Collected and Provided Information

By using or accessing The Cosmo Bar, you are accepting the practices described in the following Privacy Policy.

When you visit The Cosmo Bar you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.

When you register with The Cosmo Bar, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, email address, physical address, gender, relationship status, sexual preference, schools attended and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

When you enter The Cosmo Bar, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all The Cosmo Bar visitors. We store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID to make it easier for you to login when you come back to The Cosmo Bar. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this feature.

When you use The Cosmo Bar, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features.

You post User Content on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons including users you may not want to view your profile. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on The Cosmo Bar is a violation of the The Cosmo Bar Terms of Service.

The Cosmo Bar may also collect information about you and/or for you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of The Cosmo Bar service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.

By using The Cosmo Bar, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Users Under Age 13

The Cosmo Bar does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for The Cosmo Bar or send any information about yourself to us, including but not limited to your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on The Cosmo Bar. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

Users Between the Ages of 13 and 18

We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

Use of Information Obtained by The Cosmo Bar

When you register with The Cosmo Bar, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on The Cosmo Bar. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by The Cosmo Bar or its partners that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by The Cosmo Bar primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it (e.g., posting to your wall), other The Cosmo Bar users may be able to supplement your profile.

Profile information you submit to The Cosmo Bar will be available to users of The Cosmo Bar who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across The Cosmo Bar network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request.

The Cosmo Bar may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message, or someone writes on your mirror, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.

The Cosmo Bar reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.

The Cosmo Bar may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions. We believe this benefits you.

We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, The Cosmo Bar Platform developers and other users of The Cosmo Bar, to supplement your profile.

Sharing Information with Third-Parties

We will only share your information with third parties if it is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) in perceived close conjunction with what your preferences, information, settings, and/or registration information imply you would have an interest in.

We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about The Cosmo Bar, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the The Cosmo Bar specified purposes.

We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into The Cosmo Bar features. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (e.g., messaging is disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.

We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that any information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through The Cosmo Bar service or using the The Cosmo Bar name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.

We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through sponsored groups or other on-site offers.

We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on The Cosmo Bar.

If the ownership of all or substantially all of The Cosmo Bar business, or individual business units owned by The Cosmo Bar or HairBoutique.com, were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations.

When you use The Cosmo Bar, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other items , this information may become publicly available.

Links

The Cosmo Bar may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by The Cosmo Bar.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on The Cosmo Bar are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by The Cosmo Bar and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Changing and Removing Personal Information

Access and control over most personal information on The Cosmo Bar is readily available through the profile editing tools. The Cosmo Bar users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their The Cosmo Bar account may do so. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of The Cosmo Bar.

Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on The Cosmo Bar, (e.g., sending a personal message to another The Cosmo Bar user) you generally cannot remove such communications.

Security

The Cosmo Bar takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services.

Terms of Use, Notices, and Revisions

Your use of The Cosmo Bar, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time without notice. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.