Privacy Policy


Effective December 16, 2006:
Version 1.1

About Birthday-Book.com
Birthday-Book.com is a service that allows members to create and maintain personal profiles online in order to remember birthday information of friends, family and associates.

Birthday-Book.com cares deeply about online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@birthday-book.com.

Information Collection and Use by Birthday-Book.com
Birthday-Book.com collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and birth date to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Birthday-Book.com service. Birthday-Book.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: gender, city and country in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

Birthday-Book.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes
User Profile information including names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the Birthday-Book.com website. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Birthday-Book, 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 full email address is not shared or displayed to other people within the website. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, Birthday-Book.com allows users to search for other members using first name, surname, date of birth and country. Only users with all matching information will be displayed.

We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service.

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
Birthday-Book members can add friends, family or associates to the service by entering their information. An invitation to activate their account will be sent to the Non-member. Birthday-Book.com 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. Birthday-Book.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders (up to three (3) per email address).

Use of Cookies
Birthday-Book.com 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. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. 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 Birthday-Book.com in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that Birthday-Book 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 Birthday-Book Privacy Policy.

Links
Birthday-Book.com contains links to sites. Birthday-Book.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on Birthday-Book.com.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
Birthday-Book.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as My Account.

Third Party Advertising
Adverts appearing on this website may be delivered to users by Birthday-Book.com 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 Birthday-Book.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Security
Birthday-Book.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. Birthday-Book.com 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. For any additional information about the security measures we use on Birthday-Book.com, please contact us.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information Birthday-Book.com Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, Birthday-Book will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Birthday-Book.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Birthday-Book.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Birthday-Book 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 Birthday-Book 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 website for 30 days.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us via our contact page.

 

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