We do NOT track, collect or distribute ANY personal information about visitors of our website. We track information about the visits to our web sites. For example, we look at statistics that show the daily number of visitors to our site, as well as what countries are primarily using our website. These statistics are used to improve our services but do not contain any personal information and cannot be used to gather such information. If at any time you change your mind, you can remove your profile and all personal data shall be deleted from the database.

We may use Data to customize and improve your user experience on this site. We will make efforts so that your Data will not be provided to third parties unless (i) provided for otherwise in this Privacy Policy; (ii) we obtain your consent, such as when you choose to opt-in or opt-out to the sharing of Data; (iii) a service provided on our site requires the interaction with or is provided by a third party, by way of example an Application Service Provider; (iv) pursuant to legal process or law enforcement; (v) we find that your use of this site violates our this Policy, Terms of Service, other usage guidelines or as deemed reasonably necessary by us to protect our legal rights and/or property; (vi) or (vi) this site is purchased by a third party whereby that third party will be able to use the Data in the same manner as we can as set forth in this Policy. In the event you choose to use links that appear on our site to visit other web sites, you are advised to read the privacy policies that appear on those sites.

Your personal information will not be released to third parties and shared among other users except to further the purpose for which you had provided the information. Under NO other circumstances shall we provide or sell personal information to third parties.

We do not sell user lists to any third party company. All information about our users is stored in a password protected and encrypted database through a secure server hosting machine.

Like many web sites, we set and use cookies to enhance your user experience, such as retaining your personal settings. Advertisements may appear on our web site and, if so, may set and access cookies on your computer and is subject to the privacy policy of those parties providing the advertisement. However, the companies serving the advertising do not have access to our cookies. These companies usually use non-personally identifiable or anonymous codes to obtain information about your visits to our site.

If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for DeafPals. No one under age 13 may provide their personal information on DeafPals.com. If we discover that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, the information will be deleted as soon as possible. If you believe that we have any information from or about a child under the age of 13 , please contact us at .

We provide you with the ability to edit the information in your user account information that you provided to us in registration by using your personal page configuration area. You may request deletion of your user account by contacting our webmaster. Content or other data that you may have provided to us and that is not contained within your user account, such as posts that may appear within our forums, may continue to remain on our site at our discretion even though your user account is deleted. Please see our Terms of Use for more information.

We may make changes to this Policy from time to time. We will notify you of substantial changes to this Policy either by posting a prominent announcement on our site and/or by sending a message to the e-mail address you have provided to us that is contained within your user settings.

While this Privacy Policy states our standards for maintenance of Data and we will make efforts to meet them, we are not in a position to guarantee these standards. There may be factors beyond our control that may result in disclosure of data. As a consequence, we disclaim any warranties or representations relating to maintenance or nondisclosure of Data.

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by DeafPals.com. 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.