Privacy Policy
At HeartMyShoes.com we are committed to protecting the privacy of our users and visitors. The following Privacy Policy outlines the information we may collect and how we may use that information to better serve visitors and members of HeartMyShoes
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
1. Information We Collect
Information Submitted by a user. HeartMyShoes.com collects personal information when you register or request information from us. The personal information we collect is listed below:
- User Name
- Password
- Email Address
- Age
- Phone Number (optional on our Contact page)
- Photos
Once submitted, all photos become property of HeartMyShoes.com to be used at our discretion, and we also receive the right to use your submissions in any future advertising.
Submitted information about other people. For example, you may enter a friend's email to invite to HeartMyShoes.com, or email links to HeartMyShoes.com In this circumstance, we collect the following information about the recipient:
- Email address
Non-submitted Information collected. HeartMyShoes.com may also collect non-personal information not associated with your identity. We collect this data to improve Heart My Shoes. The non-submitted information we collect is listed below:
- IP
- Time
- Transferred Data
- Browser Information
- Operating System
- Cookies
3. How We Use Your Information
Among our primary goals in collecting information is to provide you with a customized experience when visiting our site and to make our site more valuable to you. We use this information to closely monitor which areas of the site are used most and to determine which areas we need to focus on improving. This information is used exclusively by Heart My Shoes in aggregate form so that we may continue to improve the value of the services and information on HeartMyShoes for our readers as a whole.
As a valued customer of HeartMyShoes.com we will occasionally contact you, typically by e-mail in order to notify you of special events, and up-to-date news, special discounts, sales and promotions. Of course, if you do not wish to receive this personalized information, you can remove yourself from receiving such information by changing the appropriate option on your user account.
HeartMyShoes.com uses your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer our web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you, and to gather broad demographic data. Your IP address contains no personal information about you.
Please note: Once you've logged into our servers, we use cookies to keep track of your application states and log in status. Cookies are small files that take up minimal room on your computer and cannot, by itself, damage your computer's files. Cookies work by assigning a number to a user that has no meaning outside of the assigning web site, in this case, Heart My Shoes. If you do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, your browser allows you to deny or accept the use of cookies. There may, however, be some features on HeartMyShoes which requires the use of cookies in order to customize the delivery of information and content to you.
Except as described above, we will not monitor, edit or disclose any personal information about you or your account, without your prior consent unless we have a belief that such action is necessary to: (i) comply with legal process or other legal requirements of any governmental authority; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of HeartMyShoes.com (iii) enforce our Terms of Service; (iv) protect the interests of users of our services other than you or any other person; or (v) operate or conduct maintenance and repair of HeartMyShoes.com's services or equipment as authorized by law.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
HeartMyShoes.com does not sell or rent personal information about its customers to any third parties. In the event HeartMyShoes.com does engage in such commerce in the future, you will have an opportunity to remove yourself from any such lists prior to your inclusion therein by changing the appropriate option on your user account. HeartMyShoes.com does, however, perform statistical analysis of customer usage in order to measure interest in, and use of, the various parts of HeartMyShoes.com shares that information with current and prospective advertisers, and other interested third parties. But, this information is aggregated data only (statistics, etc.), and contains no personally identifiable information whatsoever.
HeartMyShoes.com cooperates with all law enforcement inquires and with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights.
You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal information in comment areas or on the bulletin board within HeartMyShoes.com, that information might be collected and disseminated by third-parties, and result in, among other things, unsolicited inquiries, messages, and offers from third-parties. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and this third-party conduct is out of the control of HeartMyShoes.com Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
HeartMyShoes.com also contains links to other web sites. HeartMyShoes.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
5. Security
The personally identifiable information we collect is securely stored within our database, and we use standard, industry-wide practices such as encryption and firewalls for protecting your information. However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. We recommend that you not disclose your password to anyone.
6. Revisions and Amendments
This Privacy Policy is effective as of November 20th, 2008. This Privacy Policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. HeartMyShoes.com reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, modify, change or update this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update or modification on www.HeartMyShoes.com. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on HeartMyShoes.com
Please let us know of any questions or concerns via email at heartmyshoes@gmail.com
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