This privacy policy was last updated on the following
date: [04 March 2008]
This privacy policy relates to the following domains owned and operated by Trekcafe
Ltd:
- TrekCafe.com
The Privacy Policy can be found at the
bottom of most pages on the TREKCAFE Service and is accessible from the
following link: http://www.trekcafe.com/privacy.html
If you have any queries in relation to this Privacy Policy, you can email us
at: support@trekcafe.com
This is a legal document which sets out how Trekcafe handles data which
identifies you. This Privacy Policy forms part of our Term and Conditions. At Trekcafe
We believe strongly in protecting the privacy of our Members' personal information.
This statement describes the privacy practices we apply for the TREKCAFE
Service. As part of that, it also expresses our approach to complying with the
data protection laws which apply in the State of Israel.
1. The information we gather and track
Information gathered on registration. When you register for the TREKCAFE
Service, you provide your name, your email address, your gender, your date of
birth, nationality, your location details and some optional details about
yourself. They are available to you, and capable of being corrected or updated,
through your TREKCAFE profile page
Members are send notifications related to the use of the TrekCafe service and
conduct market research and marketing for TrekCafe's internal use only. You
should also be aware that Members may reveal other personal information while
communicating on other areas of the TrekCafe website, e.g., while participating
in discussions on TrekCafe Groups and/or posting information
on TrekCafe
Blogs. This information, in turn, might be viewed by other
Members or visitors to the TrekCafe website who are not Members.
Finally, we also collect some information from Members,
as well as from other visitors to the TrekCafe website, that is not personally
identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered
from all Members and visitors to the website.
1.
Contacting Trekcafe
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this
site, or your dealings with TrekCafe, you can contact us here at Contact@TrekCafe.com. You can also use
this address if you wish to request from Trekcafe a copy of the personal data
we hold about you or a description of that data.
2. Access to Personally Identifiable Information
The information we collect may be used:
- To provide our
customer support service and to verify any claims or requests you make if
you use our customer support service.
- To enforce our
terms and conditions and prevent or detect hacking activities, security
breaches or safety risks in connection with our websites.
- To process your
payment for membership subscriptions or other goods or services ordered on
our site or to fulfill such orders.
- To send service
announcements and messages. For example, a reminder is sent to members if
a subscription payment is due.
- To aggregate
information to generate anonymous statistics regarding use of our
websites. We may share this anonymous information with our partners and
advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can
identify any individual person.
- For our own
internal marketing and demographic studies and to help us improve our
website.
- In the event of
an actual or proposed (including as part of negotiations for any) merger,
or business combination or sale of substantially all of our assets or a
business operation to which such information relates or as provided under
bankruptcy or applicable insolvency laws or by the enforcement of
equitable rights.
you may always correct, update, delete or deactivate your Membership through
the Member's account settings menu option found at the top of most pages when
logged on to the TREKCAFE Service. Alternatively, you can email TREKCAFE
Customer Support at the following email: support@trekcafe.com
or by mail to 3 Hovot
3.
Information Sharing and use of
Any visitor to the TREKCAFE Service anywhere in the world can view your profile
information and photos that you have uploaded to the TREKCAFE.com community.
You can control what part of your profile information and photos is visible to
visitors of the TREKCAFE.com website and which network of TREKCAFE.com members
can see what information.
Your home and current location, in terms of your town / city, state / county
and country, and any other location specific information you submit to the TREKCAFE
Service must be considered at all times to be publicly available information,
save where you specify (in the Privacy options that apply to your profile) that
you wish your profile only to be viewable by either Members or friends.
Advertising. The TREKCAFE Service may include interactive advertising for other
businesses. We may use, and provide to third parties, anonymous demographic
data provided by Members to target this advertising more appropriately.
TREKCAFE companies and subsidiaries.
We may share data supplied by you (or collected about you) with our
subsidiaries and other companies owned by us, but only for the purposes
described in this policy.
Changes in TREKCAFE's business. If all of the assets which TREKCAFE uses to
operate its business (or substantially all of them) are acquired by a third
party, we may transfer personal data we then hold to that party.
4. Sharing Information
The personal information of a Member contained in his or her profile will be
shown to those people whom the Member chooses. Each Member has three options when choosing
the level of sharing of his or her profile. They are:
·
"Friends" which consists
only of that Member's friends,
·
"Friends of Friends" which
consists of that Member's friends, as well as the extended group of people who are
friends of that Member's friends, and
·
"Anyone" which is all
visitors to the TrekCafe website, whether or not they are TrekCafe members.
PLEASE NOTE THAT, REGARDLESS OF WHAT PERSONAL
INFORMATION A MEMBER CHOOSES TO INCLUDE IN HIS OR HER PROFILE, OR WHAT LEVEL OF
SHARING HE OR SHE CHOOSES, CERTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT EACH MEMBER WILL BE
INCLUDED IN THAT MEMBER'S PROFILE. A LIST OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN EACH
PROFILE CAN BE FOUND IN THE TrekCafe TERMS OF SERVICE.
Your name and profile picture thumbnail will be available in all search results
across the TREKCAFE.com network and may be searchable through third party
web-sites with which we partner (such as sites for which we provide a social
network service) and third party search engines, and may be automatically
notified to third party tracking websites/weblogs.
The fact that your TREKCAFE profile has been added or updated, as well as a
short extract from the title page of your TREKCAFE profile, may be
automatically notified to third party tracking websites/weblogs (thus
increasing the traffic to the TREKCAFE Service, and potentially to your own TREKCAFE
profile).
5.
Emails.
As part of the TREKCAFE Service, TREKCAFE sends Members newsletters and emails.
You may also receive email notifications when you have new mail in your TREKCAFE
inbox or when you have received a reply to your "Chatboard" topic.
6.
Links to third party sites
Our site contains links to other sites. Trekcafe is not responsible for the
privacy practices, or the content, of those web sites or services of other
companies or organizations to which we link or which link to us or which
provide goods or services to our users from their web sites (such as
co-branded, white label or affiliate sites)
7. Security
This website takes every precaution to
protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the
website, your information is protected both online and off-line. To keep
personal data safe members should take responsibility to log off or exit
TrekCafe.com when not using it; and to keep his/her username and password
secret
8. Refer-A-Friend
If a user chooses to use our referral
service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name
and email address. TrekCafe will automatically send the friend a one-time email
inviting them to visit the site. TrekCafe stores this information for the sole
purpose of sending this one-time email and to allow that person being referred
to sign up using their email address and referral code to do so. The person
being referred may contact TrekCafe to request the removal of this information
from their database.
9.
Disclosure for legal reasons
We reserve the right to release member's personal information to third parties
which seek the disclosure of it, if they make a legally-compliant request for
its disclosure.
10.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy or email practices, we will post
those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem
appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right
to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.
If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email,
or by means of a notice on our home page.
