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ROMANTICHOURS.COM PRIVACY POLICY

This policy explains how ROMANTICHOURS.COM treats personal information that we collect and receive, including information related to your use of the ROMANTICHOURS.COM website.

Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name and contact details, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that ROMANTICHOURS.COM does not own or control, or to people that ROMANTICHOURS.COM does not employ or manage.

INFORMATION COLLECTION and USE

ROMANTICHOURS.COM collects personal information when you use the ROMANTICHOURS.COM services, when you purchase an item from ROMANTICHOURS.COM or the pages of certain ROMANTICHOURS.COM partners, and when you enter special offers. ROMANTICHOURS.COM may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies in order to serve you better.

In addition to the above information, PayPal requests additional information for billing purposes, including credit card and/or other billing and payment information. This information is gathered by PayPal and is not stored by ROMANTICHOURS.COM. It is used solely to process merchandise orders.

ROMANTICHOURS.COM collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of services that we offer.

ROMANTICHOURS.COM USES INFORMATION TO:
  • fulfill your requests for products and services, and improve our products and services
  • deliver and bill ROMANTICHOURS.COM products and services
  • verify access rights to premium content or other services requiring access rights
  • determine if you meet the minimum system requirements to use our services
  • improve our services to you through research and surveys
  • provide you with targeted messages, promotions and special offers
  • provide required anonymous data to rights collection agencies for the purpose of paying and distributing royalties to artists, writers, publishers, record companies, and other copyright owners
  • provide anonymous data to internal and external parties on traffic and usage patterns of our products and services

A person must be 18 years of age or older to register for the ROMANTICHOURS.COM Service, and if younger than 18 you must have the authorization and supervision of a parent or guardian.

INFORMATION SHARING and DISCLOSURE

ROMANTICHOURS.COM never rents, sells, or shares personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
  • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of ROMANTICHOURS.COM's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We transfer information about you if ROMANTICHOURS.COM is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, ROMANTICHOURS.COM will notify you at the email address you provide before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

ROMANTICHOURS.COM may display targeted messages based on personal information you give us. ROMANTICHOURS.COM does not provide any personal information to third party advertisers when you interact with or view a targeted message. However, by interacting with or viewing a targeted message you are consenting to the possibility that an advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the message.

COOKIES

Like other major web sites, ROMANTICHOURS.COM may use "cookies" to track traffic patterns on our web site, and provide users with a customized experience when using our products and services. As such:

  • ROMANTICHOURS.COM may set and access ROMANTICHOURS.COM cookies on your computer.
  • ROMANTICHOURS.COM treats any personal information that may be contained in cookies with the same confidentiality as other information you provide to us.
EDITING YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION and PREFERENCES

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the ROMANTICHOURS.COM service, such as service announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your ROMANTICHOURS.COM account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

CONFIDENTIALITY and SECURITY of PERSONAL INFORMATION

ROMANTICHOURS.COM limits access to your personal information to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

ROMANTICHOURS.COM may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your ROMANTICHOURS.COM account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.