The Rockinthering.com service (“Rockinthering.com”) is a social networking site - it exists to promote sharing and community. But when you share any information through a service like Rockinthering.com, it's important to remember that you are potentially sharing it with the entire world. The information you submit to Rockinthering.com may be accessible to anyone who visits your Rockinthering.com site (including people who are not registered Rockinthering.com users), or through search engines, mobile devices, and a variety of other devices and services. It may also be copied and redistributed by anyone who has access to it.
We take your privacy seriously and so should you. Rockinthering.com has many features designed to help you manage your information and control how it is shared with others. This privacy policy discusses how personal information is collected and disclosed through Rockinthering.com, as well as the tools available to help you control your information.
CHILDRENChildren under 13 are not allowed to register for Rockinthering.com accounts.
It is Rockinthering.com’s policy not to collect information from children under 13.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY ROCKINTHERING.COM
Rockinthering.com may collect certain information from you as described below. Rockinthering.com uses the information it collects for authentication purposes, to customize the advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests for products and services, to provide aggregated, anonymous reporting for Rockinthering.com or third parties, to improve our services, and to communicate with you as part of the Rockinthering.com service.
Registration - Required InformationWhen you register for a Rockinthering.com account, Rockinthering.com requires you to provide the following information:
Username - a unique nickname or handle that acts as your primary identifier to other Rockinthering.com users and visitors, or viewers of Rockinthering.com material on other systems (e.g. search engines, RSS readers, cell phones, etc.). You cannot change your username and it is always publicly displayed, so please choose carefully. Password - required for signing into your Rockinthering.com account. Your password provides access to all of the information in your account, so never share your password with anyone except a parent or guardian. Email Address – an email address is required so that Rockinthering.com can contact you about your account. In addition, Rockinthering.com has several features through which information may be forwarded to this email address - including messages or invitations from other Rockinthering.com users, alerts, or logs of activity related to your account. You can control whether you receive certain of these emails by using the settings inside your Rockinthering.com account.Your email address is never publicly displayed on Rockinthering.com. But when you email someone through Rockinthering.com, your email address will be revealed to them (e.g. as the “from” or “reply to” address on the email you send through Rockinthering.com). In addition, Rockinthering.com has a search feature that allows others to search for you by your email address, but you can control whether you appear in these search results by using the settings inside your Rockinthering.com account.
Date of Birth – is collected but never displayed on Rockinthering.com
Profile InformationAfter you have registered for a Rockinthering.com account, you are given the opportunity to fill out information on our profile pages. Filling out the profile pages is optional - you are not required to fill out any of the profile information. If you choose to fill out the profile information, please note that this information will be posted on your Rockinthering.com Site (See “Information Submitted to Your Rockinthering.com Site”) and will potentially be accessible to the entire world.
Information Submitted to Your Rockinthering.com SiteAs a registered member of Rockinthering.com, you get a personal website (called a “Rockinthering.com Site”) where you can publish photos, animal information, profile information, etc. When you “publish” information to your Rockinthering.com Site, this means you are sharing the information publicly.
Other individuals may submit information to your Rockinthering.com site in the form of comments. Rockinthering.com allows only your registered friends to submit comments to your Rockinthering.com Site and allows you to delete comments submitted to your Rockinthering.com Site.
Comments & Other Interactive ForumsRockinthering.com offers many ways for users to interact by posting information to each others’ Rockinthering.com Sites or other parts of Rockinthering.com. These features include comments on individual photos, forum entries, and profile comments.
Rockinthering.com provides features designed to give you control over comments posted to your own Rockinthering.com Site. But please be aware that you may have no control over comments that you post anywhere else:
Comments on Your Own Rockinthering.com Site – Rockinthering.com gives you the ability to delete comments left on your own Rockinthering.com Site. For certain comment features, you also have the ability to control who (if anyone) can submit comments to your site.
Comments not on Your Own Rockinthering.com Site - if you post a comment anywhere other than your own Rockinthering.com Site, you may have no control over that comment - you may not be able to edit or delete it after it is submitted, and it may be copied and posted elsewhere by anyone who has access to it - so think before you submit!
Email Addresses of Others (Sending Emails through Rockinthering.com)For features such as inviting others to join Rockinthering.com or participate in specific areas of the service (collectively, “invitations”), or for forwarding information published through the service (e.g. specific weblog entries), you may provide email addresses of others to Rockinthering.com.
Rockinthering.com stores the email addresses that you provide and uses them solely to contact the owner of the email address. For invitations (such as invitations to join a network of “Rockinthering.com Friends”), Rockinthering.com sends one invitation email and may send multiple invitation reminders; for other email-based communications, Rockinthering.com sends an email specific to that communication. Rockinthering.com may share, sell or rent these email addresses with any third parties.
Other Information Collected by Rockinthering.comBrowser Information
Every time you visit a page on the Internet, your web browser sends specific information to the web site you are visiting. Rockinthering.com's servers automatically collect and store this information, including your IP address, specific type of browser software, the pages you visit at Rockinthering.com, and information from Rockinthering.com cookies (see below). This information is also collected by third-party tracking companies that provide traffic analytics to Rockinthering.com.
CookiesRockinthering.com may set and access Rockinthering.com cookies on your computer.
Like most sites that have interactive features, Rockinthering.com uses cookies to recognize you when you return to Rockinthering.com and to keep track of when you are signed in (so you don't have to re-sign in every time you visit a new page at Rockinthering.com). Rockinthering.com also uses cookies to target advertisements based on information provided by you (e.g. profile information suggesting age, gender, or interests), browser information (e.g. geographic location based on your IP address), or past activities on Rockinthering.com (e.g. whether or not you’ve seen or responded to a specific advertisement already).
Some third-party advertisers may also set and access their own cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one.
Most browsers come with the ability to restrict cookies from specific or unknown sources. Please review your browser’s documentation for more information. Please be aware, however, that many Rockinthering.com features will not be available to you if you block the placement of our cookies on your computer.
MANAGING AND PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATIONRockinthering.com provides many features designed to help you manage and control access to your information. Unless specifically stated otherwise (e.g. on the page where you submit the information), any information that you submit to Rockinthering.com may be accessible to the entire world, unless you choose to use the available features designed to help you restrict access to that information.
Rockinthering.com may email you notifications of actions happening within the website. This can include but is not limited to: profile comments, messages, picture comments, and friendship notifications.
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSUREThird Party Advertisers
Rockinthering.com displays targeted advertisements based on information including demographics or interests. Rockinthering.com does not provide any personally identifiable information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad.
Please be aware that if you voluntarily provide information to a third party advertiser (e.g. you provide your email address after clicking on a targeted ad), you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you also meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
HOW OTHERS USE YOUR INFORMATIONLinks to Third Party Sites
The Rockinthering.com site contains many links to websites operated by third parties. When you follow a link to a third party website, the information you provide to that site will be subject to the privacy policy of that site and not Rockinthering.com’s policy. Rockinthering.com is not responsible for the use or disclosure of any information that you provide to a third party site accessed from a link on the Rockinthering.com site.
Third Party Search Engines & Syndication Feed ReadersAny information you publish publicly to your Rockinthering.com Site may be indexed by third party search engines (e.g. Google or Yahoo) and appear in the search results provided and controlled by those third parties. Rockinthering.com does not control the search indexes or results of those third parties. For help with removing your information from any third party search engines, please visit the websites of those third parties.
Third Party AdvertisersSome third party advertisers may set and access their own cookies on your computer, collect your browser information when you view their advertisements, request information from you as part of a campaign or promotion appearing on Rockinthering.com, or request information from you on a third party website that you visit by following a linked advertisement on Rockinthering.com, etc.
Most browsers come with the ability to restrict cookies from specific or unknown sources. Please review your browser’s documentation for more information.
Any information that you provide to a third party advertiser will be subject to the privacy policy of that third party and not Rockinthering.com’s policy. Rockinthering.com is not responsible for the disclosure of any such information that you provide to any third party advertiser.
CONFIDENTIALITY & SECURITYYour Rockinthering.com account is protected by a password you create. Rockinthering.com implements features reasonably designed to protect the security of any non-public information that is stored in our database, such as your password. We cannot, however, guaranty the security of your non-public account information. Hacking, software or hardware failure and other unauthorized access to our premises and systems may compromise the security of Rockinthering.com members’ information.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICYFrom time to time we may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Rockinthering.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site. Please note that your continued use of the Rockinthering.com service after the date of any changes to this policy (which will appear as the “Effective” date listed on the policy) will constitute your acceptance and agreement to be bound by those changes. You should visit this page on a regular basis to view any changes to this privacy policy.
NON-US RESIDENTSIf you are not a US resident, your use of Rockinthering.com shall constitute consent to the transfer, storage, use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information in the US in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.