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  <title>ChristopherMarentette.com</title>
  <subtitle>'Crouching Drunkard, Hidden Beer'</subtitle>
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    <title>Privacy Policy</title>
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      <name>Chris</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>ChristopherMarentette.com knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. By visiting ChristopherMarentette.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.</p>  <p><b>What This Privacy Policy Covers</b></p>    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>ChristopherMarentette.com knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. By visiting ChristopherMarentette.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.</p>  <p><b>What This Privacy Policy Covers</b></p><ul class="menu"><li>This privacy policy pertains to the use of the ChristopherMarentette.com web site.</li><li>This privacy policy covers how ChristopherMarentette.com treats personal information that ChristopherMarentette.com collects and receives.&nbsp; Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number.</li></ul><p><b>Information Collection and How it is used</b><br /><br /><b>General Information</b></p>  <ul class="menu"><li>ChristopherMarentette.com collects personal information when you register with ChristopherMarentette.com to use ChristopherMarentette.com services or to post content on ChristopherMarentette.com.</li><li>When you register we ask for your email address and possibly certain optional information such as your name, gender, biographical information, city, country, and other personal interests.</li><li>ChristopherMarentette.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie, and the page you request.</li><li>ChristopherMarentette.com uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting.</li></ul><p><strong>Your IP Address</strong></p><p>IP Addresses are automatically reported by your web browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in our logs when you register with ChristopherMarentette.com.</p> <p>IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:</p> <ul class="menu"><li class="leaf first">To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.</li><li class="leaf">To tailor advertising based on geographic area or other information derived from your IP address. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.</li><li class="leaf">To estimate the total number of users visiting ChristopherMarentette.com from specific geographical regions.</li><li class="leaf">To make sure that people are not voting for themselves or friends during contests or promotions.</li></ul> <p><b>Cookies</b></p><p>A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer.</p> <ul class="menu"><li>You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.</li><li>If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use ChristopherMarentette.com products or services.</li><li>ChristopherMarentette.com uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: <ul><li>Access your information when you &quot;log in&quot;.</li><li>Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using ChristopherMarentette.com's services.</li><li>Display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on ChristopherMarentette.com.</li><li>Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.</li><li>Conduct research to improve ChristopherMarentette.com's content and services.</li></ul></li><li>ChristopherMarentette.com lets other companies (such as Google) that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to ChristopherMarentette.com's cookies.</li></ul><p><b>Information Sharing and Disclosure</b></p> <ul class="menu"><li class="leaf first">When you post Content, your ChristopherMarentette.com username or real name (if you supply it) is visible to other users.</li><li class="leaf">If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.</li><li class="leaf">ChristopherMarentette.com may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the ChristopherMarentette.com Terms of Use.</li><li class="leaf">ChristopherMarentette.com may share demographic information with business partners, such as &quot;53% of users who regularly user ChristopherMarentette.com are between 18 and 24&quot; or the like. No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission (i.e. we will ask you for a quote or testimonial).</li><li class="leaf">ChristopherMarentette.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested or when we have your permission.</li><li class="leaf">It may be 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 ChristopherMarentette.com Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.</li><li class="leaf">We will transfer information about you if ChristopherMarentette.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, ChristopherMarentette.com will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the ChristopherMarentette.com web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.</li><li class="leaf">ChristopherMarentette.com displays targeted advertisements based on personal information that is exhibited in people's profiles. This may sometimes make you laugh, as when it shows advertisements for rabbit feed on the profile page of a person whose handle is &quot;BunnyLove.&quot;</li></ul> <p><b>Editing and Deleting Account Information</b></p> <ul class="menu"><li class="leaf first">You can change your ChristopherMarentette.com Account Information, at any time.</li><li class="leaf">We may send you certain communications relating to the ChristopherMarentette.com service, such as service announcements and administrative messages, that are considered part of your ChristopherMarentette.com account.</li><li class="leaf">You can close your ChristopherMarentette.com account at any time by contacting us at (address below); however, please note that your identification, billing and contact information may remain in ChristopherMarentette.com's records for some period.</li><li class="leaf">We limit access to personal information about you to employees 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.</li></ul> <p><b>What Choices and Access Do I Have?</b></p> <div class="content clear-block"><ul><li class="leaf">As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to take advantage of certain ChristopherMarentette.com features.</li><li class="leaf">You can review the personal information you provide and make changes to that information, or to the settings for your account, at any time, by logging in to your account and editing the information on your profile page.</li><li class="leaf">You can close your account by going to your profile page, clicking edit your account and following the instructions for removing your account. After you close your account, we will no longer display the information you provided.</li></ul>    <p><b>Children</b><br /><br /> ChristopherMarentette.com is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, you may not submit information about yourself to ChristopherMarentette.com.<br /><br /> <b>Changes to this Privacy Policy</b><br /><br />ChristopherMarentette.com may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we will send a notice to the primary email address specified in your ChristopherMarentette.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.<br /><br /> <b>Questions</b><br /><br /> If you have questions or suggestions you can <a href="http://www.christophermarentette.com/contact">contact us</a>.<br /><br /> Updated: 2008/05/22 (Thursday, May 22, 2008)</p></div><p>&nbsp;</p>    ]]></content>
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