Personal Information Collected
The purpose of the resident-of-the-world.com website is to permit Users to voluntarily provide information about themselves for the purposes of developing, maintaining and enhancing a network of political contacts. You willingly provide us certain personal information, which we collect in order to allow you to benefit from the resident-of-the-world.com website. If you have any hesitation about providing such information to us and/or having such information displayed on the resident-of-the-world.com website or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, you should not become a member of the resident-of-the-world.com community.

We collect your personal information in the following ways:

Registration
In order to become a User, you must first create an account on our website. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information, which you recognize and expressly acknowledge is personal information allowing others, including resident-of-the-world.com, to identify you: name, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, a brief summary of your political background, and a password chosen by you.

Profile Information
Once you become a User, you may provide additional information in the Profile section describing your skills, political experiences, and networking objectives. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration to become a User is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities in the resident-of-the-world.com system to build and leverage your political network. Any information you provide at registration or in the Profile section that is not personally identifiable may be used in the same manner and extent to which other information that is not personally identifiable is permitted to be used hereunder, including for the purpose of serving advertisements through the service. If you opt-out you may lose the potential benefit of being a User, including receiving ads that are more targeted to your interests.

Your Information Choices
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information
You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information you publish, or to the settings for your resident-of-the-world.com account including your email, and contact preferences, at any time by logging in to your account on the resident-of-the-world.com website. Please be aware that even after your request for a change is processed, resident-of-the-world.com may, for a time, retain residual information about you in its backup and/or archival copies of its database.

Closing Your Account
You can also close your account through the resident-of-the-world.com website. If you close your resident-of-the-world.com account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable database. We may retain certain data contributed by you if we believe it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the resident-of-the-world.com website, please send your request to customer_service@resident-of-the-world.com.com. Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with resident-of-the-world.com under your name. You will receive a response to requests sent to customer_service@resident-of-the-world.com within five business days of its receipt.

Your Obligations
As a User, you have certain obligations toward the other Users with whom you will be communicating. Certain of these obligations are imposed by applicable law and regulations, and others have become commonplace in user-friendly communities of like-minded members, such as resident-of-the-world.com:

• You must, at all times, respect the terms and conditions of the then-current Privacy Policy and the User Agreement. This includes respecting all intellectual property rights which may belong to third parties (such as photographs).
• You must not download or otherwise disseminate any information which may be deemed to be injurious, violent, offensive, racist or xenophobic or which may otherwise violate the purpose and spirit of LinkedIn and its community of Users.
• You must not provide information to the Website and /or other Users which you believe might be injurious or detrimental to your person, professional or social status.

Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of your account by resident-of-the-world.com, as we take these principles seriously and consider them to be the basis on which our Users adhere to the resident-of-the-world.com website and the services which it offers.

Children
Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.

Links
resident-of-the-world.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 resident-of-the-world.com.

Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on resident-of-the-world.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 “1×1 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. resident-of-the-world.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 resident-of-the-world.com unless you choose to share it with them.

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

Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on resident-of-the-world.com is readily available through the profile editing tools. resident-of-the-world.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 resident-of-the-world.com account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of resident-of-the-world.com.

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

Security
resident-of-the-world.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 resident-of-the-world.com Web Site, please contact us at privacy@resident-of-the-world.com.com

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of resident-of-the-world.com, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy’s new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@resident-of-the-world.com.com.

Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of your account by resident-of-the-world.com, as we take these principles seriously and consider them to be the basis on which our Users adhere to the resident-of-the-world.com website and the services which it offers.

Children
Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.

Links
resident-of-the-world.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 resident-of-the-world.com.

Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on resident-of-the-world.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 “1×1 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. resident-of-the-world.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 resident-of-the-world.com unless you choose to share it with them.

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

Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on resident-of-the-world.com is readily available through the profile editing tools. resident-of-the-world.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 resident-of-the-world.com account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of resident-of-the-world.com.

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

Security
resident-of-the-world.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 resident-of-the-world.com Web Site, please contact us at privacy@resident-of-the-world.com.com

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of resident-of-the-world.com, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy’s new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@resident-of-the-world.com.com .

Our Terms of Service