Chictini.com Privacy Policy
Revised 20 August 2007
The Chicitini.com privacy policy describes how Chictini.com and its subsidiaries treat personal information when you visit and use Chictini.com’s services and functions. Remember, you the user are important to us and are the fundamental foundation for the Chicitini.com’s mission statement to bring the latest trends to the forefront of the world audience. The information below outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you visit or use Chictini.com’s services as well as the steps we take to safeguard that information. Please read the following to be able to make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
Chictini is free of use and does not require a user to register for an account or provide any personal information us. However, in order to receive our full range of user services, we may collect the following types of information:
1. Information you provide
When you sign up for an account on Chictini or any of subsidiaries or promotions, we ask you for your personal information which includes but not limited to name, email address, account password, and date of birth. For any of our services that involve obtaining discounts from select merchants, we may ask for information regarding a physical mailing address and or payment account information which will have in an encrypted form on our servers. We may combined the information you submit under your account with information from Chictini’s other services or third parties (such as information provided on other social networking sites in which we open up our functionality to – also known as "widgets" or "applications") in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve upon the functionality and quality of our services to you the user. For specific Chictini.com services, you may be given the opportunity to opt out of combining such information. Furthermore we may aggregate non-personal information in which information is recorded about users and collected into groups so that it no longer reflects or references an individually identifiable users. Aggregated non-personal information will allow us to understand how visitors interact with our site and how we can better improve the service for the Chictini.com user community. We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated non-personal information such as the number of users who clicked on a certain link or an advertisement. For all of the personal information detailed above, Chictini.com may use it in order to customize the user-experience for each visitor, auditing, research and analysis in order to protect and improve our services, and to develop new features for our visitors.
2. Cookies
When you visit Chictini.com, we may send one or more cookies (a small file containing a string of characters) to your computer to uniquely identify which browser you are using. Doing so allows us to improve the quality of our services. For most browsers, you should have the ability to reset your browser to refuse cookies or indicate which cookie is sent to your computer. Do keep in mind that some of Chictini.com’s services can only function properly if your cookies are enabled.
3. Log information
When you visit Chictini.com, our servers will automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. The log information may include but is not limited to your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type and language, date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
4. User communications
When you send an email or other communication with the Chictini team, we may retain those communications in order to properly process and respond to your inquiries, improve our services, and assist us in training future Chictini.com employees.
5. Affiliate sites
Chictini.com may offer some of our services in connection with other websites including but not limited to Flash modules and Facebook Applications. Personal information that your provide to those sites may be sent to Chictini.com in order for us to provide the service. We process that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However the affiliated site may have different privacy policies and thus we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
6. Links (deprecated)
Any link on Chictini.com may presented in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been "clicked" on and have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of services, user customization, advertising data, and any affiliate sales data.
7. Third-party and non-affiliated sites
Chictini.com does not exercise control over sites that are displayed as a link from within our own site. These other sites may have their own cookies on your computer and their own policies for collecting data or soliciting personal information from a visitor.
Sharing of information
Chictini.com will only share personal information with other companies and individuals outside of Chictini.com in the following circumstances:
- You provide Chictini.com your consent in sharing such information as Chictini.com will require an opt-in consent for the sharing of any personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, advertising partners, or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and to take any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures to insure your data is safely processed.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service agreements with a user, including investigation of potential violations of the Terms of Service agreement, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Chictini, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
- As stated earlier in this Privacy Policy, we may share aggregated non-personal information with third parties in order to customize the user-experience for each visitor, audit, research and analyze the data to protect and improve our services, provide statistics to our advertising partners, and to develop new features for our visitors. The aggregated non-personal information will not be used to identify you individually.
Review and Enforcement of Privacy Policy
Chictini will comply with valid legal process, including but not limited to search warrants, court orders, or subpoenas seeking personal information. These same processes apply to all law-abiding companies. As has always been the case, the primary protections you have against intrusions by the government are the laws that apply to where you live. Chictini.com regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Chictini.com and an individual.
Changes to Privacy Policy
If you do not agree with any terms in Chictini.com’s Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with your personal information. As a reminder, certain services may be conditioned on the provision of your personal information. We reserve the right to alter or remove this Privacy Policy at any time in our discretion. Whenever we make any alteration to this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes here and advise you to visit this page frequently to stay informed. When you use our services after the alteration of this Privacy Policy, you signify that you agree to the alteration of this Privacy Policy. The data reflected at the top of this Privacy Policy will alert you to when changes were last made to the privacy policy. If Chictini.com should merge or be under the acquisition of another party, we will alert you of the transfer of personal information.
Questions regarding Privacy Policy
If you have any additional questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or by sending us a letter to:
Chictini.com Privacy Policy
132 Degraw Street Suite #3
Brooklyn, NY 11231.
