The Yourpolk.com has created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your profile information and informing you about how we handle it. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on March 14, 2008. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time.

Your IP Address

Like most websites, each time you visit Yourpolk.com we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.

Cookies

Yourpolk.com uses cookies to keep track of your listings and other activity to enhance your experience on the site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal information so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit Yourpolk.com. Third parties advertisers on Yourpolk.com may also place cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of Yourpolk.com.

Information We Collect From You

In order to operate Yourpolk.com and provide you with information on products and services that may be of interest to you, we may collect profile information (i.e. information that could be used to contact you such as full name, postal address, phone number and email address), financial information (e.g. passwords and billing information), demographic information (e.g. zip code, hometown, gender, purchase history information and age), public information such as user ratings and reviews and a user name from you. Please note that nowhere on Yourpolk.com do we knowingly collect profile information from children under the age of 13. Yourpolk also provides you with the opportunity to save, in a personal account, restaurant listings, event listings and other information you view.

Information Other Web Sites Collect From You

On Yourpolk.com, we place links to other web sites operated by other parties. Some of these other web sites contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit these other web sites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do not control these other web sites or these other web sites' business practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other web sites. Consequently, the operators of these other web sites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.

How We Use Personal Information

We use your profile information to help us efficiently perform Transactions, to contact you when necessary in connection with Transactions, and to send you information, offers and other promotional materials for Yourpolk.com's or third parties' goods or services. We carefully select the information we send to you and attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. We provide you with the option of declining to receive offers from Yourpolk.com by “opting-out” of receiving this type of communication.

By purchasing or making reservations for products or services, electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions), or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes, or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered by third parties on Yourpolk.com, you consent to our providing your profile information to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we will have the right to use and disclose all such information you submit in the same manner in which we use and disclose all other information you submit.

Your profile information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a bankruptcy, of Yourpolk.com. We may also disclose specific information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of Yourpolk.com. We also may disclose your profile information to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. However, all of these parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities and businesses that receive your profile information from us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their use and disclosure of such profile information.

Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your profile information is authorized to use your profile information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your profile information by them.

Please read the information below under the heading “How We Use Public Information, Reviews, Ratings and User Names” to learn how we may make some of your profile information accessible to the public via the Site or via other means.

How We Use Public Information, Reviews, Ratings and User Names

When you register on Yourpolk.com, you must enter a user name. The Site provides you with the opportunity to give user reviews and ratings for restaurants, hotels, bars, events and other items. Your user name and public information may appear next to your user reviews and ratings as they are posted on Yourpolk.com. Your user name and public information may also appear on a User Profile section. We may also use and disclose your user name, public information and reviews and ratings in any other manner.

Our Security Precautions, Location of Information

Yourpolk.com has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the countries in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your state.

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices, or your dealings with Yourpolk.com, you can contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it