Privacy Statement

The Big Apricot takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

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What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how bigapricot.org treats personal information that bigapricot.org collects and receives, including information related to your past use of bigapricot.org services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that bigapricot.org does not own or control, or to people that bigapricot.org does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

• bigapricot.org collects personal information when you register with the Big Apricot forum, when you use bigapricot.org services.
• When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, and gender. When you register with bigapricot.org and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• bigapricot.org automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including your IP address, bigapricot.org cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the page you request.
• bigapricot.org uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the content you see, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal clients.

Children

• bigapricot.org will not knowingly permit a child under age 13 to access the adults only sections of the bigapricot.org site.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• bigapricot.org does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated groups or companies:
  • We will respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
  • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of bigapricot.org's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We will transfer information about you if bigapricot.org is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, bigapricot.org will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• bigapricot.org does not currently display any advertising other than the required links to the creators of the Forum and navigation software. In the event this changes, displays of targeted advertisements may be based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.

Cookies

• bigapricot.org may set and access bigapricot.org cookies on your computer.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

General

• You can edit your Big Apricot Forum Personal Information at any time by logging in and going to your User CP.

Children

• In the event a child under 13 has created an account on the Big Apricot Forum and the parent or guardian wishes to edit or delete that account, they may sign into their child's account and edit or delete the information. OR, the parent can contact the Administrator at to do it for them.

Confidentiality and Security

• We limit access to personal information about you to persons who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
• We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

• bigapricot.org may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Big Apricot Forum account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.