The SocialWish, Inc Privacy Policy describes how SocialWish, Inc. a New York State Corporation ("SocialWish," or "We" or "Us" or "Our"), treats personal information when you use SocialWish's products and services.
In order to use the SocialWish Web Application, you must first complete the registration form by creating a user name and password. During registration you are required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services on Our site in which you have expressed interest. You have the option to provide Us with demographic information (such as location and gender) and We encourage you to submit this information so We can provide you a more personalized experience on Our site.
If you participate in SocialWish services by actually contributing to a wish, We request certain personally identifiable information from you on Our payment form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number and expiration date) and other information (such as purpose of the transaction). We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If We have trouble processing an order, We will also use this information to contact you.
When you register with the SocialWish service, Our registration form may require you to give Us certain information such as your name, email address, and zip code. SocialWish will also collect other information that you volunteer to Us through use of Our service. We refer to this information as "Personally Identifiable Information." You may always choose not to provide such personally identifiable information. However, this may limit Our ability to provide you with a specific services, features, and content. We may also collect demographic and other data - which may include personally identifiable information - through surveys and forms that you may or may not choose to participate in. If you contribute funds to a SocialWish gift or collect funds via SocialWish, you may be required to enter your credit card number and information, as well as your shipping address and/or other contact information.
In order to send messages to your participants through the SocialWish service, We require that you submit to a current, valid email addresses for each of your participants. When you send messages to your participants through Our service (e.g., a SocialWish invitation or reminder), We collect and retain the email addresses and other pertinent contact information of those persons. Except as described below in the Section titled "When We May Disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information, Data or Participant Contact Information," We do not sell, share, or otherwise provide organizer or participant contact information that you submit to any third party. Cookies: SocialWish wants to optimize your experience by ensuring that the most relevant information, promotions, and offers are displayed to you while using the SocialWish web site. A common manner in which to do this is by placing cookies on your computer. Cookies are strings of text and numbers that can identify your computer to Us when you visit Our site. IP Address: When you visit Our site, We log standard information such as your IP address - which is a number that can be used to identify your location and Internet Service Provider - along with the URL from which you came to Our site and the URLs visited on Our site. A URL is the full address of a Web site page, which may or may not contain personally identifiable information about the person who is viewing it. When We send messages to you or others, We may provide a URL link to the SocialWish site that contains an alphanumeric identifier, which allows Us to identify the email recipient so that We can personalize Our content for that individual.
Information obtained from third parties - In order to protect you from fraud or other misconduct, We may obtain information about you from third parties to verify the information you provide. For example, We may use card authorization and fraud screening services to verify that your credit or debit card information and address match the information that you provided to Us. Transaction information - When you use the SocialWish payment service to conduct a transaction, We collect information about each transaction, including the transaction amount, a description provided by the organizer of the wish, goods or services being requested, the names of the participants and beneficiaries, and the payment method and instrument used.
We use an outside credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services and to process the disbursement of collected funds to the wish maker. To Our knowledge, these companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
We use other third parties (such as Payoneer) to provide payment services on Our site. When you sign up for Payoneer, We will share your name, Event transaction ID (amount, date), and email address as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Special Offers and Updates - We will occasionally send you information on new products and services, special deals, and promotions. You can sign up for these emails from Us on Our registration page. Out of respect for your privacy, We provide all users with the option to not receive these types of notifications. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section for more details.
Newsletters - If you wish to subscribe to Our newsletter(s), We will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, We provide an easy way for you to unsubscribe if needed. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section for further details.
Service-related Announcements - We will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions, and only when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if Our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, We might send you a notification email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Profile - We store information that We collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third party sources to create a "profile" of your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information and your participation and purchase history to information in your profile in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers, and to improve the content of the site for you. We do share your profile (in aggregate form only and not in a personally identifiable form) with other third parties.
We will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. In addition, We will only use or share your personal information with other companies or individuals outside of SocialWish as described in the SocialWish Privacy Policy and in the following limited circumstances: If sharing your information is necessary to process your transaction and maintain your account, We may disclose it to specific third parties. As with any credit card payment, if you process a credit card transaction through the service, We need to share some information (for example, your name and credit card number) with the banks and other entities in the financial system that process credit card transactions. We may share aggregated non-personally identifiable information with third parties. For example, We may disclose that a certain percentage of Our users have a billing address in a particular geographic area, or that a certain percentage of users use a particular type of billing instrument. However, if We do share this aggregated information, We do not include personally identifiable information without your explicit opt-in consent or in the limited circumstances described above.
SocialWish does not sell, share or otherwise provide any "Personally Identifiable Information" you give to Us with any Business Partner without your consent, which may be obtained through an opt-in or opt-out request (see Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information by Business Partners below), unless required by law, court order or as required to technically operate the service, or to complete a transaction or order. We use the collected Personally Identifiable Information to manage events for you, to contact the participants on your SocialWish list, to contact you in connection with your transactions, posting and other activities on the site, to forward to you messages from other Users, to communicate with you about your event progress and to operate the SocialWish service. These types of communications may contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers. In addition, We use your Personally Identifiable Information to help Us provide you with personalized content, advertising, and commercial messages (collectively, "Content").
Users and/or participants invited to the same events as you will be able to view the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide on your "Profile" page. In addition, your event participants may choose to email you. However, to ensure your privacy, SocialWish will not display or give out your email address or any other contact information to other users. Use of your personally identifiable information by SocialWish's business partners In order to provide offers of particular interest to you, SocialWish may share demographic, geographic, and other Personally Identifiable Information with its Business Partners with your consent. Please note: The privacy practices of advertisers and other companies who provide services or advertising through Our site are not covered by this privacy policy. Please contact those companies directly for more information about their privacy practices. If you wish to prevent those companies from setting cookies on your browser, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to warn you before setting a cookie. Disabling cookies set by companies whose products or services are advertised on this site should not affect your ability to use this site.
We use your Participant's contact information to allow them to respond to and comment on your SocialWish event invitation. At your request, We may send Reminders to your guests. We also may send a post-event email to you and your guests. If you use Our Reminders service, We use the information you provide in your Reminders to send it to you and others to whom you have requested it be sent. SocialWish does not sell, share or otherwise provide any participants' contact information you give to Us with any Business Partner, unless required by law, court order or as required to technically operate the service. If you feel your email address was improperly included in an event participant list, or that you are being contacted fraudulently, you should contact SocialWish immediately at support@SocialWish.com. We will suspend or delete your email address from the event participant list and investigate the organizer.
We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, among other purposes. You can always choose not to accept cookies through your browser's preference options, but you may not be able to use some of Our services if you do not accept cookies. As described in more detail above, Business Partners display ads through Our service. These ads may contain cookies. While We use cookies in other parts of Our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by Our Business Partners, and We do not have access to this information. Likewise, some of Our Business Partners may use cookies. We do not control their use of cookies nor have access to the information contained in or related to those cookies. Please contact Our Business Partners directly for more information about their privacy practices.
As is true of most Web sites, We gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about Our user base as a whole. We do link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to maintain security of transactions and payments for events. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with Our server, and to administer Our Web site and otherwise provide Our service to you. IP addresses may be disclosed to Business Partners if SocialWish believes in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or to protect the rights or property of SocialWish or others. In addition, Our Business Partners may use information derived from your IP address, such as conducting a reverse domain name lookup, in order to provide advertisements more tailored to your interests.
If you use a Friend Features on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you post in your status updates could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to disclose . We reserve the right to terminate accounts of visitors who use these services in a manner inconsistent with the SocialWish Terms of Service. When We may disclose your personally identifiable information, SocialWish invitation content, data or participant contact information SocialWish may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information, the contents of your private communications, or the contact information of your participants if required to do so by law or court order. Your Personally Identifiable Information may also be disclosed if necessary in order to complete a transaction such as the fulfillment of an order or purchase placed by you. SocialWish will in no way disclose the contents of your SocialWish events other than to the intended recipient(s) unless required (1) by law or court order, (2) to protect SocialWish's rights and property, (3) to protect against unauthorized use of the SocialWish site, and (4) during emergencies such as when We believe someone's physical safety is at risk. Also, certain technical processing of email messages and their content may be required to: (1) send and receive messages; (2) conform to connecting networks' technical requirements; (3) conform to the limitations of the Service; or (4) conform to other similar requirements. It is possible that as We continue to develop Our Web site and Our business, SocialWish and/or related assets might be acquired. In such a transaction, customer information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of Our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical and technical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where We store personal data. We only retain credit card information as long as necessary to complete the transaction, and not on a permanent basis. For example, your credit card number will always be transmitted in an encrypted form (except when you provide it to Us in a communication outside of Our web page interface). See the Payoneer privacy policy. The security of your account also depends on keeping your account password confidential, and you should not share your account name or password with anyone. If you do share your account information with a third party, they will have access to your account and your personal information.
The security of your personal information is important to Us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on Our registration or order forms, We encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to Us, both during transmission and once We receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, We cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on Our Web site, you can send email to Us at support@SocialWish.com.
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You can review and update your personally identifiable information by logging in to your SocialWish Account and going to the "Profile" page. You can also view your previous transaction history on the "My Wishes" page.
SocialWish does give You the opportunity to remove all personal details from Our data to the extent consistent with applicable laws by request via email to support@SocialWish.com to remove all personal details from Our data set.
In the event SocialWish, Inc. goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and a prominent notice will be placed on Our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, We will provide a more prominent notice (including notification in your account interface or email notification). If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us.