RUGorgeous’ Customer Privacy Policy covers the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that may be collected by the RUGorgeous website anytime you interact with RUGorgeous, such as when you visit our website, when you make a vote, or when you call our support or sales associates. We highly advise you to take the time to read the following to know more about our information practices, including the types of information we gather, how the information is used and for what purposes, to whom we disclose the information, and how we safeguard your personal information. Your privacy is a priority at RUGorgeous, just like every other website and company.

- Why we need to collect your personal information

 We collect your personal information because it is crucial for this website to reveal information to the public. It enables us to openly share your information and pictures for other users to have convenient access to the different profiles and choose whose profiles they find “gorgeous”. In addition, your personal information helps us keep you posted on the latest website announcements, service updates, special offers, and events that you might be glad to know about. It is requisite to provide your personal information for you to be a member and to start voting in the RUGorgeous website.

- What information we collect from you and how we may use it

 There are various situations in which your personal information is needed by us to give you better products. For example:

    * We mandatory ask for your personal information when you sign up as a member in our website.

    * We ask for other personal information which will be used to elaborate on your profile, which may be useful for you to gain more votes from other members.

    * We also collect more information which we do not post in the site. Such information is more often than not kept undisclosed to third parties.

    * We may use personal information to provide new services and features for auditing, research, and analysis to improve the RUGorgeous website.

 - When we disclose your information

 RUGorgeous takes your privacy seriously. However, being a social-based website, interaction between the members depends primarily on your revealed information. You must keep in mind that whatever personal information and all the pictures that you post on the website shall be subject to public viewing and review.

 - Within the RUGorgeous Group

 To help us provide superior service, your personal information may be shared with legal entities within the RUGorgeous group globally who will take the necessary steps to safeguard it in accordance with RUGorgeous' privacy policy.

 - With our service providers and other strategic partners

 There are times when it is very expedient for RUGorgeous to make certain personal information about you available to companies that RUGorgeous has a strategic relationship with or that perform work for RUGorgeous to provide services and information to you on our behalf. These companies may help us process information, fulfil member aid, deliver information to you, manage and enhance website, provide customer service, assess your interest in new features, or conduct customer research or satisfaction surveys.

- With law enforcers and keepers

 At certain times we may be required by the law or litigation to disclose the personal information that you have provided for us. We may disclose information about you without your prior consent if we determine that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.

Kids

RUGorgeous.com recognizes that parents, guardians, or other adults can sign up for our service, and unwillingly induce use by minors. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. In fact, the RUGorgeous website caters to users of a minimum legal age of 18. However, because all information of users is collected electronically, it may happen that a user below 18 years of age signs up as a member of the website. In this case, we are not to be held liable when users claim to pass the legal age and register in our website.

 Cookies and other technologies

 As is standard practice on many websites, the RUGorgeous’ website uses “cookies” and other technologies to help us understand which parts of our websites are the most popular, where our visitors are visiting, and how much time they spend in our different pages. We also use cookies and other technologies to make sure that our online advertising is bringing customers to our services and features. We use cookies and other technologies to study traffic patterns on our website, to make it even more rewarding as well as to study the effectiveness of our customer communications. And we use cookies to customize your experience and provide greater convenience each time you interact with us and other users of the website.

 We may update this privacy policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated privacy policy.

Created January 10, 2008