Privacy Policy

stickychicken has established this privacy policy to explain to you how your information is protected, collected and used, which may be updated by stickychicken from time to time. stickychicken will provide notice of materially significant changes to this privacy policy by posting notice on the stickychicken site.

1. PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY

a) We don't share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

b) We don't engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs with other sites.

c) We don't employ tracking devices for marketing purposes.

d) We don't send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.

e) Account information is password-protected.

f) Forums use basic web server authentication. Close your browser to log out.

g) stickychicken does not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 13. If stickychicken learns that a posting is by a person under the age of 13, stickychicken will remove that post.

h) stickychicken, or people who post on stickychicken, may provide links to third party websites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited.

2. DATA WE COLLECT

a) We collect your email address, for purposes such as sending self-publishing and confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, registering for forums, etc.

b) We may collect personal information if you provide it in feedback or comments, post it on our classifieds or interactive forums, or if you contact us directly. Please do not post any personal information on stickychicken's forums or classifieds that you expect to keep private.

c) Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served, including your IP address, page URL, and timestamp. Web logs help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the stickychicken site, and to otherwise provide our service to you.

3. DATA WE STORE

a) All forum postings are stored in our database, even after "deletion," and may be archived elsewhere.

b) Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely.

c) Although we make good faith efforts to store the information in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.

4. ARCHIVING

Search engines and other sites not affiliated with stickychicken - including Google and Yahoo - archive or otherwise make available stickychicken postings.

5. INFORMATION RELEASE

a) stickychicken may disclose information about its users if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process.

b) stickychicken may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Use; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of stickychicken, its users or the general public.

6. FEEDBACK

We welcome your questions and comments on this document through the official stickychicken Feedback web page.