Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement discloses how Essembly, LLC ('Essembly') collects personal information on the web site located at www.essembly.com (the 'Site'), and some of the ways it uses that information.
Essembly, LLC is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build users trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site www.essembly.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact support at support@essembly.com. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily address, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
1. INFORMATION COLLECTION
Personal Information
When you register on the Site, you provide us with your initial registration data, such as your name and e-mail address, along with designating a password and user name (collectively, 'Registration Data'). After completing the initial registration process, you will be asked to 'Tour' the Site, at which time additional personal information, such as your address, telephone number, photograph, and answers to the initial resolves (collectively with the Registration Data, your 'Personal Profile'). As you use the Site, you may provide us with additional personal information.
Aggregate Information
In addition to personal information, the Site collects and aggregates information about its users and their use of the Site.
Children Under 13
The Site is not intended for use by children. Essembly encourages parents and guardians to be familiar with the web sites that their children visit. The Federal Trade Commission ('FTC') regulates the means by which web site operators collect and use personal information from children under 13, pursuant to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (the 'Act'). Essembly does not allow persons under the age of 13 to register to use the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as soon as practicable. We recommend that children ages 13 to 18 seek parental permission before disclosing any personal information via the internet. For more information about the Act and children's on-line privacy in general, visit the FTC's web site at http://www.ftc.gov.
2. INFORMATION USE
a. Your Personal Profile
The Site's default settings allow your Personal Profile (with the exception of your password) to be accessible to people designated as 'friends'. To modify this setting, you can access your Personal Profile by clicking on the 'Your Profile' link on the Site. From the Your Profile screen you will have the ability to specify, limit or expand your personal privacy settings. Thereafter, your Personal Profile will only be available to members in accordance with your designated privacy settings.
b. Privacy Commitment
Except as otherwise provided herein, Essembly will not sell or disclose your personally identifiable information, including your Personal Profile, to third parties.
c. Information Sharing and Disclosure
Essembly is permitted to share your personally identifiable information, including your Personal Profile, for the following limited circumstances:
- Essembly may use your personal information to contact you to send you notifications regarding the Site.
- Essembly may be required to disclose personal information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We may share information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, or to protect our interests, the Site, or other users.
- In the event that we sell our business, in whole or in part, we may transfer user information in conjunction with such sale.
d. Use and Disclosure of Aggregate Information
Essembly may provide aggregate information regarding members of the Site to third parties for various purposes; provided, however, that such information will not include personally identifiable information or your Personal Profile.
3. CONSENT TO PRIVACY STATEMENT
By providing the information requested by the Site, or by continuing to use the Site after having an opportunity to review the Privacy Statement, you have consented to the terms of the Privacy Statement, and Essembly's use of the information it collects as described at the point of collection or in this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to the Privacy Statement, you may not use the Site.
Essembly reserves the right to modify the Privacy Statement at any time. If we modify the Privacy Statement, we will post the changes on this page and we will provide a clear and conspicuous notice on the Site's homepage. Your use of the Site following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the Privacy Statement as modified. For this reason, we encourage you to review the Privacy Statement whenever you use the Site. The last date the Privacy Statement was revised is set forth below.
4. MODIFICATION OF INFORMATION
Registered users may modify their personal information at any time by logging into their accounts. Additional steps may be required to modify a registered user's name and email address. If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may [correct, update, delete or deactivate it] by making the change on our personal account page [or by emailing our Customer Support at support@essembly.com] or by contacting us by postal mail at the contact information listed below. Essembly LLC 6 Beacon St. Suite 510 Boston, MA 02108
5. SECURITY OF INFORMATION
Essembly protects account information by placing it on a secured server. No web site, however, can be considered totally safe from intrusion. Therefore, any information you post to or provide via the Site is entirely at your own risk, and you agree to hold Essembly harmless from and against any loss, liability, damage, or harm that may arise as a result of your posting or providing any information to or via the Site.
6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Links to Other Sites
The Site may contain links to other web sites. Each of these linked web sites maintains its own independent privacy policies. Essembly does not control and is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of those web sites. When you leave the Site and access the web sites of third parties, the privacy policies of the parties maintaining those web sites apply.
Disclaimer of Liability
Under no circumstances shall Essembly be liable for any damages, including, but not limited to, special, incidental, consequential or exemplary damages, that result from the use of the information or materials posted to or collected as a result of the user's accessing the Site, even if Essembly has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
7. ENFORCEMENT/REDRESS
If for some reason you believe that Essembly has not adhered to the Privacy Statement, please notify us at support@essembly.com. We will do our best to respond to your concerns and, when appropriate, take steps to correct a problem.
8. ORGANIZATION CONTACT IDENTITY
Essembly LLC
6 Beacon St. Suite 510
Boston, MA 02108
Email: support@essembly.com
9. THIRD PARTY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friends name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Essembly, LLC stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email [and tracking the success of our referral program].
Your friend may contact us at support@essembly.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
10. SHARING OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
Essembly, LLC does not sell or share any Personally Identifiable Information obtained from our users to any other outside third party for unknown or unrelated purposes.
11. INFORMATION COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a users computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. [We do/do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.]
We use session ID cookies. [We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site.] A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
12. PUBLIC FORUM DISCLOSURE
If you choose to enter certain personal information about yourself in your profile, such as (your mobile phone number, your residential address, home phone, fax number, employer, job title, or business phone), you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of this site, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit on this site.