Privacy Policy

The privacy of ChatShock.com visitors is important to us. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit chatshock.com, and how we safeguard your information.  We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.  The information collected and stored in log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site, the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site.  This could include the ability to login to access some of our features, such as members only content and posting in our forums. We also use third party advertisements on chatshock.com to support our site.  Some of these advertisers may use cookies to track clicks and views of ads, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site.  This is generally used for advertisement targeting purposes or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing automotive ads to someone who who frequents automotive related sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies

We also may use DART cookies for serving advertisements through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense ads).  The cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (For example, if you have been viewing sites about webcams, you may see advertisements for video chat services. DART uses “non personally identifiable information”.  It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name or email address.  You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using DART by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx  

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies by setting your browser options and preferences accordingly, or by using Internet privacy software.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts. Deleting cookies is not a method to opt out of any advertising program. When you visit a site new cookies may be added.