Privacy
Stuffable.com Privacy Policy
January 24, 2007
We built Stuffable.com to make it easy to show off your stuff, make friends and start groups with people around the world. We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on Stuffable; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your networks and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about. At any time you are able to give access to more or less information.
At Stuffable we believe:
1. You should be in control of your information.
Stuffable gives you the platform that allows you to show your stuff off online and helps you share information with your friends and people around you. It is always your choice what to display in your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, interests and groups you join.
2. You should have access to the information others want to share.
There is a large amount of information on the internet, and on Stuffable. Our goal is to provide you with tools to share, sort, organize and easily access that information that relates to you, your friends, and people around you.
Sharing information with Stuffable should also be cinch - we provide you with great privacy tools necessary to control how and with whom you share that information. If you have questions or ideas, please send them to privacy@Stuffable.com.
Stuffable’s Privacy Policy
Stuffable’s Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using Stuffable located at www.Stuffable.com (”Stuffable” or “Web Site”).
By using or accessing Stuffable, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions.
Information We Collect
When you visit Stuffable you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.
When you register with Stuffable, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your zip code, your gender, your age, and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.
When you enter Stuffable, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Stuffable visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to Stuffable. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
When you use Stuffable, you may form relationships, send messages, comment, perform searches and queries, form groups, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior comments you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.
You post User Content (as defined in the Stuffable Terms and Conditions) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that user content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on Stuffable is a violation of the Stuffable Terms and Conditions and should be reported to privacy@Stuffable.com.
If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Stuffable stores this information to send this one-time email, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at info@Stuffable.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
By using Stuffable, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Children Under Age 13
Stuffable does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on Stuffable. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@Stuffable.com.
Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
Use of Information Obtained by Stuffable
When you register with Stuffable, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on Stuffable. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by Stuffable that we think you may find valuable.
Profile information is used by Stuffable primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings.
Stuffable may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people have certain items and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you Stuffable. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they’re more likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you put a favorite toy in your profile, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a new similar toy that has just come out.
Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
Stuffable is about showing off your stuff to others - friends, groups and peers - while providing you with controls that restrict other third parties from accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to friends and networks through Stuffable. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is
1) reasonably necessary to offer the service or,
2) legally required. We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about Stuffable, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the Stuffable-specified purposes.
In conjunction with the use of the Stuffable Platform, third parties who agree to abide by the Stuffable Platform Terms and Conditions, including restrictions on access, storage and use of such data, may have limited access to your personal information. We have undertaken contractual and technical steps to restrict possible misuse of such information by such third parties, but of course cannot and do not guarantee that all third parties will abide by such agreements. Please report any suspected misuse of information through the Stuffable Platform here and we will investigate any such claim and take appropriate action against the third party. You may opt-out of any sharing of information through the Stuffable Platform by sending an email to thridpartyoptout@stuffable.com.
We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Stuffable service or using the Stuffable name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through sponsored groups or other on-site offers.
We may offer stores, promotions or provide services jointly with other companies on Stuffable. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on Stuffable, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.
Links
Stuffable may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Stuffable.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on Stuffable are sometimes delivered (or “served”) directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and “web beacons” (also known as “1×1 gifs”) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. Stuffable does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on Stuffable unless you choose to share it with them.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Stuffable and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on Stuffable is readily available through the profile editing tools. Stuffable users may modify or remove any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of Stuffable.
Security
Stuffable takes appropriate precautions to protect our users’ information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of Stuffable Web Site, please contact us at privacy@Stuffable.com to set up secure communications.
Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
If you choose to visit Stuffable, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of, and application of law of the state of Virginia. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy’s effective date. We therefore encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@Stuffable.com.