This statement will tell you how we use your personal information on the My Virtual Model Inc. Web sites (including www.myvirtualmodel.com and all sub-domains), and throughout the My Virtual Model™ affiliate network. We made this statement as broad and clear as possible. Please review it to learn more about our practices.
This statement was last updated: September 5th, 2006
Users under 13 years of age should read our Privacy policy for kids.
This part applies to teens and adult users.
My Virtual Model Inc. (MVM) is the software company that brings you the My Virtual Model™ services. Founded in 1990, we are a Montreal-based Canadian company. We offer our services free of charge to all users. We may also create, use, or buy other technologies over time.
MVM affiliates are owners of
Our registration forms and measurement forms ask for information about you and how you would like to use our services. Specifically, we ask for your
We use information about your gender and age group to provide you with the service you are requesting from us. We will use your ZIP code or postal code, combined with a demographic database, to get a broad idea of who our users are. We will also use this information to draw anonymous statistics.
You can use MVM services on any
When you register for the first time, we may send a confirmation message to your mailbox. You can choose to use this same address to subscribe to our newsletter or other services we may offer. We may also use your
Usage data gathering and anonymous statistical analysis are part of the data management practices necessary in order for us to offer you our services. This data is not identifiable to any individual.
We gather statistical data on visits made to the various pages of our site. We monitor how our servers perform to ensure that users can always enjoy visiting our site. We also gather statistical data from the various
MVM services and links to our registration forms are available at various Web sites on the Internet. When you first register for our services, we store your information on the MVM central servers.
This feature allows you to reuse your information at several Web sites without revealing your personal information to the affiliate. There is no direct data sharing between My Virtual Model Inc. and any of our affiliates. MVM affiliates cannot access your information unless you give us your consent.
A cookie is a text file that a Web server sends to your browser for management purposes. It can neither run programs, nor put a virus into your system.
Some MVM services use a temporary cookie in order to personalize your experience. This type of cookie lets the server know that you have logged in. Without it, the server would have to ask you repeatedly for your user login information. If you choose to do so, you can also have our server send you a permanent cookie. This type of cookie will allow you to automatically log into an MVM service on your next visit to any
To use the postcard service, you must enter one or more recipients'
If you send a postcard to many people at once, each person will get a separate notice. This ensures that no one can see the others' addresses. We will keep your postcard for 20 days only, after which time we will delete it.
You can send
We answer questions about fashion anonymously. We publish selected user questions and answers on our Web site on a monthly basis. We will neither contact you, nor keep your
We will not share your personal information with our affiliates without your consent. You might want to review each affiliate's privacy policies before using our services at their sites. You can find a complete listing of our current affiliates on the www.myvirtualmodel.com Web site.
Occasionally, we may have to disclose or report someone's personal information, if regulators or other authorities require it.
We do not make secondary uses of your personal information other than those described in this statement. We only use your information for providing you with our main services or improving these services through research studies that we may conduct now or in the future.
We offer our services while respecting your choices. You can review your options on the www.myvirtualmodel.com Web site. To cancel any service, simply access your user profile and either edit your choices, or delete your user profile altogether.
Deleting your My Virtual Model™ user profile will have no effect on the customer accounts you may have created with any of our affiliates. If you want to close a customer account at any affiliated Web site, please visit that site directly.
We use data scrambling to send data over the Internet. We have also put in place methods to protect the information we collect and use in our company. We have chosen a first-class partner to host our Web site and central servers, which uses industry-leading security standards.
Please, keep your password secret, so others do not access your user profile.
You can review, edit, or delete your personal information and options by accessing your user profile on the www.myvirtualmodel.com Web site.
This part applies to users under 13 years of age.
We offer our services free of charge to all users. If you are a kid, you can use these services without giving out any personal information such as your name or
We take for granted that users providing kid's measurements are less than 13 years of age. This ensures we will never collect personal information from users who must not give it out.
MVM affiliates are owners of
If an affiliate offers you to open a customer account, remember that you are now dealing with this affiliate only, and not with My Virtual Model Inc.
We do not collect personal information from kids. Your user profile is unidentified. No one has access to your data. We give only summaries of statistics, or totals, to our affiliates. This helps them to manage their own sites.
Everyone using our postcard service has to put a sender's
If you send a postcard to many people at once, each person will get a separate notice. This ensures that no one can see the others' addresses. We will keep your message for 20 days only, after which time we will delete it.
You can send a message to our help desk, or send your comments through various
If you want to send us your comments, questions, or suggestions about this policy, please write to:
Privacy Custodian: privacy@myvirtualmodel.com
You can reach us at:
Privacy Custodian
My Virtual Model Inc.
80 Queen street, Suite 502
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3C 2N5
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