Privacy Policy
Last Updated on Mar 15, 2009
FriendsHub does not send Spam or sell email addresses.
About FriendsHub and the Information We Collect
Profile Information submitted by Members to FriendsHub
FriendsHub is an online social networking community that connects
people through networks of friends for communicating, sharing and
making new friends. To accomplish this, each FriendsHub Member creates
his or her own profile, which contains the personal information that
the Member chooses to include. This personal information includes such
things as:
- First name or first and last names of the Member (depending on the options selected by the Member),
- Gender, age, martial status and other, similar personal information,
- Occupation,
- Schools attended or companies with whom the Member is associated,
- Location (e.g., city and state), and
- Photos, videos or other shared content uploaded by the Member to
his or her profile, to the extent that it includes personal information.
Other Information submitted by Members to FriendsHub
FriendsHub also collects Member-submitted account information such
as name and email address to identify Members, send notifications
related to the use of the FriendsHub service and conduct market
research and marketing for FriendsHub's internal use only. You should
also be aware that Members may reveal other personal information while
communicating on other areas of the FriendsHub website, e.g., while
participating in discussions on FriendsHub Groups and/or posting information on FriendsHub Blogs. This information, in turn, might be viewed by other Members or visitors to the FriendsHub website who are not Members.
Information Not Directly Submitted by Members or Other Website Users to FriendsHub
Finally, we also collect some information from Members, as well as
from other visitors to the FriendsHub website, that is not personally
identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is
gathered from all Members and visitors to the website.
Use of Information Obtained by FriendsHub
Sharing by Members of Profile Information
The personal information of a Member contained in his or her profile
will be shown to those people whom the Member chooses. Each Member has
three options when choosing the level of sharing of his or her profile.
They are:
- "Friends" which consists only of that Member's friends,
- "Friends of Friends" which consists of that Member's friends, as
well as the extended group of people who are friends of that Member's
friends, and
- "Anyone" which is all visitors to the FriendsHub website, whether or not they are FriendsHub members.
PLEASE NOTE THAT, REGARDLESS OF WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION A
MEMBER CHOOSES TO INCLUDE IN HIS OR HER PROFILE, OR WHAT LEVEL OF
SHARING HE OR SHE CHOOSES, CERTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT EACH MEMBER WILL
BE INCLUDED IN THAT MEMBER'S "PUBLIC PROFILE," WHICH IS AN ABBREVIATED
VERSION OF A FRIENDSHUB PROFILE. A LIST OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN
EACH PUBLIC PROFILE CAN BE FOUND IN THE FriendsHub TERMS OF SERVICE. CLICK HERE TO SEE A SAMPLE PUBLIC PROFILE. PUBLIC PROFILES WILL BE AVAILABLE TO
ANY USER OF THE FRIENDSHUB WEBSITE, WHETHER OR NOT THE USER IS A MEMBER
Display of Members' Information
Except where a Member might choose to include a name in his or
her profile, a Member's email address and full name will only be used
in the following circumstances:
- When the Member invites a friend via email to become a FriendsHub Member,
- When the Member sends a request to another Member to add the other Member to his or her friend list,
- When we send notifications to the Member relating to his or her use of the FriendsHub service or FriendsHub website, and
- If the Member so chooses, when we send regular notifications,
weekly updates, or other news regarding the FriendsHub service or the
FriendsHub website.
Except when inviting or adding friends or as otherwise expressly set
forth herein, a Member's email address will never be shared with or
displayed to any other person. Members and their friends, and other
Members within their personal networks (depending on the level of
sharing a Member has chosen) communicate on FriendsHub with each other
through the FriendsHub service, without disclosing email addresses.
FriendsHub's Use of Members' Information
We use information relating to each Member's server information, IP address, and browser-type.
Sharing of the Information this Site Gathers/Tracks
Except as explained herein, or where you are expressly informed
otherwise, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your
personal information unless required by law or for the protection of
your Membership. However, FriendsHub may share profile information and
aggregate usage information in a non-personally identifiable manner
with advertisers and other third parties in order to present to Members
and other users of the FriendsHub website more targeted advertising,
products and services; provided that, in such situations, we will never
disclose information that would personally identify you. As set forth
above, FriendsHub may (i) use your email address to conduct market
research for FriendsHub's internal use only; and/or (ii) use your email
address to market FriendsHub to you (e.g., new features, announcements, opportunities of interest). FriendsHub may
contract with a third party to conduct such research and marketing;
provided that such third party will be fully bound by an obligation of
confidentiality to FriendsHub and may not use any
personally-identifiable information provided by FriendsHub other than
as expressly instructed by FriendsHub and in strict compliance with the
terms of this Privacy Policy.
Links
The FriendsHub Website contains links to other websites. This
includes links that are placed there by FriendsHub (such as in
advertisements), as well as by other FriendsHub Members. Please be
aware that FriendsHub is not responsible for the privacy practices of
any other website. We encourage all Members and other users of the
FriendsHub website to be aware of when they leave our website, and to
read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely
to information collected by FriendsHub through the FriendsHub website.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer
for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on the FriendsHub website.
However, we do not and will not use cookies to collect private
information from any Member or other user of the FriendsHub website
which they did not intentionally submit to us other than as stated in
this Privacy Policy. We use both "session ID cookies" and "persistent
cookies." We use session ID 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. Note also that Members may optionally use a cookie to
remember their email in order to automatically log in to our website.
You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in
your Internet browsers's "help" file; however, please note that, if you
reject cookies or disable cookies in your web browser, you may not be
able to use the FriendsHub website.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN CHANGE THE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO MAY VIEW
YOUR PROFILE AT ANY TIME. YOU CAN CHANGE THESE PROFILE SHARING SETTINGS
BY CLICKING THE "SETTINGS" LINK IN THE TOP, RIGHT CORNER OF THE
FriendsHub HOMEPAGE. ALSO, YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE THE PERSONAL
INFORMATION YOU'VE SUBMITTED TO THE FriendsHub WEBSITE, INCLUDING THE
INFORMATION INCLUDED IN YOUR FriendsHub PROFILE, BY CLICKING THE "EDIT
PROFILE" LINK ON YOUR FriendsHub PROFILE PAGE.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our
web site so Members and other users of the FriendsHub website are
always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we are going to use
Members' or other users' personally identifiable information in a
manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will
notify those Members and users via email or by placing a prominent
notice on our website.
Invite a Friend
If a Member elects to use our "Invite" feature to invite a friend to
become a Member of the FriendsHub service, we ask them for that
friend's email address. FriendsHub will automatically send the friend
an email inviting them to join the site. FriendsHub stores this email
address for the purpose of: (i) automatically adding the respondent to
the “friends list” of the Member sending the invitation; (ii) sending
reminders of the invitation and (iii) sending emails on recent updates
by the Member on FriendsHub to the Member's invited friend. FriendsHub
will never sell these email addresses or use them to send any other
communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. Any person
who receives an invitation may contact FriendsHub to request the removal of this information from our database.
Security
The FriendsHub account of every Member is password-protected.
FriendsHub takes every precaution to protect the information of the
Members, as well as information collected from other users of the
FriendsHub website. We use industry standard measures to protect all
information that is stored on our servers and within our database. We
limit the access to this information to those employees who need access
to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us.
Email Choice/Opt-out
Members who no longer wish to receive email notifications may opt-out of receiving these communications
by following the instructions contained in the applicable email or by
logging-in and changing their settings in the "Account Settings"
section of the FriendsHub website. You can access this page by clicking
on the appropriate "E-mail Notifications" link on the top right of your FriendsHub homepage.
Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to Members by our
Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may use cookies.
Doing this allows the ad network to recognize your computer each time
they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may
compile information about where you, or others who are using your
computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked
on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted
advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.
FriendsHub does not have access to or control of the cookies that may
be placed on the computer of any Member or other user of the FriendsHub
website by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by FriendsHub only, and does not cover the use of cookies by any other party.
Google Advertising
FriendsHub along with its Ads Partner Google will place Interest-based advertising will allow advertisers to show ads based on
a user's previous interactions with them, such as visits to advertiser
website and also to reach users based on their interests (e.g. "sports
enthusiast").
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
- Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to
your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the
Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
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