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About Party
Blonde
Party Blonde is an online service that allows our
members to set up unique personal profiles that can
be linked together through networks of friends. Party Blonde
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. Party Blonde members can change their profile
information at any time and can control how other
members and the service communicates with them.
Information Collection and Use by Party Blonde
Party Blonde collects user submitted information such
as name, email address, and age to authenticate users
and to send notifications to those users relating
to the Party Blonde service. Party Blonde 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.
Party Blonde 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 Party Blonde social
networking community. Email addresses are used for
the purposes of inviting new friends to join Party Blonde,
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 Party
Blonde with each other through the Party Blonde 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, Party Blonde 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 in the user My Account
Settings.
From time to time, Party Blonde or a partner, may
sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on Party
Blonde. 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
Party Blonde members can invite friends to join the
service by sending invitation emails via our automated
invitation system. Party Blonde 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
Party Blonde 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 Party Blonde may contact
Party Blonde to request the removal of their information
from our database.
Party Blonde members may also store email addresses
of people they know in their internal Party Blonde
address book and may also choose to send invitations
and other communications to those addresses.
Use of Cookies
Party Blonde 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 Party Blonde in order
to use most functions on the site Please note that
Party Blonde 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 Party Blonde Privacy Policy.
Links
Party Blonde contains links to sites. Party Blonde 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 Party Blonde.
Blogs, Message Boards, Public Forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post
public information to Blogs, Message Boards, 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
Party Blonde 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 Opt-Out
Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications
may choose not to by selecting 'No' in My Account.
Users who do not wish to receive Party Blonde newsletters
may choose not to by selecting 'No' in My Account.
All notification emails and Party Blonde 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 Party Blonde 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 Party Blonde and does
not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Security
Party Blonde member accounts are secured by member-created
passwords Party Blonde 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.
Sharing and Disclosure of Information Party
Blonde Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement,
Party Blonde 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 Party Blonde, whether or
not a response is required by applicable law; (2)
to enforce the Party Blonde 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.
Party Blonde 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 Party Blonde
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: privacy |at|
partyblonde |dot| com.
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