RidesAndChicks.com, Inc. ("RidesAndChicks.com", "we", "us", or "our") takes
the private nature of your personal information very seriously. This policy
regarding our privacy practices (the "Privacy Policy") describes how we treat
the information we collect when you visit and use the website available at
RidesAndChicks.com (the "Site") and/or RidesAndChicks.com's other domains,
products, services, and/or content (collectively with the Site, the "Services").
When you use the Services, you are consenting to the collection, transfer,
manipulation, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information as
described in this Privacy Policy; please read it carefully.
Also: This Privacy Policy doesn't govern what our users do on their own blogs
and we aren't responsible for the information collection and use practices of
our individual blogs and bloggers. One of the great features of
RidesAndChicks.com's products is customizability, and bloggers have a lot of
flexibility in how their blogs behave. When you visit a blog in our network,
that blog may collect more information than we do, and may provide information
to third parties that we have no relationship with, including to advertisers.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of information gathered when you are
using or accessing the Services. This Privacy Policy also covers our treatment
of any information that our partners share with us or that we share with our
partners.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do
not own or control, including but not limited to any third party websites,
services and applications ("Third Party Services") that you elect to access
through the Service or to individuals that we don't manage or employ. While we
try to facilitate access only to those Third Party Services that share our
respect for your privacy, we don't take responsibility for the content or
privacy policies of those Third Party Services. We encourage you to carefully
review the privacy policies of all Third Party Services you access.
What Information We Collect and How We Use It
Account Information: When you create an account on a RidesAndChicks.com Service
(an "Account"), you will provide information such as your username, password,
and email address. You may also be required to provide us with your birthdate,
which we use to verify your age and may use to personalize the Services for you
(e.g., by presenting you with content relevant to your age group). This
information may personally identify you. For example, if you use your full name
as your username, you are disclosing your identity to the public. We also allow
users to look for their friends by e-mail address; you can, however, opt out of
this feature through your Account Settings page, and we do not expose your
e-mail address to the public or third parties, except in the limited
circumstances set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Email Communications with Us: As part of the Services, you may occasionally
receive email and other communications from us, such as administrative
communications relating to your Account (e.g., for purposes of Account recovery
or password reset). These communications are considered part of the Services and
your Account, which you may not be able to opt-out from receiving. You can
opt-out of most communications from RidesAndChicks.com, such as new follower
emails; please see your Account Settings page. Note that we will never email you
to ask for your password or other Account information; if you receive such an
email, forward it to us.
Information about Your Accounts on Third Party Services: You can link your
Account to certain Third Party Services. In order to do so, you will provide us
with your username or other user ID on each of those Third Party Services. You
may also be required to engage in an authorization process with each of those
Third Party Services, where we receive a token that allows us to access those
accounts so that we can, for example, when you choose, post your
RidesAndChicks.com content, or links to your RidesAndChicks.com content, to
those services. We do not receive or store your passwords for your Third Party
Service accounts.
Information Obtained from Third Party Services: In some cases, when you connect
your Account with your accounts on Third Party Services, we may obtain
information about you from those Third Party Services. Such information could
include, for example, your gender, if you have disclosed that information to
that third party and made it available for RidesAndChicks.com to access. To the
extent we obtain such information, we may use the information about you that we
receive from Third Party Services to improve and personalize the Services. As a
general practice, we strongly urge you to make careful judgments about any
personal information you disclose to Internet services, including
RidesAndChicks.com and linked Third Party Services, regardless of whether you
choose to link your accounts together.
User Content: By default, all sharing through the Services is public, and when
you provide us with content it is published so that anyone can view it. Although
we do provide tools, like password-protected blogs, that let you publish content
privately, you should assume that anything you publish is publicly accessible
unless you have explicitly selected otherwise. Content published and shared
publicly is accessible to everyone, including search engines, and you may lose
any privacy rights you might have regarding that content. In addition,
information shared publicly may be copied and shared throughout the Internet,
including through features native to the Services, such as "Reblogging." While
you are free to remove published pieces of content from or delete your Account,
because of the nature of Internet sharing, the strong possibility of Reblogging
of your content by others, and technological limitations inherent to the
Services, copies of that content may exist elsewhere and be retained
indefinitely, including in our systems.
Information About User Content: In some cases, we may collect information about
content you provide to the Services. For example, when it's included with your
images, we may collect information describing your camera and camera settings.
This information allows us to improve the Services and provide additional
features and functionality.
Financial Information: We will sometimes collect financial information, such as
information related to your payment method (valid credit card number, type,
expiration date or other financial information), for example when you decide to
purchase a paid Service. We do not, however, store that financial information;
such information is stored by our third party payment processor (the "Payment
Processor"), and use and storage of that information is governed by the Payment
ProcessorÃs applicable terms of service and privacy policy (the Payment
Processor may also have other terms, and you are responsible for locating and
familiarizing yourself with those terms, as applicable). We do receive certain
information from our Payment Processor: (1) a unique token that we connect with
your Account to enable you to make further purchases using the information
stored by our Payment Processor and (2) in certain cases, the last four digits
of the credit card number associated with that token, so that we can prevent
fraudulent transactions and identity theft.
Information Related to Use of the Services: We collect information about how
people use the Services, including those with an Account. This information
includes general usage information, and may include information such as the
number and frequency of our visitors, which pages or features of the Services
they have visited, which links on the Services they have clicked on, and the
length of those visits. We may also use third party applications and services,
such as Google Analytics and Quantcast, to collect and analyze this information.
This information enables us and third parties authorized by us to figure out how
often individuals use the Services so that we can analyze and improve them. Some
of this information may be associated with the IP Address (as defined below)
used to access the Services, and some may be associated with your Account, such
as the topics you search for and the help pages that you visit. We may also use
some of this information in aggregate form, that is, as a statistical measure
related to all of our users that would not identify you personally. We use
information about your use of the Services to improve and enhance your
experience on the Services.
Information Related to Your Web Browser: We automatically receive and record
information from your web browser when you interact with the Services, such as
your browser type and version, what sort of device you are using, your operating
system and version, your language preference, the website or service that
referred you to the Services, the date and time of each web request you make,
your screen display information, and information from any cookies we have placed
on your web browser (as described below). We also sometimes detect whether you
are using certain web browser extensions and store that information in a manner
associated with your Account. Web browser-related information is used to enhance
your experience with the Services (for example, by personalization) and to allow
us to improve the Services; it is not, however, used in a manner that would
identify you personally.
IP Address Information: Under certain circumstances, such as when you log into
the Services, load a web page from the Services, or send an "Ask" message
anonymously, we may collect and store your Internet Protocol Address ("IP
Address"). We generally use IP Address information to fight spam, malware, and
identity theft; we also may use it, in the future, to personalize the Services
for you. IP Address information is also used by us to generate aggregate,
non-identifying, information about use of the Services.
Location Information: In some cases we collect and store information about where
you are located, such as by converting your IP Address into a rough geolocation.
We may use location information to improve and personalize the Services for you.
Information Related to Your Mobile Device: We may collect and store information
related to your mobile device, such as your phone number. You will have a choice
as to whether we collect and store this information. We may use this information
to improve the Services, such as by allowing you to verify your account by text
message.
Information Collected Using Cookies: Cookies are pieces of text that may be sent
to and saved by your web browser when you access a website; your web browser
stores these cookies in a way associated with each website you visit, and you
can see your cookies through your browser settings. We use cookies to enable our
servers to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you use the
Services. Our cookies do not, by themselves, contain information that personally
identifies you, and we don't combine the general information collected through
cookies with other such information to tell us who you are. However, we do use
cookies to identify that you have logged in and that your web browser has
accessed aspects of the Services, and we may associate that information with
your Account if you have one. This information, in turn, is sometimes used to
personalize your experiences on the Services, such as by presenting you with a
different iFrame (allowing you to follow a blog) when you are logged in and
visit a blog hosted by RidesAndChicks.com. Most web browsers have an option for
turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting
new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your web browser
software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety
of ways. If you disable cookies, you won't be able to log into your Account, and
so will not be able to use the vast majority of our Services; as such, we don't
recommend disabling your cookies when using the Services. Some third-party
services that we use, such as Google Analytics and Quantcast, may also place
their own cookies on your browser, and individual blogs on our network may
contain code that places their own cookies. Note that this Privacy Policy covers
our use of cookies only and does not cover the use of cookies by third parties.
Information About Your Contacts: Certain features of the Services allow you to
provide us with your contact lists stored on other services, so that we can
connect you with people in our Services that are also on those contact lists.
For example, you can temporarily connect your e-mail contact information to your
RidesAndChicks.com.com account, so that we can provide you with a list of your
e-mail contacts that use RidesAndChicks.com.com. As another example, you can
send us your mobile phone contact e-mails through our mobile applications, which
then allows us to provide you with a list of those contacts that use
RidesAndChicks.com.com. We will give you an explicit choice as to whether or not
you provide us such information, and we will disclose fully, within the
appropriate feature, how we use, and whether we will store, that information.
Derived Information: We analyze your actions on the Services in order to derive
or infer characteristics that may be descriptive of you (for example, what kinds
of blogs you like to follow). These characteristics are used to improve and
personalize the Services.
Email Tracking: We may place information in our emails to you (such as a web
beacon) that allows us to measure our email deliverability.
With Whom Your Information Is Shared
We never share information we receive from you unless: (a) we have your
permission to share that information; (b) we have given you prior notice that
the information will be shared, and with whom; or (c) that information is
aggregate information or other information that does not identify you.
Information Shared with the Public Through the Services: As noted above, by
default, content published through the Services is shared with the public, and
this is an important feature of the Services. Such information includes, but
isn't limited to, anything you choose to post on or submit to a public blog,
including "About" information that may describe you and anything apparent in a
posted photograph. Because this kind of information can be seen by anyone and
may be indexed by search engines (like Google Search), you should be careful in
what you choose to disclose publicly and make sure it is information you want to
share with everyone.
Information Shared Between the Services: We may, if possible, aggregate
information about your use of multiple Services and use that consolidated
information to improve how the Services operate, and to develop new Services.
Information You Share with Third Party Services: You may access Third Party
Services through the Services, for example by clicking on externally-pointing
links. You may also choose to share information that you provide to us, like
blog posts, with those Third Party Services (for example, by syndicating posts
to Twitter or Facebook). This Privacy Policy only governs information we collect
and you are responsible for reading and understanding those Third Party
Services' privacy policies.
Information Shared with Our Agents in Order to Operate and Improve the Services:
In some cases, we share information that we store (such as IP Addresses) with
third parties, such as our service providers, consultants and other agents
("Agents"), for the purposes of operating and improving the Services. For
example, we may share information with service providers in order to fight spam,
and third-party consultants may have access to information in the process of
improving our processes and technology. Agents with whom we share such
information for these reasons are generally bound by confidentiality obligations
and, unless we tell you differently, our Agents do not have any right to use
Personal Information or other information we share with them beyond the scope
and duration of what is necessary to assist us. You hereby consent to our
sharing of Personal Information with our Agents.
Information Shared with Third Parties: We may share or disclose non-private
information, Aggregate Information, or other non-Personal Information with
people and entities that we do business with.
Information Disclosed Pursuant to Business Transfers: In some cases, we may
choose to buy or sell business assets. In these transactions, user information
is typically one of the transferred business assets. Moreover, if we, or
substantially all of our assets, were acquired, or if we go out of business or
enter bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is
transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers
may occur, and that any acquirer of us or our assets may continue to use your
Personal Information as set forth in this policy.
Information Disclosed for Our Protection and the Protection of Others: We
believe in freedom of expression, and, to the extent reasonable, we try to
protect our community from baseless legal demands. That said, we also reserve
the right to access, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably
believe is necessary, in our sole discretion, to (i) satisfy any law,
regulation, legal process, governmental request, or governmental order, (ii)
enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service, including investigation of
potential violations hereof, (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud,
security or technical issues (including exchanging information with other
companies and organizations for fraud protection and spam/malware prevention),
(iv) respond to user support requests, or (v) protect the rights, property,
health or safety of us, our users, any third parties or the public in general,
including but not limited to situations involving possible violence, suicide, or
self-harm.
Information We Share with Your Consent or at Your Request: If you ask us to
release information that we have about your Account, we will do so if reasonable
and not unduly burdensome.
The Security of Your Information
Your Account information is protected by a password for your privacy and
security. You need to prevent unauthorized access to your Account and Personal
Information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting
access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished
accessing your Account on the Services.
We seek to protect your information (including your Account information) to
ensure that it is kept private; however, we can't guarantee the security of any
information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other
factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.
What Information You Can Access
If you are a registered user, you can access and delete most information
associated with your Account by logging into the Services and checking your
Account Settings page. Registered and unregistered users can access and delete
cookies through their web browser settings.
Your California Privacy Rights: Under California Civil Code sections
1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us for a notice
identifying the categories of personal customer information that we share with
our affiliates and/or third parties for marketing purposes, and providing
contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties. If you are a
California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a
written request to the following address: 35 West 221st Street, 13th Floor, New
York NY 10011.
How to Delete Your Account and What Happens When You Delete Your Account
If you want to delete your Account, you can do so from your Preferences page or
by emailing us and providing proof of authority over the Account. What
constitutes "proof of authority" will vary depending on the circumstances, but
generally will require sufficient identifying information so that we can be
confident you are the Account owner. Deleting your Account may not fully remove
the content you have published from our systems, as caching of, backups of,
copies of, or references to your Account information may not be immediately
removed. In addition, given the nature of sharing on the Services, some of the
public activity on your Account prior to deletion (such as Reblogs of your blog
posts) may remain stored on our servers and accessible to the public.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, using the process for
modifications set forth in our Terms of Service. Use of information we collect
now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is
used.
Where to Direct Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy using the Services,
please send us a detailed message.
Link to Prior Versions
You will find a link to prior versions of our Privacy Policy below. We have
stored these versions on GitHub, which will also allow you to compare different
versions and see what terms have changed