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DestinationMale.com, a website
owned by Alternative Media Group, LLC is firmly committed to ensuring
your privacy. The protection of your privacy is very important to
us. We have adopted and we are committed to the following practices
to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information. We
will notify all registered users via email of any material change
to this privacy policy. From time to time, changes to this privacy
policy will also be communicated on the Privacy Policy page of this
site. These will only be minor changes and will not affect your
personal information.
About the information we collect
DestinationMale.com is an online network which provides you useful tools
and the opportunity to connect with other Gay and Bisexual men for
sex, friendship or dating. DestinationMale.com’s basic service is FREE to
anyone over 18 yrs old.
We collect address, credit card, and bank information only from
those who wish to acquire Premium member benefits.
None of this information can be accessed or used by individuals
not under the direct employment of DestinationMale.com.
At your own discretion, you may choose to post additional facts
about yourself on your profile. While some members freely elect
to include their names in their profile, it is not requested or
required, and the DestinationMale.com Terms of Service forbids posting personal
contact information for any reason.
In the course of using our site, we automatically track certain
information such as your IP addresses and email addresses. Many
sites collect this sort of information. If you choose to post messages
in a bulletin board, chat room or other message area on this site,
only the information about you that you choose to reveal will be
displayed. If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site,
you should be aware that any personally identifiable information
you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users
of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages.
We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information
you choose to submit in any public area of the site. We reserve
the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use these Services
in a manner inconsistent with our Terms of Use.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters,
or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about
your activities or postings on the site, we may collect such information
into a file which is only accessed by authorized personnel. We may
also collect other users’ comments about you in our complaints department.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about
our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address.
We may automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting
him or her to visit the site. DestinationMale.com stores this information
for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking
the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us
at MemberSupport and request that we remove this information from
our database.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to
information about the user. We use session ID cookies. A session
ID cookie simply terminates once a user closes the browser. Some
of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers).
However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once
we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising.
Our Use of Your Information
We internally use personally identifiable information of our users
to improve our marketing efforts, to statistically analyze site
usage, to process member payment and monetary transactions, to comply
with applicable law, to improve our content and product offerings
as well as to customize our site's content and layout. We believe
these uses allow us to improve our site and serve you better.
We may also use personally identifiable information about you to
deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to
your interests, such as targeted banners and promotions.
We send periodic informational updates to our members via email.
We send e-mail advertisements to those who opted in to receive such
advertisements or otherwise in compliance with the Can-Spam Statute.
Users who no longer wish to receive our updates and communications
may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the
"unsubscribe" link in the email or email us at Member Support. You
may also contact us at Alternative Media Group, LLC. Att: Member
Support, 224A Channel Dr, Tampa, Fl. 33606 to opt-out.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We DO NOT sell or rent any personally identifiable information about
you to any third party without your permission. We do disclose information
in aggregate to advertisers and for other marketing and promotional
purposes. However, in these situations, we DO NOT disclose to these
entities any information that could be used to personally identify
you. Certain information, such as your password, credit card number,
and bank account Number, are not disclosed in aggregate at all.
DestinationMale.com cooperates with all law enforcement inquiries and with
all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other
rights.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information
as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary
to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding,
court order, or legal process served on our Web site. We use a credit
card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These
companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable
information for any other purposes.
Your Use of Other User’s Information
You may not use other user’s information for commercial purposes,
to spam, to harass, or to make unlawful threats. DestinationMale.com reserves
the right to terminate those who misuse other user’s information
or who otherwise violate the DestinationMale.com Terms of Use.
Control of Your Password
Please do not disclose your password to any third parties or share
it with any third parties. If you lose control of your password,
you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable
information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken
on your behalf. If your password has been compromised for any reason,
you should immediately change your password.
Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Information
Once you register and become a member, either limited or Premium,
you will be able to view and change much of your personal information
at DestinationMale.com including: your email address, your city, your state;
your zip code, your country, your password and your profile description.
Please promptly update your information if it changes by logging
in to your account and following the prompts. We strongly urge you
to periodically change your password to help reduce the risk of
unauthorized access to your account information.
Upon your request, we will remove your credit card number and credit
card expiration date from our main databases. To make this request,
email us at Member Support. We will retain in our files information,
including credit card information, you have requested to remove
in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems, comply with Credit Card Merchant Banking and Association
Agreements, enhance security, reduce fraud, comply with Federal
and State Law, and to enforce our Terms of Use Agreement.
Third Party Collections of Information
Our policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information
we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information
to other parties on our system or other sites on the Internet, different
rules may apply to their use of disclosure of the personal information
you disclose to them. While DestinationMale.com is working closely with other
sites to insure the highest privacy to you, we encourage you to
be cautious about disclosing personal information to anyone.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our
behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also
known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising
effectiveness. The use of cookies is a very common practice on the
Internet. If you are uncomfortable with this, you can disable all
cookies through your browser settings. Your enjoyment of our site
won't be affected if you have set your browser to reject cookies.
Security
DestinationMale.com has security measures in place to protect and prevent
the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.
DestinationMale.com uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality
of your personal identifiable information such as firewalls. While
"perfect security" does not exist on the Internet, our technical
staff works hard to ensure your secure use of our services.
Update and or Delete
DestinationMale.com members have the following choices to modify or delete
their information from our database:
• Send an email to Member Support
• Log in with your password and modify/delete your profile or
• Send a snail mail to:
Destination Male
Attn: Member Support, 2314 S. Clewis #103
Tampa, Fl. 33629
DestinationMale.com Privacy Policy – Created on (07/25/05)
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