Privacy Policy

Yuvah’s Privacy Policy

Effective December 12, 2008

 

 

This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you how we collect and use the Personally Identifiable Information such as your full name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, or credit card information (“PII”) and non-Personally Identifiable Information (“Non-PII”) that you voluntarily provide to us when you use the Service. The PII and Non-PII are collectively referred to as personal information.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect industry initiatives or changes in the law, or changes in our collection and use practices. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. Your continued use of the Service after we post a revised Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the revised Privacy Policy, do not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Service or the Site.

 
User Consent

By submitting personal information through our Sites, you agree to abide by the terms of this Privacy Policy and expressly consent to the processing of your personal information according to this Privacy Policy. Your personal information may be processed by us in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States of America) where laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.

Collection of PII and Non-PII

 

We collect PII that you submit to us voluntarily when you register as a member of Yuvah. We also collect Non-PII that you, as a member, choose to provide or store in your profile, including but not limited to date of birth, interests, hobbies, lifestyle choices, groups with whom you are affiliated (schools, companies), videos and/or pictures, private messages, bulletins or personal statements.  

 

We collect Non-PII such as Internet Protocol Address (IP Address), browser type, and aggregate user data for all visitors of the Site including members and non-members. An IP Address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases your IP Address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP Address probably varies from session to session. We track your IP Address when you login to the Site.

If you send SMS, MMS, or text messages to the Service, we will collect the telephone number (if any) from which such communication was sent.

 

We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and viewed, or on which of the advertisements displayed on the Site you clicked. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that a web site sends to your computer's hard drive while you are viewing a web site. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Site. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. If you choose to disable Cookies, some areas of the Site may not work properly.

 

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email inviting him or her to visit the site. We store this information to send these invitations, 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 help@yuvah.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

We may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, and instant messaging services in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.

 

Children Under Age 13

We do 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 attempt to register with us or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 shall provide any personal information to us. 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.

Use of information

When you register with us, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Any visitor of the Site can view your profile information and photos that you have uploaded to the Service. You can control what part of your profile information and photos is visible to visitors of the Site. 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 Yuvah.

 

We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by us that we think you may find valuable.

 

To provide you with some of the features that we offer to our members, we may use PII that is stored in your profile after you have requested such features, for example, to send invitation emails to people that you specified as being interested in joining us. In order to provide useful information about social networks to people who might be interested in joining us, we may use your profile information and photos on the Site when we send emails, for example, when we send birthday reminders to our members or when we send general newsletters to our members.  When you decide to view a member's profile, we may show that member that you chose to view his/her profile. If you don't want us to show to other members that you viewed their profiles, you can change this in your privacy settings. When you provide us with your telephone number, we may use the telephone number to send you the communications that you have requested to receive.

 

Our members can use the search feature to search for other members by different criteria, like location or gender. The PII that our members enter into their profiles will be used for these searches. Please note that if you choose to show your location, as provided by you or by the Carrier of the mobile device you are using, the information that is provided to the Services by the Carrier about your location will be used within your member profile and can be viewed and searched by other members and visitors of the Sites.

 
Information Sharing with Third Parties

We allow you to choose the personal information you provide to friends through the Service. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your personal information. We do not provide contact information to third parties without your permission. We share your personal information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you.

We may provide your personal information to third party service providers who work on behalf of or with us under confidentiality agreements to provide some of the services and features offered by us and to help us communicate with our members. These service providers may use your PII to communicate with you about offers and services from us and our marketing partners. However, these service providers do not have any independent right to share this information.  Please understand that the handling of your PII by our partners or the third-party advertising companies is governed by their privacy policy, not ours.

 
We may be required to disclose your personal information pursuant to a lawful request such as subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may also disclose your personal information, if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal activities or fraud, situations involving the physical safety of any person, violations of hi5's terms of use, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business is acquired by another company, that company will possess your personal information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Links

We may contain links to other websites for your convenience. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. When you leave our site, you should read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

 

 

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on the Service are sometimes delivered 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 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. We do 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 Yuvah unless you choose to share it with them. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by us and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of the third party advertisers.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Newsletter, that are considered part of your account. If you would like to opt out of certain messages, you can log into your account and make appropriate changes. You also has the option to delete your account.

Confidentiality and Security

 
We limit access to personal information about you to employees and third parties who we reasonably believe need access to that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you and your account information is protected by a password that you select. However, no company, including us, can fully eliminate security risks associated with personal information.