Privacy Policy
Your privacy is of the utmost importance to RCNitroTalk. RCNitroTalk attempts to minimize the personal information that members need to reveal; however, we do ask for some basic personal information when creating a message board and or ID within the RCNitroTalk Community. We want you to be fully informed of how this information is gathered and used.
Some personal information is required in order to create a message board and or ID on RCNitroTalk. This information includes your email address that allows the RCNitroTalk server to route important messages to your existing email account. Message Board notifications, RCNitroTalk newsletters, and messages sent to you all rely on the email address you provide when you signup. You have the ability to change your email address that is associated with your RCNitroTalk account at any time. RCNitroTalk will not disclose your email address to any RCNitroTalk member, or to any third party, without your permission with the exception of requests by legal authorities pending investigation of illicite activities whereby RCNitroTalk will fully co-oporate with them.
Other required information provides aggregate demographic data that we use to better understand the types of people using RCNitroTalk. This information allows us to do a better job of recommending content that may be of interest to you on RCNitroTalk, and to show you advertisements that are relevant to your age and geographic location. Similar to television, radio, and magazines, RCNitroTalk relies primarily on revenue from advertising to subsidize the cost of providing you with free services. To help enhance the relevance and effectiveness of ads, RCNitroTalk provides advertisers demographic information on an aggregate basis (not linked to your personal name or email address). For example, RCNitroTalk will report to advertisers that “45% of members are female and the average age is 28.”
The above describes information that is provided “actively” – meaning, you choose to submit this information to us when you join RCNitroTalk, or update your account at any point after having joined. Some other information is provided “passively” – meaning, that RCNitroTalk obtains this information when you login to your RCNitroTalk account and use the service. This is done primarily through the use of “cookies”. Cookies are used on RCNitroTalk to verify your login information, and to optionally store your password in your browser so that you do not need to type it in each time you visit RCNitroTalk. Any time that you point your browser to a ‘members-only’ area, RCNitroTalk checks your browser’s cookie file to see if you have already logged in, and if you have, you’re taken right to the page that you have requested. If not, you’ll be directed to the RCNitroTalk login screen, where you can quickly and easily login to your account, or signup for a RCNitroTalk account if you are not yet a member. Cookies are also used in conjunction with some ad banners to determine their effectiveness.
When a user posts on RCNitroTalk, that user’s IP (Internet Protocol) address number is collected by our software. Users with administrative powers on each RCNitroTalk are given the option of using our “Display Poster IP” feature, which causes the Internet Protocol (IP) address, from which the information was sent, to appear under the posting user’s name in each post. RCNitroTalk does not routinely review this information. However, RCNitroTalk will observe and track user IPs when investigating complaints that a user has violated our Terms of Use or committed an illegal act through the use of our service.
RCNitroTalk does not routinely terminate user accounts, If you decide to leave or are removed from RCNitroTalk for whatever reason, all of your prior submissions and contributions to the community remain the content and property of this community. The exception is when your contributions are hosted on your own server, in which case you are free to do what you want with it. RCNitroTalk is an ongoing work in progress and even if you and RCNitroTalk eventually grow apart, we want to maintain a true history of the building of RCNitroTalk, and everything that once was, will always be.
In this electronic era, when personal information can easily be obtained through various sources, RCNitroTalk appreciates the sensitivity of any private information that you disclose to us. It is our intention to treat your account information with the highest level of care. If you have further questions about our practices and policies with regard to how your account information is treated, please contact us at any time.
