Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams Privacy Policy

This policy applies to all SCARS’ websites, social media, and other communications mediums, including (but not limited too AgainstScams.org and AnyScam.com)

SCARS Website Privacy Policy:

Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams (“Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams“) operates AgainstScams.org and may operate other websites and social media. It is Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites, social media, or other means of communications.

Website & Social Media Visitors

Like most website operators, the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams’ visitors use its website. From time to time, the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on AgainstScams.org blogs/sites. Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams’ websites choose to interact with the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams in ways that require the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at AgainstScams.org to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams. Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams’ behalf or to provide services available at Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams website and have supplied your email address, Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams uses cookies to help Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams identify and track visitors, their usage of Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams website, and their website access preferences. Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. (See our separate Cookie Policy document)

Business Transfers

If Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

SCARS Website Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams may change its SCARS Website Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams’ sole discretion. Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its SCARS Website Privacy Policy. If you have an AgainstScams.org account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this SCARS Website Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.