This privacy policy applies to www.tribalsquare.com which is owned and operated by Tribalsquare, LLC (Tribalsquare). This privacy policy describes how Tribalsquare collects and uses the personally identifiable information you provide on our website. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal identifiable information and how you can access and update this information.

It is Tribalsquare’s policy to maintain strict security and privacy practices to protect its systems and its customer data. Tribalsquare maintains compliance with U.S. State and Federal laws. Please visit our  FAQ Page to learn more about how we help protect you and how you can help protect yourself against potential online fraud.

Anti-Spam & UCE Policy

Tribalsquare does not send out unsolicited commercial emails or any form of spam. If you have received what you believe to be spam, you may have received a spoofed email with forged headers.

Privacy & Personally Identifiable Information

Tribalsquare has a firm commitment to safeguarding the privacy of our members’ Personally Identifiable Information. We collect personally identifiable information such as first and last name, birthdate, email address, a home, postal or other physical address or phone number from guests and members during the registration and payment processes and, occasionally, at other times. Information collected by Tribalsquare is securely stored by physical and electronic means. Data collected by Tribalsquare will be shared with third parties only in ways that are described in this privacy policy and will not be sold or rented on an individual basis to independent third parties without your knowledge or permission. By accepting the Tribalsquare Terms of Use, you acknowledge and grant permission to Tribalsquare to use your Personal Contact Information as specifically stated under Uses of Personal Contact Information, herein, on the Tribalsquare website.

Search engines may index publicly available information from your profile, such as your first name, that is searchable by anyone on the Internet. Search engines do not have access to any Personal Contact Information contained within the fields of a profile, some of which is available only to paid members of the Tribalsquare service. Personal Contact Information is defined as first and last name together, email address, phone number and physical street address. We also collect your credit card number if you make a purchase.

Uses of Personal Contact Information

Paid members may see your first and last name listed on your profile. You have the option of providing your phone number, which you may elect to display or not display to paid members; either families or care providers who are claiming to seek a working relationship with you as a result of your online registration. Your email address is not visible to anyone, except to those whom you directly send an email during the time you have a paid subscription. Your physical address is not revealed on the website. A map showing the location of your city or zip code is available and may be seen by registered users. No representations or warranties are made regarding the legitimacy of the claims of those who have paid for a membership subscription to contact you through Tribalsquare’s private messaging system which relies on your Personal Contact Information. You are urged to validate the identity of anyone who contacts you before making any commitments or arrangements. We do not sell, share, rent or trade personally identifiable information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

The information you provide during registration may also be used to enable us to process, validate and verify services or membership subscription purchases. We may also provide advertisers with aggregate – never individual – information about our member base and usage patterns. We may also use aggregated information to develop new features and services to better meet member needs.

Internally we may use aggregated and personally identifiable information to improve our marketing efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings as well as to customize our site’s content and layout. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor your online experience to meet your needs.

We also may use personally identifiable information about you to deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests, such as Tribalsquare news, updates, and promotions. You may opt out of receiving such automated information services at any time select your email preferences and opt-out.

Users also may post third party personally identifiable information, such as name and email for referral purposes. This information is used only for the purposes which it was collected. We use personally identifiable information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use.

Updating/Accessing/Amending/Correcting Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, deactivate or delete it by making your desired changes on your My Account page or by contacting our Customer Support team by email, phone or U.S. mail.

Communications from the Site

As part of your registration you are agreeing to receive emails from the site and its members. While you may opt out from receiving certain types of emails, you may cease all emails from the site and its members by deactivating your profile or canceling your account.  To remove unauthorized profiles, please send an email to support@tribalsquare.com. We reserve the right to contact any member at any time regarding subscription renewals, profile deactivation, account cancellation and other membership-related problems or questions.

Special Offers and Updates

We will occasionally send you information on special services or promotions. You may receive these emails from us as part of your registration. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. At the bottom of every Special Offer email, you will find an “Opt-out” link at the bottom, which if clicked, will remove your name from the list of recipients for future mailings of that type.

Service-related Announcements

We will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate or cancel your account.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information to enforce our Terms of Use, prevent fraud, or as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website. If Tribalsquare is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personally identifiable information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personally identifiable information.

Links to Other Sites

This website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Tribalsquare. Please be aware that we, Tribalsquare, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies only to information collected by this website. You should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit on the TribalForum can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in this forum. To request removal of your personally identifiable information from our bulletin board or chat room, contact us at support@tribalsquare.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personally identifiable information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. We also have testimonials and reviews on our site, for which users have given permission to have their personally identifiable information posted on this site. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at support@tribalsquare.com.

Security

The security of your personally identifiable information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number, drivers license number, national ID number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about how we help protect you and your privacy.

Tell-A-Friend

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit our site. Tribalsquare does not store and only uses this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Agents/Service Providers

We use third parties such as a credit card processing company to bill you for services. When you sign up for our service, we will share only that specific personally identifiable information as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes.

Widgets

Our website includes Widgets, which are interactive mini-programs that run on our site to provide specific services from another company (e.g. allowing you to share a profile with your FaceBook or Twitter account). Personally identifiable information, such as your email address, may be collected through the Widget. Cookies may also be set by the Widget to enable it to function properly. Information collected by this Widget is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it.

Control of Your Password

You may not disclose your password to any third parties or share it with any third parties. If, despite the foregoing, you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.

Research

We also may conduct occasional online surveys. If you choose to participate, you’ll be prompted to answer a series of online questions. Your responses are confidential and will be used for statistical analysis only; no information on an individual’s preferences will be shared with any outside organization.

Tracking Technologies

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Tribalsquare and our marketing and analytics partners. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking user’s movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

We use cookies to help members move faster through our site. When a member signs on to Tribalsquare we may pass a cookie to that user’s computer. A cookie is a string of information that’s sent by a website and stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your computer’s memory. This avoids the potentially time-consuming task of entering your user name and password each time a page is requested. Data contained in the cookies is encrypted and is not linked to personally identifiable information. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.

Advertising

We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this site and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.

Log Files

As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you and site functionality.

Data Retention

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact our Customer Support team by email, phone or U.S. mail. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Changes in this Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy policy, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here or by email prior to the change becoming effective.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact our support team at TheTribalSquare@gmail.com. Tribalsquare may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, so please check back periodically.