FemaleThiink.com's Privacy Policy

As of January 2008

FemaleThiink.com is a website for women, providing action strategies to help women achieve success in their work, finances, health and personal growth. We want all of our web visitors to feel comfortable searching and exchanging information on our site. We desire all of our members to feel safe while participating on our website and have defined a Privacy Policy to ensure this.

Our Privacy Policy defines the various types of information we collect while you are on FemaleThiink.com. In addition, it will detail the ways in which we may disseminate this information to our strategic partners.

FemaleThiink.com is defined as all electronic newsletters, e-books and website pages owned controlled and/or operated by FemaleThiink LLC which specifically includes but is not limited to our Health & Wellness, Finance, Work, Style & Beauty, Living, Things to Do, Tools for Growth, Get In Actions & Exhale sections of our website.

Please be advised that we may provide information and links to third party advertisers or partners. If you have any questions or concerns that we do not answer in this Policy, please send us an email at femalethiink@femalethiink.com.

Should our Privacy Policy change in the future, we will notify our users. In addition, we will not make new use of any personally identifiable information gathered by FemaleThiink.com without first obtain visitors consent.

In cases where our strategic partners or third party affiliates are providing content or information on our site and they request information from subscribers of femalethiink.com and a subscriber opts-in to share his/her information with third parties, those disclosures and opt-ins will override anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy.

In addition, FemaleThiink.com reserves the right to make changes to our Privacy Policy that we deem to be non-significant and that will not affect FemaleThiink.com's use of a user's personally identifiable information at any time without any notice to you other than posting any such changes in a revised Privacy Policy on the FemaleThiink.com website. All visitors are encouraged to periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure they are familiar with the most updated version of our Privacy Policy. To easily identify the latest version of Privacy Policy, each time there is a change a new date will be added at the top of our policy.

What Type of Information Do We Collect

At FemaleThiink.com you can enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, network circles, and personal coaching sessions or participate in one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.

In addition, you can submit information about other people. For example, you might submit a person's name and e-mail address to send an electronic link to an article on our site and, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient's name and address. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.

There will be occasions when we may request personally identifiable information so that our visitors will be able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings. During member registration process, we will ask you for personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, mailing address, zip, telephone, mobile number, code, country, gender, birthdates, age, member name and password. In addition, you may choose to provide FemaleThiink.com with additional information including marital status, household income, education and employment status.

Information may be collected regarding what operating system and web browser you are using. (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).

In order to use many of FemaleThiink.com's features, tools and services, we may ask you to register to become a member. This information will be used to better understand more about our audience's interests, to communicate with you and to give you a better experience when visiting the FemaleThiink.com or to improve upon our content and content & services. FemaleThiink.com also uses this information to build new services and develop offers that FemaleThiink.com believes are more relevant and valuable to you.

Electronic Newsletters and E-alerts

FemaleThiink.com offers free electronic newsletters on a variety of topics. If you choose to subscribe to any of these newsletters, currently the only information you will be required to provide is a valid email address, name, address, and the newsletters options you are interested in. Generally, FemaleThiink.com does not share mailing lists from its electronic newsletters with third parties. However, in some instances, FemaleThiink.com may provide third parties with a list of FemaleThiink.com members and visitors who have opted-in to receiving additional information from third parties.

FemaleThiink.com may utilize third mailing servers to distribute electronic newsletters or e-alerts. In these instances, FemaleThiink accepts no responsibility for how third party email distributors use the information on their server. We strongly request that they adhere to our Privacy Policy guidelines, but cannot guarantee that they will. Additionally FemaleThiink.com may provide third parties with a list of FemaleThiink.com members and visitors who have opted-in to receiving additional information from third parties.

In those instances where you opt-in to subscribe to a newsletter through a third-party email service or advertiser or partner, the email address information sometimes will be located on the third party's server, in which case we generally will notify you. In those cases, any information you provide is subject to that entity's Privacy Policy, not this one. Some of our partners' and advertisers' sites require that you specifically opt-out from receiving their newsletters. As a result, to stop receiving them you will need to affirmatively opt-out from the third party newsletter.

Message Boards

Throughout the FemaleThiink.com, we have message boards, areas and various question and answer areas are available to you as a registered FemaleThiink.com member.

We advise our members to be mindful that any information you disclose in our public forum areas becomes public information and is immediately accessible on FemaleThiink.com. , So it is important for you to exercise discretion and appropriate caution when deciding to reveal personal information in these areas. FemaleThiink.com may decide to utilize the content of Q&A's, message boards, polls & surveys throughout FemaleThiink.com and in promotions in order to enhance FemaleThiink.com's editorial, advertising, promotional and similar activities.

Surveys and Polls

We are very interested in the viewpoints and opinions of our visitors. Our surveys ask for opinions on various issues and very often these surveys and polls are sponsored by or associated with FemaleThiink.com advertisers and partners. Occasionally, we may request demographic information (like zip code, age or gender). Most information obtained through surveys and polls is aggregated and used internally or shared with advertisers and partners only in the aggregated form.

Contests and Challenges

FemaleThiink.com may request personal information prior to our visitors entering into contests and sweepstakes. This information will include but is not limited to full name, email address and sometimes home addresses. In some situations, we need additional information as part of the entry process, such as a prize selection choice. This information is shared with an unaffiliated third party:

• If our users choose to receive information from third parties or sweepstakes sponsors.
• If a contest is hosted by FemaleThiink but managed by a sponsor.

Links to Partner and Advertiser Sites

FemaleThiink.com contains links to advertisers and partner websites. We cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such non-FemaleThiink.com websites, and we do not control the practices of any of our advertisers or partners to whom we are linked.

In order to participate in the partner and/or advertiser supplied services and tools you may be required to provide personally identifiable information to the advertisers and partners whose tools and services you have chosen to interact with. Each advertiser and partner will request different information from you.

To the extent that you wish to avail yourself of the health, wellness and medical related services and tools available through the FemaleThiink.com Health & Wellness sections. FemaleThiink.com is not responsible for what our medical partners do with respect to how your medical information is handled. Please be advised that if you choose to share your medical information, please be advised that were are not able to guarantee that information will be held confidential.

The information you provide via links to co-branded pages, co-branded sites, third party sites or tools may be shared with advertisers and partners on an aggregated basis and in these instances your permission will not be requested since no personally identifiable information will be shared or provided to these third party sponsors or advertisers.

If you have additional questions about how one of our advertisers partners or sponsors use information about you, we urge you to contact them directly:

Information Collected by Third Party Advertising Companies

Our advertising is currently served by third party advertising companies which deliver a cookie to you so the ads you see can be tracked and ensures that you are not shown the same ad too many times. Since the third party advertising company only tags your computer with a number, they know nothing about who you are. FemaleThiink.com does not provide these third party advertising companies with any information that personally identifies our users.

However, these companies may use non-personal information about your visits to FemaleThiink.com and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Guidelines Regarding Children

Personal information about children is a concern for all of us. At FemaleThiink.com, we take the protection of children's privacy very seriously. FemaleThiink.com does not encourage participation or visitation by children. Visitors who are known to be under the age of 13 are prohibited from becoming a member.

Information Sharing Policy

FemaleThiink.com does not sell or otherwise share personally identifiable information with unaffiliated third parties without your consent except in the following instances: (i) unless required by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order; (ii) as deemed necessary, in FemaleThiink.com's discretion, to protect the legal rights or the property of FemaleThiink.com, a member or third party, or to prevent personal injury; and/or (iii) in the event FemaleThiink.com is required to transfer personally identifiable information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of the assets or stock of FemaleThiink.com or its affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). In addition, FemaleThiink.com reserves the right to allow access to its systems to third parties providing necessary technical services when such access is required in order to provide those services and to provide your personally identifiable information to third parties who provide services on behalf of FemaleThiink.com, provided that such third parties are bound by FemaleThiink.com's Privacy Policy.

FemaleThiink.com Opt-in/Opt-out Policy

When you register to receive our newsletters or special announcements from our sponsors and advertisers, special offers, or news about our site; you will be given the opportunity to opt-in to receive special offers. You can opt out by sending us an email at femalethiink@femalethiink.com.

Change/Modify/Archive Information

FemaleThiink.com provides you with the ability to access correct or change certain information in your member portrait at any FemaleThiink.com including contact information or other information you've provided to us. However, you cannot currently change your member name although you may re-register and choose a new name. To review, modify or delete your member information, please click here. Please be advised that FemaleThiink.com currently archives information it collects on its members and visitors.

How We Protect and Secure Your Information

FemaleThiink.com has numerous security measures in place to protect you from the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, including your credit card information if you choose to conduct an e-commerce transaction on the FemaleThiink.com Network. All of your member information, as well as other sensitive areas like your free FemaleThiink.com email account, require use of your password. We recommend that you do not share your password with anyone.

FemaleThiink.com uses industry-standard tools, such as firewalls, to ensure that your information is secure and confidential.

Contact Information

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or anything else about FemaleThiink.com, you can contact us at the following email address: femalethink@femalethiink.com.