Wamily Privacy Notice

Wamily LLC ("Wamily") recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use http://wamily.com or other web sites owned or operated by Wamily (the "Wamily Sites") (collectively or individually "Users") value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the Wamily Sites. Wamily provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the Wamily Sites.

This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the Wamily Terms Of Use. Your use of the Wamily Sites and any personal information you provide on the Wamily Sites remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and our Terms Of Use.

Please note that any video, audio, text, image, or other content posted at the direction of Users onto the Wamily Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.

We built Wamily to make it easy to share information with your friends and people around you. We understand you may not want the general public accessing your information on Wamily; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your private Wamilies, private Wamily Members, and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about. Wamilies themselves can also limit the information they share with the general public by opting to be a private Wamily or a public Wamily. You can change your privacy settings on your profile options page and change your Wamily options using the Admin Toolbar.

The Information Wamily Collects

User Provided Information: You provide certain personally identifiable and other information (such as your name, email address, gender, address, location, schools, occupation, etc.) to Wamily when choosing to participate in various activities on the Wamily Sites such as joining, starting a Wamily, joining Wamilies, adding content to your profile and Wamily pages, entering contests or sweepstakes, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists. This personal information may also include the Wamilies and groups you belong to, pictures, audio, video, your interests, and more.
Cookies Information: When you visit the Wamily Sites, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. Wamily uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Wamily Sites may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Log File Information: When you use the Wamily Sites, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Clear GIFs Information: When you use the Wamily Sites, we may employ "clear GIFs" (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns of our Users anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
Other Sources: Wamily may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs instant messaging services, and other users of the Wamily service through the operation of the service in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.

The Way Wamily Uses Information

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Wamily Sites, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Wamily Sites.
When you register with Wamily, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email, and any photos/videos/audio submitted, are displayed to people in the Wamilies specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by Wamily that we think you may find valuable. Profile information is used by Wamily primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it (e.g. posting on your profile), other Wamily users may be able to supplement your profile. Profile information you submit to Wamily will be available to users of Wamily who belong to at least one of the private Wamilies you allow to access the information through your privacy settings. Your name, age, location, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the entire Wamily site and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. Private Wamily information, including the name, location, keywords, number of members, picture thumbnail, and short description will also be available in search results across the entire Wamily network. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send requests to join a Wamily. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to you through a Wamily that allows such access based on your privacy settings. Similarly, people who see a Private Wamily's information in searches will not be able to access the Wamily page until they are invited and accepted into the Wamily.
If you use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we may ask you for your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend an email inviting him or her to visit the site. Wamily stores this information only to send emails to your friend to join the website and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us by using our feedback form to request that we remove this information from our database.
Wamily may also provide an address book for Wamily pages and individual homepages where your Wamily members' email addresses and other contact information is stored. By changing your privacy options you can assign certain Wamilies access to your private information as well as contact information on your profile page. Your personal information can only be accessed by the members of Wamilies that you give access to through your privacy setting. The default settings are to deny personal information access to all public Wamilies (whether you are a member or not) and to allow access to personal and contact information to all non-public Wamilies that you belong to.
Any personal information, audio, video, or graphical content that you voluntarily disclose online (on message boards, in messages and chat areas, within your profile page, in Wamilies, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you post content or send messages through the Wamily Sites and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any content that you submit to the Wamily Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing, communication, or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of new messages, new profile comments, new Wamily information, major Wamily Site changes or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Wamily Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Wamily Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

When Wamily Discloses Information

We provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Wamily Sites.
We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law) or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
Wamily also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that Wamily believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Wamily, our Users or others.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Wamily Sites, in which case Wamily may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by editing your profile page. In addition, we provide the option to remove all personal information besides your Username and e-mail address at any time by editing your profile page and/or changing your privacy settings.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Please contact Wamily with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices by contacting us using our feedback form.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

Wamily allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Wamily Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Wamily Sites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

We occasionally provide demonstrations and demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the Wamily world, which may include private information. Such accounts and demonstrations are relatively short-lived and passwords on accounts are changed regularly to limit possible misuse. These demonstrations and accounts are rare and Wamily is selective in its discretion.

Wamily does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks Wamily to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Wamily Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you. Wamily's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

Our Commitment To Data Security

Wamily uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Wamily and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Wamily makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

If Wamily learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Wamily may post a notice on the Wamily Sites if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us by using our feedback form.

Our Commitment To Childrens' Privacy

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Wamily does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the Wamily Sites from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the Wamily Sites at any time or in any manner. If Wamily learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on the Wamily Sites without verified parental consent, then Wamily will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

We recommend that minors that are 13 years old and over (i.e. minors aged 13 to 17) ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

Special Note to International Users

The Wamily Sites are hosted in the United States and are intended for and directed to Users in the United States. If you are a User accessing the Wamily Sites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Wamily Sites, which are governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Notice, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.

In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy

In the event that Wamily is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Changes and updates to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "date last modified" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the Wamily Sites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.

Date Last Modified

This Privacy Notice was last modified January 28, 2007.

Contact Information

Please contact Wamily with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice by using our feedback form.