Jade Lighthouse Privacy Policy

Commitment To Your Privacy

This site is owned and operated by Jade Lighthouse. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Jade Lighthouse, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

Information Jade Lighthouse Gathers And Tracks

When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information:

1. Personal information that you knowingly choose to disclose by using our optional, voluntary services. These services are part of our Communication Services (forums, polls, surveys, and email).

2. Website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.

How Information Is Gathered

Jade Lighthouse gathers personal user information you knowingly choose to disclose in the following optional voluntary services, which are free services, but require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

1. Forums - Users of our forums must register in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.

2. Polling - We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. We may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

3. Surveys - We may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

4. Email - If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our response.

In addition to obtaining your personal information, when you use our site, we may collect tracking information such as your browser type, the type of operating system you use, the name of your Internet service provider, and pages visited on the site in order to develop aggregated user demographics and traffic pattern data. Jade Lighthouse gets tracking information by using tracking cookies. None of the tracking information identifies you personally; we collect it for reporting onsite activity in the aggregate. For example, we may want to know how long the average user spends on our site or which pages or features get the most attention.

Use Of Information

Jade Lighthouse uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to enable users to participate in our forums, polls, and surveys. Also, we may retain the content of any email that you send to us as well as our responses in order to maintain a record of communications between you and us.

We may use the aggregated user demographics and traffic pattern data to improve the functionality of our website.

We may create aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This data may help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because Jade Lighthouse derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing aggregated demographics and traffic pattern data is essential to keeping our service free to users. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person or computer. We will not disclose any information about any individual user EXCEPT to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public as decribed below.

Information Sharing And Disclosure

Under no circumstances does Jade Lighthouse divulge any information about an individual user to a third party EXCEPT when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:

1. Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on Jade Lighthouse.

2. Protect and defend the rights or property of Jade Lighthouse, or visitors to Jade Lighthouse.

3 .Identify persons who may be violating the law, the legal notice, or the rights of third parties.

4. Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities.

Protection Of Information

Jade Lighthouse maintains strict physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information and we regularly review our security standards and procedures to protect against unauthorized access to personal information. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties which receive the information. Jade Lighthouse also links to a wide variety of other sites and may contain advertisements of third parties. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or how they treat information about their users.

If you use the forums, DO NOT provide personal information you do not want known about yourself in your posts as these are viewable by the public. We cannot be responsible for any personal information you provide publicly in your posts on the forums.

Links To Other Websites

Jade Lighthouse may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy applicable to the website in question.

Children

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred from a website to a file in your computer's browser files so that the site administrator may identify your own unique computer and either passively track its activities on the website or store preferences you choose needed to operate certain features of the website.

A cookie will not allow a website to learn any personally identifiable information (such as your real name and address) that you have not otherwise disclosed. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

We may use cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Also, we use several cookies to store preferences you choose in order to better operate the world clock and the news reader on our website.

The use of cookies is an industry standard, and they are currently used on most major web sites. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in forums, polling and surveys.

Your Consent

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Jade Lighthouse. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Contact

You may refer any questions or concerns regarding the Privacy Policy to legal@jadelighthouse.com.