Privacy   Effective May 16, 2007 Privacy Policy Dancebubble.com is designed to make it easy to share information with dancers, friends, and people around you. Dancebubble.com members can view each others' profiles, communicate with dancers, meet new friends, share photos, share videos, post journals and comments, and describe their interests. To enrich the Dancebubble.com member experience we request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which makes it possible for users to identify each other and expand their network of dancers. Dancebubble.com cares deeply about on line privacy which is why we give you control of your personal information through our privacy settings. For example, Dancebubble.com allows you to keep your last name, email address, birth date and other personal information Private so that other users cannot view it or access it. Dancebubble.com does not ask for your telephone number or street address. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION Dancebubble.com takes protecting your information very seriously. Dancebubble.com uses the HACKER SAFE ® service to ensure and protect your information from unauthorized access. HACKER SAFE ® is the world's leading certification mark and is displayed on over 75,000 web sites worldwide. HACKER SAFE ® certified sites include some of the largest brands in e-commerce as well as banks, universities, Fortune 500 Companies, state, county, and city governments as well as non-profit institutions. HACKER SAFE ® security benefits available through Dancebubble.com include a) expertly managed scanning, notification, and remediation activity, b) continuous validation of perimeter security to industry standards. HACKER SAFE ® certification is achieved by passing rigorous daily network security audits, comprised of Dynamic Port Scanning, Port-Level Network Services Vulnerability Testing, and Web Application Vulnerability Testing. ScanAlert's security auditing technology allows the HACKER SAFE ® Certification Badge to appear ONLY when a web site's current security status meets the highest published government standards. Dancebubble.com meets these security standards on a daily basis as shown by our HACKER SAFE ® Certification Badge on the Dancebubble.com Homepage. Please remember that no security system is considered perfect or impenetrable, but Dancebubble.com has taken every step available to make our network and website as safe as the Internet will allow. To learn more about HACKER SAFE ® security systems please visit www.hackersafe.com. INFORMATION COLLECTION Dancebubble.com collects User Submitted Content/Information such as name, email address, profile information, and age to generate a unique profile for each user. Dancebubble.com also collects other profile information including, but not limited to: personal interests, gender, education, and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other. Dancebubble.com also collects non-personally-identifiable information including but not limited to IP addresses, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type from users and visitors to the Dancebubble.com website. This non-personally-identifiable information may or may not be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. This type of information is also recorded for security and monitoring purposes. In addition, Dancebubble.com stores information from your browser using “cookies.” We may or may not user session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. You can remove or block cookies using the settings on your browser, but some areas of the Dancebubble.com website may or may not load properly or efficiently. You post User Content on the Dancebubble.com website at your own risk. Although we allow you to set the privacy options that limit access to your Dancebubble.com profile, please understand that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Dancebubble.com cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you choose to share your personal information with. Therefor we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Submitted Content posted on Dancebubble.com will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 14 AND 18 Dancebubble.com does not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of fourteen or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under the age of fourteen, do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name or email address. Any and all registration made by any persons under the age of fourteen is considered unauthorized. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of fourteen please contact us immediately. Dancebubble.com also recommends that minors over the age of fourteen and under the age of eighteen ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves over the Internet. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES Dancebubble.com allows you to choose the information you provide to us. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties in limited circumstances if we believe such sharing is a) reasonably necessary to offer the service b) legally required c) permitted by you. When registering at Dancebubble.com you grant Dancebubble.com the right to provide you with information we think might be valuable to you. Dancebubble.com reserves the right to allow third party advertisements on any or all of the Dancebubble.com website, including but not limited to sponsored links, emails, or other forms of marketing. These third parties may or may not have limited access to your contact information, Dancebubble.com has undertaken contractual and technical steps to restrict possible misuse of such information by third parties, but we cannot and do not guarantee that all third parties with abide by such agreements. Please report any suspected misuse of information though the Dancebubble.com website immediately and we will take appropriate legal action against such third party. Advertisements that appear on Dancebubble.com are sometimes delivered directly to users by third party marketers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may or may not also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize their advertising content. Dancebubble.com does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information unless you choose to share it with them. You may opt-out of any sharing of any information through Dancebubble.com by not registering. LINKS Dancebubble.com contains links to other websites. We take no responsibility for the privacy practices of other websites. Please understand that when you click a sponsored link or advertisement from a third party that takes you outside of Dancebubble.com you do so at your own risk. This privacy policy only applies to the Dancebubble.com website and the Dancebubble.com Service. CHANGING, UPDATING, OR REMOVING INFORMATION Access and control over the User Submitted Personal Information is readily available through the profile editing tools. Dancebubble.com members can modify or remove any or all of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and editing their profiles. Upon editing the changes to your profile will take place immediately, however there may be backup copies stored for a reasonable amount of time, these copies are not available to members of Dancebubble.com. It is always possible that other Dancebubble.com users have had access to and have printed, downloaded, or copied the information you choose to share. We cannot control or monitor the actions or activities of such Users. Please be careful with what you decide to post on the Internet. SECURITY Dancebubble.com accounts are secured by member-created user names and passwords. Dancebubble.com takes precautions to ensure that member account information is kept private. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall, and our network and services are scanned on a daily basis by HACKER SAFE ® . We may or may not use Secure Socket Layer technology (SSL) to encrypt certain sensitive information. 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. TERMS OF USE, NOTICES, AND REVISIONS Your use of Dancebubble.com, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. 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 new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We 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. © Copyright 2007 Dancebubble.com, Inc.