Privacy

What type of personal information does metroBlog collect?

While registering, the only personal information that metroBlog actually asks for are your e-mail address and your location.

You may offer additional personal information at other times including the creation of a public profile or the update of your personal account information. Any additional personal information that you display in metroBlog shall be protected under the Terms and Conditions of this privacy policy.

About Browsing

Each time that you visit a web page, your browser sends some specific information to the web site that you’re visiting. metroBlog’s server automatically registers, collects and stores this information from your browser, including your IP address, the specific browser’s software, cookies associated with metroBlog (see below) and the web pages that you visit in metroBlog.

We mainly use this information as a tool to assess and solve any technical problem that you may encounter. Additionally, we use the IP information as a tool to limit the access to metroBlog to those users who have infringed our Terms and Conditions and to help users to restrict other users to having access to their metroBlog sites

Cookies

As most sites that require registration, metroBlog uses cookies to recognize you when you are back in metroBlog and to have a record of your username and password when you log in (the purpose of this is to avoid relogging every time you visit a new web page in metroBlog). Some third party advertisers may also use cookies when their advertisements are seen in metroBlog. This cookies serve us to provide you with a personalized content (including information about your metroBlog space and offers that you may find attractive), since they are based in your interests and activities in metroBlog.

Does anybody else collect my personal information?

Any type of personal information that you provide to metroBlog (i.e., any URL beginning with http://www.metroBlog.com) is only collected by metroBlog unless otherwise expressly notified.

What does metroBlog use my personal information for?

metroBlog makes use of your e-mail address just to confirm your account and to contact you when any problem related to your account arises. At your request, metroBlog can e-mail you additional information including but not limited to, weekly statistics, invitation messages to metroBlog or additional information about the Company.

In order to keep on offering free products and services, metroBlog can display advertisements or other type of promotional information. Any type of additional personal information that you may provide, will help metroBlog in customizing the advertisements displayed so that they suit your interests.

metroBlog does not share any type of identifiable personal information with its advertisers. metroBlog can share general demographic information with advertisers and business partners (i.e., information such as statistics about interests and users’ occupations). Under no circumstances does metroBlog provide advertisers with access to your personal and individual account information.

Links

Personal spaces in metroBlog may contain links to other sites. However, metroBlog is not liable for the privacy policies and practices of those sites. When users access other sites, they should read the privacy policy contained in them. Our privacy policy only refers to the information collected on metroBlog.com

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members

metroBlog members can invite friends to become members and visit their metroBlog spaces sending e-mail invitations via our automated invitation system. metroBlog stores e-mail addresses provided by users so that those who have been invited can be added to the sender’s friends list and invitation reminders can be sent to them. Neither does metroBlog sell these e-mail addresses nor does it use them to send other communications than invitations or invitation reminders. Recipients of metroBlog invitations can get in contact with metroBlog to request withdrawal of their information from our data base.

What can I do to protect my metroBlog account?

Try to keep your username and password in secret!Anyone who knows your username and password may access you metroBlog account.

If you use a shared computer to access your metroBlog account, remember to log out from metroBlog before stop using the computer. If you forget to log out, the next person using the computer may access your metroBlog account.

To minimize the risk of having others accessing your metroBlog private account, we suggest that you log out from metroBlog before stop using any computer, including your personal one.

What does metroBlog do to protect my personal and private information?

metroBlog.com has built a secure system to protect you private information. We shall keep on making every effort to maintain and improve our net security system. We understand the importance of maintaining a secure system for our private and personal information.

However, no information transmission via Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although metroBlog assures users of their best effort in protecting their private information, metroBlog cannot guarantee the security of every type of information that you transmit to or from our online products or services and you do so at your own risk. For additional information about this issue, please read our Terms and Conditions.