Verving Privacy Policy

Verving, Inc. ("Verving") is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Verving's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using the Verving website. By using or accessing the Verving website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy covers Verving's treatment of personal information that Verving gathers when you are on the Verving website and when you use Verving services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Verving does not own or control, or to individuals that Verving does not employ or manage.

What we collect

We collect the following two types of information from our Verving users:

Information You Provide to Us

We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our features.

In order for you to use Verving services, such as posting and reviewing websites, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require select personal information (including your full name, city, state and e-mail address).

To allow you to express yourself beyond just the information collected during registration, we enable you to provide additional information, such as a bio, favorite URLs, and blog post comments. In addition, you may choose to include photos of yourself in your profile. As indicated below, in the section titled "Sharing Your Information", you can control how your information is displayed and used.

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Verving stores this information to send this one-time invitation, to register a friend if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at privacy@verving.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Automatic Information

We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Verving and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on their server logs from your browser including your IP address, Verving cookie information, and the page you requested. Verving uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.

E-mail communications

Verving is concerned about your privacy and we will not provide your email address to unaffiliated third parties without your permission, as detailed in the "Sharing Your Information" section below. Verving may send out e-mails with Verving-related news, products, offers, surveys or promotions. You may also receive notification e-mails from Verving, which inform you of actions (e.g. friend requests) that have been performed on the site. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us, please contact us at privacy@verving.com and/or follow the instructions contained in the unwanted e-mail message. However, please note that in all cases you will continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information a web site leaves on a visitor's computer when the visitor visits a site. Cookies are used to remember information about a visitor to be used at a later time. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. By using cookies, the Verving website can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Verving uses traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose 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. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.

Sharing your information

Because Verving enables people to discover and share websites with one another, information about the people who use Verving is an integral part of the Verving experience.

• Verving Personnel: Verving personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of Verving business.
• Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Verving, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
• Protection of Verving and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Verving, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits, such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other Verving users in your User Profile. The User Profile is the area on Verving where we allow you to tell other Verving users about yourself and your interests.
• Social sharing of data: Verving allows other users to browse websites that you have submitted, reviewed, or commented on. This information is made available via your User Profile.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

Links to other websites

The Verving may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Verving.

Children Under 18 Years of Age

You must be 13 years and older to register to use the Verving website. As a result, Verving does not specifically collect information about children. If we learn that Verving has collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 13 and 18 ask and receive their parents' permission before using Verving or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Verving may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Verving website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.

Effective Date of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 1, 2008 and last updated June 5, 2008.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose 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. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
• if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at [email address]

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Verving, Inc, 4845 Pearl East Circle, Suite 101, Boulder, CO 80305 or send an email to info@verving.com.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.