Privacy Policy
Please read
the following and accept these terms at the bottom
of this page.
Effective August 20, 2005:
About theXdegree.com
theXdegree.com referred to AS X° ™, is
an online service that allows our members to set
up unique personal profiles that can be linked together
through networks of friends and family. X° ™
members can view each others' profiles, communicate
with old friends and meet new friends on the service,
share photos, post journals and comments, and describe
their interests. To enrich our members' experience,
we request and display some personal information
to other members and visitors, which allows our
users to identify each other and expand their network
of friends. X° ™ members can change their
profile information at any time and can control
how other members and the service communicates with
them. X° ™ cares deeply about online privacy
If you have any questions concerning this privacy
policy, please email us by
clicking here.
Information Collection and Use by
X° ™
X° ™ collects user submitted information
such as name, email address, and age to authenticate
users and to send notifications to those users relating
to the X° ™ service. X° ™ also
collects other profile data including but not limited
to: personal interests, personal lifestyle, personal
relationship, gender, age, education history, military
history, organizational history, residence history
and occupation history in order to assist users
in finding and communicating with each other.
X° ™ also logs non-personally-identifiable
information including IP address, profile information,
aggregate user data, and browser type, from users
and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage
the website, track usage and improve the website
services. This non-personally-identifiable information
may be shared with third-parties to provide more
relevant services and advertisements to members.
User IP addresses are recorded for security and
monitoring purposes.
User Profile information including members' pictures
and first names are displayed to people in order
to facilitate user interaction in the X° ™
social networking community. Email addresses are
used for the purposes of inviting new friends to
join X° ™, to add users to members' friends'
networks, and to send notifications related to the
service. With the exception of inviting friends
and family, adding friends and family, 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 X°
™ with each other through the X° ™
messaging service, without disclosing their email
addresses. Users' full names are never directly
revealed to other members unless you choose to do
so. To facilitate searching and finding friends
and acquaintances on the service, X° ™
allows users to search for other members using first
and last name, interests, lifestyle, relationships,
schools, military, organizations, residence and/or
companies where users may have attended, lived 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, X° ™ or a partner, may sponsor
a promotion, sweepstake or contest on X° ™.
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.
Invitations and Other Communications
to Non-members
X° ™ members can invite friends to join
the service by sending invitation emails via our
automated invitation system. X° ™ stores
the email addresses that members provide so that
the respondents may be added to the friend's list
of the member sending the invitations, and also
to send reminders of the invitations X° ™
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). Recipients of invitations from X°
™ may contact X° ™ to request the
removal of their information from our database.
You may prevent X° ™ email invitations
and other messages from being sent to any email
address you control by sending a single email with
"BLOCK" in the body of the message and
your email account you wish to block by
clicking here and filling out
the form. Please note
that the email must come with the account you wish
to block.
Use of Cookies
X° ™ 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 X° ™ in order to use most functions
on the site Please note that X° ™ 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 X°
™ Privacy Policy.
Links
X° ™ contains links to sites. X° ™
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 X° ™.
Chat Rooms, Journals and WebLogs,
Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post
public information to Journals, WebLogs, 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
X° ™ users may modify or remove any of
their personal information at any time by logging
into their account and accessing features such as
Profile, History, Settings and Privacy.
Email Choice/Opt-out
Members 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
'Settings'. Users who do not wish to receive X°
™ newsletters may choose not to by selecting
'Do not send me X° ™ newsletters' in the
user profile 'Settings'. All notification emails
and X° ™ newsletters also include the
above instructions for opting-out of those communications
in the future.
Third Party Advertising
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered
to users by X° ™ or one of our Web advertising
partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies.
These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your
computer each time they send you an online advertisement.
In this way, ad servers may compile information
about where you, or others who are using your computer,
saw their advertisements and determine which ads
are clicked on. This information allows an ad network
to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe
will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement
covers the use of cookies by X° ™ and
does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Security
X° ™ member accounts are secured by member-created
passwords X° ™ takes precautions to insure
that member account information is kept private.
We use reasonable measures to protect member information
that is stored within our database, and we restrict
access to member information to those employees
who need access to perform their job functions,
such as our customer service personnel and technical
staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the
security of member account information. Unauthorized
entry or use, hardware or software failure, and
other factors may compromise the security of member
information at any time For any additional information
about the security measures we use on X° ™,
please contact us by
clicking here
Sharing and Disclosure of Information
X° ™ Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement,
X° ™ will not disclose personal information
to any third party unless we believe that disclosure
is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements
or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other
legal process received by X° ™, whether
or not a response is required by applicable law;
(2) to enforce the X° ™ Terms of Use Agreement
or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the
safety of members of the public and users of the
service. X° ™ reserves the right to transfer
personal information to a successor in interest
that acquires rights to that information as a result
of the sale of X° ™ or substantially all
of its assets to that successor in interest For
more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy
Policy" section below.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy
policy If we make changes, we will post them on
our site to make users aware of what the changes
are so users will always be aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose
it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the
policy when she or he uses the site after those
changes have been posted If, however, we are going
to use users' personally identifiable information
in a manner materially different from that stated
at the time of collection we will notify by posting
a notice on our Web site for 30 days.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement,
the practices of this site, or your dealings with
this Web site, please contact us by
clicking here or by mail :
X° ™
P.O. BOX 2414
Springfield, MO 65801-2414
United States of America
Last updated March 4, 2006.
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