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.
Do you have any Questions or would you like to make a
Suggestion?
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us
at: 2080 Appleby Line, Burlington, Ontario L7L 6Y2