This Privacy Policy is effective August 8, 2008.

Angry? Frustrated? Need to Vent? VentPark.com is the place for you! You can vent, reply to others’ vents, and vote on advice questions posted by venters. If you have something bottled up inside that needs to be heard, you can vent it out on VentPark. We have written up this privacy policy in order to let you know how we provide a safe venting experience for you.

Introduction: VentPark, owned and operated by DanceWaters, Inc., an Illinois corporation realizes the importance of feeling safe online and is fully committed to ensuring that your privacy and personal information is protected.

Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. Please note that any posting made while using VentPark is not considered “personal information” and is not considered the type of information protected by our privacy policy.

Our Privacy Policy below outlines the type of information we collect and receive from you while you are within the VentPark site, as well as ways in which we process and, sometimes, share such information and how you can correct or change such information. This policy covers how VentPark deals with information about your children under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and you may request from us how to review, delete or stop the collection of the personally identifiable information of your child.

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF SERVICE FOR VENTPARK CAREFULLY. YOUR USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO SUCH PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF SERVICE.

1. How VentPark Collects Information

A. Personal Data You Provide to VentPark

Personally Identifiable Information is any information that can be used to identify a specific individual such as your name, email address, home address, and phone number. VentPark asks you to provide Personally Identifiable Information in various places throughout the VentPark site. Some of these areas where the collection of such information takes place are listed below:

Member Registration

In order to use many of VentPark’s features, we ask you to register to become a member. During this member registration process, we will ask you for Personally Identifiable Information.

Surveys and Polls

VentPark offers online surveys and questionnaires that ask users for opinions on various issues and/or other information. Occasionally, we may request demographic information (like zip code, age or gender) when you answer a survey. Such surveys are completely voluntary.

Promotions, Sweepstakes, Contests

During such events we ask you for your email address and/or phone number (to notify you if you’ve won, or not). We also ask for first and last names, phone number, and sometimes post office addresses in order to verify the entrant’s identity. In some situations, we need additional information as part of the entry process, such as a prize selection choice.

ECommerce Transactions

When you engage in an ecommerce transaction on the VentPark site you may be asked to provide credit card information and other Personally Identifiable Information in order to complete the transaction. We may also collect information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners. This information might include information necessary to process payments due to us from you such as your credit card number.

B. Information Gathered by VentPark and Its Third Party Service Providers

When you visit the VentPark and interact with the services and tools that reside there, VentPark and third parties with whom VentPark has contracted to provide services to VentPark may collect information on your actions. This type of information is generally collected from two sources. One is from the server log files and the other is from cookies.

IP Address

Your IP address is a number that is assigned by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) to your computer to identify its location. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. We also sometimes use IP addresses to communicate with members and subscribers and monitor for fraud and abuse or even ban those members who are not complying with our Terms of Service. We may use IP addresses to estimate the number of users visiting VentPark from specific geographical regions. We may use IP address to prevent multiple votes per vent.

Cookies

Our site uses a feature of your browser to set a “cookie” on your computer. Cookies are small packets of information that a site’s computer stores on your computer. VentPark can then read the cookies whenever you visit our website. We use cookies to enable your logged in session, to deliver content specific to your interests, to track the pages you’ve visited and to make sure you don’t see the same ads repeatedly and to conduct research to improve the services or content provided by VentPark. These cookies allow us to use the information we collect to customize your VentPark experience so that it is as relevant and as valuable to you as possible.

You may modify your browser preference to provide you with choices relating to cookies. You have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies you may be unable to use those VentPark services that require registration in order to participate.

Our advertising may be served by Vent Park or a third party advertising companies which deliver a cookie to you so the ads you see can be tracked and ensure that you are not shown the same ad too many times. Since the third party advertising company only tags your computer with a number, they know nothing about who you are. VentPark does not provide these third party advertising companies with any personally identifiable information. However, these companies may use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to VentPark and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

2. How VentPark Uses Information It Collects

VentPark uses the information you provide for several purposes, including to communicate with you and personalize tools, content, services and email messages. VentPark also uses this information to build new services and develop offers that we believe are relevant to you.

The information collected is also used to create aggregated portraits of the VentPark audience, portraits which present anonymous statistical demographic information but no personally identifiable information. This aggregated information is used, among other things, to determine trends and needs, and also to supply market research to potential advertisers and partners to help them understand who the VentPark audience is.

VentPark offers the ability to forward a post to another person via email. If you use this service, we will use the recipient’s email address in order to send content and we will also ask for your email address. We do not use the recipient’s email address for any other purpose unless such recipient gives us permission to do so.

3. Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information to Third Parties

VentPark does not sell or otherwise share Personally Identifiable Information with unaffiliated third parties without your consent (please see the Opt-In/Opt-Out Policy below), except in the following instances: (i) disclosure is required by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order; (ii) as deemed necessary, in VentPark’s discretion, to protect the legal rights or the property of VentPark, a member or third party, or to prevent personal injury; and/or (iii) in the event of a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of the assets or stock of VentPark or its affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). In addition, VentPark may provide Personally Identifiable Information to third parties who are providing technical or fulfillment services on behalf of VentPark when such disclosure is required in order to provide those services, provided that such third parties agree to be bound by VentPark’s Privacy Policy. VentPark also reserves the right to share any Personally Identifiable Information or other information about you which you provide to (or which is gathered from) VentPark with any or all of its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, our “Affiliates”) (subject to the opt-out right described below, with respect to disclosures of Personally Identifiable Information to Affiliates for their direct marketing uses). VentPark will also have access to any information you provide to (or which is gathered from) the web sites of any of our Affiliates.

Oftentimes, sweepstakes and contests offered on VentPark are sponsored by unaffiliated third parties. Information that you provide as part of an entry into a sponsored sweepstakes or contest will be shared with the sponsor if we advise you of such in the sweepstakes rules. Most sweepstakes and contests will also ask you to consent to the release of information contained within the entry form for tax purposes if you become a winner. You should carefully review the rules of each sweepstakes, contest and giveaway which you enter as they may contain additional important information about VentPark’s or a sponsor’s use of your personally identifiable information.

When you post a message on VentPark, your user ID or alias that you are posting under may be visible to other users. When you post a message on VentPark, you have the ability to post a message which may include personally identifiable information about yourself. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

4. The VentPark Opt-in/Opt-out Policy

Upon registration or from time-to-time, you may be asked to indicate whether you are interested in receiving information from us about special offers or news about our sites and advertisers. If you do choose to receive these communications by means of an opt-in, we will occasionally send you an email message that matches your request(s). We currently provide the following opt-out opportunities:

i. At any time, you can follow a link provided in every newsletter or email message (except for e-commerce confirmation or service notice emails) to unsubscribe from that mailing list or email service.

ii. Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Policy, please note that VentPark reserves the right to contact you in the event of a change in the VentPark Terms of Service and/or this Privacy Policy.

You will also be provided with the opportunity to opt-in to receive offers, goods and services directly from select companies other than VentPark. In such instances where you have opted-in to receive such offers, goods and services from third parties, VentPark will share your information with such third parties and will often provide you access to the Privacy Policy of the third party for your review via a link. In some instances, when you have the opportunity on VentPark to subscribe to a newsletter offered by a third-party email service or advertiser or partner, the email address information will be located on the third party’s server and any information you provide is subject to that entity’s Privacy Policy, not this one.

If you have additional questions about how one of our advertiser partners or sponsors use information about you, we urge you to contact them directly. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “opt-in” is generally defined as any affirmative action by a VentPark member or visitor to submit or receive information, as the case may be.

5. Third Party Advertising and Links to Other Sites

The VentPark site contains links to advertiser and partner websites that are not co-branded or affiliated with VentPark in any way. We cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such non-VentPark websites, and we do not control the practices of any of our advertisers or partners to whose sites we link.

6. Access and Correction

VentPark provides you with the ability to access, correct or change the Personally Identifiable Information in your member portrait at any time, including contact information or other information you’ve provided to us. However, you cannot currently change your member name although you may re-register and choose a new name. To review, modify or delete your member information, please click here. Please be advised that VentPark currently archives information it collects on its members and visitors as contrained in active and deleted accounts.

7. Guidelines Regarding Children

VentPark does not encourage participation or visitation by children. Visitors who are known to be under the age of 13 are prohibited from becoming a member. Anyone under the age of eighteen is discouraged from participating in any sex related content.

8. Content Posted in Public Areas

Please remember that any information you disclose in public areas on VentPark becomes visible to the general public so it is important for you to exercise discretion and appropriate caution when deciding to reveal personal information in these areas.

By submitting through your account any content that appears in the public areas on VentPark, you grant VentPark the ownership of said content as well as the right to re-publish your content for advertising, promotional and/or commercial purposes. All member’s private information remains confidential.

9. How We Protect and Secure Your Information

VentPark has numerous security measures in place to protect you from the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, including your credit card information if you choose to conduct an e-commerce transaction on the VentPark site. All of your member information require use of your password. You agree that you will not share your password with anyone. VentPark uses industry-standard tools, such as firewalls, to ensure that your information is secure and confidential.

No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make efforts to ensure security on our systems.

10. Applicable Law

We control and operate the VentPark site from the United States. The VentPark site is not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Please note that we do not represent or warrant that the VentPark site is appropriate for use in any particular jurisdiction. Those who choose to access the VentPark site do so at their own initiative and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We will notify our members when we make any significant changes to our Privacy Policy that affect the use of any personally identifiable information we collect. We will not make new use of any Personally Identifiable Information which VentPark gathered from individual members or visitors prior to any such significant change in our Privacy Policy without first obtaining the member’s or visitor’s consent for any new uses. In instances where we ask for your Personally Identifiable Information and we tell you the data we are collecting on that page will be shared with unaffiliated third parties, and in cases where a member, visitor or subscriber to the VentPark site opts-in to share his/her information with third parties, those disclosures and opt-ins will override anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy. In addition, VentPark reserves the right to make non-significant changes to our Privacy Policy that will not affect VentPark’s use of a user’s Personally Identifiable Information at any time without any notice to you other than posting any such changes in a revised Privacy Policy on the VentPark’s Network. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be sure you are familiar with the most current version. The Privacy Policy will include the most recent date in which any revision has been made. Please note that this Privacy Policy is also incorporated into VentPark’s Terms of Service.