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7.1
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What personally identifiable information does SexyMobile collect from
me?
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SexyMobile collects information in several ways. Some personal information (such
as a name, mobile number and e-mail address) is gathered when you register for the
services, and more detailed information is collected for specific purposes – such
as when you are trying to link to your POP3 e-mail account. When you are in a section
of SexyMobile and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information
with SexyMobile, its divisions and/or its third party service providers unless it
is specifically stated otherwise.
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Promotions that run on SexyMobile may be sponsored by companies other than SexyMobile
or may be co-sponsored by SexyMobile and another company. Some or all data collected
during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor.
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Please be aware that SexyMobile advertisers or websites that have links on our site
may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices
of those websites are not covered by this privacy statement.
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7.2
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How does SexyMobile use my information?
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Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide our users, with
a better online experience, including interactive communications, online shopping
and other services. By knowing a little about you, SexyMobile and its partners are
able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and hence better service
to you.
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SexyMobile delivers targeted advertisements on behalf of advertisers. Advertisers
give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach. We
take the advertisement and display it to users meeting those criteria. In this process,
the advertiser never has access to individual account information. Only SexyMobile
has access to your information. This kind of advertisement targeting is done with
banner ads, pop-up advertising, button ads as well as promotional e-mail.
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SexyMobile conducts research on our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour
based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from
our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve
our users. This research is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis. SexyMobile
may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.
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7.3
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With whom does SexyMobile share my information?
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As a general rule, SexyMobile will not disclose any of your personally identifiable
information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances,
such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances
described below.
- Traffic: Web servers serving SexyMobile automatically collect information
about which pages each user visits and the domain name of visitors. This information
is used for internal review, to tailor information to individual visitors and for
traffic audits. We also provide this information (as well as information from third-party
market researchers) about our users on an aggregated, anonymous basis to our advertisers.
Any personally identifiable information provided by subscribers online as part of
an online advertising promotion or in order to access a third party service may
be provided directly to the advertiser or third party concerned.
- Promotions: Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information
from sponsors. When you request more information about a particular promotion, your
e-mail address may be shared with the sponsor of that promotion.
- Shopping: If you make a purchase from an online store or merchant, the information
obtained during your visit to those stores (including tracking information and cookies
as described below as well as the information you give such as your credit card
number and contact information) is provided to the merchants. This is to enable
transactions to take place.
- Third parties: Online merchants providing services in association with SexyMobile
have separate privacy and data collection practices. SexyMobile has no responsibility
or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding the
merchant, their store, and their privacy policies, return to that store's home page
and click on the appropriate link.
- Legal: SexyMobile may also disclose user information in special cases when
we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our policies
or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally)
SexyMobile's rights or property, other SexyMobile users, or anyone else that could
be harmed by such activities.
- Statistics and advertisements: SexyMobile may perform statistical analyses
of user behaviour in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site
(for product development purposes) and to inform advertisers as to how many consumers
have seen or "clicked" their advertising banners. SexyMobile also uses demographic
information to allow advertising banners on our Web site to be targeted, in aggregate,
to the readers for whom they are most pertinent. This means that readers see advertising
that is most likely to interest them, and advertisers send their messages to people
who are most likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer's experience and
the effectiveness of the ads. In this statistical analyses and banner advertisement
targeting, we will disclose information to third parties only in aggregate form.
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7.4
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What are cookies and how does SexyMobile use them?
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Cookies are pieces of information a website transfers to a user's hard drive for
record-keeping purposes. Cookies make surfing the web easier for you by saving your
preferences while you're at our site. We never save passwords or credit card information
in cookies. The use of cookies is an industry standard -- you'll find them at most
major websites.
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In certain areas of the site, SexyMobile places a "cookie" on the browser of an
SexyMobile user's computer to store and sometimes track information about you. A
cookie can be used to tell when your computer has contacted a Web site; we use the
information for purposes such as measuring certain traffic patterns, making sure
that you don't see the same ad too many times in a single session, serving personalised
content and so on.
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Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser
to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, note that
some parts of SexyMobile will not function properly if you refuse cookies. For example,
without cookies, you will not be able to set personalised TV Guide preferences.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. SexyMobile does not control
these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard
in the Internet industry.
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7.5
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Use of IP Address
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SexyMobile also logs IP addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet.
An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer whenever
you're surfing the Web. SexyMobile collects IP addresses for the purposes of system
administration, to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit
the use of our site. When users request pages from the SexyMobile network, our servers
log the users' IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally
identifiable, which means that a user's session will be logged, but the user remains
anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel
it is necessary to enforce compliance with our policies or Terms of use Agreement
or to protect our service, site, customers or others.
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7.6
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Links to Other Sites
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Users should be aware that when you are on SexyMobile, you could be directed to
other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from SexyMobile
pages that take you outside our service, e.g. clicking on a banner advertisement.
These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal
information. SexyMobile does not control the privacy policies of our business partners,
advertisers, sponsors or other sites to which we provide hyperlinks. Please keep
in mind that whenever you give out personal information online --- for example,
via e-mail messages or contact information --- that information can be collected
and used by people you don't know. While SexyMobile strives to protect its user's
personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information
you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.
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7.7
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Security
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The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated
with our users is of utmost concern and importance to us. We exercise great care
in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC or phone to our
servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, SexyMobile cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our
online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your
transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
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7.8
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Policies for Individuals Under 18 years of Age
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SexyMobile does not endorse the use of its services by persons younger than
18 and is committed to fighting child pornography of any form. SexyMobile encourages
parents, teachers and guardians to actively monitor the use of services offered
by SexyMobile and immediately report any instance of a person under the age of 18
making use of the service. Parents are further encouraged to block their children/s
mobile number/s from the SexyMobile database. This can be accomplished by calling
our 24hr helpline on 0822 301 234 (VAS rates, free minutes don't apply)
or
By sending the word BAN followed by the mobile number that you would like to ban
via SMS to 32399 (R1/SMS) Example: BAN 0821234567
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