What information does Baynightlife collect? (More detail below)
If you decide to join Baynightlife, registration is the only place where you are required to submit information about yourself. To become a Baynightlife member you need to submit your email address, gender, birthdates, zip or postal code and the name of the country where you live.

Does Baynightlife supplement the information it collects? (more detail below)
Baynightlife receives zip or postal code-based data about demographics and income levels from third parties such as Nielsen and the US Census Bureau. Baynightlife appends such third party data to each member's record to understand demographics and income levels for a zip or postal code or set of zip/postal codes.

What are cookies and how does Baynightlife use them? (more detail below)
The main function of cookies is to connect members with their stored account information so that Baynightlife can deliver better and more personalized service. Cookies do not enable the Baynightlife staff to access personally identifiable information that you haven't already provided.

How does Baynightlife use member information? (more detail below)
Baynightlife uses information collected from you and other members primarily to provide more personalized service and advertising, and to learn more about its audience demographic. Baynightlife also collects market research data in order to generate sales to corporate clients. Market research data are always anonymous and are never used to sell anything to individual respondents based on their personal responses.

What information does Baynightlife log? (more detail below)
Baynightlife logs information automatically transmitted from your browser (URL of the web page you were on before coming to Baynightlife, IP address and browser version); information you submit through registration, forms for optional programs, surveys and other entries; and communications transmitted through Baynightlife tools.

What is Baynightlife's information retention policy? (more detail below)
To preserve our database, Baynightlife retains information submitted by members for an indefinite length of time. Baynightlife understands your submissions as consent to store all your information in one place for this indefinite length of time. Baynightlife will nullify (scramble so that it is unrecognizable) account information if required by law or in response to a written member request.

How does Baynightlife secure collected information? (more detail below)
Baynightlife makes every effort to make sure your information is secure. Your Baynightlife account is password-protected so that only you and authorized Baynightlife employees can access your information.

With whom does Baynightlife share information? (more detail below)
When you submit information to Baynightlife, it isn't usually shared with anyone. Sometimes Baynightlife's partner companies are allowed to collect certain information about members from Baynightlife or directly from members. When Baynightlife is the source, it is usually so that we can provide a service through a partner. When visitors come to Baynightlife, they may receive cookies from Baynightlife's sponsors; this information is not shared with Baynightlife. Baynightlife reserves the right to disclose user information if required by law or if Baynightlife has reason to believe that the law is being violated.

What is Baynightlife's opt-in/out policy? (more detail below)
During registration you choose whether to receive correspondence from either Baynightlife or its partners, and whether you want to participate in a variety of Baynightlife programs. This information lives on your Profile where you can, at any point, easily edit it to indicate that you have changed your mind. As for promotions, contests, submission opportunities and programs, you will not be included unless you opt-in.

How can Baynightlife members edit their personal information? (more detail below)
Baynightlife believes strongly in giving you the ability to access and edit your personal information. You can always update the personal information in your Profile by clicking on the profile button located below your member name on the top of the left-hand navigation bar. To change your personal account settings (e.g., your email address and password), click the settings button also located below your member name. You can edit your Profile or account settings at any time -- all you need is your member name and password.

What action has Baynightlife taken to protect children's privacy? (more detail below)
Because Baynightlife is intended for people ages 13 and over, its registration policy is intentionally designed to identify people who are 13 or younger. Baynightlife will not knowingly collect any information from children under 13. Baynightlife has developed a process to verify and delete accounts belonging to members who are discovered to be under 13.Note to Parents:If your child is under 13 and has become a Baynightlife member using a false age, please notify Baynightlife's Policy Manager, who will immediately close the account and nullify all personally identifiable information collected from them. If your child is under the age of 18 and you would like to know more about Baynightlife's site, information practices, stored information or how to close your child's account, contact the Policy Manager.

Notification of Changes: (more detail below)
Baynightlife's security and privacy policy are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. This policy might change as Baynightlife updates and expands its services. Baynightlife will contact you via email and post notification if there are any material changes in its privacy practices. Baynightlife also encourages you to also check the privacy policy out periodically.

How can I reach Baynightlife staff? (more detail below)
Baynightlife's Policy Manager will respond to all requests sent through mail or email from members and parents interested in knowing more about personal information stored on the Baynightlife database, having their personal information nullified, or have additional questions regarding privacy.

What information does Baynightlife collect?
Baynightlife wants to be your favorite online destination. To encourage your participation, your Baynightlife experience is personalized so that you are offered the services, products and information most relevant to you. This requires the collection of information to help tell you apart from other Baynightlife members. The forms are specially designed so that you don't have to disclose any more information than is necessary to participate in a given activity or use a given tool.

Baynightlife collects two kinds of information: anonymous and personally identifiable
Anonymous information is not associated with specific individuals. For instance, Baynightlife may know how many people read this Privacy Policy today, but they don't necessarily know their names, addresses or birthdays. Personally identifiable information reveals who you are and/or how you can be contacted. It includes your name, address, phone number and email address.

Below is a summary of the different ways Baynightlife collects various kinds of information about members:

Registration (mandatory to be a Baynightlife member)
If you decide to join Baynightlife, registration is the only place where you will be required to submit information about yourself. To become a Baynightlife member, you need to complete a form with your email address (which can be your new Baynightlife email address), gender, birthday, zip code, and country. Baynightlife uses this information to provide you with more personalized service, and to learn more about its audience demographics.
Only when you choose to participate in optional Baynightlife programs or services will registration information be linked to information you submit for other purposes. For example, if you decide to be a Baynightlife Rep, you'll be asked to provide Baynightlife with your full name, address, school and graduating class. Baynightlife keeps this information in its database with your member name and other registration data. If you decide that you no longer want Baynightlife to have a certain piece of information about you, email the Policy Manager.

Your Personal Profile (optional)
Information from registration will automatically be placed in your Personal Profile. In addition, you can choose to tell everyone your hobbies, interests, likes and dislikes. You can fill out as much or as little of your Profile as you want. The more you fill out, the more likely it is that you'll be able to meet members based on things you have in common.

Other places (optional)
Baynightlife runs promotions, contests, submission opportunities, surveys and programs designed to improve your experience on Baynightlife. To participate in these programs you may have to give contact (name, address, email address) and/or demographic (i.e., age, gender) information. This only goes to the authorized Baynightlife employees who run the promotion, contest or program so that they can inform you if you win, ask you questions about your submission and deal with other relevant details. Baynightlife understands your decision to participate as permission to contact you, if necessary, and to store this additional information in its databases with your registration data.

Public forums and Community Tools (privacy warning)
Baynightlife understands your decision to post in public areas as permission to contact you through your Baynightlife account.
One last thing to keep in mind: Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on message boards, Personal Profiles, Sound Off, Guestbook’s, Diaries, Baynightlife Mail, or in chat, it can be collected and used by anyone, including law-enforcement agencies acting under subpoena power. If you post personal information in public places, others may send you unsolicited email messages. Always be smart about the information you provide online. And, be aware that if Baynightlife employees find personally identifiable information posted in public areas, they will delete it.

Does Baynightlife supplement the information it collects?
Baynightlife receives zip and postal code-based data about demographics and income levels from third parties such as Nielsen and the U.S. Census. Baynightlife appends such third party data to each member's record to understand demographics and income levels for a zip or postal code or set of zip/postal codes.

What are cookies, and how does Baynightlife use them?
Baynightlife collects anonymous information through cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data containing a unique identification number that is sent to your browser from a web server, and is stored on your computer's hard drive. The unique ID number identifies your browser to Baynightlife's computers whenever you visit. Cookies do not enable anyone to access personally identifiable information that you have not already given us. Baynightlife primarily uses cookies to connect members with account information stored on Baynightlife's computers. This helps Baynightlife deliver better and more personalized service. Baynightlife also uses cookies to estimate Baynightlife's audience size for advertisers; to track the number of entries in Baynightlife promotions, sweepstakes and contests; to identify the areas of the site you visit; to hold session information; and to track user preferences.
Cookies are part of the technology implemented by your browser. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to either notify you when you have received a cookie, or to refuse them all together. To find out more about cookies on Netscape, click here. For information about cookies on Microsoft Internet Explorer, click here.
Baynightlife uses both permanent and temporary cookies. Permanent cookies stay with your browser, whereas temporary cookies go away after you close your browser. Baynightlife uses permanent cookies in order to recognize you between visits. Baynightlife uses temporary cookies to store information about your current visit to the site. That information goes away when you close your browser or shut down your computer. If you choose to not accept cookies, you cannot participate as a registered, signed-in member.
You should be aware that Baynightlife's advertisers sometimes use banner ads to give you their own cookies. If you want to understand how and why an advertiser uses cookies, check the company's site for their privacy statement.

Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
At times, we employ a software technology called clear gifs that help us better manage the content of our html emails. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. The main difference between the two is that clear gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Baynightlife uses clear gifs in its html emails to let us know which emails have been opened by the recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. The clear gifs are not used in conjunction with other user information that is stored by Baynightlife.

How does Baynightlife use member information?
Baynightlife's decisions regarding the use of information collected from Baynightlife members are based on two areas of interest: market research, and improving user experience by offering personalized service, content and advertising.
Ads are a standard part of user experience on the Internet, and Baynightlife believes that targeted advertising enhances this experience. Baynightlife uses information collected from Baynightlife members to place ads where they believe interested parties will see them. For example, let's say an advertiser wants to get the word out about a new set of ski boots for guys and girls aged 15-18 who live in Colorado. Baynightlife analyzes data from registration and cookies to find out where members who fit the bill hang out on Baynightlife, and place the ad accordingly. Don't worry: Advertisers never see or have access to your personal information without you knowing.
In addition to banner ads, Baynightlife may advertise products, companies and events that we think might interest you through the email address you provide.
Baynightlife may analyze information provided directly by you, or obtained through cookies or third parties to direct services and content based on your interests. This is done in the aggregate (for example, let's say half of Baynightlife's members are males who visit the boards more than the chat rooms) and at the individual level (for example, BaynightlifeUser6789 mostly visits the Romance section). Again, this helps the staff produce and appropriately feature tools and content tailored to your interests.
Baynightlife collects market research data in order to generate sales to corporate clients. Market research data are always anonymous and are never used to sell anything to individual respondents based on their personal responses. Market research data, however, may be used at the aggregate level to:
1. Improve the likelihood of a sale to a group of Baynightlife members
2. Increase the likelihood that a group's experience on Baynightlife is relevant to its interests as a whole
3. Formulate group-level statistical models that are used to accomplish goal #2 (above).
Baynightlife's market research data is collected in two ways:
1. Among individuals who opt-in to take surveys during the registration process or while on Baynightlife (those who sign up are contacted and take surveys through email).
2. Through surveys that we publicly post on Baynightlife (it is never mandatory to answer these surveys).
Baynightlife uses data at the individual level to sell products and services to Baynightlife members who express an interest in these products and services, through a poll for example, or to members who can be presumed to have an interest based on results from a statistical analysis.

What information does Baynightlife log?
When you surf the Internet, your browser automatically transmits information to the web sites you visit, including Baynightlife. Such information includes referral data (URL of the web page you were on before coming to Baynightlife), IP address and your browser version. Baynightlife collects this information to help improve services and moderate the site. All the information that is automatically submitted by your browser is considered anonymous.
Baynightlife also logs information you submit through registration, forms for optional programs, surveys and other entries, cookie data and communications transmitted through Baynightlife applications. Only authorized Baynightlife staff have access to your information in its entirety. Other employees may have access to bits and pieces of this information if it pertains to their job duties.
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's email address. Baynightlife will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Baynightlife does not store this information. It is used for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

What is Baynightlife's information retention policy?
To preserve the integrity of our databases, standard procedure calls for us to retain information submitted by members for an indefinite length of time. Baynightlife understands your submissions as consent to store all your information in one place for this indefinite length of time, if we so wish. If required by law, as is the case to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will nullify (scramble so that it is unrecognizable) member information. We will also respond to written member requests to nullify account information. If you wish to make such a request, which requires that we verify your identity, or if you have any questions regarding this policy, contact Baynightlife's Policy Manager.

How does Baynightlife secure collected information?
Your Baynightlife Profile is password-protected so that only you and authorized Baynightlife employees have access to your account information. In order to maintain this protection, do not give your password to anyone. If anyone ever asks you for information claiming they are Baynightlife staff, check their Member Profile -- if it doesn't say they are staff, they're not. Also, if you share a computer, you should sign out of your Baynightlife account and close the browser window before someone else logs on. This will protect your information on public terminals.
Baynightlife makes every effort to ensure that your information is secure on its system. Only certain authorized Baynightlife employees can access this information if it's relevant to their job duties. Baynightlife has staff dedicated to maintaining this Privacy Policy and other privacy initiatives, periodically reviewing web security and making sure that every Baynightlife employee is aware of our security practices. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed 100% secure. As a result, Baynightlife cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

With whom does Baynightlife share information?
When you submit information to Baynightlife, it is generally collected, processed and maintained solely by us. Sometimes we may allow partner companies to collect information about members from us or directly from you via their web site. When Baynightlife is the source, it is usually so that we can provide a service with a partner. We choose to work with upstanding companies that will treat your information responsibly. But, since we don't own these companies, we can't speak for them on privacy issues. Before telling them about yourself, check out their privacy statements. If you are not satisfied with their information practices, you can choose to not use their service.
Below is a summary of the situations in which Baynightlife might share information:

Co-Branding
Some of our services, such as Baynightlife email, are offered in conjunction with partner companies. In order to provide these services, Baynightlife may choose to share some of you user data (e.g., user name and email address).

Content Partners
Some Baynightlife content is sponsored by or presented by other companies. Baynightlife typically shares market research data (how the sponsorship performed, names of contest winners, etc.) collected on the site or via email surveys with these partners. This information is aggregate and not linked to specific users.

Partner Sponsorships
Partners may sponsor promotions, contests and sweepstakes that require you to reveal details such as your name, address or phone number. Always check their privacy policy before revealing information about yourself. If you don't want these sponsors to have your personal information, you can choose to not participate.
When visitors come to Baynightlife, they may receive cookies from Baynightlife's sponsors; this information is not shared with Baynightlife. This privacy statement does not address the information practices of our advertisers. You should read the privacy statements of all third-party sites, as their privacy policies may differ from Baynightlife's.
Finally, Baynightlife reserves the right to disclose user information from both private and public areas of the site if required by law or if given reason to believe, in our sole discretion, that someone is causing injury to or interference with the rights of Baynightlife members or the general public, or with Baynightlife's rights of property.
Ad Serving
Baynightlife uses Doubleclick as its third party ad server, to serve ads on the site. For more information about DoubleClick's privacy policy, click here.

What is Baynightlife's opt-in/out policy?
During registration you choose whether to receive correspondence from either Baynightlife or its partners and whether you want to participate in a variety of Baynightlife programs. This information lives on your Profile where you can, at any point, easily edit it to indicate that you have changed your mind. After logging on, click on "settings" button located below your member name on the top of the left-hand navigation bar. Then click on email, and make your selections under Baynightlife emails and Special offers. If you purchase anything through Baynightlife, we may occasionally contact you with information about special events, sales, and activities. You always have the option to ask Baynightlife not to contact you with this information again. As for promotions, contests, submission opportunities and programs, you will not be included unless you opt-in.
If you receive unsolicited email from a Baynightlife domain, please contact Baynightlife's Policy Manager.

Opt-Out for Non-PII Collection for Network Services
We use third-party advertising companies and advertising networks to serve ads to you on our behalf when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.

How can Baynightlife members edit their information?
Baynightlife believes strongly in giving you the ability to access and edit your personal information. You can always update the personal information in your Profile by clicking on the "profile" button located in the 2nd navigation bar. To change your personal account information and settings (e.g., your email address and password), click the "edit" button located next to each category you want to edit. You can edit your Profile or account settings at any time -- all you need is your member name and password.
So that we can protect the integrity of sensitive data, there are certain pieces of information, such as your birthday, that you cannot alter yourself. For example, since children under 15 are not allowed to register as Baynightlife members, we need to take reasonable measures to preserve the accuracy of our members' ages.
Our databases automatically update any personal information you edit in your Profile, or that you request we edit. Information transmitted through boards, Sound Off, Guestbooks, polls, Baynightlife Mail, or Diaries remain in our databases. Keep this in mind if you decide to communicate personal information through any of these applications.

What action has Baynightlife taken to protect children's privacy?
Baynightlife is intended for people 13 or over. Our registration process is intentionally designed to identify children under 13 years of age. We have also made an effort to specifically limit Baynightlife's appeal to people of age 13 and older. Baynightlife will not knowingly collect any information from children under 13. If it comes to our attention that a member has revealed on Baynightlife that they are under 13, a member of Baynightlife's Community staff will immediately delete the account.

Note to parents:
If your child is under 13 and has become a Baynightlife member using a false age, please notify the Policy Manager who will immediately close the account and nullify all personally identifiable information collected from them. If your child is under the age of 18 and you would like to know more about our site, information practices, stored information on your child, or how to close your child's account, contact Baynightlife's Policy Manager.

Notification of Changes:
Baynightlife's security and privacy policy are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. This policy might change as Baynightlife updates and expands its services. Baynightlife will contact you via email and post notification if there are any material changes in its privacy practices. Baynightlife also encourages you to also check the privacy policy out periodically.

How can I reach Baynightlife staff?
If you have technical problems, questions or other issues related to your use of Baynightlife, please contact support services.
Baynightlife's Policy Manager will respond to all requests sent through mail or email from members and parents interested in knowing more about what personal information is stored on the Baynightlife database, or if they want their personal information nullified, or have additional questions regarding privacy.