PRIVACY POLICY

We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at Old-Friends.co (the "website"). The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the website.

Information we collect

We collect the following information in our website from our site users..

1. Email Address.

2. User Name.

3. Password. (We do not store your password directly, only an encrypted version that can be matched to similarly encrypted entries. If you forget your password, a new temporary one will be generated.)

4. One or more challenge questions and answers for use if you forget your password (future feature).

We do not share personal private information with other companies or third parties, but if the need arises to change this policy, we will not do so until we get explicit permission from our users. We never sell your personal information to third parties. If, in the course of time, ownership of Old-Friends.co is transfered, the database containing your information will be included in that transfer, of course. If a new owner intends to change these terms, they will be bound by these same terms (any modifications will require permission from each user to keep using the data).

Announcements and other messages

We may email messages to you directly on matters concerning your acount, to notify you of messages from other users, or to otherwise enhance your experience on the website, including, but not limited to: invitations to start or view threads in the forums, to increase your participation in the Surname Registry, to encourage the contribution of content, and to consider becoming a volunteer caretaker. Occasionally we email announcements to our users. You may opt out of some of these, after receiving a few, by visiting your account page.

Log Files

Like most websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Roudrunner Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site. This information is used for purposes, including but not limited to: analyzing usage trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. Our site uses cookies primarily to make it convenient to login. Some of our advertisers use cookies on our website. We have no access to (or control over) these cookies. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options.

Links

This website may contain links to other third party external sites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Disabling cookies

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

We encourage our users to review this privacy policy frequently, as it may change from time to time.