Personal Information

We collect personal information from you (such as name, email address, mobile number, gender, age, country of residence, personal interests, education and occupation) when you:

(a)         submit questions or material to us,

(b)         register on this site,

(c)         purchase a product from us,

(d)         email us, or

(e)         enter one of our contents or sweepstakes.

We use this information for the purposes of:

• authenticating users,

• sending notifications to users relating to the StarPonyz.com service,

• assisting users in finding and communicating with each other

• providing a personalised service,

• fulfilling product orders,

• running contents and sweepstakes, and

• providing you with information about, and access to, products and services we offer, either ourselves or jointly with or on behalf of other organisations.

If you’ve asked not to be contacted about services, you will not be notified. You can, of course, add yourself to, or take yourself off this list at any time.

User Profile information including members' pictures and usernames are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the StarPonyz.com social networking community.

Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join StarPonyz.com, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network. Users within a personal network communicate on StarPonyz.com with each other through the StarPonyz.com service, without disclosing their email addresses.

Users' names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, StarPonyz.com allows users to search for other members.

We will not pass on your personal details to any third party, including site sponsors or advertisers, without your permission.

Non-Personal Information

We collect non-personally-identifiable information (such as IP address, profile information, aggregate user data and browser type) from users and visitors to the site through the use of cookies and IP addresses. This information does not identify any individual and will not be linked to any personal information.

We use this information to:

• manage the website,

• track usage, and

• improve the website services.

This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

The StarPonyz.com Free Email Newsletter

The StarPonyz.com Email Newsletter is free and will not cost you anything to receive. We aim to send you an email message once a week with news. Occasionally, we may send out more than one a week if there's an important news story or event which we think may be interest to our subscribers. You can stop receiving this news service at any time. More.

Use of Cookies

We use “cookies” to identify you when you visit this site and to build up a demographic profile. Our use of cookies also allows registered users to be presented with a personalised version of the site.

A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information back from the browser. Find out more about the use of cookies at: http://www.cookiecentral.com        

Submissions

Any personal information you choose to provide to us with your submissions posted on the site may appear on the site, but only to identify you as the author of the submission, unless you expressly authorise us to make further use of the information on the site.

Message Boards, Chat Areas and Social Networking Forum

If you voluntarily disclose personal information on the message boards or in chat areas or social networking forum on the site, that information can also be collected and use by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people.

Children Under 13 years old

Visitors to the site may participate in many activities without providing any personally identifiable information. However, if a user wants to participate in certain of our interactive features, we ask the user to provide us with certain information, such as the user’s email address, mobile number and age. When the person who registers indicates that he or she is under the age of 13 years old, we will take one of four steps:

(1)         collect no information about the user,

(2)         require the user to provide a parent’s or guardian’s verifiable consent,

(3)         collect only the user’s email address and respond to the user’s specific request, or

(4)         collect the email address of the user’s parent or guardian in addition to the user’s email address to seek the parent’s or guardian’s verifiable consent or to notify them of their child’s online activities.

We also use the email addresses of parents or guardians to enable them to unsubscribe their child from a newsletter or other similar activity. We do not share children’s information without outside parties not bound by this privacy policy without prior parental permission. Even with the parents’ or guardian’s consent, if a user is under the age of 13 years old, we will not condition his or her participation in an online activity on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity and make use of the site.

Children under the age of 13 years old should not submit or post any personal information without the written consent of their parents or guardians.

Parents may review or change the personal information of their children provided to us or further refuse our collection of such information by sending an email to: admin(at)starponyz.com

Partner Sites and Linked Sites

StarPonyz.com features several activities, which are co-sponsored or operated by other sites. These activities will be identifiable by their co-branding. While these activities originate on the site, they may link to other sites not operated by ENS. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our co-sponsors and strongly recommend that you check their privacy policies before engaging in these activities.

Additionally, StarPonyz.com contains links to other sites, including those of advertisers. We have no control over the privacy practices of advertisers or other sites to which we provide links from the site. These other sites may use cookies, collect data or solicit personal information. We strongly commend that you check the applicable privacy policy of the site to which you are linking.

This privacy policy only governs information collected on StarPonyz.com.

Storage of Information

The information we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work or us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal information, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.

We take precautions to ensure the security of personal information submitted by users. Unfortunately, no electronic communication over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to take care to protect your personal information, ENS cannot warrant the security of any information that you submit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We do offer secured-server transactions that encrypt your information in transit to thwart someone from intercepting it and misusing it when collecting credit card information for online purchases. We also store any personal information, including credit card numbers, in a secure area to which the general public does not have access.

Updating Personal Information

If you would like to change any contact or billing information, or if you no longer desire to receive any marketing communications e.g. email newsletters, from us or our partners, please reply to this email admin(at)starponyz.com with the word ‘unsubscribe’ in the subject’.

Changes in Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time, and will post any changes to this policy as soon as they go into effect without prior notice to you. Any such changes are effective as of the date such changes are posted on this page. Please check this page periodically to view our most current privacy policy.

Queries

If you have any queries about this privacy policy, please email us at: admin(at)starponyz.com