ReportACriminal.com is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that you have a positive experience on our website. This policy outlines our personal information handling practices for both online and offline data. If you give us personal information, we will treat it according to this policy. We reserve the right to change or modify these policies at any time or in any way we deem appropriate.

When ReportACriminal.com collects any personal information on our website, we will express our need for the personal data at the point of collection. Personal information is any information that can be used to identify an individual, and may include, but is not limited to, name, email address, postal or other physical address, title, occupation, and other information required to provide a service or carry out a transaction you have requested. Some of the reasons we collect your personal information include:

• providing registered users with a more personalized and relevant experience on our website;
• verifying the authenticity of users registering as Law Enforcement Users
• allowing registered users to contribute rewards to reporters they deem deserving
• allowing us to contact users where necessary, e.g. to assist users who have forgotten their passwords
• allowing participation in online discussions

We will only use your personal information in the way we specified when it was collected. We will not subsequently change the way your personal information is used without your consent. Some of the ways we may use your personal information include:

• To provide the ability to create personal profile areas and view protected content
• To optimize the display of information on our web site based on your location
• To provide the ability to contact you
• To provide user feedback and support
• To provide contests or other promotional activities on the site. Personal information may be collected to administer those programs
• To conduct questionnaires and surveys in order to provide better services to our users. Your completion of any questionnaires is voluntary.
• To allow you to forward information to another individual such as a friend or co-worker.

We need your help in keeping the personal information you have shared with us accurate and up to date. Please notify us of any changes to your personal information.

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may collect non-personal (aggregate or demographic) data through cookies, web logs, and similar methods. This information is used to better understand and improve the usability, performance and effectiveness of the ReportACriminal.com website. We may provide such aggregate data to interested third parties, but we do not provide any third party with any of your personal information or with any means to identify or contact any user individually.

We also use cookies to improve your experience of our website, for example by welcoming returning users to the site. These cookies do not and cannot provide us with any information about you that enables us to identify you personally if you have not purposely provided us with that information via our user registration or other forms.

We may run contests or other promotional activities on our site in which we ask participants other than registered users for contact information (like their e-mail address). We use contact data from our contests to send participants other than registered users information about our organization. The contact information is also used to contact the participants when necessary in accordance with the rules set forth in connection with such contests or promotions.

This site allows users to post information they claim to have about crime, criminals, and suspicious activities, and whistleblower information. In addition the site may have comment areas, forums, or message boards available to its users. Users should be aware that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and that caution should therefore be exercised when posting, for example by avoiding defamatory or libelous language or words that disclose the user's personal information.

All user-generated information on this site, including but not limited to data presented in Suspect Reports, Reports of Suspicious Activities, Whistleblower Reports and Comment sections, is the responsibility of individual Reporters, Registered Users or Law Enforcement officers. Such information is not the responsibility of ReportACriminal.com or any of its affiliates; users of this site agree to hold ReportACriminal.com and/or any of its affiliates harmless for statements made by them or others.

If we reasonably believe that an individual's safety or security is at risk or that our property is at risk, we will disclose this belief to the proper law enforcement agencies. It is possible, although unlikely, that we may be required by law to provide certain information about our users, including personal information, to appropriate governmental authorities. If this should occur, we will provide such information when we receive appropriate documentation requiring us to do so. We may respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process by disclosing your personal information and other related information. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

This site has security features in place to protect the information under our control and we strive to avoid the misuse or alteration of our data. We only permit access to our data to authorized individuals, and agree to guard the information provided to us by others with the same care and diligence we apply to the security of our own data. However, we cannot and do not guarantee absolute security against hackers or others applying criminal tactics.

If the user has any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or user's dealings with this Web site, the user can contact: infoplease@ReportACriminal.com .