Your privacy is VERY important to us.
Slinky is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website. We have adopted the following practices in order to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information to the best of our ability. We will notify all registered users via email of any change to this Privacy Statement, unless you have opted-out of receiving email from us. From time to time, changes to this Privacy Statement will also be communicated on this site.
1. Information gathered automatically from visitors.
Automatic Information is data that we collect that does not disclose any personal information about you. This includes your IP address, browser type, and browser settings. We use your IP address (the numeric code that identifies your individual computer) to avoid fraudulent registrations and to help us maintain our site and identify problems with our server. Your IP address does not disclose any personally revealing information about you. Information that we may obtain regarding your browser and browser settings is to ensure that our site's technical features are available to you. The specific information we collect is not rented, sold, or shared with any third party without your explicit consent and is only ever disclosed in situations where required by law. We use cookies to identify traffic that comes through advertising and to improve user experience. Cookies are small pieces of information that a website places on your computer's hard drive to enable the website to recognize you and to save you the trouble of re-entering some basic information when you revisit. The use of cookies is a very common practice on the Internet. If you are uncomfortable with this, you can disable all cookies through your browser settings. Your ability to use our site will not be affected if you have set your browser to reject cookies.
2. Information requested from visitors.
When you register to use any Slinky Services you will be asked for some general identifying information which will enable us to provide you with this individualized service. We gather contact information (like your email address) and demographic information (like your city of residence, gender or age). We may share some of this information with our professional advisors, consultants and third party associates. If you choose to buy credits, we collect financial information (like your credit card number and expiry date and /or caller id from your telephone). We will only use this information in the course of providing our Services to you, and will not under any circumstances share such information with outside parties. During the registration process, you will be asked to create a Profile. The Profile consists of personal but non-identifying information (i.e. your civil status, height, body type, ethnicity, religion, personal habits, etc). Once you are a registered member of the site, you will have the option of adding further text, photos and a voice recording. This information, collectively known within the site as your Profile, is not linked to your personal identification in any way that can be seen by other users of the site. You cannot include personally identifying information in the portions of your profile that you type yourself.
3. Public and Private information.
Private information is information that can personally identify you such as your real name, email address or credit card number. When you register to use any Slinky service, you will be asked for some general identifying information to enable us to provide you with this individualized service. We gather contact information (such as your email address) and, if you choose to purchase credits, financial information (such as your credit card number and expiry date). This information is gathered and processed through a third-party billing site, and encrypted via a secure server to ensure that others cannot read it. You will know you are in secure mode when the tiny padlock icon - located at the bottom right of your browser - appears locked. We will only use this information in the course of providing our Services to you. The specific information we collect is not rented, sold, or shared with any third party, except to the financial institution that processes your transaction or where required by law. Public information will be available for registered members to view. This includes your demographic information such as gender, age, appearance, religion, occupation, and geographical location.
4. Use of and access to member information.
By agreeing to this policy, you give us your tacit permission to send you notifications of emails you receive from other members on the site. We may send you the occasional promotional sms advertising some of our other services, but never those of another company. With your permission, we may use your contact information to send you relevant photos and profiles, updates, timely notices of changes to the site, and promotions. Our site provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving different types of communications from us by changing the settings on the page entitled - Edit My Profile. If you do not opt-out of receiving such notices, they will be sent to you automatically, at our discretion, and in accordance with the demographic information and user preferences indicated in your profile registration. Your general demographic information is used to personalize your experience on the site; to compose your personal profile, which is associated with an identity you have created; to allow other members to find you through a search; and to deliver targeted advertising and promotional offers to you if you choose to receive them. In the event that you decide to purchase credits, you will be asked for your financial information (such as a credit card number) which cannot be read by others when you initiate your order through a secured system. The personally identifiable information we collect from you is used for internet review and to improve the content and functionality of our web server or customize the layout of our pages for each individual member. The specific information we collect is not shared with other organizations and we will never release your personally identifiable information to an external organization without your prior consent except for the purposes of validating credit information and collecting debts, or unless we reasonably believe we are required to do so by operation of law.
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