CommunityZero Advantage Privacy
Policy
Our Statement on
Privacy and Security of Information
Ramius Corporation
(“Ramius”), the developer and operator of CommunityZero Advantage, is
absolutely committed to protecting the privacy of our users' personal information.
The following statement explains our information gathering and dissemination
practices.
Information Collected
When you register with
CommunityZero Advantage, our registration form requires you to disclose your
name, sex, and email address ("registration data"). You also have the
option to disclose a personal profile, your website URL, and your interests and
hobbies. These disclosures are optional and are not required to register. As
part of your registration, you will be asked to select a user name and password
for use at CommunityZero Advantage.
Use of Information
The registration data —
including name, defined alias, and email address — is used by our service to
identify you and your contributions to the system. A valid email address is required
by our service to provide you with updated information from CommunityZero
Advantage, including community activity updates, requested search results,
invitations, and service information. You may limit disclosure of your
registration data throughout the system by selecting options within your
profile, accessible in the "My Communities" section under "Edit
Profile".
Demographic and profile
data is used to personalize our service to your interests and to deliver
personalized information to you.
Demographic and profile
data may be shared with partners such as investors and advertisers on an
aggregate basis. Ramius does not disclose personally identifiable information
about our members.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a file that
is written to your hard drive when you access certain web pages. We use cookies
to personalize our service to your interests and to ensure data security. Upon
logging in or entering a community, cookies are set to authorize you during
your session. All cookies will expire when you close your browser. Data stored
in cookies is encrypted to prevent tampering. Cookies identify you as you navigate the system to ensure all community rights and
permissions are respected (i.e. you can only enter communities that you have
been permitted to join).
Log Files
Logs of website traffic
are collected and include information such as IP addresses, browser types and
cookie information. This information is collected to analyze trends, administer
the site and to calculate overall activity. Personally identifiable traffic
patterns are not disclosed to community founders or third parties.
Public Information
Some communities are open
for the public to join without restrictions. Please remember that any
information disclosed in these communities becomes public information and you
should exercise caution in disclosing your personal information when joining
such communities.
Security
This website has security
measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the
information under our control. The information collected by our service is
stored in a secure operating environment that cannot be accessed by the public.
Other Websites' Links
This website contains
links to other websites. Ramius is not responsible for the privacy practices or
content of these websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of
these linked sites, because their privacy practices may differ from ours.
Opt-Out, Delete/Deactivate
Users of CommunityZero
Advantage can deactivate their user accounts at any time. To deactivate your
account, see the bottom of the "Edit My Profile" page within the
"My Communities" section.
Community updates (an
email sent from each community joined) may be deactivated by selecting
"Preferences" within each community and setting "Activity
Updates" to "Never Send".
Users can set the amount
of personal information they reveal on a per community basis. These settings
can be changed by selecting "Preferences" within each community and
selecting the desired "Privacy Setting".
The monthly CommunityZero
Advantage newsletter contains an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of
the email. Following this link instantly removed the user from the newsletter
mailing list.
Members can
"opt-out" of receiving general email communications by clicking on
"My Communities" and then "Edit Profile". On the edit
profile page, de-select "Receive important news about this service".
The "Who's On" tool can report members as being "online"
upon entering a community. Users must explicitly activate this feature and can
also de-activate it at any time.
If unwanted messages are
received through the Community Messenger, users can immediately block the
member from sending additional messages by pressing the "Block"
button the offending message is on-screen. Users may also right-click on any
user name listed in the Community Messenger and select "Block".
Members cannot send messages to other members who have them blocked.
Correct/Update
CommunityZero Advantage allows
users the option to change all information previously provided. To make changes
to registration data, select "Edit My Profile" from within the
"My Communities" section, then proceed to
make the required changes.
Privacy Policy Changes
If we decide to change
our privacy policy for CommunityZero Advantage, we will post those changes
prominently on our website so that users will always know what information we
gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to
anyone. If we ever change the way we collect or use personally identifiable
information, we will e-mail our users noting the change and give our users the
option to opt-out of such a change.
Contacting Ramius
Corporation
Please contact us should
you have any questions or comments regarding this privacy statement, or the
practices of this site.
Ramius Corporation
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every
effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information
when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is
necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal
process served on our Web site.