Mygrowlist.com Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 08/22/2009

The Mygrowlist.com 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 Mygrowlist.com and its directly associated domains (collectively, "MGL" or the "Site"). By using or accessing MGL, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you have questions regarding this statement, please contact us at privacy@mygrowlist.com.

The Information We Collect
When you visit MGL you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Site use information collected by us as you interact with the Site. Use of Information Obtained by MGL When you enter MGL, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all MGL 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 MGL. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature. When you register with MGL, you provide us with information that is personal to you (“Personal Information”), including your email address, date of birth, screen name/user id, password and zip code. If you choose to create a profile, you may provide additional Personal Information, such as your name, a photo, location, and any links or content you have submitted to the Site and other links on the Site you have found useful. Except for your name, Personal Information you provide in your profile will be publicly available and displayed to all other MGL users. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by MGL that we think you may find valuable. Profile information is used by MGL primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to other MGL users. 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 searches, 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. MGL may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. Generally, you may opt out of such emails from your registration/profile management page, though MGL reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications. MGL 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 the Site. We believe this benefits you. We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to Facebook and AOL where you have chosen to import information from those accounts into the Site. You post Personal Information on the Site at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your information. 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 Personal Information you post may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored those Materials. Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on MGL is a violation of the MGL Terms of Service and should be reported through the Contact Us Form. Children Under Age 13 MGL 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 MGL 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 MGL. 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 through the form on our privacy help page. Residency of Users MGL only allows users who reside in the United States of America, its territories and possessions (“U.S.”) to register with the Site and/or create a personal profile for the Site. Your California Privacy Rights If you are a resident of the State of California, under the California Civil Code, you have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed Personal Information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, the law provides that if a company has a Privacy Policy that gives either an opt-out (which we may sometimes refer to as "unsubscribe") or opt-in choice for use of your Personal Information by third parties (such as advertisers or affiliated companies) for marketing purposes, the company may instead provide you with information on how to exercise your disclosure choice options. MGL qualifies for the alternative option; it has a comprehensive Privacy Policy and provides you with details on how you may either opt-out or opt-in to the use of your Personal Information by third parties for direct marketing purposes. Therefore, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties that received your Personal Information for marketing purposes during the preceding year. If you are a California resident and request information about how to exercise your third party disclosure choices you must send a request to the following address with a preference on how our response to your request should be sent (email or postal mail). Send an email to us at privacy@mygrowlist.com, or you may contact us via regular mail at: Mygrowlist LLC, 1533 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94602, Attn: Your California Privacy Rights c/o Privacy Administrator. All requests sent via regular mail must be labeled "Your California Privacy Rights" on the envelope or post card and clearly stated on the actual request. For all requests, please include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code (your street address is optional if you wish to receive a response to your request via email. Please include your zip code for our own recordkeeping). Sharing Your Information with Third Parties MGL 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 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: a) 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 MGL, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, 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 MGL-specified purposes. b) 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 MGL service or using the MGL name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies. c) We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through on-site offers. d) We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on MGL. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on MGL, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service. e) If the ownership of all or substantially all of the MGL business, or individual business units owned by Mygrowlist LLC 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. All such sharing of Personal 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, or other items, this information becomes publicly available on the Site. Links MGL may contain links to other websites. We are of course 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 MGL. Third Party Advertising Advertisements that appear on MGL 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 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. MGL 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 MGL unless you choose to share it with them. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by MGL 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 MGL is readily available through the profile editing tools. MGL 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 MGL account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of MGL. Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on MGL, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another MGL user) you generally cannot remove such communications. Security MGL takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. 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 the Site, please contact us at privacy@mygrowlist.com. Terms of Service, Notices and Revisions Your use of MGL, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Service and all of its dispute resolution provisions including limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service at any time. 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 Site If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@mygrowlist.com. You may also contact us by mail at 1533 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94602.