GIRLSHRINK.COM PRIVACY STATEMENT

Advice/Counseling Services
If you purchase an advice/counseling service from us we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our virtual client intake form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date) to us or our third party service provider--such as Clickbank.

We use this information for billing purposes and to answer your inquiries. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

Product Orders
If you purchase a book or GirlShrink logo product from us we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order forms. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time, we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).

We use this information to notify contest winners, award prizes, and to personalize the site.

We may use a third party service provider to process these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

Recommend Us
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. GirlShrink.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email [and tracking the success of our referral program].

Your friend may contact us at http://www.girlshrink.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Uses of Information
GirlShrink.com is primarily an advice/counseling service provider and we may request various types of non-identifying personal information from you when you partipate in a counseling relationship with us.

We may ask for this information to further qualify you as an appropriate candidate for online advice/counseling services. This information is not shared with anyone but you and your GirlShrink counselor. [See Profile]

COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SITE

Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on [products, services, special deals, promotions] when you sign up for our free Ezine-- Better Choices™ or when you voluntarily sign up for these emails from us at our Resource Room.

Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”

Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our ezine/newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.

Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.

Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your counseling relationship with us. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.

Profile
We may store non-identifying information that we collect for an advice/counseling session with us, but we do not share your profile with other third parties.

INFORMATION SHARING & DISCLOSURE

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users.

Our advertising department may disclose to potential link partners or advertisers the gender, ages, marital status etc. of our visitors/members.

We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally Identifiable Information:
We may share personally identifiable information with a third party service provider in order to ensure a secure server payment when ordering any of our products and/or services.

Agents
We use an outside shipping company to fulfill GirlShrink Boutique orders & GirlShrink Book Cafe orders; as well as a third party service provider to bill you for GirlShrink ebooks and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

Service Providers
We use Clickbank to provide a secure server for advice/counseling service payments on our site. When you sign up for an e-advice, e-chat, or telephone consultation we will share name, address, billing information etc. as necessary for the third party to provide that service.

Other Third Parties
All the personal identifiable information required by Amazon.com and CafePress.com to make purchases is submitted directly to them and used solely for fulfillment of your order.

Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site

Choice/Opt-out
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at support@GirlShrink.com, or you may contact us at GirlShrink Inc. P.O. Box 1012, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632-1012 to opt-out.

Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

We do not use a third-party tracking system at this time.

Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We do not use cookies on this site.

Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers like Amazon.com) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by GirlShrink.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google Ad Words, LinkShare, Commission Junction, Amazon, CafePress our advertising partners. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party [Google, LinkShare, CJ] for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.

Google, LinkShare, CJ, Amazon, CafePress may use cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that [Google, LinkShare, CJ, Amazon, CafePress] collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable.

Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by GirlShrink.com. Please be aware that we, GirlShrink.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
Although our forums are moderated--If you use our group forum (message board), you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Participation in these forums is voluntary. You may choose to stop participating at any time and you may choose to have your posts deleted by contacting the forum webmaster at support@girlshrink.com

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may [correct, update, delete or deactivate it] by emailing our Customer Support at support@girlshrink.com or by contacting us by postal mail at the contact information listed below:
GirlShrink Inc.
P.O. Box 1012
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
07632-1012

Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms (at our third party service provider Clickbank), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about Clickbank, follow this link Clickbank.com

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send an email to us at support@girlshrink.com

Business Transitions
In the event GirlShrink.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, our newsletter(s), and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here.

Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: http://www.girlshrink.com (Support) or by postal mail at:

GirlShrink Inc.
P.O. Box 1012
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632-1012