Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 18th, 2010
SUMMARY We
take the privacy of our users very seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy
to learn more about how we treat personally identifiable information. We
provide this Privacy Policy because you have a right to know what information
we collect, how it is protected and used, and the circumstances under which it
may be disclosed. If you have comments, suggestions, questions, or concerns
about our Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at [email protected] or in
writing at: Privacy Director, Community Walk, 880 Lombard Street, San Francisco,
CA 94133. Online
Privacy Standards. While
there are no official standards governing privacy practices on the Internet, we
look to the principles supported by the Federal Trade Commission's Fair
Information Practices Principles for guidance, currently available at
http://www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy3/tos.htm. What
This Policy Covers. This
policy covers Wedding Mapper's treatment of personally identifiable information
that we obtain when you visit our website or use our services. We regard
personally identifiable information as information that someone can use to
identify or contact you in person, such as real name, telephone number, birth
date, email address, or physical mailing address. Information that we use
internally to identify you as a user in our system, such as your selected
username and password, is not considered personally identifiable information. What
This Policy Does Not Cover. This policy does not cover the privacy practices
of third parties that we do not own or control, such as any partners or
advertisers. In addition, we may provide links to other services and on
occasion to other sites that may interest you. All of these sites operate
independently of Wedding Mapper and they may have their own privacy or security
practices. We encourage you to review their policies before submitting any
personal information to them. 1. HOW
WE COLLECT INFORMATION A Information
You Provide Registration
Information.
During the registration process, we collect your first and last name and email
address. We will send you an email to verify that you are the owner of this
address. You will also choose a username and password that we will use to
identify you in our system. Optional
User Profile Information. In the future, we may include optional user profile
information. If we provide that as part of the service, you will be able to
choose to provide us with additional optional information about yourself (for
example, your name, address, age, etc.), which helps us deliver a more
personalized experience to you. This information may be made available in your
publicly available user profile page. Access
To Your Personal Information. In general, we make it easy for you to view your
personally identifiable information in your user profile page, where you can
add, edit, or delete it as you see fit. You can access your user profile page
by logging in at this link: http://tools.weddingmapper.com
and clicking on "User Information." Third Party Advertising
Networks.Some of the advertisements that appear on the WeddingMapper.com web site
are delivered to you by national internet advertising and application company such as Adify.
This company utilizes certain technologies to deliver advertisements and marketing messages and
to collect anonymous information about your visit to our site(s), including information about the
banner ads they display, and cookie they place on your computer and your IP address. To opt out of
information collection by Adify, or to obtain information about the technologies they use or their own
privacy policy, please visit their website at: http://www.adify.com/adify-opt-out-program http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp B. Information
We Do Not Collect Children. As explained further in
our Terms of Service, available at tools.weddingmapper.com/company/policies/terms_of_service,
our website is intended for adults only. You must be 13 years of age or older
to register to use our website. Therefore, we do not knowingly collect
personally identifiable information about children. If you believe that we have
information from or about anyone under 13 years of age, please notify us by
email at [email protected] or write to our Privacy Director at the
address noted above. Social
Security Number.
We do not ask for or require your social security number to use any part of the
Services or to access any part of our site. C. Information
We Track Log
Files.
Similar to many websites, we gather certain anonymous, non-personal information
automatically and store it in web server log files. This information includes
Internet protocol addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP),
site entry/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information to improve our site, analyze trends, administer the
site, track users' movements around the site, and gather aggregate information
about our user base as a whole. Aggregate information is data we collect about
a group or category of services or users from which individual user identities
have been removed, and therefore does not include your personally identifiable
information. Cookies. As you browse the
Wedding Mapper site, cookies are placed on your computer's hard drive. A cookie
is a small text file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored
on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. It can also help us
understand how our site visitors click to our site, and what pages they view
during their visit. Similar to many websites, we store an encrypted cookie on
your computer so we can remember you when you come back to our website without requiring
you to log-in every time. Cookies also allow us to track and understand the
interests of our users to enhance the overall experience on our site. You
can set your web browser software to disable cookies. To do so, please refer to
the help section of your specific browser for more information on how to manage
or disable cookies. If you disable cookies, you may still view our site, but
some areas of our site will not work properly. Some
of our business partners, such as advertisers, may also use cookies on our
site. We have no access to or control over these cookies, and, as noted above,
this privacy policy does not govern the use of cookies by our business partners
or advertisers. 2. HOW
WE USE INFORMATION Communication
of Service-related Announcements. We use emails and/or prominent notifications on
our website as our primary means to inform our users of service-related
announcements from Wedding Mapper. We may use your email address to deliver
important service-related announcements. Example service-related announcements
include: email verification during registration, requests for a password reset,
important security or server maintenance updates, software updates, upgrades,
and new releases, or policy changes. These service-related announcements are
considered a fundamental part of our service, and users cannot opt-out of these
email announcements. On
Our Website. We
may use information provided by you on our website in the following ways: For
Internal Reporting and Internal Analysis. As noted above, we use information gathered
from log files and cookies to improve our site, analyze trends, administer the
site, track users' movements around the site, and to gather aggregate
information about our user base as a whole. We do not tie this data to
personally identifiable information. 3. HOW
WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION On
Our Website. We
may choose to provide a group blog or message board in the future. These
features would allow you to communicate with other users by posting public
messages. Please be aware that what you write in these public messages can be
viewed, collected or used by anyone who visits our website. We are not
responsible for any personally identifiable information that you submit or
permit others to submit through public messages. Sharing,
Renting, and Selling Information We Collect With Third-Parties. Except as described in
this section, we will not rent or sell your personally identifiable information
to third parties without notifying you of our intent to share the information
and giving you an opportunity to prevent your information from being shared. We
occasionally use other companies, agents or contractors to perform services
necessary to our operations. For example, we have partnered with other
companies to develop our website, personalize our web pages and analyze users'
interaction with our site. By contractual agreement, these companies must
treat your information in accordance with this privacy policy. We will not be
liable for any damages that may result from the misuse of your personal information
by these companies. In addition, we share anonymous, non-personal, aggregate
information about our user base with partners or advertisers, and, as mentioned
above, we may publish these aggregate usage statistics on our website for the
interest of our users. We do not tie this shared or published data to
personally identifiable information. As
Necessary In Legal Circumstances. 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 website. As
Necessary In An Acquisition. If our company is acquired, all of our assets,
including user information, may be transferred to the acquiring company. At
that time, your user information may become subject to the acquiring company's
privacy policy. Before we transfer your user information, we will notify you
either by email or by posting a notice on our site. 4. HOW
WE KEEP INFORMATION SECURE Security
of User Profile Information. Your user profile information is
password-protected. We will not share your password with anyone. Please do not
share your password with anyone, and remember to change your password from time
to time, to keep your user information secure. Network
Security.
We have implemented a variety of commercially standard encryption and security
technologies and procedures to protect information, including your personal
information, stored in our computer systems from unauthorized access. Please be
aware that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic
storage, is 100% secure, thus we strive to use commercially acceptable means to
protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee its absolute
security. Management
Procedures.
We also maintain standard physical and electronic procedural safeguards that
limit access to your personally identifiable information to our employees (or
people working on our behalf and under confidentiality agreements) who, through
the course of standard business activities, need to access your personally
identifiable information. 5. YOUR
PERSONAL CHOICES Information
With Other Users.
If we provide a public user profile page in the future, you will be able to
control what personal information about you is shared with other users in your
public user profile, and what information you choose to keep private. You can
view, add, edit, and delete information in your public user profile through
your user profile page. Editing
and Deleting User Profile Information. You can view the personally identifiable
information we have collected from you in your user profile page where you can
add, edit, or delete it as you see fit. You may also request deletion of your
user account through your user profile page. 6. UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY From time to time, we will review and make changes
to our privacy policy. When we do so, we will either notify you by email or
place a notice on our website. Users should check back for updates to this
policy. The most recent version of our privacy policy is always available from
a link on our homepage, and at tools.weddingmapper.com/company/policies/privacy. 7. YOUR CONSENT TO THIS POLICY By using the Wedding Mapper website, you agree to
this privacy policy. This is our entire and exclusive privacy policy and it
supercedes any earlier version. Our Terms of Service take precedence over any
conflicting privacy policy provision. 8. LEGAL DISCLAIMER The Wedding Mapper website operates AS-IS and
AS-AVAILABLE, without liability of any kind. We are not responsible for events
beyond our control. This privacy policy is governed by California law,
excluding conflicts of law principles.