YAP Club is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the YAP Club Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the YAP Club website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
YAP Club collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. YAP Club also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by YAP Club. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by YAP Club for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the YAP Club Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through YAP Club public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: YAP Club does not read any of your private online communications.

YAP Club encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from YAP Club so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. YAP Club is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the YAP Club and YAP Club family of Web sites.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Profile information as well as first name/last initial, gender and photos are displayed to people in a user's personal network to support the function of the site as social community. A users full name is used when a user invites a friend via email to join the service or attend an event, when we send notifications to a user related to their use of the service or when a user specifies in their account to make their full name public.  A user's email address, home address or phone number are never shared or displayed.

YAP Club collects and uses your personal information to operate the YAP Club Web site and deliver the services you have requested. YAP Club also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from YAP Club and its affiliates. YAP Club may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

YAP Club does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. YAP Club may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, YAP Club may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to YAP Club, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

YAP Club does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as phone number, email, or address, without your explicit consent.

YAP Club keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within YAP Club, in order to determine what YAP Club services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within YAP Club to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

YAP Club Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on YAP Club or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of YAP Club; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of YAP Club, or the public.

CORRECTING/UPDATING INFORMATION
Members can access, change and update their registration and personal information by logging onto YAP Club and selecting the Modify Profile option. Users who leave the service may choose to have their personal information deleted by contacting us.

CHAT ROOMS, MESSAGE BOARDS & PUBLIC FORUMS
Please be aware that whenever members voluntarily disclose personal information online - e.g., message boards, chat areas, file uploads, events, and listings - that information becomes public and can be collected and used by others. By posting personal information online in public forums, members may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.

NEWSLETTER
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Email addresses will only be used to send the newsletter. Members may choose to opt-out of receiving the newsletter anytime.

USE OF COOKIES
The YAP Club Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize YAP Club pages, or register with YAP Club site or services, a cookie helps YAP Club to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same YAP Club Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the YAP Club features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the YAP Club services or Web sites you visit.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
YAP Club secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. YAP Club secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
YAP Club will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. YAP Club encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how YAP Club is protecting your information.

CONTACT INFORMATION
YAP Club welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that YAP Club has not adhered to this Statement, please contact YAP Club at http://www.yapclub.com/contactus.aspx. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.