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Privacy Policy (Effective May 1, 2008)

Information Collection:

ZoomNation collects Zoomer submitted information such as their name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those Zoomers relating to the ZoomNation service. ZoomNation may also collect other profile data including but not limited to: urls of their social networks, personal interests they may disclose on their Zoom profile, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist Zoomers in finding and communicating with each other. ZoomNation also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP addresses, general user data, and browser type, from Zoomers and visitors to the ZoomNation site. This data is used to manage our website, track usage and improve our website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes. Zoomer profile information including their profiles and page activities from other social networks, pictures posted to ZoomNation or shared from other social networks and their first names are displayed to other Zoomers or visitors in order to facilitate greater user interaction in the ZoomNation social life community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of uniquely identifying Zoomers, sending notifications of activities to their friends and for inviting new friends to join their ZoomNation community. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to other people in the ZoomNation community but might be displayed in other third party social network profiles that Zoomers manage within the ZoomNation community.

Zoomers communicate with other Zoomers through our various services without disclosing their email addresses. Full names of Zoomers are never directly revealed to other Zoomers or visitors. To facilitate searching and finding friends on the ZoomNation community, Zoomers search for other members using first and last name, email address, schools and/or companies. We might also use a Zoomer's email address to send essential updates or prize promotional contests. Zoomers can choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notifications" in the user "Account Settings" From time to time, a partner may sponsor a promotion, or contest on ZoomNation. Zoomers might be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or answer questions in order to participate. We might transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested or have allowed in your "advertisement settings" to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Invitations and Communication:

ZoomNation members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated Zoomer invitation system. ZoomNation stores the email addresses that Zoomers provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the Zoomer sending the invitations. ZoomNation does not trade in any kind or sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and notifications. Recipients of invitations from Zoomers may contact ZoomNation to request the removal of their information from our database. Zoomers may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal ZoomNation address books that is available through the social life community application and may choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses. You can prevent ZoomNation email invitations and other messages from Zoomers being sent to any email address you control by sending a single email with the subject "BLOCK" to privacy@ZoomNation.net Please note that the email must come from the account you wish to block.

Use of Cookies:

ZoomNation uses cookies to store visitors' preferences to record session information for purposes that include ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our ZoomNation community. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so please see the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. However, you must enable cookies from ZoomNation in order to use most functions on our community site. Please note that ZoomNation allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not the ZoomNation Privacy Policy.

Links:

ZoomNation might contain links to other web sites. ZoomNation is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of those other web sites. When linking to another web site a Zoomer should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on ZoomNation.

Chatter Rooms, Weblogs, Profile Ratings, website, music, video posts and other Zoomer generated public forums:

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Chatter rooms, Weblogs, Profile Ratings, website, music, video posts and other Zoomer generated public forums that information can be accessed by the public and might in turn be used to send you unsolicited communications. ZoomNation might contain links to other web sites. ZoomNation is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of those other web sites. When linking to another web site a Zoomer should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on ZoomNation.

Edit or Removing Information

Zoomers may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their community account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Settings.

Third Party Advertising

Ads appearing on our ZoomNation community or any of its widgets or applications within other social networks or websites may be delivered by ZoomNation or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow an ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. These ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by ZoomNation only and does not cover the use of cookies by any third party advertisers.

Security

Zoomer member accounts are secured by your own created password. ZoomNation takes every precaution to insure that your Zoomer account information is kept private and secured from online theft. We use reasonable measures to protect Zoomer information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to Zoomer information to those employees or any third party services that need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel, internal or externally contracted technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of each Zoomer account. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of Zoomer information at any time. For any additional information about the security measures we use on ZoomNation, please contact us a membersecurity@zoomnation.net.

Sharing and Disclosure of information

Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, ZoomNation will not disclose any personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by ZoomNation, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the ZoomNation Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of other Zoomers or members of the visiting public that use our service. ZoomNation reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of ZoomNation or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. For more information see the "Amendments to Our Privacy Policy" section below.

Amendments to Our Privacy Policy

From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make Zoomers aware of what the changes are so Zoomers will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A Zoomer is bound by any minor changes to the policy when he or she uses the ZoomNation community or any of its widgets or applications in other third party websites after those changes have been posted. However, if we are going to use personally identifiable information of Zoomers in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify our Zoomers by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.

Contacting ZoomNation

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the ZoomNation community, please contact us at: privacy@ZoomNation.net.


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