RingRang Privacy Policy

Updated October 30, 2009

RingRang takes your privacy seriously. We urge you to read our privacy policy carefully and to make note of your rights under this policy.

This website is owned and operated by RingRang LLC. We at RingRang respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains the ways in which we may collect, use, or discloses personal information and the options that you have regarding such collection, use or disclosure.

By using ringrang.us, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is also incorporated into the Terms of Use for the RingRang site. By accessing or using the RingRang LLC site, you agree to accept those Terms of Use. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this policy, please do not use the Site. We reserve the right to change this policy without prior notice. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will become effective upon our posting of the revised policy on this website. Use of the Site following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy then in effect.

The Site is controlled and operated by RingRang from the United States, and is not intended to subject RingRang to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Please note that the RingRang site contains links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of sites other than the RingRang site, and we suggest you review the privacy polices associated with those sites and contact the owners of those sites if you have questions regarding their information practices. RingRang does not represent or warrant that the Site, or any part thereof, is appropriate or available for use in any particular jurisdiction. Those who choose to access the Site do so on their own initiative and at their own risk and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations. We may limit the Site’s availability, in whole or in part, to any person, geographic area or jurisdiction we choose, at any time and at our sole discretion.

By using our Site you are consenting to our processing of your information. “Processing” means using information in any way, including, but not limited to, the use of cookies, collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining and disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in the United States. If you reside outside the U.S. your information will be transferred to the U.S., and processed and stored there under U.S. privacy standards.

“Personally Identifiable Information” (or “PII”) is that information which can be used to identify you as an individual or to contact you. You do not have to provide PII to access the Site. However, in order to set up your own RingRang™, we require you to provide certain minimal PII. Our registration form requires you to give us information such as your name, email address and password. In addition, we reserve the right to use the information we collect about your computer, which may at times be able to identify you, for any lawful business purpose, including without limitation to help diagnose problems with our servers, to gather broad demographic information, and to otherwise administer our Site.

You may always choose not to provide PII. However, this may limit our ability to provide you with a specific service or particular content. In order for you to take advantage of particular opportunities provided through ringrang.us, you may be required to furnish additional PII. Such additional information might include your postal address, contact information, and credit information All such information is voluntarily provided to us by you.

We may collect demographic and other data, which may include PII. This information is provided by you, and you have the choice whether or not to input information about yourself. Demographic information is divided into two categories: 1) “non-public information”, which consists of personal or financial information and one-on-one communications between you and other users of the Site; and 2) “public information”, which consists of all other demographic information.

If you choose to register you will be required to register with the PII indicated above.

YOU POST USER CONTENT ON THE SITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Please be aware that no security measure is 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.

Personally Identifiable Information Collected by RingRang’s Business Partners:

RingRang works with third-party advertising companies, sponsors and other companies with whom we do business (“Business Partners”) to provide our registered users with advertising that may be of interest to you. Information about your visit to the Site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad, may be used to serve these purposes.

RingRang may correlate or match registered user information, including PII, with information held by our Business Partners to target ads or otherwise improve the effectiveness of our service. Our Business Partners may read or set cookies on your hard drive, use pixel tags, track which ads you have viewed, or collect other information about you. Business Partners may also search for complementary characteristics within your RingRang.

RingRang. makes reasonable efforts to communicate the privacy preferences in your account settings to such Business Partners, but we cannot guarantee that they will comply with your preferences. You will need to contact the Business Partner to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that RingRang may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such Business Partners in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us.

RingRang disclaims all liability for the privacy policies and procedures on any Business Partner Web site.

When you visit and interact with the Site, RingRang and third parties with whom RingRang has contracted to provide services to RingRang may collect Non-PII. Non-PII is generally collected through the Site from different sources such as server log files, environmental variables, cookies, pixel tags and other similar technologies and information that you voluntarily provide.

We have areas on the RingRang site where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in these areas becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (such as success stories) for marketing purposes or to contact you for further information.

We may use your PII in some or all of the following ways:

• Fulfillment of Requests: Zolio may use your PII to fulfill the purpose for which such PII was provided.
• Administrative Communications: We may use your PII to send you important information regarding the Site, or changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. Because this information may be important to your use of the Site, you may not opt-out of receiving such communications.
• Marketing Communications: If you affirmatively opt-in, we may use your PII to inform you of products and services that we believe may be of interest to you.
• Interests: If you choose to do so, you may receive messages from other Site users relating to certain areas of interest that you select. We do not provide your PII to such other users—rather, the message from the user is sent to a group of people, including you, based on demographic information this Site.

While your personally identifying information is protected as outlined above, we reserve the right to use, transfer, and share aggregated, anonymous data about our users as a group for any business purpose, such as analyzing usage trends and seeking compatible advertisers and partners.

Service Providers: We engage certain third parties to perform functions and provide services to us, including, without limitation, hosting and maintenance, customer relationship, database storage and management, and direct marketing campaigns. We will share your PII with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only pursuant to binding contractual obligations requiring such third parties to maintain the privacy and security of your data.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement: RingRang cooperates with government and law enforcement officials or private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of RingRang or a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.

Business Transfers: RingRang may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your PII, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.

Personnel: Our personnel (including, for the avoidance of doubt, consultants and/or contractors) may have access to user information while carrying out their duties in the normal course of our company business.

Agents: We employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you. You hereby consent to our sdeactivate their RingRang account may do so. Removed information may persist in backup or cached copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to any user of RingRang.

Opt-Out: As noted above, if you expressly opt-in, we may send you marketing-related email messages. Additionally, as noted above, if you expressly opt-in, we may share your PII with third parties for their marketing purposes. If, after you have opted in, you change your mind and you no longer wish to receive marketing-related emails from us and/or you do not want us to share your email address with third parties for such third parties’ marketing purposes, you may opt-out of receiving such marketing-related emails and/or from such sharing.

Please note that if you opt-out as described above, we will not be able to remove your PII from the databases of third parties with which we have already shared your PII (i.e., to which we have already provided your PII as of the date that we implement your opt-out request). If you wish to cease receiving marketing-related emails from such third parties, please contact such third parties directly or utilize any opt-out mechanisms set forth in their respective privacy policies or marketing-related emails.

If you close your RingRang account, we will remove your name and other PII. We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the RingRang Privacy Policy that you have previously agreed to.

Changing or Removing Your PII: If you would like to review, correct, update or remove PII that you have previously provided to us through the Site, you may do so. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed. We also reserve the right, from time to time, to re-contact former ucure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), you must immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us. We will make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored personal data to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Site in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with the legitimate needs of law enforcement or any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.

Children Under Age 13: RingRang does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for RingRang 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 RingRang. 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.

Young Adults 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.

Promotions: We reserve the right to share PII you provide in connection with advertising and promotions of third-party sponsors of such promotions (irrespective of whether such promotions are hosted by us), or otherwise in accordance with the rules applicable to such promotion. You should carefully review the rules, if any, of each promotion in which you participate through the Site, as they may contain additional important information about a sponsor’s or other third parties’ use of yoailable to visitors to the Site and to the general public. When you choose to make a posting on such services, certain PII (such as your user name) will be available for other users to view. We urge you to exercise discretion and caution when deciding to disclose your PII, or any other information, through a Forum. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE OF ANY PII YOU VOLUNTARILY DISCLOSE THROUGH A FORUM.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Policy to the contrary, we reserve the right to disclose your PII to others as we believe to be appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to governmental requests; (d) to enforce our Terms of Service; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of RingRang, you or others; and (g) to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

We strive to do everything we can to protect your privacy. Please feel free to share any comments and concerns with us. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of RingRang or your dealings with this Site, you can contact us by writing to: (RingRang, LLC 2260 Warrensville Center Road #206 University Heights, OH 44118), support@ringrang.us or by calling us at 216-367-2314