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If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy please don't hesitate to contact us.
This privacy policy was last updated on the following date: 3rd September 2008. Prior to that its last update was 10th October 2006.
This privacy policy relates to the following domains owned and operated by Youmeo.com Ltd:
* youmeo.co.uk
* youmeo.com
* youmeo.tv
* youmeo.mobi
* youmeo.us
* umeo.us
And any subdomains of the above, such as 'corporate.youmeo.com'.
The Privacy Policy can be found at the bottom of most pages on the Youmeo service and is accessible from the following link: http://www.youmeo.com/go/privacy.
This is a legal document which sets out how Youmeo handles data which identifies you. This Privacy Policy forms part of our Term and Conditions.
This statement describes the privacy practices we apply for the Youmeo Service.
As part of that, it also expresses our approach to complying with the data protection laws which apply in the United Kingdom.
Information gathered on registration. When you register for the Youmeo Service, you provide your name, your email address, your gender, your date of birth, nationality, your location details and some optional details about yourself. They are available to you, and capable of being corrected or updated, through the "Update Profile" page on the Youmeo website.
Cookies. We use small files known as "cookies" to enhance users’ experience of the Youmeo Service as follows:
To hold Members’ login information, so that your location details and contact information are displayed when you visit the Youmeo Service. This option can be disabled by clicking the “logout" link which appears at the top right hand corner of every page when you are logged in.
To facilitate optimal use of the Youmeo Service by Members, by means of a temporary "session" cookie. These cookies disappear when the Member’s browser session ends, or if the Member clicks the "logoff" icon which appears on the Youmeo Service.
Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, a third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique “cookie" on your browser.
If your personally identifiable information or email address changes, or if you no longer wish to be a Member of the Youmeo Service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate your Membership through the "Account Settings" in your my account pages. Alternatively, you can email Youmeo Customer Support at the following email: helpdesk@youmeo.com.
Youmeo sends newsletters about new features of interest to members no more than once a month. You may opt out of these updates and change your privacy preferences at any time. Your "Privacy preferences", can be accessed from the "Account Settings" in your My account section of the website.
You may also receive email notifications when you have new mail in your Youmeo inbox. When signing up to the youmeo service, and by using the youmeo service you agree to receive required notices from Youmeo electronically. This can include information such as:
~ A change to privacy policies or terms and conditions
~ Company announcements, such as partnerships, sale or upgrades
~ Notification you have mail, friend requests or problems on your account
~ A notice when you have been inactive
We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes during the registration process and from the “privacy preferences” option within the site, accessible from the "Account Settings" in your My account section of the website.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at: helpdesk@Youmeo.com with your request. We offer an opportunity to opt-out of certain communications on our "Privacy preferences", which can be accessed from the "Account Settings" in your My account section of the website.
The over-riding principles we apply are these:
We, and (where relevant) our credit card processing agents, will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation except as consented to by you in accordance with prevailing law.
Registration Information. Once a Member selects a location, some or all of the information held for that Member, except for the email address, telephone numbers and passwords, will be publicly available at the listing for that location.
Your home location, in terms of your town / city, state / county and country, and any other location specific information you submit to the Youmeo Service must be considered at all times to be publicly available information, save where the option to keep private such information is available and activated by the Member. In addition, if address details are submitted to the Youmeo.com service they are not made publicly available.
Email addresses. We do not directly make your email address available to anyone on any screen of the Youmeo Service. The only legitimate way of making contact with a person found on the Youmeo Service is for a Full Member to enter a message which we will send on the Member’s behalf.
Advertising. The Youmeo Service may include interactive advertising for other businesses. We may use, and provide to third parties, anonymous demographic data provided by Members to target this advertising more appropriately.
Telephone numbers. You may enter a contact telephone number in your Personal Details. This number is for internal use only, for future or current services such as SMS. Your number will never be disclosed to any third party without your prior consent. Should we introduce an additional service which utilises telephone numbers, you will be given the option to agree to this, as we believe it should be your choice what services you receive.
Emails. We send regular and occasional emails. Members can determine whether to receive certain emails from their “Privacy Preferences” which can be accessed via the "Account Settings" in your My account section of the website.
Notification of unread messages. If you have a number of messages waiting for you in your Youmeo mailbox, and you have not logged in to the service for an extended period, we may at our discretion contact you via your registered email address to notify you of the unread messages. Should you still not read and remove these messages then we may remove the messages as part of our data cleansing process.
Youmeo companies and subsidiaries. We may share data supplied by you (or collected about you) with our subsidiaries and other companies owned by us, but only for the purposes described in this policy.
Changes in Youmeo’s business. If all of the assets which Youmeo uses to operate its business (or substantially all of them) are acquired by a third party, we may transfer personal data we then hold to that party.
Place of processing. The personal information held by us is held on and processed by computers situated in the United Kingdom or in the USA.
The complex nature of our system sometimes means that the month of your birth, and your unique user number which we assign to you on registration may be used in filenames of photos you upload. Please note we do not do this for every upload, only as a last resort if the filename we try to create already exists. We do not directly display the month of birth, but may conceal it amongst other numbers, or create a formula which would represent your month of birth in number format. If you object to this method, please contact us.
We have security measures in place to protect our customer database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each Member’s responsibility:
~ to protect against unauthorized access to Your Details;
~ to ensure against use by anyone else of the Youmeo Service through the machine that Member uses while they are "logged on" to the Youmeo Service;
~ to log off or exit from the Youmeo Service when not using it; and
~ to keep his/her password secret.
~ not to publish your address, full name, place of work or study, mobile or e-mail address or any other personally identifiable information on your public profile
You may have your registration details removed at any time. To remove yourself, please click here to view a list of FAQ's. Alternatively, email us at helpdesk@Youmeo.com and we will endeavor to remove your details within 24 to 48 hours of receipt of the email.
If Members elect to permit Youmeo to search email addresses held within their email service on their behalf and click on “Import & Invite Friends”, they accept that by doing so, an email invitation will be sent on their behalf, to the relevant email address, and that from time to time a reminder email could be sent to that contact, on their behalf. Any reminder e-mails that are sent will be subject to explicit permission from the user sending the invite.
In addition, if Members click on “Refer a Friend” or opt to Invite a Friend from any other link on the Youmeo website, and submit email addresses of their contacts to invite to join the Youmeo service, they accept that by doing so, an email invitation will be sent on their behalf, to the relevant email address, and that from time to time a reminder email could be sent to that contact, on their behalf. Any reminder e-mails that are sent will be subject to explicit permission from the user sending the invite.
By inviting their contacts to join the site, the Member agrees that they have obtained prior consent from their contacts (a) to send them such an invitation and reminder, and (b) to allow the other action referred to in this Clause and in Clause 8.
Youmeo may store the name and email address of the contacts for the purpose of automatically adding the respondent to the contacts list of the Member sending the invitation and to send reminders of the invitation on the Member’s behalf.
The Members' username and password will not be saved anywhere on the site. The names of the contacts being uploaded will also be searchable via the name search facility to enable other Youmeo Members to find old contacts.
The Member or the Contact of the Member’s contacts can request the removal of their details from our database at any time by sending an email to: helpdesk@youmeo.com.
If Members elect to import their contacts, they accept that by doing so, an email invitation will be sent on their behalf, to the email addresses of the contacts that are being imported and that from time to time, a reminder email could be sent to that contact, on their behalf.
By inviting their contacts to join the site, the Member agrees that they have obtained prior consent from their contacts to send them an invitation or invitation reminder.
Youmeo may store the name and email address of the contacts to enable the Member to contact their contacts via the Youmeo service and to send reminders of the invitation on the Member’s behalf.
The Member’s username and password will not be saved anywhere on the site.
Youmeo does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders on behalf of the Member. The Member or the Member’s contacts can request the removal of their details from the Youmeo database at any time by sending an email to: helpdesk@youmeo.com.
We reserve the right to communicate such of a Member’s personal information as we hold to third parties which seek the disclosure of it, and which make a legally-compliant request for its disclosure.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with Youmeo, you can contact us here. You can also mail the following address if you wish to request from Youmeo a copy of the personal data we hold about you or a description of that data. Please note that by English law we are entitled to charge you a small sum for providing this information.
Member Services Department
Youmeo.com Ltd
43 Boiler House
Electric Wharf
Coventry
CV1 4JU
Our site contains links to other sites. Youmeo is not responsible for the privacy practices, or the content, of those web sites.
You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner’s website at www.ico.gov.uk.
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy or email practices, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement 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 notice on our home page.