Privacy Policy
The following policy explains our information gathering and dissemination practices. Koolvite.com is a fully owned service of Technizant LLC and hereafter the term "Koolvite.com" refers to the legal entity of Technizant LLC.
Information Collected
1. Personal Information Collected by Koolvite.com:
When you register with the Koolvite.com website, our registration form may require you to give us certain information such as your name, email address, and zip code. Koolvite.com may also collect other information you volunteer to us through use of our website. You may always choose not to provide us such information at the cost of limiting some of the services or content that we can provide to you. We may also collect other data, which may include personal information, generally through surveys and forms which you may or may not choose to participate in.
2. Your Personal Information Collected by Koolvite.com's Business Partners:
Koolvite.com works with third-party advertising companies, sponsors and other companies with whom we do business ("Business Partners") to place advertising on our site and in email communications sent to our registered users and to recipients of invitations, Reminders, and other communications related to the Koolvite.com service. Information about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad, may be used to serve advertising to you on this site.
Koolvite.com may correlate or match user information, including Personal Information, with information held by our Business Partners to target ads or otherwise improve the effectiveness of our service. Our Business Partners may read or set cookies on your hard drive, track which ads you have viewed, or collect other information about you.
From time to time, Koolvite.com may also have special offers or promotions that are sponsored by a Business Partner. In order to participate in these offers, you may be required to follow a separate registration process. If you consent to receive information from a Business Partner, through an opt-in or opt-out process, Koolvite.com may pass your information to such Business Partner.
Koolvite.com may also offer goods or services for purchase available by our Business Partners. If you purchase goods or services offered through Evite by a Business Partner, then you may be required to submit Personal Information in order to complete the transaction and Koolvite.com may provide your Personal Information to such Business Partner for that purpose.
3. Guest Contact Information:
In order to send messages to your guests through the Koolvite.com service, we require that you submit to Koolvite.com current, valid email addresses for your guests. When you send messages to your guests through our service, we collect and retain the email addresses or other pertinent contact information of those persons to whom you send the message. Except as described below in the Section titled "When We May Disclose Your Personal Information, Data or Guest Contact Information", we do not sell, share or otherwise provide the guest contact information you submit to Koolvite.com to any third party.
4. Cookies:
Koolvite.com wants to optimize your experience by ensuring that the most relevant information, promotions and offers are displayed to you. A common manner in which to do this is by placing cookies on your computer. Cookies are strings of text and numbers that can identify your computer to us when you visit our site, and which may be correlated with your Personal Information in our log files.
5. IP Address:
When you visit our site, we log standard information such as your IP address, which is a number that can be used to identify your location and Internet Service Provider, along with the URL from which you came to our site and the URLs visited on our site. A URL is the full address of a Web site page, which may or may not contain some Personal Information about the person who is viewing it.
When we send messages to you or others, we may provide a URL link to the Koolvite.com site that contains an alphanumeric identifier, which allows us to identify the person to whom we sent the message so that we can personalize our content for that individual.
Use of Information
1. Use Of Your Personal Information by Koolvite.com:
Koolvite.com does not sell, share or otherwise provide any Personal Information you give to us with any Business Partner without your consent, which may be obtained through an opt-in or opt-out request, unless required by law, court order or as required to technically operate the service, or to complete a transaction or order. Koolvite.com does reserve the right to share your Personal Information with its parent, subsidiary or affiliated entities ("affiliated entities" are those companies owned or controlled by Koolvite.com's parent company Technizant LLC). We use the collected Personal Information to contact you in connection with your transactions, posting and other activities on the site, to communicate with you about events or activities in your area and to operate the Koolvite.com service. We may use your Personal Informationto contact the recipients on your buddy list but only with your permission. These types of communications may contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers. Each communication we send to you, other than communications sent to you for the sole purpose of addressing a technical or operational issue regarding the Koolvite.com service, will give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving further communications from us. In addition, we use your Personal Information to help us provide you with personalized content, advertising, and commercial messages.
2. Use Of Your Personal Information By Other Users:
To ensure your privacy, Koolvite.com will not display or give out your email address or any other contact information to other users.
3. Use of Your Personal Information by Koolvite.com's Business Partners:
In order to provide offers of particular interest to you, Koolvite.com may share demographic, geographic, and other Personal Information with its Business Partners with your consent.
PLEASE NOTE: The privacy practices of advertisers and other companies who provide services or advertising through our site are not covered by this privacy policy. Please contact those companies directly for more information about their privacy practices. If you wish to prevent those companies from setting cookies on your browser, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to warn you before setting a cookie. Disabling cookies set by companies whose products or services are advertised on this site should not affect your ability to use this site.
4. Use Of Guest Contact Information:
We use your guests' contact information to allow them to respond to and comment on your Koolvite.com invitation. At your request, we may send Reminders to your guests and display their email addresses to your other guests. We also may send a post-event email to you and your guests. If you use our Reminders service, we use the information you provide in your Reminders to send it to you and others to whom you have requested it be sent. Koolvite.com does not sell, share or otherwise provide any guests' contact information you give to us with any Business Partner, unless required by law, court order or as required to technically operate the service.
5. Use Of Cookies:
We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, among other purposes. You can always choose not to accept cookies through your browser's preference options, but you may not be able to use some of our services if you do not accept cookies.
As described in more detail above, Business Partners display ads through our service. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our Business Partners, and we do not have access to this information. Likewise, some of our Business Partners may use cookies. We do not control their use of cookies nor have access to the information contained in or related to those cookies. Please contact our Business Partners directly for more information about their privacy practices.
6. Use Of IP Addresses:
We use your IP Address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site and otherwise provide our service to you. IP addresses may be disclosed to Business Partners if Koolvite.com believes in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or to protect the rights or property of Koolvite.com or others. In addition, our Business Partners may use information derived from your IP address, such as conducting a reverse domain name lookup, in order to provide advertisements more tailored to your interests.
When We May Disclose Your Personal Information, Koolvite.com Invitation Content, Data or Guest Contact Information
Koolvite.com may disclose your Personal Information, the contents of your private communications, or the contact information of your guests if required to do so by law or court order. Your Personal Information may also be disclosed if necessary in order to complete a transaction such as the fulfillment of an order or purchase placed by you. Koolvite.com will in no way disclose the contents of your Koolvite.com invitations other than to the intended recipient(s) unless required (1) by law or court order, (2) to protect Koolvite.com's rights and property, (3) to protect against unauthorized use of the Koolvite.com site, and (4) during emergencies such as when we believe someone's physical safety is at risk. Also, certain technical processing of email messages and their content may be required to: (1) send and receive messages; (2) conform to connecting networks' technical requirements; (3) conform to the limitations of the Service; or (4) conform to other similar requirements.
It is possible that as we continue to develop our Web site and our business, Koolvite.com and/or related assets might be acquired. In such a transaction, customer information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
Security
This site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and integrity of the information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by the Koolvite.com service in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.
Other Web Sites; Links
This Web site may contain links to other Web sites. Koolvite.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Changes to this Policy
Koolvite.com reserves the right to amend this privacy policy at its sole discretion. If we make any substantive changes to the policy in the future with regard to how we use your information, such changes will be posted on the site in this location, and the date of the changes will be noted on the Web site for a period of time. Your continued use of the site after the changes are posted constitutes your agreement to the changes with regard to information collected in the past and in the future from you. If you do not agree to the changes, you may opt-out through the process of not using the services of this Web site further.
Contacting the Web Site
We strive to do everything we can to protect the privacy of our users. Please feel free to share any comments and concerns with us. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us at:
Technizant LLC, Attention: Legal, 1684 Westhaven Drive, San Jose, CA 95132, legal@koolvite.com
LAST REVISED ON: December 19, 2006
