1. Personal Information:

When each user creates a Beatles Collecting user account, the Beatles Collecting system asks for the user's email, only for the purposes of sending the memebership verification email, which is necessary to assure only true fans can access the message systems on the site, and prevent them being filled with spam messages.

The email addresses of each user who creates a Beatles Collecting user account is NOT kept on our system after the membership verification process is completed, and it is not retained by the Beatles Collecting system or its management or owners in any way.

Email addresses collected for the purpose of verifying Beatles Collecting membership are never displayed anywhere on the system.

2. Information Disclosure:

Email addresses of Beatles Collecting users and members, or any other personal information about users and members and their bio information or site usage statistics will never be sold or otherwise disclosed to any outside party.

3. Use of Cookies:

BeatlesCollecting.com employs cookies to facilitate the operation of some special features of the system.

A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies are not harmful or dangerous, they cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer, or divulge information about you against your wishes. If they desire, each user can disable cookies in their own browser, doing so will not adversely affect the usage of our site, other than allowing special features that use them to function correctly.

Currently, BeatlesCollecting.com sets a cookie in your browser if you have selected the "Remember me on this computer" option. The system also sets a cookie when you select the "Set Last Login Time" option.

4. Third-Party Cookies:

BeatlesCollecting.com uses third-party ad companies, including Google and DoubleClick DART, to display ads on our site. 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.

Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your browser based on your visits to this site and other sites on the Internet. They do NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

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.

BeatlesCollecting.com has no control over these third-party cookies, and we do not have access to the information they may collect.

This Privacy Statement was last updated April 2, 2009.