Privacy Policy

This statement covers the site www.thesuperficial.com (The Superficial). Please read this statement carefully before using proceeding to access The Superficial. Your use of The Superficial indicates your agreement to abide by the Terms in effect.

Information Collection
The Superficial is the sole owner of the information collected on www.thesuperficial.com. The Superficial may collect information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Third Party Cookies
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, The Superficial has no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by The Superficial only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments/Message Boards
The Superficial contains a comment sections and a message board. We do not actively monitor comments and the information on them is for entertainment purposes only. If we are alerted to something we deem inappropriate in any way, we may delete it at our discretion. We use email validation on most of our message boards in order to reduce "comment spam." These email addresses will not be shared with any third party.

Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google, among other services. Information about users’ visit to this site, such as number of times they have viewed an ad (but not username, date of birth, or any other personal information), is used to serve ads to users on this site.

Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. We may use a tracking utility that uses log files to analyze user movement.

Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, The Superficial may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.

Business Transitions
In the event The Superficial goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion of its assets, users’ personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.

Links
The Superficial web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, The Superficial, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by The Superficial.

Notification of Changes
Whenever The Superficial changes our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Contact Information
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.