Welcome to Metal.me, the next generation social networking service where members can stay in touch with their friends, connect with like minded people from all over the world, share photos, discover new music and just hang out. The founders and employees of Metal.me take your privacy very seriously. To make it easier for you to read and understand our privacy policy, we did the unconventional thing, we wrote it in plain English and tried to keep it to a reasonably short length.
The key points of our privacy policy are:
Your privacy remains under your control.
Metal.me does not spam.
By participating in the Metal.me community, you agree to this privacy policy.
Invite
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about Metal.me, we will ask you for your friends email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit Metal.me. Metal.me stores and only uses this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may submit a request that we remove this information from our database via the Contact Us page or by emailing customersupport@metal.me; remove requests of this nature will be completed within 30 days.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Metal.me. Please be aware that we, Metal.me, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Web site and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Testimonials
We post customer testimonials on our Web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as your name. We obtain your prior consent to post your name along with your testimonial.
Cookies
Cookies are a common Internet technology. Many web sites use cookies to provide useful features for their users. Cookies are small files that are written or downloaded to your computers hard drive when you access a site. They allow Metal.me to store and quickly retrieve login information on your computer and provide data that we can use to improve the quality of our service. Most Internet browsers (such as Internet Explorer and Safari) are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, although you may not be able to take full advantage of Metal.me if you do so. You can disable cookies by going to Tools on your top menu bar. This will bring up the "Internet Options" dialogue box. On the top of the dialogue box, click on "Privacy". This will bring up the "Settings" box. Scroll up using the slide bar on the left-hand side of the box, until the wording in the box states Block All Cookies. Then click on the "OK" button on the bottom of the menu box. If you follow these instructions, your computer will not accept cookies in future.
Metal.me may link information stored in cookies such as your age, gender and country with your personally identifiable information and we may use such information to gather statistics about the number of people who visit Metal.me and to customize Metal.me content, layout and services for delivery to you.
Our advertising partners may set and access cookies or use other technologies such as web beacons (which are electronic files that allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies) in order to personalise advertising content. Use by these advertising partners of their own cookies and any other tracking technologies are subject to their privacy policies. Metal.me uses its reasonable efforts to ensure that its advertising partners are operating privacy policies that are in accordance with Metal.me's own privacy standards as set out in this privacy policy.
Reviewing and changing your Profile
You can review, correct and revise your privacy settings and personal profile, including who has access to your personal profile in your account at any time or contact us for assistance via the Contact Us page or via email to customersupport@metal.me; requests of this nature will be completed within 30 days.
Internet Awareness
Whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas, like journals, weblogs, message boards and forums, this information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by others to send you unsolicited communications. Metal.me recommends that you exercise discretion in deciding what information you disclose on the Internet.
Security and Confidentiality
The security of your personal information depends on your protection of your account password. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorized people. Metal.me uses industry standard technology designed to help keep your personal information safe. Please bear in mind though, that it is impossible for Metal.me to guarantee that impenetrable security measures are in place. For example, we cannot control any illegal and/or unforeseen activity of other users that may allow them to get around the privacy or security settings on the Metal.me website. Consequently, you acknowledge that there are circumstances in which your personal information may be accessed by unauthorised persons.
We limit access to your personal information only to employees who we believe need to come into contact with that information in order to do their jobs in connection with the Metal.me service.
If you become aware of any breach of data security or have any other questions about the security of our website, please contact us via the Contact Us page.
Changes in Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Additionally, we may send registered users an email notifying you of the change. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOU SHALL STOP USING THE METAL.ME SERVICE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE METAL.ME SERVICE FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR ON OUR WEBSITE OR BLOG OR RECEIVING OUR EMAIL NOTIFYING YOU OF THE CHANGE WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us on the Contact Us page or write to:
Customer Support
Metal.me
c/o ELG Ireland,
64 Broadfield Hall,
Tallaght,
Dublin 24,
IRELAND
or via email to customersupport@metal.me.
Effective Date and Last Revision Date
This Privacy Policy was first posted on 31 December 2007
This Privacy Policy was last revised and is effective as of 20 January 2010 Page has been viewed 3 times..
The key points of our privacy policy are:
Your privacy remains under your control.
Metal.me does not spam.
By participating in the Metal.me community, you agree to this privacy policy.
Invite
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about Metal.me, we will ask you for your friends email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit Metal.me. Metal.me stores and only uses this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may submit a request that we remove this information from our database via the Contact Us page or by emailing customersupport@metal.me; remove requests of this nature will be completed within 30 days.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Metal.me. Please be aware that we, Metal.me, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Web site and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Testimonials
We post customer testimonials on our Web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as your name. We obtain your prior consent to post your name along with your testimonial.
Cookies
Cookies are a common Internet technology. Many web sites use cookies to provide useful features for their users. Cookies are small files that are written or downloaded to your computers hard drive when you access a site. They allow Metal.me to store and quickly retrieve login information on your computer and provide data that we can use to improve the quality of our service. Most Internet browsers (such as Internet Explorer and Safari) are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, although you may not be able to take full advantage of Metal.me if you do so. You can disable cookies by going to Tools on your top menu bar. This will bring up the "Internet Options" dialogue box. On the top of the dialogue box, click on "Privacy". This will bring up the "Settings" box. Scroll up using the slide bar on the left-hand side of the box, until the wording in the box states Block All Cookies. Then click on the "OK" button on the bottom of the menu box. If you follow these instructions, your computer will not accept cookies in future.
Metal.me may link information stored in cookies such as your age, gender and country with your personally identifiable information and we may use such information to gather statistics about the number of people who visit Metal.me and to customize Metal.me content, layout and services for delivery to you.
Our advertising partners may set and access cookies or use other technologies such as web beacons (which are electronic files that allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies) in order to personalise advertising content. Use by these advertising partners of their own cookies and any other tracking technologies are subject to their privacy policies. Metal.me uses its reasonable efforts to ensure that its advertising partners are operating privacy policies that are in accordance with Metal.me's own privacy standards as set out in this privacy policy.
Reviewing and changing your Profile
You can review, correct and revise your privacy settings and personal profile, including who has access to your personal profile in your account at any time or contact us for assistance via the Contact Us page or via email to customersupport@metal.me; requests of this nature will be completed within 30 days.
Internet Awareness
Whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas, like journals, weblogs, message boards and forums, this information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by others to send you unsolicited communications. Metal.me recommends that you exercise discretion in deciding what information you disclose on the Internet.
Security and Confidentiality
The security of your personal information depends on your protection of your account password. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorized people. Metal.me uses industry standard technology designed to help keep your personal information safe. Please bear in mind though, that it is impossible for Metal.me to guarantee that impenetrable security measures are in place. For example, we cannot control any illegal and/or unforeseen activity of other users that may allow them to get around the privacy or security settings on the Metal.me website. Consequently, you acknowledge that there are circumstances in which your personal information may be accessed by unauthorised persons.
We limit access to your personal information only to employees who we believe need to come into contact with that information in order to do their jobs in connection with the Metal.me service.
If you become aware of any breach of data security or have any other questions about the security of our website, please contact us via the Contact Us page.
Changes in Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Additionally, we may send registered users an email notifying you of the change. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOU SHALL STOP USING THE METAL.ME SERVICE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE METAL.ME SERVICE FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR ON OUR WEBSITE OR BLOG OR RECEIVING OUR EMAIL NOTIFYING YOU OF THE CHANGE WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us on the Contact Us page or write to:
Customer Support
Metal.me
c/o ELG Ireland,
64 Broadfield Hall,
Tallaght,
Dublin 24,
IRELAND
or via email to customersupport@metal.me.
Effective Date and Last Revision Date
This Privacy Policy was first posted on 31 December 2007
This Privacy Policy was last revised and is effective as of 20 January 2010 Page has been viewed 3 times..
