Condo-Communities Privacy Policy
Date of last revision: November 18, 2010.
1. Introduction
2. Information We Receive
3. Sharing information on Condo-Communities
4. Information You Share With Third Parties
5. How We Use Your Information
6. How We Share Information
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information
8. How We Protect Information
9. Other Terms
1. Introduction
Questions. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy,
contact our privacy team through the contact page.
Safe Harbor. Condo-Communities also complies with the EU Safe Harbor framework
as set forth by the Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and
retention of data from the European Union. As part of our participation in the
Safe Harbor, we agree to resolve all disputes you have with us in connection
with our policies and practices through TRUSTe. We will also provide initial
responses to access requests within a reasonable period of time. To view our
certification, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Safe Harbor Web site.
Scope. This privacy policy covers all of Condo-Communities. It does not,
however, apply to entities that Condo-Communities does not own or control, such
as applications and websites using Platform. By using or accessing
Condo-Communities, you agree to our privacy practices outlined here.
No information from children under age 13. If you are under age 13, please do
not attempt to register for Condo-Communities or provide any personal
information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal
information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as
quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from a
child under age 13, please contact us through this help page.
Parental participation. We strongly recommend that minors 13 years of age or
older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about
themselves to anyone over the Internet and we encourage parents to teach their
children about safe internet use practices. Materials to help parents talk to
their children about safe internet use can be found on this help page.
2. Information We Receive
Information you provide to us:
Information About Yourself. When you sign up for Condo-Communities you provide
us with your name, email, gender, and birth date. During the registration
process we give you the opportunity to connect with your friends, schools, and
employers. You will also be able to add a picture of yourself. In some cases we
may ask for additional information for security reasons or to provide specific
services to you. Once you register you can provide other information about
yourself by connecting with, for example, your current city, hometown, family,
relationships, networks, activities, interests, and places. You can also provide
personal information about yourself, such as your political and religious views.
Content. One of the primary reasons people use Condo-Communities is to share
content with others. Examples include when you update your status, upload or
take a photo, upload or record a video, share a link, create an event or a
group, make a comment, write something on someone's Wall, write a note, or send
someone a message. If you do not want us to store metadata associated with
content you share on Condo-Communities (such as photos), please remove the
metadata before uploading the content.
Transactional Information. We may retain the details of transactions or payments
you make on Condo-Communities. If you do not want us to store your payment
source account number, you can remove it using your payments page.
Friend Information. We offer contact importer tools to help you upload your
friends' addresses so that you can find your friends on Condo-Communities, and
invite your contacts who do not have Condo-Communities accounts to join. If you
do not want us to store this information, visit this help page. If you give us
your password to retrieve those contacts, we will not store your password after
you have uploaded your contacts' information.
Information we collect when you interact with Condo-Communities:
Site activity information. We keep track of some of the actions you take on
Condo-Communities, such as adding connections (including joining a group or
adding a friend), creating a photo album, sending a gift, poking another user,
indicating you "like" a post, attending an event, or connecting with an
application. In some cases you are also taking an action when you provide
information or content to us. For example, if you share a video, in addition to
storing the actual content you uploaded, we might log the fact that you shared
it.
Access Device and Browser Information. When you access Condo-Communities from a
computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that
device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages
you visit.
Cookie Information. We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an
extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make
Condo-Communities easier to use, to make our advertising better, and to protect
both you and Condo-Communities. For example, we use them to store your login ID
(but never your password) to make it easier for you to login whenever you come
back to Condo-Communities. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into
Condo-Communities, and to know when you are interacting with Condo-Communities
Platform applications and websites, our widgets and Share buttons, and our
advertisements. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your
browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use
Condo-Communities.
Information we receive from third parties:
Condo-Communities Platform. We do not own or operate the applications or
websites that you use through Condo-Communities Platform (such as games and
utilities). Whenever you connect with a Platform application or website, we will
receive information from them, including information about actions you take. In
some cases, in order to personalize the process of connecting, we may receive a
limited amount of information even before you connect with the application or
website.
Information from other websites. We may institute programs with advertising
partners and other websites in which they share information with us:
We may ask advertisers to tell us how our users responded to the ads we showed
them (and for comparison purposes, how other users who didn't see the ads acted
on their site). This data sharing, commonly known as "conversion tracking,"
helps us measure our advertising effectiveness and improve the quality of the
advertisements you see.
We may receive information about whether or not you've seen or interacted with
certain ads on other sites in order to measure the effectiveness of those ads.
If in any of these cases we receive data that we do not already have, we will
"anonymize" it within 180 days, meaning we will stop associating the information
with any particular user. If we institute these programs, we will only use the
information in the ways we explain in the "How We Use Your Information" section
below.
Information from other users. We may collect information about you from other
Condo-Communities users, such as when a friend tags you in a photo, video, or
place, provides friend details, or indicates a relationship with you.
3. Sharing information on Condo-Communities.
This section explains how your privacy settings work, and how your information
is shared on Condo-Communities. You should always consider your privacy settings
before sharing information on Condo-Communities.
Name and Profile Picture. Condo-Communities is designed to make it easy for you
to find and connect with others. For this reason, your name and profile picture
do not have privacy settings. If you are uncomfortable with sharing your profile
picture, you should delete it (or not add one). You can also control who can
find you when searching on Condo-Communities or on public search engines using
the Applications and Websites privacy setting.
Contact Information. Your contact information settings control (available when
customizing your privacy settings) who can contact you on Condo-Communities, and
who can see your contact information such as your email and phone number(s).
Remember that none of this information is required except for your email
address, and you do not have to share your email address with anyone.
Personal Information. Your personal information settings control who can see
your personal information, such as your religious and political views, if you
choose to add them. We recommend that you share this information using the
friends of friends setting.
Posts by Me. You can select a privacy setting for every post you make using the
publisher on our site. Whether you are uploading a photo or posting a status
update, you can control exactly who can see it at the time you create it.
Whenever you share something look for the lock icon. Clicking on the lock will
bring up a menu that lets you choose who will be able to see your post. If you
decide not to select your setting at the time you post the content, your content
will be shared consistent with your Posts by Me default privacy
(available when customizing your privacy settings).
Gender and Birth Date. In addition to name and email address, we require you to
provide your gender and birth date during the registration process. We ask for
your date of birth to verify that you are 13 or older, and so that we can better
limit your access to content and advertisements that are not age appropriate.
Because your date of birth and gender are required, you cannot delete them. You
can, however, edit your profile to hide all (or part) of such fields from other
users.
Other. Here are some other things to remember:
Some of the content you share and the actions you take will show up on your
friends' home pages and other pages they visit.
If another user tags you in a photo or video or at a place, you can remove the
tag. You can also limit who can see that you have been tagged on your profile
from your privacy settings.
Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account,
copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has
been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy
settings, or it was copied or stored by other users.
You understand that information might be reshared or copied by other users.
Certain types of communications that you send to other users cannot be removed,
such as messages.
When you post information on another user's profile or comment on another user's
post, that information will be subject to the other user's privacy settings.
If you use an external source to publish information to Condo-Communities (such
as a mobile application or a Connect site), you should check the privacy setting
for that post, as it is set by that external source.
"Everyone" Information. Information set to "everyone" is publicly available
information, just like your name, profile picture, and connections. Such
information may, for example, be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including
people not logged into Condo-Communities), be indexed by third party search
engines, and be imported, exported, distributed, and redistributed by us and
others without privacy limitations. Such information may also be associated with
you, including your name and profile picture, even outside of Condo-Communities,
such as on public search engines and when you visit other sites on the internet.
The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on
Condo-Communities is set to "everyone." You can review and change the default
settings in your privacy settings. If you delete "everyone" content that you
posted on Condo-Communities, we will remove it from your Condo-Communities
profile, but have no control over its use outside of Condo-Communities.
Minors. We reserve the right to add special protections for minors (such as to
provide them with an age-appropriate experience) and place restrictions on the
ability of adults to share and connect with minors, recognizing this may provide
minors a more limited experience on Condo-Communities
4. Information You Share With Third Parties.
Condo-Communities Platform. As mentioned above, we do not own or operate the
applications or websites that use Condo-Communities Platform. That means that
when you use those applications and websites you are making your
Condo-Communities information available to someone other than Condo-Communities.
Prior to allowing them to access any information about you, we require them to
agree to terms that limit their use of your information (which you can read
about in Section 9 of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities) and we use
technical measures to ensure that they only obtain authorized information. To
learn more about Platform, visit our About Platform page.
Connecting with an Application or Website. When you connect with an application
or website it will have access to General Information about you. The term
General Information includes your and your friends' names, profile pictures,
gender, user IDs, connections, and any content shared using the Everyone privacy
setting. We may also make information about the location of your computer or
access device and your age available to applications and websites in order to
help them implement appropriate security measures and control the distribution
of age-appropriate content. If the application or website wants to access any
other data, it will have to ask for your permission.
We give you tools to control how your information is shared with applications
and websites that use Platform. For example, you can block all platform
applications and websites completely or block specific applications from
accessing your information by visiting your Applications and Websites privacy
setting or the specific application's "About" page. You can also use your
privacy settings to limit which of your information is available to "everyone".
You should always review the policies of third party applications and websites
to make sure you are comfortable with the ways in which they use information you
share with them. We do not guarantee that they will follow our rules. If you
find an application or website that violates our rules, you should report the
violation to us on this help page and we will take action as necessary.
When your friends use Platform. If your friend connects with an application or
website, it will be able to access your name, profile picture, gender, user ID,
and information you have shared with "everyone." It will also be able to access
your connections, except it will not be able to access your friend list. If you
have already connected with (or have a separate account with) that website or
application, it may also be able to connect you with your friend on that
application or website. If the application or website wants to access any of
your other content or information (including your friend list), it will have to
obtain specific permission from your friend. If your friend grants specific
permission to the application or website, it will generally only be able to
access content and information about you that your friend can access. In
addition, it will only be allowed to use that content and information in
connection with that friend. For example, if a friend gives an application
access to a photo you only shared with your friends, that application could
allow your friend to view or print the photo, but it cannot show that photo to
anyone else.
We provide you with a number of tools to control how your information is shared
when your friend connects with an application or website. For example, you can
use your Application and Websites privacy setting to limit some of the
information your friends can make available to applications and websites. You
can block all platform applications and websites completely or block particular
applications or websites from accessing your information. You can use your
privacy settings to limit which friends can access your information, or limit
which of your information is available to "everyone." You can also disconnect
from a friend if you are uncomfortable with how they are using your information.
Pre-Approved Third-Party Websites and Applications. In order to provide you with
useful social experiences off of Condo-Communities, we occasionally need to
provide General Information about you to pre-approved third party websites and
applications that use Platform at the time you visit them (if you are still
logged in to Condo-Communities). Similarly, when one of your friends visits a
pre-approved website or application, it will receive General Information about
you so you and your friend can be connected on that website as well (if you also
have an account with that website). In these cases we require these websites and
applications to go through an approval process, and to enter into separate
agreements designed to protect your privacy. For example, these agreements
include provisions relating to the access and deletion of your General
Information, along with your ability to opt-out of the experience being offered.
You can disable instant personalization on all pre-approved websites and
applications using your Applications and Websites privacy setting. You can also
block a particular pre-approved website or application by clicking "No Thanks"
in the blue bar when you visit that application or website. In addition, if you
log out of Condo-Communities before visiting a pre-approved application or
website, it will not be able to access your information.
Exporting Information. You (and those you make your information available to)
may use tools like RSS feeds, mobile phone address book applications, or copy
and paste functions, to capture, export (and in some cases, import) information
from Condo-Communities, including your information and information about you.
For example, if you share your phone number with your friends, they may use
third party applications to sync that information with the address book on their
mobile phone.
Advertisements. Sometimes the advertisers who present ads on Condo-Communities
use technological methods to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to
personalize advertising content. You may opt-out of the placement of cookies by
many of these advertisers here. You may also use your browser cookie settings to
limit or prevent the placement of cookies by advertising networks.
Condo-Communities does not share personally identifiable information with
advertisers unless we get your permission.
Links. When you click on links on Condo-Communities you may leave our site. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, and we encourage
you to read their privacy statements.
5. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and
customized experience. Here are some of the details on how we do that:
To manage the service. We use the information we collect to provide our services
and features to you, to measure and improve those services and features, and to
provide you with customer support. We use the information to prevent potentially
illegal activities, and to enforce our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous
activity and screen content to prevent abuse such as spam. These efforts may on
occasion result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some
functions for some users.
To contact you. We may contact you with service-related announcements from time
to time. You may opt out of all communications except essential updates on your
account notifications page. We may include content you see on Condo-Communities
in the emails we send to you.
To serve personalized advertising to you. We don't share your information with
advertisers without your consent. (An example of consent would be if you asked
us to provide your shipping address to an advertiser to receive a free sample.)
We allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their
advertisements and we may use any of the non-personally identifiable attributes
we have collected (including information you may have decided not to show to
other users, such as your birth year or other sensitive personal information or
preferences) to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. For
example, we might use your interest in soccer to show you ads for soccer
equipment, but we do not tell the soccer equipment company who you are. You can
see the criteria advertisers may select by visiting our advertising page. Even
though we do not share your information with advertisers without your consent,
when you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement there is a
possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and note that
it meets the criteria they selected.
To serve social ads. We occasionally pair advertisements we serve with relevant
information we have about you and your friends to make advertisements more
interesting and more tailored to you and your friends. For example, if you
connect with your favorite band's page, we may display your name and profile
photo next to an advertisement for that page that is displayed to your friends.
We only share the personally identifiable information visible in the social ad
with the friend who can see the ad. You can opt out of having your information
used in social ads on this help page.
To supplement your profile. We may use information about you that we collect
from other Condo-Communities users to supplement your profile (such as when you
are tagged in a photo or mentioned in a status update). In such cases we
generally give you the ability to remove the content (such as allowing you to
remove a photo tag of you) or limit its visibility on your profile.
To make suggestions. We use your information, including the addresses you import
through our contact importers, to make suggestions to you and other users on
Condo-Communities. For example, if another user imports the same email address
as you do, we may suggest that you add each other as friends. Similarly, if one
of your friends uploads a picture of you, we may suggest that your friend tag
you in the picture. We do this by comparing your friend's pictures to
information we've put together from the photos you've been tagged in. We may
also suggest that you use certain tools and features based on what your friends
have used. You can control whether we suggest that another user add you as a
friend through your "search for you on Condo-Communities" privacy setting. You
can control whether we suggest that another user tag you in a photo by clicking
customize from your privacy settings.
To help your friends find you. We allow other users to use contact information
they have about you, such as your email address, to find you, including through
contact importers and search. You can prevent other users from using your email
address to find you using the search section of your privacy settings.
Downloadable Software. Certain downloadable software applications and applets
that we offer, such as our browser toolbars and photo uploaders, transmit data
to us. We may not make a formal disclosure if we believe our collection of and
use of the information is the obvious purpose of the application, such as the
fact that we receive photos when you use our photo uploader. If we believe it is
not obvious that we are collecting or using such information, we will make a
disclosure to you the first time you provide the information to us so that you
can decide whether you want to use that feature.
Memorializing Accounts. If we are notified that a user is deceased, we may
memorialize the user's account. In such cases we restrict profile access to
confirmed friends, and allow friends and family to write on the user's Wall in
remembrance. We may close an account if we receive a formal request from the
user's next of kin or other proper legal request to do so.
6. How We Share Information
Condo-Communities is about sharing information with others - friends and people
in your communities - while providing you with privacy settings that you can use
to restrict other users from accessing some of your information. We share your
information with third parties when we believe the sharing is permitted by you,
reasonably necessary to offer our services, or when legally required to do so.
For example:
When you make a payment. When you enter into transactions with others or make
payments on Condo-Communities, we will share transaction information with only
those third parties necessary to complete the transaction. We will require those
third parties to agree to respect the privacy of your information.
When you invite a friend to join. When you ask us to invite a friend to join
Condo-Communities, we will send your friend a message on your behalf using your
name. The invitation may also contain information about other users your friend
might know. We may also send up to two reminders to them in your name. You can
see who has accepted your invitations, send reminders, and delete your friends'
email addresses on your invite history page. If your friend does not want us to
keep their information, we will also remove it at their request by using this
help page.
When you choose to share your information with marketers. You may choose to
share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers that are not
associated with Condo-Communities through on-site offers. This is entirely at
your discretion and we will not provide your information to these marketers
without your consent.
To help your friends find you. By default, we make certain information you have
posted to your profile available in search results on Condo-Communities to help
your friends find you. However, you can control who can see some of this
information, as well as who can find you in searches, through your privacy
settings. We also partner with email and instant messaging providers to help
their users identify which of their contacts are Condo-Communities users, so
that we can promote Condo-Communities to those users.
To give search engines access to publicly available information. We generally
limit search engines' access to our site. We may allow them to access
information set to the "everyone" setting (along with your name and profile
picture) and your profile information that is visible to everyone. You can
change the visibility of some of your profile information using the customize
section of your privacy settings. You can also prevent search engines from
indexing your profile using the Applications and Websites privacy setting.
To help improve or promote our service. Sometimes we share aggregated
information with third parties to help improve or promote our service. But we
only do so in such a way that no individual user can be identified or linked to
any specific action or information.
To provide you with services. We may provide information to service providers
that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use third
parties to help host our website, send out email updates about
Condo-Communities, remove repetitive information from our user lists, process
payments, or provide search results or links (including sponsored links). These
service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a
limited time, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and
technical protections to limit their use of that information to helping us
provide the service.
To advertise our services. We may ask advertisers outside of Condo-Communities
to display ads promoting our services. We may ask them to deliver those ads
based on the presence of a cookie, but in doing so will not share any other
information with the advertiser.
To offer joint services. We may provide services jointly with other companies,
such as the classifieds service in the Condo-Communities Marketplace. If you use
these services, we may share your information to facilitate that service.
However, we will identify the partner and present the joint service provider's
privacy policy to you before you use that service.
To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. We may disclose information
pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and
civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by
law. This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of the
United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by
law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, apply to users from that
jurisdiction, and are consistent with generally accepted international
standards. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is
necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily
harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Statement of
Rights and Responsibilities. This may include sharing information with other
companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.
Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control. If the ownership of all or
substantially all of our business changes, we may transfer your information to
the new owner so that the service can continue to operate. In such a case, your
information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing
Privacy Policy.
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information
Editing your profile. You may change or remove your profile information at any
time by going to your profile page and clicking "Edit My Profile." Information
will be updated immediately.
Delete uploaded contacts. If you use our contact importer to upload addresses,
you can later delete the list on this help page. You can delete the email
addresses of friends you have invited to join Condo-Communities on your invite
history page.
Deactivating or deleting your account. If you want to stop using your account
you may deactivate it or delete it. When you deactivate an account, no user will
be able to see it, but it will not be deleted. We save your profile information
(connections, photos, etc.) in case you later decide to reactivate your account.
Many users deactivate their accounts for temporary reasons and in doing so are
asking us to maintain their information until they return to Condo-Communities.
You will still have the ability to reactivate your account and restore your
profile in its entirety. When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted
from Condo-Communities. You should only delete your account if you are certain
you never want to reactivate it. You may deactivate your account on your account
settings page or delete your account on this help page.
Limitations on removal. Even after you remove information from your profile or
delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to
the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant
to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users. However,
your name will no longer be associated with that information on
Condo-Communities. (For example, if you post something to another user's profile
and then you delete your account, that post may remain, but be attributed to an
"Anonymous Condo-Communities User.") Additionally, we may retain certain
information to prevent identity theft and other misconduct even if deletion has
been requested. If you have given third party applications or websites access to
your information, they may retain your information to the extent permitted under
their terms of service or privacy policies. But they will no longer be able to
access the information through our Platform after you disconnect from them.
Backup copies. Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies for
up to 90 days, but will not be available to others.
Non-user contact information. If a user provides your email address to us, and
you are not a Condo-Communities user but you want us to delete your address, you
can do so on this help page. However, that request will only apply to addresses
we have at the time of the request and not to any addresses that users provide
to us later.
8. How We Protect Information
We do our best to keep your information secure, but we need your help. For more
detailed information about staying safe on Condo-Communities, visit the
Condo-Communities Security Page.
Steps we take to keep your information secure. We keep your account information
on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information
(such as credit card numbers and passwords), we encrypt that information using
secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also use automated and social measures
to enhance security, such as analyzing account behavior for fraudulent or
otherwise anomalous behavior, may limit use of site features in response to
possible signs of abuse, may remove inappropriate content or links to illegal
content, and may suspend or disable accounts for violations of our Statement of
Rights and Responsibilities.
Risks inherent in sharing information. Although we allow you to set privacy
options that limit access to your information, please be aware that no security
measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other
users with whom you share your information. We cannot guarantee that only
authorized persons will view your information. We cannot ensure that information
you share on Condo-Communities will not become publicly available. We are not
responsible for third party circumvention of any privacy settings or security
measures on Condo-Communities. You can reduce these risks by using common sense
security practices such as choosing a strong password, using different passwords
for different services, and using up to date antivirus software.
Report Violations. You should report any security violations to us on this help
page.
9. Other Terms
Changes. We may change this Privacy Policy pursuant to the procedures outlined
in the Condo-Communities Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Unless stated
otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have
about you and your account. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy we will
notify you by publication here and on the Condo-Communities Site Governance
Page. If the changes are material, we will provide you additional, prominent
notice as appropriate under the circumstances. You can make sure that you
receive notice directly by liking the Condo-Communities Site Governance Page.
Consent to Collection and Processing in the United States. By using
Condo-Communities, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and
processed in the United States.
Defined Terms. "Us," "we," "our," "Platform" and "Condo-Communities" mean the
same as they do in the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. "Information"
and "content" are used more generally and interchangeably here than in the
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities unless otherwise limited by the
context.