Policy is effective as of May 1, 2009
vipze store follows two core principles:
1. You should have control over your personal information.
vipze store helps you share information with your friends and people around you.
You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal
information, pictures, interests and groups you join. And you control the users
with whom you share that information through the privacy settings on the Privacy
page.
2. You should have access to the information others want to share.
There is an increasing amount of information available out there, and you may want
to know what relates to you, your friends, and people around you. We want to help
you easily get that information.
We built vipze store to make it easy to share information with your friends and
people around you. We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have
the information you share on vipze store ; that is why we give you control of your
information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your
profile to your networks and other reasonable community limitations that we tell
you about.
Sharing information should be easy. And we want to provide you with the privacy
tools necessary to control how and with whom you share that information. If you
have questions or ideas, please send them to privacy@vipzestore.com.
Safe Use of vipze store
vipze store will use a Rating for each page to comply with Web Safe Browsing Applications
so that parents of users between the ages of 13 to 18 can have a point of reference
for content that is displayed on our site.
vipze store 's Privacy Policy
vipze store 's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect
and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed
decisions when using vipze store , located at www.vipzestore.com and its directly
associated domains (collectively, "vipze store" or "Website")
By using or accessing vipze store, you are accepting the practices described in
this Privacy Policy.
vipze store is currently in the process of applying for a licensee of the TRUSTe
Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission
is to build user's trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of
fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site www.vipzestore.com
and its directly associated domains. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate
its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices
and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact
our privacy staff at privacy@vipzestorecom. If you do not receive acknowledgement
of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should
contact TRUSTe Watchdog at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
EU Safe Harbor Participation
We have applied to participate in the EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework as set forth
by the United States Department of Commerce. As part of our participation in the
safe harbor, we will agreed to TRUSTe dispute resolution for disputes relating to
our compliance with the Safe Harbor Privacy Framework. If you have any complaints
regarding our compliance with the Safe Harbor you should first contact us at privacy@vipzestore.com.
If contacting us does not resolve your complaint, you may raise your complaint with
TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog_intro.html.
The Information We Collect
When you visit vipze store you provide us with two types of information: personal
information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site
use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.
When you register with vipze store, you provide us with certain personal information,
such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your
gender, schools attended and any other personal or preference information that you
provide to us.
When you enter vipze store, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information
is Browser Type, IP, OS, Language, Location, CharSet gathered for all vipze store
visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies."
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about
the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies
terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie
that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login
when you come back to vipze store. You can remove or block this cookie using the
settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature, but it
will severally affect the Web experience
When you use vipze store, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships,
send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications,
and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so
that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases,
we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have
sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep
a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion
to the prior version of that information.
You post User Content (as defined in the vipze store Terms of Use) on the Site at
your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to
your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your
pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content
you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible
for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the
Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content
may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or
stored your User Content.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on vipze store is a violation
of the vipze store Terms of Service and should be reported to privacy@vipzestore.com.
vipze store may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers,
blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the vipze store service through
the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more
useful information and a more personalized experience.
By using vipze store, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred
to and processed in the United States.
Children Under Age 13
vipze store does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone
under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under
13, please do not attempt to register for vipze store or send any information about
yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address.
No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on vipze store. In
the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child
under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information
as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or
about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@vipzestore.com .
Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before
sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
Use of Information Obtained by vipze store
When you register with vipze store, you create your own profile and privacy settings.
Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to
people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect
with people on vipze store. We may occasionally use your name and email address
to send you notifications regarding new services offered by vipze store that we
think you may find valuable.
Profile information is used by vipze store primarily to be presented back to and
edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted
to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy
settings permit it (e.g., posting to your wall), other vipze store users may be
able to supplement your profile.
Profile information you submit to vipze store will be available to users of vipze
store who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information
through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Your
name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results
across the vipze store network and those limited pieces of information may be made
available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find
you and send a friend request. People who see your name in searches, however, will
not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to
you (friend, friend of friend, member of your networks, etc.) that allows such access
based on your privacy settings.
vipze store may send you service-related announcements from time to time through
the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new
message, or someone posts on your wall, you may receive an email alerting you to
that fact.
Generally, you may opt out of such emails from the Notifications page, though vipze
store reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt
out of all voluntary email notifications.
vipze store may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual
to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in
a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions so
that we can provide you vipze store. We believe this benefits you. You can know
more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more
likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you put a favorite movie in your
profile, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a screening of a similar
one in your town. But we don't tell the movie company who you are.
We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but
not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging
services to supplement your profile.
Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
vipze store is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your
networks — while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from
accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to
friends and networks through vipze store. Our network architecture and your privacy
settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information.
We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission.
We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where
we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally
required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:
Third party search engine "crawlers" (e.g. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask) will only have
access to site information as shown on www.vipzestore.com/username.
We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services
we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such
as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email
updates about vipze store, to remove repetitive information from our user lists,
to process payments for products or services, or to provide search results or links
(including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations,
our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a
limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third
parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable
contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the
vipze store specified purposes.
If you, your friends, or members of your network use any third-party applications
developed using the vipze store Platform ("Platform Applications"), those Platform
Applications may access and share certain information about you with others in accordance
with your privacy settings. You may opt-out of any sharing of certain or all information
through Platform Applications on the Privacy Settings page. In addition, third party
developers who have created and operate Platform Applications ("Platform Developers"),
may also have access to your personal information (excluding your contact information)
if you permit Platform Applications to access your data. Before allowing any Platform
Developer to make any Platform Application available to you, vipze store requires
the Platform Developer to enter into an agreement which, among other things, requires
them to respect your privacy settings and strictly limits their collection, use,
and storage of your information. However, while we have undertaken contractual and
technical steps to restrict possible misuse of such information by such Platform
Developers, we of course cannot and do not guarantee that all Platform Developers
will abide by such agreements. Please note that vipze store does not screen or approve
Platform Developers and cannot control how such Platform Developers use any personal
information that they may obtain in connection with Platform Applications. In addition,
Platform Developers may require you to sign up to their own terms of service, privacy
policies or other policies, which may give them additional rights or impose additional
obligations on you, so please make sure to review these terms and policies carefully
before using any Platform Application. You can report any suspected misuse of information
through the vipze store Platform and we will investigate any such claim and take
appropriate action against the Platform Developer up to and including terminating
their participation in the vipze store Platform and/or other formal legal action.
We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into
the vipze store world. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (e.g., messaging
is disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.
We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such
as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal
information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law
enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally,
we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply
with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal
activity perpetrated through the vipze store service or using the vipze store name,
or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other
companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers
through on-site offers.
We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on vipze store.
You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on
vipze store, and we may share customer information with that company in connection
with your use of that store or service.
Like many other websites that interact with third party sites, we may receive some
information even if you are logged out from vipze store, or that pertains to non-vipze
store users, from those sites in conjunction with the technical operation of the
system. In cases where vipze store receives information on users that are not logged
in, or on non-vipze store users, we do not attempt to associate it with individual
vipze store accounts and will discard it.
If the ownership of all or substantially all of the vipze store business, or individual
business units owned by vipze store were to change, your user information may be
transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such
transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises
made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
When you use vipze store , certain information you post or share with third parties
(e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments,
messages, photos, videos, or other information, may be shared with other users in
accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information
is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information
in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, or other items,
this information may become publicly available.
Links
vipze store may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the
privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they
leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects
personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information
collected by vipze store.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on vipze store are sometimes delivered (or "served")
directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP
address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies
to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript to measure the effectiveness
of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising
network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order
to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content.
In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer
or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked.
vipze store does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed
by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact
information stored on vipze store unless you choose to share it with them.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by vipze store and does not cover
the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on vipze store is readily available
through the profile editing tools. vipze store users may modify or delete any of
their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information
will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their vipze store
account may do so on Your Profile Page. Removed information may persist in backup
copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members
of vipze store.
Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information
with other individuals on vipze store , however, (e.g., sending a personal message
to another vipze store user) you generally cannot remove such communications.
Security
vipze store takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your
account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter
sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt
that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about
SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and
instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you
not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you
have any questions about the security of vipze store Web Site, please contact us
at privacy@vipzestore.com .
Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of vipze store, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy
Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions
including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right
to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time without notice and
at our discretion. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately,
and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site.
If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page
the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we
will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage
you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current
privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all
information that we have about you and your account.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@vipzestore.com
. You may also contact us by mail at Room 801-2, 8/F Easey Commercial Building,
253-261 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, and Hong Kong.