Privacy Statement for AquaScapingWorld.com

AquaScapingWorld.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: www.aquascapingworld.com.

General User Notice

This site makes chat rooms, forums, and message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Although aquascapingworld.com tries to protect your personal information when using these public forums, www.aquascapingworld.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. It is also not the www.aquascapingworld.com's responsibility for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords you set up and/or any account information you have disclosed. Aquascapingworld.com is not responsible for any material posted in any Bulletin Board, chat room or in any other forum on this Web site. AquaScapingWorld.com is merely providing access to such material in such Forum(s) as a service to you. In order to participate in Forums, you must register and agree to the Terms and Condition set forth by registering, and with the Terms and Conditions of use for this site. With respect to any materials posted for inclusion in such Forums by other parties, such parties are responsible for the reliability, accuracy, and truthfulness of such material and such matters are beyond the control of aquascapingworld.com. Similarly, aquascapingworld.com has no control over whether such material is of a nature that users will find inoffensive, tasteful and otherwise acceptable and expressly disclaims any responsibility for such material. Just as when you obtain materials in any other setting, you should exercise appropriate discretion, good judgment and caution in accessing materials in any of the Forums and in taking any actions based upon material in such Forums. Accordingly, you will bear all risk associated with any such material that you access.

Information Automatically Logged

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Additionally sections of our site related to voting/ranking use an ip for non-demographical reasons to prevent multiple fraudulent voting. Use of Cookies AquaScaping World use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize AquaScaping World's pages, or register with AquaScaping World's site or services, a cookie helps AquaScaping World to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as profile information, login information, subscriptions, and so on. When you return to the same AquaScaping World Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the AquaScaping World features that you customized. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the AquaScaping World services or Web sites you visit.

Advertisers

We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information. Some customer data is shared with the advertising companies. This information is limited to broad demographical information and does not include cookie related tracking information or personal user details. Demographics and cookies are not tied to personal user information.

Registration & Contest Forms

AquaScapingWorld.com may collect data on users via registration forms, contest forms and survey forms on our site in which we ask visitors for general contact information (like email address), unique identifiers (like a customer id), and demographic information (like zip code, age, or income level). Contact information from the contests is used to ship purchases, information about our company, and to send promotional material from some of our partners to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary, and to share with other companies who may want to contact our visitors. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information that is collected is used for classification, profiling, and traffic analysis purposes. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information may be shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. AquaScapingWorld.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Special Relationships

1. Google AdSense provides advertising content for AquaScapingWorld.com, and collects data and other information from our sites. You may view the Google AdSense Privacy policy at www.google.com/adsense.
2. vBulletin is a software provider of AquaScapingWorld.com. No user information is exchanged in this relationship.
3. PhotoPlog is a software provider of AquaScapingWorld.com. No user information is exchanged in this relationship.

Children's Guidelines

We care about children and understand that they have special privacy needs. Therefore, we have adopted the following privacy policy regarding children:

• We will NOT collect, use, or distribute to third parties personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.
• We will NOT knowingly give the child access to unmonitored chat rooms, message boards, email accounts, or other services that would give the child the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent
  • When verifiable parental consent is not obtained, we will only use the online contact information (such as email) to:
  • Respond directly to the child's request on a one-time basis and not use that information to re-contact the child for other purposes.
  • Request the name or online contact information of a parent for the purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing parental notification.
• Respond more than once directly to a specific request from a child (such as in the case where a child requests a newsletter subscription) and not used to re-contact the child for other purposes. We will use our best efforts to provide parental notification, which will include the nature and intended use as well as an opportunity for the parent to prevent the use of the information and participation in the activity.
• We will NOT entice the child to divulge more information than is needed to participate in any activity, game, or service.
• We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of a personally identifiable information collected from their child upon request. We will allow the parent to refuse further use or future online collection of personally identifiable information and provide a way for a parent to obtain any personally identifiable information collected from their child.
• We will provide notice to children in age appropriate terms of what personally identifiable information is to be collected.
• We will NOT provide any links to Web sites that are unsuitable for children.
• We will encourage children to get their parent's permission before sharing personal information online.

Choice/Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving promotional/marketing information from our partners, and us .

1. All forms of media have an opt out method - some have URL's or specified pages that you can opt out through, others may have an e-mail address to reply to with instructions on how to opt out. In all cases, you can e-mail AquaScapingWorld.com's support department at admin@aquascapingworld.com and we will gladly assist you to ensure your time with us isn't frustrating.
2. NOTE: All services have their own features to opt-out of any publications.

Data Quality/Access

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

1. You can send email to admin@aquascapingworld.com
2. Each service will have it's own feature for user to change/edit personal information.

Aquascapingworld.com reserves the right to monitor and delete any postings deemed inconsistent with its policies. Aquascapingworld.com also reserves the right to, at its discretion, terminate the registration of any Forum user who violates any of the Terms of Use. If you are aware of any objectionable material posted in a Forum, please click the "Report This Post" icon at the bottom right of the post. Provide as much detail as possible, including a copy of the underlying material, the location where ASW staff may find it, and the reason(s) the post should be removed. To the extent any notice is based on an alleged copyright or trademark violation, please provide copies of applicable state or federal registration certificates. Although aquascapingworld.com will do its best to monitor materials in Forums, in no event does it assume any particular obligation to do so or liability for failing to either monitor the Forums or remove specific material.