Effective  January 23, 2006:

 

 About Amazing.com

 Amazing.com is an online service that allows our members to  set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together  through networks of friends. Amazing.com members can view each others'  profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends  on the service, share photos, post journals and comments, and  describe their interests. To enrich our members' experience,  we request and display some personal information to other members  and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. Amazing.com members can change  their profile information at any time and can control how other  members and the service communicates with them.

 

Amazing.com cares deeply about online privacy  If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please  email us at billy@amazing.com.

 

Information Collection and  Use by Amazing.com

 Amazing.com collects user submitted information such as name,  email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications  to those users relating to the Amazing.com service. Amazing.com  also collects other profile data including but not limited to:  personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in  order to assist users in finding and communicating with each  other.

Amazing.com also logs non-personally-identifiable  information including IP address, profile information, aggregate  user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site  This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve  the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services  and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded  for security and monitoring purposes

 

 User Profile information including members' pictures and first  names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction  in the Amazing.com social networking community. Email addresses  are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Amazing.com,  to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications  related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends,  adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is  not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network  Users within a personal network communicate on Amazing.com with  each other through the Amazing.com service, without disclosing  their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding  friends and acquaintances on the service, Amazing.com allows  users to search for other members using first and last name,  email address, and schools and/or companies where users may  have attended or worked.

 

We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter  or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive  email of this type by changing their "notification" setting  to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account  Settings"

 From time to time, Amazing.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion,  sweepstake or contest on Amazing.com. Users may be asked to provide  personal information including name, email address or home address  or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer  personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly  requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information  and whose privacy statement will apply.

 

Invitations and Other Communications  to Non-members

 Amazing.com members can invite friends to join the service by sending  invitation emails via our automated invitation system. Amazing.com  stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member  sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations  Amazing.com does not sell these email addresses or use them  to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation  reminders (up to three (3) per email address). Recipients of  invitations from Amazing.com may contact Amazing.com to request  the removal of their information from our database.

 

 Amazing.com members may also store email addresses  of people they know in their internal Amazing.com address book and  may also choose to send invitations and other communications  to those addresses.

You may prevent Amazing.com email invitations and  other messages from being sent to any email address you control  by sending a single email with the subject "BLOCK" to billy@amazing.com Please note that the email must come from the account you wish  to block.

 

 

 Use of Cookies

 Amazing.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and  to record session information, for purposes including ensuring  that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements  and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content  based on browser type and user profile information. We do not  link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to  configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies,  or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different,  so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change  your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies  from Amazing.com in order to use most functions on the site  Please note that Amazing.com allows 3rd party advertisers that are  presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access  their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies  is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Amazing.com Privacy  Policy.

 

 Links

 Amazing.com contains links to sites. Amazing.com is not responsible  for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When  linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy  stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information  collected on Amazing.com.

 

 Chat Rooms, Journals  and WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums

 Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information  to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds or any other  Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public  and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited  communications.

 

Correcting/Updating or Removing  Information

 Amazing.com users may modify or remove any of their personal  information at any time by logging into their account and accessing  features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.

 

 Email Choice/Opt-out

 Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications  may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me notification  emails' in the user profile 'Account Settings'. Users who do  not wish to receive Amazing.com newsletters may choose not to  by selecting 'Do not send me Amazing.com newsletters' in the user  profile 'Account Settings'. All notification emails and Amazing.com  newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out  of those communications in the future.

 

 Third Party Advertising

 Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by  Amazing.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web  advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the  ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you  an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers 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. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Amazing.com  and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

 

 Security

 Amazing.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords  Amazing.com takes precautions to insure that member account  information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect  member information that is stored within our database, and we  restrict access to member information to those employees who  need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot  guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized  entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors  may compromise the security of member information at any time  For any additional information about the security measures we  use on Amazing.com, please contact us a billy@amazing.com

 

Sharing and Disclosure of  Information Amazing.com Collects

 Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, Amazing.com will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Amazing.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Amazing.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Amazing.com reserves the right to transfer  personal information to a successor in interest that acquires  rights to that information as a result of the sale of Amazing.com  or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest  For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy"  section below.

 

 Changes in Our Privacy Policy

 From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy  If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users  aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware  of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may  disclose it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy  when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted  If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable  information in a manner materially different from that stated  at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice  on our Web site for 30 days.

 

 Contacting the Web Site

 If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the  practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site,  please contact us at: billy@amazing.com  (Emerald Hill Mansion: 417 Coyle Curtain Road: Monongahela, Pennsylvania 15063)