The Getting Hooked Privacy Policy - We Take Your Privacy Seriously

• This policy covers how Getting Hooked treats personal information that Getting Hooked collects and receives, including information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Getting Hooked does not own or control or to people that Getting Hooked does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

• Getting Hooked collects personal information when you register on the Getting Hooked Forums, when you visit www.gettinghooked.net pages, and when you enter Getting Hooked promotions or contests

• When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, area code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some contests we may also ask for your full name, address, phone number, age, gender, and signature. Once you register with Getting Hooked and sign on to our forums or partake in any promotions or contests, you are not anonymous to us.

• When you visit the www.gettinghooked.net website, our server may automatically receive and record information to our server logs from your browser such as; your IP address (Internet Protocol address), the identity of your Internet Service Provider, your operating system, and the time and date of your visit. This information is not linked to personally identifiable information. Getting Hooked uses this information to record statistics such as the total number of daily visitors to our web site, the pages that are requested on www.gettinghooked.net, and the busiest dates and times that the pages on our website are visited. By collecting this information we get a better understanding of user preferences so we can continually improve your online experience with us.

• Getting Hooked uses your information to customize the advertising and website content you see, improve our website and services to you, contact you, conduct research to help improve your on-line experience, and provide us with information that will help us understand what your preferences are to make our website and services more enjoyable.

Information Disclosure - We Respect Your Full Privacy

• Getting Hooked does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or other companies except under the following circumstances:

* We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

* We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Getting Hooked's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

• Getting Hooked may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers may assume that people who interact on our forums or partake in our contests, meet the targeting criteria - for example, men ages 18-32 who enjoy fishing from a particular geographic area.
• Getting Hooked does not provide any personal information about you to the advertisers when you interact on the www.gettinghooked.net forums or partake in any contests. Only general statistics about user age, gender, geographical location etc. are recorded and implied to aid us in the acquisition of advertisers.

Your Ability to Edit Your Account Information and Preferences

When you sign on to our forums, some of your personal information may be publicly available to users on our forums such as; the e-mail address you provided upon registration, your birthday, biography, geographical location, interests, occupation and instant messaging information that you provided at registration. This personal information may be edited by you at any time so that no personal information about you is available to the public. To make any changes to your Getting Hooked account, please log into your account at www.gettinghooked.net/forums, click on 'User CP' (User Control Panel) at the top left of the forums, and you will be able to edit any of your personal information to the left, such as; your signature, e-mail and password, profile and more.

Children

• Protecting the privacy of children is highly important to us. We do not intentionally solicit, collect and/or maintain personally identifiable information from users under age 13, except in our contest with a parent or legal guardian's signature. We will not keep any information about children unless we have a parent or legal guardian's signature for any promotion or contest.
• Getting Hooked does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity, promotion or contest.
• When a child under age 13 registers on the Getting Hooked Forums, we ask that he or she have a parent or legal guardian create the registration account for them.
• If you are under the age of 13, we ask that you do not submit any personal information to us and use this website only in conjunction with a parent or legal guardian. If you are a parent or guardian and your child has submitted personal information to us, please contact us at info@gettinghooked.net so that we may delete such information from our records.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Getting Hooked may update this policy or make important changes at any time without notice. It is up to you to check our privacy policy on a regular basis to keep informed on our privacy policy. We may choose to notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Getting Hooked account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

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