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Privacy Policy

Date of last revision: July 27, 2011.

1. Introduction
Questions. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please send us an email at support@ubuddy.org.

This privacy policy covers the website www.ubuddy.org. The policy covers only information that is collected through this Web site, and does not cover other information, such as information that may be collected through software downloaded from uBuddy.
Scope. This privacy policy covers all of uBuddy. It does not, however, apply to entities that uBuddy does not own or control. By using or accessing uBuddy, you agree to our privacy practices outlined here.

No information from children under age 13. If you are under age 13, please do not attempt to register for UBuddy or provide any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 13, please contact us through this help page.

Parental participation. We strongly recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices. Materials to help parents talk to their children about safe internet use can be found on this help page.

2. Information We Receive
Information you provide to us:
Information About Yourself. When you sign up for uBuddy you provide us with your name, email, gender, birth date, university attending, and a profile picture. During the registration process we give you the opportunity to connect with your friends, classmates, courses, and schools. You will also be able to add a picture of yourself. In some cases we may ask for additional information for security reasons or to provide specific services to you. Once you register you can provide other information about yourself by connecting with, for example, your current city, hometown, family, relationships, networks, activities, interests, and places.
Content. One of the primary reasons people use uBuddy is to share content with others. Examples include when you update your status, upload a photo, upload notes/exams, share a link, create course instances, make a comment, write something on someone¡¯s Board, write a note, or send someone a message. If you do not want us to store metadata associated with content you share on uBuddy (such as photos), please remove the metadata before uploading the content.
Transactional Information. We may retain the details of transactions or payments you make on uBuddy.
Information we collect when you interact with uBuddy:
Site activity information. We keep track of some of the actions you take on uBuddy, such as adding connections (including joining a course or adding a friend). In some cases you are also taking an action when you provide information or content to us. For example, if you share a note, in addition to storing the actual content you uploaded, we might log the fact that you shared it.
Access Device and Browser Information. When you access uBuddy from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages you visit.
Cookie Information. We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make uBuddy easier to use, to make our advertising better, and to protect both you and UBuddy. For example, we use them to store your login ID to make it easier for you to login whenever you come back to UBuddy. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into UBuddy, and to know when you are interacting with UBuddy Platform applications and websites, our widgets and Share buttons, and our advertisements. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use UBuddy.

Information we receive from third parties:
Information from other websites. We may institute programs with advertising partners and other websites in which they share information with us:
We may ask advertisers to tell us how our users responded to the ads we showed them (and for comparison purposes, how other users who didn¡¯t see the ads acted on their site). This data sharing, commonly known as ¡°conversion tracking,¡± helps us measure our advertising effectiveness and improve the quality of the advertisements you see.
We may receive information about whether or not you¡¯ve seen or interacted with certain ads on other sites in order to measure the effectiveness of those ads.
If in any of these cases we receive data that we do not already have, we will ¡°anonymize¡± it within 180 days, meaning we will stop associating the information with any particular user.
Information from other users. We may collect information about you from other UBuddy users, such as when a friend provides friend details.

3. Sharing information on UBuddy.
This section explains how your privacy settings work, and how your information is shared on UBuddy. You should always consider your privacy settings before sharing information on UBuddy.
Name and Profile Picture. UBuddy is designed to make it easy for you to find and connect with others. For this reason, your name and profile picture do not have privacy settings. Since profile picture is mandatory, if you are uncomfortable with sharing your profile picture, you should remove yourself from our service by send a request to support@ubuddy.org.
Contact Information. Your contact information settings control (available when customizing your privacy settings) who can contact you on UBuddy, and who can see your contact information such as your email and phone number(s). Remember that none of this information is required except for your email address, and you do not have to share your email address with anyone.
Personal Information. Your personal information settings control who can see your personal information if you choose to add them.
Posts by Me. You can use whisper option to post on your or others wall. these posts will only be seen by you and the board owner. If you use the general post option. this post will be able to seen by everyone. You can only use the post option for courses.
Gender and Birth Date. In addition to name and email address, we require you to provide your gender and birth date during the registration process. We ask for your date of birth to verify that you are 13 or older, and so that we can better limit your access to content and advertisements that are not age appropriate. Because your date of birth and gender are required, you cannot delete them. You can, however, edit your profile to hide you birthday from other users.
Here are some other things to remember:
Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users.
You understand that information might be reshared or copied by other users.
Certain types of communications that you send to other users cannot be removed, such as messages.
When you post information on another user¡¯s profile or comment on another user¡¯s post, that information will be subject to the other user¡¯s privacy settings.
If you use an external source to publish information to UBuddy (such as a mobile application or a Connect site), you should check the privacy setting for that post, as it is set by that external source.
Minors. We reserve the right to add special protections for minors (such as to provide them with an age-appropriate experience) and place restrictions on the ability of adults to share and connect with minors, recognizing this may provide minors a more limited experience on UBuddy

4. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and customized experience. Here are some of the details on how we do that:
To manage the service. We use the information we collect to provide our services and features to you, to measure and improve those services and features, and to provide you with customer support. We use the information to prevent potentially illegal activities, and to enforce our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous activity and screen content to prevent abuse such as spam. These efforts may on occasion result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users.
To contact you. We may contact you with service-related announcements from time to time. You may opt out of all communications except essential updates on your setting page. We may include content you see on UBuddy in the emails we send to you.
To serve personalized advertising to you. We don¡¯t share your information with advertisers without your consent. (An example of consent would be if you asked us to provide your shipping address to an advertiser to receive a free sample.) We allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements and we may use any of the non-personally identifiable attributes we have collected (including information you may have decided not to show to other users, such as your birth year or other sensitive personal information or preferences) to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. For example, we might use your interest in soccer to show you ads for soccer equipment, but we do not tell the soccer equipment company who you are. Even though we do not share your information with advertisers without your consent, when you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement there is a possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and note that it meets the criteria they selected.
To serve social ads. We occasionally pair advertisements we serve with relevant information we have about you and your friends to make advertisements more interesting and more tailored to you and your friends. For example, if you connect with your favorite band¡¯s page, we may display your name and profile photo next to an advertisement for that page that is displayed to your friends. We only share the personally identifiable information visible in the social ad with the friend who can see the ad. You can opt out of having your information used in social ads on this help page.
To supplement your profile. We may use information about you that we collect from other UBuddy users to supplement your profile (such as when you are tagged in a photo or mentioned in a status update). In such cases we generally give you the ability to remove the content (such as allowing you to remove a photo tag of you) or limit its visibility on your profile.
To make suggestions. We use your information, including the addresses you import through our contact importers, to make suggestions to you and other users on UBuddy. For example, if another user imports the same email address as you do, we may suggest that you add each other as friends. Similarly, if one of your friends uploads a picture of you, we may suggest that your friend tag you in the picture. We do this by comparing your friend¡¯s pictures to information we¡¯ve put together from the photos you¡¯ve been tagged in. We may also suggest that you use certain tools and features based on what your friends have used. You can control whether we suggest that another user add you as a friend through your ¡°search for you on UBuddy¡± privacy setting. You can control whether we suggest that another user tag you in a photo by clicking customize from your privacy settings.
To help your friends find you. We allow other users to use contact information they have about you, such as your email address, to find you, including through contact importers and search. You can prevent other users from using your email address to find you using the search section of your privacy settings.
Downloadable Software. Certain downloadable software applications and applets that we offer, such as our browser toolbars and photo uploaders, transmit data to us. We may not make a formal disclosure if we believe our collection of and use of the information is the obvious purpose of the application, such as the fact that we receive photos when you use our photo uploader. If we believe it is not obvious that we are collecting or using such information, we will make a disclosure to you the first time you provide the information to us so that you can decide whether you want to use that feature.
Memorializing Accounts. If we are notified that a user is deceased, we may memorialize the user¡¯s account. In such cases we restrict profile access to confirmed friends, and allow friends and family to write on the user¡¯s Wall in remembrance. We may close an account if we receive a formal request from the user¡¯s next of kin or other proper legal request to do so.

5. How We Share Information
UBuddy is about sharing information with others ¡ª friends and people in your communities ¡ª while providing you with privacy settings that you can use to restrict other users from accessing some of your information. We share your information with third parties when we believe the sharing is permitted by you, reasonably necessary to offer our services, or when legally required to do so. For example:
When you make a payment. When you enter into transactions with others or make payments on UBuddy, we will share transaction information with only those third parties necessary to complete the transaction. We will require those third parties to agree to respect the privacy of your information.
When you invite a friend to join. When you ask us to invite a friend to join UBuddy, we will send your friend a message on your behalf using your name. The invitation may also contain information about other users your friend might know. We may also send up to two reminders to them in your name. You can see who has accepted your invitations, send reminders, and delete your friends¡¯ email addresses on your invite history page. If your friend does not want us to keep their information, we will also remove it at their request by using this help page.
When you choose to share your information with marketers. You may choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers that are not associated with UBuddy through on-site offers. This is entirely at your discretion and we will not provide your information to these marketers without your consent.
To help your friends find you. By default, we make certain information you have posted to your profile available in search results on UBuddy to help your friends find you. We also may partner with email and instant messaging providers to help their users identify which of their contacts are UBuddy users, so that we can promote UBuddy to those users.
To give search engines access to publicly available information. We may allow them to access information such as your profile information that is visible to everyone. You can change the visibility of some of your profile information using the customize section of your privacy settings.
To help improve or promote our service. Sometimes we share aggregated information with third parties to help improve or promote our service. But we only do so in such a way that no individual user can be identified or linked to any specific action or information.
To provide you with services. We may provide information to service providers that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use third parties to help host our website, send out email updates about UBuddy, remove repetitive information from our user lists, process payments, or provide search results or links (including sponsored links). These service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to limit their use of that information to helping us provide the service.
To advertise our services. We may ask advertisers outside of UBuddy to display ads promoting our services. We may ask them to deliver those ads based on the presence of a cookie, but in doing so will not share any other information with the advertiser.
To offer joint services. We may provide services jointly with other companies, such as the classifieds service in the UBuddy Marketplace. If you use these services, we may share your information to facilitate that service. However, we will identify the partner and present the joint service provider¡¯s privacy policy to you before you use that service.
To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.
Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control. If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner so that the service can continue to operate. In such a case, your information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

6. How You Can Change or Remove Information
Editing your profile. You may change or remove your profile information at any time by going to your profile page and clicking ¡°Edit¡± on your profile page. Information will be updated immediately.
Deleting your account. If you want to stop using your account you may deactivate it or delete it. When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted from UBuddy. You should only delete your account if you are certain you never want to reactivate it. You may delete your account by sending a request to support@ubuddy.org.
Limitations on removal. Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users. However, your name will no longer be associated with that information on UBuddy. (For example, if you post something to another user¡¯s profile and then you delete your account, that post may remain, but be attributed to an ¡°Anonymous UBuddy User.¡±) Additionally, we may retain certain information to prevent identity theft and other misconduct even if deletion has been requested. If you have given third party applications or websites access to your information, they may retain your information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies. But they will no longer be able to access the information through our Platform after you disconnect from them.
Backup copies. Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies for up to 90 days, but will not be available to others.
Non-user contact information. If a user provides your email address to us, and you are not a UBuddy user but you want us to delete your address, you can do so by sending us an email at support@ubuddy.org. However, that request will only apply to addresses we have at the time of the request and not to any addresses that users provide to us later.

7. How We Protect Information
We do our best to keep your information secure, but we need your help.
Steps we take to keep your information secure. We keep your account information on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers and passwords), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also use automated and social measures to enhance security, such as limit use of site features in response to possible signs of abuse, may remove inappropriate content or links to illegal content, and may suspend or disable accounts for violations of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
Risks inherent in sharing information. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you share your information. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your information. We cannot ensure that information you share on UBuddy will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on UBuddy. You can reduce these risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a strong password, using different passwords for different services, and using up to date antivirus software.
Report Violations. You should report any security violations to us by sending a email to support@ubuddy.org.

8. Other Terms
Changes. We may change this Privacy Policy at anytime. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by publication here. If the changes are material, we will provide you additional, prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances. You can make sure that you receive notice directly.
Consent to Collection and Processing in the United States and Canada. By using UBuddy, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States and/or Canada.
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