Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Purpose of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how edelight and its service treat the personally identifiable information that is collected about you when you visit the web sites to which this policy is linked. edelight and styledelight are referred to collectively as edelight.
What is Personally Identifiable Information
“Personally identifiable information” is information that we can use to identify you as an individual. Personally identifiable information includes your name, address, telephone number and any other information that is connected with you personally.
Information This Privacy Policy Does Not Apply To
This privacy policy does not apply to information collected about you by anyone except edelight and only applies to the web sites to which this policy is linked. Any information you provide when you visit web sites other than those covered by this policy or when you purchase any products or services, or enter contests, that may be linked to or advertised on our web site by companies other than edelight is subject to the privacy policies posted on those sites. Except as may be otherwise specified herein, this policy also does not apply to information you may provide to us offline.
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
a. edelight generally collects personally identifiable information with your specific knowledge and consent. When you register on edelight, we collect your email address, username, and password. These are required for users to store and modify bookmarks and other content on the site. We will also collect your bookmarks and associated content, messages, IP address, and information from browser data and cookies.
b. Your User ID, bookmarks, lists and associated content and any postings you make to message boards are displayed throughout the Site. Therefore this data is available to the public and will be identifiable to your User ID. You can choose to make your bookmarks and lists private by going to the list setting page for each list. A user may email lists to other users by using the email function and therefore edelight collects these email addresses for the purpose of sending lists and populating a user’s address book.
c. This information may sometimes be collected by third party service providers with whom edelight contracts to host the web site or to fulfill requests for services; in that event, edelight asks such service providers to make the personal information available only to edelight for edelight to use in accordance with the terms of this policy and not to use the information for any other purpose. edelight uses this information to allow you to enjoy the functionality of the site, to troubleshoot and to provide customer support. In addition, edelight may use your bookmarks to improve our marketing and promotional efforts by providing targeted advertising based on the content of the lists.
e. On an aggregate, non-personally identifiable level we may also use this data to analyze site usage, customize the site’s content, layout, and services, and for disclosure to advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes and to demonstrate to them the value of our own site. However, we do not sell or rent any of your personally identifying data to third parties for marketing purposes.
f. When you register for the first time on edelight, you will be automatically opted in to receive in-system and email notices, which may include notification if someone sends you a message, new friend requests, edelight newsletters and announcements, notification of new activity.
g. When you transfer to the site outside of edelight, including a retailer affiliate, your shopping activity will be conducted on their site, and in accordance with that merchant’s own privacy policy and terms of service. edelight has no control over those policies, so you should carefully review them before you conduct any business on a third party site. edelight shall have no liability for any commercial transactions you conduct on a merchant’s site, and you hereby release edelight for any claims, liabilities or damages of any nature as a result of such activities.
h. In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail.
j. In addition to the foregoing, edelight may share or disclose personally identifiable information about you to other companies or individuals when:
* you have entered a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by a third party, in which case the information may be shared with that third party for their use in their discretion, including direct marketing. (Some of our contests and sweeps will ask you at the time of entry whether you would like your personal information to be shared with the sponsor. Other contests will not give you that option and in that event, if you do not want your information to be shared, you should not enter the contest);
* you have furnished us personal information with the intent that it be forwarded to a third party for use in connection with a specified service you are electing to participate in (examples include, without limitation, e-commerce partners, services to help old friends locate you online, etc.);
* we need to protect our legal rights (for example, if we are trying to collect money you owe us);
* we must comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal or regulatory process;
* we have reason to believe that someone may be causing injury to or interference with our rights or the rights of our users, or general public, or using our services in violation of a legal or personal right; or
* in connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition (whether of assets, stock, or otherwise) of all or a portion of the business conducted by the web sites to which this policy applies.
Cookies
edelight (or third party service providers on our behalf) may set and access cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data (often including a unique identifier), that is sent to your browser from a web site’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. edelight uses cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our site.
We may use cookies, IP address and browser data to control the display of ads, to track usage patterns on the sites, to deliver editorial content, and to personalize information.
Our cookies may contain personally identifiable information and such cookies may be shared with others to the same extent indicated above.
edelight (or third party service providers on our behalf) may also use cookies to collect aggregate information about web site users on an anonymous basis. We may share aggregate demographic and usage information with our prospective and actual business partners, advertisers and other third parties for any business purpose.
Some of our advertisers may serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers.
If you don’t want cookies, most Web browsers include an option that allows you to not accept them. However, if you set your browser to refuse cookies, some portions of our sites may not function efficiently.
IP Address
Your Internet Protocol (”IP”) address is usually associated with the place from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider, your company or your university. Our server may also record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another Web site or a search engine); the pages you visit on the sites, the Web site you visit after our site; the ads you see; the ads you click on; other information about the type of Web browser, computer, platform, related software and settings you are using; any search terms you have entered on this Web Site or a referral site; and other Web usage activity and data logged by our Web servers. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers, gather broad demographic information, and administer our website. We may also link this information with your personal information when we feel that it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules and policies or terms of service or to protect our Sites, customers or others.
Wireless Addresses
If the email address you provide to us is a wireless email address, you agree to receive messages at such address from edelight. You understand that your wireless carrier’s standard rates apply to these messages. You represent that you are the owner or authorized user of the wireless device on which messages will be received, and that you are authorized to approve the applicable charges. You may opt out of recieving these messages at any time by notifying us at info (at) edelight.de.
Advertising Disclosure
We use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our website and sites upon which we advertise. This technology uses information about your visits to this website and the sites upon which we advertise, to serve our ads to you. In the course of serving our advertisements to you, a unique third-party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. In addition, we may use Web beacons, provided by our third-party advertising company, to help manage our online advertising. These Web beacons enable our third-party ad serving company to recognize a browser’s cookie when a browser visits this site and to learn which banner ads bring users to our website.
Kids and Parents
The sites covered by this policy are not intended for use by children, especially those under age 13. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information or use our public discussion areas.
If your children disclose information about themselves in our public discussion areas, they may get unsolicited messages from other parties. Accordingly, you should tell them not to do so. There are also commercially available tools to help you limits your children’s exposure to material online.
If you’re worried about your children’s activities or their privacy on our site, we encourage you to e-mail edelight at info (at) edelight.de.
Blogs, Videos and other user-generated Postings; Social Networking
If you elect to post material to any blogs, forums, channels or other community boards that may be offered on our sites, or if you elect to upload any photographs, audio or video, you will be solely responsible for all content, messages, text, files, images, graphics, photos, audio clips, sounds, video or other materials (the “Postings”). You agree and warrant that any Postings you post to the sites will be true and accurate, will not defame any person or invade any person’s privacy, and will not infringe the proprietary rights of any person. You agree not to furnish any Postings to which you do not own the rights. By furnishing Postings, you give edelight the right to use such Postings in any manner and in any media now known or hereafter invented, including, without limitation, the right to combine your Postings with Postings of third parties in varied combinations. You also acknowledge that visitors to the sites may post comments about your Postings which may be derogatory, and that edelight has no obligation to monitor or delete any such postings.
Please be aware that edelight does not and cannot monitor all of the Postings made to the sites, and therefore edelight will not be responsible for the content of any Postings. However, edelight does reserve the right to delete or edit any material in any Posting that is obscene, harassing, offensive or otherwise objectionable and not in keeping with the community standards of the site. If edelight elects to edit any Postings, it nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the content of the Postings. Under no circumstances will edelight be liable for any inaccuracy or defect in any Postings. We also expect our users to adhere to certain rules of the road. Therefore, you agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Postings:
* that are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, pornographic, libelous, or invasive of another’s privacy, or harmful to minors in any way;
* that harass, degrade, intimidate or are hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
* that include personal or identifying information about another person without that person’s explicit consent.
* that are false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, constitute “bait and switch” or impersonation of any person or entity;
* contain your own or a third party’s advertising, branding or promotional content;
* that infringe any proprietary rights, including copyright, of any party, or Postings that you do not have a right to make available;
* restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the edelight sites or the edelight services offered on them.
* that relate to products that sexual or pornographic in nature, alcoholic products, tobacco products or other products that are unlawful in any manner.
Because edelight does not monitor the Postings, you agree to use and rely on them at your own risk. edelight cannot make any representation or warranty about the material contained in the Postings. edelight likewise assumes no responsibility for any contact you may have with other users of our sites, either online or offline. If you elect to meet in person with someone you may meet on our sites, you do so at your own risk, and under no circumstances will edelight be liable for any activity or injury that may occur.
California and Canadian Users
California and Canadian residents have the right to know how their information may be shared with third parties who engage in direct marketing activities and this policy explains our practices and how you can opt out of having your information shared for such purposes. We do not make any personally identifying information available to third parties for marketing purposes.
If you enter a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by a third party, information may be shared with that third party for their use in their discretion, including direct marketing (Some of our contests and sweeps will ask you at the time of entry whether you would like your personal information to be shared with the sponsor. Other contests will not give you that option and in that event, if you do not want your information to be shared, you should not enter the contest.)
Non-U.S. Users
If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using this web site, you consent to this transfer. You also consent to the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with this website in the federal and state courts of, and in accordance with the laws of, the state of California.