Caribbean Network from a public facility, your password will be encrypted because our security is based on encryption that resides with the site. However, because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services, which will not be necessary. For example, password re-sets and other trouble shoots are all subject to secure communications once they occur on our site and based on our process, but we cannot control aspects of how an e-mail from you to us might be intercepted. Additionally, please note at no time will we issue an e-mail request to you for information that is private; please report all such occurrences to us at Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. . If you have any questions about the security of the Caribbean Folklore Web Site, please let us know at Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. .
Community Guidelines, Notices and Revisions
Your use of Caribbean Folklore, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Community Guidelines and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Community Guidelines at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Contacting the Web Site
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