By visiting the BabyBoomerStories.com (BBS) website, you are accepting the
practices as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy covers BBS’s treatment of personal information that BBS gathers when you are on the BBS website and when you use BBS services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that BBS does not own or control.
Sharing Your Information
BBS will not rent nor sell your personal information to any third party.
Information Collected by BBS
BBS only collects personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our
website, which is to enable users to discover and share information with one
another.
We collect the following types of information from our BBS users:
Information You Provide to Us
BBS receives and stores information you enter on our website, such as user comments, user story contributions.
Automatic Information
– BBS receives and stores certain information whenever you interact with us. BBS
and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain “traffic
data” on their server logs from your browser including your IP address, BBS
cookie information, and the page you requested. BBS uses this traffic data to
help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the
website.
– BBS may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been
viewed.
E-mail Communications
BBS may send out e-mails with BBS-related news, products, offers, surveys or
promotions. You may also receive notification e-mails from BBS, which inform you
of actions (e.g. friend requests) that have been performed on the site. If you
do not want to receive e-mail from us, you will have the ability to opt-out by
clicking on an unsubscribe link at the bottom of an email message. However,
please note that in all cases you will continue to receive all system e-mails
(e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates
to our policies) from us.
Cookies
Cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when
pages in our website are visited and by how many people. BBS cookies do not
collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected
through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what
your screen name or e-mail address is.
– Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our
website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.
For example, Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our
site. Google’s use of these cookies enables them to serve ads to our users.
Users may opt out of these ads by visiting the Google Privacy Center.
– Protection of BBS and Others: We may release personal information to a legal
jurisdiction if necessary to comply with a legal complaint or investigation.
– RSS and XML Feeds: BBS allows for the RSS and XML syndication of all of its
public content within the BBS website.
Keeping Information Secure
You must be 16 years and older to use the BBS website. BBS does not specifically
collect information about children. If we learn that BBS has collected
information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete that information as
quickly as possible.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
BBS may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use
of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the
time such information is used. It is your responsibility to review our Privacy
Policy from time to time to be kept up to date. If the Privacy Policy is
ammended, the last updated date will be changed at the bottom of this document
to reflect the last changed date.
Conditions of Use
If you decide to visit BBS’s website, your visit and any possible dispute over
privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including
limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the laws of
the State of Delaware.
Effective Date of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 15, 2010 and was last updated on
December 31, 2010.