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Lifebox Privacy Notice
March 2008
About
Lifebox.net
Lifebox.net is an online service that allows our members to set
up unique personal timelines that can be linked together through
networks of friends. Lifebox.net members can view each others' lifeboxes,
communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service,
share photos and videos, comments, and chronicle life events.
To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal
information to other members and visitors, which allows our users
to identify each other and expand their network of friends. Lifebox
members can change their profile information at any time and can
control how other members and the service communicates with them.
Information
Collection and Use by Lifebox.net
Lifebox.net collects user submitted information such as name, email
address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications
to those users relating to the Lifebox.net service. Lifebox.net may
also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal
interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist
users in finding and communicating with each other.
Lifebox.net
also logs non-personally-identifiable information, such as IP address
and browser type, from all users and visitors to the site. This
data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the
website services. User IP addresses are recorded for security and
monitoring purposes.
User
Profile information including members' pictures and first names
are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction
in the Lifebox.net social networking community. Email addresses
are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Lifebox.net,
to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications
related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends,
adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not
shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network.
Users within a personal network communicate on Lifebox.net with
each other through the Lifebox.net service, without disclosing their
email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to
other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances
on the service, Lifebox.net allows users to search for other members
using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies
where users may have attended or worked.
We
may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter
or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email
of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not
send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings".
From
time to time, Lifebox.net or a partner, may sponsor a promotion,
sweepstake or contest on myspace.com. Users may be asked to provide
personal information including name, email address or home address
or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer
personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly
requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point
of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose
privacy statement will apply.
Invitations
and Other Communications to Non-members
Lifebox.net members can invite friends to join the service by sending
invitation emails via our automated invitation system. Lifebox.net
stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents
may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations,
and also to send reminders of the invitations. Lifebox.net does
not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication
besides invitations, invitation reminders (up to three (3) per email
address). Recipients of invitations from Lifebox.net may contact
Lifebox.net to request the removal of their information from our
database.
Lifebox.net
members may also store email addresses of people they know in their
internal Lifebox.net address book and may also choose to send invitations
and other communications to those addresses.
Use
of Cookies
Lifebox.net uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record
session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors
are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize
newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type
and user profile information. You may be able to configure your
browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when
a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help"
menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences
-- however, you must enable cookies from Lifebox.net in order to
use most functions on the site. Please note that Lifebox.net allows
3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some
of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers'
use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the
Lifebox.net Privacy Policy.
Links
Lifebox.net contains links to sites. Lifebox.net is not responsible
for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking
to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on
that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected
on Lifebox.net.
Chat
Rooms, Journals and WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public
Forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information
to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public
Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can
in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Correcting/Updating
or Removing Information
Lifebox.net users may modify or remove any of their personal information
at any time by logging into their account and accessing features
such as Edit Profile and Account Info.
Email
Choice/Opt-out
Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may
choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me notification emails'
in the user profile 'Account Settings'. Users who do not wish to
receive Lifebox.net newsletters may choose not to by selecting 'Do
not send me Lifebox.net newsletters' in the user profile 'Account Settings'.
All notification emails and Lifebox.net newsletters also include
the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in
the future.
Third
Party Advertising
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by Lifebox.net
or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners
may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize
your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In
this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or
others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and
determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad
network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will
be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use
of cookies by Lifebox.net and does not cover the use of cookies
by any advertisers.
Security
Lifebox.net member accounts are secured by member-created passwords.
Lifebox.net takes precautions to insure that member account information
is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information
that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member
information to those employees who need access to perform their
job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical
staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member
account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software
failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member
information at any time..
Sharing
and Disclosure of Information Lifebox.net Collects
Except as described above, Lifebox.net will not disclose personal information
to any third party without a user's explicit permission unless required
by law. Lifebox.net reserves the right to transfer personal information
to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information
as a result of the sale of Lifebox.net or substantially all of its assets
to that successor in interest. For more information see the "Changes
in Our Privacy Policy" section below.
Changes
in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If
we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware
of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is
bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the
site after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going
to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially
different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify
by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.
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