Privacy Statement

We respects each individual's right to personal privacy and highly value it. This is why we make this policy easily available throughout our site to assist you in understanding the handling of information in the course of using the CountrySymbols.com website.

ContrySymbols.com a service supported primarily by advertising. We will not share your information with advertisers without your consent, however we allow advertisers to select the characteristics of users to whom they want to show their advertisements.We use the information we have collected to serve those advertisers. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, feel free to Contact us .

We do not allow children under age 13 to use or register on the Country Symbols

If you are under age 13, please do not use, register on, or provide any personal information about yourself to the CountrySymbols.com website. If we discover that an account was opened or information was provided by a child under the age of 13 we will suspend the account and delete the information immedeately. All users who may have knowledge of any information provided by a child under age 13 are asked to please report this to us on the contact us page.

Browsing CountrySymbols.com

You may use the website CountrySymbols.com without having an account. You may also contact us without having to register for an account.

Your CountrySymbols.com account

In order to conduct some activities on CountrySymbols.com, such as uploading content, posting comments, creating a blog, etc. you will need a CountrySymbols.com account. When you create your account we will ask you for some personal information including your nickname, email address, gender, date of birth, and some other information which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. You also have a choice of providing additional information such as a picture of yourself. Once you register you may visit your account and alter the information provided.

Personal Information

If you would like to be eligible for the prizes offered by us or our sponsors you will need to provide your full name, mailing address and phone number. This information will be shared ONLY with your prior approval and ONLY with our sponsors in case you are entitled to receive a prize.

Content provided

The primary reason for people to use the CountrySymbols.com website is to share their views and feelings towards certain symbols with others. You may upload a symbol, vote for a symbol uploaded by someone else, comment about certain symbols, participate in different groups etc. As it explained in detail in the Terms of Use some information such as comments, blogs, uploaded symbols and votes for a symbol will not be removed even if you close your account.

Transactional Information

Certain features on the website like advertising your symbol or making a donation for other symbols will require a purchase of credits. We will retain the information pertaining to the details of transactions or payments.

Information about your friends (contacts)

CountrySymbols.com offers special import tools to help you upload your friends' (contacts) e-mail addresses and other information so you can find your friends on CountrySymbols.com and invite your friends (contacts) to join or support your symbol or the symbols that you support. If you use these tools and provide us your password for the purpose of retrieval of those contacts, we will delete the password as soon as the upload has been completed.

Site activity information

We keep track of some of your activities on CountrySymbols.com. Those activities include but not limited to creating a symbol, creating a symbol group, voting for a symbol, becoming a fan of a symbol, joining a group, creating a photo album, sending a donation and some other activities. It also includes providing reviews, blogs or comments.

Computer or Browser Information

When you access the Country Symbols website from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address.

Cookie Information

In order to make your experience using CountrySymbols.com better and to closer target our advertising we use "cookies". We use them to store your login ID but not your password to make it easier for you to login next time. Removing or blocking cookies may impact your ability to use CountrySymbols.com.

Exporting Information

CountrySymbols.com users may use copy and paste functions and tools like RSS feeds to capture and export information from CountrySymbols.com, including your information and information about you.

Advertisements

Sometimes the advertisers who present their ads on CountrySymbols.com may use technological methods to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content by the use of "cookies". You may use your browser cookie settings to limit or prevent the placement of cookies by advertising networks.

We use the collected information to try to provide a safe, efficient, and customized experience for every user of CountrySymbols.com. Here is the list of the ways this information is being used:

Protecting the site from unauthorised and malicious use

The best example for this would be collecting your date of birth to verify that you are over age 13 and are allowed to use CounrySymbols website. We use a variety of techniques to detect and address activities that may be deemed as SPAM. These efforts may result in a temporary or permanent suspension of the accounts of the users that are engaged in such activity.

Contacting you

From time to time we may contact you via e-mail with project related announcements. If you subscribe to a newsletter you will be able to unsubscribe. If you did not subscribe to the newsletter we may still contact you in some instances with the critical announcements related to your account activities.

Serving personalized advertising

In order to improve targeted advertising we allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of those users to whom they want to display their ads. In order to do that we use the non-personally identifiable characteristics we have gathered to provide an accurate audience targeted for those advertisements.

Connection facilitation

We may use your profile information or the addresses you imported through our contact importers, to help you find your friends on the CountrySymbols.com website. You will be able to block certain users' communications with you by using the block feature.

Sharing information with third parties

We may share your information with third parties only when we believe that you have permitted it, when sharing is necessary to offer our services, or when we required to do so by law.

Sharing public information via search engines

We generally allow search engines to spider portions of the CountrySymbols.com website that are not password protected. The information provided on the website may be spidered and indexed by the search engines.

Providing you with prizes or services

We may provide information to our sponsors or other service providers to offer you the opportunity to win prizes or to use their services. These sponsors or service providers may have access to your personal information but are obligated by our Terms of Use to use this information solely for the purpose of distributing their prizes and offerings.

Providing information for the as the response to legal requests

We may disclose information about our users or their activities on the website CountrySymbols.com pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal requests if we believe that the response is required by law. This may be done in order to prevent fraud, child pornography or other illegal activities.

Transfer of the information in the event of the CountrySymbols.com project sale

If the ownership of CountrySymbols.com changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner so that the CountrySymbols.com website can continue to operate.

Your profile

You may edit or delete your profile information at any time. Some information you provide, such as posts, comments, ratings and votes CANNOT be deleted. The symbols you have uploaded can be edited or deleted in the preliminary rounds. When they enter the voting rounds editing is not allowed. You may request the suspension or deletion of the symbol from the site administrator.

Delete contacts

You may delete your contacts at any time.

Your account

You may deactivate or delete your account. If you choose to deactivate your account it will not be visible to other users, however the information will be stored in case you decide to re-activate it later. If your account remains dormant for more then 90 days we reserve the right do delete it. If you choose to delete your account, it will be permanently deleted. Even if you delete your account some information you have provided, such as posts, comments, ratings and votes will be stored, however these will no longer be associated with your account.

Security Measures

We take all the necessary precautions and adhere to a strict security policies to keep your information secure which include, but not limited to:

- keeping the information on the secure server behind a firewall;
- encrypting sensitive information with SSL;
- regularly scanning the website and the servers for security vulnerability;
- conducting regular checks to determine possible fraudulent activities, SPAM or system abuse;
- encouraging users to report SPAM or abuse;
- temporarily suspending or permanently deleting accounts which conduct disallowed activities.

Inherent Risks

Although we take all the steps described above to protect your information, you must be aware that no security measures are absolute or 100% perfect. We cannot guarantee that information you share on CountrySymbols.com will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of some of our privacy policies and Terms of Use. In order to protect your sensitive information please use common sense security practices such as:

- choosing a strong password;
- NOT using same passwords for different sites and services;
- using an antivirus software;
- using a firewall on your PC;
- report violations as soon as they are noticed;
- report suspicious e-mails or other activities as soon as they appear.

Privacy Policy Changes

Due to the changing circumstances we reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to make changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by publishing it on this page. If you would like to be notified about the Privacy policy changes via e-mail, please subscribe to our newsletter.