Your privacy is of the utmost importance to YaBBWs.com. Because we ask for some basic personal information during registration and within your profile, we want you to be fully informed of how this information is gathered and used.

• Name - Your name helps us to personalize your online experience.
• Email Address - By providing your email address, you can receive important messages via your existing email account. Message board notifications, personalized My Forums newsletters, and messages sent to you by other YaBBWs.com members rely on the email address you provide when you register.
• User Name - This is how you are identified when you participate in forums. While many other aspects of your account can be updated regularly, your user name cannot be changed.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
No children under 13 are allowed to participate in YaBBWs.com.

Participation
The above describes information that is provided "actively" - meaning, you choose to submit this information to us when you join YaBBWs.com, or update your account at any point after having joined. Some other information is provided "passively" - meaning, that YaBBWs.com obtains this information when you login to your YaBBWs.com account and use the service. This is done primarily through the use of "cookies." Cookies are used on YaBBWs.com 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. Any time that you point your browser to a 'members-only' area, YaBBWs.com 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 YaBBWs.com login screen, where you can quickly and easily login to your account, or signup for YaBBWs.com if you are not yet a member. Cookies may also be used in conjunction with some ad banners to determine their effectiveness.

Cookies
YaBBWs.com uses cookies to customize your experience while using the Forums. A cookie is a small text file that many Web sites write through your browser when you visit them. A cookie can only be read by the site that places it, so YaBBWs.com can't "see where you've been" based on any other cookies in your browser. Cookies are generally supported in version 3.0 and newer of Internet Explorer, 2.02 and newer of Netscape, and 3.0 and newer of AOL. Netscape Navigator uses a single file called "cookies.txt" to record all cookies, and you can open this file in any text editor to see what it looks like. On a Macintosh computer, the Netscape cookie file is called "MagicCookie". Internet Explorer uses a separate file for each cookie, which typically reside in "C:\Windows\Profiles\User\Cookies." Most browsers also allow the option of displaying a warning before accepting a cookie, or refusing all cookies. Declining cookies while participating in forums may result in some features not working properly.

Advertising
YaBBWs.com uses third-party advertising companies and advertising networks to serve ads to you on our behalf when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Personally identifiable information such as your name, address, email address or telephone number are not shared with advertisers without your permission. We may use personally identifiable information in order to fill in forms on third-party sites we use to present advertising offers. But this information will not be shared and will not be stored by any third parties if you decline these offers.

YaBBWs.com & Non-YaBBWs.com Sites
YaBBWs.com, along with many other companies, relies on Yahoo! Inc. to host our website and related data. Participation in YaBBWs.com includes Yahoo! Inc. having access to your personal information. Yahoo! Inc. has its own privacy policy regarding information held on their servers.

As a registered user, you may receive informational email messages from YaBBWs.com from time to time. All registered members are required to receive such communications. If you wish to stop these emails, you may terminate your membership at any time.

Public Forums
YaBBWs.com hosts message boards, chat and other services for both public and private forums. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in public forums becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security
YaBBWs.com's site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under its control. YaBBWs.com (in addition to Yahoo! Inc. server security) has strict security in place to prevent an intruder from retrieving personal information about its users.

Termination
You can elect to terminate your membership with YaBBWs.com at any time. Simply go to your User Panel page, click the "Profile" tab, and select the "Edit Profile" link. On the "Edit my profile" page and scroll down to the "Delete Account" button and click it. You will be asked if you "Want to cancel your account?" Confirm by clicking ok. Upon termination, your account information will not necessarily be removed entirely from YaBBWs.com. The termination of your YaBBWs.com membership will not automatically terminate any affiliated memberships or registrations you have formed through YaBBWs.com. If, after having joined any YaBBWs.com partners' services, you wish to be removed, you should contact that service directly to have your membership terminated.

Summary
In this electronic era, when personal information can easily be obtained through various sources, YaBBWs.com 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.