By choosing to proceed and access the Half-Lime.com website ("Site"), you are indicating your express consent and agreement to the collection, transfer, handling, processing, use and storage in accordance with this privacy statement of any personal information which may be obtained from you during your visit to our site, any of which may occur both inside and outside the United States or the European Union in jurisdictions where legal protections may be less stringent. You grant Half-Lime.com, its affiliates, and third party providers a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free perpetual license to use your personal information for the purposes disclosed herein.
If you do not agree with any disclosure in this Privacy Statement, or have any questions, please do not access the Site, contact us directly at contacts@half-lime.com, and we will be pleased to assist you.
Introduction
Half-Lime.com is strongly committed to respecting the privacy of all persons using Site, and the protection of any personal information which we may collect and which you may choose to share with us. Such personal information will be used in accordance with the disclosures in this Privacy Statement, which is part of and incorporated into the Terms and Conditions of Use of this Site.
This privacy policy details our commitment to protect your information and the limited manner in which we will use that information to provide and improve our provision of the Services.
Terms Used Throughout This Privacy Policy
Throughout this privacy policy we use several specialized terms. "Personally Identifiable Information" is information that tells us specifically who you are, like your street address, email address, billing address, credit card number and expiration date. "User Information" means all Personally Identifiable Information and any other forms of information discussed in this privacy policy, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address of a user's computer. We use the term "aggregate" when we combine information from various persons or users. Information is being considered "anonymized" if it does not identify individual persons or entities or associate a particular person or entity with such information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include your name. Any posts that you make on the site will be attributed to the name associated with your account, either the one you chose at registration. You may choose any name you wish under which to post on the site. The site prefers that you utilize some form of your legal name, but you are not under any obligation to do so. If you change your name on the site, the name to which your posts will be attributed will be at the discretion of the site administrators, but in most cases it will be the most recent name on your account.
How We May Obtain Your Personal Information.
When you are accessing our website we only collect and store the domain name and host from which a user accessed the Internet (e.g., aol.com), the IP address of the user's computer, the user's browser software and operating system, the date and time the user accesses the site and the Internet address of any Web site from which the user linked directly to our site or to which the user links after visiting our site. We use this information to measure the number of visitors to sections of our sites, to determine from where our visitors linked and to where our visitors link from the sites and to help us make our sites more useful. For example, we organize and analyze IP addresses so that we can provide efficient service, enhance security, monitor appropriate usage and produce traffic volume statistics. This type of information is sometimes shared with third parties, such as when we aggregate and disclose site traffic information for marketing and commercial purposes. When we share such information with third parties we will require them to abide by the standards of this privacy policy.
If you register or engage in a transaction while at our site.
To make full use of our Services you will need to complete our registration process. We collect and store the Personally Identifiable Information you provide through this registration process, including your user ID and password, which we may elect to provide for you. If you engage in a transaction while logged on to our site, then we collect and store information about the transaction. If you send us communications, then we may collect such communications in a file specific to you.
How We Will Use Your Information.
Your personal information will be stored in our systems for our internal use only. We use the information we collect from you as a registered user to build features that we hope will make the Services more attractive and easier for you to use. This may include better customer support and timely notice of new services. We may share User Information with our partners, affiliates and joint venturers that are committed to serving your need for the Services and improving your user experience, but will require such third parties to abide by the standards of this privacy policy. We may also share aggregate anonymized data relating to activity on the site and use of the Services, such as demographical and statistical information, for marketing, research and other purposes. Furthermore, we may need to disclose User Information to law enforcement or other government officials if appropriate for your protection or in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or our users to legal liability.
If You Do Not Wish to Disclose User Information
If you do not want to provide us with certain User Information then you may opt out by not using the Service that provides us with such User Information. For example, if you do not want us to retain your name, then you may choose not to become a registered user. You will not be entitled to the benefits of registration, but you are still free to browse the site and to visit the parts of the site accessible to non-registrants.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that our site can send to your browser for storage on your hard drive. Cookies can make your use of our site easier by saving your status and preferences upon visits to our site. The cookies are refreshed every time you enter the site. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, but you may be able to change the settings to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent. We use cookies for two purposes: (1) to enable Half-Lime.com to customize information for certain segments of its customer base; and (2) in some instances, to associate you with your User Information. For example, through the use of cookies you may login automatically and thereby save you time. Although rejection of cookies will not interfere with your ability to interact with most of our site, you will need to accept cookies in order to login and use certain interactive Services on the site.
Many Half-Lime.com pages incorporate HTML or Javascript code that will cause your browser to connect to third-party servers to retrieve an advertisement. These servers may send cookies to your browser. Half-Lime.com has a direct relationship with a small number of advertising networks, which are third parties in the business of serving advertisements incorporated into the pages of other web sites. While we may have studied the privacy policies of our partners at the time the relationships were established, we don't monitor the policies of our partners, and they may change without our becoming aware of it. Furthermore, advertising networks have relationships with one another and some of the ads may come from parties with whom Half-Lime.com has no direct relationship, and of whom we are not even aware. Accordingly, we cannot assume responsibility for the use made by third parties of information collected about you through these "third-party" cookies. If you are concerned about this, most modern Web browsers allow you to block so-called "third party cookies", and this should not affect your browsing experience on Half-Lime.com. Also, many ad networks provide an option to "opt-out". Notwithstanding this, if you object to a third-party cookie being placed on your browser through the use of Half-Lime.com, and have specific information that a third-party is making inappropriate use of the cookie, we would appreciate being notified by you.
You may elect not to accept "cookies" by setting your Internet options on your computer, however, please be advised that in that case, you may not be able to access part or all of this Site, or parts of this Site may not operate effectively.
Your Half-Lime.com Password
Except as specifically permitted by this privacy policy or your User Agreement you may not disclose your Half-Lime.com password to any third parties nor share it with any third parties. If you lose control of your Half-Lime.com password you may lose control over your Personally Identifiable Information, and you will be responsible for any legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password or, if we provided your password, notify Half-Lime.com so that we may issue you a new password.
Changing your Personally Identifiable Information
You may "Unsubscribe" from the site by following a link from "My Area". This will have the effect of concealing the information that you provided upon registration from users of the site, other than administrators. If you "unsubscribe", you will lose access to the parts of the site for which you must provide such Personally Identifiable Information in order to gain access.
If your Personally Identifiable Information is edited by you, we will not make any attempt to apply your edit to backup copies that we may have of the information, and in the event that it is necessary for us to restore our database from a backup, it is not impossible that your edit would be lost and the information previous to your edit would be restored. In such an event, we might not be able to determine that this had happened. Your recourse in such a case, having observed it, is to edit the information again.
If you unsubscribe, the Personally Identifiable Information in your user record won't be displayed to users other that administrators. However, the information may be retained in our database and backup copies thereof, for our records, and as necessary for us to comply with governmental orders, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, enforce any agreement you have entered into through our sites and as otherwise deemed reasonably necessary by us.
Canceling the subscription will not result in the deletion of any messages, photos, comments, or other information that you have posted in forums, the gallery or other sections of the site, except of section linked to your account. The section (Area) linked to your account will be deleted at the time you are canceling your subscription.
Examples of transactions which cannot be removed or edited are: forum postings, classified ads, comments on articles and other HTML pages, links, surveys and polls, and "neighbor-to-neighbor" postings. We reserve to change the site features related to the editing and removing of site content, and transactions and content that is editable or removable when you submit them may not be edited or removed in the future. If you include Personally Identifiable Information, such as your address, email address in such transactions etc, you will not be able to remove or edit it. The site does not provide a service to have staff members or administrators remove such information for You. If You do not wish to have Personally Identifiable Information become part of the archives of the site, either do not include such information with the transactions, or if the transaction requires such information, do not perform the transaction.
If We ban you from the site without at least 24 hours notice to the email address that you register with us, upon your request We will either delete information that you posted that you would have been able to delete yourself if you had not been banned, or We will temporarily reinstate you for a brief period so that you may delete the information yourself.
Third Parties
This privacy policy only addresses the use and disclosure of User Information collected by Half-Lime.com. If you disclose information to other parties, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of such information regardless of their affiliation or relationship with Half-Lime.com. Because Half-Lime.com does not control the privacy practices of third parties you are subject to the privacy customs and policies of those third parties. When you link to another Web site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that Web site. We encourage you to ask questions and review the applicable privacy policy before you disclose your personal information to third parties.
We do not try to control, and disclaim responsibility for, information provided by other users or third parties that is made available through our site. Such information may contain errors, intentional or otherwise, or may be offensive, inappropriate or inaccurate, and in some cases will be mislabeled or deceptively labeled.
Merger, Assets, Sales, etc.
If Half-Lime.com or any of its lines of business is sold, pledged or disposed of as a going concern whether by merger, sale of assets, bankruptcy or otherwise, then the user database of Half-Lime.com could be sold as part of that transaction and all User Information accessed by such successor or purchaser.
No Warranties.
Due to the numerous technical and operational uncertainties, we cannot make any warranty, guarantee or representation concerning the accuracy, thoroughness, completeness, or currency of your information, nor over our ability to control, correct, access, handle, process, use, store or transfer such information, and all such warranties are hereby disclaimed.
Changes to Privacy Statement.
Since we are constantly making changes and upgrades to our systems and services in order to better serve you, and how we manage your personal information may accordingly change, we anticipate updating this Privacy Statement from time-to-time. Therefore, we reserve the right to revise the content of this Privacy Statement in any manner and at any time, without notice, however we will note the date of revision. It is your responsibility to check the Site each time prior to access for any changes.
Protection of Your Personal Information.
While we strive to undertake appropriate and reasonable measures to safeguard your information, please remember that, due to the many technical uncertainties, complete security of Internet transmissions cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, you understand and agree that Half-Lime.com is unable to provide any warranty, guarantee or representation concerning the protection of your information or concerning the existence or effectiveness of any security measures undertaken. Half-Lime.com will not be liable for any claims, losses, or damages which may result from access by an unauthorized third party, or the introduction of viruses, worms, or other harmful elements into the system and their possible effects on personal information contained on the Site.
Limitation of Liability.
In no event will Half-Lime.com, its affiliates and divisions, and their respective employees, officers, directors, contractors, suppliers, vendors, insurers and agents, be liable to you or to any other person for any costs, damages (including any special, incidental, exemplary, indirect or consequential damages), or liability of any nature, arising from any cause, resulting from the collection, use, transfer, processing, handling, content, or storage of personal information obtained or submitted by you resulting from your access and use of this site.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Statement or the use of your information, please contact us at contacts@half-lime.com.
Last Updated: 1/9/2006
If you do not agree with any disclosure in this Privacy Statement, or have any questions, please do not access the Site, contact us directly at contacts@half-lime.com, and we will be pleased to assist you.
Introduction
Half-Lime.com is strongly committed to respecting the privacy of all persons using Site, and the protection of any personal information which we may collect and which you may choose to share with us. Such personal information will be used in accordance with the disclosures in this Privacy Statement, which is part of and incorporated into the Terms and Conditions of Use of this Site.
This privacy policy details our commitment to protect your information and the limited manner in which we will use that information to provide and improve our provision of the Services.
Terms Used Throughout This Privacy Policy
Throughout this privacy policy we use several specialized terms. "Personally Identifiable Information" is information that tells us specifically who you are, like your street address, email address, billing address, credit card number and expiration date. "User Information" means all Personally Identifiable Information and any other forms of information discussed in this privacy policy, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address of a user's computer. We use the term "aggregate" when we combine information from various persons or users. Information is being considered "anonymized" if it does not identify individual persons or entities or associate a particular person or entity with such information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include your name. Any posts that you make on the site will be attributed to the name associated with your account, either the one you chose at registration. You may choose any name you wish under which to post on the site. The site prefers that you utilize some form of your legal name, but you are not under any obligation to do so. If you change your name on the site, the name to which your posts will be attributed will be at the discretion of the site administrators, but in most cases it will be the most recent name on your account.
How We May Obtain Your Personal Information.
When you are accessing our website we only collect and store the domain name and host from which a user accessed the Internet (e.g., aol.com), the IP address of the user's computer, the user's browser software and operating system, the date and time the user accesses the site and the Internet address of any Web site from which the user linked directly to our site or to which the user links after visiting our site. We use this information to measure the number of visitors to sections of our sites, to determine from where our visitors linked and to where our visitors link from the sites and to help us make our sites more useful. For example, we organize and analyze IP addresses so that we can provide efficient service, enhance security, monitor appropriate usage and produce traffic volume statistics. This type of information is sometimes shared with third parties, such as when we aggregate and disclose site traffic information for marketing and commercial purposes. When we share such information with third parties we will require them to abide by the standards of this privacy policy.
If you register or engage in a transaction while at our site.
To make full use of our Services you will need to complete our registration process. We collect and store the Personally Identifiable Information you provide through this registration process, including your user ID and password, which we may elect to provide for you. If you engage in a transaction while logged on to our site, then we collect and store information about the transaction. If you send us communications, then we may collect such communications in a file specific to you.
How We Will Use Your Information.
Your personal information will be stored in our systems for our internal use only. We use the information we collect from you as a registered user to build features that we hope will make the Services more attractive and easier for you to use. This may include better customer support and timely notice of new services. We may share User Information with our partners, affiliates and joint venturers that are committed to serving your need for the Services and improving your user experience, but will require such third parties to abide by the standards of this privacy policy. We may also share aggregate anonymized data relating to activity on the site and use of the Services, such as demographical and statistical information, for marketing, research and other purposes. Furthermore, we may need to disclose User Information to law enforcement or other government officials if appropriate for your protection or in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or our users to legal liability.
If You Do Not Wish to Disclose User Information
If you do not want to provide us with certain User Information then you may opt out by not using the Service that provides us with such User Information. For example, if you do not want us to retain your name, then you may choose not to become a registered user. You will not be entitled to the benefits of registration, but you are still free to browse the site and to visit the parts of the site accessible to non-registrants.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that our site can send to your browser for storage on your hard drive. Cookies can make your use of our site easier by saving your status and preferences upon visits to our site. The cookies are refreshed every time you enter the site. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, but you may be able to change the settings to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent. We use cookies for two purposes: (1) to enable Half-Lime.com to customize information for certain segments of its customer base; and (2) in some instances, to associate you with your User Information. For example, through the use of cookies you may login automatically and thereby save you time. Although rejection of cookies will not interfere with your ability to interact with most of our site, you will need to accept cookies in order to login and use certain interactive Services on the site.
Many Half-Lime.com pages incorporate HTML or Javascript code that will cause your browser to connect to third-party servers to retrieve an advertisement. These servers may send cookies to your browser. Half-Lime.com has a direct relationship with a small number of advertising networks, which are third parties in the business of serving advertisements incorporated into the pages of other web sites. While we may have studied the privacy policies of our partners at the time the relationships were established, we don't monitor the policies of our partners, and they may change without our becoming aware of it. Furthermore, advertising networks have relationships with one another and some of the ads may come from parties with whom Half-Lime.com has no direct relationship, and of whom we are not even aware. Accordingly, we cannot assume responsibility for the use made by third parties of information collected about you through these "third-party" cookies. If you are concerned about this, most modern Web browsers allow you to block so-called "third party cookies", and this should not affect your browsing experience on Half-Lime.com. Also, many ad networks provide an option to "opt-out". Notwithstanding this, if you object to a third-party cookie being placed on your browser through the use of Half-Lime.com, and have specific information that a third-party is making inappropriate use of the cookie, we would appreciate being notified by you.
You may elect not to accept "cookies" by setting your Internet options on your computer, however, please be advised that in that case, you may not be able to access part or all of this Site, or parts of this Site may not operate effectively.
Your Half-Lime.com Password
Except as specifically permitted by this privacy policy or your User Agreement you may not disclose your Half-Lime.com password to any third parties nor share it with any third parties. If you lose control of your Half-Lime.com password you may lose control over your Personally Identifiable Information, and you will be responsible for any legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password or, if we provided your password, notify Half-Lime.com so that we may issue you a new password.
Changing your Personally Identifiable Information
You may "Unsubscribe" from the site by following a link from "My Area". This will have the effect of concealing the information that you provided upon registration from users of the site, other than administrators. If you "unsubscribe", you will lose access to the parts of the site for which you must provide such Personally Identifiable Information in order to gain access.
If your Personally Identifiable Information is edited by you, we will not make any attempt to apply your edit to backup copies that we may have of the information, and in the event that it is necessary for us to restore our database from a backup, it is not impossible that your edit would be lost and the information previous to your edit would be restored. In such an event, we might not be able to determine that this had happened. Your recourse in such a case, having observed it, is to edit the information again.
If you unsubscribe, the Personally Identifiable Information in your user record won't be displayed to users other that administrators. However, the information may be retained in our database and backup copies thereof, for our records, and as necessary for us to comply with governmental orders, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, enforce any agreement you have entered into through our sites and as otherwise deemed reasonably necessary by us.
Canceling the subscription will not result in the deletion of any messages, photos, comments, or other information that you have posted in forums, the gallery or other sections of the site, except of section linked to your account. The section (Area) linked to your account will be deleted at the time you are canceling your subscription.
Examples of transactions which cannot be removed or edited are: forum postings, classified ads, comments on articles and other HTML pages, links, surveys and polls, and "neighbor-to-neighbor" postings. We reserve to change the site features related to the editing and removing of site content, and transactions and content that is editable or removable when you submit them may not be edited or removed in the future. If you include Personally Identifiable Information, such as your address, email address in such transactions etc, you will not be able to remove or edit it. The site does not provide a service to have staff members or administrators remove such information for You. If You do not wish to have Personally Identifiable Information become part of the archives of the site, either do not include such information with the transactions, or if the transaction requires such information, do not perform the transaction.
If We ban you from the site without at least 24 hours notice to the email address that you register with us, upon your request We will either delete information that you posted that you would have been able to delete yourself if you had not been banned, or We will temporarily reinstate you for a brief period so that you may delete the information yourself.
Third Parties
This privacy policy only addresses the use and disclosure of User Information collected by Half-Lime.com. If you disclose information to other parties, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of such information regardless of their affiliation or relationship with Half-Lime.com. Because Half-Lime.com does not control the privacy practices of third parties you are subject to the privacy customs and policies of those third parties. When you link to another Web site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that Web site. We encourage you to ask questions and review the applicable privacy policy before you disclose your personal information to third parties.
We do not try to control, and disclaim responsibility for, information provided by other users or third parties that is made available through our site. Such information may contain errors, intentional or otherwise, or may be offensive, inappropriate or inaccurate, and in some cases will be mislabeled or deceptively labeled.
Merger, Assets, Sales, etc.
If Half-Lime.com or any of its lines of business is sold, pledged or disposed of as a going concern whether by merger, sale of assets, bankruptcy or otherwise, then the user database of Half-Lime.com could be sold as part of that transaction and all User Information accessed by such successor or purchaser.
No Warranties.
Due to the numerous technical and operational uncertainties, we cannot make any warranty, guarantee or representation concerning the accuracy, thoroughness, completeness, or currency of your information, nor over our ability to control, correct, access, handle, process, use, store or transfer such information, and all such warranties are hereby disclaimed.
Changes to Privacy Statement.
Since we are constantly making changes and upgrades to our systems and services in order to better serve you, and how we manage your personal information may accordingly change, we anticipate updating this Privacy Statement from time-to-time. Therefore, we reserve the right to revise the content of this Privacy Statement in any manner and at any time, without notice, however we will note the date of revision. It is your responsibility to check the Site each time prior to access for any changes.
Protection of Your Personal Information.
While we strive to undertake appropriate and reasonable measures to safeguard your information, please remember that, due to the many technical uncertainties, complete security of Internet transmissions cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, you understand and agree that Half-Lime.com is unable to provide any warranty, guarantee or representation concerning the protection of your information or concerning the existence or effectiveness of any security measures undertaken. Half-Lime.com will not be liable for any claims, losses, or damages which may result from access by an unauthorized third party, or the introduction of viruses, worms, or other harmful elements into the system and their possible effects on personal information contained on the Site.
Limitation of Liability.
In no event will Half-Lime.com, its affiliates and divisions, and their respective employees, officers, directors, contractors, suppliers, vendors, insurers and agents, be liable to you or to any other person for any costs, damages (including any special, incidental, exemplary, indirect or consequential damages), or liability of any nature, arising from any cause, resulting from the collection, use, transfer, processing, handling, content, or storage of personal information obtained or submitted by you resulting from your access and use of this site.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Statement or the use of your information, please contact us at contacts@half-lime.com.
Last Updated: 1/9/2006