We have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our strong commitment to protecting
your personal information and informing you about how we handle this information.
This privacy policy only applies to data gathered
and transactions and activities in which you engage
on the SomaliCity.net Website, SomaliCity.net Instant
Messenger, SomaliCity.net Forums, and SomaliCity.net
email communications between SomaliCity.net members
(hereinafter collectively known as the "Site")
but does not apply to any other Website or offline point
of contact between SomaliCity.net or any other company
or consumers.
Please review this privacy policy periodically as we
may modify it from time to time without prior notice.
This privacy policy was last revised on June 03, 2005.
Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information,
by doing so you are accepting the practices described
in this privacy policy at that time.
The information collected from
our members at the time of registration is divided into the following sections:
Your IP Address: Like most
other websites on the Internet today, each time you visit
our Site we collect your IP address and the web pages
that you visited, as well as the websites that you came
from. In order to better improve our Site, we use your
IP address to track your habits throughout our Site to
get a better understanding of a broad demographical pattern
of our visitors.
Cookies: Like most other websites on the Internet
today, we use cookies to keep track of your login sessions
and other activities on the Site and to enhance your experience
on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific
to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose,
to save other personal and financial information so that
you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the
Site. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place
or read cookies on your browser.
Information We Collect From You: In order
to operate the Site and to provide you with information
or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect
"personal information" (i.e. information that
could be used to contact you directly without using the
Site, such as full name, postal address, phone number
and email address), "financial information"
(i.e. credit card numbers) or "demographical information"
(i.e. information that you submit, or that we collect,
that is neither personal information nor financial information;
this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal
code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth date, purchase
history information, browsing history throughout the Site,
searching history throughout the Site, registration history
information, and the content of communications between
you and other members over the Site), subject to the rest
of this paragraph. Demographical information is divided
into two categories: 1) "non-public information",
which consists of purchase history information and one-on-one
communications between you and other users of the Site;
and 2) "public information", which consists
of all other demographic information. We ask that you
do not enter personal information or financial information
into your "Profile" (for example, don't use
your address or password as your username, or include
your name or address in your written responses for "Location",
"About Me", "Likes", or "Dislikes
'; as well as any section of the Forums or Instant Message
services), because if you do then it may be posted publicly
on the Site, and the information will then be treated
as "demographic information" that is "public
information." Please note that nowhere on the Site
do we knowingly collect personal information from children
under the age of 16, as we require that all users represent
to us that they are at the age of 16 years or older.
Use of Information Collected: We reserve the right
to use your "personal information" in the following
ways, but not limited to: contacting you directly in instances
of email confirmations, promotional materials, newsletters,
transactions, important news about the Site, third parties'
goods or services. We may attempt to send you discounts,
coupons, exclusive offers or special event information.
Information Other Websites Collect From You: On the
Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other parties. Some of these
other Websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual property
that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit these other
Websites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks
and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do not control these
other Websites or these other Websites' business practices, and that this privacy
policy does not apply to these other Websites. Consequently, the operators of
these other Websites may collect different kinds of information about you, and
may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were
collected on the Site. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind
you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
Additional information collected:
Contact Us:
When
you contact SomaliCity.net through the 'Contact Us'
feature, we use the email address and information entered
to respond to questions or problems about the Site.
Additionally, certain types of data, such as your IP
address, browser, type of computer and operating system
are collected automatically. This information is very
useful to us in answering your questions, especially
those involving a technical difficulty. We may document
your IP address, browser type and other technical information
for use in diagnosing problems with our server, managing
security and for demographic reference.
Database:
The SomaliCity.net database resides behind
a firewall in order to protect against the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under our control.
We have taken preventive measures to restrict access
to sensitive data, as well as to detect and prohibit
certain connections and operations by unauthorized users.
While our measures exceed industry standards, no claim
is made as to the impenetrability of the system under
unusual circumstance or its resilience to future attacks.
Links:
SomaliCity.net contains links to other
web sites. Please note that when you click on one of
these links, you are 'clicking' to another web site.
We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these
linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from
ours.
Contacting the Site:
If you have any questions about this privacy
statement, the practices of the Site, or your dealings
with the Site, you should first contact SomaliCity.net
by clicking on the 'Contact Us' button.
