Effective 05/05/2005

Privacy Notice Table Of Contents:

• Our Commitment To Privacy
• The Information We Collect
• How We Use Information
• Our Commitment To Data Security
• Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
• How To Access Or Correct Your Information
• Public forums (privacy warning)
• What are cookies, and how does ARCO use them?
• How does ARCO secure collected information?
• How To Contact Us

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect:

Information from registration will automatically be placed in your Member Profile. In addition, you can choose to tell everyone your hobbies, interests, likes and dislikes. You can fill out as much or as little of your Profile as you want. The more you fill out, the more likely it is that you’ll be able to meet members based on things you have (or don’t have!) in common.

The Way We Use Information:

Except as provided in this statement, ARCO will not disclose, sell or rent any personally identifiable information without proper consent.
Please use discretion when revealing personally identifiable information at the boards, as it may be collected and used by unauthorized third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of ARCO. In other words, if for some reason you post your home phone number on the boards (which, by the way, you should NOT do), you’re on your own.

We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by looking at your profile. You can correct factual errors as well as add or delete as much info as you want. You also can choose the (standard) option of guiding your email from other visitors.

Public forums (privacy warning)

Don't forget that you are posting on public forums, so if you leave personal information this is visible for everyone who wants to look.

One last thing to keep in mind: Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on message boards, through e-mail, Diaries, Blogs in chat areas, it can be collected and used by anyone, including law-enforcement agencies acting under subpoena power. If you post personal information in public places, others may send you unsolicited e-mail messages. Always be smart about the information you provide online.

Use the email hide function in your profile, fellow members always can contact you thrue PM.

What are cookies, and how does ARCO use them?

The main function of cookies is to connect members with their stored account information so that we can deliver better and more personalized service. Cookies do not enable the ARCO staff to access personally identifiable information that you haven’t already provided.

Cookies are part of the technology implemented by your browser. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to either notify you when you have received a cookie, or to refuse them all together.

ARCO relies on cookies to preserve the ARCO identity you have created while logged on. If you choose to not accept cookies, you can not participate as a registered, signed-in member.

How does ARCO secure collected information?

Your ARCO Profile is password-protected so that only you and authorized ARCO employees have access to your account information. In order to maintain this protection, do not give your password to anyone. If anyone ever asks you for information claiming they are ARCO staff, check their Member Profile — if it doesn’t say they are staff, they’re not. Also, if you share a computer, you should sign out of your ARCO account and close the browser window before someone else logs on. This will protect your information on public terminals.

How To Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us by using the contact form.