Privacy policy

1. Basics

This policy covers the virango.com use of personal information that are collected when you use virango.com website.

We seriously respect your privacy. With few well defined exceptions, you do not need to provide any personal information using our site.

These exceptions are:
- your valid email address (required for registration and important community announcements)
- your PayPal account id/email (required if you want us to pay you your share of the community income)

Additionally, we may offer our users access to some premium services and/or special offers that may require submitting additional personal information, like your real name, shipping address etc..
Such cases will be clearly marked and you will always have a possibility to opt out from such a service if you feel that your privacy might be compromised. By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable virango.com and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. When you provide such personal information, we will treat it in accordance with this policy, current legislation and aiming to meet current Internet best practices.

2. Visitor Information and cookies

During you course of visit on virango.com webpages your browser will download and store a number of short text files called 'cookies'. It is a standard technology used by majority of websites, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before.

Information supplied by cookies help us to provide you with a better online user experience and allows us to monitor website performance, number of users etc. We also use cookies to spare you the effort of repetetive log-in to the site (when you select "remember me" option during login.

If you wish, you can disable storage of our cookie files on your computer disabling that option in your browser (please refer to the documentation of your browser on how to do that). If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse virango.com anonymously. For further information on cookies please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.

3. Use and storage of your personal information

When you supply any personal information to virango.com, we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular webpages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

In general, any information you provide to virango.com will only be used within virango.com and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to virango.com or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on our website , we will use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of virango.com membership you no longer wish to continue your registration. For safety reasons, however, virango.com may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of virango.com.
We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely.

In particular, we will not sell nor disclose your private data for any purposes (like mailings etc.) without your consent.