Personal Identification Information
We may request personal information about you, e.g., your name, address, or telephone number ("Personal Information"), in connection with your use of, or participation in The Birdbrain Web Site, including on our forums, registrations, content submissions, chat rooms, bulletin boards, discussion groups, suggestions, or requests for additional information, or in connection with other services or resources provided on The Birdbrain Web Site.
If you do provide us with Personal Information, we may use it to send information about The Birdbrain or promotional material from some of our partners. Accordingly, we may share your Personal Information with some of our partners. On occasion, for example, we (or some of our partners) may send you e-mails to introduce a product or service that we think might be of interest to you. We may also use your Personal Information to keep in touch with you when necessary. If you identify yourself to us by sending us email with questions or comments, we may use your Personal Information to respond to your questions or comments. (We may also file your comments for future reference.) You may opt-out of receiving mailings at the time our request for your Personal Information is made. (In addition, email mailings from The Birdbrain will include instructions on how to unsubscribe.) Please note, however, that under certain circumstances, if you opt-out, you may not be eligible for certain services or functions of The Birdbrain Web Site for which a name, email address, telephone number or other personal identification information is necessary.
We may also provide Personal Information to certain of our vendors, advertisers or suppliers where it is necessary for them to provide us with products and services related to better operation and maintenance of The Birdbrain Web Site. We will attempt to require that each of these vendors, advertisers and suppliers not use or disclose your Personal Information for any purpose other than providing you or us with products and services. However, we cannot guarantee their compliance with these restrictions.
We also reserve the right to provide or use your Personal Information in the following circumstances. We will release specific information about you or your account to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. We will also release specific information in special cases, such as if there is an attempted breach of the security of The Birdbrain Web Site, or a physical threat to you or others.
We urge you to be careful about giving out your Personal Information in messages sent on our Web Site, for example in a chat room or bulletin board. Information that you provide in a chat room, on a bulletin board or other publicly available area of our Web Site may be viewed by any user of the Web Site. If you make information available in these forums, it is available publicly and we are not able to protect the privacy of such information. Your disclosure of such information is at your own risk.
The password protected portions of the Web Site are intended to be for your benefit, however, please be aware that you are responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person shall have access to your password or account. It is your sole responsibility to (1) control the dissemination and use of activation codes and passwords; (2) authorize, monitor, and control access to and use of your account and password; (3) promptly inform us of any need to deactivate a password. You grant to us and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of The Birdbrain Web Site the right to receive, transmit, monitor, retrieve, store and use your Personal Information, including information which may be privileged and confidential under applicable state and federal laws, in connection with the operation of the password protected area of The Birdbrain Web Site. We cannot and do not assume any responsibility or liability for any information you submit to such area of the Web Site or your or third parties' use or misuse of information transmitted or received using such area of the Web Site.
