JabberLive! PRIVACY POLICY

25-01-2010

The following Privacy Policy applies to your use of the JabberLive! Services (as defined below). The JabberLive! Services improves your online experience by offering you access to a variety of features, offerings and content. By registering your Jabber ID (JID) or NickName, you gain access to the JabberLive! Services, which consists of the various services provided by JabberLive! such as the JabberLive! instant messaging service, the JabberLive! Web site, and all related servers, directories, listings, message boards, tools, information and databases (collectively the "JabberLive! Services" or "Services"). Some portions of the JabberLive! Services may be available to end users who do not register to the JabberLive! Services. Your ongoing use of the JabberLive! Services signifies your consent to the information practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy. If you object to any provision of this Privacy Policy please do not proceed with registration and please do not use the JabberLive! Services

When you register with and/or use the JabberLive! Services, you may provide JabberLive! with, or JabberLive! may otherwise obtain personally identifiable information (your "JabberLive! Services Information"). This Privacy Policy explains the information practices that apply to your JabberLive! Services Information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information JabberLive! collects about you as a user of the JabberLive! Services. This policy does not apply to information about you collected by third party Web sites and offerings linked to or otherwise accessible from the JabberLive! Services. The information collected or obtained by these third parties is subject to their own privacy policies. Additionally, in the event you access a service using the JabberLive! Services which is co-branded with a third party such third party's privacy policy, in addition to the JabberLive! Privacy Policy, may also apply.

Any reference made in this Privacy Policy to JabberLive! shall be deemed to have been made to JabberLive!., its subsidiaries, successors, assignees, affiliates as well as any company that controls JabberLive!., directly or indirectly, and any other subsidiary of that controlling company.

Collection of your JabberLive! Services Information

Your JabberLive! Services Information consists of personally identifiable information provided by you or otherwise collected or obtained by JabberLive! when you interact with the JabberLive! Services. Depending on how you use the JabberLive! Services, your JabberLive! Services Information may include:

• Registration-related information (such as name, home or work addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, birth date or gender);
• Information made available by you in Public Areas (as defined below);
• Information about your visits to the various JabberLive! Services, and your responses to the offerings and advertisements presented on these JabberLive! Services;
• Information about the searches you perform through the JabberLive! Services and how you use the results of those searches;
• Information about the JabberLive! Services or offerings that you use, including, without limitation, how frequently you use them and other related information regarding your usage of the JabberLive! Services;
• Information about use of features and buttons on the Software (as defined below) to determine which Software features and buttons are most popular and useful to users;
• Transaction-related information (such as credit card or other preferred means of payment, billing or shipping information, or a history of products purchased through the JabberLive! Services);
• Customer service information about you as an JabberLive! Services user or subscriber;
• Other information specifically related to your use of a particular JabberLive! Services service or offering; or
• Certain technical information gathered or received when you use the JabberLive! Services. Some of the technical information that may be collected or received includes:
  • The type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer);
  • The type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), CPU type (e.g. Pentium);
  • Your manner of connecting to the Internet (e.g., connection speed through narrowband or broadband access);
  • Internet protocol (IP) address; information about the version of service from JabberLive! that you used prior to registering with the Network;
  • Other information about your geographic location, and the domain name of your Internet service provider

Your JabberLive! Services Information may be supplemented with additional information from other companies.

How Your JabberLive! Services Information is Used

Your JabberLive! Services Information is used to:

• Operate and improve the Software, Web sites, services and offerings available through the JabberLive! Services;
• Provide to you personalized content and advertisements;
• Fulfill your requests for products, programs, and services;
• Communicate with you and respond to your inquiries;
• Conduct research about your use of the JabberLive! Services; and
• Help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you.

Your JabberLive! Services Information will not be shared with third parties unless:

• You have published such information in Public Areas (as defined below).
• We have your prior consent to disclose such information;
• We need to disclose such information to fulfill a transaction you have requested;
• We are required to disclose such information to authorized officers of the court in order to comply with valid legal process or to act in other urgent circumstances (as further specified below)
• We need to send such information to a company which works on behalf of JabberLive! in helping us provide our services to you. In such circumstances we will only provide these companies with the information they need to deliver the service and they will only be permitted to use such data on our request and in accordance with our instructions; and

The contents of your online communications, as well as other information about you as an JabberLive! Services user (e.g. IP address), may be disclosed (i) to authorized officers of the court in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena) or in other circumstances in which JabberLive! believes the JabberLive! Services is being used in the commission of a crime or when we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person; or (ii) when necessary either to protect the rights or property of JabberLive!, the JabberLive! Services or its affiliated providers, or for us to render the service you have requested.

JabberLive! may use agents and contractors in order to help operate the JabberLive! Services. If such agents and contractors have access to personally identifiable information, they are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy JabberLive! Services. You should also note that JabberLive!'s operational personnel may be occasionally exposed to random usage traffic going through the JabberLive! servers.

In the event that ownership of the JabberLive! Services was to change as a result of a merger, acquisition or transfer to another company, your JabberLive! Services information may be transferred.

Public Areas and My Details Area

If you use the JabberLive! Services to disclose information about yourself publicly, for example, in or through: chat rooms, message boards, groups, lists, blogs, JabberLive! directories, your My Details Area (as defined below) or any other area reasonably understood to be a public area (collectively, the "Public Areas"), other online users may obtain access to and use any such information you provide. You should therefore carefully consider whether you wish such information to be accessible by others. You should also note that others may be able to record certain information even if not made available in a Public Area, such as the content at a session (e.g. instant messages) or your IP address. The IP address is an integral part of the TCP/IP standard protocol of the Internet and can be extracted by any party to the communication session using certain software and/or hardware.

The My Details Area is the area on JabberLive! that users are able create a personal profile for themselves by providing various details about themselves. Users may add details to the My Details Area during registration or any time thereafter through the Software or the JabberLive! Web sites. You may be required to provide a nickname and/or email address (which will be displayed in the My Details Area) that will be used as your JabberLive! identifier (e.g. your login name which may be used by others to locate you on JabberLive!). JabberLive! does not require you to input any other personally identifiable information about yourself. Except if explicitly stated otherwise, any information you choose to provide in the My Details Area will be deemed to have been provided to a Public Area.

The holder of an JabberLive! account and JabberLive! password (as applicable) has the ability and discretion to edit the details provided in the My Details Area. For this reason and other reasons it is very important to keep your password in a safe place. It is your responsibility to keep your password and username secure. In some instances additions or amendments to your My Details Area may not be immediately visible to all users (e.g. users who already have that account on their contact list will be required to press "Update" in order to view the new or revised details or information entered).

Please be aware of where you choose to provide information. In certain Public Areas you may not be able to delete the information you have provided. For example, on message boards, chat sessions, or other services that are maintained by third parties.

Cookies and Web Beacons

The JabberLive! Services may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies in combination with your JabberLive! Services information to enhance and personalize your experience on the JabberLive! Services, including, without limitation, to operate and improve offerings through the JabberLive! Services; to help authenticate you when you use the JabberLive! Services; to remember your preferences and registration information; to enable a shopping cart; to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of JabberLive! Services offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications (by determining which Network e-mails you open and act upon); and to customize the content and advertisements provided to you through the JabberLive! Services.

A cookie is a small text file transferred from JabberLive! to your computer that records information about your preferences and use of services provided by JabberLive!. Such cookies may also include cookies which help JabberLive! to identify your location (ie. by determining your IP address) while others may assist JabberLive! in remembering certain settings that you have chosen. Web beacons are small pieces of code placed on Web pages that can be used, among other things, to count the users who visit that Web page, or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a user viewing that page. You can control cookies through your browser's settings. If you reject all cookies, however, you may not be able to take advantage of most the JabberLive! Services offerings.

Our Commitment to Security

JabberLive! has established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your JabberLive! Services Information, but cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, as a result of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or the policies of the JabberLive! Services and its affiliated providers).

General Internet Hazards

You should be aware that receiving files from third parties, via any application (e.g. JabberLive!, email, etc.) may be harmful. Before receiving any files from any user, and even if the account from which the file transfer notice is sent looks familiar to you, it is strongly recommended that you verify that the person sending you these files is indeed the person you think he is, for example by asking him for some kind of information known only to the two of you. Please make sure not to receive files from users you do not trust, from users you are not sure they are whom they say they are or whenever you are not sure you want to receive the files.

You should be aware that communications over the Internet are not secure unless they have been encrypted. JabberLive! does not encrypt your communications. In addition, your communications may be routed through different countries - that is the nature of the Internet. JabberLive! cannot accept any responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of Data.

European Union Members - International Transfer of Data

The JabberLive! Services is international in scope. By using the JabberLive! Services you consent to your JabberLive! Services Information being sent and processed in other jurisdictions, including the United States and other jurisdictions outside the European Union and European Economic Area where there may be less stringent data protection laws.

Special Note for Parents

The JabberLive! Services is intended for a general audience, and children under the age of thirteen are not permitted to register with the JabberLive! Services. If it comes to JabberLive!'s attention through reliable means that a user of the JabberLive! Services is under the age of 13 then JabberLive! may delete such users account.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about the JabberLive! Services Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact us at this email address:

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Changes to this Privacy Policy and Additional Information

JabberLive! may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, therefore you should review this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to the JabberLive! 's information practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice, such as notification on the JabberLive! Web site. You may be provided other privacy-related information in connection with your use of offerings from the JabberLive! Services, as well as for special features and services not described in this Privacy Policy that may be introduced in the future.