Privacy Policy
Personal Information
The only personal information we collect is what you voluntarily offer during signup, and some basic information related to payments made on the site.
We also store certain information we receive related to your use of the site, such as your IP address.
Credit card numbers are never received nor stored, as all processing is handled by a third party.
The personal information we do have will never be made available to others, with the following exceptions:
(1) legal orders, such as subpoenas
(2) repeated serious violation of site rules
(3) appropriate requests from BYU compliance, licensing, legal, or other similar departments who need to contact CougarBoard users quickly and directly.
Also, moderators have access to some information to enable duplicate account checking. They also may have information that they have
access to as part of the moderation of the site, such as abuse reports, appeals, and other information sent by users to the moderators.
Moderators are not allowed to share any of that information with non-moderators or anyone not on this site, unless one of the above
exceptions apply.
Social Networks
If you choose to connect your CougarBoard account to a social network account (such as Facebook, Twitter, etc), we will store basic information received
from your social network account. This may include account ID, real name, email, and location, along with a list of those you have connected with on
that network. If you choose to allow it, we will let your social network connections who are also on CougarBoard know your CougarBoard username.
Cookies
We store a few cookies on your computer, related to logging in and to gathering statistics
on unique visitors.
Surveys
Information you provide in surveys will remain confidential. Survey data will only ever be
published in aggregate form.
Message Board Posts, Boardmails, Chat, etc.
This site allows you to post messages in various formats, either to the public, to groups, or
to individuals. All messages are owned by whoever posted them. By posting to CougarBoard.com,
you agree to allow your message to be published on the Internet by CougarBoard.com.
Posts to the message board may be edited or deleted by the user until the post is put into the
"archive", according to the board archive policy at the time. After that, posts may
not be edited or deleted from our archive. Moderators may still have access to edited or deleted
posts.
Boardmails, chat, and other message formats
supported by this site do not allow editing or deletion, but have a limited audience. Please
be aware of that when posting personal information.
Emails
Users who have signed up for CougarBoard may occasionally receive administrative emails.
Analytics
We collect web analytics information about our users in order to help us run the site more
effectively. For example, web analytics allows us to see trending information about page views
per day, or even things like what percentage of users are using each browser. Our web
analytics are provided by third parties, and their privacy policies apply to the information
they collect.
Third Party Advertising
CougarBoard.com is supported largely by advertising. We use various third party ad services
to provide the ads that you see on the site. We cannot control what (if any) information is
stored by these services. We do not provide any personal information about our users to
these services.
Our ad networks use cookies to serve ads on this site. For example, Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based
on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google
ad and content network privacy policy.
We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies
may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements
clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services
likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information.
To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
