JBXP Privacy Policy
1. Parental participation
We require all users of JBXP that are below 18 years of age, ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices. Materials to help parents talk to their children about safe internet use can be found on this help page: familyeducation.com
2.
Information We Receive
Information you provide to us:
Information About Yourself.
When you sign up
for JBXP, you provide us with your name, email, gender, birth date, and the city
that you will be carrying out your street team responsibilities. You will be able to add a picture of
yourself on your profile page. In some cases we may ask for additional
information for security reasons or to provide specific information about your
tasks. Once you register, you can
provide other information about yourself by connecting with, for example, your
current city, hometown, family, relationships, networks, activities, interests,
and places. You can also share
your information to JBXP or Twitter.
Content. The primary reason
people use JBXP is to connect and share content with other Joe Bonamassa fans. You will be able to update your status,
upload photos, upload a video, share a link, create a networking event or a
group, make a comment, write something on someone’s message board, or send
someone a message. If you do not want us to store metadata associated with
content you share on JBXP (such as photos), please remove the metadata before
uploading the content.
Friend Information.
We have provided
an invite page which will allow users to invite their friends to the JBXP
webpage.
Information we collect when you interact with JBXP:
Site activity information.
We keep track of
some of the actions you take on JBXP, such as adding connections (including
joining a group or adding a friend), adding photos, attending an event, or
connecting with an application. In
some cases, you are also taking an action when you provide information or
content to us. For example, if you
share a video, in addition to storing the actual content you uploaded, we might
log the fact that you shared it.
Access Device and Browser Information.
When you access
JBXP from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information
from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as
the pages you visit.
Cookie Information.
We use "cookies"
(small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer,
mobile phone, or other device) to make JBXP easier to use, to make our
advertising better, and to protect both you and JBXP. For example, we use them to store your
login ID (but never your password) to make it easier for you to login whenever
you come back to JBXP. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into
JBXP, and to know when you are interacting with JBXP Platform applications and
websites, our widgets and Share buttons, and our advertisements. You can remove or block cookies using the
settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use
JBXP.
Information we receive from third parties:
JBXP Platform.
We do not own or
operate the applications or websites that you may choose to use through the JBXP
Platform (such as games and utilities).
Whenever you connect with a Platform application or website, we will
receive information from them, including information about actions you take. In some cases, in order to personalize
the process of connecting, we may receive a limited amount of information even
before you connect with the application or website.
Information from other websites.
We may institute
programs with advertising partners and other websites in which they share
information with us:
We may ask advertisers to tell us how our users responded to the ads we showed
them (and for comparison purposes, how other users who didn’t see the ads acted
on their site). This data sharing, commonly known as “conversion tracking,”
helps us measure our advertising effectiveness and improve the quality of the
advertisements you see. We may
receive information about whether or not you’ve seen or interacted with certain
ads on other sites in order to measure the effectiveness of those ads.
If in any of these cases we receive data that we do not already have, we will
“anonymize” it within 180 days, meaning we will stop associating the information
with any particular user. If we institute these programs, we will only use the
information in the ways we explain in the “How We Use Your Information” section
below.
Information from other users.
We may collect
information about you from other JBXP users, such as when a friend tags you in a
photo, video, or place, provides friend details, or indicates a relationship
with you.
3. Sharing information on
JBXP
All privacy related options regarding the public access of your personal
information can be withheld by clicking on http://jbxp.net/yourusername.
Name and Profile Picture.
JBXP is designed
to make it easy for you to find and connect with other Joe Bonamassa fans. For this reason, your name and profile
picture do not have privacy settings.
If you are uncomfortable with sharing your profile picture, you should
delete it (or not add one).
Contact Information. None of this
information is required except for your email address, and you do not have to
share your email address with anyone.
This can be found under your privacy drop down menu under “Edit Profile.”
Personal Information.
Your profile
settings control who can see your personal information, such as your location,
interests, skills, contact email, and website if you choose to add them. We recommend that you share this
information using the friends setting.
Posts by Me.
Posts made on your
message board are viewable by all JBXP users.
If you do now wish to have your posts listed on your profile page, remove
the message board by accessing your “Edit Page” dashboard, and removing it from
the page layout.
Gender and Birth Date.
This information is used to monitor the
content accessible on the JBXP platform.
These security settings will always be on our priority list when it comes
to the maintenance of the website.
You can control what information is public or private by editing your privacy
settings under the “Edit Page” link.
Minors.
We reserve the right to add special
protections for minors (such as to provide them with an age-appropriate
experience) and place restrictions on the ability of adults to share and connect
with minors, recognizing this may provide minors a more limited experience on
JBXP.
4.
Information You Share With Third Parties
JBXP Platform.
As mentioned
above, we do not own or operate the applications or websites that may you may
subscribe to, on the JBXP Platform. That means that when you use those
applications and websites you are making your JBXP information available to
someone other than JBXP. Prior to
allowing them to access any information about you, we suggest that you limit
their use of this information.
Connecting with an Application or Website.
When you connect
with an application or website it will have access to General Information about
you. The term General Information
includes your and your friends’ names, profile pictures, user IDs, connections,
and any content shared using the “public” privacy setting. We may also make information about the
location of your computer or access device and your age available to
applications and websites in order to help them implement appropriate security
measures and control the distribution of age-appropriate content. If the application or website wants to
access any other data, it will have to ask for your permission.
You should always review the policies of third party applications and websites
to make sure you are comfortable with the ways in which they use information you
share with them. We do not guarantee that they will follow our rules. If you
find an application or website that violates our rules, you should report the
violation to us, and we will take action as necessary.
When your friends use Platform.
If your friend
connects with an application or website, it will be able to access your name,
profile picture, user ID, and information you have shared under the “public”
setting. It will also be able to
access your connections, except it will not be able to access your friend list. If you have already connected with (or
have a separate account with) that website or application, it may also be able
to connect you with your friend on that application or website. If the application or website wants to
access any of your other content or information (including your friend list), it
will have to obtain specific permission from your friend. If your friend grants specific permission
to the application or website, it will generally only be able to access content
and information about you that your friend can access. In addition, it will only be allowed to
use that content and information in connection with that friend. For example, if a friend gives an
application access to a photo you only shared with your friends, that
application could allow your friend to view or print the photo, but it cannot
show that photo to anyone else.
Pre-Approved Third-Party Websites and
Applications.
In order to provide you with useful social
experiences off of JBXP, we occasionally need to provide General Information
about you to pre-approved third party websites and applications that use
Platform at the time you visit them (if you are still logged in to JBXP). Similarly, when one of your friends
visits a pre-approved website or application, it will receive General
Information about you so you and your friend can be connected on that website as
well (if you also have an account with that website). In these cases we require these
websites and applications to go through an approval process, and to enter into
separate agreements designed to protect your privacy. For example, these agreements include
provisions relating to the access and deletion of your General Information,
along with your ability to opt-out of the experience being offered.
Exporting Information.
You (and those you make your information
available to) may use tools like RSS feeds, mobile phone address book
applications, or copy and paste functions, to capture, export (and in some
cases, import) information from JBXP, including your information and information
about you. For example, if you share
your phone number with your friends, they may use third party applications to
sync that information with the address book on their mobile phone. Currently, JBXP does not utilize any
mobile applications in the operations of the platform. All JBXP users would be notified if such
an option becomes available at a later date.
Advertisements. Sometimes the advertisers who present ads on JBXP use technological methods to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. You may opt-out of the placement of cookies by many of these advertisers here: networkadvertising.org
You may also use your browser cookie settings to limit or prevent the placement
of cookies by advertising networks.
JBXP does not share personally identifiable information with advertisers unless
we get your permission.
Links.
When you click on links on JBXP you may
leave our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites,
and we encourage you to read their privacy statements, as well.
5. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and
customized experience. Here are some of the details on how we do that:
To manage the service. We use the information
we collect to provide our services and features to you, to measure and improve
those services and features, and to provide you with customer support. We use
the information to prevent potentially illegal activities, and to enforce our
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
Terms.
We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous
activity and screen content to prevent abuse such as spam. These efforts may on
occasion result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some
functions for some users.
To contact you.
We may contact you
with service-related announcements from time to time. We may include content you see on JBXP in
the emails we send to you.
To serve personalized advertising to you. We don’t share your
information with advertisers without your consent. (An example of consent would
be if you asked us to provide your shipping address to an advertiser to receive
a free sample.) We may allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users
who will see their advertisements and we may use any of the non-personally
identifiable attributes we have collected (including information you may have
decided not to show to other users, such as your birth year or other sensitive
personal information or preferences) to select the appropriate audience for
those advertisements.
To make suggestions. We use your profile
information, the addresses you import through our contact importers, and other
relevant information, to help you connect with your friends, including making
suggestions to you and other users that you connect with on JBXP. For example,
if another user imports the same email address as you do, we may suggest that
you connect with each other.
To help your friends find you. We allow other users to
use contact information they have about you, such as your email address, to find
you, including through contact importers and search. You can prevent other users from using
your email address to find you using the search section of your privacy
settings.
Downloadable Software. Certain downloadable
software applications and applets that we offer, such as our browser toolbars
and photo uploaders, transmit data to us. We may not make a formal disclosure if
we believe our collection of and use of the information is the obvious purpose
of the application, such as the fact that we receive photos when you use our
photo uploader. If we believe it is not obvious that we are collecting or using
such information, we will make a disclosure to you the first time you provide
the information to us so that you can decide whether you want to use that
feature.
Memorializing Accounts. If we are notified that
a user is deceased, we may memorialize the user’s account. In such cases we
restrict profile access to confirmed friends, and allow friends and family to
write on the user’s message board in remembrance.
We may close an account if we receive a formal request from the user’s
next of kin or other proper legal request to do so.
6. How We Share Information
JBXP is about sharing information with others — friends and people within
the Joe Bonamassa fan base — while providing you with privacy settings
Privacy
that you can use to restrict other users from accessing some of your
information. We share your
information with third parties when we believe the sharing is permitted by you,
reasonably necessary to offer our services, or when legally required to do so.
For example:
When you invite a friend to join.
When you ask
us to invite a friend to join JBXP, we will send your friend a message on your
behalf using your name. The
invitation may also contain information about other users your friend might
know. We may also send up to
two reminders to them in your name.
When you choose to share your information
with marketers.
You may choose to
share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers that are not
associated with JBXP through on-site offers. This is entirely at your discretion
and we will not provide your information to these marketers without your
consent.
To help your friends find you. By default, we make
certain information you have posted to your profile available in search results
on JBXP to help your friends find you. However, you can control who can see some
of this information, as well as who can find you in searches, through your
privacy settings. We may also
partner with email and instant messaging providers to help their users identify
which of their contacts are JBXP users, so that we can promote JBXP to those
users.
To give search engines access to publicly
available information.
We generally limit search engines’ access to
our site. We may allow them to access information set to the “public” setting
(along with your name and profile picture) and your profile information that is
visible to everyone. You can change
the visibility of some of your profile information using the customize section
of your privacy settings.
To help improve or promote our service. Sometimes we share
aggregated information with third parties to help improve or promote our
service. But we only do so in such a way that no individual user can be
identified or linked to any specific action or information.
To provide you with services.
We may provide information to service
providers that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use
third parties to help host our website, send out email updates about JBXP,
remove repetitive information from our user lists, process payments, or provide
search results or links (including sponsored links). These service providers may
have access to your personal information for use for a limited time, but when
this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to
limit their use of that information to helping us provide the service.
To advertise our services.
We may ask advertisers
outside of JBXP to display ads promoting our services. We may ask them to
deliver those ads based on the presence of a cookie, but in doing so will not
share any other information with the advertiser.
To offer joint services.
We may provide services
jointly with other companies. If you
use these services, we may share your information to facilitate that service. However, we will identify the partner and
present the joint service provider’s privacy policy to you before you use that
service.
To respond to legal requests and prevent
harm.
We may disclose
information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including
criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is
required by law. This may include
respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we
have a good faith belief that the response is required by law under the local
laws in that jurisdiction, apply to users from that jurisdiction, and are
consistent with generally accepted international standards. We may also share information when we
have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal
activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from
people violating our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
terms.
This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or
other government entities.
Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of
Control.
If the ownership of all or substantially all
of our business changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner so
that the service can continue to operate. In such a case, your information would
remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information
Editing your profile.
You may change or remove
your profile information at any time by going to your profile page and clicking
“Edit Profile.” Information will be updated immediately.
Account Revocation.
If you wish to
eradicate your JBXP account, you must consult the site administrator.
Limitations on removal. Even after you remove
information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information
may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it
was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or
stored by other users. However, your
name will no longer be associated with that information on JBXP. (For example,
if you post something to another user’s profile and then you delete your
account, that post may remain, but be attributed to an “Anonymous” account).
Additionally, we may retain certain information to prevent identity theft and
other misconduct even if deletion has been requested. If you have given third party
applications or websites access to your information, they may retain your
information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy
policies. But they will no longer be
able to access the information through our Platform after you disconnect from
them.
Backup copies. Removed and deleted
information may persist in backup copies for up to 90 days, but will not be
available to others.
8. How We Protect Information
We do our best to keep your information secure, but this responsibility is
shared with the user.
Steps we take to keep your information
secure.
We keep your account information on a secured server behind a firewall. When you
enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers and passwords), we
encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also use
automated and social measures to enhance security, such as analyzing account
behavior for fraudulent or otherwise anomalous behavior, may limit use of site
features in response to possible signs of abuse, may remove inappropriate
content or links to illegal content, and may suspend or disable accounts for
violations of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
terms.
Risks inherent in sharing information. Although we allow you
to set privacy options that limit access to your information, please be aware
that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other
users with whom you share your information.
We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your
information. We cannot ensure that
information you share on JBXP will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for third party
circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on JBXP. You can
reduce these risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a
strong password, using different passwords for different services, and using up
to date antivirus software.
Report Violations. You should report any
security violations to us.
9. Other Terms
Changes.
We may change this
Privacy Policy pursuant to the procedures outlined in the JBXP Statement of
Rights and Responsibilities terms. Unless stated otherwise, our current
privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your
account. If we make changes to this
Privacy Policy we will notify you by publication here
terms. If the changes are material, we will
provide you additional, prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances.
Consent to Collection and Processing in the
United States.
By using JBXP, you consent to having your
personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Defined Terms.
"Us," "we," "our,"
"Platform" and "JBXP" mean the same as they do in the Statement of Rights and
Responsibilities terms. “Information” and “content” are used more
generally and interchangeably here than in the Statement of Rights and
Responsibilities terms unless
otherwise limited by the context.
