StyleVise, Inc. Privacy Policy
StyleVise knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the StyleVise website, submitting information or using any of our products or services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and consent to having your data transferred to and processed in the United States.
StyleVise’s privacy policy pertains to the use of the StyleVise website at http://www.StyleVise.com/ and is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, birth date, address or email address.
Persons under 13 years of age are not permitted to use the StyleVise website, and so this privacy policy makes no provision for children’s use of the site. StyleVise 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 our website 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 the StyleVise website. 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.
Creating a StyleVise account is free. As a visitor to the site, you do not need to create an account in order to browse questions, answers, public profiles or read the StyleVise blog. However, to use certain parts of our websites or take advantage of certain StyleVise services, you may be required to complete a registration form and provide the requested information about you.
Information Collected
- Registration: In order to take full advantage of the StyleVise features, you must become a registered member of StyleVise by creating an account on this website. To create an account you are required to choose a password and provide the following contact information: name, email address, birth date and job title.
- Profile Information: Once a registered member, you may provide information in the profile section describing yourself. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but a more complete profile enables you to better identify yourself and find new contacts and opportunities in the StyleVise system.
- When you create your public profile, you choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information and photos. Please remember that any information you may disclose in your profile becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these public areas. At registration, you have the option to hide your full name from appearing on your public profile by choosing a username.
- You post content on the StyleVise website at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other website visitors who browse your pubic profile. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that information you post on the website will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of your information may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your information.
- StyleVise automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie and the page you request.
- StyleVise uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research and anonymous reporting.
IP Addresses
IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page and is stored in our user registration databases when you register with the StyleVise website.
IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:
- To service technical problems reported by our users that are associated with the IP addresses.
- To tailor advertising based on geographic area or other information derived from your IP address.
- To estimate the total number of users visiting the StyleVise website from geographical areas.
Cookies
A cookie is data tied to information about the user.You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set.
- If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use StyleVise products or services that require you to "sign in" and you may not be able to take full advantage of the StyleVise service.
- StyleVise uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to access your information when you "sign in,” keep track of preference you specify while you are using StyleVise’s services, display the most appropriate advertising banners, estimate and report our total audience size and traffic and conduct research to improve the content and services of StyleVise.
Third Party Advertising
- Advertisements that appear on StyleVise may often times be delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers, such as Google. 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. StyleVise 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 StyleVise unless you choose to share it with them.
- This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by StyleVise and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
- Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- Please remember that any information you may disclose in your profile becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information.
- StyleVise does not rent or sell your personal information.
- Generally, StyleVise does not share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies without your consent except to provide products or services you've requested and in the following circumstances:
- StyleVise may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas, warrants, court orders or legal process or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, including without limitation, fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of StyleVise's terms of use, or as otherwise permitted or required by law. We will transfer information about you if StyleVise is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, StyleVise will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the StyleVise website before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. StyleVise may share demographic information with business partners. No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission.
- StyleVise may display targeted advertisements based on personal information that is exhibited in people's profiles. When you register with us, your personal information and other data will be stored and processed in the United States and this information may be subject to the laws of these jurisdictions.
Editing and Deleting Account Information and Security.
- You can change your StyleVise Account Information at any time.
- We may send you certain communications relating to the StyleVise service, such as service announcements and administrative messages that are considered part of your StyleVise account.
- You can delete your StyleVise account at any time under “account settings”; however, please note that your identification and contact information may remain in StyleVise’s records for some period of time.
- Your StyleVise Account Information is password-protected.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
StyleVise may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we will send a notice to the primary email address specified in your StyleVise account or by placing a prominent notice on our website. It is your responsibility to ensure that your contact information is updated and valid.
Questions or Concern
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy
at the StyleVise website, please send a detailed message
using the Contact Us form. Your privacy is important to us and we will
make every effort to resolve your concerns.
