1. About LiveKite.com
2. Information Collection & Use by Livekite.com
3. Use of Cookies
4. Links
5. Email Choice/Opt-out
6. Third Party Advertising
7. Security
8. Changes in our Privacy Policy
9. Contacting the website

About Livekite.com

Livekite is an online-based intentional Christian community which allows for members to create individual and group profiles and then connect with other Livekite members and groups. Livekite makes networking simple and facilitates communication through forums, messaging, and the sharing of photos, blogs, music, podcasts, personal interests, and more.

During the Livekite sign-up process, new users are asked to provide a certain amount of personal information. How much of this information is made public is completely up to the individual user. Any user or group can decide to set their profile to “private” which limits the amount of personal information which is made public. In some cases the privacy settings a particular user or group chooses may even make their profile completely hidden, viewed only by select users.

Information collection & use

Livekite gathers user submitted information such as (but not limited to) personal interestes, gender, age, education, denomination, and occupation. Livekite requests this sort of information from our users for a number of reasons:

1. To help Livekite users identify themselves to other Livekite users and, therefore, to help simplify connection and communication on Livekite between users.
2. So that the administrators of Livekite will know more about our members and as a result, will be able to provide them with the best and most relevant possible experience on Livekite.
3. To authenticate Livekite users as human users (not bots or other spam related electronic entities)
4. To authenticate the identity of our users, thereby protecting them from misuse of their accounts through identity theft or other fraudulent activity.
5. To provide Livekite users with notifications relating to Livekite services.

Livekite also collects certain non-personally-identifiable information such as IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type. This is used to improve Livekite’s services to its users and personalize user-experience on the site. Livekite may share this type of information with third parties in order to help connect the right users with the right advertisers. Livekite also records IP addresses for security and monitoring purposes.

Email addresses are used in order to help Livekite users invite their friends to the service, to add users to member’s networks of friends and groups, and to send notifications related to Livekite services. The only email addresses that are stored are those that our users request to be stored. Livekite users can store email addresses in order to use Livekite to communicate with off-site contacts. Livekite does not sell invite-related email addresses. Livekite does not share invite-related email addresses or user email addresses with other Livekite users. For greater connectivity on the site, Livekite allows users to search for other users by email address.

Livekite may use member email addresses to send updates, newsletters, or news regarding the service. If a user so chooses, they may decide not to receive this sort of communication by changing their “notifications” setting to “Do not send me notification emails” in the user “Account Settings”.

From time to time, Livekite users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate in particular Livekite sponsor or partner related promotions. Livekite may provide personal information to certain partners or sponsors that our members have explicitly requested to receive information from. When this occurs, it will be clear at the point of collection who’s privacy statement will apply.

Use of Cookies

Livekite.com uses cookies to store visitor’s preferences and to record information about user sessions. This is practice is helpful to our users because it helps us to customize the sort of advertising that our users see. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information our users submit while at Livekite. If a user so chooses, they can configure their web browser so that it will limit or exclude cookies, or notify the user when a cookie is set. Because each browser is different, the user should check the help section of his browser menu in order to learn more about the options associated with cookies. Important- users MUST enable cookies on Livekite in order for the site to function properly. Also important- Livekite allows certain 3rd party advertisers to set and access their cookies on your computer. In these cases, it is the Advertisers’ privacy policies that guides their use of cookies not the Livekite privacy policy.

Links

While browsing Livekite, our users will find links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content, privacy policies, and/or practices on other sites. When following a link to another site or posting a link to another site, Livekite users should read the privacy policy posted on that site. The Livekite privacy policy only applies to Livekite.

Blogs, Message Boards, Classifieds, and Public Forums

When posting public information on Livekite, users should understand that this information is accessible to the general public. As a result, public individuals or groups have the ability to gather and use this information. If a user does not want to make information available to the general public, they should only post information in the context of private or closed groups or simply avoid public postings.

Management of information

Livekite users can remove, update, or correct their personal information at any time. The user may accomplish this by logging into Livekite and using the various profile editing features that Livekite offers.

Email

Livekite users who do not wish to receive any form of site communication via their submitted email address may opt-out by choosing “Do not send me notification emails” in the “Account Settings” section of their user settings.

Third Party Advertising

Advertising may be visible to Livekite users either on Livekite or as a delivered item via a third party. As before mentioned, Livekite advertisers may use cookies. The cookies are used by advertisers in order to identify Livekite users who are responding to (ie clicking on) their advertisements. In this way, advertisers may gather information about users (or others who are using a Livekite user’s computer) in order to determine where they saw a particular advertisement and to determine which advertisements were clicked on. This sort of tracking allows Livekite to help our advertisers reach the users who would be the most well suited for the particular products/services they offer and. This highly targeted form of advertising is aimed at delivering the right products/services to the right potential end-users and, ultimately, providing Livekite users with the best service possible. As stated before, this privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Livekite, not the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Security

Livekite user accounts are secured by user-created passwords. Livekite takes precautions to make sure our users’ account information is kept private. Livekite uses reasonable measures to protect user information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those Livekite employees who need access to this type of information in order to perform their jobs. This may include, but may not be limited to, customer service personnel and technical staff. Livekite cannot guarantee the security of member information.

Livekite will not disclose our users personal information to any third party unless we have reason to believe that disclosure is necessary a) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Livekite.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; b) to enforce the Livekite Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; c) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the Livekite service. Livekite reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of Livekite or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.

Changes in Livekite’s Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may make changes to Livekite’s privacy policy. If/When this occurs, we will post the changes to our site so that our users will be always be aware of what information we gather, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A user is bound by any minor changes to the Livekite privacy policy once he or she uses the site after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.

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, please contact us at: privacy@livekite.com.