Effective April 1st, 2007:
About Ojeez.com
Ojeez.com is an online service that allows our members to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through a network of friends. Ojeez members can view each others' profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service. They can share photos, post journals and comments, describe their interests, conduct business and create partnerships. To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. Ojeez members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.
Ojeez.com cares deeply about online privacy If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at
privacy@ojeez.com.
Information Collection and Use by Ojeez.com
Ojeez.com collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Ojeez.com service. Ojeez.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, business interests, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.
Ojeez.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes
User Profile information including members' pictures and selected names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the Ojeez.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Ojeez, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network. Users within a personal network communicate on Ojeez.com with each other through the Ojeez.com service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, Ojeez.com allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where users may have attended or worked.
We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings"
From time to time, Ojeez.com or a partner may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on Ojeez.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
Ojeez members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system (put email invitation link here). Ojeez.com stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations Ojeez.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders (up to three (3) per email address). Recipients of invitations from Ojeez.com may contact Ojeez.com to request the removal of their information from our database.
Ojeez members may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal Ojeez address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.
You may prevent Ojeez.com email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by sending a single email with the subject "BLOCK" to
privacy@ojeez.com.com Please note that the email must come from the account you wish to block.
Use of Cookies
Ojeez.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from Ojeez.com in order to use most functions on the site Please note that Ojeez allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Ojeez Privacy Policy.
Links
Ojeez.com contains links to sites. Ojeez.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on Ojeez.com.
Chat Rooms, Journals and WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
Ojeez.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.
Email Choice/Opt-out
Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may choose not to by selecting "Do not send me notification emails" in the user profile "Account Settin