Critters Privacy Policy
Simple -- I don't give out email addresses or other information to people. I hate spam. :)
If you want to post a bio to the bios page, that's up to you. If you include your email address, it gets hidden on a members-only-passworded page where you have to prove you're a human and not a bot.
The following things don't happen very often, but here's the policy:
If someone reports getting spam that have reason to suspect is via Critters, I try to find out who sent it (looking at logs of which member accessed which email address on the bios page) and I boot them out of the group.
I sometimes get requests from "old friends" to connect with someone, in which case I forward the mail on.
Manuscripts are copyrighted by their authors and members are reminded not to share them outside the group. Anyone found doing so gets booted from the group.
We do have Google ads on the pages, and they mention the following privacy language:
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
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