The owners of this Service have created this Privacy Statement (Policy) in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to help our users better understand what information we collect about them and what may happen to that information.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Websites listed below.

Overview

As part of the normal operation of our services we collect and, in some cases, may disclose information about you. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information. By accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Terms and Conditions.

This Privacy Statement applies to all related sites. All other  worldwide sites operate under similar privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy, and subject to the requirements of applicable local law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout the  online personals sites.

1. A Special Note About Children

Children are not eligible to use our services, and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with your parents or guardians.

2. Information We Collect

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs and to customize our service to make your experience easier. You agree that in order to assist our members to meet each other we may feature members' profiles in our editorials and newsletters that we send out from time to time to our members. Your name, address and telephone number are confidential and will not be posted in your profile. Your profile is available for other members to view. Members' profiles include a description and photos, likes and dislikes, individual essays and other information helpful in determining matches. Your viewable profile does not include any identifying information about you, except the username you chose upon registering.

Please note that your personally identifiable information will be stored and processed on our computers in the United States. The laws on holding personal data in the United States may differ from the European laws but as we explain below, We will hold and transmit your information in a safe, confidential and secure environment.

We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on our Websites using cookies and other devices. We use this information for internal research on our members' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not). Which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address.

We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of our Websites. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. We also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a "cookie". Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits.

We use a third party advertising company, to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. The third party may also collect anonymous information about your visits to our Web site. This is primarily accomplished through the use of a technology device, commonly referred to as a Web beacon or an action tag, which we place on various Web pages within our Web site or in an html e-mail that allows Atlas DMT to collect anonymous information. Atlas DMT may use information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide ads about goods and services of interest to you.

3. Our Use of Your Information

We use information in the files we maintain about you, and the other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Websites to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms and Conditions. At times, we may look across multiple members to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information to identify members multiple Member ID No. or aliases.

You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our Site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.

You agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use on the Websites. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information.

4. Our Disclosure of Your Information

Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting and foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government, law enforcement agencies or third parties. Under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or members may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our Websites. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.

Financial Information. Under some circumstances we may require some additional information, such as, but not limited to credit card details. We use this financial information, including your name, address, and other information, as well as to bill you for use of our services. We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for services and/or products, to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information on the Websites, you consent to our providing of your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for products or services of third parties offered on the Websites, or by participating in programs offered on the Websites that are administered by third parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties. Any of these various third parties may be authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that you submit to us.

Advertisers. We aggregate (gather up data across all our members' accounts) personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password, credit card number and bank account number, are never disclosed to marketing advertisers. 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. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.

External Service Providers. There may be a number of services offered by external service providers that help you use our Websites. If you choose to use these optional services, and in the course of doing so, disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their private policy.

Other Corporate Entities. We share much of our data, including personally identifiable information about you, with our parent and/or subsidiaries that are committed to serving your online needs and related services, throughout the world. To the extent that these entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other members. Our parent and/or subsidiaries will follow privacy practices no less protective of all members than our practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible that We and/or its subsidiaries, or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that we would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the service. You will receive notice of such event (to the extent it occurs) and we will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Legal Requests. we cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement and other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.

5. Your Use of other Members Information

Our services also include access to instant messaging and chat rooms. As a member you have access to the Member's ID No., and you might gain access to other contact information of the Member(s) through the regular use of the instant messaging and chat rooms. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree that, with respect to other Members' personally identifiable information that you obtain through instant messaging communication, the chat rooms and email, We hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for: (a) Your Company related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, and (b) any other purpose that such member expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). In all cases, you must give Members an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another member to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other member after adequate disclosure. PET Swap USA:: Pets, Dogs, Cats, Donkeys, Parrots, Budgies, Grebils, Guinea Pigs and our members do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a PET Swap USA:: Pets, Dogs, Cats, Donkeys, Parrots, Budgies, Grebils, Guinea Pigs member to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report spam from other PET Swap USA:: Pets, Dogs, Cats, Donkeys, Parrots, Budgies, Grebils, Guinea Pigs, please Contact Us.

6. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Profile

Following registration, you can review and change the information you submitted during registration through the Member Service Menu including: Your password and e-mail address. If you change your password and email we keep track of your old password and email. You can also change your registration information such as: name, address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, profile, likes and dislikes, desired date profile, essays and saves search criteria.

Upon your written request, we will suspend your membership, contact information, and financial information from our active databases. Such information will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our suspension policy and applicable law. To remove your profile so that others cannot view it, visit the Remove Your Profile section of Member Services.

We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove for certain circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our terms and conditions. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored 'back up' systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.

7. Control of Your Password

You are responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your PET Swap USA:: Pets, Dogs, Cats, Donkeys, Parrots, Budgies, Grebils, Guinea Pigs password or login information to any third parties. If you choose to share this information with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with your login information and password and therefore should review each third party's privacy policy. 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. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your passwod

8. Other Information Collectors

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are on our Websites or on other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers, they adhere to their own privacy policies. Since PET Swap USA:: Pets, Dogs, Cats, Donkeys, Parrots, Budgies, Grebils, Guinea Pigs does not control the privacy policies of the third parties, you are subject to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

9. Security

PET Swap USA:: Pets, Dogs, Cats, Donkeys, Parrots, Budgies, Grebils, Guinea Pigs uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. PET Swap USA:: Pets, Dogs, Cats, Donkeys, Parrots, Budgies, Grebils, Guinea Pigs treats data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by members inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

10. Notice

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on your comments and our need to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. All changes to this policy are effective after we provide you with at least (30) days notice of changes by sending email to members. We provide you with (30) days notice to allow you the opportunity to notify PET Swap USA:: Pets, Dogs, Cats, Donkeys, Parrots, Budgies, Grebils, Guinea Pigs if you do not agree to such changes.

Pet Swap Usa is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. We promise to work hard to earn and keep your trust, and therefore we will never rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third party services for marketing purposes or share your contact information with another member without your consent. By using the Pet Swap Usa website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. Notices of all changes that materially affect ways that your personally identifiable information may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our privacy policy. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If you continue to use Pet Swap Usa's website and services after these notices of changes have been posted to the site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us. 

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to become a Pet Swap Usa member you must first register for our service. During this registration process you are required to provide personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, and zip code. Once you are a member you may provide additional information for your member profile such as home address, gender, marital status, a brief biography, preferences, interests and favorites. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is optional, but will allow you to better identify yourself and find new connections at Pet Swap Usa.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Pet Swap Usa. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Pet Swap Usa for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Pet Swap Usa Web site. In order to invite others to your network, you must provide Pet Swap Usa with their email addresses. Pet Swap Usa will use the addresses to send the individuals an email inviting them to register with Pet Swap Usa. All information that you enter about these individuals will be covered by the same terms of this Privacy Policy as your own personally identifiable information. Pet Swap Usa stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend(s) may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Pet Swap Usa public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Pet Swap Usa does not read any of your private online communications.

Pet Swap Usa encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Pet Swap Usa so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Pet Swap Usa is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Pet Swap Usa and Pet Swap Usa family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Pet Swap Usa collects and uses your personal information to operate the Pet Swap Usa Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Pet Swap Usa also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Pet Swap Usa and its affiliates. Pet Swap Usa may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Pet Swap Usa will communicate with you through emails and messages posted on the Pet Swap Usa website. When you register with Pet Swap Usa you will receive a confirmation message, as well as a welcome message describing the features in the site. After this, you will receive email notifications related to the day to day activities in your account For example, Pet Swap Usa will inform you through email when you receive a message from another member. Pet Swap Usa may also send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving that information.

Choice/Opt-out

We provide you the opportunity to ?opt-out? of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us or you may contact us at:

Pet Swap Usa Mail Support:
7491 N. Federal Highway
Suite C5-296
Boca Raton, Florida 33487

Pet Swap Usa Support Telephone:
(561) 922-3100

You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party. Information that you provide in your profile will allow us to better customize your experience on the Pet Swap Usa website.

Access to Personally Identifiable Inform

If your personally identifiable information changes, you may correct and updated it by making the change on our member information page. If you no longer desire our service, you may delete or deactivate your account by emailing our Customer Support or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

Pet Swap Usa Mail Support:
7491 N. Federal Highway
Suite C5-296
Boca Raton, Floida 33487

Pet Swap Usa Support Telephone:
(561) 922-3100

Pet Swap Usa does not sell, rent, share or lease its customer lists to third parties. Pet Swap Usa may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Pet Swap Usa may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Pet Swap Usa, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Pet Swap Usa does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Pet Swap Usa keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Pet Swap Usa, in order to determine what Pet Swap Usa services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Pet Swap Usa to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Pet Swap Usa Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Pet Swap Usa or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Pet Swap Usa; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Pet Swap Usa, or the public.

Use of Cookies

Like most websites, Pet Swap Usa uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer and allows Pet Swap Usa to recognize you as a member when you return to the Pet Swap Usa website from the same computer and browser. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Pet Swap Usa pages, or register with Pet Swap Usa site or services, a cookie helps Pet Swap Usa to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Pet Swap Usa Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Pet Swap Usa features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Pet Swap Usa services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Pet Swap Usa secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Pet Swap Usa secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

 
Pet Swap Usa welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Pet Swap Usa has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Pet Swap Usa. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.