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Privacy

Felinest respects the privacy concerns of its users on any of the websites within the Gallopbox network, and for the purpose of this policy will be referred to as “Felinest”. Felinest has created this privacy policy, which will be referred to as “The Policy” to provide guidelines which govern the collection, use and disclosure of any personal and non-personal information of its users.

Felinest collects three kinds of information on our websites, personal information voluntarily supplied by the user, anonymous non-personal information and cookies tracking information.

Personal Information

Felinest does not automatically collect personally identifiable information from our users. The information Felinest collects from users who voluntarily fill out contact forms, subscribe to newsletters or other activities carried out on the websites will only be collected, used and disclosed if the user has voluntarily agreed to such collection, use and disclosure.

Felinest may also periodically use email addresses that have been provided by users on a voluntary basis to respond to communications, inform winners of contests or to provide subscription to newsletters or other services. Any emails that come from Felinest to our users will provide instructions for discontinuing receipt of future communications from our network, and users may discontinue these communications at any time. We will remove the email addresses of users who discontinue our communications from our distribution lists.

Any personally identifiable information that has been collected by Felinest with the user’s consent will not be disclosed in any identifiable form to any third parties outside our company network except to fulfill the specific purpose identified at time of collection or as required by law.

Felinest may disclose this collected information in an aggregated form which is anonymous and not personally identifiable to other parties for advertising, marketing or other purposes to better understand our users needs. Our users may send us an email at any time to info@felinest.com to request that their personal information be changed, updated, reviewed or changed in the Felinest database.

Felinest warns its users to be cautious when they provide personally identifiable information in comments, forums, chat rooms or any other public space on our websites and any other website. Public areas are accessible by anyone any can result in users receiving unsolicited messages from people and/ or companies not affiliated with Felinest. Our network is committed to protecting any personal information collected on any of our websites in compliance with this privacy policy, we cannot guarantee the security of information supplied by our users to public areas of the website.

Anonymous Information

When users visit Felinest we will automatically collect anonymous, non-personal information. This information may include date of visit, length of visit, users navigation within the websites, pages viewed, users browser, users operating system and the domain name of the users ISP. Felinest may use this non-personal information anonymously with the intention of creating a better user experience for our users. This non-personal information may be shared with third parties such as sponsors, advertisers, partners and broadcasters.

Cookie Information

Cookies are bits of code that a website transfers to a user’s hard drive for identification and record keeping purposes. Felinest may use cookies on its websites to enhance the user’s experience on our websites by saving preferences and passwords and to identify popular areas of the website, areas which need to be improved and how to target advertising to its users. Felinest doesn’t use cookies to collect personal information from its users except in connection with any password protected registration, newsletters or other services where the user is informed and gives consent for such use. Users may visit the websites with their cookies turned off to avoid the collection of cookie-based information.

Protection of Visitors’ Personal Information

Felinest will protect all personal information it collects with administrative, physical and technological safeguards to protect it from unauthorized disclosure or use. Access to personal information collected by Felinest is limited to authorized individuals. Felinest will only retain this information for as long as is required to carry out the purpose identified to the user and consented upon collection, or as required by law. Once the personal information is no longer necessary for the consented purpose, Felinest will delete said information from our database or make it anonymous.

Linked Websites

Felinest may contain links to other websites. Felinest does not control these websites and users are urged to read and understand the privacy policy of these linked websites they visit before using them. Felinest is not responsible for and will not be held liable for the policies, procedures and activities of any of the websites that we link to anywhere on the www.felinest.com website.

Consent

By navigating to and using www.felinest.com, you are indicating agreement to the Privacy Policy outlined here as well as the Terms of Use. If you do not agree with our privacy policies or our Terms of use, do not use or provide any personal information to Felinest website.

*Last updated May 2010