We at The Friend Club, Inc. (“Friend Club” or “we”) are strongly committed to protecting your privacy and any personally identifiable information that you provide to us as you access and use our website, thefriendclub.com (the “Site”). The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) outlines the breadth of our commitment to privacy and is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information that you provide us and in making informed decisions when using the Site.
What Information Do We Collect?
We collect information from you when you share it to the Friend Club. This includes when you provide your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, User Content, photos, comments, and any other information you give us when you interact with, post, or submit information through our Site, including when you subscribe to our newsletter, post User Content, register for an event, respond to a survey, or submit a request.
When using our Site, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number or other contact information. In order to provide certain services or to respond to certain inquiries, we may also collect such other voluntary information that you provide to us.
Our Site collects aggregate information, which is information that is anonymous and/or not personally identifiable, including usage information, such as but not limited to the frequency that certain webpages are accessed by users and the amount of time spent on individual webpages or sections of the Site, the number of visits to the Site by users, types of browsers used by visitors, cookie preferences, and search terms entered by visitors. Aggregate information is used in a collective manner, and no single person can be identified by the compiled information.
We do not process credit card transactions and any information collected in connection with a credit card transaction is collected and used in accordance with the privacy policy of our payment processing vendor.
How Do We Use Information That We Collect?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
Except as stated below, your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the service requested. From time to time, Friend Club may be required to disclose personal information in response to a valid court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law, or if Friend Club reasonably believes that a user has committed unlawful acts or acts that may endanger the health or safety of another use or the general public. Friend Club reserves the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful.
We may also disclose personal information with third party service providers, agents or independent contractors who help us maintain our Site and provide other administrative services to us.
Finally, we may share your personal information in the course of any direct or indirect reorganization process including, but not limited to, mergers, acquisitions, and sales of all or substantially all of our assets.
Collection and Use of Information from Children
Friend Club does not knowingly request or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. If we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, Friend Club will delete that information as quickly as is reasonably practical.
How do we protect your information?