Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At 45 Miles For 45 Smiles we have a few fundamental principles:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
Within our products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what can be kept private the ability to permanently delete data.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals: Should you wish to enquire about how your personal data is being dealt with, please contact us.

45 Miles For 45 Smiles, hereafter referred to as “45 for 45”. Owns and operates several online services including 45for45.org. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our online services.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, 45 for 45 collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. 45 for 45’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how 45 for 45 s visitors use its services. From time to time, 45 for 45 may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its services.

45 for 45 also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in. 45 for 45 only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain users of 45 for 45 online services choose to interact with 45 for 45 in ways that require 45 for 45 to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that 45 for 45 gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask users who sign up for a 45 for 45 shop user account to provide a username, email address and company information. Those who engage in transactions with 45 for 45 – by purchasing additional access to the available online services, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, 45 for 45 collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the user’s interaction with our online services. 45 for 45 does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

45 for 45 may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, 45 for 45 may monitor the most popular uses of 45for45.org to better optimise the user interface in future releases. 45 for 45 may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, 45 for 45 does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

45 for 45 discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on 45 for 45’s behalf or to provide online services available from 45 for 45, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using 45 for 45’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. 45 for 45 will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, 45 for 45 discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to lawful legal procedure, court order or other legal governmental request, or when 45 for 45 believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of 45 for 45, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a 45 for 45 web service and have supplied your email address, 45 for 45 may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with 45 for 45 and our products. We primarily use our various online communication mediums to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. 45 for 45 takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. 45 for 45 may use cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of 45 for 45 online services, and their service access preferences. 45 for 45 online service users who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using 45 for 45 services, with the drawback that certain features of our online services may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If 45 for 45, a specific service, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that 45 for 45 goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of 45 for 45 or the specific service may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

45 for 45 does not have any ads appearing on any of our online services at this time. At any point if we decide to run adverts, these may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by 45 for 45 and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, 45 for 45 may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in 45 for 45’s sole discretion. 45 for 45 encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have an account on any of our online services, you should also check your dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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