No Short Cutz's Privacy Policy

No Short Cutz's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using No Short Cutz, located at www.NoShortCutz.com and its directly associated domains (collectively, "No Short Cutz" or "Website")

By using or accessing No Short Cutz, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

The Information We Collect

When you visit No Short Cutz you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.

When you register with No Short Cutz, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, schools attended and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

When you enter No Short Cutz, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all No Short Cutz visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to No Short Cutz. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.

When you use No Short Cutz, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.

You post User Content (as defined in the No Short Cutz Terms of Service) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on No Short Cutz is a violation of the No Short Cutz Terms of Service and should be reported to No Short Cutz.

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the site, and may send up to two reminders to them.

No Short Cutz may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the No Short Cutz service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.

By using No Short Cutz, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Children Under Age 13

No Short Cutz does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for No Short Cutz or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on No Short Cutz. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.

Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

We recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

Use of Information Obtained by No Short Cutz

When you register with No Short Cutz, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on No Short Cutz. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by No Short Cutz that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by No Short Cutz primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it, other No Short Cutz users may be able to supplement your profile.

Profile information you submit to No Short Cutz will be available to users of No Short Cutz you allow to access the information through your privacy settings. Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the No Short Cutz network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request.

No Short Cutz may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.

Generally, you may opt out of such emails, though No Short Cutz reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.

No Short Cutz may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a group like an exercise device or diet and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you No Short Cutz. We believe this benefits you.

We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, No Short Cutz platform developers and other users of No Short Cutz, to supplement your profile. Where such information is used, we generally allow you to specify in your privacy settings that you do not want this to be done or to take other actions that limit the connection of this information to your profile (e.g., removing photo tag links).

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

No Short Cutz is about sharing information with others, while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to friends and groups through No Short Cutz. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:

• We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about No Short Cutz, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the No Short Cutz-specified purposes.

• We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the No Short Cutz service or using the No Short Cutz name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.

• We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through on-site offers.

• Like many other websites that interact with third party sites, we may receive some information even if you are logged out from No Short Cutz, or that pertains to non-No Short Cutz users, from those sites in conjunction with the technical operation of the system. In cases where No Short Cutz receives information on users that are not logged in, or on non-No Short Cutz users, we do not attempt to associate it with individual No Short Cutz accounts and will discard it.

• If the ownership of all or substantially all of the No Short Cutz business, or individual business units owned by No Short Cutz, Inc., were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

When you use No Short Cutz, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, or other items , this information may become publicly available.

Links

No Short Cutz may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by No Short Cutz.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on No Short Cutz are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. No Short Cutz does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on No Short Cutz unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by No Short Cutz and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on No Short Cutz is readily available through the profile editing tools. No Short Cutz users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their No Short Cutz account may do so by contacting the No Short Cutz administrator. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of No Short Cutz.

Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on No Short Cutz, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another No Short Cutz user) you generally cannot remove such communications.

Security

No Short Cutz takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of No Short Cutz Web Site, please contact us.

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

Your use of No Short Cutz, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Service and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service at any time. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

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