Privacy Page
We
ask for certain information such as your username, real name, birthdate,
address, phone number and e-mail address when you register or if you correspond
with us. We may also retain any messages you send through the Service, and may
collect information you provide in User Content you post to the Service. We use
this information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and
functionality of the Service. Your username and if you choose to disclose it,
your real name, will be published publicly. Once published your username and /
or real name may not be able to be removed.
Information we may receive from third parties:
We
may receive information about you from third parties. For example, if you
access our websites or Service through a third-party connection or log-in, for
example, through Facebook Connect, by “following,” “liking,” adding the Village
Hut Café application, linking your account to the Village Hut Café Service,
etc., that third party may pass certain information about your use of its
service to Village Hut Café. This information could include, but is not limited
to, the user ID associated with your account (for example, your Facebook UID),
an access token necessary to access that service, any information that you have
permitted the third party to share with us, and any information you have made
public in connection with that service. If you allow us access to your friends
list, your friends’ user IDs, and your connection to those friends, may be used
and stored to make your experience more social, and to allow you to invite your
friends to use our Service as well as provide you with updates if and when your
friends join Village Hut Café. You should always review, and if necessary,
adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and services before
linking or connecting them to the Village Hut Café Service. You may also unlink
your third party account from the Service by adjusting your settings on the
third party service.
Inviting a friend to use Village Hut Café:
Village
Hut Café may, in its sole discretion, develop a feature that allows you to
invite third parties to the Service. If you choose to use our invitation
service to invite a third party to the Service through our “Invite friends”
feature, you may directly choose a friend to invite through your mobile
device’s native contact list – but we do not require that you import your
contacts list to the Service, and we do not retain the information contained in
your contacts list. You understand that by inviting a friend to Village Hut
Café through the “Invite friends” feature, you are directly sending a text or
email from your personal accounts and that we are not storing your contact
list. In addition, you understand and agree that normal carrier charges apply
to communications sent from you phone. Since this invitation is coming directly
from your email or phone, we do not have access to or control this
communication.
Finding your friends on the Service:
Village
Hut Café may, in its sole discretion, develop a feature that allows you to
locate your friends with Village Hut Café accounts through a “Find friends” feature.
The “Find friends” feature allows you to choose to locate friends either
through (i) your contact list, (ii) social media sites (such as Twitter or
Facebook) or (iii) through a search of names and usernames on Village Hut Café.
If you choose to find your friends through your contact list, then you agree to
provide Village Hut Café access to your contact list such that we can perform
the search necessary to determine whether or not someone associated with the
information you provide is using Village Hut Café. If you choose to find your
friends through social media sites, then you understand that the information
these sites provide to use to conduct this type of search is governed by their
privacy policies and your account settings on those sites. If you choose to
find your friends through a search of names or usernames, then simply type a
name to search and see if that name or username appears on our Service. Note
that we do not retain any information contained in your contacts list, or
information from social media sites about your contacts, and we do not use such
information for any purpose other than to help you find your friends on Village
Hut Café.
Analytics information:
We
may directly collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools and
services, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Service. These
tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the
pages you visit and other information that assists us in improving the Service.
We collect and use this analytics information in aggregate form such that it
cannot reasonably be manipulated to identify any particular individual user.
Cookies information:
Full
details can be found on our Cookie Policy. When you visit the Service, we
may send one or more cookies — a small text file containing a string of
alphanumeric characters — to your computer that uniquely identifies your
browser and lets Village Hut Café help you log in faster and enhance your
navigation through the site. A cookie may also convey information to us about
how you use the Service (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click and
other actions you take on the Service), and allow us or our business partners
to track your usage of the Service over time. A persistent cookie remains on
your hard drive after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by
your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be
removed by following your web browser’s directions. A session cookie is
temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web
browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, some features of the Service may not function properly if the ability
to accept cookies is disabled. Full details can be found on our Cookie Policy.
Log file information:
Log
file information is automatically reported by your browser or mobile device
each time you access the Service. When you use our Service, our servers
automatically record certain log file information. These server logs may
include anonymous information such as your web request, Internet Protocol
(“IP”) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks
and how you interact with links on the Service, domain names, landing pages,
pages viewed, and other such information.
Clear gifs/web beacons information:
When
you use the Service, we may employ clear gifs (also known as web beacons) which
are used to anonymously track the online usage patterns of our Users. In
addition, we may also use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to
track which emails are opened and which links are clicked by recipients. The
information is allows for more accurate reporting and improvement of the
Service.
Device identifiers:
When
you access the Service by or through a mobile device (including but not limited
to smart-phones or tablets), we may access, collect, monitor and/or remotely
store one or more “device identifiers,” such as a universally unique identifier
(“UUID”). Device identifiers are small data files or similar data structures
stored on or associated with your mobile device, which uniquely identify your
mobile device. A device identifier may be data stored in connection with the
device hardware, data stored in connection with the device’s operating system
or other software, or data sent to the device by Village Hut Café. A device
identifier may convey information to us about how you browse and use the
Service. A device identifier may remain persistently on your device, to help
you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the Service. Some
features of the Service may not function properly if use or availability of
device identifiers is impaired or disabled.
Location data:
When
you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may access, collect,
monitor and/or remotely store “location data,” which may include GPS
coordinates (e.g. latitude and/or longitude) or similar information regarding
the location of your mobile device. Location data may convey to us information
about how you browse and use the Service. Some features of the Service, particularly
location-based services, may not function properly if use or availability of
location data is impaired or disabled.
Commercial and marketing communications:
We
use the information we collect or receive, such as your email address, to
communicate directly with you. We may send you emails containing newsletters,
promotions, and special offers. If you do not want to receive such email
messages, you will be given the option to opt out or change your preferences.
We also use your information to send you Service-related emails (e.g., account
verification, purchase and billing confirmations and reminders, changes/updates
to features of the Service, technical and security notices). You may not opt
out of Service-related emails. You may also be able to be “found” on Village
Hut Café based on information that you provide (see “Find friends on Village
Hut Café”) above.
Use of certain service type information we collect
about you:
We
use or may use cookies, log file, device identifiers, location data and clear
gifs information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to
re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site; (b) provide
custom, personalized content and information; (c) to provide and monitor the
effectiveness of our Service; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total
number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns; (e) diagnose or fix
technology problems; (f) help you efficiently access your information after you
sign in; (g) to provide advertising to your browser or device, and (h) automatically
update the Village Hut Café application on your mobile devices.
Sharing of Your Information
We
will not rent or sell your information into third parties outside Village Hut
Café and its group companies (including any parent, subsidiaries and
affiliates) without your consent, except as noted below:
- Who we
may share your information with: We may share your information with
third-party business partners and Trusted Users for the purpose of
providing the Service to you. Third party business partners will be given
limited access to your information as is reasonably necessary to deliver
the Service, and we will require that such third parties comply with this
Privacy Policy, or operate under a similar privacy policy.
- Who can
see User Content: Any User Content that you voluntarily disclose for
posting to the Service becomes available to the public and cannot be
removed, except by Village Hut Café in its sole discretion. Once posted on
Village Hut Café, User Content may not be removable from public view, as
copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, on
other sites that have republished us, or if other Users have copied or
saved that information. If you do not wish your User Content to be
available to the public, please don’t post it on Village Hut Café. Your
username and if you choose to disclose it, your real name, will be
published publicly. Once published your username and / or real name may
not be able to be removed.
- Who can
see your IP address: If you post User Content on the Service while not
logged in, your IP address will be published with your User Content in
order to attribute your contribution to the Service. A selection of
Trusted Users with administrative powers on Village Hut Café have the
ability to review IP addresses of users to reduce abusive behavior. Any
third party service embedded on Village Hut Café such as an advertiser,
video provider, social network or other third party will also have access
to your IP address.
- Who can
see your email address: If you enter an email address, you will enable
communication from Village Hut Café and other Users. If you reply to users
or participate in group Village Hut Café activities such as meetups, your
email address will be shared with these users.
What happens in the event of a change of control:
We
may buy or sell/divest/transfer the company (including any shares in the
company), or any combination of its products, services, assets and/or
businesses. Your information such as customer names and email addresses, User
Content and other user information related to the Service may be among the
items sold or otherwise transferred in these types of transactions. We may also
sell, assign or otherwise transfer such information in the course of corporate
divestitures, mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, dissolutions,
reorganizations, liquidations, similar transactions or proceedings involving
all or a portion of the company.
Instances where we are required to share your
information:
Village
Hut Café will disclose your information where required to do so by law or
subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a)
comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to
enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the security, quality or integrity of
our Service; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or
personal safety of Village Hut Café, our Users, or others.
Sharing certain service type information we collect
about you:
We
may share certain service type information, including information obtained
through tools such as cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data and
clear gifs (such as anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs,
platform types, number of clicks, etc.): (i) with our third-party business
partners for the purposes described in the section above on “How We Collect and
Use Information.” We may also aggregate or otherwise strip data of all personally
identifying characteristics and may share that aggregated, anonymized data with
third parties.
Ads on Village Hut Café:
We
may also share certain information such as your location, browser, and cookie
data and other data relating to your use of our Service with our business
partners to deliver advertisements (“ads”) that may be of interest to you. Village
Hut Café may allow third-party ad servers or ad networks to serve
advertisements on the Service. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use
technology to send, directly to your browser or mobile device, the ads and ad
links that appear on the Service, and will automatically receive your IP
address when they do so. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies,
JavaScript, device identifiers, location data, and clear gifs, see above) to
compile information about your browser’s or device’s visits and usage patterns
on the Service and on other websites, and to measure the effectiveness of their
ads and to personalize the advertising content delivered to you.
For
example, Google uses DART cookies in order to deliver ads to you through the
Service. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve
ads to you based on your visit to the Service and previous websites that you
may have visited. Other advertising networks also use similar cookies, clear
gifs, or other mechanisms to deliver targeted advertising to you through the
Service. You can delete these cookies by following the instructions
here: http://www.VillageHutCafé.com.au/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cookies
. You may opt out of use of Google’s DART cookie and cookies placed by
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) certified ad networks
here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp . Opting
out of these cookies will be effective not only on the Service, but on all
websites with NAI certified advertising networks. However, these opt-outs will
be ineffective on networks that are not NAI certified.
Please
note that an advertiser may ask Village Hut Café to show an ad to a certain
audience of Users (e.g., based on demographics or other interests). In that
situation, Village Hut Café or our Partners determines the target audience and Village
Hut Café serves the advertising to that audience and only provides anonymous
data to the advertiser. If you respond to such an ad, the advertiser or ad
server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are
trying to reach.
To
enhance your user experience or help us improve and measure our effectiveness, Village
Hut Café may embed code from third parties on the Service. Examples of such
parties may include Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, YouTube, Howcast,
VideoJug, AOL, and others. These third parties may collect information about
you including IP address, cookies in ways Village Hut Café does not control.
The
Village Hut Café Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the
activities of third-parties. Please consult the respective privacy policies of
such third parties or contact such third parties for more information.
How We Store and Protect Your
Information
Storage and Processing:
Your
information collected through the Service may be stored and processed in the
United States or any other country in which Village Hut Café or its
subsidiaries, affiliates, or service providers maintain facilities. Village Hut
Café may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal
information, to affiliated entities, or to other third parties across borders
and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions
around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions
with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law,
please note that we may transfer information, including personal information,
to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws
as your jurisdiction, and you consent to the transfer of information to the
U.S. or any other country in which Village Hut Café or its parent,
subsidiaries, affiliates, or service providers maintain facilities and the use
and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
Keeping your information safe:
Village
Hut Café cares about the security of your information, and uses commercially
reasonable safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of all information
collected through the Service. To protect your privacy and security, we take
reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity
before granting you access to your account. You are responsible for maintaining
the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling
access to your email communications from Village Hut Café, at all times.
However, Village Hut Café cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
information you transmit to Village Hut Café or guarantee that information on
the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. Your privacy
settings may also be affected by changes to the functionality of third party
sites and services that you add to the Village Hut Café Service, such as social
networks. Village Hut Café is not responsible for the functionality or security
measures of any third party.
Compromise of information:
In
the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of
a breach of security, Village Hut Café will take reasonable steps to
investigate the situation and where appropriate, notify those individuals whose
information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with
any applicable laws and regulations.
Your Choices about Your Information
You
control your account information and settings: You may update your account
information and email-communication preferences at any time by logging in to
your account and changing your profile settings. You can also stop receiving
promotional email communications from us by modifying your preferences
at http://www.Village Hut Café.com/Special:Preferences.
We
make every effort to promptly process all unsubscribe requests. As noted above,
you may not opt out of Service-related communications (e.g., account
verification, purchase and billing confirmations and reminders, changes/updates
to features of the Service, technical and security notices).
Opting out of collection of your information for
Tracking / Advertising:
Please
refer to your mobile device or browser’s technical information for instructions
on how to delete and disable cookies, and other tracking/recording tools.
Depending on your type of device, it may not be possible to delete or disable
tracking mechanisms on your mobile device. Note that disabling cookies and/or
other tracking tools prevents Village Hut Café or its business partners from
tracking your browser’s activities in relation to the Service, and for use in
targeted advertising activities by third parties. However, doing so may disable
many of the features available through the Service.
How long we keep your private profile information:
Following
termination of your User account, Village Hut Café may retain your private
profile information for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, or
audit purposes. For the avoidance of doubt, any information that you choose to
make public on the service may not be removable.
Children’s Privacy
Village
Hut Café does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone
under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register as Users. The
Service and its content are not directed at children under the age of 13. In
the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a
child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete
that information as quickly as possible.
Links to Other Websites and Services
We
are not responsible for the practices employed by websites or services linked
to or from the Service, including the information or content contained therein.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Service to another
website, our Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services.
Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including
those that have a link or advertisement on our website, are subject to that
third party’s own rules and policies. In addition, you agree that we are not
responsible and we do not control over any third-parties that you authorize to
access your User Content. If you are using a third-party website or service
(like Facebook, Google groups, or an IRC chatroom) and you allow such a
third-party access to you User Content you do so at your own risk. This Privacy
Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including
offline) or from other sources other than through the Service.
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