Our aim in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. Several of the services and features that we offer on our sites require you to provide us with information as a condition of usage. These include access to subscription-only areas, the ability to post opinions or other content, participation in sweepstakes or contests, subscriptions to print magazines and email newsletters and participation in message boards.

Information we Collect.
We collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, email when you provide it to us. From time to time, we may also collect other sensitive information such as your job title, gender, username. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you provided to us.

Information that we do not collect.
Passwords are not viewable by any employee as they are fully encrypted, and they cannot be retrieved. We do not collect or process any information regarding payment, bank details or credit/debit card numbers. This is handled by the independent organization PayPal.

We use the information we gather the following purposes:
To customize the advertising and the content you see;
To optimize site features and content through reviewing members submitted details.
We do not treat your details on an individual basis, and your confidentiality is respected.

Cookie Policies
Your Internet browser has a feature called cookies, which stores small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of our sites. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit most of our sites, although active participation in certain areas of our sites may require cookies. Cookies alone tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information, in which case we use the information to enhance your services in the ways described below. By adjusting your settings on your browser, you may elect not to allow cookies to be collected.

For Your Information...
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties for marketing purposes and will only disclose your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and/or with your permission. If you engage in illegal activity while using iVirtua Forums or any of its services, we may provide your personal information to authorities in an effort to enforce our terms and conditions and to help keep our community safe.

Other Organizations
PayPal is used for all of our Safe, Secure, and fast Transactions. We do not deal with your payment Details.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Children's privacy and COPPA in the US
We do not allow under 14s to join the site, and do not allow COPPA Applications. i.e. Under 14s are not allowed to join even with parental consent.
Although we are based outside the US, We operate our network of sites in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and do not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13 years of age. This requirement is clearly posted during the registration process.

Passwords and Security of your account
Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at iVirtua Community, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with iVirtua Community, iVirtua or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the "Send me a new password" feature provided by the iVirtua Community software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your email, then the iVirtua Community software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.

Questions, concerns or comments.
If you have any questions, concerns or comments regarding our privacy policies please email ivirtua@ivirtua.co.uk