Privacy & Security Policy
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i Giving World, Ltd's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information we collect as well as information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using i Giving World, Ltd’s website located at www.igivingworld.com, and helping you as a Member (or prospective or trial Member) of i Giving World, Ltd’s online community.By using or accessing i Giving World, Ltd’s website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy & Security Policy, as well as in the Terms & Conditions of Use which are incorporated herein by reference, whether you are a Member, prospective Member, trial Member, or visitor to the website. If you do not agree to the Terms & Conditions of Use and the Privacy and Security Policy, you are not authorized to use the website and services, and you should immediately log off of the i Giving World, Ltd website. Continued use of the website and related services constitutes consent to the provisions of this Privacy & Security Policy and to the Terms & Conditions of Use. i Giving World, Ltd may, in its sole discretion and upon notice, terminate a website user’s use or Membership for failure to abide by the such terms and conditions, or for no reason.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact our privacy staff at privacy@igivingworld.com.
1. The Information We Collect
When you visit i Giving World, Ltd’s website you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us, and Website use information collected by us as you interact with our Website.
When you register with i Giving World, Ltd’s website as a Member, Prospective Member, or Visitor, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, schools attended and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.
When you enter i Giving World, Ltd’s website, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all i Giving World, Ltd website visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to i Giving World, Ltd’s website. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
When you use i Giving World, Ltd’s website, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list.
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 send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the site, and may send up to two reminders to them. i Giving World, Ltd stores this information to send invitations and reminders, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, to allow you to see invitations you have sent. Your friend may contact us at privacy@igivingworld.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
2. Children Under Age 13
i Giving World, Ltd does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for i Giving World, Ltd or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on i Giving World, Ltd. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@igivingworld.com.
3. Confidentiality
In addition to the confidentiality provisions set forth in the Terms & Conditions of Use which provide that all information and website pages on the I Giving World, Ltd website are to be kept strictly confidential and may not be circulated to any party who is not a Member, it is important to understand that I Giving World, Ltd’s website is a community in which Members feel comfortable sharing information with their peers, based on mutual adherence to core values of discretion, respect for the privacy of other community Members, and mutual trust. However, when you post content on the website or engage in email or other dialogues or information sharing, you do so at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that information or communications that you bring to the site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons, non-Members, or others. We are not responsible for violations of applicable confidentiality obligations or circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the I Giving World, Ltd website. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of information and communications you bring to the I Giving World, Ltd website may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your material.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on i Giving World, Ltd is a violation of the i Giving World, Ltd Terms & Conditions of Use and should be reported to privacy@igivingworld.com. Such violations may result in termination of Membership in the I Giving World, Ltd online community and termination of access to the I Giving World, Ltd’s website and services.
4. Use of Information Obtained by i Giving World, Ltd
When you register with i Giving World, Ltd, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on i Giving World, Ltd. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by i Giving World, Ltd that we think you may find valuable.
Profile information is used by i Giving World, Ltd primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings.
Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the i Giving World, Ltd network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to you (friend, friend of friend, member of your networks, etc.) that allows such access based on your privacy settings.
i Giving World, Ltd may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.
Generally, you may opt out of such emails from the Notifications page, though i Giving World, Ltd reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.
i Giving World, Ltd may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties.
4. Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
i Giving World, Ltd is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your networks. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is
1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:
- Unlike most sites on the Web, i Giving World, Ltd limits access to site information by third party search engine "crawlers" (e.g. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask). i Giving World, Ltd takes action to block access by these engines to personal information.
- We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about i Giving World, Ltd, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the i Giving World, Ltd-specified purposes.
- We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the i Giving World, Ltd world. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (e.g., messaging is disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.
- We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the i Giving World, Ltd service or using the i Giving World, Ltd name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
- We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on i Giving World, Ltd. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on i Giving World, Ltd, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.
- If the ownership of all or substantially all of the i Giving World, Ltd business, or individual business units owned by i Giving World, Ltd, were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
When you use i Giving World, Ltd, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other items, this information may become publicly available.
5. Links
i Giving World, Ltd may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other Websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by i Giving World, Ltd.
6. Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on i Giving World, Ltd are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. i Giving World, Ltd does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on i Giving World, Ltd unless you choose to share it with them.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by i Giving World, Ltd and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
7. Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on i Giving World, Ltd is readily available through the profile editing tools. i Giving World, Ltd users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their i Giving World, Ltd account may do so by contacting our support department (support@igivingworld.com).
Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on i Giving World, Ltd, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another i Giving World, Ltd user) you generally cannot remove such communications.
8. Security
i Giving World, Ltd takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of i Giving World, Ltd Website, please contact us at privacy@igivingworld.com
9. Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of i Giving World, Ltd, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
10. Contacting the Website
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@igivingworld.com. You may also contact us by mail at Lyford Cay Centre, Suite #4, P.O. Box N-7776, Nassau Bahamas.
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