Kumundi Principles
We built Kumundi to make it easy to share information with your friends and people
around you. We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information
you share on Kumundi; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default
privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your networks
and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about.
Kumundi follows two core principles:
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You should have control over your personal information.
Kumundi helps you share information with your friends and people around you. You
choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal
information, pictures, interests and groups you join. And you control the users
with whom you share that information through the privacy settings on each section.
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You should have access to the information others want to share.
There is an increasing amount of information available out there, and you may want
to know what relates to you, your friends, and people around you. We want to help
you easily get that information.
Safe Use of Kumundi
Kumundi's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use
the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions
when using Kumundi, located at www.Kumundi.com and its directly associated domains
(collectively, "Kumundi" or "Website")
The Information We Collect
When you visit Kumundi 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 Kumundi, you provide us with certain personal information,
such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your
gender, birth date and any other personal or preference information that you provide
to us. At the same time, the first time you login to Kumundi you agree we may invite
your friends or contacts to join Kumundi. Kumundi stores this information to send
this one-time invitation, to register a friend connection if your invitation is
accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact
us at support@kumundi.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
When you enter Kumundi, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information
is gathered for all Kumundi 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 Kumundi. You can remove
or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this
convenience feature.
When you use Kumundi, 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 or easily see your friend list.
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 Kumundi Terms of Use) on the Site at your
own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your
pages, 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 Kumundi is a violation
of the Kumundi Terms of Service and should be reported to support@kumundi.com
Kumundi may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers,
blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Kumundi service through
the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more
useful information and a more personalized experience.
By using Kumundi, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and
processed in the United States.
Children Under Age 13
If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for Kumundi 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 Kumundi. 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@kumundi.com
Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before
sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
Use of Information Obtained by Kumundi
When you register with Kumundi, 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 specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect
with people on Kumundi. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send
you notifications regarding new services offered by Kumundi that we think you may
find valuable.
Profile information is used by Kumundi 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 by your privacy settings.
Profile information you submit to Kumundi will be available to users of Kumundi
who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through
your privacy settings. Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will
be available in search results across the Kumundi network and those limited pieces
of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily
so your friends can find you and send a friend request. People who see your name
in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless
they have a relationship to you (friend, friend of friend, member of your networks,
etc.) that allows such access based on your privacy settings.
Kumundi 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 poke, or someone posts on your wall, you may receive an email alerting you to
that fact.
Kumundi may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual
to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in
a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions so
that we can provide you Kumundi. We believe this benefits you. You can know more
about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely
to be interesting to you. For example, if you put a favorite movie in your profile,
we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a screening of a similar one in
your town. But we don't tell the movie company who you are.
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, Kumundi Platform developers and other users of Kumundi, to supplement
your profile. Where such information is used, we generally allow you to specify
in your privacy settings that you do not want this to be done or to take other actions
that limit the connection of this information to your profile (e.g., removing photo
tag links).
Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
- Kumundi is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your networks
— while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from accessing
your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to friends
and networks through Kumundi. Our network architecture and your privacy settings
allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. 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.
When you use Kumundi, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g.,
a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages,
photos, videos, 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 comments, messages, photos, videos, or other items,
this information may become publicly available.
Links
Kumundi 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 Kumundi.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on Kumundi are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly
to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address
when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your
computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known
as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising
content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each
time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their
ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information
about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements
and determine which advertisements are clicked. Kumundi does not have access to
or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third
party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on Kumundi unless
you choose to share it with them.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Kumundi and does not cover the
use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on Kumundi is readily available
through the profile editing tools. Kumundi 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 Kumundi account
may do so by sending an email to support@kumundi.com. Removed information may persist
in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available
to members of Kumundi.
Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information
with other individuals on Kumundi, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to
another Kumundi user) you generally cannot remove such communications.
Security
Kumundi 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. 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 Kumundi Web Site, please contact
us at support@kumundi.com
Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of Kumundi, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy
Policy as well as our Terms of Use 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 Use 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.