Dibspace Privacy Policy

The Information We Collect

When you visit Dibspace 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 Dibspace, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

When you enter Dibspace, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Dibspace 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 Dibspace. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.

When you use Dibspace, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, 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. 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 Dibspace Terms of Service) on the Site at your own risk. 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 Dibspace is a violation of the Dibspace Terms of Service and should be reported to support@dibspace.com.

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the site, and may send up to two reminders to them. Dibspace stores this information to send invitations and reminders, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, to allow you to see invitations you have sent, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at support@dibspace.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Dibspace may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Dibspace service through the operation of the service (e.g., reviews) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.

By using Dibspace you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Children Under Age 13

Dibspace 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 Dibspace 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 Dibspace. 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 support@dibspace.com.

Use of Information Obtained by Dibspace

When you register with Dibspace, 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 to enable you to connect with people on Dibspace. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by Dibspace that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by Dibspace 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. In some cases other Dibspace users may be able to supplement your profile.

Dibspace 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 Dibs one of your offers, you may receive an email or text message alerting you to that fact.

Generally, you may opt out of such communications, though Dibspace reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.

Dibspace may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties.

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, and other users of Dibspace, to supplement your profile.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

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:

  • 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 Dibspace service or using the Dibspace name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
  • The U.S. government considers barter exchanges, such as Dibspace, to be legal third-party record keepers, similar to banks, brokerages and other firms that deal with taxpayer records. Barter exchanges are required to complete and submit Form 1099-B, "Proceeds from Broker and Barter Exchange Transactions," for each of their members.
  • We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on Dibspace. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on Dibspace, 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 Dibspace, or that pertains to non-Dibspace users, from those sites in conjunction with the technical operation of the system. In cases where Dibspace receives information on users that are not logged in, or on non-Dibspace users, we do not attempt to associate it with individual Dibspace accounts and will discard it.
  • If the ownership of all or substantially all of the Dibspace business, or individual business units owned by Dibspace, Inc., 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 Dibspace, certain information you post or share with third parties, such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, Marketplace listings 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 reviews, messages, photos, offers or other items, this information may become publicly available.

Links

Dibspace 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 Dibspace.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on Dibspace is readily available through the profile editing tools. Dibspace 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 Dibspace account may do so by sending an email to support@dibspace.com. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of Dibspace.

Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on Dibspace, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another Dibspace user) you generally cannot remove such communications.

Security

Dibspace 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 Dibspace Web Site, please contact us at support@dibspace.com.

Terms of Service, Notices and Revisions

Your use of Dibspace, 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 arbitration, 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.