This Privacy Policy will explain:
This Site is offered and made available only to users 13 years of age or older. If you are not yet 13 years old or the required greater age for certain features, you must discontinue using the Site immediately. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you must discontinue using this Site immediately.
Children under the age of 13 that are unknowingly registered on the Site, are in violation of the Terms of Service Agreement. Parents of children can send us an email to terminate their children’s’ accounts. If you are a parent and wish to do so, please use the contact form and provide us with your child’s Username.
We are committed to protecting users’ privacy, keeping the Personal Information you share with us on the SquidSpace.com secure, and ensuring your understanding of how we collect, use, disclose and maintain your Personal Information. We maintain reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your Personal Information and will continue to put forth the effort and ensure the protection of your Personal Information.
1. Collection and Use of Personal Information
When we use the term “Personal Information” we mean information such as your first middle initial or name and last name, instant-messenger nickname, blog or other personal website URL, date of birth, e-mail address and any other information that would allow someone to identify you or contact you. Personal Information also includes information about your personal preferences, game play preferences, lists of your friends and their email addresses, instant-messenger nicknames or other personal identifiable information that you may add to such friend lists, survey responses and your transactions or relationship with us. By installing our applications on the Social Networks, Myspace, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, you agree to allow us to store or display ONLY your profile picture.
We collect Personal Information about you when you register with SquidSpace.com. We collect your profile name and picture when you install our applications. However, you may choose to terminate your relationship with us and remove all traces of your information stored in our database, by using this contact form
a. Collection of Personal Information during Registration. To the extent we offer user registration for the Site, to register as a member of the Site, you are required to select a user name and password , and your email address, first and last name, gender, date of birth, and country. Additional Personal Information may be requested during the registration process (but not required), such as your interests, games you like, and gender. We will allow you to change the password portion of your User ID, as well as certain other Personal Information you have given us in order to keep your information current. However, you only may change your username by contacting us directly.All registered user member benefits are free. We may offer promotions or bonuses to some users who wish to fulfill a subscription. As a registered user of the Site, we will send you free email newletters and other periodic information. You may choose to
opt-out either in your user profile or in the email.You will also have the right to opt-out (unsubscribe) or change your preferences at any time by logging in with your User ID and changing the settings in your account.
b. Sharing of Aggregate Information with Third Parties. Some of the aggregate user data we collect may be shared with Advertisers, our Affiliates, and other business partners of the Site, its Parent Companies, andor its Affiliates, but we do not give any Personal Information to them as part of the relationship except as described in this Privacy Policy. Use of their tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies. For instance, Advertisers may place cookies in your browser, which will record your location and type of browser; however, we will not sell or distribute your personal information to them.
c. Use of Message Boards. If you use any of the Message Board features and functions made available on or through the Site, please remember that any information disclosed in these venues may be automatically made public. You should exercise caution when disclosing any Personal Information in the Message Board, as you do not know who will access and use your Personal Information or for what purposes. SquidSpace.com is in no way responsible for the accuracy, use, or misuse of any information, including Personal Information, that you disclose or receive through these venues and you should assume that any disclosure you do make in these venues will be available publicly, even without your knowledge or authorization.
d. Online Chatting: Persons under the age of 13 may not be eligible to use our Chat feature and are in direct violation of the Site’s Terms of Service Agreement. We have a filtering system in our chat rooms, which provide safe and clean chat rooms. If you do not feel comfortable with our chat system, you may choose to block specific members, log out of your user name, or terminate your account.
2. Cookies and Other Aggregate Data
We use ‘cookie’ technology to collect data regarding your visits to the Site. This data is not particular to you, and does not record your individual presence. We use it to:
3. Privacy of Your Information.
We reserve the right to monitor, edit, and disclose your use of the Site or Confidential Personal Information to a third party, if we believe such action is required by law or is necessary to protect and defend our rights, to enforce this Privacy Policy or the terms of the Terms of Service Agreement, or to protect the interests of our users.
4. User’s Rights
We reserve the right to deny access, use and registration privileges to any user.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or if you do not understand any information about how we collect, maintain, use or share your Personal Information, you may contact us.
This Privacy Policy was last modified on April 2, 2009 and is effective immediately.