Legal Notice and Disclaimer
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO PARENTS:
Many of our visitors are pre-teens and teenagers, and you as a parent are responsible for their safety and well-being. Being parents ourselves, we understand that you are naturally cautious, and wondering if this is a safe area for your child.
Our promise to you is this: we do our utmost to keep your child safe while interacting with our site. The site is moderated, and we do not accept bad language, sexual undertone, violence, soliciting, asking for private info etc., and we keep ourselves to those same high standards.
We encourage you to look around on the site, and determine for yourself. We will not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 in order to comply to the Children Online Privacy protection Act. If your child asks permission to subscribe to our newsletter "Messages from U.N.C.L.E.", please subscribe with your e-mail address, so you will see the messages that we send to our list... in any case, we will not share any personal data with a 3rd party. For instance, if you provide an e-mail address to subscribe, we will only use it to send the newsletter. Nothing else! If you want to contact us on this subject, please use the form at the end of this page.
We do our best to keep TopSpySecrets.com a safe place! That's our commitment to you. But, as a parent, you will always have the responsibility to the safety of your child, and while you may (hopefully!) deem our site a safe place, please be aware what your child is doing online. The rest of the Internet is but a click away.
Having said this, I hope you and your child(ren) will enjoy the fun and mystery of spying!
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Spying on individuals and in public places may be illegal!
TopSpySecrets.com is intended as a fun and informative site on the subject of spying. We do not encourage or condone illegal use of any of the techniques or products presented on this website. TopSpySecrets.com also does not warrant any company, product, service or any content contained herein.
Please do not use for illegal activities.
It is the responsibility of the visitor to understand the laws governing privacy, surveillance and monitoring. If you have reasonable doubt to question the application then seek legal advice first.
TopSpySecrets.com, and its owners will not accept any responsibility whatsoever for the misuse of the information contained herein, it is the visitors legal duty to abide by the laws governing their country.
Affiliate notice
This site is my personal site. It accepts advertising and receives other forms of compensation. Such compensation does not influence the information in this site. We always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences.
TopSpySecrets.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.
"Ads by Google" are not selected by me, so if you see a Google ad and a Web page about the same product or service, it is a coincidence.
I only accept non-Google sponsorships from providers of high-quality goods or services. I appreciate their recognition and support of this site. Rest assured that the actual content on sponsored pages are independent of any sponsorship or affiliate relationship.
Please do support my sponsors and recommendations. This site takes time and effort to deliver original content, free, to you. Supporting my sponsors is a WIN-WIN-WIN for you, me, and them. Thank you very much.
We recognize that your privacy is important. This policy outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use TopSpySecrets.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
TopSpySecrets.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our 'customers', consumers' and 'online visitors' privacy on our website. Since many of our visitors are young people makes us even MORE committed.
Personal Information
TopSpySecrets.com collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include first name and e-mail address. If you want to provide a make believe name (or spy name), even better! This personal information will not be shared, and only used for the purpose you provide it.This information is collected if you request information from us, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, and sign up to join our email list. If you're under 13, please don't subscribe or request some other service or information from us, we will not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. The information collected is internally reviewed, used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.
Once information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored in our files. It is not shared publically. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the sites pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables TopSpySecrets.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.
We may serve third party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our web site to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our web site.
Some third-party advertisements may be provided by Google,which uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google uses theDART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to our users basedon their visits to this site and other sites on the Web. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn't cause a problem with our site, should you so choose.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
The very theme of this site attracts children, as well as adults. We are aware of this, and we operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. This means that we'll not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.Non-Personal Information
In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.Release of Information
If TopSpySecrets.com is sold, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please use the form below.
Please don't use this form for regular messages, but only for remarks on this privacy policy. You accept this policy if you continue the use of the website, so there's also no need to fill in the form to accept this policy.
Updates and Effective Date
TopSpySecrets.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to our Privacy Policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.
Last updated on June 2nd, 2010.
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