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AddyChat.com Privacy Policy

AddyChat.com has created this privacy policy because we value our members and recognize their right to keep personal information private. This statement discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the World Wide Web site located at www.AdddyChat.com (the "AddyChat Site"). We believe very strongly that private information should remain private. We would like to hear your feedback about this statement. If you have comments or questions, please Contact us.

Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are other members of the Site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them.

AddyChat.com GATHERS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

Our Web site may set cookies to administer our site, to gather broad demographic information, to deliver content requested by you or specific to your interests, to customize our Web site for you, and to save your member data including comments made during chat sessions and email alerts.

A cookie is a small line of data that is stored on your hard drive. Some cookies are only stored for the duration of a single browser session; others persist across sessions. AddyChat.com Web servers also may set session ID cookies that are used to allow our servers to deliver information you request (e.g., search results). Members who do not want to receive cookies can instruct their Web browsers to refuse them; however, doing so may prevent certain parts of AddyChat.com site from working (e.g., anything that requires login, including member chat, etc). While cookies set by AddyChat.com may be used to collect personally identifiable information and can be traced to an individual user, this personally identifiable information is used only for internal purposes for operating AddyChat.com and or its associated companies including gathering data for our advertisers or perspective advertisers.

Registration Form

Membership on the AddyChat.com Site is completely optional. AddyChat registration form requires users to give their email address. On our join form, required fields are marked. AddyChat will never share e-mail addresses with third party organizations without your express permission.

Control of Your Password

Do not disclose your password to any third parties nor share it with any third parties. If you lose control of your password, you may lose control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password. To change your password you can do so at any time through the MY ACCOUNT page then click Change Password.

Order Forms

When purchasing products or services on the AddyChat.com site, if you’re asked for credit card, billing, and shipping information. This information maybe transmitted using a secure, encrypted form. You can see that the transaction is secure from the fact that the URL begins with the secure address https:// and we use of standard SSL encryption technologies.

This credit card information is gathered to bill customers for services purchased. Only billing vendors have access to financial information and only for the purpose of billing customers. At times AddyChat may refer users to other Web sites to purchase products or services. User activity on those sites is covered by the privacy policies on those sites.

Community Tools

AddyChat.com provides many venues for member interaction and community.AddyChat.com service provides means to bring people together on the same platform. AddyChat.com OWNS the LOBBIES which are CREATED by entering an AREA CODE and PHONE NUMBER. These PHONE NUMBER LOBBIES are VIRTUAL ENVIROMENTS which have NO LEGAL ASSOCIATRION to a REAL PERSON, PLACE or THING. ADDYCHAT OWNS the VIRTUAL LOBBY which is CREATED by entering a PHONE NUMBER or by using the PRE-DETERMINED LOBBY CREATION FEATURE (CRUISESHIP-AIRLINE- ACID). These are VIRTUAL Lobbies which are based on Real world Places for the purpose of connecting people on the same virtual platform. This data may be is used to provide relative information for advertising or other purposes to enhance and or operate the AddyChat.com service. In some cases use of such tools (e.g., chat rooms) may reveal a users member name or e-mail address and may permit users to publish certain personal information on the AddyChat.com Site. In all cases, users affirmatively choose to expose or place this information in public areas (e.g. profile page) of the AddyChat Site, and thereby agree that such information may be viewed by or forwarded to anyone. Users who do not want this information to be publicly available should not post in public areas of the AddyChat Site.

ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURE SCENARIOS

Notwithstanding anything else in this policy, AddyChat.com may also disclose personal and aggregate information when required by a valid legal mechanism such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, or when we deem it necessary, in our sole discretion, to protect our rights and the safety of others, or our members, employees, or properties.

AddyChat.com believes that the “private communications option” in chat rooms, e-mail, and instant message-like conversations should generally remain confidential. AddyChat.com does not read or disclose private communications (created by inviting another member to chat privately) unless ordered to do so through a valid legal mechanism such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, to protect the company rights and property, or during emergencies when we believe safety is at risk. Please remember that what you write or post in public areas such as chat rooms and message boards is available to all AddyChat.com members, and in many cases other visitors to the AddyChat.com site. Also keep in mind that AddyChat.com is not responsible for what other users may do with private or public communications you’ve had with them. Chat and instant message-like conversations pass through AddyChat servers, and are posted in public lobbies and viewable by all visitors with the exception of the “private communications option” of which we do not store logs of these conversations.

AddyChat reserves the right to share some or all of your personal information with its parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures or other companies under common control with AddyChat, in which case AddyChat will require such entities to honor this privacy policy. If AddyChat is acquired by another company, that company will obtain the member information collected by AddyChat and will assume the rights and obligations set forth in this privacy policy regarding that information.

CHANGE/MODIFY INFORMATION

AddyChat gives users the following options for changing or modifying information previously provided: In the MY ACCOUNT page user info can be changed in the "Edit My Profile" page and photos can be uploaded or deleted in the "Upload My Photo" page.

Changes to Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. If we make any significant changes to the way in which we treat your personal information, we will or may inform you of such changes via e-mail or by posting a notice on the AddyChat.com site. Although, by using the site you are responsible to view and agree to the terms of use and policies regardless. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please feel free to Contact Us.