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Wish-List.com is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Because we gather certain types of information about the users of our site, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. The intent of this document is to outline and answer the following questions:
1. What information this site gathers/tracks about you
2. What this site does with the information it gathers/tracks
3. With whom this site shares the information it gathers/tracks
4. Children's Guidelines
5. Security
6. This site's opt-out policy
7. This site's policy on correcting and updating personally identifiable information
8. This site's policy on deleting or deactivating your name from its database
1. WishList gathers user information in the following processes:
Registration
During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
Optionally, we ask for a mailing address to assure the proper delivery of gifts. We use customer
contact information from the registration form to send the user information about our company.
The customer's contact information is also used to contact you when necessary.
Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
User Profile
WishList users have the option of filling out a detailed user profile that allows their
friends to discover important purchasing information such as clothing sizes, favorite colors, etc.
The user decides whether to fill this information in and who has access to it.
Cookies
The WishList.com website uses cookies to maintain a user's identity between sessions so
that the site can be personalized based on user preferences or a user's history.
Cookies are little bits of information that sit on your computer and allow us to
remember you each time you visit.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather
broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
2. Use of the Information
Registration
As stated above, we use customer contact information to send the user information about our
company. The customer's contact information is also used to contact you when necessary.
Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement,
and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not
linked to personally identifiable information.
Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username.
Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services,
special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we
present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our
choice and opt-out below.
Aggregate Demographics
This site will aggregate demographic information based on user activity. This data
is purely informational and is not linked to any personal information that can identify
any individual person.
3. Sharing of Information
WishList provides gift registry services to retailers and other
partner sites in order to enhance the quality of our service to you. When these retailers
and partner sites refer new customers to WishList, we take information necessary to
establish a customer account (username, password, and email address). We share this
information only with the referring site, and only if the partner site adopts and
adheres to our strict privacy guidelines. Additionally, retailers with products
registered by you are given information pertaining only to these products. This
data is purely informational and is not linked to any personal information that can
identify any individual person.
We share aggregate information about our users with our business
partners and other third parties. This information shows user activity as a whole rather
than on an individual basis and cannot be used to individually identify you. We use
aggregated information we collect about users to continue to improve our service for you.
This site contains links to other sites. www.wishlist.com is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each
and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
4. Children's Guidelines
The safety of children is of extreme importance to us. In regards to
our practices concerning minors, WishList.com will:
a. NOT collect online contact information without prior parental
consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to
prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental
consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request
and will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent
b. NOT collect personally identifiable offline contact information without
prior parental consent
c. NOT distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information without
prior parental consent
d. NOT give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable
contact information without prior parental consent
e. NOT entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge
more information than is needed to participate in the activity
5. Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control. If you have any questions
about the security at our website, you can send an email to service@wishlist.com
6. Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of
receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for removing their information from
our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
a. Users may send an email to service@wishlist.com
b. In every e-mail we send, we provide instructions on how to opt out of future mailings.
c. Users may opt out of our e-mail list in the "My Wish List" section of our website
7. Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and
modifying information previously provided:
a. Users may edit or delete their personal information at any time
via their "My Wish List" homepage.
b. Users may send an email to service@wishlist.com
8. Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement,
the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact
WishList.com, Inc.
46-E Peninsula Center
Suite 385
Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274
Tel: 888-310-4504
legal@wishlist.com
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