GUIDING PRINCIPLES
1. Acceptance of Terms.
2. Our Approach to Privacy
3. Privacy Policy
4. "Rules of the Road."
5. Rights You Grant to EEFO
6. Legal Stuff.
Welcome to EEFO! We are glad you have decided to join this community developed specially for you. We look forward to your involvement with the site.
Before you begin to explore the services and content available on our site, please take a moment to review these Terms and Conditions. These Terms are an agreement between you and EEFO. It is important that you understand both the benefits we provide as well as our limitations.
1. Acceptance of Terms.
When you complete the member registration process, you agree to these Terms. These Terms may be updated from time to time. We will notify you of any significant updates by presenting you with an alert that describes the changes. Those changes will go into effect 30 days after the alert is first posted. Your continued use of our services signifies your acceptance of the changes. These Terms will always be available to users on this page for you to read.
2. Our Approach to Privacy.
At EEFO we collect information about our users for two main reasons:
- To ensure that young people using the site have a valid point of contact (ie an email address) to prevent bogus memberships.
- To allow us to email information on your behalf in relation to requests for advice made to the site.
Our principles on privacy are:-
- We will endeavour to invest in the best quality security within our means and do our utmost to protect user privacy.
- We will respect your email privacy. You will receive not unsolicited mail from EEFO.
- We will not pass on any individual user details (including your email address).
- We will share only aggregated statistics about our users and traffic patterns with our potential sponsors and advertisers.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information in public areas of EEFO, your information can be viewed and possibly used by others. We advise you not to disclose information such as full name, home address or phone number if you do not wish for others to contact you.
We also reserve the right to reveal your identity (and whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any submission posted by you.
By registering as a member of EEFO, you agree to accept our approach to privacy. Any changes to our policy will be posted here.
3. Privacy Policy
What this Privacy Policy covers:-
This Privacy Policy covers EEFO's treatment of personally identifiable information that EEFO collects when you are on the EEFO site.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that EEFO does not own or control or to people that EEFO does not employ or manage.
Why we may collect your data.
You may at times be asked to supply personal information via the EEFO website. Personal information is anything which enables us to identify you in some way, such as your name and an email address. If you supply such information, we are legally bound by the Data Protection Act 1998 to ensure that such information is only used for the purpose for which it was requested and also to ensure that the data is held securely.
When using the website Advice section, all of the information that you email to EEFO will arrive and will be given a unique identity number. The professional who answers the question will only see this number.
If you reveal your full name and address and you tell EEFO of special circumstances (e.g. if you are in danger or are putting others in danger) we would need to inform other people. This would not be done without EEFO sending you an email first.
We may collect and record information in order for us to understand more about how our site is used and in turn to make sure that the site reflects your needs. In order to do this we may send cookies to your PC. A cookie will contain information that allows us to recognise that you have used the site before, but will not contain any other personal data. You can disable this function within your browser without affecting your navigation around the site.
If you make a request for further information via the EEFO website, the data will only be retained on the Web Servers as long as necessary in order to respond to your query.
Use of the Information
EEFO uses information for two purposes
- To ensure that young people using the site have a valid point of contact to prevent bogus memberships.
- To allow EEFO to email information on your behalf in relation to requests for advice made to the site.
Who we share information with:-
EEFO will not sell or rent mailing details to any third party. We will however send personally identifiable information to third parties in the following circumstances:-
- We have your consent to share the information.
- We find that your actions on the EEFO site violate the Terms and Conditions of the Site.
We will share aggregated statistics about our users and traffic patterns with our potential sponsors and advertisers.
Amendments
EEFO may amend this policy from time to time. If we make substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.
4. "Rules of the Road."
For the benefit of the entire EEFO community we have a few guidelines that we call "Rules of the Road." We hope you will find them reasonable. Please understand, though, that any conduct that violates the Rules of the Road is grounds for suspension of your membership. For this reason, we ask that you carefully read and follow them.
- Provide Accurate Information. You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as requested in the membership registration form.
- Guard Your Password. You will receive a password and account name once you've completed the registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. And you are fully responsible for all activities that occur using your password or account. Please notify EEFO immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security.
- Obey the Law. You agree not to use the service for illegal purposes or for the transmission of material that is unlawful, harassing, libelous (untrue and damaging to others), invasive of another's privacy, abusive, threatening, or obscene, or that infringes the copyrights (rights of an owner of written material) or other intellectual property of others.
- Site Ethos. First and foremost the EEFO website is a community for young people with its own ethos. Subscribing to the site signals your acceptance of the site ethos and all guiding principles. You must:-
- deal respectfully and thoughtfully with each other
- avoid judgmental, offensive or insensitive language
- listen to each other with care and attention
- not attempt to exclude or deliberately mislead others
- take responsibility for checking out anything you do not understand or are unclear about
Abuse of these principles will lead to permanent suspension of the membership of the individual(s) involved.
5. Rights You Grant to EEFO.
A). Distributing Content You Produce. Subject to our Privacy Policy, you are licensing to EEFO and our third party service providers any "content" you provide through or to the EEFO site and the service they offer. We may modify, display, distribute and create new material using such content for the promotion and marketing of our services and the operation of our system.
Notwithstanding this license, we will take reasonable precautions to keep your email and voicemail messages private.
You may not submit materials that have been trademarked or copyrighted by anyone other than yourself, unless with the author's express permission.
B). Account Access. In order to ensure that the Snowball.com Sites are able to provide high-quality services that are responsive to members' needs, you agree that Snowball.com employees have access to your account and records as reasonably needed to investigate complaints.
6. Legal Stuff for Everyone's Protection:
Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this document shall be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic or mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from EEFO and the author.
No patent liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained herein. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of content, EEFO and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.
All rights, including copyright, in the content of these EEFO web pages are owned or controlled for these purposes by EEFO.
In accessing the EEFO web pages, you agree that you may only download the content for your own personal non-commercial use.
You are not permitted to copy, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way the content of these EEFO web pages for any other purpose whatsoever without the prior written permission of EEFO.