Privacy Policy
Last Updated: January 4, 2010
The following privacy notice applies to any registered or unregistered users of the WhatAStupidB.com website and its affiliated websites (referred to as WASB). This policy may be periodically changed at the discretion of WASB, with changes applied to this web page. You should occasionally visit this web page to review the policy for changes.
Personal Information
We may ask for some personal information, including your e-mail address, for certain activities on the WASB websites, such as confirming your desire to post textual content or uploading other materials.
We may also electronically record information about your usage, such as when you use the websites, preferences or settings that you subscribe to, your contacts, frequency and size of data transfers, voting selection for posts, as well as information you display or click on in the websites. We may use techniques in emails that we send to track which emails are opened by recipients. This is primarily used to measure effectiveness of delivery mechanisms.
Any personal information or picture content that you voluntarily disclose online (such as discussion boards, messages and chat areas) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Please be careful what you post to the site.
Uses
1. If you submit personally identifiable information through WASB websites, we may use some of that information to operate, maintain, and provide to you features and functionality of the sites, in particular, personalized features for you.
2. Certain information may be displayed to other users when you upload pictures or send messages; from this other users might be able to contact you through messages or comments. Please be aware that any textual postings or pictures that you submit to the WASB websites may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public. Please be careful in what personal information you may include in your postings or comments.
3. We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as for customer service purposes). We may operate specific programs or features to which we may email you; you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out of these types of mailings.
4. In order to improve the quality and design of WASB websites, we may use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.). We may use this to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user preferences and trends.
Cookies; IP Logs
We may use cookies, log file information and other techniques to:
> store information on your machine so that you will not have to re-enter it in future visits;
> provide you with custom, personalized content;
> track user submissions and entries in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests;
> monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc. as well as marketing efforts.
Your Choices; Opt-Out
1. You may decline to submit personally identifiable information through WASB websites. As long as you have a valid email address you can still submit content and participate in website activities. However, WASB may not be able to provide some services to you.
2. Most web browsers accept cookies by default, but you can modify your settings to decline cookies, if you desire. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use certain other features or services that rely on cookies. If you choose to accept cookies, your browser may allow you to later delete or “clean up” the cookies.
3. We may allow third-party advertising companies and networks to serve cookies on WASB websites and to serve ads to you. These companies or network companies may use log files and/or information collected by cookies. They may also use web beacons or similar technologies to provide ads about goods and services that may be of particular interest to you. You may be able to prevent certain third parties from collecting and using such information (i.e., opt-out).
