Your privacy is of the utmost importance to SimiCommunity.com. Because we ask for some basic personal information during registration, we want you to be fully informed of how this information is gathered and used.

1. REGISTRATION
2. INFORMATION SIMICOMMUNITY.COM REQUESTS
3. CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT
4. PARTICIPATION
5. COOKIES
6. PUBLIC ONLINE FORUM
7. SECURITY
8. PERSONAL INFORMATION/OPT-OUT
9. TERMINATION
10. SUMMARY

Registration

Some basic personal information is required in order to register with SimiCommunity.com:

Information SimiCommunity.com Requests

When you register, you are asked to give demographic information (like address, birth year, and gender). You are not required to provide this information. We ask you to tell us a little about yourself so we can better understand the types of people who register. That information can also be used to provide you with content that may be of interest to you, and to show you advertisements that are relevant to your demographic information. Similar to television, radio, and magazines, SimiCommunity.com relies primarily on revenue from advertising to subsidize the cost of providing you with free services. To help enhance the relevance and effectiveness of ads, SimiCommunity.com provides advertisers demographic information on an aggregate basis (not linked to your personal name or email address). For example, SimiCommunity.com may report to advertisers that "55% of users are female and the average age is 25".

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

Any data except email address, password and username that SimiCommunity.com collects on children under 13 years of age will be discarded in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Email addresses of children under 13 submitted during registration are kept by SimiCommunity.com for identification purposes only, and under no circumstances are displayed or made publicly available.

Participation

The above describes information that is provided "actively" - meaning, you choose to submit this information to us when you join SimiCommunity.com, or update your My Community profile at any point after having joined. Some other information is provided "passively" - meaning, that SimiCommunity.com obtains this information when you login into your My Community account and use the service. This is done primarily through the use of "cookies." Cookies are used on SimiCommunity.com to verify your login information. Any time that you point your browser to a 'members-only' area, SimiCommunity.com checks your browser's cookie file to see if you have already logged in, and if you have, you're taken right to the page that you have requested. If not, you'll be directed to the My Community login screen, where you can quickly and easily login to your account, or signup for a new account if you are not yet a member.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that many Web sites write to your browser when you visit them. A cookie can only be read by the site that places it, so SimiCommunity.com can't "see where you've been" based on any other cookies in your browser. Netscape Navigator uses a single file called "cookies.txt" to record all cookies, and you can open this file in any text editor to see what it looks like. On a Macintosh computer, the Netscape cookie file is called "MagicCookie". Internet Explorer uses a separate file for each cookie, which typically resides in "C:\Windows\Profiles\User\Cookies." Much controversy and myth has been spread about cookies, specifically that cookies "read or write information on your computer's hard drive, and are therefore evil", or "cookies can find out where I live and what my email address is". To learn the truth about cookies, and to help dispel this misinformation, please visit:

Netscape: Client Side State - HTTP Cookies.

Cookies are generally supported in version 3.0 and newer of Internet Explorer, 2.02 and newer of Netscape, and 3.0 and newer of AOL. Most browsers also allow the option of displaying a warning before accepting a cookie, or refusing all cookies. In order to use our 'My Community' service, cookies MUST be enabled.

Public Online Forum

SimiCommunity.com hosts it own online forum, also known as message boards. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in our forum becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information.

Security

SimiCommunity.com's site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under its control. SimiCommunity.com's servers have strict security in place to prevent an intruder from retrieving personal information about its users.

Personal Information/Opt-out

SimiCommunity.com gives users the ability to change their personal information by going to http://www.simicommunity.com/My_Community/my_profile.aspx. SimiCommunity.com provides users the opportunity to opt out of receiving newsletters from SimiCommunity.com by replying with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Any user having difficulty unsubscribing should contact support@simicommunity.com.

Termination

You can elect to terminate your membership with SimiCommunity.com at any time, by sending an email to support@simicommunity.com. Be sure to include your Email Address and username in the email so that we can easily identify your account. Upon termination, your account information will be entirely removed from SimiCommunity.com.

Summary

In this electronic era, when personal information can easily be obtained through various sources, SimiCommunity.com appreciates the sensitivity of any private information that you disclose to us. It is our intention to treat your account information with the highest level of care. If you have further questions about our practices and policies with regard to how your account information is treated, please contact support@simicommunity.com at any time.