Privacy Policy
INTRODUCTION
We at Brave Media, Inc., a Canadian corporation ("Secrets of the Ripped Man") are firmly committed to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. Our goal of collecting this information is to provide you with the best possible experience at the Secrets of the Ripped Man Site located at www.secretsoftherippedman.com ("Website"). We have created this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to demonstrate our commitment to protecting your privacy and to inform you how the information you submit to us and the information that we collect automatically from you is handled. This Privacy Policy is intended to apply only to your transactions and activities, and the data gathered, on the Website. It is not intended to apply to any other website or offline point of contact between participants on the Website ("Participants") or any other companies or consumers. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This Privacy Policy was last revised on November 24, 2008. Each time you visit the Website or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy at that time.
ELIGIBLITY
YOU MUST BE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS AT LEAST EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OLD TO PARTICIPATE ON THE WEBSITE.
You may not participate in the Website if you are under 18 years old. All adults are welcome to explore the Website and post a Profile; provided they comply with the Terms of Use. As per the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, any information input by minors will be purged from our database.
OUR USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Secrets of the Ripped Man collects a variety of information from you when you register with the Website, as well as during your use of the Website in order to provide you with best possible experience. None of the information collected by Secrets of the Ripped Man as part of the registration process is made accessible to the public, other users of the site, or anyone not employed by Secrets of the Ripped Man directly, except to the extent you include such information in your Profile (as defined in the Terms of Use) and to the extent that your age (not your date of birth) may be included by Secrets of the Ripped Man in your Profile. This information is held strictly confidential and can be deleted at the user’s request. Nonmember visitors to Secrets of the Ripped Man are not allowed access to this information in any way.
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may disclose information you provide if required to do so by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights or property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone’s safety. In addition, as we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets and, depending on the transaction, your personally identifiable information may be one of the transferred assets. In the event that we are acquired by another company, your personal information may be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party.
INFORMATION YOU SUPPLY TO US AT REGISTRATION
Secrets of the Ripped Man offers member and non-member based service to users. To process memberships and/or product purchases, we may require your name, age, billing address, phone number, email address, shipping address and credit card information.
You may only access your Profile and personal information relating to you if you provide the correct password that you create when you register with the Website. After providing your password, you can edit or delete your information at any time.
If you forget your password, upon request we will email it to the email address you provide to us when you register. We will not give passwords out over the phone, nor will we email them to a different email address than the one used to register.
EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS
In general, you will receive one email notification asking that you confirm having created a Secrets of the Ripped Man membership. You will also receive one email notification every time you purchase a product or subscription from Secrets of the Ripped Man. You can change your preferences for the types of emails you receive from us by clicking the "opt out" or "unsubscribe" links in the emails we send to you. Secrets of the Ripped Man fully complies with the requirements of the federal CAN-SPAM ACT.
INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT FROM YOU
In addition to the information submitted by you, Secrets of the Ripped Man automatically collects certain information each time you visit the Website. For example, each time you visit the Website, Secrets of the Ripped Man will automatically collect your IP address, browser and computer type, access times, the web page from which you came and the specific Website pages accessed.
Demographic and profile data is also collected by us through the Website. We use this data to tailor our visitor’s experience at our Website, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. Some of this information (e.g., customer demographic information) may be shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We use cookies to collect this information and to deliver content specific to your interests, and if you so choose, to save other personal information so that you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Website. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will give you instructions to do so. However, if you set your browser to disable or reject cookies, you will not be able to access the Website.
YOUR PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION WILL NOT BE LENT OR SOLD TO ANY OTHER BUSINESS OR VENDOR.
SECURITY
Secrets of the Ripped Man has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These measures include the use of Secure Server technology during credit card transactions and administrative access to site data, as well as other proprietary security measures which are applied to all repositories and transfers of user information. Although we will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure.
HOW YOU CAN HELP PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
Do not disclose or share your login password with anyone. If you lose control of your login password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and will become subject to any legally binding action taken on your behalf. If your login password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
Likewise, do not provide other account information, including your user name, to anyone. Secrets of the Ripped Man suggests that you not disclose personal, financial or address (home, business or hotel) information while using the Website or the Internet in general.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THIRD PARTIES
On the Website, you may see links to other websites that are not owned by Secrets of the Ripped Man ("Unaffiliated Sites"). We do not control Unaffiliated Sites and this Privacy Policy does not apply to Unaffiliated Sites. When you click on these links and visit Unaffiliated Sites, the operators of the Unaffiliated 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 on Secrets of the Ripped Man’s Website. In addition, third parties who place advertisements on the Website may also collect information through cookies to ensure that their advertising systems and technologies are functioning properly and to allow them to track your responses to their advertisements. Cookies set by these third parties are governed by the privacy policies set by the third parties. Since we are not responsible for the practices of third parties and Unaffiliated Sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any Unaffiliated Website or third party site with which you come in contact.
CHANGING OUR PRIVACY POLICY
If we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on the Website notifying users of the change. In some cases we will email users who have opted to receive communications from us where we post the Website notice, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY
Your use of the Website, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this privacy statement and the Terms of Use that also govern your use of the Website. BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Your continued use of any portion of our Website following posting of the updated privacy statement will constitute your acceptance of the changes.