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JoinCafe.com, Inc.
JoinCafe.com, Inc. (hereinafter "JoinCafe") shares your concern about
personal privacy. JoinCafe recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and
others (collectively or individually, the "Users") who use the http://JoinCafe.com
website (the "Website") value their privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines
important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information
collected via the Website. JoinCafe provides this Privacy Policy to help Users
make an informed decision as to whether to use or continue using the Website.
1. General
By reference, this Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to
the JoinCafe Terms of Use. Your use of the Website and any personal information
you provide via the Website or through other official JoinCafe contact remains
subject to this Privacy Policy, as well as the JoinCafe Terms of Use, and/or
other governing JoinCafe policies.
You are informed that any photograph, image, graphic, video or other
content posted by Users onto the Website becomes published news or informational
content, or the like, and is not considered personally identifiable information
subject to this Privacy Policy.
2. Collected Information
JoinCafe may collect personal information and data including, but not
limited to, application and Website usage data, file transfer and viewing data,
email and personal contact information, and other identifiable information.
JoinCafe may use technological means for tagging and tracking data including,
but not limited to, harmless cookies, clear .GIFs, and other technologies to
track and correlate data.
Specifically, but not limited to, the following information is collected:
a. User Provided Data: Users may provide personally identifiable
information (such as a name and an email address) to JoinCafe when choosing to
participate in the various services available on the Website, such as uploading
videos and/or images or other content (collectively, the "Content") for public
viewing interests, entering contests, accessing promotions, responding to
surveys, accessing interactive forums, or other personalized services
(collectively, the "Services").
b. Cookies: Cookies, a harmless small text file containing a string of
alphanumeric characters, are deployed to your computer so as to uniquely
identify your presence and use. JoinCafe may use session cookies and persistent
cookies for the purpose of tracking various important data. Use of these cookies
can also help to speed your access to the Website as they serve as 'reminders'
as to who you are to our programming. While we recommend that you allow these
cookies to perform their tasks, you may adjust your computer's settings to
restrict or refuse them. However, some features or sections of the Website may
not function properly, or not all, if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
c. Clear .GIFs: JoinCafe may choose to utilize "clear .GIFs" to track the
online usage patterns of our Users in a non-personally identifiable manner.
Additionally, JoinCafe may also use clear .GIFs in HTML-based emails dispatched
to Users so as to track which emails are being opened by the recipients. This
act helps JoinCafe to determine active and inactive email addresses.
d. Log File Data: When Users log-in to their JoinCafe account, our servers
will automatically record and archive certain information that web-browsers send
whenever visiting a website. These server logs may include information vital to
validating the User's authorization to access the account. Information, such as
a Web request, Internet Protocol (the "IP") address, browser type, browser
language, referring pages, exit pages and visited URLs, platform type, click
counts, pages viewed and in what order, time spent, the date and time of the
request, and other important data is necessary to validate and authorize a
User's entry and activity on the Website.
3. Information Uses
a. Personally identifiable information submitted by a User is used to
operate, maintain, and provide features, general and unique, of the Website for
the User's use and pleasure.
b. All personal information, data, or content that you, the User,
voluntarily disclose to the Website public areas become available to other Users
and can be collected and used by others. Your account Username is displayed to
other Users when you upload videos or other Content, or send messages through
the Website and other Users can contact you through interactive messages and
commenting. Any Content that you submit (the "User Submission") may be
redistributed throughout the Internet and other media channels, and/or may be
viewed by the general public through other means not controlled by JoinCafe.
c. JoinCafe does use your personally identifiable and certain
non-personally identifiable information, such as but not limited to, anonymous
User usage data, browser type, cookies, IP addresses, clickstream data, and the
like, to improve the quality and use designs of the Website through analysis of
this data and trends.
d. JoinCafe uses clear .GIFs and log file data to: (i) provide custom
content and preferences; (ii) remember information necessary for logging in to
your Website account so as to save you time in re-entering such information;
(iii) monitor the impact and effectiveness of JoinCafe marketing efforts; (iv)
monitor aggregate metrics providing detailed data on User activities while on
the Website; (v) track your submissions, entries, and status.
4. Disclosure of Information
a. JoinCafe provides personally identifiable and non-personally
identifiable information on Users to subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and
other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on
behalf of JoinCafe. At all times, these parties are required to agree to process
such information in compliance with this Privacy Policy, and we deploy
reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information.
b. JoinCafe reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable and/or
non-personally identifiable information that is believed, in good faith, to be
appropriate or necessary for the purpose of enforcing the JoinCafe Terms of
Service, or other governing JoinCafe policies. Other causes of release of data
may be due to, but not limited to: (i) taking precautions against liability
issues; (ii) to assist government enforcement agencies; (iii) to investigate and
defend JoinCafe against third party claims or allegations; (iv) to protect the
security or integrity of the Website and/or Services; and/or (v) to protect the
rights, property, or personal safety of JoinCafe, Users of the Website, or
others.
c. JoinCafe does not share your personally identifiable information with
other non-affiliated third party companies for their commercial use or marketing
use without your consent, except as part of a specific program, feature, or
campaign for which you will have the ability to opt-out.
d. JoinCafe does share non-personally identifiable information, such as
anonymous User data and traffic data, with interested third parties to assist
them in understanding the usage patterns and trends analysis for certain
content, advertisements, promotions, services, and/or functionality of the
Website.
e. JoinCafe may release any information available if required to do so by
law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with
law or the powers of government enforcement agencies. Other causes for release
of information could be for needs to comply with copyright laws or to respond to
a court order, subpoena, and/or search warrant.
5. Decline to Accept
You may, of course, decline to submit or allow the submission of
personally identifiable information through the Website, in which case JoinCafe
may not be able to provide certain Services to you, if any at all. You may, at
any time, update or edit your personal profile information and email preferences
by visiting your JoinCafe account profile page. You acknowledge and agree that
any User Submission uploaded by you to the Website cannot be removed by
arbitrary request and said Content remains subject to the Terms of Use.
6. Links and Third Party Advertisers
JoinCafe allows other companies, also referred to as Third Party
Advertisers, Ad Servers, or Ad Networks (collectively, the "Advertisers") to
serve advertisements via the Website. These Advertisers may use technology to
send directly to your Web browser advertisements and links that appear on the
Website. This technology may capture certain non-personally identifiable data,
such as your IP address, etc. This technology may also measure the effectiveness
of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you may view
on the Website.
JoinCafe does not provide any personally identifiable information to these
Advertisers without your consent, except as part of a specific program, feature,
or campaign for which you will have the ability to opt-out. However, should you
click on an Advertiser offering or choose to visit an Advertiser's website,
JoinCafe highly recommends that you consult the respective privacy policy of the
Advertiser for more information on their practices and for instructions on how
to opt-out of certain programs and practices of the Advertiser. JoinCafe's
Privacy Policy does not apply to, nor can JoinCafe control, the activities of
other websites or Advertisers.
7. Data Security
In an effort to provide maximum protection of User's privacy, JoinCafe
routinely utilizes commercially reasonable physical, technical, and managerial
safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information.
However, JoinCafe cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to JoinCafe or place upon the Website and you do so at your own risk.
Once we receive said transmission of personal information, JoinCafe engages
commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems and the
personal information you provided to our custody. This is not a guarantee that
such information may not be accessed, altered, disclosed, or destroyed by breach
of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
8. Children's Privacy
JoinCafe complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of
1998 (COPPA) and does recognize the responsibility to protect the privacy of
young children at all times and to the best of everyone's ability. For that
reason, JoinCafe does not knowingly collect or maintain any information via the
Website from persons under the age of thirteen (13), and no part of our Website
is directed to persons under the age of thirteen (13). If an underage person
provides such information and JoinCafe has unknowingly collected said
information, then JoinCafe will take the appropriate steps to delete this
information.
9. Transfer of Rights
Should JoinCafe be acquired, merged, or endeavor to become closed for
business, JoinCafe reserves the right, in any of these circumstances, to
transfer or assign the information collected, during the due course of business,
from Users of the Website. This information may be held as part of any such
acquisition, merger, sale, or other change of control or business entity status.
In the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of
creditors, insolvency, receivership, reorganization, or the application of laws
or legally recognized enforcements and/or actions, JoinCafe may not be able to
control how Users' personal information is accessed, treated, transferred,
and/or used. In any of these circumstances, you hold harmless and indemnify
JoinCafe owner(s), officers, directors, employees, agents, and assignees from
and against any claims of responsibility, damages, costs, debts, losses,
liabilities, obligations, fees and/or expenses.
10. Contact Information
You may contact JoinCafe Customer Service at:
JoinCafe.com, Inc.
Attention: Customer Service
8 Church Road.
Rexford, New York 15728 USA
Email: info[at]joincafe[dot]com
Toll Free (USA): +1
(718) 577-1279
Direct Dial (International):
+44 (20) 8144 4999
11. Changes and Updates
This Privacy Policy may be revised at will. Such changes, edits,
revisions, and/or updates will be made available by posting updated Privacy
Policies to the Website. All such changed and updated Privacy Policies can be
identified by way of the Date of Modification. You are advised to frequently
visit the JoinCafe Privacy Policy to determine the last Date of Modification so
as to afford you the opportunity to access the most current Privacy Policy.
Regardless of your visitation habits to this Privacy Policy, your continued
access and use of the JoinCafe Website constitutes your agreement to this
Privacy Policy, the JoinCafe Terms of Use, and any other governing policies of
JoinCafe , as well as any future revisions of said legal documents and policies.
12. Communications
On occasion as deemed necessary by JoinCafe (daily, weekly, monthly,
etc.), JoinCafe will send the User various communications, such as email
newsletters or alerts, account updates, and special offers targeted to the
interests of the User. as determined by JoinCafe. Said communications shall
originate from JoinCafe only and shall be conducted in compliance to Section 4,
entitled "Disclosure of Information", of this Privacy Policy. At any time, the
User may modify or entirely opt-out of such communications by accessing the
"Email Options" link as provided in the post-login Administration section of the
User's personal JoinCafe website.
13. Presiding Language
This Agreement and all JoinCafe policies are written and executed in
English, which is considered the prevailing language for purposes of
interpretation or laws of contract. If this Agreement is translated into any
other language, the English version shall be considered the primary binding
legal document.
DATE OF MODIFICATION: May 13, 2008
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