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TelechaT Privacy Policy
At the TelechaT Network Inc, we are committed to protecting your personal
information and answering all of your concerns. Our privacy policy applies to
transactions, activities and data gathered on any TelechaT Network Web Site or
with use of our TeleChatter Messenger. It does not apply to any other Website
or any offline point of contact between any other company or any of our
members. This privacy policy was created on March 26, 2005 and should be
reviewed for changes periodically. Each time you use a TelechaT Network Service
or provide us with information, in doing so you are accepting the practices
described in this privacy policy at that time.
IP Addresses
Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically
collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. We do this in
order to administer and optimize the Site for you as well as to diagnose
problems with our Site.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases and
other activity on the Site in order to enhance your experience with us. We may
use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your
password or other information, if you choose, so you do not have to reenter it
each time you visit the Site. If you wish to disable these cookies, the
"help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how.
However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to
access certain areas on the Site.
Personal information Provided by You
In order to operate the Site we may collect "personal information"
(i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly (without using the
Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address),
"financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords) or
"demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit, or that
we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial information;
this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown,
gender, username, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing
history information, searching history information, registration history
information, and the content of communications between you and other members
over the Site), subject to the rest of this paragraph. We ask that you do not
enter personal information or financial information into your
“Profile” (for example, don’t use your address or pass code
as your username, or include your name or address in your written responses),
because if you do then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and the
information will then be treated as "demographic information" that is
"public information." Please note that nowhere on the Site do we
knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18, as we
require that all users represent to us that they are at least 18 years old.
How We Use Personal Information
We may use your email address and your
other personal information to help us
efficiently operate the Site, to contact
you in connection with your transactions
and other activities on the Site (including
confirmation emails or important news
that could affect your account with TelechaT.com).
These types of communications may also
contain commercial messages, such as banner
ads or special promotions.
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial information to check
your qualifications, to bill you for products
and services and to enable you to participate
in discount, rebate and similar programs
in which you may elect to participate.
By making a purchase, or engaging in any
other kind of activity or transaction
that uses financial information, on the
Site, you consent to our providing your
financial information to our service providers
and to such third parties as we determine
are necessary to support and process your
activities and transactions, as well as
to your credit card issuer for their purposes.
These third parties may include the credit
card companies and banking institutions
used to process and support the transaction
or activity. By purchasing a subscription
offered on the Site that are administered
by third parties and that require you
to submit financial information in order
to use them, you also consent to our providing
your financial information to those third
parties.
Our Security Precautions
The Site has taken security measures to
protect against the loss, misuse and alteration
of the information under our control.
Our secure server software (SSL) is the
industry standard and among the best software
available today for secure commerce transactions.
We encrypt all of your personal and financial
information and we store your financial
information on our in encrypted form.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us at
customersupport@telechatnetwork.com.
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