Privacy Policy

This policy tells you how we use and protect your personal information on http://www.tweetizen.com. This policy is effective as of March 1, 2009.

Information We Collect

No Information Required: There may be limited parts of our site that you may use without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself.

Information We Collect Upon Registration: In order to use certain parts of our site we require that you provide us with some basic personal information such as your Twitter user name, and Twitter password. We need your Twitter username and password because Twitter requires that we authenticate your Twitter credentials in order to send & receive information to Twitter on your behalf.

Information We Collect From Twitter: If you give us your Twitter username and password, we can and do access the information in your Twitter account as allowed according to the Twitter API. We do this in order to provide functionality for the Tweetizen service. This information may include Twitter messages you have sent, Twitter messages posted by people you're following, your direct messages, and public profile information.

Optional Information: You may have the opportunity to provide us with additional, optional information about yourself. You may choose to do this because it enhances the Tweetizen experience for you and/or other Tweetizen users.

Log Data: We may record some or all of the information your browser sends to our servers. This may include information such as your IP address, the domain you are visiting from, your browser type, the pages you visit on our site, and terms you may have searched for. We use this information to monitor and improve the technical performance of our site and to improve the overall Tweetizen service.

How We Use Your Information

Our primary purpose in collecting and using your personal information is to provide you with a safe, efficient, and customized experience.

Interacting with Twitter: As noted above, we use your Twitter username and password to send information to and receive information from Twitter on your behalf.

Communication: If you provide us your personal contact information on Tweetizen (e.g., email, phone number) we may use it to provide you Tweetizen functionality, market to you, and/or provide you information about the Tweetizen service. If you do not wish to receive such communication or information from us, please unsubscribe using the instructions provided in the communication. We may also send messages to your Twitter or Tweetizen account just like any other user of the Twitter or Tweetizen services.

Improving our Service: We may use personal information to better understand user behavior, and research & analysis in order to operate and improve the Tweetizen service.

Aggregated Non-Personal Information: We may share aggregated non-personal information with third parties.

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties without your explicit consent.

How We Protect Your Information

We understand that you are trusting us with the personal information you share with us. We take this very seriously and treat your information as an asset that must be protected. Your information is stored on our servers located in the United States. We use tools (encryption, passwords, etc.) to protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. However, despite our best efforts, there may be third parties that try to hack into our systems or intercept our data communications. Therefore, although we will work very hard to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee that that your personal information or private communications will remain private 100% of the time.

Cookies

In order to improve the Tweetizen service and your experience, we use "cookie" technology. A cookie is a small file placed on your hard drive that can be used to do things such as: help us better understand how people use our service, remember your settings when you when you repeatedly visit our site, and let you customize your Tweetizen experience. A few additional things you might want to know about cookies:

• You can adjust your cookie settings in your browser (and may turn off cookies entirely)
• There are certain features that are only available through the use of cookies
• We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information

Our Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, or protect anyone's rights, property or safety. If we do disclose your information for one of these reasons, we will do it in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

We may also share your personal information with:

• Third party service providers necessary to provide the service (e.g., data hosting providers), in which case we require that they comply with our Privacy Policy and take appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
• Other third parties whom you explicitly ask us to send your information to
• Law enforcement or other government officials, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity. In such event, we will disclose information that is relevant to the investigation.

Terms and Conditions

By signing up with Tweetizen and using the Tweetizen service, you agree to the following terms:

Basic Terms

1. You are responsible to maintain the security of your account and password.
2. You are responsible for your own behavior. This means you are responsible for all the content that is posted using the Tweetizen service and activity that occurs in your account.
3. Before posting any content on the Tweetizen service, you agree that you have the right to post that content (text, images, links, or otherwise).
4. When you give us your Twitter username and password, you authorize us to send information to and receive information from Twitter on your behalf. When you post an update on Tweetizen, we submit it to Twitter; but we do rely on Twitter to accurately and timely post your message on Twitter. We also import content from Twitter and rely on it to give us accurate and timely information.
5. You will not use the Tweetizen service for any illegal or unauthorized purposes and you won't use the Tweetizen service in a way that violates any laws in any jurisdiction you are subject to.
6. Tweetizen is not responsible for the content that is posted on the Tweetizen service by its users.
7. You won't spam other Tweetizen users.
8. You won't use the Tweetizen service to transmit viruses, worms or other yet-to-be-named malicious software that do bad things to computers, software or the like.
9. You won't try to hack into the Tweetizen service or unduly burden our servers.
10. If you want to terminate your Tweetizen account, send us an email and we will delete your account as quickly as possible (but we can't and don't guarantee a timeframe).
11. You agree to use the Tweetizen service at your own risk! We provide no warranty as to the functionality, uptime, or content. We hope this won't be the case but this may mean that the Tweetizen service may not meet your specific requirements, it may be unavailable, it may have errors, it may be inaccurate or unreliable, or any host of other things you might be unhappy about - so please use the Tweetizen service "as is"!

Tweetizen Rights

1. We can change any part of the Tweetizen service and even shut Tweetizen down at any time without notice. If we do add new features, tools or functionality to Tweetizen, they will be subject to these terms of service.
2. We can change these terms of service at any time reason without notice.
3. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time (this includes refusing to grant anyone a new Tweetizen account, terminating an existing Tweetizen account, or refusing to let you use the Tweetizen service just because the sky is blue).
4. Even though you own the content you submit, you give us a non-exclusive, perpetual, fully-paid, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use the content you provide to the Tweetizen service.
5. We reserve the right to remove content that is in violation of any applicable law.

Copyrights

1. We claim no intellectual property rights over the content you post using the Tweetizen service. Your profile and all the content you upload are yours. But because Tweetizen is a public service, you agree that others (including people you may not know or have explicitly given permission to see your content) may view your content.
2. As we said above, whatever you upload is yours. But you do give us a fully paid, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to use your content to provide the Tweetizen service.