Privacy
The ELITE CITY MODELS privacy policy document
has been created to demonstrate the firm commitment on the part
of ELITE CITY MODELS to protect your personal information and to
inform you about how we handle your personal information.
This privacy policy applies to transactions and activities in which
you engage while on the ELITE CITY MODELS website, and to data gathered
on the ELITE CITY MODELS Website through forms which you fill out,or
through script processes used to manage your use of the ELITE CITY
MODELS website. The privacy policy also applies to double blind
email communications between ELITE CITY MODELS members (collectively,
the "Site") but does not apply to any other Website or
offline point of contact between ELITE CITY MODELS, or any other
company, and consumers. Please review this privacy policy periodically
as we may modify it from time to time. By visiting the site or providing
us with information you are accepting the practices described in
this privacy policy. This is applicable with each visit to the site.
Your IP Address
For the purpose of studying our website usage and gathering broad
demographic data that is useful to us in optimizing our website
and monitoring the use of our service, each time you visit the Site,
we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which
you came.
Cookies
While we do not store any cookies on your system to track your activities
on the site, we do store information on our own system that allows
us to let other members know when you are online.
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), or
"demographic information" (i.e. information that you submit,
or that we collect, that is neither personal information; this may
include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown,
gender, username, age/birth date. 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 us; and 2) "public information", which
consists of all other demographic information. We ask that you do
not enter personal information or financial information into your
“Profile” (for example, don’t use your address
or passcode as your username, or include your name or address in
your written responses), because if you do then it may be posted
publicly on the Site, and the information will then 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. 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. 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, to contact you in connection
with your transactions and other activities on the Site (including,
but not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could
affect your relationship with ELITE CITY MODELS), and to forward
messages to you from other ELITE CITY MODELS users. 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 ELITE CITY
MODELS’s 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 ELITE
CITY MODELS (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 posting a profile on the Site, you
are opting in to receive communication from ELITE CITY MODELS by
email. To stop receiving email communication from ELITE CITY MODELS,
go to the "Preferences" section of your account settings
and make the necessary changes.
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, customer relationship management services, order fulfillment
and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. 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 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.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic
Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information
to enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether
they are a match for you and to communicate with 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 ELITE CITY MODELS’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 ELITE CITY MODELS users
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, other than the content of
one-on-one communications between you and other members. 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 Terms of Use .
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
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, the public users of the Site,
at anytime by going to the Account Settings or My Profile section
of the Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for
the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the Site.
We thank you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting
your information through the "Preferences" section of
the Site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications
from ELITE CITY MODELS, will only change or delete the data in our
database for purposes of future activities on the Site and for managing
future communications from ELITE CITY MODELS. 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, you can contact us by sending an email to info@elitecity-models.co.uk
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