ITIZEN WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to us. This policy explains our information practices, defines your privacy options and describes how your information is collected and used by us, Itizen LLC ("Itizen"), the owner and operator of the Itizen website.
This policy covers the website at http://www.itizen.com (the "Itizen Website").
By using or visiting the Itizen Website you agree to the collection and use of information in the manner described in this policy. Itizen shall have right at any time and without prior notice, at its sole discretion, to revise this policy. Such revisions and additions shall be effective immediately upon notice, which may be given by any means, including but not limited to posting the revised or additional terms and conditions on the Itizen Website. You are responsible for reviewing the Itizen Website periodically for any modification to this policy.
YOUR STORIES AND THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The Itizen Website is powered by your stories about things that you create, collect, and love. The Itizen Website also allows you in some situations to add your comments and opinions to the Itizen Website. You can always decide when, how and with whom you wish to share your stories (and related materials) and other information you post to the Itizen Website. This policy applies to all information collected on the Itizen Website and any information you provide to Itizen. You will most likely provide us personal information to us when you register as an Itizen Website user, use any of the Itizen Website features or tools or participate in certain Itizen sponsored activities. The personal information we collect when you register may include: your name; your email address; your home or business address; your telephone number, your credit card number, and a user ID and password that you select to access certain portion of the Itizen Website. The information you submit to Itizen with your stories may include your text, photographs, video, graphics, music and any other materials you might submit as part of, or in conjunction with, your use of the Itizen Website.
COMMUNICATIONS WITH ITIZEN
The Itizen Website includes areas that allow you to post your stories (and your related materials), your opinions and your comments. You have a number of options related to sharing your stories and related materials with others. You can post all such information and items on an anonymous basis, you may decide that you want to share such information and items with family members, friends or aquaintenances, or, if you so choose, you may link such information and items to a display name or photograph you have selected and/or provided to Itizen. Some information you choose to post to the Itizen Website may include personally identifiable information. We urge you to exercise caution when providing personally identifiable information. Remember that any personally identifiable information you disclose in the public areas of the Itizen Website can be viewed by other users of the Itizen Website.
OUR COLLECTION OF YOUR DATA
In addition to the personal information you supply, we may collect certain information to evaluate how you and other users use the Itizen Website. Also, we collect data to make our service work better for you in the following ways: to improve the design of the Itizen Website, to provide personalization on the Itizen Website, and to evaluate the performance of our various activities and programs. The technologies we may use to gather this non-personal information may include IP addresses, cookies, browser detection and weblogs.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
Our primary goal in collecting your information is to provide you with a personalized, relevant, and positive experience with the Itizen Website.
You may register on the Itizen Website to receive promotions and updates, or to be contacted for other activities and purposes. The contact information you submit will not be used for these purposes unless you specifically agree to receive such communications. You can control your privacy preferences regarding such communications (see the section below entitled "Your Privacy Preferences").
From time to time, you may be invited to participate in Itizen sponsored activities or programs. Itizen may request that you provide some or all of the above listed personal information to participate in those activities or programs. We use information collected from activities and programs to learn about users in order to improve our services and develop new products and services of interest to our customers.
Itizen may use IP addresses, cookies, browser detection, and weblogs to provide a better experience on our website and to give us useful information.
IP addresses define the Internet location of computers and help us better understand the geographic distribution of users and website visitors and manage the performance of the Itizen Website. Cookies are tiny files placed onto the hard drive of your computer when you visit the Itizen Website, so we can immediately recognize you when you return to the site and deliver content specific to your interests. You may modify your browser preferences to accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set, or reject all cookies. Please consult your browser instructions for information on how to modify your choices about cookies.
We may detect the type of web browser you are using to optimize the performance of the Itizen Website and to understand the mix of browsers used by our users and visitors. To learn about how visitors use our website, we examine weblogs, which show the paths visitors take through our site and how long they spend in certain areas.
Itizen may also contract with unaffiliated third parties to provide services, such as software for Itizen Website features, customer communications, analyzing and evaluating the information we collect, and other services. When we do this, we may provide your personally identifiable information to third parties only to provide those services, and they are not authorized to use your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY
Access to your data is limited to authorized Itizen staff or approved vendors. Although total security does not exist on the Internet, Itizen shall make commercially reasonable efforts to safeguard the information that you submit to Itizen.
USE OF THE ITIZEN WEBSITE BY CHILDREN
The Itizen Website is not intended for use by children. Itizen will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information submitted by visitors to the Itizen Website site who are under the age of 13.
YOUR PRIVACY PREFERENCES
Each time you post an item or story to the Itizen Website you will be asked whether you want to share such items and stories with all visitors to the Itizen Website or just those visitors that are someway connected to you, the item or story. If you no longer want Itizen to display the items and stories you have elected to share with all Itizen Website visitors, you can change your settings on the Item Page by using the lock icon.
Itizen may provide or make available to users Itizen marketing communications such as e-mail newsletters, product and service updates and promotions. Itizen users generally find this type of information useful. If you want to receive such communications, you must "Opt-in" by checking the "Add me to the mailing list" box on the communications registration page on the Itizen Website. Should you choose to not receive such future communications, you can use any of the following three methods to notify Itizen: select the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email sent by Itizen and follow the instructions; go to your user page, select "Manage Account", then select "Change Email Preferences" and select the appropriate box; or send an email to unsubscribe@itizen.com.
HOW TO ACCESS OR CORRECT YOUR INFORMATION
You can access and maintain your personally identifiable information on your user information page on the Itizen Website. To protect your privacy and security, we require a user ID and password to verify your identity before granting access to or making corrections to your user information page.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process. It is also possible that Itizen would sell all or substantially all of its assets and business. In any transaction of this kind, customer information, including your personally identifiable information, may be among the assets that are transferred. If we decide to so transfer your personally identifiable information, you will be notified by email or a post to the Itizen Website.
PRIVACY AND LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
The Itizen Website contains links to other websites. Itizen is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site, and to read the privacy statements of each web site that collects personally identifiable information. Some linked sites may be co-branded with our trademarks and those of our business partners. They may have the look and feel of www.itizen.com, but the URL in your browser window will indicate that you are visiting a different site. This policy only applies to information collected by Itizen.
HOW TO CONTACT US
Should you have privacy questions or concerns please send an email to privacy@itizen.com.
