Privacy Policy
This document was last updated on November 23, 2009
All of us at canisaysomething.com value the privacy of our visitors, members, bloggers, and others who utilize our site. This privacy notice provides information about the disclosure and use of user information that canisaysomething.com collects, but not does apply to any third party sites that may be linked to them, or any relationships you may have with the entities listed on the canisaysomething Site.
The terms "we" and "us" and "our" refer to canisaysomething.com. The terms "you" and "your" refer to you as a user of canisaysomething.com. The term "personal information" means information that you provide to us which personally identifies you to be contacted or identified, such as your name, email address, and any other data that is tied to such information. This privacy notice is incorporated into and is subject to canisaysomething.com terms of service. By using and/or participating on the website canisaysomething.com you agree to, and are bound by, the terms of service and the privacy policy of this site. If you do not agree to any of these terms, please refrain from using www.canisaysomething.com or its content. We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of this privacy policy at anytime without prior notice.
CanISaySomething LLC is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy program. TRUSTe is an independent, organization whose mission is to build user's trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Website www.canisaysomething.com. Because this Website wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Administrator at privacy@canisaysomething.com. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at:
http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint&url=www.canisaysomething.com TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
The Information Collected and What We Do With It
Information you give us: If you would like to create an account with canisaysomething.com to take advantage of our services then we ask for information such as your full name, age, email address, and general location. You can alter your display settings so your name and email address remain private, however we need that information from you to send account notifications and other updates pertaining to your use of canisaysomething.com. It is recommended, at your discretion, to provide more information such as age, country, and interests so that we can tailor your account to match your specific needs.
Cookies: The use of "Cookies" has become a standard in the Internet industry. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that are sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. Cookies allow you to save passwords and preferences while you're at a website. While at canisaysomething.com we send cookies to your browser to help improve the quality of our service. Some cookies are temporary and will disappear after you close your browser, while others may stay on your computer. Should you choose to disable cookies, some key features of our website may not work properly or at all.
Tracking Data: While you are using canisaysomething.com, we are automatically logging certain information that your web browser provides to us. This may include your IP (internet protocol) address, browser type, web pages visited, time spent on website, etc. We use the information gathered to ultimately provide the best possible service to you. We also use this information in the aggregate to perform statistical analyses of user behavior to measure interest in different areas of the site. We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies, web beacons and other technologies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate.
Blog Submissions: We store all of your blog submissions in our archives, in your account, and we may use them for the betterment of our site. If you have a recent posting, or a top rated posting, we may put those into an RSS feed for other users to comment on. In addition, we will send copies of your blog to fans who have subscribed for notifications to your blogs. We also reserve the right to display your rating as given by other users.
Linking to Social Network Sites: We use single sign-on services that allows you to sign into Web sites using your third-party social networking login credentials such as your Facebook or Twitter accounts. This allows you to link your existing network profile to your account. Once connected, you will be able to post content on the third-party site from and interact with your friends. We may also access certain profile inforamtion form your third-party social network profile such as friends, profile picture etc.
Comments: In order to allow you to send and receive personal messages to other registered users, we record the messages you send and receive.
Feedback: If you provide us feedback, ask a question, or register a complaint we will record and archive any personal information and content you provide in your communication. We do this to ensure that we can effectively respond to your contact with us.
Surveys/polls: Any information you provide us in a survey or poll can and may be used by a third party. The information we gather will not identify you personally, just the information you provide us in the survey or poll.
Site Security: We reserve the rights to use the information we collect during your use of canisaysomething.com in order to investigate, enforce, and apply our privacy policy and Terms of Service.
Where your information is going
As discussed in our terms of service, we may distribute your public website submissions to third parties. These third parties may in turn publicly display or publish your submission in connections with their marketing activities. However, we NEVER provide them with your personal information such as your name or email address unless you include that information about yourself in a blog submission.
If you use a bulletin board, blog or chat room on our site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
Personally identifiable information that you provide to canisaysomething.com will be used by us to better service you with features and optimal functionality of canisaysomething.com. We may share any personal information such as text or other content that you provide during your use of canisaysomething.com, including information in your profile that you have elected as public, participating surveys, comments, and discussions. Your username is displayed (not your email address or name) to other users in connection with the comments, discussions, and polls that you participate in. Information that you post on canisaysomething.com can be viewed and easily accessed by the public. Please be aware of this while publically posting to our website. We will use the information that you provide to overall improve the quality and design of canisaysomething.com. More specifically we aim to create new features, services, and improved functionality through the use of cookies and log file information.
Information disclosure
Your name, email address, or any other personally identifiable information will not be shared, sold, rented or traded to third-party companies without your consent. However, we reserve the right to share other information we have collected such as usage, tracking, and traffic information with third party companies. This is used to improve content and for advertisements, promotions, and/or services and this information does not identify you, it is only collected in the aggregate.
In the event we provide any information (personally and non-personally identifiable) to our affiliates, subsidiaries, or other persons connected with canisaysomething.com for service provider reasons or with your consent for marketing or promotional purposes we require these parties to comply with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Canisaysomething.com reserves the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on our Web site.
Inviting friends
To enhance your experience at canisaysomething.com we provide you with an easy way to invite friends and family to the website. To do so, you must provide us with e-mail addresses. We use this information only to contact and send 2 reminders to that person of their outstanding invitation to join canisaysomething.com. All invitees are provided with the option to stop correspondence by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link in the email. This privacy policy applies to all e-mail addresses that are sent invitations. These emails are kept on file in order to track whether you have invited the person before. Also, when a person joins, we inform them if anyone has previously invited them and whether they would like to back that user.
Import Contacts
We utilize an import contacts feature to help you import email addresses to invite your friends through links to another site. We make it easy for you to invite people from your email address books to join you on our Site. At your request we will search your email address book to help you import your contacts to our site so you can invite them to join our site.
Website links
Canisaysomething.com may have links to third party websites that have no affiliation. We do not share personally identifiable information with those parties, and therefore are not responsible for their privacy practices. If you are concerned, it is recommended that you view the privacy policies of the respective sites.
Links to other sites may contain additional links to third party websites to which we have no affiliation. Except as set forth herein, we do not share your personal information with those third parties, and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We suggest you read the privacy policies on all such third party websites.
We have a widget on our site. Widgets support functions that require that you disclose certain personally identifiable information given the user's choice of participation. This information is collected in many different ways such as: forms, surveys, contests, forums, subscribing or unsubscribing to mailings and correcting or updating personally identifiable information and are only used for the purpose in which they were collected.
Your personal information
Depending on how much information you choose to display, third parties may be able to identify you and contact you through your user account. Because of this information, we ask that you do not include information in your comments or discussions that you wish to keep private. You could reduce this risk of being identified through using a fictitious name, however it could detract from your credibility of submissions. Please note that your comments to other users are not kept private and that other users recognize what blogs you are subscribed to.
As a user of canisaysomething.com, you can modify your privacy settings by accessing the info tab on your account. By clicking public or private, the information in that section is no longer visible. If you wish to close your account, please go to the info tab in your account page and select the delete link in the Account information section. If you have any questions, please email contact@canisaysomething.com with CLOSE ACCOUNT in the subject line.
Security compliance
The security of your personal information is important to us. To assure you are the only person who can access your account it is password protected. Canisaysomething.com limits the access of your personal information to employees and contractors who are on a need-to-know basis to perform their job function.
We follow generally acepted 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.
Protecting Children
Keeping children safe and protecting their privacy is most important. With this in mind canisaysomething.com does not knowingly collect or maintain any type of information from people under 13 years of age. If you are not 13 or older, please refrain from using this site until you reach the aforementioned age. If any information from any person under 13 years of age is collected without guardian consent, canisaysomething.com will take the appropriate steps to purge this information.
Changes to privacy notice
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, so that you are aware of what infomation we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statment at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will nofitify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Do you have a problem?
If you believe that canisaysomething.com has not adhered to this privacy policy please email contact@canisaysomething.com. In your email please give as much detail as possible so that we may take immediate corrective action. You can also reach us by mail at CanISaySomething LLC, 1 North LaSalle Street, Suite 3007, Chicago, IL 60602.
