"Article Playground" strives to offer our search engine and social networking visitors many positive and beneficial advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience. We may use Personally Identifiable Information (your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number) subject to the terms of this privacy policy. We will never sell, barter, or rent your email address to any unauthorized third party. Period. Please believe you're good on that, when we say we will NOT do that at all! :-)

How we gather information from "Article Playground" users

How we'll collect and store information depending on pages you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. For example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for your free publisher /author account for access to certain portions of our site or request certain features, such as newsletters or when you make a purchase. You may provide information when you participate in sweepstakes and contests, message boards and chat rooms, and other interactive areas of our site. Like most Web sites, ArticlePlayground also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use cookie technology to recognize you and hold information from your visit. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or may be asked to re-enter your user name and password, and we may not be able to customize the site's features according to your preferences.

What we do with the information we collect on [Article Playground]

Like other Web publishers, we collect information to enhance your visit and deliver more individualized content and advertising. We respect your privacy and do not share your information with anyone at all. We hope you are happy with us NOT doing that.

Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways potentially. For example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to help enhance our site and services (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive) and for other internal legitimate marketing purposes. Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners. Again, this information does not include any Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to identify you individually.

At times, we may use personally identifiable information collected by this article content site "www.ArticlePlayground.com", to communicate with you about your registration and customization preferences; our Terms of Service and privacy policy; services and products offered by Article Playground and other topics we think you might possibly find of interest.

Personally Identifiable Information collected by Article Playground may also be used for other purposes, including but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions, administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (our Web hosting service for example) may access such information. We will only use your information as permitted by law. In addition, from time to time as we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions as those, your user information may potentially be among the transferred assets to the buyers, if we sell this site possibly. We may also disclose your information in response to a court order "we'll have to in legal situations such as those", at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or to [law enforcement authorities], whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases, because it wouldn't make sense to.

Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements

"ArticlePlayground" expects its partners, advertisers and affiliates to "please respect the privacy" of our users. Please be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and additional business practices. For example, during your visit to Article Playground, you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a [ArticlePlayground] page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through "ArticlePlayground.com", you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web sites, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. "You can't hold Article Playground responsible" for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Other features available on our site may offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather information. Article Playground.com does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

You should also be aware "which we are telling you up front before you go any further on ArticlePlayground" that if you voluntarily disclose "personally identifiable information" on [message boards] or in [chat areas], that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties [without our knowledge] and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities as those are "completely" beyond the control of Article Playground.com & this policy. You also agree NOT to hold us liable whatsoever, upon reading this and creating a free publisher account!

Children

ArticlePlayground.com does not knowingly collect or solicit "Personally Identifiable Information" from or about children under 13 except as [permitted by law]. If the staff of ArticlePlayground.com discovers we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this policy, "we will immediately delete" that information! NO children under 13 are allowed on this site!!! If you believe Article Playground has any information from or about anyone under 13, please contact us at the address listed below.

Contacting Us

We can be reached by emailing us immediately!

Changes to this Policy

You acknowledge "ArticlePlayground.com" reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.

Governing law (s)

This policy and the use of this site are governed by law. If a dispute arises under this policy, we agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator.

If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through mediation "if it comes to that", we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.

This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.