Aren’t you tired of online services that track your movements, sell your
name and require information that they don’t need to run the service. With
Just Between Friends, we let you decide how much information to enter – based
on the level of service you want.
In general, the more information you enter, the higher level of service we can
supply.
But we won’t send unsolicited emails, sell/rent your name or telemarket
you. The information in your account is yours. We use it to deliver the kinds
of services you want.
If your membership is provided to you as part of a larger membership, such as
a church group, school or corporate account, we’ll share your basic information
only with the organization that included you in their master account – so
they can keep their records up-to-date. But you have control over which parts
of the information can be shared with other members of the group – and
we never share information you enter about other households or people.
If a company or organization pays for your membership (such as a gift), we might
share your name, address, and email address with the organization that paid for
your membership. It’s only fair that they know who they’re buying
memberships for.
But we won’t share it with anybody else not involved in provide the services
to you. (Of course, if law enforcement requires it, we will share it; and if
we ever sell the company, we’ll need to give the new operators your information.)
We’ll also use best practices to protect your information from theft including
proper security.
Never. That’s your information. Consider Just Between Friends to be a storage
locker for your important social contacts and events. We never send email or
phone the people in your personal database. We might, though, give you the ability
to send them messages yourself. If an organization uses Just Between Friends
as a platform to create its own membership directory, we might also give it
the ability to send messages to the people in its own Just Between Friends powered
directory.
That’s it in a nutshell. We keep your privacy and protect your data – probably
better than you can do on your own system. But our lawyers want to put all the
wherefores and whereby in the privacy policy. So if you’d prefer to read
the legal version, feel free.
Privacy Policy
Seasonal Experiences, LLC is committed to protecting your privacy and developing
technology that gives you the most useful and safe online experience. This
Privacy Statement applies to Seasonal Experiences' "Between Friends" family
of Web sites and governs data collection and usage at these Web sites. Other
services linked to from these Web sites, such as PayPal, have their own privacy
statements.
The "Between Friends" Web sites collect two types of data -- personal
information, such as your name, e-mail address, home address and telephone
number, and information for your use with our services, including names and
addresses of your friends and family, as well as other information that you
intend to use in your holiday exchange activities. In this Privacy Statement,
we call the first type, "Seasonal Experiences data" and the second
type "Your User Data".
Your User Data
This is the data that you enter into the system once you have established your
Between Friends account to help you with your exchange activity. This data
is yours. Seasonal Experiences does not monitor this data. Nor does Seasonal
Experiences sell or lease this data.
Seasonal Experiences takes necessary precautions to ensure the safety of this
data, including providing encrypted user names and passwords, and providing
access by each user to only his own data. Seasonal Experiences' servers use
data protection techniques to guard against break in, and they are placed in
secure, locked environments.
In some cases, your user data may be provided to us in advance by a school,
church, club, group, or corporation. If your membership is part of one of these
groups, we may provide that group with updated information on an occasional
basis. This information is often provided as a way to populate a membership
or other directory for use by that group's members. In these cases, you will
have the opportunity upon your first sign-in to determine which portions of
your user data will be viewable by others in the group. Others in the group
will be allowed to view only the portions that you elect, but not edit your
data.
In some cases, you may receive your membership as a gift or promotion by a
corporation or other entity licensed to provide such memberships. In these
cases, we might share your name, address, phone and email address with the
entity that gave you the Just Between Friends membership. Once provided to
that entity, the information transmitted will be subject to that entity's privacy
policy. Any data that we keep for use in your membership will be subject to
the Just Between Friends privacy policy. Although you may occasionally see
a message in your Just Between Friends' account for the entity that provided
you with the membership, we will not provide them with any of the data in your
account beyond the items listed in this paragraph.
Seasonal Experiences Data
Seasonal Experiences and its operational service partners collect and use information
that you provide about you to operate Seasonal Experiences and deliver the
services you have requested. Seasonal Experiences also uses information about
you to inform you of other products or services available from Seasonal Experiences
and its affiliates. Seasonal Experiences may also contact you via surveys to
conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new
services that may be offered.
Seasonal Experiences does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third
parties. Seasonal Experiences may, from time to time, contact you on behalf
of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest
to you. In those cases, personal information about you (name, address, telephone
number, e-mail) is not transferred to the third party.
Seasonal Experiences occasionally hires other companies to provide limited
services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings,
providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical
analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal
information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain
the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that
information for any other purpose.
Seasonal Experiences keeps track of the pages our customers visit within Seasonal
Experiences Web sites, in order to determine what Seasonal Experiences sites
and services are the most popular, and how various customers found Seasonal
Experiences. This data may, in the future, be used to deliver customized content
and advertising within Seasonal Experiences Web sites to customers whose behavior
indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Seasonal Experiences does not use nor disclose sensitive information about
you, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit
consent.
Seasonal Experiences may disclose your personal information if required to
do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
(a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on
Seasonal Experiences or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property
of Seasonal Experiences, including its Web sites; or (c) act under exigent
circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Seasonal Experiences,
its web sites, or the public.
Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in
the United States or any other country in which Seasonal Experiences or its
affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site,
you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
Seasonal Experiences strictly protects the security of the personal information
you provide. Seasonal Experiences secures the personal information you provide
on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized
access, use or disclosure. When highly confidential information (such as a
credit card number) is transmitted over the Internet, it is protected through
the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Use of Cookies
Seasonal Experiences uses "cookies" to help you personalize your
online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk
by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses
to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read
by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature
to save you time. For example, if you personalize Seasonal Experiences’ pages,
a cookie helps Seasonal Experiences to recall your specific information on
subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of displaying the Web application
in the color scheme or with the theme of your choice.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline
cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able
to fully experience the interactive features of the Seasonal Experiences services
or Web sites you visit.
Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Seasonal
Experiences is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by this Web site.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our
site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Seasonal Experiences
will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit
the site. Seasonal Experiences stores this information for the sole purpose
of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.
If the referral includes a special incentive or bonus for the person who initiates
the referral, we will store his personally identifiable information to allow
us to properly award the incentive or bonus. In some cases, we make it possible
for the referrer to send the invitation directly to his friend, in which case,
information will be sent along with the referral to help award the the incentive
or bonus.
Business Transitions
In the event Seasonal Experiences goes through a business transition, such
as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its
assets, users' personal information will, in most instances, be part of the
assets transferred. Users will be notified via email prior to a change of ownership
or control of their personal information. If as a result of the business transition,
the users' personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different
from that stated at the time of collection they will be given choice consistent
with our notification of changes section.
Changes to this Statement
Seasonal Experiences will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect
company and customer feedback. If there are material changes to this Statement
or in how Seasonal Experiences will use your personal information, Seasonal
Experiences will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change
or send you notice via e-mail. Seasonal Experiences encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Seasonal Experiences is protecting
your information.
Contact Information
Seasonal Experiences welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement.
If you believe that Seasonal Experiences has not adhered to this Statement,
please contact Seasonal Experiences by telephone, e-mail, or postal mail.
Seasonal Experiences, LLC
Manor Oak One, Suite 600
1910 Cochran Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15220
412-253-0923
Privacy Policy Updated October 25, 2006
