PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

This site is owned and operated by Club and Bar Advertising, LLC. Your privacy on the Internet is of the up most importance to us. We want to make your online experience satisfying and safe.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Club and Bar Advertising, LLC, or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, Club and Bar Advertising, LLC’s “services”).  This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

INFORMATION WHOSOUT.COM GATHERS AND TRACKS

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC offers a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as Whosout.com’s “Club and Bar Search” and “Member Search and Browse”.  In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

• 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:

• When you sign up for a Whosout.com account or other Club and Bar Advertising, LLC services or promotions that require registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address, date of birth, and an account password).  For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we also request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers.  We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Club and Bar Advertising, LLC services or other third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services.  For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.

• Information Club and Bar Advertising, LLC 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. Because Whosout.com derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does Whosout.com divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:

Optional Voluntary Information

We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

1. Message boards/forums policy

Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.

2. "E-mail this to a friend" policy

Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". 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.

3. Polling

We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Club and Bar Advertising, LLC may use 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.

4. Surveys

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC 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.

5. Surveys

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC 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.

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 18 without requesting parental consent.

Usage tracking

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Club and Bar Advertising, LLC 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).Club and Bar Advertising, LLC 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 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 service for you.

Cookies

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. 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. Club and Bar Advertising, LLC uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.

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.

Privacy Policy Use

USE OF INFORMATION

Whosout.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.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Club and Bar Advertising, LLC never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic 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 service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC 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 participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviate the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.
• If you would like to opt not to participate in these services, email unsubscribe@clubandbarads.com and you will be removed from the list.

CORRECTING AND UPDATING

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC gives its users the right to change, update and modify their information as long as the information is truthful and not offensive or harmful.  Whosout.com will remove any information if they are not subject to the rules and restrictions.  To protect your privacy and security, Whosout.com will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to make any corrections or revisions.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY AND YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Club and Bar Advertising, LLC. Please note that this policy may change from time to time, but Club and Bar Advertising, LLC will not reduce your rights without your explicit consent.  If changes are minor, they will be posted immediately.  If changes are serious, Club and Bar Advertising, LLC will provide a more prominent notice.  Each policy will be posted with the version date at the top of this page.  Prior versions will be archived for your review.  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.

CONTACTING US

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC takes protecting your privacy very seriously.  If at any time, you have any questions or would like to contact us, our information is posted below.

Club and Bar Advertising, LLC
800 S. Wells, Suite M-25
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: 312-265-5809
Toll Free: 877-WHOSOUT
Fax:  312-265-5853