What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how SDWomyn.com treats personal information that you voluntarily and specifically provide to SDWomyn.com. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

• SDWomyn.com collects personal information when you register with SDWomyn.com.
• When you choose to register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, and personal interests. However, the only information absolutely required is your name and email address. This information will be available to the administrator of SDWomyn.com. It will NOT be available to the general public - unless you choose it to be.
• SDWomyn.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
  • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of SDWomyn.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We transfer information about you if SDWomyn.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, SDWomyn.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• It is the policy of SDWomyn.com to NOT display advertising banners. Therefore no member information is ever shared with advertisers.

• SDWomyn.com will use session cookies to run the communication applications. Session cookies are NOT stored on your computer hard disk. They are stored in your computer memory while your browser (normally Internet Explorer) is open. They are automatically deleted when you close your browser or shut your computer down. These session cookies are ONLY used as a technical tool to make the applications work properly.
• If these session cookies are disabled in your privacy settings, this site will NOT work properly. Your privacy settings on your computer MUST allow first-party cookies.
• If you choose to vote in a SURVEY application, we will store a cookie on your computer indicating that you have voted. This is the only time we will store a cookie on your computer.
• SDWomyn.com will NEVER use cookies to collect data from your personal computer. In addition, SDWomyn.com will NEVER share any cookie data with any other organization or individual.

     General

• You can edit your SDWomyn.com Account Information at any time.
• We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the SDWomyn.com service, such as service announcements and administrative messages, that are considered part of your SDWomyn.com account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
• You can delete your SDWomyn.com account at any time in your Account Information page. All information that you have posted will be automatically deleted, with the possible exception of category and sub-category information in the notice board, the business board, and the email lists.

• We limit access to personal information about you to the Advisory Board who we believe reasonably needs to come into contact with that information to monitor possible abusive and inappropriate postings.
• Your personal information may also be available to the technical staff who maintain the site.
• We want you to feel confident about using SDWomyn.com so we are committed to protecting the information you provide and we collect. SDWomyn.com has implemented a security program to keep information that is stored in our systems protected from unauthorized access. Currently, SDWomyn.com only stores the information you provide when registering to become a SDWomyn.com member.

• There are several places throughout SDWomyn.com that may link you to other Web sites that do not operate under SDWomyn.com's information privacy practices. When you click through to these Web sites, SDWomyn.com's information privacy practices no longer apply. We recomend that you examine the privacy statements for all third-party Web sites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information.

• SDWomyn.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your SDWomyn.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

• If you have questions or suggestions, please do one of the following:
  1. Check the Discussion Forums for topics that may be related to your issue. Or post a new topic in hope of getting answers.
  2. Go to our Contact Page and fill out the form with your issue.
  3. Contact us at support@sdwomyn.com.