The Our Secret Affair ("OSA") website is a free portal for information about conducting discreet extramarital affairs. It contains password-protected pages where OSA members can access member-only materials and the community forum. We recognize that privacy is an important issue and have developed this Privacy Policy to explain our practices regarding the personal information we collect when you visit this site and how OSA uses that information.

This Privacy Policy applies exclusively to information practices related to our website, www.oursecretaffair.com.  Although this website contains links to other websites, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those, or any other sites. If you follow a link to another website you should carefully read their privacy policy.

Personal Information Collected on this Website

No personally-identifiable information is collected on this website from visitors that browse the website for information.

The only personally-identifiable information collected on this website is gathered if you email through our "contact us" or "ask Dick and Jane" pages, where the email you send may provide your name, email address and any contact information included in a signature line. We collect this information so that we can respond to the comments that you send to us via that form.  Additionally, user provided information when registering for the community forum may be identifiable, though this is dependant on the data entered and may be quite anonymous.

OSA is the sole owner of all information collected on this site. OSA will not rent, sell or share any personally-identifiable information about you with third parties for any reason except when required to assist in resolving an issue you raise with us or as required by law.

We do not merge any of the personally-identifiable information collected via our email contacts with other anonymous data collected on our website.

Anonymous Information Collected on this Website

We record anonymous data such as traffic logs, number of visits or clicks on a given page, pages viewed or links to our site. We use IP addresses and cookies for gathering website statistics. We also store IP addresses on our server in the event that our site should become corrupted and it becomes necessary to discover the cause of this corruption.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design, maintain and report on our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals. We may share this anonymous data with third parties for the limited purpose of reporting on use of our website, or to comply with applicable law. We do not rent, sell or share any anonymous data collected on this website with third parties for marketing purposes.

None of this anonymous data is linked to personally-identifiable information and we make no attempt to link IP addresses to the individuals who visit this site.

Cookies

We use cookies on this website.

Cookies are small chunks of data created by a web server, delivered through a web browser, and stored on your computer. They provide a means for websites that you visit to keep track of your online patterns and preferences, as well as identify you as a return visitor. Cookies make the personalization of your web experiences possible, so that you do not need to re-enter your information from scratch upon each visit to a given website.

We serve a cookie from our website when members log in to member-only pages and the community forum, so that they can navigate those pages on the site. A randomly-generated anonymous identifier is assigned to that cookie to enable this process.

We also serve a cookie to note the anonymous web traffic described in the previous section of this Privacy Policy.

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.  Specifically, Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google's use of the "DART" cookie enables it to serve ads to you based on the visit to this sites and other sites on the Internet.  You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

No personally-identifiable information is collected by or linked to any of the cookies delivered on our site.

You have the ability to manage the use of cookies on your computer using controls in your web-browser. To learn more about how to manage cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important, especially given the topic of discussion on OSA. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 18, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 18.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

As our organization, membership and services evolve, this Privacy Policy may be revised to reflect those changes, where applicable. We therefore reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time, for any reason. Notice of such amendments will be posted as an updated Privacy Policy on this website, and an effective date will be indicated. Users are encouraged to check our site frequently to review the current Privacy Policy in effect.

Questions?

Please contact us with any questions about this website Privacy Policy.