Privacy Policy

SingleMomsByChoice.org understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our users.  This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of SingleMomsByChoice.org and its services.  It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information.  We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

This Privacy Policy applies to websites owned and operated by SingleMomsByChoice.org that are intended for use by consumers (non-professionals) for non-commercial personal, family or household purposes and including the mobile optimized versions of these sites and our Mobile Device Applications or “Apps” (we refer to these sites and Apps collectively as the “SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites”).  We refer to the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Apps, along with the information and services made available to you through the Sites and Apps, as the “Services.”

Except where noted, statements in this Privacy Policy with respect to the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites also apply to the Apps.  

If you do not want us to collect, use or disclose information about you and your use of the Services as described in this Privacy Policy, then you should not use the Services.  By using the Services, you must agree to the SingleMomsByChoice.org Terms of Use, which is the contract between us and users of the Services.  By accepting the SingleMomsByChoice.org Terms of Use, you confirm that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy and the SingleMomsByChoice.org Cookie Policy and you acknowledge that we will store, use and otherwise process your information in the United States where we are located.

Information Collected About You

Some of our Services (such as certain quizzes or calculators) do not retain your personal information, while others (such as the SingleMomsByChoice.org newsletter and e-mail contact function) store your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  Even if you do not register with or provide any personal information to SingleMomsByChoice.org, we collect information about your use of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Apps and the Services.  We may also acquire information about our users from external sources.

When you use the Services, we collect information as follows:

Registration

While you may use most of the Services without registering, certain Services do require that you register with SingleMomsByChoice.org for them to function properly.  If you choose to register or update an existing account with SingleMomsByChoice.org or access certain Services, you may be required to provide certain personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number, gender, email address and date of birth, and a username and password to access your SingleMomsByChoice.org account.  You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the personal information that you submit to SingleMomsByChoice.org.

Interactive Services

Some of our Services are interactive and may request that you submit information such as your age and gender.  You are not required to register with SingleMomsByChoice.org to use such Services and, if you are registered with SingleMomsByChoice.org, we do not associate information that you submit to the Service with registration information that you have previously provided.

Email Newsletters

At registration and at various times as you use the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites, you will be given the option of providing us with personal information in order to receive informational/promotional newsletters via email from SingleMomsByChoice.org  and/or directly from third parties.  From time to time SingleMomsByChoice.org may offer users of third party websites to the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletters through those websites.  If you elect to subscribe to one of our newsletters on a third party website, the operator of that website will provide us with the personal information you have provided in connection with the subscription request, which we may use in accordance with this Privacy Policy as though you had provided it directly to SingleMomsByChoice.org.  In SingleMomsByChoice.org Message Boards, if you turn on the email notification for posts you have created or participated in, you’ll receive an email when there has been any activity on those posts. If you later decide you no longer want to receive email updates, you can turn it off by navigating to the Email Alerts section in your Message Board settings.  If you believe that one of your contacts has provided us with your personal information and you would like to request that it be removed from our database, please use the Contact Us link provided at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.

Market Research

From time to time, SingleMomsByChoice.org  may conduct online research surveys on behalf of itself and third parties through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups.  When participating in a survey, we may require you to provide your location, age and if there’s a sweepstakes associated with the market research survey, your name and contact information for purposes of sweepstakes administration.  The information you submit in a survey may be used by SingleMomsByChoice.org for research and measurement purposes, as described below, including to measure the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs.  The personal information you provide in connection with a sweepstakes entry will be used for the sole purpose of administering the sweepstakes and as required by applicable law.  We will not knowingly invite individuals who are under the age of 13 to participate in market research surveys.  Market research surveys conducted by or on behalf of SingleMomsByChoice.org will contain a link to this Privacy Policy.

SingleMomsByChoice.org Message Boards, and Other Public Forums

In connection with the use of our Physician Directory, users are able to access message board areas and other public forums where users can post reviews, share information and support one another or where users can post questions for experts to answer.

Any information (including personal information) you share in any review, online message board, or other forum is by design open to the public and is not private.  You should think carefully before posting any personal information in any public forum.  What you post can be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we cannot control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes.  As with any public forum on any site, the information you post may also show up in third-party search engines.

If you mistakenly post personal information in our message board areas and would like it removed, you can send us an email to request that we remove it by using the Contact Us link on every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.  In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information.

Emails You Send to SingleMomsByChoice.org 

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information, content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to SingleMomsByChoice.org by email.  If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to SingleMomsByChoice.org.

Services and Device Information

When you access and use the Services, SingleMomsByChoice.org automatically collects and stores in its server logs information from your browser or mobile device such as your IP address or unique device identifier, browser information (including referring URL), your preferences and settings, cookies and information about the content you have viewed and actions taken (e.g., search queries, ad engagement, clicks and the associated dates and times).  SingleMomsByChoice.org may also collect device-specific information when you install and use an App including your device model, operating system information, advertising ID (which is a unique, user-resettable identification number for advertising associated with a mobile device) and App version and usage information.  When enabled by you, we collect precise location information provided by your mobile device, which you may disable through the device settings.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and our partners use cookies to collect information about your use of the Services. “Cookies” are small data files assigned to your browser when you visit a SingleMomsByChoice.org Site which enable recognition of your browser and collect and store information about your use of the Services, as described above.  In addition to cookies, we and our partners use other tracking technologies that collect information about your use of the Services, including mobile identifiers and “web beacons” which are small graphic files (sometimes called “clear GIFs” or “web pixels”) embedded in a web page or email typically used to monitor activity and send relevant information back to a home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party).

Our advertising service partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites, including content you have viewed.  These third parties may use this information to help SingleMomsByChoice.org deliver advertising on the SingleMomsByChoice.org and on other third party websites based on your browsing activity on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.  SingleMomsByChoice.org may further tailor the advertising on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and these other third party websites based on additional information to the extent known by SingleMomsByChoice.org or these third parties.  Four of the third parties that SingleMomsByChoice.org works with are Google, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.  In addition to using the information it collects performing services for SingleMomsByChoice.org, Google may also use such information as described in its privacy policy.  To see how Google may use information collected through our use of the Google services on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.  While Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest do not provide any personal information to SingleMomsByChoice.org, they may use information that they have about you and that they collect performing services for SingleMomsByChoice.org (which may be associated with personal information that Facebook , Instagram and Pinterest has about you) as described in their privacy policies available at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacyhttps://help.instagram.com/519522125107875and https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.

We also work with third party ad networks to display advertising on our SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and on third party websites.  Our ad network vendors use technologies to collect information about your activities on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites to provide you cookie-based targeted advertising on our SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and on third party websites based upon your browsing activity and your interests.

For more information about our how cookies and other tracking technologies are used in connection with the Services, please read our Cookie Policy.

How Information Collected About You Is Used

Information about your use of the Services may be used for the following purposes:

  • to provide, improve and create new Services,
  • to respond to your inquiries and to send you administrative communications about the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Services,
  • to obtain your feedback about the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Services,
  • to send you secure electronic messages and personalized emails pertaining to your interests as inferred from your use of the Services, including news, announcements, reminders and opportunities from SingleMomsByChoice.org 
  • to statistically analyze trends and user behavior and activity including how frequently areas of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites are visited, how the Services are being used and how many emails are received and opened,
  • to provide you and people with similar demographic characteristics and interests with more relevant content including advertising both on and off the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites,
  • to offer lead generation services,
  • to detect and defend against fraud and other threats to the Services and our users, 
  • to identify issues with the Services,
  • to conduct research and measurement activities, including those described below, and
  • to administer your account.

In addition, SingleMomsByChoice.org may use personal information about you for other purposes that are disclosed to you at the time we collect the information and/or with your consent.

SingleMomsByChoice.org may combine your personal information and other information collected about your use of the Services, and also supplement with information from external sources for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.  For example, information that SingleMomsByChoice.org collects about you may be combined by SingleMomsByChoice.org with other information available to SingleMomsByChoice.org through third parties for research and measurement purposes, including measuring the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs.  This information from other sources may include age, gender, demographic, geographic, personal interests, product purchase activity or other information.  We may report aggregate information, which is not able to be identified back to an individual user of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites, to our current or prospective advertisers and other business partners.

Sharing Your Information

Companies and Contractors that Work with SingleMomsByChoice.org 

SingleMomsByChoice.org works with third party companies and contractors that help us provide the Services and to otherwise assist in the operation of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Apps, including those that provide services relating to technology, data analysis, research, email management and deployment, sweepstakes and contest administration, advertising and marketing and/or content.  SingleMomsByChoice.org contractors sometimes have limited access to your information in the course of providing products or services to SingleMomsByChoice.org.  We contractually require that our contractors not use or disclose your information for any purpose other than providing the limited service or function for SingleMomsByChoice.org.

Third Party Advertisers and Third Party Websites
We may share information that we have about you, such as a cookie ID or IP address, with third party advertising service providers who may use this information, on our behalf, to help SingleMomsByChoice.org deliver advertising on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites as well as on third party websites, as further described in our Cookie Policy.
 
Certain content, services and advertisements offered to you through the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites are served on, or contain links to, websites hosted and operated by a company other than SingleMomsByChoice.org (“Third Party Websites”).  SingleMomsByChoice.org does not share your personal information with these Third Party Websites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose to these Third Party Websites once you access these Third Party Websites is not subject to this Privacy Policy.  SingleMomsByChoice.org does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Websites.  You should review the privacy policy posted on the Third Party Website to understand how that Third Party Website collects and uses your information.  SingleMomsByChoice.org makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave a SingleMomsByChoice.org Site and enter a Third Party Website, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Site before you visit the third party site.  In addition, if you see a phrase such as “Powered by” or “in association with” followed by the name of a company other than SingleMomsByChoice.org, then you are on a website hosted by a company other than SingleMomsByChoice.org.  When you use a co-branded service (a service operated with a partner of SingleMomsByChoice.org), , or register or otherwise provide information on a co-branded site, where applicable, we may pass the collected information back to that partner, which may include third party service providers whose services are embedded into and/or appear within the Services.
 

We may also include social widgets on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites which enable you to interact with the associated social media services, e.g., to share an article.  These widgets may collect browsing data which may be received by the third party that provided the widget, and are controlled by these third parties.  You may be able to manage your privacy preferences directly with the applicable social network platform.

Compliance with Law, Regulation, and Law Enforcement Requests

To cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with law, we may release personal information to third parties: (1) to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; (2) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request; or (3) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights.  In addition, we may disclose personal information as described below.

How Your Information is Secured and Retained

We take reasonable security measures to protect the security of your personal information.  Despite SingleMomsByChoice.org’s efforts to protect your personal information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.

The security of your personal information is important to us.  When you enter personal information (including personal health information in various Services), we encrypt the transmission of that information or use SSL connections (Secure Socket Layer) technology.

We will retain your personal information as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you Services.  At any time you can remove your personal information or instruct us to remove it, but you should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to SingleMomsByChoice.org from our servers.  See “Your Choices and Rights” below for more information on how you can update or remove your personal information.  We will also retain your personal information as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Your Choices and Rights

Updating/Removing Your Personal Information

If you do not want your personal information used by SingleMomsByChoice.org as provided in this Privacy Policy, you should not use the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites, Apps and Services.  You can correct, update or review personal information you have previously submitted by going back to the specific Service, logging-in and making the desired change.  You can also update any personal information you have submitted by contacting us using the contact information listed below or through the Contact Us link provided at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.

If you have registered and desire to delete any of your registration information you have provided to us from our systems please contact us using the contact information listed below in the “Contacting SingleMomsByChoice.org About Your Personal Information or Privacy” section or through the Contact Us link provided at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.  Upon your request, we will delete your registration information from our active databases and where feasible from our back-up media.  ou should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites from our servers.

When you sign up to receive email communications for any of our Services, including our email newsletters, or at any time, you can choose to opt out of receiving additional newsletters or other email communications from SingleMomsByChoice.org or our advertisers or sponsors.

You can unsubscribe from an email newsletter by:

  • Following the directions included at the bottom of the newsletter and using the “Unsubscribe” link found in the emails.

All promotional emails that SingleMomsByChoice.org sends with opportunities from SingleMomsByChoice.org or with offers or informational materials from SingleMomsByChoice.org on behalf of our sponsors will contain an opportunity to unsubscribe from getting additional emails of that type in the future from SingleMomsByChoice.org unless you re-subscribe.

Cookies

Most browser software can be set to reject Cookies.  Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the “Help” or “Settings” or “Preferences” section of your browser’s toolbar. Refer to our Cookie Policy for additional information about opting out of Cookies.

California Residents

FOR RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA ONLY. 

Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code requires select businesses to disclose policies relating to the sharing of certain categories of your personal information with third parties.  If you reside in California and have provided your personal information to us, you may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year.  You can submit such request by sending an email by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.

Children

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children.  The SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites are not designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13.  The SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites do not collect personal information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13.

Note to Users Outside of the United States

SingleMomsByChoice.org and our technical infrastructure are located in the United States.  The personal information that you provide to us is stored on servers located in the United States.  If you are located in another jurisdiction, you should be aware that in order to provide the Services to you, we must transfer your personal information to the United States where it will be stored and processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  We may transfer your information outside the United States to service providers with operations in other countries.  By using the Services, you consent to such collection, storage and processing in the United States and elsewhere, though the United States and other jurisdictions may not afford the same level of data protection as considered adequate in your own country.  We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information.  Note that your personal information may be available to the United States government or its agencies under legal process made in the United States.

Additional Information for SingleMomsByChoice.org Visitors from the European Economic Area (“EEA”)

When you use the Services, we collect, store, use and otherwise process your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.  We rely on a number of legal bases to process your information, including where: (i) necessary for our legitimate interests in providing and improving the Services including offering you content and advertising that may be of interest to you; (ii) necessary for our legitimate interest in keeping the Services, Sites and Apps safe and secure; (iii) necessary for the legitimate interests of our service providers and partners; (iv) necessary to perform our contractual obligations in the SingleMomsByChoice.org Terms of Use; (v) you have consented to the processing, which you can revoke at any time (however a revocation does not affect the lawfulness of processing of your personal data that occurred prior to the date of revocation); (vi) you have expressly made the information public, e.g., in a SingleMomsByChoice.org message board or other public forums; (vii) necessary to comply with a legal obligation such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order or to exercise or defend legal claims; and (viii) necessary to protect your vital interests, or those of others.

If you are a SingleMomsByChoice.org user in the EEA, you can: (i) access personal information we have about you (we will try to provide information within 30 days of your request); (ii) have your personal information corrected or deleted (in most cases you can correct personal information you have submitted to us by going back to the specific Service, logging-in and making the desired change); (iii) in certain circumstances, you can object to our processing of your personal information and we will discontinue such processing unless we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue; (iv) withdraw consent previously provided (however a withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing of your personal data that occurred prior to the date of withdrawal); or (v) if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws, you may lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. If you wish to inquire as to whether we maintain any of your personal information and if so, whether you wish to exercise any of those rights that are available to you with respect to such personal information, you may contact us as described in the Contacting SingleMomsByChoice.org About Your Personal Information or Privacy section below.  We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

Where we process your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you can opt-out through the unsubscribe link in the email communications we send to you, by changing your subscription preferences in your account settings or as otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy.

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Services to you and fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.  This is also the case for third parties within whom we share your information to perform services on our behalf.  When we no longer need to use your personal information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we will either remove it from our systems or anonymize it.

Contacting SingleMomsByChoice.org About Your Personal Information or Privacy

Please send us an email by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the personal information we maintain about you.  We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy and any of our Services at any time and any changes will be effective upon being posted unless we advise otherwise.  If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by means of a notice on the SingleMomsByChoice.org and/or by email to our registered users (sent to the email address specified when you register) prior to the change becoming effective.  By continuing to use the Services after changes are made to this Privacy Policy, you agree to such changes.  We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.  If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not register with us and that you do not use the SingleMomsByChoice.org  Sites.  Please exit the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

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Privacy Policy

SingleMomsByChoice.org understands how important the privacy of personal information is to our users.  This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect about you and about your use of SingleMomsByChoice.org and its services.  It will explain the choices you have about how your personal information is used and how we protect that information.  We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully.

This Privacy Policy applies to websites owned and operated by SingleMomsByChoice.org that are intended for use by consumers (non-professionals) for non-commercial personal, family or household purposes and including the mobile optimized versions of these sites and our Mobile Device Applications or “Apps” (we refer to these sites and Apps collectively as the “SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites”).  We refer to the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Apps, along with the information and services made available to you through the Sites and Apps, as the “Services.”

Except where noted, statements in this Privacy Policy with respect to the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites also apply to the Apps.  

If you do not want us to collect, use or disclose information about you and your use of the Services as described in this Privacy Policy, then you should not use the Services.  By using the Services, you must agree to the SingleMomsByChoice.org Terms of Use, which is the contract between us and users of the Services.  By accepting the SingleMomsByChoice.org Terms of Use, you confirm that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy and the SingleMomsByChoice.org Cookie Policy and you acknowledge that we will store, use and otherwise process your information in the United States where we are located.

Information Collected About You

Some of our Services (such as certain quizzes or calculators) do not retain your personal information, while others (such as the SingleMomsByChoice.org newsletter and e-mail contact function) store your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  Even if you do not register with or provide any personal information to SingleMomsByChoice.org, we collect information about your use of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Apps and the Services.  We may also acquire information about our users from external sources.

When you use the Services, we collect information as follows:

Registration

While you may use most of the Services without registering, certain Services do require that you register with SingleMomsByChoice.org for them to function properly.  If you choose to register or update an existing account with SingleMomsByChoice.org or access certain Services, you may be required to provide certain personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number, gender, email address and date of birth, and a username and password to access your SingleMomsByChoice.org account.  You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the personal information that you submit to SingleMomsByChoice.org.

Interactive Services

Some of our Services are interactive and may request that you submit information such as your age and gender.  You are not required to register with SingleMomsByChoice.org to use such Services and, if you are registered with SingleMomsByChoice.org, we do not associate information that you submit to the Service with registration information that you have previously provided.

Email Newsletters

At registration and at various times as you use the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites, you will be given the option of providing us with personal information in order to receive informational/promotional newsletters via email from SingleMomsByChoice.org  and/or directly from third parties.  From time to time SingleMomsByChoice.org may offer users of third party websites to the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletters through those websites.  If you elect to subscribe to one of our newsletters on a third party website, the operator of that website will provide us with the personal information you have provided in connection with the subscription request, which we may use in accordance with this Privacy Policy as though you had provided it directly to SingleMomsByChoice.org.  In SingleMomsByChoice.org Message Boards, if you turn on the email notification for posts you have created or participated in, you’ll receive an email when there has been any activity on those posts. If you later decide you no longer want to receive email updates, you can turn it off by navigating to the Email Alerts section in your Message Board settings.  If you believe that one of your contacts has provided us with your personal information and you would like to request that it be removed from our database, please use the Contact Us link provided at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.

Market Research

From time to time, SingleMomsByChoice.org  may conduct online research surveys on behalf of itself and third parties through email invitations, pop-up surveys and online focus groups.  When participating in a survey, we may require you to provide your location, age and if there’s a sweepstakes associated with the market research survey, your name and contact information for purposes of sweepstakes administration.  The information you submit in a survey may be used by SingleMomsByChoice.org for research and measurement purposes, as described below, including to measure the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs.  The personal information you provide in connection with a sweepstakes entry will be used for the sole purpose of administering the sweepstakes and as required by applicable law.  We will not knowingly invite individuals who are under the age of 13 to participate in market research surveys.  Market research surveys conducted by or on behalf of SingleMomsByChoice.org will contain a link to this Privacy Policy.

SingleMomsByChoice.org Message Boards, and Other Public Forums

In connection with the use of our Physician Directory, users are able to access message board areas and other public forums where users can post reviews, share information and support one another or where users can post questions for experts to answer.

Any information (including personal information) you share in any review, online message board, or other forum is by design open to the public and is not private.  You should think carefully before posting any personal information in any public forum.  What you post can be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we cannot control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes.  As with any public forum on any site, the information you post may also show up in third-party search engines.

If you mistakenly post personal information in our message board areas and would like it removed, you can send us an email to request that we remove it by using the Contact Us link on every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.  In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information.

Emails You Send to SingleMomsByChoice.org 

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information, content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you send to SingleMomsByChoice.org by email.  If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to SingleMomsByChoice.org.

Services and Device Information

When you access and use the Services, SingleMomsByChoice.org automatically collects and stores in its server logs information from your browser or mobile device such as your IP address or unique device identifier, browser information (including referring URL), your preferences and settings, cookies and information about the content you have viewed and actions taken (e.g., search queries, ad engagement, clicks and the associated dates and times).  SingleMomsByChoice.org may also collect device-specific information when you install and use an App including your device model, operating system information, advertising ID (which is a unique, user-resettable identification number for advertising associated with a mobile device) and App version and usage information.  When enabled by you, we collect precise location information provided by your mobile device, which you may disable through the device settings.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and our partners use cookies to collect information about your use of the Services. “Cookies” are small data files assigned to your browser when you visit a SingleMomsByChoice.org Site which enable recognition of your browser and collect and store information about your use of the Services, as described above.  In addition to cookies, we and our partners use other tracking technologies that collect information about your use of the Services, including mobile identifiers and “web beacons” which are small graphic files (sometimes called “clear GIFs” or “web pixels”) embedded in a web page or email typically used to monitor activity and send relevant information back to a home server (which can belong to the host site, a network advertiser or some other third party).

Our advertising service partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites, including content you have viewed.  These third parties may use this information to help SingleMomsByChoice.org deliver advertising on the SingleMomsByChoice.org and on other third party websites based on your browsing activity on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.  SingleMomsByChoice.org may further tailor the advertising on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and these other third party websites based on additional information to the extent known by SingleMomsByChoice.org or these third parties.  Four of the third parties that SingleMomsByChoice.org works with are Google, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.  In addition to using the information it collects performing services for SingleMomsByChoice.org, Google may also use such information as described in its privacy policy.  To see how Google may use information collected through our use of the Google services on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.  While Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest do not provide any personal information to SingleMomsByChoice.org, they may use information that they have about you and that they collect performing services for SingleMomsByChoice.org (which may be associated with personal information that Facebook , Instagram and Pinterest has about you) as described in their privacy policies available at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacyhttps://help.instagram.com/519522125107875and https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.

We also work with third party ad networks to display advertising on our SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and on third party websites.  Our ad network vendors use technologies to collect information about your activities on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites to provide you cookie-based targeted advertising on our SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and on third party websites based upon your browsing activity and your interests.

For more information about our how cookies and other tracking technologies are used in connection with the Services, please read our Cookie Policy.

How Information Collected About You Is Used

Information about your use of the Services may be used for the following purposes:

  • to provide, improve and create new Services,
  • to respond to your inquiries and to send you administrative communications about the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Services,
  • to obtain your feedback about the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Services,
  • to send you secure electronic messages and personalized emails pertaining to your interests as inferred from your use of the Services, including news, announcements, reminders and opportunities from SingleMomsByChoice.org 
  • to statistically analyze trends and user behavior and activity including how frequently areas of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites are visited, how the Services are being used and how many emails are received and opened,
  • to provide you and people with similar demographic characteristics and interests with more relevant content including advertising both on and off the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites,
  • to offer lead generation services,
  • to detect and defend against fraud and other threats to the Services and our users, 
  • to identify issues with the Services,
  • to conduct research and measurement activities, including those described below, and
  • to administer your account.

In addition, SingleMomsByChoice.org may use personal information about you for other purposes that are disclosed to you at the time we collect the information and/or with your consent.

SingleMomsByChoice.org may combine your personal information and other information collected about your use of the Services, and also supplement with information from external sources for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.  For example, information that SingleMomsByChoice.org collects about you may be combined by SingleMomsByChoice.org with other information available to SingleMomsByChoice.org through third parties for research and measurement purposes, including measuring the effectiveness of content, advertising or programs.  This information from other sources may include age, gender, demographic, geographic, personal interests, product purchase activity or other information.  We may report aggregate information, which is not able to be identified back to an individual user of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites, to our current or prospective advertisers and other business partners.

Sharing Your Information

Companies and Contractors that Work with SingleMomsByChoice.org 

SingleMomsByChoice.org works with third party companies and contractors that help us provide the Services and to otherwise assist in the operation of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites and Apps, including those that provide services relating to technology, data analysis, research, email management and deployment, sweepstakes and contest administration, advertising and marketing and/or content.  SingleMomsByChoice.org contractors sometimes have limited access to your information in the course of providing products or services to SingleMomsByChoice.org.  We contractually require that our contractors not use or disclose your information for any purpose other than providing the limited service or function for SingleMomsByChoice.org.

Third Party Advertisers and Third Party Websites
We may share information that we have about you, such as a cookie ID or IP address, with third party advertising service providers who may use this information, on our behalf, to help SingleMomsByChoice.org deliver advertising on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites as well as on third party websites, as further described in our Cookie Policy.
 
Certain content, services and advertisements offered to you through the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites are served on, or contain links to, websites hosted and operated by a company other than SingleMomsByChoice.org (“Third Party Websites”).  SingleMomsByChoice.org does not share your personal information with these Third Party Websites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose to these Third Party Websites once you access these Third Party Websites is not subject to this Privacy Policy.  SingleMomsByChoice.org does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Websites.  You should review the privacy policy posted on the Third Party Website to understand how that Third Party Website collects and uses your information.  SingleMomsByChoice.org makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave a SingleMomsByChoice.org Site and enter a Third Party Website, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Site before you visit the third party site.  In addition, if you see a phrase such as “Powered by” or “in association with” followed by the name of a company other than SingleMomsByChoice.org, then you are on a website hosted by a company other than SingleMomsByChoice.org.  When you use a co-branded service (a service operated with a partner of SingleMomsByChoice.org), , or register or otherwise provide information on a co-branded site, where applicable, we may pass the collected information back to that partner, which may include third party service providers whose services are embedded into and/or appear within the Services.
 

We may also include social widgets on the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites which enable you to interact with the associated social media services, e.g., to share an article.  These widgets may collect browsing data which may be received by the third party that provided the widget, and are controlled by these third parties.  You may be able to manage your privacy preferences directly with the applicable social network platform.

Compliance with Law, Regulation, and Law Enforcement Requests

To cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with law, we may release personal information to third parties: (1) to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; (2) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request; or (3) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or defend or assert legal rights.  In addition, we may disclose personal information as described below.

How Your Information is Secured and Retained

We take reasonable security measures to protect the security of your personal information.  Despite SingleMomsByChoice.org’s efforts to protect your personal information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted.

The security of your personal information is important to us.  When you enter personal information (including personal health information in various Services), we encrypt the transmission of that information or use SSL connections (Secure Socket Layer) technology.

We will retain your personal information as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you Services.  At any time you can remove your personal information or instruct us to remove it, but you should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to SingleMomsByChoice.org from our servers.  See “Your Choices and Rights” below for more information on how you can update or remove your personal information.  We will also retain your personal information as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Your Choices and Rights

Updating/Removing Your Personal Information

If you do not want your personal information used by SingleMomsByChoice.org as provided in this Privacy Policy, you should not use the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites, Apps and Services.  You can correct, update or review personal information you have previously submitted by going back to the specific Service, logging-in and making the desired change.  You can also update any personal information you have submitted by contacting us using the contact information listed below or through the Contact Us link provided at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.

If you have registered and desire to delete any of your registration information you have provided to us from our systems please contact us using the contact information listed below in the “Contacting SingleMomsByChoice.org About Your Personal Information or Privacy” section or through the Contact Us link provided at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.  Upon your request, we will delete your registration information from our active databases and where feasible from our back-up media.  ou should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites from our servers.

When you sign up to receive email communications for any of our Services, including our email newsletters, or at any time, you can choose to opt out of receiving additional newsletters or other email communications from SingleMomsByChoice.org or our advertisers or sponsors.

You can unsubscribe from an email newsletter by:

  • Following the directions included at the bottom of the newsletter and using the “Unsubscribe” link found in the emails.

All promotional emails that SingleMomsByChoice.org sends with opportunities from SingleMomsByChoice.org or with offers or informational materials from SingleMomsByChoice.org on behalf of our sponsors will contain an opportunity to unsubscribe from getting additional emails of that type in the future from SingleMomsByChoice.org unless you re-subscribe.

Cookies

Most browser software can be set to reject Cookies.  Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject Cookies in the “Help” or “Settings” or “Preferences” section of your browser’s toolbar. Refer to our Cookie Policy for additional information about opting out of Cookies.

California Residents

FOR RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA ONLY. 

Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code requires select businesses to disclose policies relating to the sharing of certain categories of your personal information with third parties.  If you reside in California and have provided your personal information to us, you may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year.  You can submit such request by sending an email by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites.

Children

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children.  The SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites are not designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13.  The SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites do not collect personal information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13.

Note to Users Outside of the United States

SingleMomsByChoice.org and our technical infrastructure are located in the United States.  The personal information that you provide to us is stored on servers located in the United States.  If you are located in another jurisdiction, you should be aware that in order to provide the Services to you, we must transfer your personal information to the United States where it will be stored and processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  We may transfer your information outside the United States to service providers with operations in other countries.  By using the Services, you consent to such collection, storage and processing in the United States and elsewhere, though the United States and other jurisdictions may not afford the same level of data protection as considered adequate in your own country.  We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information.  Note that your personal information may be available to the United States government or its agencies under legal process made in the United States.

Additional Information for SingleMomsByChoice.org Visitors from the European Economic Area (“EEA”)

When you use the Services, we collect, store, use and otherwise process your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.  We rely on a number of legal bases to process your information, including where: (i) necessary for our legitimate interests in providing and improving the Services including offering you content and advertising that may be of interest to you; (ii) necessary for our legitimate interest in keeping the Services, Sites and Apps safe and secure; (iii) necessary for the legitimate interests of our service providers and partners; (iv) necessary to perform our contractual obligations in the SingleMomsByChoice.org Terms of Use; (v) you have consented to the processing, which you can revoke at any time (however a revocation does not affect the lawfulness of processing of your personal data that occurred prior to the date of revocation); (vi) you have expressly made the information public, e.g., in a SingleMomsByChoice.org message board or other public forums; (vii) necessary to comply with a legal obligation such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order or to exercise or defend legal claims; and (viii) necessary to protect your vital interests, or those of others.

If you are a SingleMomsByChoice.org user in the EEA, you can: (i) access personal information we have about you (we will try to provide information within 30 days of your request); (ii) have your personal information corrected or deleted (in most cases you can correct personal information you have submitted to us by going back to the specific Service, logging-in and making the desired change); (iii) in certain circumstances, you can object to our processing of your personal information and we will discontinue such processing unless we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue; (iv) withdraw consent previously provided (however a withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing of your personal data that occurred prior to the date of withdrawal); or (v) if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws, you may lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. If you wish to inquire as to whether we maintain any of your personal information and if so, whether you wish to exercise any of those rights that are available to you with respect to such personal information, you may contact us as described in the Contacting SingleMomsByChoice.org About Your Personal Information or Privacy section below.  We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

Where we process your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you can opt-out through the unsubscribe link in the email communications we send to you, by changing your subscription preferences in your account settings or as otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy.

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Services to you and fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.  This is also the case for third parties within whom we share your information to perform services on our behalf.  When we no longer need to use your personal information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we will either remove it from our systems or anonymize it.

Contacting SingleMomsByChoice.org About Your Personal Information or Privacy

Please send us an email by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page of the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the personal information we maintain about you.  We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy and any of our Services at any time and any changes will be effective upon being posted unless we advise otherwise.  If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by means of a notice on the SingleMomsByChoice.org and/or by email to our registered users (sent to the email address specified when you register) prior to the change becoming effective.  By continuing to use the Services after changes are made to this Privacy Policy, you agree to such changes.  We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.  If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not register with us and that you do not use the SingleMomsByChoice.org  Sites.  Please exit the SingleMomsByChoice.org Sites immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Last updated on June 14, 2019

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