Megamodel privacy policy

Most recently amended: 11th of March 2011

Megamodel consists of a network of friends. We deal with your information as you would expect from friends. So Megamodel takes your privacy very seriously and will deal with your information with due care. This document sets out our Privacy Policy. The conditions apply to members of Megamodel as well as non-members. We therefore recommend that you read this Privacy Policy carefully.

1. Who is Megamodel?
Megamodel is a trade name of Q5 Internetbureau, with its registered office in Etten-Leur (the Netherlands). Megamodel Headquarters is based at Brabantlaan 32 in Etten-Leur and is listed at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under number 20136638. The manner in which your personal details are saved and used has been reported to the Dutch Data Protection Authority under number 1328365. We don't like spam and assume you don't, either. We will rarely bother you with information on new features and other information. Please let us know if you do not wish to receive this information.

2. Megamodel account
In order to be able to make optimum use of the Services offered by Megamodel, you have to create a personal Megamodel account. When you create such an account, you complete certain information about yourself. You are not obliged to provide all the details. This information is sufficient in order to be able to use Megamodel. But it might be the case that you cannot use certain Services without providing more information about yourself. You can always adjust the most information you have provided.

During the creation of your Megamodel account you can indicate what your interests are as part of your profile. This is useful for other users who are viewing your profile but also for Megamodel because in this way we will be better able to adjust Megamodel to your wishes.

Automatically Generated Data
Megamodel also collects automatically generated information about your surfing behaviour during your use of Megamodel. This information consists for instance of your IP address (number of your computer making it possible to recognise your computer), the browser type (computer program to enable the viewing of internet pages) that you use, the pages you visit and “cookies”.

3. What are cookies and how is Megamodel using them?
In order to perform the service Megamodel uses cookies saved by your browser on your computer. Cookies are little bits of information sent by our server to your server with the aim that on your next visit this information is again returned to our server. These little text files are saved on the hard disk or in the memory of your computer. Cookies can also be used to prevent you seeing a certain advert too often. Cookies cannot damage your computer or the files stored on your computer.

Information is stored in the cookies (such as the settings of your PC and the preferences indicated by you) in order to make any next use of Megamodel easier. Apart from your IP address this information does not include a name or address details or other personal details. You can adjust your browser so that you don’t receive any cookies during your next use of Megamodel. However, in that case it may happen that you cannot use all the opportunities of Megamodel or that you don’t have access to (parts of) Megamodel.
If you do want to make use of cookies, make sure that you log out if you leave a public computer. Also keep your password secret in order to avoid others using your Megamodel Account without your consent.

4. For what purposes will Megamodel use information about you?

Purposes
Megamodel will use information about you for the following purposes:
• to communicate with you about Megamodel and to send information to you about our own services such as Megamodel updates; • to adjust Megamodel to your wishes and needs; • for protection purposes and to formulate rendered anonymous statistical data;

Use by Megamodel
We really loath spam, and assume that you loath it as well. We will therefore only trouble you in exceptional cases with information about Megamodel expansions and some other information. In case you do not appreciate receiving such e-mails, you can contact us.

Megamodel uses the information about you to let Megamodel respond better to your wishes and needs. It can for instance be used to make sure that you will see adverts better suited to you. We're trying to match adverts and campaigns to your profile. For instance we try to prevent male Megamodel members receiving adverts for sanitary towels and female Megamodel members receiving adverts for razor blades. (Men who are nevertheless interested in sanitary towels, can indicate this).

As stated above, your IP address is also included in the automatically generated data. Megamodel records these addresses in order to determine the computers from which Megamodel is visited to protect attempts at hacking. But when Megamodel members are harassed or with regard to fake profiles of existing persons we can also use these data to retrieve the perpetrators. Megamodel also uses the automatically generated data for drawing up rendered anonymous user statistics. Megamodel may provide automatically generated data, including your IP-address, to third parties that draw up user statistics for Megamodel and that perform web analyses.

Use by third parties
Megamodel be able to send you an e-mail message from a third party so that you will be able to receive interesting offers and discounts from Megamodel’ partners free of charge. Again, we hate spam so this is very rarely.

We are trying to bring the offers in line with your profile. In that connection your IP address can be provided to third parties. For the rest Megamodel will only provide your details to third parties if we are obliged to do so on the basis of legal provisions.

5. In what manner does Megamodel protect your personal information?
Megamodel will take suitable technical and organisational measures to protect your (personal) details against loss or against any form of unlawful processing. For instance passwords are saved in a coded form so that nobody has access to it even at Megamodel Headquarters.

6. Transfer of data to countries outside the EU
For technical and operational reasons it may be necessary for your (personal) details to be transferred to (servers of) companies affiliated to us and/or Advertisers in the United States or other countries outside Europe where the regulations in the field of privacy protection might not provide the same protection as in the European Union. Insofar as this is necessary, you hereby agree that your (personal) details can be transferred to the United States or other countries outside Europe.

7. Examination and improvement of your own details
You can always view your own (personal) details and if necessary change most of them in your account. If you want to know which details Megamodel has recorded about you or if you want to change details which you cannot change in your account, you can send a question via our site.

8. What is the scope of Megamodel’ responsibility?
Megamodel may include hyperlinks (for instance in banners) via which you leave Megamodel and end up on the websites of another party. Megamodel has no power over the websites of third parties to which you are linked. So it may be the case that a different privacy policy is applicable to the use of these third party websites. This Privacy Policy only relates to (personal) details which have been obtained via the Megamodel website. Megamodel does not accept any responsibility or liability for (the operation and/or contents of) websites of third parties.

9. Are minors allowed to use Megamodel?
In principle everybody can use Megamodel and everybody can create a Megamodel account. However, it is important that special legal rules apply to persons who are not yet sixteen (16). If you are not yet sixteen (16) you are required to obtain the consent of your parents or guardian before you create a Megamodel account. By accepting this Privacy Policy you guarantee that you are at least sixteen (16) years of age or have the consent of your parents/guardian to create an account.

10. Can this Privacy Policy be changed?
It may happen that the privacy policy is extended or amended in future. This will then be shown on this page so it is a good thing to look at this page regularly.

11. Any queries?
Privacy is a sensitive point, and rightly so. I hope it is clear that this is extremely important to us. If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact us here.

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