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We, the people behind ZoomGroups,
are also Internet users, and just like you, we care about our own
privacy when we surf the Internet.
That is why our privacy policy was conceived so that all
ZoomGroups users
can have the utmost confidence that whatever information they wish to be
private and confidential is kept that way.
Please read the following information to understand
our commitment to the privacy
of each and every
ZoomGroups
user.
When you sign up with ZoomGroups,
the only information that becomes available to others
is your name, the region or state where you live and your country.
Except in some specific circumstances - mentioned later -
absolutely nobody has access to any other information you
enter when you sign up with
ZoomGroups,
with the exception of yourself and a restricted group of
ZoomGroups employees
should they need such access for support or maintenance reasons
or to get in direct contact with you.
Later, from your profile and settings page, you can enter more information
about yourself and select what information you want to be accesible by others and who
can access that information. The only additional information that becomes
readily available for others to see regardless of your settings is
if you upload a picture of yourself in your Profile area, testimonials, or if you
list an item for sale in the marketplace area.
ZoomGroups
will not sell, publish or deliver to third parties
any of the private information entered by
ZoomGroups
users under any circumstance, except when we are required
for legal reasons.
We might have to deliver personal information to
a third party in order to protect our intellectual property,
in any case always abiding to legal obligations.
Child Pornography:
The use of ZoomGroups implies
the acceptance of this clause. If you do not wish
ZoomGroups to share your information
and use of the service with the corresponding authorities,
law enforcement agencies and the FBI, do not engage on
these "activities", period.
Accidental running into any of the content described above does not
result in reporting your account activities to the authorities, and is
protected by our general privacy policy.
When you subscribe to a group or blog hosted at
ZoomGroups,
the group or blog administrators have access to your
email address as well as your name, the day you
subscribed and your subscription preferences.
If the group is moderated, your message will be delivered to the group
administrators. Should your message be accepted - or if you send it
to a non-moderated group - the message will be delivered to all
members of the group, including your email address as well as the
typical header information: delivery date, servers involved in the
delivery and reception of the message, etc.
ZoomGroups is not an anonymous
remailer.
ZoomGroups
uses several parameters to quantify certain general statistics, such
as the number of members, average of subscriptions per day, etc.
ZoomGroups will only
use this information to better serve advertising in the groups you
join or in the web pages of
ZoomGroups,
but will never make any of this information available to others.
ZoomGroups also produces
and keeps for a limited period of time a history log of your
access to the services offered by ZoomGroups,
including web page access, messages sent to a group and other information regarding
your access to our services, such as date and time, IP from where you
connect, account you sign in and actions performed on the site,
with the sole purpose of having a mechanism that allows us to investigate
service abuse or to provide better technical assistance whenever is
required, for example when you contact our technical support team.
ZoomGroups
is committed to not use this information for commercial reasons of any kind,
except in the cases just explained above.
NOT EVER!
ZoomGroups
will never use your email address to send you unsolicited email.
Any message originated in our servers that you may feel
was
unsolicited is always the result of the actions of another
ZoomGroups user -
for example when a user decides to add you to his/her list of
contacts, you will receive an email from
ZoomGroups
asking for your acceptance or rejection.
Sometimes we may also feel that we have to send
a message to several or all registered users because
we believe it is absolutely necessary to do so, and always
responding to administrative reasons.
It is also possible that sometimes an
ZoomGroups team member
might contact you personally for some specific reason.
ZoomGroups takes very seriously
the privacy of our users and clients, as well as the privacy and
security of our systems; we follow these things very closely, use industry
standard measures to protect our system and
have a 24/7 monitoring team. However, and although we have never
had any security breach ever since we are in business, we cannot guarantee
that nobody would ever break into our systems in the future.
Also, much of the information that travels between your machine and ours,
does it so in "plain text", that is, it does not travel encrypted,
and so it is vulnerable from eavesdropping attacks.
For these reasons, ZoomGroups
cannot be and is not responsible of any event that results in someone other than
ZoomGroups
or yourself from
obtaining any information stored in our servers.
Send us immediately a message through the forms you can find in
http://www.zoomgroups.net/contact.html,
indicating in the subject "SECURITY PROBLEM".
Your message will be processed, depending on the seriousness of
the problem, either immediately or within 24-48 hours.
Normally, when this happens, it is because your email
address has been compromised before anyone can gain access to
your account in
ZoomGroups, so it is a wise
thing to do to use a different email address in the meantime.
Remember, your account at
ZoomGroups
is only as safe as your email address. If someone gains
access to your mailbox, they may also gain access to your
account at ZoomGroups.
In more than four years that we've been offering our services, the use
of cookies has never resulted in a security problem.
ZoomGroups requires that you
have cookies activated so that you can easily navigate through our pages.
The cookies used by ZoomGroups
do not study your habbits nor are used for any other obscure reason, simply,
they help us to know who you are so that you don't have to keep signing in.
ZoomGroups may work with one or several
advertising agencies to provide advertising in our web pages or in the email messages
of the email groups. However, ZoomGroups
will never release any of your private or confidential information to any of these
companies for any reason.
ZoomGroups
enforces a policy of zero tolerance regarding fraudulent
data acquisition or submission.
Not only ZoomGroups
despites such practices, but will also work with the
law enforcement whenever we consider that our services have
been used by obtaining or submitting fraudulent information.
Personal data information will be cancelled whenever it is
no longer needed for the purpose of which it was
obtained in the first place.
Such data will not be kept in our files in such ways that might
be used to identify a particular individual for a period longer
than what was needed for the purpose of which it was
obtained.
This Privacy Policy will be reviewed periodically to make sure
that it serves the needs of
ZoomGroups
as well as our clients and users and the current legislature.
We we will always try to let our clients and users know about any
changes to this policy in advance, either by updating this
page, sending a message to all affected users, or by posting a prominent note
in our main home page.
In order to keep yourself updated with this policy, we suggest you
visit this page periodically.
Should you have any questions or comments about our
Privacy Policy, please contact us by visiting
http://www.zoomgroups.net/contact.html.
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