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)