HangTeam.com ("HangTeam.com") Statement on Privacy and Security of Information. The following
policy explains our information gathering and dissemination practices.
Information Collected
1. Your Personally Identifiable Information Collected by HangTeam.com:
When you register with the HangTeam.com service, our registration form may require
you to give us certain information such as your name, email address, and zip code.
HangTeam.com will also collect other information you volunteer to us through use of
our service. We refer to this information as "Personally Identifiable Information."
You may always choose not to provide such Personally Identifiable Information; however,
this may limit our ability to provide you with a specific service or particular
content. We may also collect demographic and other data, which may include Personally
Identifiable Information, generally through surveys and forms which you may or may
not choose to participate in. If you place an order for goods on HangTeam.com, you
may be required to enter your credit card number and information, as well as your
shipping address and/or other contact information.
2. Additional Personal Information Collected by HangTeam.com:
If you choose to build a provide additional information on your ratings and preferences,
you will also be asked a series of questions regarding your interests that will
allow other Users to search for people like you who share common interests. If you
choose, you may allow your responses to these questions to be viewable only by certain
other Users. HangTeam.com may capture searches conducted by you on the HangTeam.com service
in order to make suggestions to you regarding what activities or topics might be
of interest to you, and in order to build your "network" of contacts. You may also
contact other people through HangTeam.com, and HangTeam.com will hide your email address,
by directing your message to that person's inbox in their Message Center.
3. Your Personally Identifiable Information Collected by HangTeam.com's Business Partners:
HangTeam.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 HangTeam.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.
HangTeam.com may correlate or match registered Users' information, including Personally
Identifiable 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, use pixel tags, track which ads you
have viewed, or collect other information about you.
From time to time, HangTeam.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, HangTeam.com
may pass your information to such Business Partner.
HangTeam.com may also offer goods or services for purchase available by our Business
Partners. If you purchase goods or services offered through HangTeam.com by a Business
Partner, then you may be required to submit Personally Identifiable Information
in order to complete the transaction and HangTeam.com may provide your Personally Identifiable
Information to such Business Partner for that purpose.
In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with a Business Partner
in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages that appear
the same as or very similar to the pages of the HangTeam.com service. These pages are
known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these particular Business Partners are known as
"Co-Branded Business Partners." If the page on which you submit information is a
Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then
we may share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded Business Partner.
Co-Branded Business Partners may use your personal information in accordance with
their own privacy policies. HangTeam.com disclaims all liability for the privacy policies
and procedures on any Business Partner or Co-Branded Business Partner Web site.
You will need to contact the Co-Branded Business Partner to instruct them directly
regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally,
you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such
Co-Branded Business Partners in the same manner in which we are entitled to use
and disclose any other information you submit to us (see Use of Your Personally
Identifiable Information by Business Partners below).
4. Guest Contact Information:
In order to send messages to your guests through the HangTeam.com service, we require
that you submit to HangTeam.com a current, valid email addresses for your guests. When
you send messages to your guests through our service (e.g., an HangTeam.com invitation
or a Reminder), 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 Personally Identifiable Information,
Data or Guest Contact Information", we do not sell, share or otherwise provide the
guest contact information you submit to HangTeam.com to any third party.
5. Cookies: HangTeam.com wants to optimize your experience by ensuring that the most
relevant information, promotions and offers are displayed to you while using the
HangTeam.com web site. 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 Personally
Identifiable Information in our log files. In the event a location, like a zip code,
is not available in your profile or you have not searched in a location on HangTeam.com,
we will cookie your location from your last HangTeam.com invitation.
6. 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 Personally Identifiable Information about the person who is
viewing it.
When we send messages to you or others, we may provide a URL link to the HangTeam.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.
7. Pixel Tags: HangTeam.com uses pixel tags to gather information about the emails
we send to our registered users and to recipients of messages. Pixel tags are tiny
graphic files, not visible to the human eye, that are included in our HTML-encoded
email messages. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable email program,
the recipient's computer will access our server to retrieve the pixel tag file,
allowing us to record and store, along with your email address, the date and time
the recipient viewed the invite or reminder, that the recipient's email program
is capable of receiving HTML-encoded email, and other standard logging information.
The pixel tag also may see or read cookies. For more information about cookies and
how to disable their use, see the section below on "Use of Cookies."
Use of Information
1. Use Of Your Personally Identifiable Information by HangTeam.com:
HangTeam.com does not sell, share or otherwise provide any "Personally Identifiable
Information" you give to us with any Business Partner without your consent, which
may be obtained through an opt-in or opt-out request (see Use of Your Personally
Identifiable Information by Business Partners below), unless required by law, court
order or as required to technically operate the service, or to complete a transaction
or order. HangTeam.com does reserve the right to share your Personally Identifiable
Information with its parent, subsidiary or affiliated entities ("affiliated entities"
are those companies owned or controlled by HangTeam.com's parent company). We use the
collected Personally Identifiable Information to schedule events for you, to contact
the recipients on your HangTeam.com list, to contact you in connection with your transactions,
posting and other activities on the site, to forward to you messages from other
Users, to communicate with you about events or activities in your area and to operate
the HangTeam.com service. 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 HangTeam.com service, will give you the opportunity
to opt-out of receiving further communications from us. In addition, we use your
Personally Identifiable Information to help us provide you with personalized content,
advertising, and commercial messages (collectively, "Content").
2. Use Of Your Personally Identifiable Information By Other Users:
Users and/or guests invited to the same events as you will be able to view a certain
part of the Personally Identifiable Information, unless you choose to hide such
information. You also may choose to have the Personally Identifiable Information
you supply viewable to HangTeam.com users in general. In addition, other Users may
choose to email you. However, to ensure your privacy, HangTeam.com will not display
or give out your email address or any other contact information to other users.
We have developed a Message Center that uses a "double-blind" email system, which
hides the email addresses of both the sender and recipient of email messages to
protect the privacy of both the sender and receiver. When using the Message Center,
it is up to you to choose when you are comfortable disclosing your email address,
or any other contact information, to others through private communications.
3. Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information by HangTeam.com's Business Partners:
In order to provide offers of particular interest to you, HangTeam.com may share demographic,
geographic, and other Personally Identifiable 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 HangTeam.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. HangTeam.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.
You may delete your email address from the guest list by requesting to be removed
from the guest list on the invitation page. Once your email address is removed from
the guest list, it will no longer be accessible to other guests (unless you are
subsequently invited to another party, in which case your email address will be
accessible to guests of the new event).
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 HangTeam.com believes in good faith that the law or legal process
requires it, or to protect the rights or property of HangTeam.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 Personally Identifiable Information, HangTeam.com Invitation
Content, Data or Guest Contact Information
HangTeam.com may disclose your Personally Identifiable 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 Personally Identifiable 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. HangTeam.com will in no way disclose the contents
of your HangTeam.com invitations other than to the intended recipient(s) unless required
(1) by law or court order, (2) to protect HangTeam.com's rights and property, (3) to
protect against unauthorized use of the HangTeam.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, HangTeam.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 HangTeam.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 contains links to other Web sites. HangTeam.com is not responsible for
the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Opt-Out/Correct/Delete/Deactivate
While HangTeam.com does not give you the opportunity to remove your information from
our database, you may remove your registration information as described below. In
addition, you may elect not to receive future communications from HangTeam.com or to
discontinue use of our service. If you are a registered user, please log in and
uncheck the box related to sending information to you via email. If you are not
a registered user but are a recipient of an HangTeam.com invitation, you may delete
your email address from the guest list by requesting to be removed from the guest
list on the invitation page.
Changes to this Policy
HangTeam.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, we will notify registered users who have agreed to receive
the HangTeam.com newsletter through that newsletter. For those users who have not agreed
to accept the newsletter, substantive 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 as described
above.
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:
Privacy Officer HangTeam.com 1117 Sainte-Catherine Street West , Suite 709, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada H3B 1H9 info@hangteam.com
LAST REVISED ON: February 1, 2007