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Shayne-Michael.COMedy: Privacy Statement

Shayne-Michael.COMedy respects your privacy.

Any personal information you provide to us including and similar to your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address will not be released, sold, or rented to any entities or individuals outside of Shayne-Michael.COMedy.

Registered Members

A membership program has been instituted to tailor this site to your needs. No personal information is shared. You may for instance, save your address, city and state. This is used to create driving directions to venues in the comedy club and open mic database. By default members will get email notices when they have email and peer requests. You can opt out of these email updates without deactivating the account. You can also deactivate memberships at any time. Deactivated memberships are not lost and can be reactivated within 90 days.

Credit card details

Shayne-Michael.COMedy will never ask for Credit Card details and request that you do not enter it on any of the forms on Shayne-Michael.COMedy. All eBook purchases are through Pay Pal. Pay Pal, will request credit card information if you choose to purchase the eBooks or DVDs available exclusively through this site.

You can find Pay Pal's privacy statement: Here. You can find Pay Pal's security details: Here

External Sites.

Shayne-Michael.COMedy is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. You are advised to read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small data text file that is placed in your browser and allows Shayne-Michael.COMedy to recognize you each time you visit this site(customisation etc). Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information.

Shayne-Michael.COM uses cookies for two purposes: First to store the email addresses and user names of surfers who wish to leave comments or update performance opportunity venues. This is primarily done for convenience. Once you update a venue or make a comment, this allows you to post without continually entering the required information.

Secondly, cookies are also used to prevent surfers from ranking the same open mic, club or joke twice in a row, which prevents loaded results. Email addresses and user names must be given before commenting on jokes, articles, open mics, improv troupes, sketch troupes and comedy clubs. All updates except the article updates can be left anonymously, but anonymous posts must be approved by the webmaster first.

Shayne-Michael.COMedy not use these cookies to collect personal information other than what has already been mentioned here and Shayne-Michael.COMedy will not sell usernames or emails for any reason. Cookies may also be used by 3rd party content providers such as newsfeeds.

IPs Are Sometimes Tracked

Whenever you update a venue or leave comments, the IP is tracked. This is to create an update quota by IP. The step was required to prevent users who might uses instant updates to vandalize the site.

Remember The Risks Whenever You Use The Internet

While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to other companies and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through other companies have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions.

Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.