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Privacy Policy 1. Policy Changes and Acceptance This privacy policy is effective as of August 1, 2007. By using our Site and its services, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy Policy, you may discontinue use of our Site. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of any portion of our Site following posting of such changes will constitute your acceptance of these changes. 2. Personally Identifiable Information Use The Site will not provide our advertisers or anyone else outside the Site with any information specific to you collected from the Site unless we have your consent. The only Site employees or consultants allowed access to personal information about you are those who need to have access in order for day-to-day operation of the service and website 3. E-Commerce Transactions & Financial Information All commerce transactions that take place on this site are processed through Paypal's secure server and we do not have access to stored financial information on Paypal's servers. In addition, any transactions that take place on other sites that have link from our site are not necessarily handled in this fashion. The Site disclaims any responsibility for transactions conducted on those sites and cannot vouch for the security of the information submitted in those transactions. 4. Children Under Age 13 The Site is not intended for children under the age of 13 nor does the Site knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. The Site does not orient this Site toward children or target them as an audience, nor does it screen them from using the Site. Some of the material on this Site is for mature audiences, and parents and guardians should take responsibility for monitoring their children's use. The Site does not collect or distribute information indicating whether a user is a child. If an ad post is found to be from a minor under age 13, the post will be deactivated 5. Circumstances In Which Information Is Released We will not release your name, e-mail address or any other personal information to anyone else outside the Site unless we have your consent. However, we may disclose your personal information if (i) required to do so by law, court order or subpoena, or as requested by other government, law enforcement, or investigative authority, (ii) we in good faith believe that such disclosure is necessary or advisable, including without limitation to protect the rights or properties of the Site, (iii) we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, or has breached an agreement, or if anyone else could be harmed by such activities or interference, (iv) if we determine an ad posted violates our terms of use or the rights of a third party, or (v) there is an emergency involving personal danger. 6. Posting Personal Information If you post any of your personal information such as driver license #, social security#, address, phone #, etc. on the Site, such information may be collected and used by others over whom the Site has no control. The Site is not responsible for the use by third parties of information you post or otherwise make public through an as posting title or description. 7. Cookies "Cookies" are small text files that allow Web sites to store and retrieve information about you from your computer system. The Site does serve cookies to track individual site usage for later aggregation but not for banner advertisement serving. But we do not use cookies in order to retrieve any information from your computer other than information originally sent in a Site cookie, such as a user code. We have no control over whether and how our advertisers use cookies that originate from their website. 8. Links To Other Sites This Site provides links and pointers to Web sites maintained by other organizations. The Site provides these links as a convenience to users, but it does not operate, control or endorse such sites. The Site also disclaims any responsibility for the information on those sites and any products or services offered there, and cannot vouch for the privacy policies of such sites. The Site does not make any warranties or representations that any linked sites (or even this Site) will function without error or interruption, that defects will be corrected, or that the sites and their servers are free of viruses and other problems that can harm your computer. 9. How We Protect Your Privacy - We don't run banner ads, pop ups, pop-unders, or any other kind of commercial ads. - We don't share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. - We don't engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs with other sites. - We don't employ tracking devices for marketing purposes ("cookies", "web beacons," single-pixel gifs). - We offer anonymous email tools & relay, to reduce 3rd party harvesting & spam. 10. Data We Collect We collect your email address, for purposes such as sending self-publishing and confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, etc. 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 craigslist site, and to otherwise provide our service to you. 11. Data We Store All classified ad postings are stored in our database, even after "deletion," and may be archived elsewhere. Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely. 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. 12. Archiving And Display Of Ad Postings By Search Engines And Other Sites Search engines and other sites not affiliated with the Site - including archive.org, google.com, yahoo.com or any other spider driven search engine or archive service make available ad postings beyond the site's actual domain name and control. |