Privacy Policy

We here at How to Meet Broads are deeply, deeply devoted to pro­tect­ing your per­sonal infor­ma­tion and inform­ing you about how we han­dle it. This pri­vacy pol­icy applies to trans­ac­tions and activ­i­ties in which you engage, and data gath­ered, on the How to Meet Broads web­site. It does not apply to any other web­site or offline con­tact between How to Meet Broads and con­sumers. Please review this pri­vacy pol­icy peri­od­i­cally, as we may mod­ify it from time to time depend­ing on how many glasses of wine or PBR tall­boys we’ve con­sumed. This pri­vacy pol­icy was last revised on July 6, 2011. Each time you visit this site or pro­vide us with infor­ma­tion, you are accept­ing the prac­tices described in this pri­vacy policy.

Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce 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 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 and enhance your expe­ri­ence on the site. We also use cook­ies to deliver con­tent spe­cific to your inter­ests, to save your pass­word, and if you choose, to save other per­sonal and finan­cial 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 browsers will tell you how. How­ever, if you set your 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 How to Meet Broads 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 How to Meet Broads; and 2) “pub­lic infor­ma­tion”, which con­sists of all other demo­graphic infor­ma­tion. We ask that you do not enter per­sonal infor­ma­tion or finan­cial infor­ma­tion into the “Get­ting Started Form” on the How to Meet Broads’ web­site, because if you do then it will be treated as “demo­graphic infor­ma­tion” that is “pub­lic infor­ma­tion.” Please note that nowhere on the site do we know­ingly col­lect per­sonal infor­ma­tion from chil­dren under the age of 18, as we require that all users rep­re­sent to us that they are at least 18 years old.

Infor­ma­tion Other Web­sites Col­lect From You
On the site, we 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 and deter­mine who may be an ideal can­di­date for the match­mak­ing ser­vices of How to Meet Broads, to con­tact you in con­nec­tion with your trans­ac­tions and other activ­i­ties on the site (includ­ing, but not lim­ited to, con­fir­ma­tion emails and impor­tant news that could affect your rela­tion­ship with How to Meet Broads). 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 How to Meet Broads’ or third par­ties’ goods or ser­vices. We attempt to send you 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 How to Meet Broads (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 sub­mit­ting and per­sonal or pub­lic infor­ma­tion on the site, you are opt­ing in to receive How to Meet Broads’ emails. To stop receiv­ing How to Meet Broads’ emails after opt­ing in, please con­tact How to Meet Broads with UNSUBSCRIBE in the sub­ject field.

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, and other cus­tomer rela­tion­ship man­age­ment ser­vices. 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 may use to read cook­ies that it, or its clients, may have placed on your browser at other (non-How to Meet Broads) web sites before your visit to the site. This tech­nol­ogy is used to mea­sure the effec­tive­ness of adver­tise­ments on such other web­sites that pro­mote Co-Branded Pages. Fur­ther, third par­ties may use the infor­ma­tion col­lected through this tech­nol­ogy to learn more about your vis­its to this site and other web­sites in order to pro­vide adver­tise­ments about goods and ser­vices of inter­est to you.

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 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 How to Meet Broads or other vis­i­tors to the site. We also may dis­close your per­sonal infor­ma­tion or finan­cial infor­ma­tion to any 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 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.

How We Use Pub­lic Infor­ma­tion and Other Demo­graphic Infor­ma­tion
We may review all demo­graphic infor­ma­tion. We may use pub­lic infor­ma­tion to enable third par­ties to deter­mine whether they are suit­able ser­vice for 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 the site’s 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 vis­i­tors of the site 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, along with the con­tent of one-on-one com­mu­ni­ca­tions between you and How to Meet Broads. 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 Mem­bers’ Lounge Agreement.

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. We also have hired a big guy who claims to have taken a few karate lessons back in 1997 to sit on a stool and keep an eye on the servers dur­ing non-business hours, so don’t even think of try­ing any­thing funny. Are we understood?

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, How to Meet Broads or other users of the site, at any­time by going to the Account Set­tings or by con­tact­ing How to Meet Broads. Please note that chang­ing or delet­ing your infor­ma­tion through the “Account Set­tings,” or oth­er­wise opting-out of receipt of email com­mu­ni­ca­tions from How to Meet Broads, will only change or delete the data in our data­base for pur­poses of future activ­i­ties on the site and for man­ag­ing future com­mu­ni­ca­tions from How to Meet Broads. 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, please con­tact us.