Privacy Policy - WOMbeat!™

Your privacy is our top concern. We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:

  • We will never rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.
  • We will never share your contact information with another user, without your consent.
  • Any sensitive information that you provide will be secured with all industry standard protocols and technology.

Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personally identifiable data may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. If you continue to use the WOMbeat service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.

Please read this privacy policy to learn more about:

  1. What personally identifiable information of yours is collected by WOMbeat.
  2. How the information is used.
  3. With whom the information may be shared.
  4. How you can access and change your Account information.
  5. What security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected by WOMbeat.
  6. How to contact us.

Information Collection

Registration

In order to become a WOMbeat user, you must first create an account on this web site. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information: name, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, and choose a password. Once you register with WOMbeat.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us and we protect your personal information.

We may, additionally, track non-personal information about your visit including the domain name and the name of the Web page from which you entered the site, how much time you spend on each of our pages and the IP address associated with your computer. We use this information to improve the performance and operation of our site.

WOMbeat automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, WOMbeat.com cookie information, and the page you request.

Information about your Contacts

In order to invite others to connect with you directly on WOMbeat, you will enter their names and email addresses. This information will be used by WOMbeat to send your invitation including a message that you write. The names and email addresses of people that you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders.

You may also choose to manually enter or upload data about your contacts into the private “My Friends” section of our website. All information entered there will only be viewable by you and will not be searchable by others in the WOMbeat network without your permission.

All information that you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this privacy policy as cover your own personally identifiable information.

Cookies & Log Files

Like most web sites, WOMbeat uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a small data file that is stored on your computer which allows WOMbeat to recognize you as a user when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use our website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site. The cookies do not contain or capture any personal information.

One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged in to your WOMbeat account. The next time you visit the WOMbeat web site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing user so you will not need to log in before using the service. In order to access or change any of your private information, however, you must log in securely again with your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Additionally, if you log out of the WOMbeat site you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the WOMbeat site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.

Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the WOMbeat web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave WOMbeat. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the WOMbeat service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

Children

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. The WOMbeat.com website is not designed to attract children under the age of 13 and WOMbeat.com does not knowingly collect personal information from children on our Web site.

Information Use

WOMbeat is an online service dedicated to helping all types of people more effectively share trusted word of mouth information with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this site is used to help you describe yourself to other users. This information can be utilized by WOMbeat in such manner as WOMbeat, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

WOMbeat Communications

WOMbeat will communicate with you through email and notices posted on this website. These include a series of up to three welcome emails which help inform new users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from WOMbeat related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another user in your network sends you an opportunity. WOMbeat may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. If you wish to opt-out of receiving promotional emails, please refer to “My Profile” or contact WOMbeat by clicking on the contact us link located at the bottom of the page.

Customized Content

Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site. For example, when you login to your account we will display the screen names of new users who have recently joined your network.

Information Sharing

Sharing Information With Third Parties

We may use aggregated information concerning how visitors use our Web site and share such information with third parties in order to improve our Web. For example, we may share how many individuals visited our Web site and, on average how long they stayed on each page. Such use and sharing of aggregated information will not reveal any of your personal information to third parties.

WOMbeat.com does not rent, sell, disclose or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances

  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal righs or defend against legal claims;
  • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of WOMbeat.com’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We transfer information about you if WOMbeat.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, WOMbeat.com will notify you before information about you in transpferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

WOMbeat offers a “public profile” feature which allows users to publish portions of their WOMbeat profile, including your “name”, but not your “email address” to the public Internet. Users may opt-out of this feature, however WOMbeat does not warrant how third-party search engines will update their cache.

We may provide aggregated data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our users’ activities on the site, please email customer service.

Partnering with Other Local Search Organizations to Offer Combined Services

WOMbeat partners with other online services to give you the combined results of both services. Whenever we offer such combined services it will be your choice to make use of the combined services or not. In these cases, your personally identifiable information will only be passed from WOMbeat to the partner if you choose to use the combined service.

Communications Between Users

Many emails you initiate through WOMbeat, an invitation sent to a non-user for instance, will list your email address and name in the header of the message. Emails you initiate may also provide aggregate information about your network (for instance how many people are in your network), but will never list the people to whom you’re directly connected. Other communications that you initiate through the WOMbeat website, like a request for contact, will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal contact information. Your contact information will only be shared with another user if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact with each other.

Legal Disclaimer

It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Accessing and Changing Your Account Information

You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your WOMbeat account, at any time by logging in to your account on the WOMbeat website and editing the information on you’re my Profile page. You can also close your account through the WOMbeat website. If you close your WOMbeat account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable data. We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the WOMbeat Privacy Policy that you have previously agree to. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the WOMbeat service, please send your request to customer_service@WOMbeat.com. Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with WOMbeat under your name. You will receive a response to requests sent to customer_service@WOMbeat.com within three business days of our receiving it.

Security

In order to secure your personal information, access to your data on WOMbeat is password-protected, and sensitive data is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your web browser and our web site. To protect any data you store on our servers we also regularly audit our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and we use a tier-one secured-access data center.

WOMBEAT.COM continues to evaluate and implement enhancements in security technology and practices, however we can only take steps to help reduce the risks of unauthorized access. WOMBEAT.COM has taken the following steps in this regard:

  • Secure Socket Layer (SSL) WOMBEAT.COM uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption when transmitting certain kinds of information, such as registration information or payment information. An icon resembling a padlock is displayed on the bottom of most browsers window during SSL transactions that involve credit cards and other forms of payment. Any time WOMBEAT.COM asks you for a credit card number on WOMBEAT.COM for payment or for verification purposes, it will be SSL encrypted. The information you provide will be stored securely on our servers. Once you choose to store or enter your credit card number on WOMBEAT.COM, it will not be displayed back to you in its entirety when you retrieve or edit it in the future. Instead of the entire number, you will only see asterisks and either the first four digits or the last four digits of your number.
  • Secure Storage WOMBEAT.COM maintains reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
  • Vendors and Partners WOMBEAT.COM works with vendors and partners to protect the security and privacy of user information.
  • Employee and Contractor Access to Information WOMBEAT.COM limits access to personal information about you to those employees who we reasonably believe need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
  • Education and Training for Employees WOMBEAT.COM has implemented a company-wide education and training program about security that is required of every WOMBEAT.COM employee.

If WOMBEAT.COM learns of a security systems breach we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using this Web site or providing personal information to us you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of this site. WOMBEAT.COM may post a notice on our Web site if a security breach occurs. If this happens, you will need a Web browser enabling you to view the WOMBEAT.COM Web site. WOMBEAT.COM may also send an e-mail to you at the e-mail address you have provided to us in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving an electronic notice) you should notify us at privacy@WOMbeat.com.

If you believe your WOMBEAT.COM account has been compromised, please report the incident using our contact form. In the event that you believe that your personal safety is at risk or if you believe that you may be the victim of identity theft or other illegal conduct, please contact the appropriate federal, state or local law enforcement agencies directly.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

WOMbeat may update this privacy policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on this site. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Our Privacy Policy is regularly reviewed and revised to make sure we continue to serve the best interests of our customers. We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes.

Questions or Comments

If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at info@WOMbeat.com or use the contact information on our Contact Us page found in our page footer.