Effective October 10, 2008

 

An Introduction to KinkySpace.com and its Purpose

 

KinkySpace.com is a social interaction website and suite of communication and indexing services which is designed to put people in touch with one another, to provide a stage for our users to tell others about themselves, to facilitate sharing and communicating, and to have some fun by permitting others to rate our users.

 

We understand that our users are our most valuable commercial asset. Their welfare is critical to the success of KinkySpace.com and we understand that. Accordingly, we have a serious and ongoing interest in the privacy of our users.

 

There is a dynamic tension, however, between privacy and attracting attention. Because our users are attracted to our Services exactly because the Services give them a forum to show themselves to the world, to learn the candid attitudes and opinions of others about them, and to participate in dialog with others about those things, there is necessarily some loss of the privacy of seclusion – the privacy one would have by avoiding contact with the rest of humanity or by just not participating in a forum that is available online to the entire world. Moreover, this website and its services are operated in the context of a commercial program that depends on revenue from advertising and other sources to pay for the services that KinkySpace.com provides. We believe that a rational and sensible policy for the privacy of information should shield our users to the greatest extent reasonably possible against indiscriminate disclosure of private information, to the extent compatible with the functionality of our service and its commercial purposes, from those who do not have a practical need or reasonable commercial purpose in possessing the information. This Policy explains how we aim to protect the user’s privacy and how we determine and implement the appropriate and reasonable balance of privacy and disclosure consonant with the practical necessities of functionality and economic viability: We may use and disclose your personally-identifiable information for any reasonable business purpose.

 

The Nature of the Information We Collect

 

In order for our Services to work and to work economically, KinkySpace.com needs to obtain from our users some personally identifiable information which includes the user’s user-selected display name, age, email address, the user’s gender, the user’s sexual orientation, date of birth, hometown. We also obtain the user- submitted or posted photographs, graphics, and video and sound clips and any and all other information that may be submitted in fields and forms. When the user submits it or otherwise posts information or data, we retain or may retain the information that was posted. We obtain and store messages between users and the display names or other identifying information about the other users with whom they have contact. We keep track of what pages you may visit on our website and the visits of other users to your page. We may also obtain your completed forms and questionnaires and take your picture if you personally attend a promotional event we may sponsor, and the information collected on these forms will be dealt with just as any other personally-identifiable information.

 

We also collect data that may be considered personally identifiable in a strict sense, but is not routinely used for individual purposes by us, (called here “technical information”) including the IP address from which you access our web site, the browser, browser version, operating system, and screen resolution of the computer you are using. All of these things are necessary to format our web site for your display and to get it to your computer. We may use this information in aggregate form to learn how best to serve the needs and interests of our users. We or third-parties may combine it with personally identifiable information for the purpose of directed advertising or other commercial purposes.

 

Beyond the information you provide when you register for KinkySpace.com and then later post or enter, we also may ask you to provide information related to promotions, contents, and events.

 

What We Do with the Information we Collect.

 

The personally-identifiable information obtained from our users is used in a variety of ways.

 

First, the personally-identifiable information is used to create, modify, and maintain the personal profiles of the users, to serve indexing and search utilities, to implement the functionality of the web site, to track usage, to target advertising, and to make the use of its Services enjoyable and rewarding to everyone involved in it.

 

Second, we may contact you by email or otherwise to confirm or terminate registration, to advise you of changes in our Terms of Service, to deal with any issues particular to you, or to promote events, services, and/or products that we or third-party vendors may wish to bring to your attention. We may use personally-identifiable information in correspondence with the user or with any other person.

 

Fourth, we and third-party advertisers may set cookies or run scripts on your computer that enable us or our advertising partners to identify your computer and various selections made by you and other persons using your computers, for the purpose of directing advertising that we or they feel may be of the most interest to you, and to display that advertising.

 

Fifth, we reserve the right to voluntarily provide any and all information to law enforcement agencies upon request, and to comply with any or all subpoenas, all without notice to you, whether or not compliance by us is legally required.

 

Sixth, we may use and disclose any information to anyone, when, in our judgment, it is necessary or expedient to do so for the protection of individuals, other users or the public, or property.

 

Seventh, we may transfer any or all of the information to any successor in interest as a result of the sale of the web site, its Services, or of a substantial part of its assets.

 

We may use the personally-identifiable information in any combination, or in combination with anything else, including but not limited to Technical Information, for the purposes of advertising or promotion. The Technical Information collected may be analyzed and/or aggregated for statistical or marketing purposes and used as part of researching the interests and needs of our users and in serving them better.

 

We may use personally identifiable information about our users for any reasonable commercial purpose.

 

Correcting or Removing Information

 

Our users may correct or remove information (including but not limited to images and other data files) at any time by logging into their respective accounts and making the changes themselves with the tools provided there.

 

How this Privacy Policy May be Changed

 

 

KinkySpace.com may change this Privacy Statement from time to time. If it does so, this web site will keep you informed of changes by posting it on this page, at this URL, so that you are always aware of the current policy. You have an obligation to check this page from time to time to keep abreast of the current Privacy Policy.