Last updated: July 7^th, 2010

TipTap.com business is dependent on you, our customer. Our success is centered on cultivating and delivering upon a trusted relationship with you. This page summarizes TipTap.com Privacy Promise to you. With respect to any personal information that you provide to us: It's your data, we use it only with your permission, to deliver you information requested.

You have the right to delete all information provided

With respect to any personal information that you provide to us:

• It's your data, we use it only with your permission, and you have the right to delete it.
• You can see and edit all of your personal information, communication preferences and selected third parties.
• We only provide your personal information to a third party upon your selection and we only provide what is necessary to carry out your request.
• We keep track of whom you have provided your personal information to through TipTap.com.

1. Your Personal Information

   In order for TipTap.com to provide its service, we need you need to provide your full name, email address, and a new password in order to create an activate your account. Your name, and email are required for us to perform certain services for you, and a password is needed so that you may access and protect your account.

2. Additional Voluntary Information

   TipTap.com may also ask you to provide information that describes your interests, hobbies, lifestyle and/or other information that may enable TipTap.com to provide a more fulfilling and beneficial experience for you ("Voluntary Information"). At all times, the information you provide to us above and beyond Personal Information is voluntary.

   TipTap.com will never sell, license, or rent your Voluntary Information in connection with your Personal Information for any reason to any person, any place, or anything without your permission.

3. TipTap.com Access to your Personal Information and Voluntary Information and Security

   We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect against loss, misuse, or unauthorized access to information under our control.

   Access to your Personal Information and your Voluntary Information is restricted to those of TipTap.com employees and contractors/consultants who absolutely require such information to provide our services, develop new services, and improve and or enhance our services.

4. How TipTap.com uses your information

   TipTap.com use of your information is restricted to the practices required to perform the following:

   • to fulfill your requests for information with the third parties associated with TipTap.com and selected by you
   • to fulfill your requests for information and the services provided by third parties which require certain information to fulfill your request
   • to create, develop, perform, sustain and otherwise operate our services
   • to deliver service updates, administrative notices, communications and other notifications related to your use of our services
   • to perform product development, research, planning, problem identification, and/or error detection
   • to aggregate and depersonalize your information for the purposes of identifying other information and services that you may be interested in
   • to identify potentially fraudulent behavior or behavior that is a violation of the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy
   • to verify, authenticate and validate that you are who you say you are, using third parties and using commercially reasonable efforts

5. Personal Information and Third Parties

   In the course of performing our services, TipTap.com will communicate with third parties by connecting electronically, providing electronic media, and through other methods of contact. TipTap.com submits only the Personal Information required by the third party to perform the service and provide you the information requested

   In some cases, and upon selection by you, TipTap.com will present third party web sites for you to individually review and provide the data required for this third party to perform its services for you. You may elect to provide your personal information or not to such third party. While TipTap.com may present third party web sites to you because we believe that they are important companies/providers of such service, or they may be companies/providers actively involved in the use of your Personal Information for marketing purposes, TipTap.com is not affiliated with these third parties.

   You decide which services you wish to use and to whom your Personal Information may be disclosed. When selecting services or information that are fulfilled by third parties, the information disclosed to those third parties will only be the information required by those third parties to fulfill your request.

   In addition, our web site may include links to third party sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to sites outside of the TipTap.com web site to which it may link.

   Third parties may have different privacy practices and policies than TipTap.com. You may wish to review the practices and policies of those third parties. TipTap.com is not responsible for their privacy practices.

   If you chose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him inviting him or her to visit the site. TipTap.com does not store this information.

6. Account Settings

   Once you have become a member of TipTap.com you will have access to your personal information through your Profile page. You have the ability to update and/or delete your information here. This area of our website also allows you to update your contact communication preferences for each service

7. Personal Information will not be disclosed without your consent

   TipTap.com will never sell, license, or rent your Personal Information.

   TipTap.com makes your Personal Information available to you and to third-parties that you selected to for the purposes of providing you the information you are interested in receiving.

8. Aggregate Information

   TipTap.com will aggregate, depersonalize, and derive data from customer interactions with the TipTap.com web site and disclose this data in a depersonalized , non-personally identifiable form Engaging marketers, publishers, advertisers, merchandisers and other sellers to prepare and or offer opportunities for TipTap.com to offer to our customers

   • Compiling statistics and analysis that may be interesting and beneficial for users of TipTap.com services
   • Transforming information in attempt to create interest and access to TipTap.com customers for their benefit

9. TipTap.com use of Cookies and Tracking Scripts

   To improve TipTap.com product and services, this site, and your experience, we use cookies on our TipTap.com site. Cookies are pieces of data, such as text, that is sent by our web server to your browser, which is then sent back to our web server each time your browser accesses our site. Just like banks and other financial institutions, we will encode our cookies to ensure that TipTap.com only servers can interpret and decode the information which is stored in them.

   In general, TipTap.com will set, assign, and access cookies on your computer to track and log your use of the TipTap.com site, improve personalization such as in the offer or presentation of information and services that may be appropriate and relevant to you, and generally enable the gathering and analysis of anonymous information to improve our services, and your interaction with the site.

   Most browser defaults are set to accept cookies but you can always turn them off. When you turn off cookies in your browser settings, certain features, functions and general site ease of use may be adversely impacted.

   TipTap.com also uses embedded code in the web pages of web sites to track and measure traffic, usage and activity statistics. For measurement include identification of the page or place on the page in which users or customers leave a web site. Information like this is gathered by companies like TipTap.com to better understand where we need to improve our experience for you to remain on our site. TipTap.com, or third parties we contract with to work on our behalf to support our relationship with you may use beacons to analyze site activity for the purpose of improving our services, products and overall site

10. Circumstances when your information could be disclosed without your permission

    TipTap.com commitment to your privacy and protection of your Personal Information is a pillar of our responsibility to you and a practice of our business. In limited circumstances, TipTap.com could require disclosure of your Personal Information to protect our rights. These circumstances include:

    • When obligated under applicable laws or regulations, specifically court orders or judicial proceedings.
    • When necessary to identify, prevent, predict or otherwise hinder potentially prohibited, illegal or harmful activity
    • When you violate this privacy policy, the Terms of Use, or other practice employed by TipTap.com to protect its customers or its business

11. Your information and TipTap.com Change of Ownership

    As a business entity, TipTap.com may engage in business transactions such as a merger, acquisition, transfer and or sale of all or substantially all of its assets. Your membership at TipTap.com, servers and records containing your information, aggregate information and file logs, as well as all the other business, resources and technology will in most cases be part of the assets acquired, transferred, or sold in such business transactions. In the event that such a transaction occurs, a notice will be posted on our web site and you may be notified by email, or other appropriate method.

    If such a business transaction should occur, TipTap.com will use its best efforts to support a transition of this privacy policy to the new entity to the extent required by applicable law.

    Customers who have closed and or otherwise deleted their account with TipTap.com will not be contacted.

12. Member Communications and compliance with CAN SPAM Act of 2004

    TipTap.com complies with this policy when communicating with all customers.

13. Back-up files, logs and data storage

    To deliver our products and services, improve our members' experience, and to develop and or enhance products and services, TipTap.com uses log files on both the client and server side of our applications. These files are used to analyze site activity, site performance, and user activity. Generally, we may capture browser type, IP address (internet protocol address), date/time stamp, usage of the site, ISP (internet service provider), and exit and or referring pages. We also capture and back-up user internet actions we have taken on your behalf and request such as information and services you select to receive, buy or otherwise purchase through TipTap.com. We store this data so that when you log-in to your account, you can generally view your account activity and keep track of where you have elected to send your information and or remove your information. In addition, we store this data to for the purpose of analysis, development, and generally to enable TipTap.com to source and deliver relevant information and services to its members.

14. Children

    The TipTap.com site and services are not directed nor intended for children without parental or guardian consent. TipTap.com does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13.

15. Changes to this Privacy Policy

    TipTap.com reserves the right to modify and change this privacy policy at any time.
    
    If you find that the changes we make are unacceptable to you, please send us feedback after you have logged into your account. Also, remember that you can simply close your account and delete your account creation information if you no longer can accept this policy or our terms of use.

    We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a prominent notice on our home page.

16. Contact us

    If you have any questions, comments or suggestions with regards to this privacy policy, please send us an email to privacy@tiptap.com.

    TipTap, Inc. Cambridge, MA 02142