Own Mine is a Unique Search Engine that lets you:
1. Combine the Search results from top search engines and the collaborative effort of hundreds of users to get you the exact result you aspire for,
2. Chat with users on similar search,
3. Invite your friends to sign up and CHAT with each other on similar search topic, Share Files and list the Links you have visited for your chat friend to view,
4. Message to user’s who is Online/Offline on a similar Search.

Like any website that offers a service where you register and provide information about yourself or your opinions, it is wise to pay attention to your personal information. At Own Mine we understand this, and have established this Privacy Policy to explain how information is collected on our website, and how this information is used. Members Must Be 13 years of age or older. Own Mine is intended solely for use by persons 13 years of age or older. All persons under 13 are prohibited from registering on Own Mine.

The safety and privacy of children is extremely important to us.
Own Mine is a general audience web site that complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our registration process is designed to restrict children under the age of 13 from becoming members of Own Mine and using our site as Registered Users. If we receive information suggesting that a user who has registered with Own Mine is under the age of 13, we require the user to provide evidence confirming that the user is at least 13 years old. If the user fails to provide such information within 48 hours, we immediately terminate the user’s account and nullify all personally identifiable information displaying on the site and collected from such user.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires that commercial web sites obtain parental consent (under most circumstances) prior to the collection of any personally identifiable information from children whom they know to be under the age of 13. In addition, COPPA requires that web sites that collect personal information from children under the age of 13 provide parents with:

1. Notice. Parents must be provided notice regarding what information is collected, how the information will be used, and with whom the information may be shared.
2. The ability to prevent further use of the information collected about the child and prevents any future collection of personal information from the child.
3. The ability to access and review their child's personal information. COPPA also limits the amount of personal information a web site can collect from a child. Web sites may not collect any more personal information than is necessary to participate in a given game or activity.

For more information about COPPA, please visit the Federal Trade Commission's web site.

Parents: If your child is under the age of 13 and has joined Own Mine using a false age, please notify Own Mine Site & Safety Squad at childsafetysquad@ownmine.com, and we will immediately cancel your child's account and nullify all personally identifiable information displaying on the site and collected from them.

If you would like to know more about our site, information practices, stored information about your child, or how to close your child's account, please contact Own Mine Site & Safety Squad at childsafetysquad@ownmine.com. We will happily respond to all E-mail from parents with Privacy questions or concerns.

Personally Identifiable User Information
All users begin using Own Mine's services by registering on the Own Mine website with E-mail ID and a unique user-chosen password.

Chat History Saving
Own Mine Chat, including any web-based versions, will allow you (Registered User) and the people with whom you communicate to save your conversations in your Own Mine accounts located on Own Mine servers. This means you can access and search your message history from any computer with access to the internet. Whether or not you use this feature, other users may choose to use it to save conversations with you in their account on Own Mine too. Your agreement to this TOS constitutes your consent to allow Own Mine to store these communications on its servers. From time to time Own Mine will send you notice through the Own Mine chat Service to let you know about important changes to the Own Mine chat or related Services. Such messages may not be received if you violate this TOS by accessing the Service in an unauthorized manner. Your agreement to this TOS constitutes your agreement that you are deemed to have received any and all notices that would have been delivered had you accessed the Service in an authorized manner.

Cookies and Passive Data Collection
Own Mine logs standard user information and click stream data for all users, including a user's IP address, operating system, and page views. When users visit particular pages within Own Mine, a User ID may be placed in the URL, allowing customized features for the user. Users should be aware that other websites visited before entering Own Mine might place personally identifiable information within a user's URL during a visit to their website, and Own Mine has no control over such websites. Accordingly, some of this information may be logged by a subsequent website that collects URL information. In addition to the standard log information, Own Mine uses a variety of technologies to create a more personalized experience for its users. Cookies are small data files sent by websites to a user's browser and hard drive that identify the computer to the website. We use cookies to allow enhanced features, such as allowing registered users to bypass typing their passwords before entering the website. We may also use cookies to enable customizable content for users, as they become available. Users have the option, within their Internet browsers, to disable cookies and continue to access the Own Mine website. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files that are included in HTML-encoded e-mail messages. We use pixel tags to gather information about the e-mails we send to our registered users. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient's computer accesses our server to retrieve the pixel tag file, and allows us to record and store the date and time, the recipient's e-mail address, and other standard logging information. The pixel tag also may read cookies. Own Mine web pages may also contain similar pixel tags that allow us to count users who have visited those pages, to compile aggregated statistics about site usage, and to deliver co-branded services as they become available. Own Mine pixel tags collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the pixel tag resides. Own Mine web pages may also contain pixel tags placed there by third party ad servers, to monitor the effectiveness of their advertising.

Personally Identifiable Information
Own Mine uses personally identifiable user information for the purposes of the Own Mine website, the Own Mine referral.

Personally identifiable information including member's name is displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction on Own Mine. E-mail addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Own Mine.

We also use E-mail addresses to send useful information to all registered users regarding the Own Mine website. For example, we use E-mail addresses of users, and of those persons provided on their referral lists, to send an invitation to the referred friend and encourage them to sign up on Own Mine.

When a user lists an E-mail address on the Invite Link, an E-mail is automatically sent from that registered user to the invitee address, encouraging the invitee to sign up on the Own Mine website.
All registered users will be able to view other users and be able to send messages subject to character restrictions.

From time to time, Own Mine may share the E-mail address and/or other personally identifiable information of any registered user with third parties for marketing purposes. In addition, Own Mine may share a registered user’s E-mail address with third parties to target advertising and to improve user experience on Own Mine’s pages in general.

Cookies and Passive Data Collection
Own Mine uses cookie, IP address, click stream and URL information to improve the content of the Own Mine website, the quality of Own Mine servers, and to provide enhanced features to users, where available. We use cookies to save User-IDs, session validators, and on user's browsers and hard drives, and may use them to provide tailored products or services to those users, as they become available. We also cross-match user information with information collected from cookies and click stream data in order to test features of the Own Mine website, and to better personalize our various offerings for users. IP Addresses also help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Own Mine site, and to otherwise provide the Own Mine service to its users. IP addresses may be disclosed to a third party if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process so requires, or to protect the rights or property of Own Mine or others. From time to time we may extend various offers from various partner companies, including news or additional details on products and services. A user's usage history may result in specifically tailored special offer screens or products. We may also produce aggregate reports for advertisers. For example, we may report to advertisers the number of users who clicked on an ad, or the number of users that visited different portions of the Own Mine website. This information will not include personally identifiable information about a user, or a specific user's online usage patterns.
Invitations

The Invite Friends feature is an easy way for Own Mine users to invite friends through E-mail. The E-mail address(es) that you supply to use this service will only be used to send invitations to connect with you on Own Mine.

Own Mine allows Members to provide information to a profile that is accessible to other users. We use this profile information for the purposes of providing our services to you, such as to analyze demographics, to better personalize our various offerings for users, or to enable other users to find your profile. All information, including any personally identifiable information, which is disclosed by users in his or her public profile, may be made available for others to see. We caution you not to share sensitive information (such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and driver's license numbers) with other users whom you do not know or place such information in your profile.

At various times we may offer surveys or contests to users. Surveys may ask for contact, demographic or unique identifying information to increase the value of the results. Contests may require contact information or other demographic or personally identifiable information in order to determine eligibility. Own Mine may use information collected from surveys and contests for the entertainment of users, and to determine, notify and contact winners of various contests. In addition, users' demographic and/or personally identifiable information and responses to survey and contest questions may be used by Own Mine and/or shared with third parties in order to provide specifically tailored special offers or advertisements. Own Mine will not share a user's email address with third parties unless the user specifically opts-in to such sharing during the completion of or registration for a survey or contest.

Please be aware that links to third party websites and third-party ad server advertisements that are found on Own Mine may, or may not, use cookies, pixel tags and web tags. Own Mine may provide links to third party websites, which may, or may not, use cookies, pixel tags and web tags. Ad servers may also use these tools to compile information about where users saw particular advertisements, and to determine which ads were clicked on. We are not responsible for, or have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites and ad servers, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited when linking directly from Own Mine.

Dealings with Advertisers
Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that Own Mine shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service.

Own Mine may disclose personally identifiable user information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process. Own Mine may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Service; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Own Mine, its users or the general public.

Own Mine uses industry standard security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by the Own Mine website in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. Further, while we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.

As a registered user, you may, at any time, choose to correct or update the information you have submitted to us. This may be done by the following method:

1. Log in to your Own Mine account on our website.
2. Click the button that says "Profile" under "My Account."
3. Change or "Edit" any of the information there, and then click the button at the bottom that says "UPDATE".

As a registered user, you may, at any time, cancel your account by E-mailing Own Mine Site at unregister@ownmine.com and requesting cancellation of your account.

Opt-Out
Canceling one's account will prevent a user from receiving future communications from Own Mine, and Own Mine will not share the user's information with third parties for marketing purposes.

We at ownmine.com are opposed to spam. Our No Spam Policy and Terms of Service prohibit all users from engaging in any activity involving spam on our service. Violations of these policies may result in immediate termination of service and legal action against any spammer. Own Mine's Terms of Service expressly prohibit users from posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available junk mail, commercial advertisements, or other form of commercial solicitation on the Own Mine website or through Own Mine's services. Any violation of our policies, by sending unsolicited email advertisements to or through ownmine.com computer systems, will use or cause to be used ownmine.com servers. Accordingly, any unauthorized use of ownmine.com computer systems is a violation of our policies and certain federal and state laws, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. sect 1030 et seq.). Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.

Change of Ownership
In the event of a change in ownership, or a direct merger or acquisition with another entity, we reserve the right to transfer all of Own Mine's user information, including E-mail addresses and postal addresses, to a separate entity. All registered users will be notified of any change in ownership, merger or acquisition of Own Mine's assets by a third party, and users may choose to modify any of their registration information at that time.

Revisions to This Policy
Own Mine reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Notice of any revision, amendment, or modification will be posted on the website, and a user's continued use of Own Mine will signify agreement to such changes.