Privacy Statement



YouGotPaged takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.


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What This Privacy Policy Covers


  • This policy covers how YouGotPaged treats personal information that YouGotPaged collects and receives, including information related to your past use of YouGotPaged products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
  • This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that YouGotPaged does not own or control, or to people that YouGotPaged does not employ or manage.


Information Collection and Use



General


  • YouGotPaged collects personal information when you register with us, when you use YouGotPaged products or services, when you visit YouGotPaged pages or the pages of certain YouGotPaged partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. YouGotPaged may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.


  • When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, and possibly other information such as age for the mature URL section, and zip, gender, and other when you enter a promotion and contest. If we charge for a service, we will ask you for your billing address, credit card information and possibly other questions required by the billing service. Once you register with YouGotPaged and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.


  • YouGotPaged collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of products and services that we offer.


  • YouGotPaged automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, YouGotPaged cookie information, and the page you request.


  • YouGotPaged 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.


Information Sharing and Disclosure



  • YouGotPaged 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:
    • We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with YouGotPaged under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help YouGotPaged communicate with you about offers from YouGotPaged and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.


    • 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 YouGotPaged to collect and use their child's information without consenting to YouGotPaged sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;


    • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;


    • 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 YouGotPaged's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.


    • We transfer information about you if YouGotPaged is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, YouGotPaged will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
  • YouGotPaged 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.


    • YouGotPaged 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.


    • YouGotPaged 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).


  • YouGotPaged works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you've requested please Contact us for a list.


Cookies


  • YouGotPaged may set and access YouGotPaged cookies on your computer.


Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences



General


  • You can edit your YouGotPaged Account Information.
  • 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.
  • We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the YouGotPaged service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the YouGotPaged Newsletter, that are considered part of your YouGotPaged account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.


Confidentiality and Security


  • 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.
  • We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
  • To learn more about security, including the security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please Contact us .


Changes to this Privacy Policy


  • YouGotPaged 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 email address specified in your YouGotPaged account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.


Questions and Suggestions


  • If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form or you can contact us at:


YouGotPaged  
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues 
support@yougotpaged.com

 
Effective Date: November 6, 2006