blackmarinereunion.com PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At blackmarinereunion.com, we want to make your experience online satisfying, edifying and safe.

We feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement deals with what information we gather and how we use it.

blackmarinereunion.com gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:

• Information blackmarinereunion.com gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. There is no charge to view media content on blackmarinereunion.com (except for designated Pay Per View events) derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. blackmarinereunion.com does not divulge any information about an individual user to any unaffiliated third party.

Privacy Policy

1. Electronic Newsletters

We offer several free electronic newsletters to our users. blackmarinereunion.com gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe, either as a part of the Free Pass registration process or in response to opt-in links on our site or in our publications. Users may remove themselves from these mailing lists at any time by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. If for some reason you are not able to unsubscribe using the automated link, you may send an e-mail message to feedback@blackmarinereunion.com and request that you be removed from one or all distribution lists and that request will be promptly honored.

2. Interactive Community (Message Boards/Forums) Policy

Users who wish to post comments or messages in the site's Interactive Community must validate their e-mail address by clicking on the validation link in the confirmation e-mail sent when upon registration. Both registration and validation are completely free of charge. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address. Validation is required to protect our online community; Only users who have valid e-mail addresses may post to our Community. This assures no one will be giving false e-mail addresses and posting inappropriate or abusive comments. Users who post such comments and messages are subject to immediate removal from the Community and revocation of their Free Pass account.

3. "E-mail this to a friend"

Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking the "e-mail this to a friend" link. The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.

4. Polling

blackmarinereunion.com offers a daily interactive poll to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues and topics. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. We utilize a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users and cannot be tracked.

5. Surveys

blackmarinereunion.com may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

6. Children

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

7. Usage tracking

blackmarinereunion.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. blackmarinereunion.com does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). blackmarinereunion.com sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic and click throughs to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better online community for you.

8. Cookies

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The use of cookies allows the site to “remember” you if you so choose so you do not have to enter your login information each time you return to blackmarinereunion.com. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. blackmarinereunion.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

USE OF INFORMATION

blackmarinereunion.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

Your Free Pass registration information is available to blackmarinereunion.com broadcasters whose content you view on blackmarinereunion.com to allow them to reach out to you, thank you for viewing and to minister to you in any way you might desire. Your information is only available to broadcasters whose content you choose to view (or listen to) and is never shared with any unaffiliated third party.

SECURITY

blackmarinereunion.com operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

• Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.

• Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users

YOUR CONSENT

By registering on or using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by blackmarinereunion.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.