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(LAST REVISED: JANUARY 1, 2010)
Collection
of Information
Shamebox does not require personally
identifiable information from our users when they read or post uploads to
the Site.
Registration
We do not require users
to register in order to view or post messages on the Site.
Shamebox is the sole owner of the information collected on
www.Shamebox.com ("Shamebox"). Shamebox is a licensee of all user-provided
content on Shamebox. Shamebox is the sole owner of the compilation of
content that comprises Shamebox.
Shamebox does not require
personally identifiable information from our users when they read or post
uploades to the Site. There are three circumstances in which personally
identifiable information is collected. These circumstances are listed below in
"Communications from the Site".
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral 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. Shamebox
does not use this information for any purpose other than sending the requested
email and, in the aggregate, evaluating use of the tell-a-friend service.
Your friend may contact us to request that we do not send further
tell-a-friend referrals by using the link in the bottom of the email he or she
receives.
Communications from the Site
Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to
our newsletter(s), we will use your email address to send the newsletter to
you. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter by clicking the "unsubscribe"
link in the newsletter or promotional. We do not send newsletters on any
particular schedule, and we reserve the right to cease sending newsletters at
any time. We will not share your email address with third parties.
Announcements
If you request that a campus be added to
the site using the link on our Contact Us page, we may use your email address
to notify you when the campus you requested is added to the site. We reserve
the right to cease such providing such notice, in which case we will not use
your email address for any other purpose. We will not share your email address
with third parties.Customer Service
We may communicate with you via
email, telephone or postal mail in response to your inquiries, if you provide
that contact information in connection with your inquiry. We may share your
contact information with others as needed to respond to your request. For
example, if you are a reporter, we may share your contact information with our
publicists in order to respond to your inquiry.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated traffic, clickstream and demographic
information (i.e., geographic location based on IP address) about our user
base with our advertisers and potential advertisers. This information does not
identify individual users.
We do not link aggregate user data with
personally identifiable information.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable
information and/or non-personally identifiable information as required by law
and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or
to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on
our Web site.
You can also change or update your information by
contacting support@shamebox.com.
Log Files
As
is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and
store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP)
addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit
pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not
identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track
users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about
our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected
data to personally identifiable information.
We use a third-party
tracking service, Google Analytics, that uses cookies to track non-personally
identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate, such as
usage and volume statistics, which we use to analyze trends, to administer the
site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic
information about our user base as a whole. More information about Google
Analytics can be found here.
Cookies
A cookie
is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping
purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store
in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our
site.
We use both session ID cookies and/or persistent cookies. We use session
cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie
expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard
drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by
following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file. More
information on cookies is available here.
We set a persistent cookie to
store information regarding your posts, replies, and voting (thumbs up/thumbs
down). We also set a persistent cookie to store information regarding the
campus you are viewing. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target
the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If
you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some
areas of our site, such as voting, may be limited.
Some of our business
partners (e.g., advertisers) may use cookies on our site. We have no access to
or control over these cookies. See "Third Party Advertisers."
This
privacy statement covers the use of cookies by this site only and does not
cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Clear Gifs (Web
Beacons/Web Bugs)
Some of our third party advertising partners
employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs),
that help them better manage their advertisements on our site by informing
them what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online
movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's
computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are
about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the
information gathered by clear gifs to our customers' personally identifiable
information.
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails
have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of
certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If
you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see "Choice and Opt-out."
Third Party Advertisers
We share aggregate Web
site usage information with third party advertisers and potential advertisers.
This information is not personally identifiable.
Links to Other
Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not
owned or controlled by Shamebox. Please be aware that we, Shamebox, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We
encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable
information.
This privacy statement applies only to information
collected by this Web site.
Security
We follow
generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information
submitted to us, 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.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email
us at support@shamebox.com with the subject line "privacy".
Changes in this Privacy Statement
Shamebox reserves the right
to change the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy at any time by
posting a revised Privacy Policy on the Site (here). Shamebox will alert you
that material changes have been made by posting a prominent notice on our
homepage as well as indicating on the top of this Privacy Policy the date it
was last revised (following the words "Last Revised"), so that you are aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances,
if any, we disclose it. The revised Privacy Policy will be effective
immediately after it is posted on the Site. Your use of the Site following the
posting of a revised Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of any
such revisions. Because Shamebox reserves the right to modify this privacy
statement at any time, Shamebox encourages you to review this Privacy Policy
whenever you visit the Site to make sure that you understand the current terms
and conditions governing your use of the Site. If you do not agree to this
Privacy Policy, please immediately discontinue your use of the Site.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions
regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: support@shamebox.com with
the subject line "privacy".
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