This policy tells you about how
we use and protect your personal information. This
privacy policy covers
only information that is collected
through the website covered by this policy.
Contents
This Privacy Policy describes
how we handle your personal information for our services on
FlightSharer.com.
It applies generally to the FlightSharer.com
website and content.
Subject to the requirements of applicable
law, we strive to provide stringent control of of any
personal
information you provide through this website. We
cannot be responsible for the privacy of information you
provide to other users of this site if you choose to contact
them by a means other than the contact mail
form provided on this site. By posting a listing or
wish listing on this site or by contacting another site user
through our mail form you are accepting
this Privacy Policy and acknowledge that you have
read/understand,
and agree to the terms of use and legal disclaimer provided
on this site. You also
expressly consent to our
collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal
information as described
in this Privacy Policy.
You can browse our sites without
telling us who you are or revealing any personal information
about
yourself.
Once you give us your personal information,
you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to
provide us
with
personal information, you consent to the transfer and
storage of that information on our
servers located
in the
United States.
We may collect and store the following personal information:
email address, pilot certificate number,
and any other information you choose to provide
through our
mail form.
correspondence sent to us;
other information from your interaction
with our sites, services, content and advertising,
including
computer and connection information,
statistics on page views, traffic to and from the
sites,
ad data, IP address and standard web log
information;
We don't sell or rent your
personal information to third parties for their marketing
purposes. We may
combine
your
information with information we collect from others use it to improve and
improve our
services, and content. If you wish to remove one or more listings
you posted through flight sharer,
just follow the
simple steps provided by email when you posted the listing.
Our primary
purpose in collecting personal information is to facilitate
a useful connection with other pilots
and passengers.
You agree that we may use your personal information to:
provide the services and assistance you request;
troubleshoot problems;
prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our Terms of Use;
customize, measure and improve our services and content;
We may disclose personal
information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our
policies, respond to
claims that a listing or other content
violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights,
property, or
safety. Such information will be disclosed in
accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
We may also share your personal information with:
Service providers under contract who
help with our business operations (such as our
Internet
Service
Provider and IT consultants).
Law enforcement or other governmental
officials, in response to a verified request
relating to a
criminal
investigation or alleged
illegal activity. In such events, we will disclose
information relevant
you chose
to provide to the investigation, such as
name, city, state, zip code, telephone number,
email
address, User ID history, IP address, and listing history.
Without limiting the above, in an effort to
respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community
free
from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your
personal information to law enforcement, other
government
officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court
order or substantially similar legal
procedure, except when
we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information
is necessary to
prevent imminent physical harm or financial
loss or to report suspected illegal activity.
If you access our sites from a shared computer
or a computer in an internet café, certain information
about
you, such as your User ID, email address, and activity
may also be visible to other individuals
who use the
computer after you.
We encourage you to
respect the privacy of other users. We cannot guarantee the
privacy or security of
your information, though we do strive to do so. We
encourage you to evaluate the authenticity of the
poster of a listing or wish listing you wish to respond to. To help protect your
privacy, we allow only
limited
access to other users'
information to facilitate
your contact with them. When users are involved
in a
connection,
they will only have access to each other's names.
Your pilot certificate number (User ID)
and
email
address will be hidden from them. If you wish them to
have this or other personal info you must
actively choose to include it in our mail contact form.
You agree to use user information only for:
Establishing the sharing of one or more flights,
using services offered through FlightSharer, or
other purposes that a user expressly chooses. p>
We do not use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive).
We and our users do not tolerate
spam. You are not licensed to
attempt to mine this site for information
about other users, even a user who has contacted you through
the system except as provided by them
on their pilot information page
without their express consent. To report spam
or spoof emails purporting
to originate from FlightSharer, please forward the email to
spam@flighthsharer.com or
spoof@flightsharer.com. You may
not use our communication tools to send spam or otherwise
send
content that would violate our Terms of Use Agreement. We
may automatically scan and may manually
filter messages to check
for spam, phishing attacks and other malicious
activity or illegal or prohibited
content, but we do not
permanently store messages sent through these tools. If you
send an email to an
email address, we do not
permanently store that email or use that email address for
any marketing
purpose.
We do not rent or sell these email
addresses.
You can see, review, and change
most of the pilot information you choose to provide in the
pilot
information
section of the site by using the link provided via email
when you provided that information.
Generally, we will
not manually modify your personal
information because it is very difficult to verify your
identity remotely.
You must promptly update your personal
information if it changes or is inaccurate.
Once you make a
public
posting, you will only be able to change or remove it only by providing the
confirmation number provided at the
time you posted the listing or by providing your pilot
certificate
number. Otherwise, the listing will be
automatically removed when it becomes obsolete.
You information is stored on
our servers located in the United States. We treat data as
an asset that
must be protected and use lots of tools
(encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) to protect
your
personal information against unauthorized access and
disclosure. However, as you probably know, third
parties may
unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private
communications, and other users may
abuse or misuse your
personal information that they collect from the site.
Therefore, although we work
very
hard to protect your
privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that
your personal
information
or private communications will
always remain private.
Except as otherwise expressly
included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses
only the use and
disclosure of information we collect from
you. If you disclose your information to others, whether
they are
pilots or passengers through other
sites throughout the internet, we make no warranty on how
they will
use
the information you disclose to
them. We encourage you to
ask questions before you disclose your
personal
information
to others.
We may amend
this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms
on this site. All amended
terms
automatically take effect each time you post a listing or use our mail contact
form.