Privacy
CMASS Media LLC. ("FlyPeoples.com") believes that communities can only truly be built through interaction and participation among community Members based on trust, privacy and freedom of expression.
Information Collection
Whether you enroll online or are just a visitor, we are very careful with what we do with your information. Collection of information is usually grouped into two categories: personally identi fiable information (PII), which is information identifiable to a specific member, and aggregate information, which is general demographic information that does not identify any individual member. FlyPeoples.com may use or disclose aggregate information for any purpose.
FlyPeoples.com collects personally identifiable information (PII) from our users at several different points on our Web site. PII includes your name, email address, home or other address (like the school you attend), or any other information that tells another person who you are.
Registration
In order to use certain services of this Web site, you must first complete the registration form and create a user name and password. During registration you are required to provide contact information (such as name and valid email address). We use this information to contact yo u about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
You must submit certain demographic information (e.g. gender, date of birth) to us; other demographic information is optional. We encourage you to submit optional information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site:
. FlyPeoples.com may also use your profile to generate aggregate reports and market research.
. Members can modify registration data associated with their account,=2 0and can control selected private information from being disclosed on their personal page.
. Notes and online chat communications are retained and are only accessible by the designated recipients, except that FlyPeoples.com personnel involved in maintenance of the system may have access to them.
. FlyPeoples.com is the sole owner of the information collected on FlyPeoples.com.
How we use our members' personal information
Our policy regarding this information is simple: FlyPeoples.com may use personally identifiable information to deliver more relevant marketing offers to you through email or on our site.
We may share your personal information with other third parties for purposes of providing you with more targeted offers and promotions, unless you have opted out of receiving third-party offers. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications and offers. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).
We use may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; those companies are prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Invite-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviti ng him or her to visit the site. FlyPeoples.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Account Alerts
If you wish to subscribe to our account alerts(s), we will use your name and email address to send alerts to you. Account alerts notify you of changes to your accounts, such as receipt of new notes, payment confirmations. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strict ly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs to create a "profile" of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
One last thing to keep in mind: Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on forums, through email, or in chat areas, that information can be collected and used by others. If you post personal information in public places, others may send you unsolicited email messages. Always be smart about the information you provide online.
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Your Member profile is password-protected so that you and only you have access to this information. In order to maintain this protection, do not give your password to anyone. Also, we recommend that, if you share your computer with other people, you sign out of your Account and close your browser window when you are done. Signing off will protect your information if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library.
We make every effort to ensure that your information is secure on our system. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to "opt-out" of having your personally identifiable information used to deliver more relevant marketing offers to you through email or on our site.
Log Files - HBX
We use a third-party website measurement service called Hitbox that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate.
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do link the information we store in cookies to personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file. We set a persistent cookie to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Both session ID and persistent cookies are encrypted to protect them from being used for any purpose except that described here.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site will be limited.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by FlyPeoples.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers, third-party content or service providers. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See "Third-Party Advertisers."
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ and our third-party advertising partner employs a software technology called clear gifs, that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which20are stored on a user.s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers. personally identifiable information.
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see "Choice and Opt-out."
Third-Party Advertisers, Service and Content Providers
Information about your visits to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal in-formation), i s used to serve ads to you. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party Revenue Science for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site. Also, certain third party service or content providers might use their own cookies, including any video content or players made available through our web pages.
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
Also remember that we authorize our third-party service or content providers to employ cookies to collect data stored in aggregate form, and these providers may use this information in perpetuity for a variety of purposes, such as keeping count of visits to this site (including any video players) or to particular video content, accumulating and reporting aggregate, statistical information, determining which features users like best, such as video content, and in connection with operating, enhancing or improving this site (including any video players, video content, and advertisemen ts on this site).
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by FlyPeoples.com. Please be aware that we, FlyPeoples.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by contacting us by telepho ne or postal mail at the contact information listed below.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Business Transitions
In the event FlyPeoples.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
