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Privacy Policy

We take your right to privacy seriously and want you to feel comfortable using our web site.  Accordingly we have prepared the following Privacy Policy. Please take the time to read it.

Information We Collect and How We Use It:

Usage information.

As with most websites, SRQScene collects access and user information such as IP addresses, browser and session information (hereinafter, “Usage Data”) for administrative purposes only.  Usage Data collected is used for specific business purposes and is not sold or distributed to any third parties. We may share aggregate general demographic non-indentifiable information including without limitation, page views, browsers, site activity, and other broad information (hereinafter, “Aggregate Data”) with our partners and advertisers. We will not share any Aggregated Data in a manner that would enable the recipient to personally identify you. No personal information is ever shared and we will not use computer generated information, such as IP addresses, to seek additional personal information.

We may also use cookies, which are small amounts of data sent from a web server to your browser that are stored on your computer’s hard drive, for various purposes including without limitation to keep track of your use of our website for general traffic and usage reports, to validate your identity, to complete form fields, and to improve the quality of our website.

In addition, third parties who place advertisements on our website may also collect information through cookies to ensure that their advertising systems and technologies work properly and to allow them to track responses to their advertisements. Cookies set by these third parties are governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. Generally, you can set your browser not to accept cookies or to notify you if you are sent a cookie, giving you the opportunity to choose whether or not to accept the cookie. Please note that if you do set your browser not to accept cookies, certain areas of our website may not function properly.

Personal information.

You can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself.  In order to post any submission to SRQScene, we may require you to submit personal information including but not limited to your name and email address (hereinafter, “Personal Data”).  We will use your Personal Data to contact you only in the event we need to clarify or verify your submission.  We do not share your information with third parties for their marketing purposes.  Please note that when you post a review or comment, only your name, nickname, or alias that you are posting under and your comments will be visible to the public.  If the body of your post contains personally identifiable information about yourself, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties since the post in pub,icly assessible.  We cannot be responsible for the use of any information you post publicly.  We encourage you to use caution when posting personal information, including contact information, on this site and any other publicly accessible site on the Internet.

A Note about Advertisers and Links.

SRQScene does not share any of your Personal Data with any advertisers, with the exception of Aggregate Data, defined above. SRQScene contains links to other websites including submitted sites and advertisers.  We cannot be responsible for the privacy of visitors or the use of collected information on these websites.  We strongly encourage you to read the privacy policies on any website visited.

Disclosure Exceptions.

Notwithstanding anything in this privacy policy to the contrary, we reserve the right, unless limited by applicable law, to share any information we have collected about you or that you have submitted: (1) in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; (2) if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or property; (3) if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding situations that involve significant abuse of our website infrastructure or the Internet in general (such as voluminous spamming, denial of service attacks, or attempts to compromise the security of information); (4) to our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us (in which case we will require such entities to honor this privacy policy); and (5) if we are acquired by or merged with another entity.

Miscellaneous.

If there is ever a change to how SRQScene uses or intends to use personal information, we will post that change on this page as well as on the homepage and any other pertinent location.  Any updated version of this privacy policy will be effective as of the date set forth therein.

We have implemented reasonable measures to help protect your Personal Data from loss, misuse, or unauthorized access or disclosure. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its security.

We will not knowingly collect personal information relating to children under 13 years of age. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will promptly delete it.

If you have a privacy concern regarding SRQScene, or this policy, and if you cannot satisfactorily resolve it through the use of this web site, you should then write to us by email to privacy [at] srqscene [dot] com.

Terms and Conditions for Posting Submissions, Comments, or Other Data.

By posting any submission to SRQScene, you agree to the following:

All submissions, including without limitation, directory submissions, reviews, or comments (hereinafter “Submissions”) are intended to be available on this website for public view.  SRQScene reserves the right to review Submissions prior to posting the same.  If the body of your post contains personally identifiable information about yourself, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties since the post is publicly accessible. Although SRQScene encourages you to use caution when posting personal information including contact information on this website and any other publicly accessible site on the Internet, SRQscene is not responsible for the use of any information you post here publicly.  All Submissions are for the benefit of this website and its visitors, and so we encourage Submissions based on accurate, first-hand knowledge.