Shindigg.com Privacy Policy
Shindigg does not
send Spam or sell email addresses. Our users control the information they enter
into Shindigg, and may modify or remove this information, cancel their account,
or block future communications from Shindigg, at any time.
Shindigg is a free
web service for sharing event and party information with your friends. To accomplish
this, each Shindigg Member creates his or her own profile, chooses friends to automatically
share events with, creates public or private events, invites people to events, and
RSVPs to events of their choosing. The following policy explains our information
gathering and dissemination practices.
Information Collected
1. Your Personally
Identifiable Information Collected by Shindigg:
When you register
with the Shindigg service, our registration form may require you to give us certain
information such as your name, email address, and postal code. Shindigg will also
collect other information you volunteer to us through use of our service. We refer
to this information as "Personally Identifiable Information." You may always choose
not to provide such Personally Identifiable Information; however, this may limit
our ability to provide you with a specific service or particular content. We may
also collect demographic and other data, which may include Personally Identifiable
Information, generally through surveys and forms which you may or may not choose
to participate in. If you place an order for goods or services through Shindigg,
you may be required to enter your credit card number and information, as well as
your shipping address and/or other contact information.
2. Profile Page:
If you choose to
sign up for a free Shindigg account, you will have a Profile page on the site, containing
your name and some basic demographic information. You may also add additional optional
information to your Profile. You may control what type of Profile information is
shown to others through your Privacy Preferences in your Account Settings. Links
to your Profile Page will be included on other Shindigg pages such as event pages,
which may include links to Profile pages from the guest list entries. If you send
a message to a Shindigg user through Shindigg's internal Messages feature, that
person will be informed of your email address. PLEASE NOTE THAT, REGARDLESS OF WHAT
PERSONAL INFORMATION A MEMBER CHOOSES TO INCLUDE IN HIS OR HER PROFILE, OR WHAT
PRIVACY PREFERENCES HE OR SHE CHOOSES, CERTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT EACH MEMBER WILL
BE INCLUDED IN THAT MEMBER'S PUBLIC PROFILE AND WILL BE ACCESSIBLE TO ANYONE VISITING
THAT PROFILE PAGE ON THE SHINDIGG WEBSITE.
3. Your Personally
Identifiable Information Collected by Shindigg's Business Partners:
Shindigg works with
third-party advertising companies, sponsors and other companies with whom we do
business ("Business Partners") to place advertising on our site and in email communications
sent to our registered users and to recipients of invitations, Reminders, and other
communications related to the Shindigg service. Information about your visit to
this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad, may be used to serve advertising
to you on this site.
Shindigg may correlate
or match registered Users' information, including Personally Identifiable Information,
with information held by our Business Partners to target ads or otherwise improve
the effectiveness of our service. Our Business Partners may read or set cookies
on your hard drive, use pixel tags, track which ads you have viewed, or collect
other information about you.
From time to time,
Shindigg may also have special offers or promotions that are sponsored by a Business
Partner. In order to participate in these offers, you may be required to follow
a separate registration process. If you consent to receive information from a Business
Partner, through an opt-in or opt-out process, Shindigg may pass your information
to such Business Partner.
Shindigg may also
offer goods or services for purchase available by our Business Partners. If you
purchase goods or services offered through Shindigg by a Business Partner, then
you may be required to submit Personally Identifiable Information in order to complete
the transaction and Shindigg may provide your Personally Identifiable Information
to such Business Partner for that purpose.
In some cases, we
may enter into a promotional relationship with a Business Partner in which we prominently
display their brand name or trademarks on pages that appear the same as or very
similar to the pages of the Shindigg service. These pages are known as "Co-Branded
Pages" and these particular Business Partners are known as "Co-Branded Business
Partners." If the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or
was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your
personal information with the associated Co-Branded Business Partner. Co-Branded
Business Partners may use your personal information in accordance with their own
privacy policies. Shindigg disclaims all liability for the privacy policies and
procedures on any Business Partner or Co-Branded Business Partner Web site. You
will need to contact the Co-Branded Business Partner to instruct them directly regarding
your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally,
you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such
Co-Branded Business Partners in the same manner in which we are entitled to use
and disclose any other information you submit to us (see Use of Your Personally
Identifiable Information by Business Partners below).
4. Guest Contact
Information:
In order to send
messages to your guests through the Shindigg service, we require that you submit
to Shindigg current, valid email addresses for your guests. When you send messages
to your guests through our service (e.g., a Shindigg invitation or a Reminder),
we collect and retain the email addresses or other pertinent contact information
of those persons to whom you send the message. Except as described below in the
Section titled "When We May Disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information, Data
or Guest Contact Information", we do not sell, share or otherwise provide the guest
contact information you submit to Shindigg to any third party.
5. Cookies:
Shindigg wants to optimize your experience by ensuring that the most relevant information,
promotions and offers are displayed to you while using the Shindigg web site. A
common manner in which to do this is by placing cookies on your computer. Cookies
are strings of text and numbers that can identify your computer to us when you visit
our site, and which may be correlated with your Personally Identifiable Information
in our log files. In the event a location, like a zip code, is not available in
your profile or you have not searched in a location on Shindigg, we will cookie
your location from your last Shindigg invitation.
6. IP Address:
When you visit our site, we log standard information such as your IP address, which is
a number that can be used to identify your location and Internet Service Provider,
along with the URL from which you came to our site and the URLs visited on our site.
A URL is the full address of a Web site page, which may or may not contain some
Personally Identifiable Information about the person who is viewing it.
When we send messages to you or others, we may provide a URL link to the Shindigg site that contains an
alphanumeric identifier, which allows us to identify the person to whom we sent
the message so that we can personalize our content for that individual.
7. Pixel Tags:
Shindigg may use pixel tags to gather information about the emails we send to our registered
users and to recipients of messages. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files, not visible
to the human eye, that are included in our HTML-encoded email messages. When such
a message is opened in an HTML-capable email program, the recipient's computer will
access our server to retrieve the pixel tag file, allowing us to record and store,
along with your email address, the date and time the recipient viewed the invite
or reminder, that the recipient's email program is capable of receiving HTML-encoded
email, and other standard logging information. The pixel tag also may see or read
cookies. For more information about cookies and how to disable their use, see the
section below on "Use of Cookies."
Use of Information
1. Use Of Your Personally
Identifiable Information by Shindigg:
Shindigg does not sell, share or otherwise provide any "Personally Identifiable Information" you give
to us with any Business Partner without your consent, which may be obtained through
an opt-in or opt-out request (see Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information
by Business Partners below), unless required by law, court order or as required
to technically operate the service, or to complete a transaction or order. Shindigg
does reserve the right to share your Personally Identifiable Information with its
parent, subsidiary or affiliated entities ("affiliated entities" are those companies
owned or controlled by Shindigg's parent company). We use the collected Personally
Identifiable Information to schedule events for you, to contact the recipients on
your Shindigg list, to contact you in connection with your transactions, posting
and other activities on the site, to forward to you messages from other Users, to
communicate with you about events or activities in your area and to operate the
Shindigg service. These types of communications may contain commercial messages,
such as banner ads and special offers. You may control the types of communications
your receive from us via your Notification Preferences. In addition, we use your
Personally Identifiable Information to help us provide you with personalized content,
advertising, and commercial messages (collectively, "Content").
2. Use Of Your Personally
Identifiable Information By Other Users:
Users and/or guests
invited to the same events as you will be able to view your name on the guest list,
which will also link to your Profile Page. In addition, other Users may choose to
email you. However, to ensure your privacy, Shindigg will not display or give out
your email address or any other contact information to other users, unless you send
a message or invitation to that user, or that user already has your email address.
If you send a message to a Shindigg user through Shindigg's internal Messages feature,
that person will be informed of your email address.
3. Use of Your Personally
Identifiable Information by Shindigg's Business Partners:
In order to provide
offers of particular interest to you, Shindigg may share demographic, geographic,
and other Personally Identifiable Information with its Business Partners with your
consent.
PLEASE NOTE: The
privacy practices of advertisers and other companies who provide services or advertising
through our site are not covered by this privacy policy. Please contact those companies
directly for more information about their privacy practices. If you wish to prevent
those companies from setting cookies on your browser, you may set your browser to
refuse cookies or to warn you before setting a cookie. Disabling cookies set by
companies whose products or services are advertised on this site should not affect
your ability to use this site.
4. Use Of Guest
Contact Information:
We use your guests'
contact information to allow them to respond to and comment on your Shindigg invitation.
We may send Reminders to your guests and display their email addresses to your other
guests. We also may send a post-event email to you and your guests. If you use our
Reminders service, we use the information you provide in your Reminders to send
it to you. Shindigg does not sell, share or otherwise provide any guests' contact
information you give to us with any Business Partner, unless required by law, court
order or as required to technically operate the service.
You may delete your
email address from the guest list by requesting to be removed from the guest list
on the event page. Once your email address is removed from the guest list, it will
no longer be accessible to other guests (unless you are subsequently invited to
another party, in which case your email address will be accessible to guests of
the new event).
5. Use Of Cookies:
We use cookies to
deliver content specific to your interests, among other purposes. You can always
choose not to accept cookies through your browser's preference options, but you
may not be able to use some of our services if you do not accept cookies.
As described in
more detail above, Business Partners display ads through our service. These ads
may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies
received with banner ads are collected by our Business Partners, and we do not have
access to this information. Likewise, some of our Business Partners may use cookies.
We do not control their use of cookies nor have access to the information contained
in or related to those cookies. Please contact our Business Partners directly for
more information about their privacy practices.
6. Use Of IP Addresses:
We use your IP Address
to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site and otherwise
provide our service to you. IP addresses may be disclosed to Business Partners if
Shindigg believes in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or to
protect the rights or property of Shindigg or others. In addition, our Business
Partners may use information derived from your IP address, such as conducting a
reverse domain name lookup, in order to provide advertisements more tailored to
your interests.
When We May Disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information, Shindigg Invitation
Content, Data or Guest Contact Information
Shindigg may disclose
your Personally Identifiable Information, the contents of your private communications,
or the contact information of your guests if required to do so by law or court order.
Your Personally Identifiable Information may also be disclosed if necessary in order
to complete a transaction such as the fulfillment of an order or purchase placed
by you. Shindigg will in no way disclose the contents of your Shindigg invitations
other than to the intended recipient(s) unless required (1) by law or court order,
(2) to protect Shindigg's rights and property, (3) to protect against unauthorized
use of the Shindigg site, and (4) during emergencies such as when we believe someone's
physical safety is at risk. Also, certain technical processing of email messages
and their content may be required to: (1) send and receive messages; (2) conform
to connecting networks' technical requirements; (3) conform to the limitations of
the Service; or (4) conform to other similar requirements.
It is possible that
as we continue to develop our Web site and our business, Shindigg and/or related
assets might be acquired. In such a transaction, customer information may be transferred
to the acquiring entity.
Security
This site has industry
standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and integrity of
the information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store
the information collected by the Shindigg service in a secure operating environment
that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. Shindigg
is a free web service for sharing event and party information with your friends.
For the most part, we do not use SSL to encrypt information you send and receive
to and from our website, however, if you use a credit card to make a payment on
the Shindigg site, we use industry-standard SSL to protect the relevant pages. Do
not store highly sensitive information like medical or financial information at
Shindigg.
Other Web Sites;
Links
This Web site contains
links to other Web sites. Shindigg is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of such Web sites.
Opt-Out/Correct/Delete/Deactivate
At any time, you
may edit or remove the information on your Profile Page, cancel your account, or
block future communications from Shindigg, via your My Account page or links at
the bottom of communications sent by Shindigg.
Changes to this
Policy
Shindigg reserves
the right to amend this privacy policy at its sole discretion. If we make any substantive
changes to the policy in the future with regard to how we use your information,
we will notify registered users who have agreed to receive the Shindigg newsletter
through that newsletter. For those users who have not agreed to accept the newsletter,
substantive changes will be posted on the site in this location, and the date of
the changes will be noted on the Web site for a period of time. Your continued use
of the site after the changes are posted constitutes your agreement to the changes
with regard to information collected in the past and in the future from you. If
you do not agree to the changes, you may opt-out as described above.
Contacting the Web
Site
We strive to do
everything we can to protect the privacy of our users. Please feel free to share
any comments and concerns with us. If you have any questions about this privacy
statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you
can contact: privacy@Shindigg.com.
LAST REVISED ON: February 15th, 2007
