| Privacy Policy | |
Evite ("Evite") Statement on Privacy and Security of Information. The following policy explains our information gathering and dissemination practices. 1. Your Personally Identifiable Information Collected by Evite: When you register with the Evite service, our registration form may require you to give us certain information such as your name, e-mail address, and zip code. Evite will also collect other information you volunteer to us through use of our service. We refer to this information as "Personally Identifiable Information." You may always choose not to provide such Personally Identifiable Information; however, this may limit our ability to provide you with a specific service or particular content. We may also collect demographic and other data, which may include Personally Identifiable Information, generally through surveys and forms which you may or may not choose to participate in. If you place an order for goods on Evite, you may be required to enter your credit card number and information, as well as your shipping address and/or other contact information. 2. My Info Page: If you choose to build a My Info Page you will be required to supply a user name, your gender and your zip code. You will also be asked a series of questions, many, but not all of which are optional, regarding your interests that will allow other Users to search for people like you who share common interests. If you choose, you may allow your responses to these questions to be viewable only by other Users and/or guests who are invited to the same events as you. Evite may capture searches and My Info Pages viewed by you, in order to make suggestions to you regarding what activities or topics might be of interest to you, and in order to build your “network” of contacts. You may also contact other Users through their My Info Page, and Evite will hide your email address, by directing your message to the User’s Inbox. 3. Your Personally Identifiable Information Collected by Third Parties: Evite works with third-party advertising companies to place advertising on our site and in e-mail communications sent to our registered users and to recipients of invitations, Reminders, and other communications related to the Evite service. Information about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad, may be used to serve advertising to you on this site. Evite may correlate or match registered Users' information, including Personally Identifiable Information, with information held by our third-party advertising companies to target ads to Evite users most likely to be interested in them, improving both the users' experience and the effectiveness of the ads. These third-party advertising companies also may read or set cookies on your hard drive, use pixel tags, track which ads you have viewed, or collect other information about you. From time to time, Evite may also have special offers or promotions that are sponsored by a third party. In order to participate in these offers, you may be required to follow a separate registration process. Sometimes Evite will pass your Personally Identifiable Information to a third party, if you consent to receive information from a third party, through an opt-in or opt-out process. Evite may also offer goods or services for purchase available by third parties. If you purchase goods or services offered through Evite by such third parties, then you may be required to submit Personally Identifiable Information in order to complete the transaction and Evite may provide your Personally Identifiable Information to such third parties for that purpose. In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with another company in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages that appear the same as or very similar to the pages of the Evite service. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these companies are known as “Co-Branded Companies.” If the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such Co-Branded Companies in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us. We have contracted with Overture services, Inc. ("Overture") to monitor certain pages of our Web site for the purpose of reporting web traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-throughs', and/or other activities on our site. Where authorized by us, Overture may use cookies, Web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics on our Web site visitors. No personally identifiable data is collected by or transferred to Overture. For more information about how the information collected by Overture is used, please see Overture's privacy policy 4. Guest Contact Information: In order to send messages to your guests through the Evite service, we require that you submit to Evite a current, valid email addresses for your guests. When you send messages to your guests through our service (e.g., an Evite invitation or a Reminder), we collect and retain the e-mail addresses or other pertinent contact information of those persons to whom you send the message. Except as described below in the Section titled "When We May Disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information, Data or Guest Contact Information", we do not sell, share or otherwise provide the guest contact information you submit to Evite to any third party. 5. Cookies: We use cookies, which are strings of text and numbers that can identify your computer to us when you visit our site, and which may be correlated with your Personally Identifiable Information in our log files. 6. IP Address: When you visit our site, we log standard information such as your IP address, which is a number that can be used to identify your location and Internet Service Provider, along with the URL from which you came to our site and the URLs visited on our site. A URL is the full address of a Web site page, which may or may not contain some Personally Identifiable Information about the person who is viewing it. When we send messages to you or others, we may provide a URL link to the Evite site that contains an alphanumeric identifier, which allows us to identify the person to whom we sent the message so that we can personalize our content for that individual. 7. Pixel Tags: Evite uses pixel tags to gather information about the e-mails we send to our registered users and to recipients of messages. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files, not visible to the human eye, that are included in our HTML-encoded e-mail messages. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient's computer will access our server to retrieve the pixel tag file, allowing us to record and store, along with your e-mail address, the date and time the recipient viewed the invite or reminder, that the recipient's e-mail program is capable of receiving HTML-encoded e-mail, and other standard logging information. The pixel tag also may see or read cookies. For more information about cookies and how to disable their use, see the section below on "Use of Cookies." Use of Information 1. Use Of Your Personally Identifiable Information by Evite: Evite does not sell, share or otherwise provide any "Personally Identifiable Information" you give to us with any third party without your consent, which may be obtained through an opt-in or opt-out request, unless required by law, court order or as required to technically operate the service, or to complete a transaction or order. Evite does reserve the right to share your Personally Identifiable Information with its parent, subsidiary or affiliated entities. We use the collected Personally Identifiable Information to schedule events for you, to contact the recipients on your Evite list, to contact you in connection with your transactions, posting and other activities on the site, to forward to you messages from other Users, to communicate with you about events or activities in your area and to operate the Evite service. These types of communications as may contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers. Each communication we send to you, other than communications sent to you for the sole purpose of addressing a technical or operational issue regarding the Evite service, will give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving further communications from us. In addition, we use your Personally Identifiable Information to help us provide you with personalized content, advertising, and commercial messages (collectively, "Content"). 2. Use Of Your Personally Identifiable Information By Other Users: Users and/or guests invited to the same events as you will be able to view the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide on your My Info Page. You also may choose to have the Personally Identifiable Information you supply on your My Info Page viewable to Evite users in general. In addition, other Users may choose to email you. However, to ensure your privacy, Evite will not display or give out your e-mail address or any other contact information. We have developed a Message Center that uses a "double-blind" e-mail system, which hides the email addresses of both the sender and recipient of email messages to protect the privacy of both the sender and receiver. When using the Message Center, it is up to you to choose when you are comfortable disclosing your e-mail address, or any other contact information, to others through private communications. 3. Use Of Your Personally Identifiable Information By Third Parties: PLEASE NOTE: The privacy practices of advertisers and other companies who provide services or advertising through our site are not covered by this privacy policy. Please contact those companies directly for more information about their privacy practices. If you wish to prevent those companies from setting cookies on your browser, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to warn you before setting a cookie. Disabling cookies set by companies whose products or services are advertised on this site should not affect your ability to use this site. 4. Use Of Guest Contact Information: We use your guests' contact information to allow them to respond to and comment on your Evite invitation. At your request, we may send reminders to your guests and display their e-mail addresses to your other guests. We also may send a post-event e-mail to you and your guests. If you use our Reminders service, we use the information you provide in your Reminders to send it to you and others to whom you have requested it be sent. Evite does not sell, share or otherwise provide any guests’ contact information you give to us with any third party without your consent, unless required by law, court order or as required to technically operate the service. You may delete your e-mail address from the guest list by requesting to be removed from the guest list on the invitation page. Once your e-mail address is removed from the guest list, it will no longer be accessible to other guests (unless you are subsequently invited to another party, in which case your e-mail address will be accessible to guests of the new event). 5. Use Of Cookies: We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, among other purposes. You can always choose not to accept cookies through your browser's preference options, but you may not be able to use some of our services if you do not accept cookies. In addition, if you receive a cookie from Evite when you open an e-mail communication related to the service, you may delete the cookie and disable further cookies from Evite by clicking here. Please note that Evite must set one cookie to disable further cookies. As described in more detail above, we use outside ad companies to display ads through our service. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad companies, and we do not have access to this information. Likewise, some of our partners may use cookies. We do not control their use of cookies nor have access to the information contained in or related to those cookies. Please contact those companies directly for more information about their privacy practices. 6. Use Of IP Addresses: We use your IP Address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site and otherwise provide our service to you. IP addresses may be disclosed to a third party if Evite believes in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or to protect the rights or property of Evite or others. In addition, our third-party advertising companies may use information derived from your IP address, such as conducting a reverse domain name lookup, in order to provide advertisements more tailored to your interests. When We May Disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information, Data or Guest Contact Information Evite may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information, the contents of your private communications, or the contact information of your guests if required to do so by law or court order. Your Personally Identifiable Information may also be disclosed if necessary in order to complete a transaction such as the fulfillment of an order or purchase placed by you. Also, certain technical processing of e-mail messages and their content may be required to: (1) send and receive messages; (2) conform to connecting networks' technical requirements; (3) conform to the limitations of the Service; or (4) conform to other similar requirements. It is possible that as we continue to develop our Web site and our business, Evite and/or related assets might be acquired. In such a transaction, customer information may be transferred to the acquiring entity. Security This site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control and we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by the Evite service in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, but we cannot guarantee complete security. Other Web Sites; Links This Web site contains links to other Web sites. Evite is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Opt-Out/Correct/Delete/Deactivate While Evite does not give users the opportunity to remove their information from our database, you may remove your registration information from your my Info page as described below. In addition, you may elect not to receive future communications from Evite or to discontinue use of our service. If you are a registered user, please visit the My Account page of our Web site, login, and uncheck the box related to sending information to you via e-mail. If you are not a registered user but are a recipient of an Evite invitation, you may delete your e-mail address from the guest list by requesting to be removed from the guest list on the invitation page. Evite allows its users the option to change information previously provided. This may be done through the following method: 1. Visit Evite and log in 2. Click on the Account link 3. Change the relevant information Changes to this Policy This policy may change from time to time. If we make any substantive changes to the policy in the future with regard to how we use your information, we will notify registered users who have agreed to receive the Evite newsletter through that newsletter. For those users who have not agreed to accept the newsletter, substantive changes will be posted on the site in this location, and the date of the changes will be noted on the Web site for a period of time. Your continued use of the site after the changes are posted constitutes your agreement to the changes with regard to information collected in the past and in the future from you. If you do not agree to the changes, you may opt-out as described above. Contacting the Web Site We strive to do everything we can to protect the privacy of our users. Please feel free to share any comments and concerns with us. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: Privacy Officer Evite 3731 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90010 legal@evite.com LAST REVISED ON: November 1, 2003 | |