Updated: May 21, 2010
The VISTABLOCK Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use VISTABLOCK's products and services, including information provided when you use VISTABLOCK and all affiliated websites. In addition, the following describes our additional privacy practices that are specific to VISTABLOCK.
Personal Information
You need a VISTABLOCK Account to use VISTABLOCK. VISTABLOCK asks for some personal information when you create a VISTABLOCK Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A VISTABLOCK Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.
As a VISTABLOCK member, you can create a profile or VISTABLOCK community that includes personal information, such as your gender, age, occupation, hobbies, and interests, plus other content, such as photos. This information may be accessed and viewed by other VISTABLOCK members, as determined by your privacy settings.
When you invite new members into your network or send messages through VISTABLOCK, we collect and maintain information associated with those messages, including email addresses and content.
When you send and receive SMS messages to or from the VISTABLOCK website, we collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction.
When you interact with a VISTABLOCK feature, we may collect and maintain information about your activities linked to that feature. In the case of Promotions, we keep track of which promotions we have served to you, and if you interact with a Promotion we will also collect and maintain data relating to your clicks, your deletion of the promotion, and your forwarding of the promotion to your VISTABLOCK friends.
Uses and Information Sharing
VISTABLOCK maintains and processes your personal information and content of your communications in order to provide your VISTABLOCK account, access to that account, and use of VISTABLOCK services, in addition to the purposes described in the VISTABLOCK Privacy Policy. Your profile information is displayed according to the preferences you set in your account.
When you send messages through VISTABLOCK, your name and email address will be identified in the message. We also use your name and email address to notify you of new members, messages, or other information, such as invitations to join friends' networks, new testimonials or "fan" ratings, and crush notices.
If you invite another person to join VISTABLOCK, we use the name and email address you provide us to contact that person and, if necessary, remind that person that he or she has been invited to join VISTABLOCK. All invitees are given the option not to receive further invitations from VISTABLOCK.
Friends or other persons who know your email address can use that address to look up whether you have a VISTABLOCK profile registered under that email address and which VISTABLOCK profile has been created under that email address.
When you send and receive SMS messages to or from the VISTABLOCK website, we use the data we collect to operate, develop and improve our services. Our third party providers also may collect data about your SMS usage in order to provide the service. In addition, your wireless carrier collects data about your SMS usage. Their practices are governed by their own privacy policies.
VISTABLOCK allows third-party developers to upload applications to the VISTABLOCK application directory. You may choose to use an application by adding it to your profile. If you add an application to your profile, the application may collect information from your profile or other information about your activities on VISTABLOCK, and share that information with others. Please see our Terms of Use of Applications for details about data sharing when you add an application.
When one of your VISTABLOCK friends adds an application to their profile page, your public profile name, profile URL and profile photo will be shared with the developer of the application and with other users and viewers of the application, even if you have not added that application to your profile.
Ads served by third parties on VISTABLOCK
Ads served on VISTABLOCK outside of applications VISTABLOCK uses VISTABLOCK AdSense technology to serve ads on the VISTABLOCK website. Most of the ads you see on VISTABLOCK (outside of applications) are served by VISTABLOCK through VISTABLOCK AdSense. However, VISTABLOCK also allows advertisers to choose to use a third-party ad server to serve ads through AdSense. Those third-party ad servers may use cookies or web beacons to recognize your computer for purposes of tailoring advertising content or measuring ad effectiveness.
Ads served within applications: Application developers may choose to use a third-party ad server to serve ads into the developer's applications on the VISTABLOCK site. Such ad servers may use cookies or web beacons to recognize your computer for purposes of tailoring advertising content or measuring ad effectiveness. We encourage you to contact the application developers to obtain more information about which ad servers the developers use and/or if you are seeking information about how to opt-out of the cookie for such ad servers (if such functionality is available from the ad servers).
Your Choices
VISTABLOCK provides a number of tools to restrict who can view your profile and other personal information. When you create your profile, look for the "golden key" icon, which allows you to limit viewing certain information to yourself, your friends, friends of friends, or to make the information available to all VISTABLOCK members.
You can update your profile information at any time by clicking on the "edit" button in your profile setting.
Messages you receive from VISTABLOCK can be sent to your primary email address or VISTABLOCK inbox, depending on the preferences you choose in the "my settings" page.
You can terminate your account at any time. If you terminate your account, your profile, including any messages in your inbox, will be removed from the site and deleted from VISTABLOCK servers. Because of the way we maintain this service such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of your profile information may remain on backup media until the next time the backup media is updated.
More Information
VISTABLOCK adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce's web site. Further information about VISTABLOCK is available at VISTABLOCK.com.
If you have additional questions, please contact us any time. Or write to us at:
VISTABLOCK Privacy Policy Matters
c/o VISTABLOCK LLC.
5808 Durango Drive
Killeen TX 76542. USA.
The VISTABLOCK Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use VISTABLOCK's products and services, including information provided when you use VISTABLOCK and all affiliated websites. In addition, the following describes our additional privacy practices that are specific to VISTABLOCK.
Personal Information
You need a VISTABLOCK Account to use VISTABLOCK. VISTABLOCK asks for some personal information when you create a VISTABLOCK Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A VISTABLOCK Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.
As a VISTABLOCK member, you can create a profile or VISTABLOCK community that includes personal information, such as your gender, age, occupation, hobbies, and interests, plus other content, such as photos. This information may be accessed and viewed by other VISTABLOCK members, as determined by your privacy settings.
When you invite new members into your network or send messages through VISTABLOCK, we collect and maintain information associated with those messages, including email addresses and content.
When you send and receive SMS messages to or from the VISTABLOCK website, we collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction.
When you interact with a VISTABLOCK feature, we may collect and maintain information about your activities linked to that feature. In the case of Promotions, we keep track of which promotions we have served to you, and if you interact with a Promotion we will also collect and maintain data relating to your clicks, your deletion of the promotion, and your forwarding of the promotion to your VISTABLOCK friends.
Uses and Information Sharing
VISTABLOCK maintains and processes your personal information and content of your communications in order to provide your VISTABLOCK account, access to that account, and use of VISTABLOCK services, in addition to the purposes described in the VISTABLOCK Privacy Policy. Your profile information is displayed according to the preferences you set in your account.
When you send messages through VISTABLOCK, your name and email address will be identified in the message. We also use your name and email address to notify you of new members, messages, or other information, such as invitations to join friends' networks, new testimonials or "fan" ratings, and crush notices.
If you invite another person to join VISTABLOCK, we use the name and email address you provide us to contact that person and, if necessary, remind that person that he or she has been invited to join VISTABLOCK. All invitees are given the option not to receive further invitations from VISTABLOCK.
Friends or other persons who know your email address can use that address to look up whether you have a VISTABLOCK profile registered under that email address and which VISTABLOCK profile has been created under that email address.
When you send and receive SMS messages to or from the VISTABLOCK website, we use the data we collect to operate, develop and improve our services. Our third party providers also may collect data about your SMS usage in order to provide the service. In addition, your wireless carrier collects data about your SMS usage. Their practices are governed by their own privacy policies.
VISTABLOCK allows third-party developers to upload applications to the VISTABLOCK application directory. You may choose to use an application by adding it to your profile. If you add an application to your profile, the application may collect information from your profile or other information about your activities on VISTABLOCK, and share that information with others. Please see our Terms of Use of Applications for details about data sharing when you add an application.
When one of your VISTABLOCK friends adds an application to their profile page, your public profile name, profile URL and profile photo will be shared with the developer of the application and with other users and viewers of the application, even if you have not added that application to your profile.
Ads served by third parties on VISTABLOCK
Ads served on VISTABLOCK outside of applications VISTABLOCK uses VISTABLOCK AdSense technology to serve ads on the VISTABLOCK website. Most of the ads you see on VISTABLOCK (outside of applications) are served by VISTABLOCK through VISTABLOCK AdSense. However, VISTABLOCK also allows advertisers to choose to use a third-party ad server to serve ads through AdSense. Those third-party ad servers may use cookies or web beacons to recognize your computer for purposes of tailoring advertising content or measuring ad effectiveness.
Ads served within applications: Application developers may choose to use a third-party ad server to serve ads into the developer's applications on the VISTABLOCK site. Such ad servers may use cookies or web beacons to recognize your computer for purposes of tailoring advertising content or measuring ad effectiveness. We encourage you to contact the application developers to obtain more information about which ad servers the developers use and/or if you are seeking information about how to opt-out of the cookie for such ad servers (if such functionality is available from the ad servers).
Your Choices
VISTABLOCK provides a number of tools to restrict who can view your profile and other personal information. When you create your profile, look for the "golden key" icon, which allows you to limit viewing certain information to yourself, your friends, friends of friends, or to make the information available to all VISTABLOCK members.
You can update your profile information at any time by clicking on the "edit" button in your profile setting.
Messages you receive from VISTABLOCK can be sent to your primary email address or VISTABLOCK inbox, depending on the preferences you choose in the "my settings" page.
You can terminate your account at any time. If you terminate your account, your profile, including any messages in your inbox, will be removed from the site and deleted from VISTABLOCK servers. Because of the way we maintain this service such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of your profile information may remain on backup media until the next time the backup media is updated.
More Information
VISTABLOCK adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce's web site. Further information about VISTABLOCK is available at VISTABLOCK.com.
If you have additional questions, please contact us any time. Or write to us at:
VISTABLOCK Privacy Policy Matters
c/o VISTABLOCK LLC.
5808 Durango Drive
Killeen TX 76542. USA.
