Please read this Privacy Policy (collectively with Feminine Collective’s General Terms of Use and Feminine Collective’s Copyright Policy, the “User Agreement”) completely and carefully before using femininecollective.com (the “Website”) and the services, features, content or applications offered by Feminine Collective, Inc (“we” “us” “our” “Feminine Collective” or “FC”) (together with the Website, the “Services”).
This Privacy Policy in combination with the General Terms of Use and the Copyright Agreement constitute the User Agreement for Feminine Collective. This privacy policy covers how Feminine Collective collects and uses information on the website and generally for its other services such as the ad network service Blogher (the “Program”).
Please note that this privacy policy only applies to information Feminine Collective collects at the Site and not any websites, webpages, blogs, applications, widgets or other experiences operated by any third party including our affiliates, advertisers, providers and partners.
This privacy policy does not apply to: (i) people employed by Feminine Collective or to entities owned or controlled by Feminine Collective; and (ii) any websites, webpages, blogs, applications, widgets or other experiences offered by our participating affiliates and advertisers.
Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Feminine Collective may collect personally identifiable information when you register for the Site or for the use of certain features and services, such as email newsletters.
Feminine Collective does not share personally identifiable information we learn about you with others except as described in this policy.
Feminine Collective does not share your personally identifiable information with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing purposes.Feminine Collective may use your personally identifiable information where it is necessary to operate or improve the Services, to do something that you have asked us to do or tell you about Feminine Collective products, services and marketing events that we think may be of interest.
To receive optional email messages such as newsletters and marketing and promotional offers, you will be required to provide us with your email address. In additional to these optional email messages, Feminine Collective may contact you via any email address you provide us with transactional or relationship messages such as account status messages, notifications of changes in the terms of your account or the services provided. These types of transactional or relationship email messages are not optional.
Collection and Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information on this site.
When visiting the Site, Feminine Collective or its providers collect non-personally identifiable information that allow us to better understand how visitors interact with the Site. Feminine Collective also serves advertisements directly to you within the Site and may allow advertisers, third party advertising networks and third party advertising serving companies to serve advertisements directly to you within the Site. Feminine Collective may use the non-personally identifiable information it collects to assist us in delivering relevant advertisements to you when you visit the Site. These third-party advertising networks and advertisers may also use cookies and similar technologies to collect and track non-personally identifiable information such as demographic information, aggregated information, and Internet activity to assist them in delivering advertising that is more relevant to your interests.
Feminine Collective implements certain technologies to enable us to collect such information. An explanation of those technologies is described below.
Cookies. Feminine Collective uses both session and persistent cookies on this Site. We use cookies to assist us in understanding how the Site is used and improving our site.
Our use of cookies on this Site is anonymous and does not allow us to gather personally identifiable information about you.
If you do not want us to maintain cookies while you are visiting this Site, you can configure your browser’s settings to limit the acceptance of or disable cookies. Please note that some aspects of the Site may not properly function or display if you limit or disable cookies.
Information Sharing
Feminine Collective holds all personally identifiable information in confidence. There are instances in which personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information may be shared with third parties.
Non-personally identifiable information.
In connection with this Site, we may share non-personally identifiable information with our family of companies or other trusted businesses or persons for purposes of processing non-personally identifiable information or providing other services on our behalf.
Personally identifiable information.
Feminine Collective only shares personally identifiable information with other companies or individuals outside of Feminine Collective as follows: (i) if Feminine Collective has your consent for the sharing of personally identifiable information; or (ii) to assist in the fulfillment of requests for services that you’ve requested from Feminine Collective (for example, we may use a third party to help send e-mails in response to requests you’ve made). Note that any third party that Feminine Collective chooses to share personally identifiable information with will be required to enter into a confidentiality agreement with Feminine Collective and may share your personally identifiable information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to establish or exercise our legal rights or, defend against legal claims and if in our judgment in such circumstances disclosure is required or appropriate. In addition, Feminine Collective may share your personally identifiable information if we believe it is necessary 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 the terms and conditions that may apply to our services, or as otherwise required by law.
If Feminine Collective sells all or part of its business or services, information you have shared with Feminine Collective or that Feminine Collective has collected (both personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable) may be one of the business assets that will be transferred. The transferred information will remain subject to the promises made in this privacy policy or subsequent policies to which you have consented.
Data Security
Feminine Collective makes efforts to ensure data security on our systems to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. However, no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be secure. As a result, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.
Information relating to children
The Site is not structured to attract children under 18 years of age. Use of the Site by anyone under 18 years of age is prohibited, and we require any person providing access to the Site to anyone under 13 years of age to certify that he or she has the consent of the parent or legal guardian of such person and to provide reasonable verification required by Feminine Collective. Feminine Collective does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information of anyone under 18 years of age, and if we discover that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will promptly delete it. Parents and legal guardians may request us to review, delete or stop the collection of personally identifiable information of their child by contacting us at the email or postal addresses listed below.
Collection and Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information in the Program?
Other Third Party Sources may supplement the information it collects with other non-personally identifiable information it obtains from third parties.
Feminine Collective
This privacy policy may be modified by Feminine Collective in its sole discretion at any time without prior notice to you. Feminine Collective will post any revised privacy policy on this Site. Your continued access of this Site and your use of services after the privacy policy has been modified and posted will signify your acceptance of such modifications for information provided by you.
GLOSSARY
“cookie” or “browser cookie” is a small text file that contains a string of numbers and characters sent by a web site that is saved on your hard disk by your computer’s browser.
“personally identifiable information” is data intended to be used to identify, contact or locate a person, including, name, address, telephone number or e-mail address and any other information (even if non-personally identifiable) provided in combination with such personally identifiable information.
Effective since 09/13/13