PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy is
posted to demonstrate our commitment to protecting your personal information
and to describe ways how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies to
transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the
PartyKarma.com Website and email communications between PartyKarma Members
through PartyKarma Email System (collectively, the "Site"). It does not apply to any other Website or
offline point of contact between PartyKarma.com, or any other company, and
consumers. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it
from time to time. This privacy policy
was last revised on June 30, 2004. Each
time you visit the Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are
accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce Websites,
each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the
web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for
you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help
identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, PartyKarma Site uses
cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activity on the Site and
enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific
to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other
personal and financial information so you do not have to reenter it each time
you visit the Site. Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read
cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the
"help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how.
However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to
access certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect From You
In the course of you using
our Website and Services you submit to us or we may collect from you personal,
financial and demographic information.
"Personal information" is information that could be used to
contact you directly (without using the Site) such as full name, postal
address, phone number or email address).
"Financial information" consists of credit card numbers or
passwords). "Demographic" information is neither personal information
nor financial information. It may
include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code, hometown, gender,
username, age/birth date, purchase history information, browsing history
information, searching history information, registration history information,
and the content of communications between you and other members over the Site.
Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1) "non-public
information", which consists of purchase history information and
one-on-one communications between you and other users of the Site; and 2)
"public information", which consists of all other demographic
information. It is your responsibility not to enter personal information or
financial information into your Profile.
If you do then this information may be posted publicly on the Site, and
therefore will be treated as "demographic information" that is
"public information".
No personal information is
collected from children under the age of 21, as we require that all users
represent to us that they are at least 21 years old.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
PartyKarma Site contains
links to other Websites operated by other parties. Regardless of whether or not
these other sites contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual
property, this privacy policy does not apply to these other Websites as we do
not control these other Websites nor are we responsible for the privacy
practices of other Web sites.
PartyKarma encourages its users to read the privacy statements of each
and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
Your Personal Information
We use your email address
and your other personal information to help us efficiently operate the Site, to
contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the
Site (including, but not limited to, event announcements, confirmation emails
or important news that could affect your relationship with PartyKarma), and to
forward messages to you from other PartyKarma Members. These types of
communications, are known as "Operational Communications". In some cases, Operational Communications
may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.
We also use personal
information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional
materials for PartyKarma's or third parties' goods or services. The Site
provides you with options to decline to receive communications from PartyKarma
(other than those contained in Operational Communications). By posting a profile on the Site, you are
opting in to receive PartyKarma email communications. To stop receiving
PartyKarma email communications, go to 'My Account', then 'Security', then 'Mail'
section of the Site.
To operate the Site,
including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the
Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives,
contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services
such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt
or support services, customer relationship management services, order
fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require these
entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or
registering or making reservations for, products or services offered or
sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive communications
(such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to participate in
contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs),
offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing
your personal information to those third parties. Those third parties may use
your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You
will need to contact those third parties 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 third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to
use and disclose any other information you submit to us.
Any third party with whom
we are allowed to share your personal information is authorized to use your
personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such
third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we
have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of
their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed
directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal
information by them.
Special Cases in
which we Share Personal Information
Your personal information
may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or
assets, or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information when we
determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, to
cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of
PartyKarma or other visitors to the Site.
Our Security
Precautions
PartyKarma has security
measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the
information collected through the Site. We store all of your personal on our
servers in encrypted form. However, PartyKarma cannot guarantee that your
personal information will not be obtained illegally from PartyKarma systems and
you agree to assume all risk and liability arising from your use of PartyKarma
online services, including the risk of a breach in the security of our systems.
PartyKarma cannot guarantee and has no control over the public or third party
network through which you send your personal information to PartyKarma Site.
How You Can Access
and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal Information and Public Information
To opt-out of certain communications
and to modify personal information or demographic information you have provided
to PartyKarma go to "My Account",
then "Security", then "Mail" section of the Site to change your settings.
It may take several hours for the changes you make to take effect on the public
areas of the Site. Please note that
changing or deleting your information through the "Account Settings"
or "My Profile" section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out of
receipt of email communications from PartyKarma, will only change or delete the
data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Site and for
managing future communications from PartyKarma. These changes and deletions
will not change or delete emails or information that we may have already
forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other third parties,
all as provided above in this privacy policy.
How To Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns
about this privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the
Site, you can contact us at
custsvc@partykarma.com. You can also send us
mail to: Privacy Officer, PartyKarma, P.O. Box 6010-456, Sherman Oaks, CA
91403.