Privacy Notice

The following describes the privacy practices with respect to MadWhips. To understand how we treat the information you give us as you use MadWhips, you should read this policy.

Personal Information

Non-Account Activity. You can enjoy the photographs and content on MadWhips without having a MadWhips Account. You can also contact us without having a MadWhips Account.

Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on MadWhips—like uploading photos, posting comments, tapping photos require you to have a MadWhips Account or a OpenID Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a MadWhips Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.

Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use MadWhips, the content and favorites you subscribe to, the users you communicate with, the photos you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in MadWhips (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online (on forums, in messages and chat areas, within your profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

Uses

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the MadWhips Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the MadWhips Site, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.

Your username (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload pictures or send messages through the MadWhips Sites and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any photos that you submit to the MadWhips Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major MadWhips Site changes or for customer service purposes).

We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the MadWhips website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.

We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the MadWhips Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (d) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, and contests.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through MadWhips, in which case you can still view photos and explore the MadWhips Sites, but MadWhips may not be able to provide certain services to you.

You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your user profile page.

Comments

No profanity or personal attacks please.
No solicitation or spamming.
Please be relevant
Be more funny.
Those who violate these ground rules may have their comments deposted (which is a bit like being deported, except you don't have to leave the country.)

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

MadWhips allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the MadWhips website. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on MadWhips. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

MadWhips does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asks MadWhips to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the MadWhips Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. MadWhips's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

Privacy Policy for MadWhips.com

The privacy of our visitors to MadWhips.com is important to us.

At MadWhips.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit MadWhips.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We display advertisements on MadWhips.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing car ads to someone who frequents car sites.)
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.