Animal Chat takes your privacy seriously.
Our default privacy setting for members is "Friends Only" which means anything you add to your Animal Chat Profile is only available to people you select as friends. If you want your profile to be available to all members of the website, you will have to change the settings yourself from the privacy section of your profile.
Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy. Also note that your use of Animal Chat, along with disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use. A copy of the member code of conduct can be found here.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how Animal Chat treats information that Animal Chat collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Animal Chat products and services. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Animal Chat does not own or control (including, but not limited to, advertisers), or to people that Animal Chat does not employ or pay.
Information Collection and Use
Animal Chat collects information when you register with Animal Chat , when you use Animal Chat products or services, and when you visit Animal Chat pages or the pages of certain Animal Chat partners. Animal Chat may collect information about you and your use of the website that is both personal and non-personal. For purposes of this policy, "personal information" is information about you that can be used to personally identify you, such as your name, address, and/or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. "Non-personal" information is everything else.
When you register to use Animal Chat we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, etc. Once you register with Animal Chat and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Animal Chat may also collect information about your transactions with us and your transactions with our business affiliates and advertisers, including information about your use of products offered through the website. Animal Chat may also collect information about you from other sources, such as blogs and instant messaging services, and other users of Animal Chat services. Animal Chat automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Animal Chat cookie information, and the pages you request. Animal Chat may use some or all of your information for the following general purposes:
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Animal Chat may share with or sell to affiliates, vendors, advertisers, and other non-related third parties your non-personal information for commercial purposes. Animal Chat may also share with affiliates, vendors, advertisers, and other non-related third parties your non-personal information in order to allow Animal Chat and its affiliates, vendors, advertisers and other non-related third parties to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience. However, Animal Chat does not sell, rent or otherwise provide your personal information to any third parties without your permission, other than as specified below:
Animal Chat may share your personal and/or non-personal information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal processes, or, when necessary, to establish or exercise Animal Chat's legal rights or defend against legal claims;
Animal Chat may share your personal and/or non-personal information with appropriate authorities when Animal Chat, in its sole discretion, believes that it is necessary to share such information in order to facilitate an investigation, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or in similar situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations or suspected violations of Animal Chat's terms of use related to personal safety, or as otherwise required by law.
Notwithstanding any of the aforementioned, be aware that posting personal information on public areas of Animal Chat (via Profile, Forums, Blogs, etc.) will make your information publicly available. Do not post information in public areas that you want to keep private. Also, be aware that certain information you post or share with third parties like your friends or members of your network about yourself may be shared with other users and all such sharing of information is done at your own risk.
Links
Animal Chat is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites that may be linked to Animal Chat pages. You are solely responsible for reviewing third party privacy policy terms. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Animal Chat.
Cookies
Animal Chat may set and access Animal Chat cookies on your computer to, among other things, customise the user experience. You may realise certain losses of functionality if you turn your cookies off in your browser.
Affiliates, vendors, advertisers, and other non-related third parties displayed on Animal Chat may also contain cookies or tag your computer with cookies. Animal Chat does not control these third party cookies and, for your own benefit, you should check the privacy policy of such third parties. Third party ads displayed on Animal Chat may also include tags enabling such third parties to collect information about the user's interaction with such ads. For instance, by way of illustration and not limitation, such third party tags may record the date, time, user's geographical location based on the user's IP address, as well as the website to which the ad was delivered, the operating system which the browser was using, and so on. Note that if you choose to block some or all cookies you may not have access to certain Animal Chat features.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Animal Chat reserves the right to update and change this Privacy Policy and/or its Terms of Use at any time. All updates and changes to this Privacy Policy and/or its Terms of Use shall take effect immediately. Although Animal Chat shall announce significant changes by posting a notice prominently on the website for your convenience, you assume the responsibility of periodically reviewing this Privacy Policy and Animal Chat encourages you to refer to this Privacy Policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand the current Privacy Policy. Unless stated otherwise, the most current Privacy Policy applies.
This policy was last updated in August 2009. Please report any breach of this policy to the Administration Team.