What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This privacy policy pertains to the use of PaidModels.com (the "Service") at http://www.PaidModels.com.
• This privacy policy covers how we treat personal information that the Service collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number.
• Children under 18 years of age are not permitted to use the Service, and so this privacy policy makes no provision for children's use of the site.

Information Collection and How it is used

General Information

• The Service collects personal information when you become a member, add or update your profile/portfolio, sign in, upload content, upgrade to a premium membership, or enable certain special features, like text message notification.
• Your date of birth is required for age verifications and age calculations on the web site. Your date of birth will never be disclosed.
• If you elect to use our text message notification feature, you will need to provide your cell phone number.
• The Service automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, referring page, and the page you request.
• We use information for the following general purposes: fraud detection, identification and authentication, Service improvement, research, and anonymous reporting.

IP Addresses

IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page.

IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:

• To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
• To estimate the total number of users visiting from specific geographical regions.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from the PaidModels.com server and is stored on your computer's hard drive.

• You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
• If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to take full advantage of the Service. Many features will not work.
• The Service uses cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
• Access your information when you "Log in".
• Enable you to remain logged in indefinitely.
• Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using the Service.
• Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
• Conduct research to improve our content and services.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. The Service does not rent or sell your personal information.
• Generally, the Service does not share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies without your consent except to provide products or services you've requested and in the following circumstances:
• We may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas, warrants, court orders or legal process or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
• It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, including without limitation, fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of service, or as otherwise permitted or required by law.
• We may transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, we will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• We may share demographic information with business partners, such as "53% of users who regularly use the Service are between 18 and 24" or the like.
• No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we may elect to notify all current members by email.