vkoot Privacy Notice

October 20, 2006

The vkoot Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use vkoot's products and services, including information provided when you use vkoot. In addition, the following describes our privacy practices that are specific to vkoot.

Personal information

• You need a vkoot Account to use vkoot.vkoot asks for some personal information when you create a vkoot Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A vkoot Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.
• As an vkoot member, you can create a profile or vkoot community that includes personal information, such as your gender, age, occupation, hobbies, and interests, plus other content, such as photos. This information may be accessed and viewed by other vkoot members.
• When you invite new members into your network or send messages through vkoot, we collect and maintain information associated with those messages, including email addresses and content.

Uses

• vkoot maintains and processes your personal information in order to provide your vkoot account and access. Your profile information is displayed according to the preferences you set in your account.
• When you send messages through vkoot, your name and email address will be identified in the message. We also use your name and email address to notify you of new members, messages, or other information, such as invitations to join friends' networks, new testimonials or "fan" ratings, and crush notices.
• If you invite another person to join vkoot, we use the name and email address you provide us to contact that person and, if necessary, remind that person that he or she has been invited to join vkoot. All invitees are given the option not to receive further invitations from vkoot

Your choices

• provides a number of tools to restrict who can view your profile and other personal information. When you create your profile, look for the "golden key" icon, which allows you to limit viewing certain information to yourself, your friends, friends of friends, or to make the information available to all vkoot members.
• You can update your profile information at any time by clicking on the "edit" button in your profile setting.
• Messages you receive from vkoot can be sent to your primary email address or vkoot inbox, depending on the preferences you choose in the "my settings" page.
• You can terminate your account at any time. To learn how, click here. If you terminate your account, your profile, including any messages in your inbox, will be removed from the site and deleted from vkoot servers. Because of the way we maintain this service such deletion may not be immediate, and residual copies of your profile information may remain on backup media.

More information

vkoot adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce's web site.

Further information about vkoot is available here.

For more information about our privacy practices, go to the full privacy policy. If you have additional questions, please contact us any time. Or write to us at:

info@vkoot.com