Safeguarding your privacy is very important to us at Word Of Mouse Guides LLC ("Word Of Mouse"). Our online privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") describes the types of information we gather from those persons visiting the Internet website www.wordofmouse.com (the "Site") and how we use that information. Please carefully review our information collection practices and privacy protection practices below. By accessing this Site, you agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy, please do not use this Site. Each time you use the Site, you should check the date of the Privacy Policy (which appears at top) and review any changes since the last version.

Information Collected By Us
Word of Mouse may collect two types of information from visitors of our Site: personal information (such as name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card number, etc.) and aggregate information (such as age, gender, Site pages visited, frequency of visits to the Site, search terms entered, etc.).

Use and Collection of Personal Information
We provide various informative, educational, and entertaining features as part of this Site. For Site activities that request personal information, you agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself. Your membership and/or participation in our Site activities will be canceled without notice if at any time we discover that you provide false information, or violate any term of our Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use. We may retain personal information for an indefinite amount of time to preserve our database and to comply with various federal and state laws.

To participate as a member of our Site, or in online activities, special events, contests, sweepstakes or Interactive Areas ("Interactive Areas" include chat rooms, bulletin boards, message boards or auditoriums), you may be required to provide personal information. We collect personal information for several important purposes, including to operate our membership base, protect the security of our visitors and the Site, improve our services and the Site, distribute our newsletters, notify the winners of our contests and sweepstakes, allow participation in specified activities or Interactive Areas and for future marketing and/or promotional use about our services or Site.

The only personal information this Site obtains is information voluntarily provided by you. This Site does not collect additional personal information about individual visitors or members from other sources. Visitors can visit our Site and navigate through the majority of the Site without giving us personal information.

We may produce certain contests, sweepstakes and special events with the support of affiliated or non-affiliated sponsors and/or promotional partners. The personal information collected by our Site in conjunction with such events may also be used for the marketing of additional services and events by WordOfMouse.com and/or its promotional partners and sponsors beyond the contest, sweepstakes and/or special event. For each contest, sweepstakes, and/or special event, we will post on the Site applicable rules for the event, and if necessary, post any supplemental terms and conditions or privacy provisions. To the extent there is a conflict between those privacy provisions and this Policy, the privacy provisions for the specific event will govern.

We share or disclose your personal information with companies other than Word Of Mouse when it is necessary to operate the Site or provide certain Site services, to protect the safety of our visitors, employees or property. In addition, Word Of Mouse reserves the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on Word of Mouse.

When visitors send an e-mail to us, we will protect your e-mail address and other personal information. However, we may disclose the content of your e-mail to other persons. Please see our Terms of Use. In addition, the Site may offer you the opportunity to give user reviews and ratings for restaurants, hotels, bars, events or other items, or to participate in Interactive Areas. Your member name may appear next to your user reviews, ratings or other postings or participation in Interactive Areas on the Site. Your member name may also appear on a member profile section of the Site. We may also use and disclose your member name and reviews and ratings in any other manner in accordance with the Terms of Use.

Sharing, Selling or Disclosing Your Aggregate Information Collected Online With Third Parties
We may collect and provide aggregate information about our visitors to our advertisers, sponsors, promotional partners, affiliates, and other third parties. This aggregate information does not include personal information about any individual visitor.

We may use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Site. These advertising companies may collect and use aggregate information about your visits to our Site and other websites not owned and operated by Word Of Mouse, and may also combine this information with other data about your purchases and interests from other online and offline sources, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In addition, we may share non-personal Site usage information about visitors to this Site with this company for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements and for market research analysis on our site and other sites. For these purposes, Word Of Mouse and our third party advertising companies may note some of the pages you visit on our Site through the use of pixel tags. In the course of serving advertisements to this Site, our third party advertises may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your computer.

Use of Cookies and Tracking Devices
This Site uses cookies or other tracking devices. A cookie is a small data file that contains a unique identification number that a website places on your hard drive when you visit a site. The "cookie" is able to store information such as data about your computer, the type of browser you use, and how many times your computer visits a certain site. Cookies do not allow the website to access personal information that you haven't already provided. Cookies enable us to track how often visitors are visiting our Site and specific pages, the number of entries in specific events, the estimated audience size for sponsors and advertisers, and user preferences. In addition, in the course of serving advertisements to this Site, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. You can refuse to use cookies by turning them off in your browser. Please contact your software manufacturer for questions on how to disable your cookies. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use most of this Site. However, you may find that some areas on the Site will be slower, or may not function at all, and you may not be able to participate in certain activities such as contests or sweepstakes if the cookies are disabled.

This Site uses clear GIFs (Graphics Interchange Formats) (also known as pixel tags, web beacons or web bugs). A clear GIF is a tiny line of code only 1 by 1 pixel in size that is programmed to collect certain information about a visit to a particular website. We use GIFs to gather non-personal, aggregate information on visits to our Site, track usage of Site links and assist with registration and log-on features, including chat rooms and e-mail. We do not disclose personal information that may be linked to our GIF collection practices to third parties. Other websites may also use clear GIFs. Word Of Mouse, its parents and subsidiaries are not responsible for the use of clear GIFs by other website operators. Visitor's must review other website operators' privacy policies to determine the type and extent of tracking devices used.

Our Security Procedures
We require our employees to protect the privacy of all information collected on our Site. Only employees and supervisors with specific authorization have access to databases containing visitors' personal information. The databases are protected in a secure facility. Credit card information is transmitted via encrypted technology. If we decide to share visitor personal information with other members of the WordOfMouse.com family, the receiving entity will also maintain the security and integrity of personal information collected over our Site. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. IN NO EVENT WILL WORD OF MOUSE, ITS AFFILIATES, OR ANY PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DELIVERING THIS SITE BE LIABLE IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS, USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE, OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY FAILURE OR PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE OR SYSTEM FAILURE (INCLUDING LOSS PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, AND DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM INACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION OR INCONVENIENCE, DELAY, OR LOSS OF THE USE OF THE SITE). THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS APPLY WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER BASIS, EVEN IF WORD OF MOUSE OR ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WORD OF MOUSE'S LIABILITY IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Links to Other Websites
For the convenience of our visitors, we may offer a list of helpful website links provided by other entities and/or persons. Word Of Mouse does not endorse or recommend, nor is it liable for, the products or services of any websites not owned or operated by Word Of Mouse. When you visit other websites you will also be subject to the privacy policies and terms of usage agreements, if any, of that website operator. In addition, our Site may post banner ads and other forms of advertisements for companies that are not owned or operated by Word Of Mouse, its parents, affiliates or subsidiaries. These entities may independently solicit and collect personal information, or send their own cookies to our visitors. Please be advised that when you link to or visit an advertiser's or sponsor's website, we may frame the Site with our Site logo, however, you will be subject to the privacy policy and terms of usage agreement of that website operator. Word Of Mouse, its parents, affiliates or subsidiaries will not be responsible for advertiser or sponsor ads and/or links or the content, activities, information collection, use and disclosure practices of third parties.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY POLICY
Word Of Mouse respects the privacy of your child and we want to share with you our policies regarding children under the age of thirteen. Our Site is not directed to children under the age of 13. Although visitors of all ages may navigate through our Site, we do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under the age of thirteen without verifiable personal consent. If upon notification by a parent or guardian, or discovery by other means, that a child under 13 has improperly registered on this Site without verifiable parental consent, we will immediately cancel the child's membership and/or participation, and delete the child's personally identifiable information, member name and password from our records.

Guidelines for Parents
By taking responsibility for your children's online computer use, parents can greatly minimize any potential risks for being online. The best way to assure that your children are having positive online experiences is to stay in touch with what they are doing. One way to do this is to spend time with your children while they are online. Have them show you what they are doing and ask them to teach you how to access the services.

While children and teenagers need a certain amount of privacy, they also need parental involvement and supervision in their daily lives. The same general parenting skills that apply to the "real world" also apply while online.

Make it a family rule to:

Never give out identifying information-home address, school name, or telephone number - in a public message such as chat or bulletin boards, and be sure you're dealing with someone that both you and your child know and trust before giving it out via email. Think carefully before revealing any personal information such as age, marital status, or financial information. Consider using a pseudonym or unlisting your child's name if your service allows it.

Get to know the services your child uses. If you don't know how to log on, get your child to show you. Find out what types of information it offers, and whether there are ways for parents to block out objectionable material.

Never allow a child to arrange a face-to-face meeting with another computer user without parental permission. If a meeting is arranged, make the first one in a public spot, and be sure to accompany your child.

Never respond to messages or bulletin board items that are suggestive, obscene, belligerent, threatening, or make you feel uncomfortable. Encourage your children to tell you if they encounter such messages. If you or your child receives a message that is harassing, of a sexual nature, or threatening, forward a copy of the message to your service provider and ask for their assistance.

Should you become aware of the transmission, use, or viewing of child pornography while online, immediately report this to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children by calling 1-800-843-5678. You should also notify your online service. Remember that people online may not be who they seem. Because you can't see or even hear the person it would be easy for someone to misrepresent him-or herself. Thus, someone indicating that "she" is a "12 year-old girl" could in reality be a 40-year-old man.

Remember that everything you read online may not be true. Any offer that's "too good to be true" probably is. Be very careful about any offers that involve your coming to a meeting or having someone visit your house.

Set reasonable rules and guidelines for computer use by your children. Discuss these rules and post them near the computer as a reminder. Remember to monitor their compliance with these rules, especially when it comes to the amount of time your children spend on the computer. A child or teenager's excessive use of online services or bulletin boards, especially late at night, may be a clue that there is a potential problem. Remember that personal computers and online services should not be used as electronic babysitters. Be sure to make this a family activity. Consider keeping the computer in a family room rather than the child's bedroom. Get to know their "online friends" just as you get to know all of their other friends.

Who We Are And How To Reach Us
If you have any questions regarding the content and material on our Site or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Word Of Mouse Guides LLC
79 West 12 Street 16A
New York, NY 10011

Corrections/Information Removal
If your name, e-mail or postal address, or telephone number changes, you may update the relevant information by making changes at the appropriate portion of the Site or by contacting us at admin@wordofmouse.com

If you prefer not to receive marketing e-mails from Word Of Mouse, please let us know by (a) sending us an e-mail at admin@workdofmouse.com that includes your name and all e-mail addresses at which you would no longer like to receive marketing e-mails or (b) by clicking on the unsubscribe link within any marketing e-mail you receive from us. If you prefer not to receive marketing mail via the mail carrier, please let us know by sending a request to admin@wordofmouse.com. Please be sure to include in any such messages, your full name, e-mail address(es), postal address and any message.

Please note that such requests take up to ten (10) days to become effective.

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