Myjoyonline and its advertisers are committed to protecting the privacy of Internet users.
Collection of personally identifiable information for memberships
Unless you register yourself Myjoyonline does not collect personally identifiable information about
you, such as your email adddress, name, age, etc. To register yourself is optional. You can access most of the
content of Myjoyonline anonymously without registering yourself.
You must be 18 years or older before you can register yourself.
Your personally identifiable information is not sold to third parties.
Your personally identifiable information will be used to facilitate the communication between
you and other members of Myjoyonline. You can determine yourself how if and how much personal information
you want to share with the other visitors of Myjoyonline.
Collection of non-personally identifiable information
Myjoyonline does obtain some types of non-personally identifiable
information such as the ip-address you use to connect to the Internet,
your browser type, or the type of computer operating system you use
(Macintosh or Windows,
for example). This information is used to improve the website by - for
example - analyzing which pages are popular and which pages need to be
improved. The collected information is not sold to third-parties.
Usage of cookies by Myjoyonline
Myjoyonline uses cookies to store information about the country and city from which you are surfing.
This information is used to customise the website - content as well as advertisements - according to
your geo-graphical location.
Myjoyonline uses cookies to remember you screenname when commenting on news articles and when joining the
chatroom. Without these cookies you would need to re-type your screenname all the time.
Myjoyonline uses a cookie for the Say It Loud forum to determine whether you are a registered
user. Without this cookie it will not be possible to automatically give you the priviliges
of a registered user.
In all cases you can stop this usage of cookies by Myjoyonline by disabling cookies in your browser.
In the helpsection of your browser you will also find information about how to remove existing
cookies from Myjoyonline from your computer.
In general you can use Myjoyonline without cookies although it might reduce the
user-friendliness of the website.
Usage of cookies by Advertisers
Myjoyonline runs advertisements from various renowned advertising networks, such as
Valueclick Media, Google and Adconion. Their usage of cookies is governed by the individual privacy
policy of the advertising network in question.
A good resource to learn more about your consumer privacy in relation to these advertising
networks is the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI). On this website
you can opt out from Behavioral Advertising for all the advertising networks which are member of the NAI.