We Are Committed To Your Privacy

Update April 2009 – Privacy Policy

This website/blog uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when visiting this site. These third parties may collect and use information (but not your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, you can visit Google’s Advertising and Privacy page.

If you wish to opt out of Advertising companies tracking and tailoring advertisements to your surfing patterns you may do so at Network Advertising Initiative.

Google uses the Doubleclick DART cookie to serve ads across it’s Adsense network and you can get further information regarding the DART cookie at Doubleclick as well as opt out options at Google’s Privacy Center

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

The Information We Collect From You:

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the BadGuysBeGone.com website. The types of personal information collected when you sign up are:

    (user) Name
    Email address
    Home Page (optional)
    Random information that you provide (optional)

The Way We Use Information:

We use the information you provide about yourself when registering to verify that you have requested access to our site. We do not share this information with outside parties – EVER.

If you activate the “Personal Contact Form” in your account to allow other members to contact you via the site, your email address is not disclosed. All members (including moderators and the site owners) are limited to sending no more than three email messages per hour via the site-contact form. This three-message per hour limit is our way of protecting members from people that may try to use our site for spamming. Note that when sending a message to a member via their contact form, your email address will be disclosed to that member in the “from” address.

eMail Address In Forum and Comment Posts:

To protect your privacy, posting of email address in comments for forum posts is not permitted. All posts containing email address are automatically unpublished and are either deleted or edited to remove the email address before being published. We do this to protect our members from spammers that may harvest your email address from our site.  

Cookies, ‘Web Beacons’ and Visitor Data Tracking

We may place a ‘cookie’ on your computer or create a unique “session id” for purposes of remembering your preferences, pages viewed, etc. BadGuysBeGone.com does not use cookies or session ID’s for ‘tracking’ purposes or for gathering any personally identifiable information about you. If you choose, you may disable cookies in your web-browser to prevent use of such cookies.

BadGuysBeGone.com uses a combination of web-server logs and third-party analytical data gathering tools for the purposes of aggregate visitor traffic information which may set a cookie on your computer. The data collected by these third-party services may include information such as your IP address, type of web-browser, and computer operating system.

Currently BadGuysBeGone.com uses the following third-party visitor tracking tools:

BadGuysBeGone.com does not use “web beacons” of any kind with the exception of third-party links or advertisers (see next section).

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

We allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within our Site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on BadGuysBeGone.com. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

BadGuysBeGone.com does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks. The advertiser(s) may also use information regarding your use of BadGuysBeGone.com, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. BadGuysBeGone.com privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

Currently, BadGuysBeGone.com has relationships with the following third-party ad servers or ad networks:

 How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect and maintain or modify it by clicking the “My Account” link in the upper-left (grey) area of most pages on our website.

Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cancellation of services

You may, at any time request to cancel your account and specify that all your data be removed from our servers. Please note that all posts, comments, or replies made by you on our website become the property of BadGuysBeGone.com and will not be removed. Upon removal from our system all posts, comments or replies made by you will be re-attributed to the user “Anonymous”.