SocialVoter Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 4, 2008

The following Privacy Policy governs the online information collection practices of SocialVoter, LLC (“we” or “us”). Specifically, it outlines the types of information that we gather about you while you are using the SocialVoter.com website (the “Site”) and any associated online applications or services (the “Apps”) whether offered through the Site or some other delivery, and the ways in which we use and don’t use this information. This Privacy Policy, does not apply to any information you may provide to us or that we may collect offline and/or through other means.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By visiting and using the Site and the Apps, you agree that your use of our Site and Apps, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service. Because the Web is an evolving medium, we may need to change our Privacy Policy at some point in the future, in which case we’ll post the changes to this Privacy Policy on www.socialvoter.com and update the Effective Date of the policy to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the Site and Apps after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.

What Information is Collected?

The information that we collect about you while you are using the Site and Apps falls into two general categories:

1. Information You Provide to Us.

We may collect and store information, personal or otherwise, that you voluntarily supply either while on the Site, the Apps, through a third-party, or in responding via email in connection with a feature provided on the Site and Apps. Some examples of this type of information include demographic information that you electronically submit when you sign up for access to certain features on the Site and Apps, information (such as your name or email address) that you electronically submit when you register, survey data, sweepstakes or contests on the Site and Apps, information that you post on message boards on the Site and Apps, and information contained in search requests or questions that you submit to the Site and Apps. If you decline to supply or provide us with certain information while using the Site and Apps, you may not be able to use or participate in some or all of the features offered through the Site and Apps.

2. Information that is Automatically Collected.

We also collect and store information that is generated automatically as you navigate through the Site and Apps. For example, to enhance your experience on the Site and Apps, we may use a standard feature found in browser software called a “cookie”. Cookies are small files that your web browser places on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. By showing how and when visitors use the Site and Apps, cookies help us track user trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences on certain areas of the Site and Apps where you have entered preference information before. Besides cookies, SocialVoter is engaged in the development of other tracking and reporting methodologies and algorithms and may use these to also automatically collect information. Another example of information that we automatically collect as you navigate the Site and Apps is information about your computer’s connection to the Internet. This information allows us, among other things, to improve the delivery of our web pages and other content to you and to measure traffic on the Site and Apps.

In addition, third party advertisers or third party ad servers that place and present advertising on the Site and Apps also may collect information from you via cookies, web beacons, clear .gif’s or similar technologies. These third party advertisers and ad servers may use the information they collect to help present their advertisements, to help measure and research the advertisements’ effectiveness, or for other uses. The use and collection of your information by these third party advertisers and ad servers is governed by the relevant third party’s privacy policy and is not covered by our Privacy Policy. Indeed, the privacy policy of these third party advertisers and ad servers may be different from our Privacy Policy.

How is this Information Used?

We use the information we collect from you while you are using the Site and Apps in a variety of ways, including using the information to customize features and advertising that appear on the Site and Apps. We also may provide your information to third parties, such as service providers, contractors, and advertisers, for a variety of purposes. For example, we may provide our advertisers with information about you and other visitors that will enable our advertisers to better target ads to specific types of visitors. We reserve the right to use and to disclose to third parties all of the information that we collect online about you and other visitors in any way and for any purpose.

Please also keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information available for viewing by third parties online – for example on message boards, through email or web logs, or in chat areas – that information can be seen, collected and used by others besides us. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third party use of such information.

The Site and Apps include links to other websites and provide access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access another website or purchase third party products or services through the Site and Apps, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting or the provider of such products or services.

We also make some content, products and services available through our Site and Apps through cooperative relationships with third party providers, where the brands of our provider partner appear on the Site and Apps in connection with such content, products and/or services. We may share with our provider partner any information you provide, or that is collected, in the course of visiting any pages that are made available in cooperation with our provider partner. In some cases, the provider partner may collect information from you directly; in which cases the privacy policy of the provider partner may apply to the provider partner’s use of your information. The privacy policy of our provider partners may differ from ours. If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of one of our provider partners, you should contact the provider partner directly for more information. In addition, certain affiliated SocialVoter partners, such as Noobis, Inc., 3rdFloorMedia and Kelobis LLC, provide online services that are separate from our Site and Apps and may be subject to privacy policies that are different from ours. If you have any question about the privacy policy that applies to the online service you are using, you should click on the relevant link on the page of the service that you are using.

Be aware that we may occasionally release information about visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Terms of Service agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of users of the Site and Apps, the public, or SocialVoter, LLC.

Please also note that as our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that we sell some or all of our assets, or our Site or Apps are acquired by another company, information about our visitors may be among the transferred assets.

Children’s Privacy Statement

This children’s privacy statement explains SocialVoter, LLC’s practices with respect to the online collection and use of personal information from children under the age of thirteen, and provides important information regarding their rights under federal law with respect to such information.

• Our Site and Apps are not directed to children under the age of thirteen and we do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Site and Apps. We screen users who wish to provide personal information in order to prevent users under the age of thirteen from providing such information. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of thirteen as part of the Site or Apps, we will delete such information from our records. If we change our practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Site and Apps.
• Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Site and Apps, we also do NOT knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
• We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of thirteen to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information through the Site and Apps.
• Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Site and Apps, we do NOT condition the participation of a child under thirteen in the Site’s and Apps’ online activities on providing personally identifiable information.

When You Sign-up for a Paid or Other Enhanced Product or Service From SocialVoter

If you choose to sign-up for a paid or other enhanced product or service beyond a basic registration, you may be required to provide us with certain contact information, such as your name, email address and billing address. We may also require other information necessary to process any applicable payment, such as a credit card number and expiration date. We may use the information that you provide to us to bill you for products and services you request, or to notify you of additional products and services we may offer. When you purchase a product or service on the Site, you are consenting to our delivery of this information to our service providers, which may include banks and credit card companies that we use to process the transaction. For more information, please see the section below regarding "Service Providers". We may also show your membership status on the Site so that other members can see what options they have to contact or communicate with you.

When You Participate in Polls and Surveys

From time-to-time, you may be asked to provide contact, demographic or personal information via polls and surveys. SocialVoter and our affiliates or subscribed members conduct surveys in order to better understand members’ needs and opinions. SocialVoter may share, in aggregate form, information it collects from these polls and surveys with its advertisers, sponsors, partners, affiliates and the general public, but will not share survey information containing personally identifiable information with any third party without your prior consent. Participation in polls and surveys is completely voluntary, in that you have the choice of whether you wish to disclose the requested information. We encourage our members to participate in polls and surveys as they provide important information that helps to improve our services or services that may be offered to our affiliates.

Service Providers

We may sometimes use a third party to provide specific services on our behalf, including sending emails to our members, processing transactions or performing statistical analysis of our services In these cases, we may provide certain personal information, such as your name and email address and other financial information necessary for the service to be provided. However, these third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality of this information and are prohibited from retaining, sharing, storing or using this information for any other purposes.

The Security of Your Information

We have instituted physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to store and maintain Your Information in a secure environment. For example, when highly confidential information, such as a credit card number, is transmitted through our website, it is encrypted by using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) software. You may also be required to use a password to access certain pages on the Site where certain types of Your Information can be changed or deleted. It is therefore important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password, emails which we may send you and to your computer. You take full responsibility for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. Furthermore, while we have implemented safeguards, you should be aware that Internet security technology rapidly changes. We cannot guarantee that the safeguards we employ today can protect Your Information from the threats of tomorrow. You should also be aware that despite our efforts, factors beyond our control may result in disclosure of Your Information. Accordingly, we are not in a position to guarantee that Your Information will be secure under all circumstances.

Questions Regarding Privacy

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your dealings with us, please contact us by writing to:

SocialVoter, LLC.
1201 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 325
Washington, DC 20004
ATTN: Privacy Policy Coordinator