EnglishPrivacy Policy
We at Egypt Facebook, have
created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting
your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This
privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage,
and data gathered, on Egypt Facebook Website,
Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to
time. This privacy policy was last revised on August, 2008. Each time you visit
the Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the
practices described in this privacy policy at that time.
We are not going to sell your personal information to anyone! No If's, And's
or But's!!!
We will only provide your information under the order of a recognized court
providing a search warrant for such information, Or in an emergency situation.
Your IP Address
Like most Social Websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically
collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to
administer and optimize the Site for you, according to your country and university,
and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify
you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your activity on the
Site in order to use this to enhance your experience on the Site. We also use
cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, and if you choose, to
save your password and other personal information so you do not have to reenter
it each time you visit the Site. Third party advertisers on the Site may also
place or read cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies,
the "help" portion of the toolbar on most internet browsers will tell
you how. However, if you set your internet browser to disable cookies, you may
not be able to access certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect
From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about products
or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal
information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly
(without using the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or
email address), "financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or
passwords) or "demographic information" (i.e. information that you
submit, or that we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial
information; this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code,
hometown, gender, username, age/birth date, purchase history information,
browsing history information, searching history information, registration
history information, and the content of communications between you and other
members over the Site), subject to the rest of this paragraph. Demographic
information is divided into two categories: 1) "non-public
information", which consists of purchase history information and
one-on-one communications between you and other users of the Site; and 2)
"public information", which consists of all other demographic
information. We ask that you do not enter personal information or financial
information into your Profile (for example, don't
use your address or passcode as your
username, or include your name or address in your written responses), because
if you do then it may be posted publicly on the Site, and the information will
then be treated as "demographic information" that is "public
information.
Information Other
Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we may place links to other Websites operated by other parties.
Some of these other Websites contain our brand names and trademarks and other
intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links
and visit these other Websites, regardless of whether or not they contain our
brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware
that we do not control these other Websites or these other Websites' business
practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other Websites.
Consequently, the operators of these other Websites may collect different kinds
of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in
different ways than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you
to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible
for their actions.
How We Use Personal
Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to help us
efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your
transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not limited to,
confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with
Egypt Facebook,
and to forward messages to you from other Egypt Facebook
users. These types of communications
are known as "Operational Communications." In some cases, Operational
Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and
special offers.
We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers
and other promotional materials for Egypt Facebook
or third parties' goods or services. We attempt to send you any offers
that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event
information. The Site provides you with options to decline to receive
communications from Egypt Facebook (other
than those contained in Operational Communications). Some of these options may
only be for a certain category of communications; others may be more general.
By posting a profile on the Site, you are opting in to receive the Egypt Facebook
by Mail email. To stop receiving Egypt Facebook by
Mail, click on "Don’t send me Email link” which exists in any of these
Email messages we sent to you.
To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your
activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents,
representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with
support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email
origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management
services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We
require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services
offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive
communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to
participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount or
rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, you
consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties.
Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their
own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct
them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information
by them. 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 you submit to us.
In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with another
company in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages
of the Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these
companies are known as Co-Branded Companies.
If
the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed
by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your personal
information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded Companies may
use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly
regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.
Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so
submitted to such Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in which we are
entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us. Some
Co-Branded Pages may contain an action tag (also known as a Web Beacon or a 1
pixel .gif file) that a third party, such as the advertising company Avenue A,
may use to read cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on your
browser at other (non-Egypt Facebook) web
sites before your visit to Egypt Facebook. This
technology is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements on such other
Websites that promote Co-Branded Pages.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is
authorized to use your personal 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. Those who contact
you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for
the use of your personal information by them.
Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases in
which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways in
which we may share your personal information.
How We Use Public
Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to
enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether they are a match
for you and to communicate with you. We may use demographic information to
tailor the Site and communications to your interests. We may also share
demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis
(i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we
may do this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers' goods and
services will appeal to Egypt Facebook users,
so that we may target specific ads at specific demographic groups. Our sharing
of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell
advertisers which particular Egypt Facebook users
are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy
policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask you to remember
that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you decide to give
the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser may be able to
identify you as being a member of that demographic group. Please also be aware
that when we disclose your financial information or personal information to a
Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also disclose to that Co-Branded
Company your demographic information, other than the content of one-on-one
communications between you and other members. Please also be aware that we may
disclose your demographic information on a non-anonymous basis as described
above in the paragraph titled "Special Cases in which we Share Personal
and Financial Information." Also, to read further details about how we may
use your public information, see our
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial information to check your
qualifications, to bill you for products and services and 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 Site, you consent to our
providing 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 Site, or by participating in programs offered on
the Site 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. Additionally, if the page on
which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking
on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your financial information
with the associated Co-Branded Company. Any of these various third parties
(including Co-Branded Companies) 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. Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases
in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more ways
in which we may share your financial information.
Special Cases in which
we Share Personal and Financial Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to a third
party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy. We
may also disclose personal information or financial information when we
determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to
cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of Egypt Facebook
or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose your personal information
or financial information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses,
and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom
we are under common corporate control. Whenever personal information or
financial information is disclosed under this paragraph, we may also disclose
your demographic information along with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of
our parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that
receive your personal information, financial information, or non-anonymous
demographic information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy
policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such information.
Our Security
Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control. Our secure server software
(SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for
secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and financial
information as it travels over the Internet and we store your financial
information on our servers in encrypted form. Your information may be
transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside
of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you
reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located
may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or
jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy
Policy for Previously Gathered Information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will
notify users by way of an email or by providing 30 days notice on the Site.
Please note that we will continue to have the right to change our privacy
policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable information,
without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy,
provided that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after
the date of the change.
How You Can Access and
Update Your Email Preferences, Personal Information and Public Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify
personal information or demographic information you have provided to us, and to
hide demographic information from, or make demographic information visible to,
the public users of the Site, at anytime by going to the section of the Site.
Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes you make to take
effect on the public areas of the Site. We thank you for your patience. Please
note that changing or deleting your information through the "Account
Settings" or "My Profile" section of the Site, or otherwise
opting-out of receipt of email communications from Egypt Facebook,
will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future
activities on the Site and for managing future communications from Egypt Facebook.
These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or information
that we may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or
any other third parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices
of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us at admin@egyptfacebook.com