Privacy Policy
Westarctica collects personal information when you register with
Westarctica, when you use Westarctica products or services, when you visit
Westarctica pages or the pages of certain Westarctica partners, and when
you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Westarctica  may combine
information about you that we have with information we obtain from
business partners or other companies.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, email
address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal
interests.  When you register with Westarctica and sign in to our services,
you are not anonymous to us.

Westarctica collects information about your transactions with us and with
some of our business partners.

Westarctica uses information for the following general purposes: to
customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for
products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research,
and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children

Westarctica does not contact children under age 13 about special offers or
for marketing.

Westarctica does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal
information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to
participate in a given activity or promotion.

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE Westarctica does not rent,
sell, or share personal information about you with other people or
non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've
requested, when we have your permission, or under the following
circumstances:

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or
exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud,
situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person,
violations of Westarctica's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
Westarctica does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you
with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or
services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the
following circumstances:

We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with
Westarctica under confidentiality agreements. However, these companies
do not have any independent right to share this information.
We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child
under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing Westarctica to collect and
use their child's information without consenting to Westarctica sharing of
this information with people and companies who may use this information
for their own purposes.
We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or
exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud,
situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person,
violations of Westarctica"s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

Yahoo! does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when
you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or
viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will
make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the
ad.
Yahoo! advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks,
insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial
companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
Yahoo! works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service
providers in different industries and categories of business. For more
information regarding providers of products or services that you've
requested please read our detailed reference links.


CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we
believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to
provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.


CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY Westarctica may update this policy.
We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal
information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in
your Westarctica account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

It should also be noted we consider Hackers to be Foreign Combatants.

Policy active as of 12/15/2008.  Westarctica.org all rights reserved