Waretoo Privacy Statement
Effective as of 05/24/07
This privacy statement ("Privacy Statement") covers the website http://www.Waretoo.com (the "Site" or "Waretoo"), owned and operated by BeThere, Inc ("BeThere"), and all Waretoo services provided on the Site (the "Service"). By visiting the Site, submitting information or using the Service, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement does not apply to the practices of third parties that BeThere does not own or control, or to individuals that BeThere does not employ or manage. In addition, this Privacy Statement does not govern BeThereis use of any information you provide when you call BeThere, write to BeThere, or communicate with BeThere in any manner other than through the Site. Because the Internet is global, information about you that BeThere collects or that you submit may be transferred to, processed in, and held in countries (including the United States) other than the one in which you reside. Please contact us with questions regarding this Privacy Statement.
About Waretoo and the Information We Collect
Waretoo is an online social events service that allows people to capture their experiences online. To accomplish this, our users create their own profiles, which are shown to the people in their personal network, or if the user so chooses, to the general public. A personal network consists of a user's friends and family as listed by the user on the Site, plus the extended group of people that a user is connected to via chains of mutual friends. Some personal information we ask for is displayed to people within these personal networks.
Information Collected by BeThere
Information Users Submit to BeThere
BeThere collects user-submitted account information such as name and email address to identify users and send notifications related to the use of the Service. For premium accounts, users will be asked to submit financial information such as their credit card number. BeThere also collects user-submitted profile information such as gender, age, occupation, location, etc. This information is collected in order for us to develop, improve, and tailor services to our users and to communicate with certain groups of users based on their profile information. We may also, for example, use it in aggregate form to tell advertisers about our usersi needs and interests. BeThere also collects user-submitted experience accounts, ratings, photos and comments. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of the Site's special features.
Information not Directly Submitted by Users to BeThere
BeThere automatically receives and records certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your Internet Protocol address, internet service provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, browser type and the webpage you request. This information is gathered for all users of the Site. BeThere uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with our server, analyze trends and administer the Site. The Site also automatically collects usage information, such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to the Site and its components. This information is only used in the aggregate.
Use of Information Obtained by BeThere
Information Users Submit to BeThere
Profile information as well as user name, experience accounts, ratings, photos and comments are displayed according to whether a user classifies his or her posting on the Site as (1) private, (2) viewable by his or her personal network, or (3) publicly viewable, to support the function of the Site as an online social events service where users collaborate in the collection of ratings, rankings, and stories about social gatherings. Email address and full name are used when a user invites a friend via email to join the Service, when a user requests to add another user to his or her friends list or when we send notifications to a user related to his or her use of the Service (such as updates or news regarding the Site). Except when inviting or adding friends, a user's email address is not shared or displayed with people within a user's personal network. Users within a personal network communicate with each other through the Service without disclosing email addresses. A user's email address is also used to send notifications when you or other users add or update postings, ask questions create comments, send invitations, reset passwords, create relationships, and create or share threads, as well as when we receive a new user registration and when we receive payments from you. Notifications are only sent from other users that you already connected to.
Information not Directly Submitted by Users to BeThere
We use your server, Internet Protocol address, and browser-type related information in the general administration of the Site.
Sharing of the Information BeThere Collects
As a matter of policy, except where you are expressly informed otherwise, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information, unless we have your consent. However, BeThere may share aggregate usage information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers, subsidiaries, affiliates and other third party service providers only to the extent required for such third parties to provide their services so that BeThere can present to users more targeted advertising, products and services.
We use outside vendors to fulfill various services, such as a financial transaction processing company to bill you for goods and services. When you sign up for one of the services we offer, we will share only that information necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited by contract from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with the law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of BeThere, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if BeThere, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
Except as set forth above, you will be notified through the Service by email and a notice on the web site when your personal information may be shared with third parties.
Links
The Site may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that BeThere is not responsible for the privacy practices, security or the content of other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected on this Site.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on a user's computer tied to information about the user. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie terminates. A persistent cookie is a text file stored on a user's hard drive for an extended period of time. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set by following your Internet browser's "Help" file instructions. However, you must enable cookies from Waretoo in order to use most functions on the Site. Cookies are used to manage sessions on the Site. Waretoo cookies do not collect personal information.
Also, users may optionally use a cookie to remember their password in order to automatically log-in to the Site. We do not use cookies to collect private information that a user did not intentionally submit to us.
This Privacy Statement covers the use of cookies by BeThere and does not cover the use of cookies by any Web advertising partners, third-party ad servers or ad networks.
Correcting, Updating or Removing Information
Waretoo users may access, modify, or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging-in to their accounts and accessing oneis profile. When you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. Deleted posts and email addresses are deleted from our Service immediately. Email addresses for cancelled accounts, however, are kept indefinitely to prevent the unauthorized future opening of a user account using such an email address.
You may request deletion of your Waretoo account by logging-in to your account and accessing Account Info. Please note that some information may remain in our records, such as on back-up tapes, after deletion of your account.
Changes in Our Privacy Statement
BeThere may amend this Privacy Statement at any time, at our sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Statement in effect at the time such information is used. If we change this Privacy Statement, we will post those changes on the Site so users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Invite a Friend
If a user elects to invite a friend to use the Site, we ask them for the friend's email address. BeThere will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to join the Site. BeThere stores this email address for the purpose of automatically adding the recipient to the "friends list" of the user sending the invitation. BeThere does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides these one time invitations. The friend may contact us at support@Waretoo.com to request the removal of this information from our database
Publicly Viewable Posts and Photos
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online in public view on the Site (including, without limitation, classifying any posting on the Site as publicly viewable), that information can be collected and used by others. If you choose to upload a photo to your Profile Page, this photo is publicly viewable. By posting personal information online in public view, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.
Security
Your Waretoo account is password-protected. You need to work to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging-off once you have finished using a shared computer. We use industry standard measures, including Secure Socket Layer (SSL) software, to protect your information both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We limit access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices. If you have any questions about the Site's security, please contact us.
Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on the Site are delivered to users by our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may use cookies. Doing this allows our Web advertising partners to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, our Web advertising partners may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked on. This information allows our Web advertising partners to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. BeThere does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be used by any Web advertising partners, third-party ad servers or ad networks.
Conditions of Use
If you decide to visit the Site, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Statement and our Terms of Service, including limitations on damages and application of California state law.
Questions or Suggestions?
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with BeThere, please contact us at:
BeThere, Inc.
948 Cowper Street, Unit #B
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Email: support@waretoo.com
Your privacy is important to us and we will make every effort to resolve your concerns.