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Privacy Notice

Updated as of February 19, 2009

Personal Information

* Non-Account Activity. You can view public pages, sample celebrations and learn more about Virtual Celebration without registering for an Account. To create a celebration or to attend a celebration, you must register and create an Account.

* Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on Virtual Celebration -like creating a celebration, uploading videos, posting comments, recording voice messages, adding widgets, or attending celebrations-require you to have a Virtual Celebration Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a Virtual Celebration Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.

* Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use Virtual Celebration, the tools you use, the number of celebrations created and/or attended, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch and post, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in Virtual Celebration (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

* Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your celebration or profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

Uses

* If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Virtual Celebration Sites, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the Virtual Celebration Sites, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.

* Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you create or attend celebrations or send messages through the Virtual Celebration Sites and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any content that you submit to the Virtual Celebration Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

* We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Virtual Celebration Site changes or for customer service purposes).

* We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Virtual Celebration Sites and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.

* We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Virtual Celebration Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

Information That is Publicly Available

* When you create an account on the site, some information about your account and your account activity will be provided to other Users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, your age (if you choose to make it public), the country and the number of celebrations you have created.

* Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as you create a celebration, attend a celebration, create a guest book page or send messages through the Virtual Celebration Sites. Other Users can contact you through messages and comments.

* You may also choose to add personal information that will visible to other Users on your Profile page (which is the public facing page for your account on the site). This may include a profile picture, your name, gender, relationship status, or other details.

* If you choose to add certain features to your guest book page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other Users and may be aggregated and shared with your confirmed friends or other Users. Such shared activity may include what media you have uploaded, celebrations you have created, celebrations you have attended, or what comments you have posted.

* Any content that you submit to the Virtual Celebration Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

Your Options

* You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Virtual Celebration Sites, in which case you can still explore the Virtual Celebration Sites, but Virtual Celebration may not be able to provide certain services to you. Some advanced Virtual Celebration features may, for authentication purposes, require you to sign up for other Google services like Google Checkout or AdSense. The privacy notices of those services govern the use of your personal information associated with them.

* You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.

* You may control the information that is available to other Users and your invited guests at any time by editing your account and the features that are included on your celebration pages.



Our Policy Towards Children

The Site is not directed to persons under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personally identifiable information without their consent, he or she should contact us at privacy@virtualcelebration.com. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal identifiable Information, we will delete such information from our files.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

Virtual Celebration allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Virtual Celebration Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Virtual Celebration Sites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

Virtual Celebration does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks Virtual Celebration to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, women ages 24-25) or audience segment (for example, women ages 35-45 who have used certain widgets or content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Virtual Celebration Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. Virtual Celebration's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with Virtual Celebration is maintained and dealt with by Virtual Celebration in accordance with this privacy policy.

The current list of third-party ad servers or ad networks Virtual Celebration has a relationship with is available here: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94149

More Information

Google adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce's web site.

For more information about our privacy practices, write to us at:

Virtual Celebration Privacy

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