LTH Forum is committed to protecting your privacy and will use your information only as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy outlines the policies and procedures that govern the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information, and how you can correct or change such information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information that we collect or that you provide to us through the LTH Forum Sites. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in the LTH Forum Terms of Service.
PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE LTH FORUM TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY. YOUR USE OF THE LTH FORUM SITES SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF SERVICE.
- How LTH Forum Collects Information
- Personal Data you provide to LTH Forum
Personally Identifiable Information is any information that can be used to identify a specific individual, such as your name, email address, home address, phone number, and date of birth. Although registration is not required to read postings on the LTH Forum Sites, users must register for an Account to post to the LTH Forum Sites. When you register for the LTH Forum Sites, we will ask you for Personally Identifiable Information. Personal Information may also include information you supply to us concerning your preferences and interests expressed in the course of use of the Services. In addition, you may choose to provide LTH Forum with additional information, such as household income, education, and marital status.
- Information gathered by LTH Forum and third party service providers
When you visit the LTH Forum Sites, LTH Forum and third parties with whom LTH Forum has contracted to provide services may collect information on your actions. This type of information is generally collected from two sources. One is from the server log files and the other is from cookies.
- Log Data
When you visit the LTH Forum Sites, whether as a member or as an unregistered user, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type or the webpage you were visiting before you came to the LTH Forum Sites, pages of the LTH Forum Sites that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information you search for on the LTH Forum Sites, access times and dates, and other statistics. We use Log Data to monitor and analyze use of the LTH Forum Sites and the Service, to help diagnose problems with our server and for technical administration, to increase the functionality and user-friendliness of the LTH Forum Sites, and to better tailor the Service to our visitors’ needs. We may also sometimes use IP addresses to monitor and enforce compliance with our Terms of Service.
- Cookies
Like many websites, we use “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies for two purposes. First, we utilize cookies to save your registration ID and login password for future logins to the Site. Second, we utilize cookies to enable certain features of the Service to better understand how you interact with the LTH Forum Sites, and to monitor aggregate usage by members and unregistered users and web traffic routing on the Site. Third-party advertisers may also place or read cookies on your browser. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the LTH Forum Sites or all functionality of the Service.
To the extent that the LTH Forum Sites contain advertising provided by third party companies, such companies may deliver a cookie to you so the ads you see can be tracked and ensure that you are not shown the same ad too many times. These cookies tag your computer only with a number, and LTH Forum does not provide third party advertising companies with any personally identifiable information. However, these companies may use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to the LTH Forum Sites and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
- Log Data
- How LTH Forum uses Information it collects
LTH Forum may use the information that it collects, together with the information that you provide, as described in the sections above and for the following purposes: (i) to provide the LTH Forum Sites and the Service, (ii) to administer your inquiries or otherwise contact you; (iii) to enable users to easily use and navigate the LTH Forum Sites and the Service; (iv) to improve and optimize the Service; (v) to better understand users’ needs and interests, and (vi) to personalize your experience. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive communications from LTH Forum, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or select the appropriate option via your Account.
The information that we collect may also be used to create aggregated portraits of the LTH Forum audience, portraits which present anonymous statistical demographic information, but no Personally Identifiable Information. This aggregated information may be used to, among other things, determine trends and needs, and also to supply market research, industry analysis, or demographic profiling to third parties including potential advertisers and partners.
- Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information to Third Parties
LTH Forum will display Personally Identifiable Information in your profile page, signature, or elsewhere on the LTH Forum Sites according to your actions and the preferences you set in your account. Any information you disclose in the public forum areas of the LTH Forum Sites is immediately accessible to the public. Accordingly, the information you choose to share should reflect how much you want other members and unregistered users to know about you. LTH Forum recommends that you guard your anonymity and sensitive information and we encourage members to think carefully about what information about themselves they disclose in their profile pages, public forums, and elsewhere on the LTH Forum Sites. You can review and revise your profile information at any time.
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate and provide the LTH Forum Sites and the Service, including, without limitation, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, and improvement of the features of the LTH Forum Sites and the Service, analyzing how the LTH Forum Sites and the Service are used. Such third parties may have access to your Personally Identifiable Information, but only to perform these tasks on our behalf, and are obligated not to disclose or use your Personally Identifiable Information for any other purpose. We may also provide Personally Identifiable Information to our business partners or other trusted entities for the purpose of providing you with information on goods or services we believe will be of interest to you. You can, at any time, opt out of receiving such information.
LTH Forum cooperates with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of LTH Forum or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity.
LTH Forum may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your Personally Identifiable Information, in connection with a merger, assignment, acquisition, joint venture, reorganization, sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy or similar proceedings.
- Third Party Advertising and Links to other Sites.
The LTH Forum Sites may contain links to advertisers or other websites that are not controlled or affiliated with LTH Forum. If you choose to visit an advertiser by “clicking on” a banner ad or other type of advertisement, or click on a link provided by LTH Forum, an LTH Forum member, or a third party, you will be directed to that website. The fact that we link to a website or present a banner ad or other type of advertisement is not an endorsement, authorization, or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. LTH Forum does not control and cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such non-LTH Forum websites linked to from within the LTH Forum Sites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. Other sites follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. We encourage you
to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit. - Changing or Deleting Your Information
LTH Forum provides you with the ability to access, review, update, correct or delete any Personally Identifiable Information in your profile at any time, including contact information or other information you’ve provided. You may not, however, change your member name. If you would like to delete your record in our system, please contact the Moderators with a request that we delete your account and Personally Identifying Information from our database. LTH Forum will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request, but may retain an archived copy of your records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
- Security
LTH Forum is very concerned with safeguarding your information and employs reasonable physical, technological, and administrative security measures under the circumstances. Nevertheless, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while LTH Forum strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
- International Transfer
Your information may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, in which the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to LTH Forum, such information will be transferred to the United States and processed and maintained pursuant to United States law and standards. Your consent to this Privacy Policy and submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
- Children
The LTH Forum Sites are not directed to or intended for children under 13. LTH Forum does not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from children under 13.
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
LTH Forum may amend or otherwise modify this Privacy Policy from time to time in its sole discretion. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Service. Any such amendment or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the LTH Forum Sites, and your continued use of the LTH Forum Sites after any changes or modifications to these Terms of Service are posted will constitute your acceptance of and agreement to such changes or modifications. If you object to any change or modification, your sole recourse shall be to cease using the Service.