Effective June 12, 2006:

About BlockSavvy.com

BlockSavvy.com is an online service that allows our residents to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of neighbors. BlockSavvy residents can view each others' profiles, communicate with old neighbors and meet new neighbors on the service, share photos, post journals and comments, and describe their interests. To enrich our residents' experience, we request and display some personal information to other residents and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of neighbors. BlockSavvy residents can change their profile information at any time and can control how other residents and the service communicates with them.
BlockSavvy.com cares deeply about online privacy If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@BlockSavvy.com.

Information Collection and Use by BlockSavvy.com

BlockSavvy.com collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the BlockSavvy.com service. BlockSavvy collects personal information when you register with BlockSavvy, when you use BlockSavvy products or services, when you visit BlockSavvy pages or the pages of certain BlockSavvy partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. BlockSavvy may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies. BlockSavvy.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.  Once you register with BlockSavvy and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

BlockSavvy collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.

BlockSavvy automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, BlockSavvy cookie information, and the page you request.  User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

BlockSavvy.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site BlockSavvy uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to residents.

User Profile information including residents' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the BlockSavvy.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new neighbors to join BlockSavvy, to add users to residents' neighbors' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting neighbors, adding neighbors, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network Users within a personal network communicate on BlockSavvy.com with each other through the BlockSavvy.com service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other residents without prior approval. To facilitate searching and finding neighbors and acquaintances on the service, BlockSavvy.com allows users to search for other residents using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where users may have attended or worked.

We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings"

From time to time, BlockSavvy.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on BlockSavvy.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Children

When a child under age 13 attempts to register with BlockSavvy, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a BlockSavvy Family Account to obtain parental permission.

BlockSavvy will not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.

BlockSavvy does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

BlockSavvy does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with BlockSavvy under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help BlockSavvy communicate with you about offers from BlockSavvy and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
• We have a parent's permission to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the option of allowing BlockSavvy to collect and use their child's information without consenting to BlockSavvy sharing of this information with people and companies who may use this information for their own purposes;
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of BlockSavvy's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We transfer information about you if BlockSavvy is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, BlockSavvy will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

BlockSavvy displays targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.

• BlockSavvy does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
• BlockSavvy advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).

BlockSavvy works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products or services that you've requested please read our detailed reference links.

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-residents

BlockSavvy residents can invite neighbors to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. BlockSavvy.com stores the email addresses that residents provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the resident sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations. BlockSavvy.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders (up to three (3) per email address), other BlockSavvy.com communications previously indicated in this Privacy Policy. Recipients of invitations from BlockSavvy.com may contact BlockSavvy.com to request the removal of their information from our database.

BlockSavvy residents may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal BlockSavvy address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.
You may prevent BlockSavvy.com email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by sending a single email with the subject "BLOCK" to privacy@BlockSavvy.com.  Please note that the email must come from the account you wish to block.

Use of Cookies

BlockSavvy.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from BlockSavvy.com in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that BlockSavvy allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the BlockSavvy Privacy Policy.

Links

BlockSavvy.com contains links to sites. BlockSavvy.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on BlockSavvy.com.

Chat Rooms, Journals and WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Journals, WebLogs (Blogs), Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information

BlockSavvy.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.

Email Choice/Opt-out

Residents who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me notification emails' in the user profile 'Account Settings'. Users who do not wish to receive BlockSavvy.com newsletters may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me BlockSavvy newsletters' in the user profile 'Account Settings'. All notification emails and BlockSavvy.com newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future.

Editing and Deleting Your Account Information and Preferences

General

You can edit your BlockSavvy Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.

New categories of marketing communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the BlockSavvy service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the BlockSavvy Newsletter, that are considered part of your BlockSavvy account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

You can delete your BlockSavvy account by visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

      Children

Parents can review, edit, and delete information relating to their child's BlockSavvy account using tools offered by BlockSavvy Family Accounts.

If a parent chooses not to allow us to further collect or use a child's information, parents enrolled in BlockSavvy Family Accounts can delete their child's account by signing into that child's account and then visiting our Account Deletion page. Please click here to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.