Welcome to AboutReunions.com - A FREE Reunion Planning Software

Your privacy is very important to us. We do not sell, rent, loan, or give away your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes. Please read this privacy policy to learn more about the ways in which we use and protect your personal information.

By visiting this website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, we ask that you do not use or access our Site.

Notice About Children (minors) using this Site.
The information available at aboutreunions.com is generally safe for viewing by anyone including children (persons under the age of 18). We do not knowingly collect any personal information from minors and we ask that children do not submit any personal information to us. If you are under the age of 18, you may only use this Site in conjunction with and under the supervision of your parents or guardians.

Purpose for the Information That We Collect.
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience as well as to allow us to bill and collect for the goods and/or services that we provide to our customers. We will only collect personal information about you to the extent that it is necessary for achieving the above stated purposes. One of the unique features of our forums is that you may use our internal private messaging to communicate with other members without making your personal email address available publicly.

We respect your privacy and NEVER collect email addresses or other personal information for the purpose of selling, renting, loaning, giving away or providing such information to any third party.

You may browse the aboutreunions.com Site as a guest without providing any personal information or telling us who you are. When you register to use any of our free reunion tools and services, you must give us some information, including your email address, and you cease to be anonymous to us. If you choose to use our services, we may require you to provide contact and identity information that will be used in the following manor:

• For customer registration purposes on our server(s) - To issue user login names, and the associated passwords for posting access at AboutReunions.com.
• To send email updates of any reunions that you may be subscribed to or to inform you of important information from any reunion moderator that you have agreed to receive email updates from.
• To investigate grossly improper messages posted at our website or inappropriate use of our free reunion planning services.

  Please note that you always have the ability to modify the parameters of your own personal profile and may choose to keep any such information, private if you so choose. This includes the ability to browse our forums in "stealth mode" ie: your user id does not show up in the members on-line.

In order to keep the services of aboutreunions.com
FREE

for reunion planning and to help offset the costs involved in maintaining this Site, we conduct a limited amount of low profile advertising on the forums and offer certain related items and services to the members of aboutreunions.com

Upon becoming a member, and in exchange for using our free reunion planning services, we ask you to accept a limited number of email announcements from aboutreunions.com which may include products and services provided by affiliates of aboutreunions.com which as of 09/30/2003, include www.vrbwebs.com , www.brbwebs.com and www.atexasdomain.com

Should you choose to purchase any of the services or products offered by the above mentioned websites, we may request and use financial information including your email address, name, address, telephone number, domain name, credit card number and expiration date that you provided for the following purposes and in the following manner:

• To verify the accuracy of your email address, name and postal address
• To Bill you and collect for services that we provide;
• To investigate and resolve system errors associated with server space and it’s functions, and email services;
• To validate your identity in protected areas of our server(s);
• To inform you of important information related to the services we provide to you;
• To enforce our Terms of Use and Privacy Polices and to protect our other customer information, which includes prevention of unauthorized use of our client’s information and resources located on our server(s).

Your Rights
Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and fields that are optional. You retain the option and the right to not provide any information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature. You also have the right to refuse any “cookie” presented to you during your visit to our Site. You may do this by setting the privacy controls in the browser functions of the personal computer that you are using to access our Site. There may be instances however, where certain features do not behave as expected or may not function properly without having "cookies" turned on. Additionally, some services may be unavailable to you if you do not provide certain information.

Automatically Tracked Information
Certain information is automatically tracked when you use our Site. The collection of this type of data is standard procedure on the internet. We use this information to research our Site user's demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our website community. The specific information that we collect may include the URL that you just came from (whether said URL is located on our Site or not), the URL you next go to (whether said URL is located on our Site or not), the keywords that you typed into a search engine to find our Site, the browser information that your computer used to view our Site, your IP address, and the date and time of your visit to our Site.

Concerning "Cookies"
We utilize "cookie" technology within our reunion planning software in order to provide an easy, personalized experience while using our free services. At the bottom of our home page, we provide a link which you may use to remove all cookies associated with the aboutreunions.com. You may click this option after each use to remove cookies. We use standard data collection methods which may include "cookies" on certain pages of our Site to assist in evaluation of page views, popularity and use of specific web pages, to gauge the effectiveness of the pages you use, and to promote trust and safety at our site. "Cookies" are defined as small files placed on your hard drive that assist in providing certain services. In addition, you may occasionally encounter "cookies" or other similar devices on certain pages of our Site that are placed by third parties. We have no control over the use of cookies by third parties. Should you have questions about third party cookies, you should refer to the individual privacy policy in force at the third party Site.

Concerning Message Boards, Guestbooks, Public Forums & E-mail
If you choose to post messages in our public venues and/or guestbooks or if you complete and submit feedback forms, we will collect that information you provided to us which may include but is not limited to your IP address, your email address, your name, the date and time of your visit and information about the web browser that your computer used to view or interact with our Site. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file that identifies you by the email address and name submitted by you.

How We Use Your Information.
We use your personal information to facilitate the services you request. We use your personal information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote safe trading; collect fees owed; gauge consumer interest in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; protect our client's data; enforce our Privacy Policiy and User Agreements; and in other ways that may be described to you at the time of collection. On occasion, we may evaluate the activities of multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your personal information to identify users using multiple User IDs or aliases. We may compare and review your personal information for errors, omissions and for accuracy.

Our Disclosure of Your Information.
We do not sell or rent any of your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide our services. From time to time we may use non-personally identifiable information in conjunction with other users of our site, for marketing and promotional purposes. For example, the number of times you visited our Site may be included in a total count along with other visitors to our site and released as a total number of visits to specific areas of our site. In this instance, we will not disclose to any third party, any information that could be used to identify you personally. In any case, certain information, such as your name, email address, password, credit card number, and bank account number are for our internal use only and are not disclosed to any third party without your consent.

In addition, other third parties, unknown to us, may intercept or access private communications or information transmitted across the internet in an unlawful manner. Similarly, a third party user may collect, misuse or abuse any publicly accessible information that is stored on our server(s).

SPAM Policy (Unsolicited Emails)
aboutreunions.com does not endorse nor tolerate SPAM. You are prohibited from using email addresses located on our server(s) for the purpose of sending SPAM and use of our server(s) to collect such information for this purpose is strictly prohibited. Please DO NOT SPAM our members!

Acceptable Use of Email Tools
You may not use the private messaging service or other email services that we offer to send SPAM or otherwise send content that would violate our User Agreements. We do not permanently store email messages or the email addresses sent from these tools. If you send an email using the Recommend to a Friend service to an email address that is not registered in our community, we do not use that email address for any purpose other than to send your email. We do not rent, sell or otherwise use these email addresses.

Concerning the use of Passwords and User IDs
You agree to assume responsibility for all actions taken with your User ID and password, including fees charged to your account. It is our recommendation that you NOT disclose your user ID or password to any third parties. If you choose to share your User ID and password or your personal information with third parties, you assume all responsibility for all actions taken with your account and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy. If you lose control of your password, be aware that you may lose control over your personal information and you may be liable and legally bound to actions taken by any third party on your behalf. If you believe that your password has been compromised for any reason, you should take immediate action to ensure that the password is changed.

Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
We offer you the ability to automatically review and change the information you submit to us by logging into the Site and entering in the new information yourself. Generally, we will not modify your personal information based on your request because it is very difficult to authenticate your account manually. You can change your user Id, email address, contact information, financial information, shipping information and user preferences by going the preferences and setup section in You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. You haveOnce posted, you may not be able to change or remove any public postings made on our Site including our message areas or the feedback area. EXCEPTION: If you become aware that someone has maliciously posted false, slanderous, or personally identifying information about or concerning you in our forums and you would like to have such information removed, please contact the moderator of the forum where such information is posted or the administrator of this website.

Upon your request, we will deactivate your account, contact information, billing information, and financial information from our active databases. Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible based on your account activity and in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable laws governed by the state of Texas in the United States of America.

Retention of Information
We will retain in our files, certain personal information that you have requested be removed, in order to prevent fraud, to collect any fees owed for services rendered, to resolve disputes, to troubleshoot problems with our servers, to assist with investigations, to enforce User and Privacy Policies and to comply with legal requirements permitted by law. You should not reasonably expect that all of your personal information will be completely and permanently removed from our databases in response to your request for removal. However, any remaining personal information that remains will be deactivated and removed from public view and will only be available to select aboutreunions.com personnel on a need to know basis or as required by law, to government or law enforcement agencies.

Disclaimer
Because of existing laws and regulations, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways that are not described herein. For example, we may be forced to disclose personal information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances. We will, if required by law, disclose your name, company name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number or email address to an authorized law enforcement agency or entity in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on our Site.

HOW TO REPORT VIOLATIONS of TERMS at aboutreunions.com
Anyone who believes that there has been violation of this agreement by any member of aboutreunions.com or any reunion domain hosted by aboutreunions.com, may direct the information to our Abuse Department by sending email to:

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Last Updated on 09/25/2003