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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 31, 2003

Your privacy is extremely important to us. Please read and understand this Privacy Policy before using the Official 98 Degrees Website (http://www.98degrees.com).

General Overview

• Through the course of your interaction with this Website, no personally identifiable information (such as your name, address, or email address) is automatically collected from you. However, certain non-personal information is recorded through the standard operation of our Internet servers.
  
  
• To protect our younger visitors and to comply with regulations put in place by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), visitors under the age of 13 are not permitted to submit any personal information or to post any content on the Website.

Personally Identifiable Information

• Various registration forms and surveys on this Website may request that you give us contact information (such as your name, mailing and/or email address), demographic information (such as your age and gender), and profile data (such as your preferences in entertainment). Information submitted at the time of registration or submission may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by 98 Degrees Music, Inc., Universal Records, Farmclub.com, and their subsidiaries, and may be shared with our promotional partners. Personally identifiable information is never sold or leased to any third parties.
  
  
• Users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., name, email address, phone number) in public areas on the Website such as the message boards, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other parties.
  
  
• We may disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, other Website users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities by our Website.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

• Information such as the type of browser being used, its operating system, and your IP address is gathered in order to enhance your online experience.
  
  
• Site usage trends, demographics, traffic patterns, and other reports may be culled from this non-personally identifiable information as a whole. This aggregate information may be sold and/or otherwise used for marketing purposes.

Cookies

• This Website makes limited use of cookies, which are small bits of information stored on your computer so that our Website "remembers" you when you return. This allows a more personalized, user-friendly experience. For example, cookies are used to help ensure that visitors only vote once in the Fan Poll and to simplify the Webclub login process.
  
  
• The cookies that we set are only visible to our site and, as an added security measure, they will never include personal information such as your name or email address.
  
  
• Advertising companies that serve ads onto our site may also use their own cookies. In the course of delivering an ad to you, the ad server collects certain non-personally identifiable information about you in order to deliver tailored ads to you. Our privacy policy does not cover any information that the ad server may collect at our Website.

Webclub Membership

• The "Webclub" is a free membership to this Website that grants access to special features, including the ability to post messages, submit fan photos, and create a fan profile.
  
  
• To protect our younger visitors and to comply with regulations put in place by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), membership in the Webclub is restricted to site visitors aged 13 years or older.
  
  
• For convenience, a member's login information is stored on their computer using a cookie until they specifically choose to logout. If you use a public or shared computer, please remember to logout when you leave the Website.
  
  
• To sign up, prospective Webclub members are required only to select a member name and to provide a valid email address, to which their initial password is sent. By default, the member's email address is not visible to other Website visitors. Any personal information included in message board posts, fan profiles, photos, etc. is provided by the member at their discretion. Member-posted content is intended for entertainment purposes only and is not used for marketing or other business-related activities by our Website.

Security

• Security for all personally identifiable information is extremely important to us. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
  
  
• While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk.
  
  
• Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.