myLot privacy policy
myLot.com takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about
our privacy policy.
About myLot Privacy
This policy explains how myLot treats personal information that myLot collects and
receives when an individual becomes a myLot member. Personal information is information
that is personally identifiable like your name, address, birth date, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy applies only to myLot and does not apply to the practices of companies
that myLot does not own or control or to people that myLot does not employ or manage.
In addition, certain myLot associated companies have their own privacy statements
which can be viewed by going to their websites.
General Information
myLot collects personal information such as your name, email address, country you
reside in, and birth date when you register for our services. myLot may also collect
other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with
each other. Once you register with myLot and sign in to our services, your personal
information will only be available to us and will remain anonymous to other myLot
members.
Security
myLot member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. myLot takes precautions
to insure that member account information is kept private. Please note that we cannot
guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member
information at any time. For any additional information about the security measures
we use on myLot.com, please contact us with your questions or concerns.
Information Sharing and Disclosing
User Profile information such as user id is displayed to myLot members in order
to facilitate user interaction in the myLot social networking community. To facilitate
searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, myLot allows users
to search for other members by user ID, and country of residence. When using myLot
Mail, your first name will be displayed. myLot.com displays little personal information
in order to keep a safe and secure environment for all myLot.com members.
From time to time, myLot or a partner of myLot, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstakes, or contest on myLot.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including
name, email address, home address, and/or answer certain questions in order to participate.
We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly
requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection
who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
As otherwise described in this privacy statement, myLot will not disclose any personal
information to a third party, except if any situation arises and myLot believes
disclosure is necessary. The following are exceptions:
- myLot will conform to any legal requirements, respond to a subpoena, search warrant
or any other legal process received, whether or not a response is required by applicable
law
- myLot also reserves the right to exchange any personal information to any related
companies.
- myLot will enforce the myLot “Terms of Agreement” to protect our rights; and to
protect the safety of members of the public and users of myLot.com
- myLot reserves the right to transfer personal information to any successor in interest
that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of myLot or substantially
all of its assets to that successor in interest.
If you have any concern about your personal information, please feel free to contact
us, and we will assist you with any concerns.
Communication between Members and Non-members
myLot Mail
Members
myLot Mail is used for the purpose of inviting friends to discuss topics of interest
in a private and safe environment. When an individual signs up for a myLot account, that member automatically is signed up for myLot Mail. Your user id name will be
your myLot Mail address. myLot Mail can only be used within the myLot network. When
a member receives a myLot message from another member, the user will need to Allow
or Disallow this person from sending future myLot Mail to them. This is how we help
to prevent spam. You only get approved mail after the initial contact. Members can
easily view and edit their Allow/ Disallow list at any time.
Non-members
myLot is a closed network, so a member cannot receive emails from traditional email
addresses. However, if a myLot member wants to invite an individual with a traditional
email address to join myLot, a notification will be sent to that individual’s traditional
email address requesting that individual to view your message by joining myLot.com
and becoming a myLot member.
Discussion Board
myLot is a self-regulated social network that encourages myLot members to interact
with each other through a discussion board. The myLot discussion board is publicly
displayed; meaning members and non-members can view any discussion. Please keep
in mind that any private information that you voluntarily post on a discussion board
will be displayed. For the safety of all myLot members, we would strongly discourage
members from posting any personal information about themselves on a discussion board.
myLot would recommend displaying any personal information in myLot Mail for only
selected members to view. Following these recommendations will enable myLot to maintain
a safe and secure place for members to come and discuss topics of interest.
Links
myLot is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites.
When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that
site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on myLot.
Cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier
that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's
hard drive. Each web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's
preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a
web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent
to you by other sites.
Choices about Cookies
You can configure your browser to accept or reject all cookies, or notify you when
a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser
to learn how to change your cookie preferences). In order to take advantage of myLot.com
and to use most functions on myLot.com, you must enable cookies from myLot.com.
Why does myLot.com use cookies?
myLot uses its own cookies for a number of reasons. myLot uses cookies to store
members' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring
that members are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize
newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile
information. myLot can access your information when you "sign in," so that we can
provide you with a customized content. myLot can estimate and report our total audience
size and traffic and conduct research to improve myLot’s content and services. We
do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information
you submit while on our site.
Third Party Advertisers and cookies
myLot uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website.
These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or
telephone number) about your visits to this website, other Web sites, and other forms
of media 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, click here.
Toolbar for myLot
Information we collect
- The myLot Toolbar automatically sends only standard, limited information in order
to improve the functions of the myLot Toolbar, which may be retained in myLot’s
server logs. It does not send any information about the web pages you visit (e.g., the URL). You do not need to provide any personal information in order to download
and use the myLot Toolbar.
- Your copy of myLot Toolbar includes a unique application number. When you install
myLot Toolbar, this number and a message indicating whether the installation succeeded
are sent back to myLot. Also, when myLot Toolbar automatically checks to see if
a new version is available, the current version number and the unique application
number are sent to myLot. The unique application number is required for myLot Toolbar
to work and cannot be disabled.
- Toolbar Features that give you access to other myLot features such as Mozilla Firefox
are subject to the separate Privacy Policies, which can be viewed on their websites.
- The myLot Toolbar contacts our servers periodically to obtain automatic updates
to the latest version, or as part of the uninstall process.
- Except for information sent through Toolbar for use with a separate myLot Account-based
service, we do not associate any of the information that Toolbar sends with other
personal information about you. However, it is possible that a URL or other page
information sent to myLot may itself contain personal information.
Uses
- We process your requests in order to operate the myLot Toolbar.
- In addition, we use log information about aggregate Toolbar usage to improve the
quality of Toolbar and other myLot services.
Information security
- Any information sent to myLot will be maintained in accordance with the myLot Privacy
Policy
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
myLot reserves the right to make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of the changes that have been
made. myLot members are bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he
uses the site after those changes have been posted.
Questions and Suggestions
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policy, please
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