Privacy Statement for Piczo

Last Revised January 2007

About Piczo. Piczo (interchangeably, "Piczo", "we", "our", "us") is an online self-expression and social networking site (the "Site") that allows you as a member to set up personal web pages and profiles. We allow our members to create, upload or store pictures, text and other information on their personal web pages. The Site also contains tools that allow our members to build lists of friends and interact with other Piczo members.

We are committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal information (Personal Information) and have developed this "Privacy Statement" to let you know how we collect, maintain and use the information we collect or receive. This Privacy Statement applies to all Personal Information collected or submitted through the Site. Whenever you create, upload or store personal information in public areas of the Site, like your personal web pages, guestbooks, comment boards, shoutboxes, and profile pages, that information becomes available to the public. The publicly available information can be used by others to send you unsolicited communications or for other uses or communications. You should therefore exercise discretion in deciding what information you create, upload or store on public parts of the Site. Ultimately, your personal information and your privacy remain under your control.

What's Covered?

The Personal Information we collect
How we use your Personal Information
Email Communications
How we share your Personal Information
Children
Cookies
Third Party Advertising and Cookies
Third Party Links
Acquisition
Security
Limiting access to your website
Approving New Posts
Non-US residents
Privacy Updates
Privacy Compliance
Changes
Cancelling the Service
Internet Safety

The Personal Information we collect. In addition to the information that you post on your personal web pages, we collect and store Personal Information as part of your account or profile, such as contact information (for example name, address and e-mail address), as well as zip code/postal code, gender, and age (as applicable). Our systems also collect and store non-personal information such as your IP address, specific type of browser, the pages you visit at the Site, and information from cookies. We may use and share non-personal information to provide better and more relevant services and advertisements to our members.

How we use your Personal Information. We collect your Personal Information only for the purpose of providing you specific services or as we believe necessary for our legitimate business interests; including, but not limited to, market research, demographic analysis, and site performance and usage. For example, we use usage patterns to determine what features of the service are particularly useful to members, which features are not, and identify potential areas which need to be developed to meet our member's needs.

Email Communications. We use your email address to send you information about the Site, announce new features and to update you about our services. We may occasionally use your user name and password to inspect your website or to evaluate or correct problems with your account. We also use your email address to alert you of any new friend invitations and when you receive new messages on your website. These emails will give you the option to choose if you do not want to receive future emails ("opt-out"). Opt-out options are also included under Account Settings when logged into your Piczo site.

How we share your Personal Information. We will not sell, rent, or otherwise make your Personal Information available to third parties, except if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or to protect the rights and property of Piczo, its affiliates or the public. We may also cooperate with law enforcement agencies in any official investigation and we may disclose your personally identifiable information to the relevant agency in doing so, for example, in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Service or Acceptable Use Policy, or to protect our rights, property, or safety of Piczo, our members, users or others.

Children. Children under the age of 13 are not eligible or permitted to use our service and must not submit any Personal Information to us. If we learn that member is under the age of 13 we will take down the child's site. If you are a parent or guardian and you discover your child is a member of Piczo, you may alert us at abuse@piczo.com and request that we take down your child's site. Please include the following information with your request so that we may verify that you are the child's parent or guardian. We will keep this information on file as a record of your request. We will not use this information for any other purpose than identity verification.

Child's Full Name
Child's Piczo Username and/or Site name
The Child's Birthday
Your Full Name
Your Relationship to the Child
Your contact information including address, day and evening phone number, and email address
A statement indicating you are the Child's Parent or Guardian.

If you are between the age of 13 and 17, you are encouraged to obtain permission from your parent or guardian to use Piczo. Depending on the nature of any customer service inquiries, the Piczo Staff may advise teenagers to get parents' permission in order to continue the service.

Cookies. We use technology such as "cookies" to help us analyze the use of the Site. Cookies are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. Certain features on the Site may only be available through the use of cookies. Our cookies only store certain information, which enhances your experience of using the Site. It also enables us to track the traffic on the Site and may for example store your IP address and the time when you visited the Site. Through the use of cookies, we collect and transmit user name, cluster ID, demographic and geographic data, last login time, IP address, whether the member viewed an image on Piczo prior to visiting Piczo.

Third Party Advertising and Cookies. In connection with advertisements on the Site, our third-party advertising sales company, third party ad servers, and our advertisers may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser. This Privacy Statement does not cover such third-party cookies. We may aggregate usage information that we collect in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties in order to present to members more targeted advertising, products and services.

Third Party Links. Our Site may contain links to other websites. When you click on one of those links, you are accessing a website that is not owned, operated, or controlled by us or any of our affiliates. The operator of such a site may have its own privacy policy (which we encourage you to read carefully). That policy will govern the collection and use of your data on that site.

Acquisition. We reserve the right to transfer your Personal Information to an acquirer in connection with a transfer of ownership of Piczo, such as a sale to or merger with another company.

Security. We will take reasonable precautions to protect Personal Information from loss and unauthorized access. However, these measures, standing alone, are not sufficient to ensure the security of your Personal Information. It is also important for you to guard against unauthorized access to your passwords and the unauthorized use of your computer.

Limiting access to your website. Piczo gives you the option to protect your personal web pages by requiring that visitors use a password to access those pages. We recommend that you give your viewers a different password than the one you use to author your site. Note that visitors with a password could forward their password to others, who would then be able to access your personal web pages as well. These controls are located under Account Settings to password protect your entire website, and under Organizer, to protect certain pages of your website.

Approving New Posts. Piczo gives you the option to approve posts made to your site before they are made publicly visible. You can turn this feature on by clicking the Pencil icon next to a guestbook, shoutbox, or comment board and un-checking "Approve new messages automatically."

Non-US residents. If you are not a US resident, your use of our Site constitutes your agreement and consent to the collection, transfer, storage, use and disclosure of your Personal Information to and within the United States in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Privacy Updates. From time to time, we may make changes to this Privacy Statement. Please visit this web page from time to time to review the most current Privacy Statement.

Privacy Compliance. By using the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information as set forth in this Privacy Statement and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Statement and our Terms of Service, as applicable. If you have any concerns about the privacy or security of your Personal Information, please contact us at terms@piczo.com. We will attempt to resolve your inquiry in a timely manner.

Changes. Piczo reserves the right to change these Terms at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in Terms of Service may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site. Any changes made to these Terms will automatically be effective 30 days after they are posted on this page. If you continue to access Piczo after a notice of a change has been published, that means you are agreeing to the new Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you must terminate your membership with Piczo.

Cancelling the Service. You can cancel your service at any time. Please click here http://pic1.piczo.com/public/piczo2/piczoCancellingYourSite.jsp for information on how to cancel your membership.

When you cancel your Piczo services, or, if your Piczo service is terminated, your information will no longer be available online. Piczo may retain a copy of your information, including browser information, for archival purposes.

Internet Safety. For more information on keeping yourself safe online, please visit our Safety page.