PERSIANMIRROR PRIVACY POLICY
PersianMirror has created this privacy statement in order
to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your
privacy. The following discloses our information gathering
and dissemination practices for the site www.PersianMirror.com.
The following questions are answered below:
1. What information does PersianMirror
collect?
2. What organization is collecting the information?
3. What does PersianMirror do with the data it collects?
4. With whom does PersianMirror share data?
5. What choices are available regarding collection, use
and distribution of the information (Opt Out Policy)?
6. How can you update or correct your information?
7. How can you delete your information or deactivate
your membership?
8. What procedures have been designed to protect the loss,
misuse or alteration of information under PersianMirror's
control?
9. What about privacy policies for sites linked to PersianMirror?
10. What about privacy policies for businesses and users
that register or are listed in the business directory?
11. What happens to my information if PersianMirror merges
with or is sold to another company?
We suggest that you practice reasonable discretion when
you provide any site with personal information. Note
also that
whenever you post personal information in publicly accessible
places, this information becomes available to anyone with
access to the Internet. Therefore, we recommend that you
refrain from posting any information you do not want seen
in these public areas. You should feel free to contact any
site that requests personal information from you if you have
any questions regarding its policies.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site or your dealings with this Web site,
email legal[AT]PersianMirror[DOT]com
.
1. What information does PersianMirror collect?
At different times, PersianMirror may collect six types of
information about you.
First, we use a feature of your browser called a cookie to
assign identification to your computer. The unique user ID
contained within your cookie automatically identifies your
computer — but not you — to our servers every
time you visit our site. Cookies by themselves cannot be
used to find out the identity of any user but may be correlated
with identity information in our log files. You can turn
the cookies feature off by using your browser's preference
options, but you do so, you may not be able to utilize certain
services properly.
Second, we keep track of your IP address to help diagnose
problems with our server and to administer our Web site.
Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic
information about you, such as your location and your Internet
service provider. PersianMirror may also collect aggregate
information on how our users are utilizing the site. This
might include information regarding traffic patterns through
the site and search queries.
Third, we log browser types, access times, URLs from which
visitors came to our site and URLs viewed by visitors while
on our site. Except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy,
we do not provide this information to third parties, except
in aggregate form.
Fourth, at specific times we may ask you to provide us with
personal information in order for you to register for a service,
to obtain certain services or to be able to access certain
features of the site. This information may include but is
not limited to your name and email address. You may always
choose not to provide us with this information; however,
this may limit our ability to provide you with specific services
or offer you personalized content. Without your consent we
will not distribute this information to any third party in
any personally identifiable form.
Fifth, we may collect credit card information if you register
for any paid services on our site, such as the Business Directory
or Wedding Services. We make our best efforts to protect
credit card transactions through encryption, although we
cannot guarantee complete security. In order to complete
a transaction, payment information may be transferred through
one of our partners who process such information.
Sixth, we also collect information through the use of "pixel
tags" included in email messages we may send to you.
Pixel tags are tiny graphic files, not visible to the human
eye, that are included in HTML-encoded email messages. When
such a message is opened in an HTML-capable email program,
the recipient's computer will access our server to retrieve
the pixel tag file, allowing us to record and store, along
with the recipient's email address, the date and time the
recipient viewed the email message, that the recipient's
email program is capable of receiving HTML-encoded email,
and other standard logging information. The pixel tag also
may see or read cookies.
Seventh, we contract with Crystaltech, a service partner,
to provide us with a data collection and reporting services
to enable us to better understand what our user base is composed
of and what their preferred content is. This enables us to
create content that better appeals to our user base and provide
potential advertisers with information on the usage of the
Site. The data collected by Crystaltech is collected at the
aggregate level and no personal information is collected
about individual users. All reporting provided by Crystaltech
is done so at the aggregate level.
2. What organization is collecting the information?
PersianMirror usually collects the requested information.
However, PersianMirror has chosen select partners in order
to provide you with full-service Web sites. PersianMirror's
partners provide users with services, including but not limited
to, classified ads, historical and cultural content, recipes,
business directory listings and special promotions. In order
to use these areas, it may be necessary to enter information
that then goes to our partner and is not kept by PersianMirror.
The areas of our sites in which partners are collecting information
may be co-branded with our partners' logos.
If you have any questions regarding who is collecting or
receiving the information you provide on our sites, please
contact us. If you have questions regarding the privacy policy
or data collection practices of one of our content partners,
please contact that partner directly.
Some of our content partners, business directory participants,
as well as advertisers who display ads on our site, may use
cookies or otherwise independently collect information from
you if you select their offering. We do not control their
collection and use of information or their use of cookies
or have access to the information contained in or related
to those cookies.
3. What does PersianMirror do with the data it collects?
Whenever PersianMirror collects data, the data is intended
to tailor or improve the experience of visitors to our site.
From the data collected we can customize content and advertising
based on the user's preferences. We use information from
a cookie (a feature of your browser used to assign identification
to your computer to count and track site visits in the aggregate)
to differentiate between unique users, personalize the site
for each unique user, to control the frequency of individual
advertisements directed to individual computers, and other
purposes. In all cases, specific personal information is
not shared with our advertisers, except as otherwise stated
in this privacy policy or permitted by you.
We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server
and to administer our Web sites. IP addresses may be disclosed
to a third party if we believe in good faith that the law
or legal process requires it, or to protect the rights or
property of PersianMirror or others.
When you register for unique services on our sites, we collect
additional information from you in order to provide you with
those specific services and to personalize your experience
on the site. We may use information to target offerings that
may be of interest to you and/or to analyze aggregate user
data in order to improve our services.
On occasion we will email bulletins to provide you with information
that we think you will find useful, including information
about new products and services. We might also contact you
to see if you are interested in participating in market research
regarding PersianMirror. Many of our sites also send a monthly
or bimonthly newsletter by email to their users. It is our
policy to send these promotional emails only to customers
who give us permission to do so. In every such email, we
will also have instructions on how to unsubscribe and avoid
receiving any future emails from us. Please see our Opt Out
Policy section below. PersianMirror also may contact you
by email to respond to customer-service complaints you have
submitted, to address a problem affecting your use of the
service or to verify your account information if you submit
a password request. If at any time you feel you have received
e-mail from PersianMirror that you did not request, please
send your concerns, along with a copy of the e-mail, to legal[AT]PersianMirror[DOT]com.
4. With whom does PersianMirror share data?
Provided you have consented to PersianMirror sharing your
information with certain service providers, advertisers,
or business partners of our, PersianMirror may disclose your
personal information to those that you have authorized us
to share it with in order to provide you with the services
you have requested. If you have chosen not to receive special
promotional content or information on special events or products
offered by PersianMirror or any of its partners, PersianMirror
will not share your information at all. If you have chosen
to receive promotional content or information on special
events and you would no longer like to receive such content
or information, please go log into your account and edit
your user profile.
If you have questions regarding the privacy policy or data-collection
practices of one of our content partners, please contact
that partner directly. PersianMirror does not have control
over and is not responsible for the data collection and use
practices of our business partners.
We also may disclose your personal information to a third
party if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process
requires it, to protect the rights or property of PersianMirror
or others, to assist our e-mail vendor with resolving complaints
about unsolicited e-mail, or as otherwise described in this
privacy policy.
We may share aggregate demographic information with our advertisers
or information collection companies, but will not reveal
any personally identifiable information in these instances.
5. What choices are available regarding collection, use and
distribution of the information (Opt Out Policy)?
Many of the services available on our Site provide you with
the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from
us and our partners. In addition, in our email communications,
we will have instructions on how to unsubscribe so that you
will not receive any future emails from us if you so choose.
As previously noted, you may always choose to not provide
us with any of the information we request; however, this
may limit our ability to provide you with a specific services,
limit your ability to participate in certain offerings, limit
your ability to contribute to the content of the site or
limit our ability to offer personalized content.
6. How can you update or correct your information?
If you would like to modify, correct or update your information,
please log into your account and modify the information listed.
If you are unable to do so, please contact us for assistance
at support[AT]PersianMirror[DOT]com
.
7. How can you delete your information or deactivate your
membership?
If you would like to deactivate your membership with PersianMirror,
please contact us at support[AT]PersianMirror[DOT]com. PersianMirror
currently does not have a method of automatically and completely
deleting user information from our database. However, (i)
if you would like us to completely delete your information
from our database, we will do so manually, and (ii) deleting
the cookie stored on your computer will cause you to be perceived
as a new user with no known user data. You may also change
a setting in your browser, instructing it not to accept cookies,
but this could prevent you from receiving some PersianMirror
services.
8. What procedures have been designed to protect the loss,
misuse or alteration of information under PersianMirror's
control?
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, PersianMirror
has taken measures to ensure that information that is not
publicly available through its sites is accessible only to
the user who initially entered the information or to authorized
personnel at PersianMirror or its partners, and only after
a password has been entered.
9. What about Privacy Policies for sites linked to PersianMirror?
As a Web directory, PersianMirror contains many links to
Web sites not affiliated with PersianMirror. These sites
have their own policies and practices with respect to online
privacy, and PersianMirror cannot be responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of these unaffiliated Web
sites. In addition, in certain instances a PersianMirror
advertiser may ask you for personal information. PersianMirror
cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of its advertisers.
10. What about privacy policies for businesses and users
that register or are listed in the business directory?
Businesses listed on the PersianMirror web site for the purpose
of being listed in the Business Directory are treated differently
than individual registered users. Businesses listed in the
Persian Directory are listed based on one of two methods:
(i) they have actively registered with PersianMirror requesting
to be listed, or (ii) PersianMirror has obtained information
on such businesses in the public domain. In both cases, the
information is part of the public domain by virtue of the
request of the business or the prior publishing of such information.
11. What happens to my information if PersianMirror merges
with or is sold to another company?
It is possible that PersianMirror and/or any of our assets
may be acquired. In such a transaction, customer information
may be transferred to the acquiring entity. While we will
endeavor to require the successor company to maintain this
privacy policy, however, we cannot guarantee that our policy
will remain in effect.
Notification of Changes
This policy may be revised over time as new features are
added to the Web site. We will post our new Privacy Policy,
along with the date of its last revision, prominently so
that you will always know what information we gather, how
we might use that information, and whether we will disclose
it to anyone. Please check this Web page for information
about revisions to our privacy policy.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy
or about PersianMirror's information collection practices,
please
contact us at legal[AT]PersianMirror[DOT]com.
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