Privacy Statement

PilotLounge.com ‘s Pri­vacy Pol­icy is designed to help you under­stand how we col­lect and use the per­sonal infor­ma­tion you decide to share, and help you make informed deci­sions when using PilotLounge.com, located at www. PilotLounge.com and its directly asso­ci­ated domains (col­lec­tively, “Pilot­Lounge” or “Website”)

By using or access­ing PilotLounge.com, you are accept­ing the prac­tices described in this Pri­vacy Policy.

PilotLounge.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Pri­vacy Pro­gram. TRUSTe is an inde­pen­dent, non-profit orga­ni­za­tion whose mis­sion is to build user’s trust and con­fi­dence in the Inter­net by pro­mot­ing the use of fair infor­ma­tion prac­tices. This pri­vacy state­ment cov­ers the site www. PilotLounge.com and its directly asso­ci­ated domains. Because this Web site wants to demon­strate its com­mit­ment to your pri­vacy, it has agreed to dis­close its infor­ma­tion prac­tices and have its pri­vacy prac­tices reviewed for com­pli­ance by TRUSTe.

If you have ques­tions or con­cerns regard­ing this state­ment, you should first con­tact our pri­vacy staff at privacy@ PilotLounge.com . If you do not receive acknowl­edge­ment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been sat­is­fac­to­rily addressed, you should con­tact TRUSTe Watch­dog at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liai­son with us to resolve your concerns.

We par­tic­i­pate in the EU Safe Har­bor Pri­vacy Frame­work as set forth by the United States Depart­ment of Com­merce. As part of our par­tic­i­pa­tion in the safe har­bor, we have agreed to TRUSTe dis­pute res­o­lu­tion for dis­putes relat­ing to our com­pli­ance with the Safe Har­bor Pri­vacy Frame­work. If you have any com­plaints regard­ing our com­pli­ance with the Safe Har­bor you should first con­tact us at info@PilotLounge.com. If con­tact­ing us does not resolve your com­plaint, you may raise your com­plaint with TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog_intro.html.

When you visit PilotLounge.com you pro­vide us with two types of infor­ma­tion: per­sonal infor­ma­tion you know­ingly choose to dis­close that is col­lected by us and Web Site use infor­ma­tion col­lected by us as you inter­act with our Web Site.

When you reg­is­ter with PilotLounge.com, you pro­vide us with cer­tain per­sonal infor­ma­tion, such as your name, your email address, your tele­phone num­ber, your address, your gen­der, schools attended and any other per­sonal or pref­er­ence infor­ma­tion that you pro­vide to us.

When you enter PilotLounge.com, we col­lect your browser type and IP address. This infor­ma­tion is gath­ered for all PilotLounge.com vis­i­tors. In addi­tion, we store cer­tain infor­ma­tion from your browser using “cook­ies.” A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s com­puter tied to infor­ma­tion about the user. We use ses­sion ID cook­ies to con­firm that users are logged in. These cook­ies ter­mi­nate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a per­sis­tent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your pass­word) to make it eas­ier for you to login when you come back to PilotLounge.com. You can remove or block this cookie using the set­tings in your browser if you want to dis­able this con­ve­nience feature.

When you use PilotLounge.com, you may set up your per­sonal pro­file, form rela­tion­ships, send mes­sages, per­form searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add appli­ca­tions, and trans­mit infor­ma­tion through var­i­ous chan­nels. We col­lect this infor­ma­tion so that we can pro­vide you the ser­vice and offer per­son­al­ized fea­tures. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior mes­sages you have sent or eas­ily see your friend list. When you update infor­ma­tion, we will not keep a backup copy of the prior ver­sion for a rea­son­able period of time to enable rever­sion to the prior ver­sion of that information.

You post User Con­tent (as defined in the PilotLounge.com Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set pri­vacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no secu­rity mea­sures are per­fect or impen­e­tra­ble. We can­not con­trol the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and infor­ma­tion. There­fore, we can­not and do not guar­an­tee that User Con­tent you post on the Site will not be viewed by unau­tho­rized per­sons. We are not respon­si­ble for cir­cum­ven­tion of any pri­vacy set­tings or secu­rity mea­sures con­tained on the Site. You under­stand and acknowl­edge that, even after removal, copies of User Con­tent may remain view­able in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any improper col­lec­tion or mis­use of infor­ma­tion pro­vided on PilotLounge.com is a vio­la­tion of the PilotLounge.com Terms of Ser­vice and should be reported to privacy@ PilotLounge.com.

If you choose to use our invi­ta­tion ser­vice to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for infor­ma­tion needed to send the invi­ta­tion, such as your friend’s email address. We will auto­mat­i­cally send your friend a one-time email or instant mes­sage invit­ing him or her to visit the site. PilotLounge.com stores this infor­ma­tion to send this one-time invi­ta­tion, to reg­is­ter a friend con­nec­tion if your invi­ta­tion is accepted, and to track the suc­cess of our refer­ral pro­gram. Your friend may con­tact us atinfo@PilotLounge.com to request that we remove this infor­ma­tion from our database.

PilotLounge.com may also col­lect infor­ma­tion about you from other sources, such as news­pa­pers, blogs, instant mes­sag­ing ser­vices, and other users of the PilotLounge.com ser­vice through the oper­a­tion of the ser­vice (e.g., photo tags) in order to pro­vide you with more use­ful infor­ma­tion and a more per­son­al­ized experience.

By using PilotLounge.com, you are con­sent­ing to have your per­sonal data trans­ferred to and processed in the United States.

PilotLounge.com does not know­ingly col­lect or solicit per­sonal infor­ma­tion from any­one under the age of 13 or know­ingly allow such per­sons to reg­is­ter. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to reg­is­ter for PilotLounge.com or send any infor­ma­tion about your­self to us, includ­ing your name, address, tele­phone num­ber, or email address. No one under age 13 may pro­vide any per­sonal infor­ma­tion to or on PilotLounge.com. In the event that we learn that we have col­lected per­sonal infor­ma­tion from a child under age 13 with­out ver­i­fi­ca­tion of parental con­sent, we will delete that infor­ma­tion as quickly as pos­si­ble. If you believe that we might have any infor­ma­tion from or about a child under 13, please con­tact us at info@pilotlounge.com.

We rec­om­mend that minors over the age of 13 ask their par­ents for per­mis­sion before send­ing any infor­ma­tion about them­selves to any­one over the Internet.

When you reg­is­ter with PilotLounge.com, you cre­ate your own pro­file and pri­vacy set­tings. Your pro­file infor­ma­tion, as well as your name, email and photo, are dis­played to peo­ple in the net­works spec­i­fied in your pri­vacy set­tings to enable you to con­nect with peo­ple on PilotLounge.com. We may occa­sion­ally use your name and email address to send you noti­fi­ca­tions regard­ing new ser­vices offered by PilotLounge.com that we think you may find valuable.

Pro­file infor­ma­tion is used by PilotLounge.com pri­mar­ily to be pre­sented back to and edited by you when you access the ser­vice and to be pre­sented to oth­ers per­mit­ted to view that infor­ma­tion by your pri­vacy set­tings. In some cases where your pri­vacy set­tings per­mit it (e.g., post­ing to your wall), other PilotLounge.com users may be able to sup­ple­ment your profile.

Pro­file infor­ma­tion you sub­mit to PilotLounge.com will be avail­able to users of PilotLounge.com who belong to at least one of the net­works you allow to access the infor­ma­tion through your pri­vacy set­tings (e.g., school, geog­ra­phy, friends of friends). Your name, net­work names, and pro­file pic­ture thumb­nail will be avail­able in search results across the PilotLounge.com net­work and those lim­ited pieces of infor­ma­tion may be made avail­able to third party search engines. This is pri­mar­ily so your friends can find you and send a friend request. Peo­ple who see your name in searches, how­ever, will not be able to access your pro­file infor­ma­tion unless they have a rela­tion­ship to you (friend, friend of friend, mem­ber of your net­works, etc.) that allows such access based on your pri­vacy settings.

PilotLounge.com may send you service-related announce­ments from time to time through the gen­eral oper­a­tion of the ser­vice. For instance, if a friend sends you a new mes­sage or poke, or some­one posts on your wall, you may receive an email alert­ing you to that fact.

Gen­er­ally, you may opt out of such emails here, though PilotLounge.com reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all vol­un­tary email notifications.

PilotLounge.com may use infor­ma­tion in your pro­file with­out iden­ti­fy­ing you as an indi­vid­ual to third par­ties. We do this for pur­poses such as aggre­gat­ing how many peo­ple in a net­work like a band or movie and per­son­al­iz­ing adver­tise­ments and pro­mo­tions so that we can pro­vide you PilotLounge.com. We believe this ben­e­fits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are adver­tise­ments, they’re more likely to be inter­est­ing to you. For exam­ple, if you put a favorite movie in your pro­file, we might serve you an adver­tise­ment high­light­ing a screen­ing of a sim­i­lar one in your town. But we don’t tell the movie com­pany who you are.

We may use infor­ma­tion about you that we col­lect from other sources, includ­ing but not lim­ited to news­pa­pers and Inter­net sources such as blogs, instant mes­sag­ing ser­vices, PilotLounge.com Plat­form devel­op­ers and other users of PilotLounge.com, to sup­ple­ment your pro­file. Where such infor­ma­tion is used, we gen­er­ally allow you to spec­ify in your pri­vacy set­tings that you do not want this to be done or to take other actions that limit the con­nec­tion of this infor­ma­tion to your pro­file (e.g., remov­ing photo tag links).

PilotLounge.com is about shar­ing infor­ma­tion with oth­ers — friends and peo­ple in your net­works — while pro­vid­ing you with pri­vacy set­tings that restrict other users from access­ing your infor­ma­tion. We allow you to choose the infor­ma­tion you pro­vide to friends and net­works through PilotLounge.com. Our net­work archi­tec­ture and your pri­vacy set­tings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your infor­ma­tion. We do not pro­vide con­tact infor­ma­tion to third party mar­keters with­out your per­mis­sion. We share your infor­ma­tion with third par­ties only in lim­ited cir­cum­stances where we believe such shar­ing is 1) rea­son­ably nec­es­sary to offer the ser­vice, 2) legally required or, 3) per­mit­ted by you. For example:

• Your news feed and mini-feed may aggre­gate the infor­ma­tion you pro­vide and make it avail­able to your friends and net­work mem­bers accord­ing to your pri­vacy set­tings. This fea­ture will be avail­able in the near future.
• Unlike most sites on the Web, PilotLounge.com lim­its access to site infor­ma­tion by third party search engine “crawlers” (e.g. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask). PilotLounge.com takes action to block access by these engines to per­sonal infor­ma­tion beyond your name, pro­file pic­ture, and lim­ited aggre­gated data about your pro­file (e.g. num­ber of knee­board postings).
• We may pro­vide infor­ma­tion to ser­vice providers to help us bring you the ser­vices we offer. Specif­i­cally, we may use third par­ties to facil­i­tate our busi­ness, such as to host the ser­vice at a co-location facil­ity for servers, to send out email updates about PilotLounge.com, to remove repet­i­tive infor­ma­tion from our user lists, to process pay­ments for prod­ucts or ser­vices, to offer an online job appli­ca­tion process, or to pro­vide search results or links (includ­ing spon­sored links). In con­nec­tion with these offer­ings and busi­ness oper­a­tions, our ser­vice providers may have access to your per­sonal infor­ma­tion for use for a lim­ited time in con­nec­tion with these busi­ness activ­i­ties. Where we uti­lize third par­ties for the pro­cess­ing of any per­sonal infor­ma­tion, we imple­ment rea­son­able con­trac­tual and tech­ni­cal pro­tec­tions lim­it­ing the use of that infor­ma­tion to the PilotLounge.com –spec­i­fied purposes.
• We occa­sion­ally pro­vide demon­stra­tion accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the PilotLounge.com world. Such accounts have only lim­ited capa­bil­i­ties (e.g., mes­sag­ing is dis­abled) and pass­words are changed reg­u­larly to limit pos­si­ble misuse.
• We may be required to dis­close user infor­ma­tion pur­suant to law­ful requests, such as sub­poe­nas or court orders, or in com­pli­ance with applic­a­ble laws. We do not reveal infor­ma­tion until we have a good faith belief that an infor­ma­tion request by law enforce­ment or pri­vate lit­i­gants meets applic­a­ble legal stan­dards. Addi­tion­ally, we may share account or other infor­ma­tion when we believe it is nec­es­sary to com­ply with law, to pro­tect our inter­ests or prop­erty, to pre­vent fraud or other ille­gal activ­ity per­pe­trated through the PilotLounge.com ser­vice or using the PilotLounge.com name, or to pre­vent immi­nent bod­ily harm. This may include shar­ing infor­ma­tion with other com­pa­nies, lawyers, agents or gov­ern­ment agencies.
• We let you choose to share infor­ma­tion with mar­keters or elec­tronic com­merce providers through spon­sored groups or other on-site offers.
• We may offer stores or pro­vide ser­vices jointly with other com­pa­nies on PilotLounge.com. You can tell when another com­pany is involved in any store or ser­vice pro­vided on PilotLounge.com, and we may share cus­tomer infor­ma­tion with that com­pany in con­nec­tion with your use of that store or service.
• If the own­er­ship of all or sub­stan­tially all of the PilotLounge.com busi­ness, or indi­vid­ual busi­ness units owned by Pilot Mag­a­zine, LLC., were to change, your user infor­ma­tion may be trans­ferred to the new owner so the ser­vice can con­tinue oper­a­tions. In any such trans­fer of infor­ma­tion, your user infor­ma­tion would remain sub­ject to the promises made in any pre-existing Pri­vacy Policy.

When you use PilotLounge.com, cer­tain infor­ma­tion you post or share with third par­ties (e.g., a friend or some­one in your net­work), such as per­sonal infor­ma­tion, com­ments, mes­sages, pho­tos, videos, Mar­ket­place list­ings or other infor­ma­tion, may be shared with other users in accor­dance with the pri­vacy set­tings you select. All such shar­ing of infor­ma­tion is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you dis­close per­sonal infor­ma­tion in your pro­file or when post­ing com­ments, mes­sages, pho­tos, videos, Mar­ket­place list­ings or other items , this infor­ma­tion may become pub­licly available.

PilotLounge.com may con­tain links to other web­sites. We are of course not respon­si­ble for the pri­vacy prac­tices of other web sites. We encour­age our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the pri­vacy state­ments of each and every web site that col­lects per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion. This Pri­vacy Pol­icy applies solely to infor­ma­tion col­lected by PilotLounge.com.

Adver­tise­ments that appear on PilotLounge.com are some­times deliv­ered (or “served”) directly to users by third party adver­tis­ers. They auto­mat­i­cally receive your IP address when this hap­pens. These third party adver­tis­ers may also down­load cook­ies to your com­puter, or use other tech­nolo­gies such as JavaScript and “web bea­cons” (also known as “1x1 gifs”) to mea­sure the effec­tive­ness of their ads and to per­son­al­ize adver­tis­ing con­tent. Doing this allows the adver­tis­ing net­work to rec­og­nize your com­puter each time they send you an adver­tise­ment in order to mea­sure the effec­tive­ness of their ads and to per­son­al­ize adver­tis­ing con­tent. In this way, they may com­pile infor­ma­tion about where indi­vid­u­als using your com­puter or browser saw their adver­tise­ments and deter­mine which adver­tise­ments are clicked. PilotLounge.com does not have access to or con­trol of the cook­ies that may be placed by the third party adver­tis­ers. Third party adver­tis­ers have no access to your con­tact infor­ma­tion stored on PilotLounge.com unless you choose to share it with them.

This pri­vacy pol­icy cov­ers the use of cook­ies by PilotLounge.com and does not cover the use of cook­ies or other track­ing tech­nolo­gies by any of its advertisers.

Access and con­trol over most per­sonal infor­ma­tion on PilotLounge.com is read­ily avail­able through the pro­file edit­ing tools. PilotLounge.com users may mod­ify or delete any of their pro­file infor­ma­tion at any time by log­ging into their account. Infor­ma­tion will be updated imme­di­ately. Indi­vid­u­als who wish to deac­ti­vate their PilotLounge.com account may do so by email request to web­mas­ter. Removed infor­ma­tion may per­sist in backup copies for a rea­son­able period of time but will not be gen­er­ally avail­able to mem­bers of PilotLounge.com.

Where you make use of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion fea­tures of the ser­vice to share infor­ma­tion with other indi­vid­u­als on PilotLounge.com, how­ever, (e.g., send­ing a per­sonal mes­sage to another PilotLounge.com user) you gen­er­ally can­not remove such communications.

PilotLounge.com takes appro­pri­ate pre­cau­tions to pro­tect our users’ infor­ma­tion. Your account infor­ma­tion is located on a secured server behind a fire­wall. When you enter sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion (such as credit card num­ber or your pass­word), we encrypt that infor­ma­tion using secure socket layer tech­nol­ogy (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant mes­sag­ing are not rec­og­nized as secure com­mu­ni­ca­tions, we request that you not send pri­vate infor­ma­tion to us by email or instant mes­sag­ing ser­vices. If you have any ques­tions about the secu­rity of Pilot Lounge Web Site, please con­tact us at PilotLounge.com privacy@pilotlounge.com