Effective November 1, 2011
Interestingly provides Members with a forum and technical interface that allows them to communicate with one another by matching up Members who share similar interests. Members are able to chat one-on-one, rate their chat experience and move to the next chat opportunity. Like any website that offers a service where you register and provide information about yourself or your opinions, it is wise to pay attention to your personal information. At Interestingly we understand this, and have established this Privacy Policy to explain how information is collected on our website, and how this information is used. Members Must Be 18 years of age or older. Interestingly is intended solely for use by persons 18 years of age or older. All persons under 18 are prohibited from registering on Interestingly.
The safety and privacy of children is extremely important to us.
Interestingly is a general audience web site that complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our registration process is designed to restrict people under the age of 18 from becoming members of Interestingly and using our site. If we receive information suggesting that a user who has registered with Interestingly is under the age of 18, we require the user to provide evidence confirming that the user is at least 18 years old. If the user fails to provide such information within 48 hours, we immediately terminate the user's account and nullify all personally identifiable information displaying on the site.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires that commercial web sites obtain parental consent (under most circumstances) prior to the collection of any personally identifiable information from children whom they know to be under the age of 13. In addition, COPPA requires that web sites that collect personal information from children under the age of 13 provide parents with:
Notice. Parents must be provided notice regarding what information is collected, how the information will be used, and with whom the information may be shared.
The ability to prevent further use of the information collected about the child and prevent any future collection of personal information from the child.
The ability to access and review their child's personal information.
COPPA also limits the amount of personal information a web site can collect from a child. Web sites may not collect any more personal information than is necessary to participate in a given game or activity.
For more information about COPPA, please visit the Federal Trade Commission's web site.
Parents: If your child is under the age of 13 and has joined Interestingly using a false age, please notify Interestingly at help@Interesting.ly, and we will immediately cancel your child's account and nullify all personally identifiable information displaying on the site. If you would like to know more about our site, information practices, stored information about your child, or how to close your child's account, please contact Interestingly by sending a letter to Interesting.ly, 110 Pacific Ave Mall, Box #117, San Francisco, CA 94111. We will happily respond to all letters from parents with Privacy questions or concerns.
All users begin using Interestingly's services by registering on the Interestingly website. When registering, users provide personally identifiable information, which includes their first and last name, email address, zip code, a user-chosen password, age, and other personal information. To complete the registration process, Interestingly sends a validation email message to each user, with a URL link back to our website. This URL contains an alphanumeric identifier and a user-specific numeric passcode that allows us to confirm the user's identity.
Interestingly logs standard user information and clickstream data for all users, including a user's IP address, operating system, and page views. When users visit particular pages within Interestingly, a UserID may be placed in the URL, allowing customized features for the user. Users should be aware that other websites visited before entering Interestingly might place personally identifiable information within a user's URL during a visit to their website, and Interestingly has no control over such websites. Accordingly, some of this information may be logged by a subsequent website that collects URL information. In addition to the standard log information, Interestingly uses a variety of technologies to create a more personalized experience for its users. Cookies are small data files sent by websites to a user's browser and hard drive that identify the computer to the website. We use cookies to allow enhanced features, such as allowing registered users to bypass typing their passwords before entering the website. We may also use cookies to enable customizable content for users, as they become available. Users have the option, within their Internet browsers, to disable cookies and continue to access the Interestingly website. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files that are included in HTML-encoded e-mail messages. We use pixel tags to gather information about the e-mails we send to our registered users. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient's computer accesses our server to retrieve the pixel tag file, and allows us to record and store the date and time, the recipient's e-mail address, and other standard logging information. The pixel tag also may read cookies. Interestingly web pages may also contain similar pixel tags that allow us to count users who have visited those pages, to compile aggregated statistics about site usage, and to deliver co-branded services as they become available. Interestingly pixel tags collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the pixel tag resides. Interestingly web pages may also contain pixel tags placed there by third party ad servers, to monitor the effectiveness of their advertising. We do not have access to, nor control over, advertisers' cookies or how they may be used. If you would like more information about advertisers' use of cookies, and about your option not to accept these cookies, please click here.
All personal information collected by Interestingly in connection with your use of the Interestingly website, including, without limitation, your name, location, email address, pictures, friend connections, messageschat history, login information, ip addresses and other data, will be stored by Interestingly indefinitely in a safe and secure manner.
Interestingly uses personally identifiable user information for the purposes of the Interestingly website and chat referrals. Personally identifiable information, including members' pictures and names, ages and location, are displayed to your chat partner in order to facilitate user interaction on Interestingly. We also use email addresses to send useful information to all registered users regarding the Interestingly website.. All registered users will be able to view other users Stats and Profiles , which may include personal information and responses to survey questions. From time to time, Interestingly may share the email address and/or other personally identifiable information of any registered user with third parties for marketing purposes. In addition, Interestingly may share a registered user's email address with third parties to target advertising and to improve user experience on Interestingly's pages in general.
Interestingly uses cookie, IP address, clickstream and URL information to improve the content of the Interestingly website, the quality of Interestingly servers, and to provide enhanced features to users, where available. We use cookies to save UserIDs, session validators, and on users' browsers and hard drives, and may use them to provide tailored products or services to those users, as they become available. We also cross-match user information with information collected from cookies and clickstream data in order to test features of the Interestingly website, and to better personalize our various offerings for users. IP Addresses also help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Interestingly site, and to otherwise provide the Interestingly service to its users. IP addresses may be disclosed to a third party if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process so requires, or to protect the rights or property of Interestingly or others. From time to time we may extend various offers from various partner companies, including news or additional details on products and services. A user's usage history may result in specifically tailored special offer screens or products. We may also produce aggregate reports for advertisers. For example, we may report to advertisers the number of users who clicked on an ad, or the number of users that visited different portions of the Interestingly website. This information will not include personally identifiable information about a user, or a specific user's online usage patterns.
Interestingly allows Members to provide information to a profile that is accessible to other users. We use this profile information for the purposes of providing our services to you, such as to analyze demographics, to better personalize our various offerings for users, or to enable other users to find your profile. All information, including any personally identifiable information, which is disclosed by users in his or her public profile are available for others to see. Please do not post direct contact information your, such as your email addresses, URLs, instant messenger IDs, phone numbers, full names, or addresses. We also caution you not to share sensitive information (such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and driver's license numbers) with other users whom you do not know or place such information in your profile. You are aware that when you publish content or information using the "everyone" setting, you are allowing everyone, including people off Interestingly, to access that information and to associate it with you.
Interestingly allows Members to share content and information. The content of your chat will not be visible to other members outside of your chat. You own the content and information that you post on Interestingly and have the ability to control how it is shared through your privacy settings. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, including but not limited to photos, videos and written compositions (IP Content), you specifically give us the following permission: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Interestingly ("IP License"). For example, Interestingly may make commercial use and/or otherwise display your name and/or IP Content in or in connection with endorsements of and/or advertisements promoting Interestingly and its Services. This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account, unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted the content. When you delete IP content it is removed from the website. However, you understand that we mayfor Interestingly to maintain backup copies of the content, as part of our document retention policy.
Please be aware that links to third party websites and third-party ad server advertisements that are found on Interestingly may, or may not, use cookies, pixel tags and web tags. Interestingly may provide links to third party websites, which may, or may not, use cookies, pixel tags and web tags. Ad servers may also use these tools to compile information about where users saw particular advertisements, and to determine which ads were clicked on. We are not responsible for, or have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites and ad servers, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited when linking directly from Interestingly.
Interestingly may disclose personally identifiable user information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process. Interestingly may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Service; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to your requests for customer service; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Interestingly, its users or the general public.
Interestingly uses industry standard security measures to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by the Interestingly website in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. Further, while we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.
As a registered user, you may, at any time, choose to correct or update the information you have submitted to us. This may be done by the following method:
Log in to your Interestingly account on our website.
Click the "Account Settings" link on the top right hand corner.
Change or edit any of the information there.
As a registered user, you may, at any time, cancel your account by emailing a request to help@interesting.ly
We at Interesting.ly are opposed to spam. Our No Spam Policy and Terms of Service prohibit all users from engaging in any activity involving spam on our service. Violations of these policies may result in immediate termination of service and legal action against any spammer. Interestingly's Terms of Service expressly prohibit users from uploading, transmitting or otherwise making available junk mail, commercial advertisements, or other form of commercial solicitation on the Interestingly website or through Interestingly's services. Any violation of our policies, by sending unsolicited email advertisements to or through Interesting.ly computer systems, will use or cause to be used Interesting.ly servers, located in California. Accordingly, any unauthorized use of Interesting.ly computer systems is a violation of our policies and certain federal and state laws, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. sect 1030 et seq.), Section 502 of the California Penal Code and Section 17538.45 of the California Business and Professions Code. Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.
In the event of a change in ownership, or a direct merger or acquisition with another entity, we reserve the right to transfer all of Interestingly's user information, including email addresses, to a separate entity. All registered users will be notified of any change in ownership, merger or acquisition of Interestingly's assets by a third party, and may choose to modify any of their registration information at that time.
Interestingly reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Notice of any revision, amendment, or modification will be posted on the website, and a user's continued use of Interestingly will signify agreement to such changes.
Users with questions about this Privacy Policy and any of the aforementioned statements may contact Interestingly by sending a letter to Interesting.ly, 110 Pacific Ave Mall, Box #117, San Francisco, CA 94111.
USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE PRIVACY POLICY.
Effective Date November 2, 2011
Won't users be able to view others' profiles? Currently there are no profiles but eventually will be so I have added back in.
Isn't some of this still true/accurate? Added back in