Privacy Policy

Dorthy.com ("Dorthy.com" or "we," "us" or "our") provides this Privacy Policy to inform users of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information for the website located at Dorthy.com and Dorthy Mobile Applications (collectively, the "Sites") collected through our search, communication and social networking services, including via SMS and WAP (the "Service"), which are operated by Dorthy.com.

By accessing any part of the sites or the service, you are agreeing to the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to any of these terms, you should not use the sites or the service.

This Privacy Policy describes the types of information collected from you, what we do with it, with whom we share it, and how you can correct or change such information. It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy carefully, especially before providing any personal data through the Sites or the Service. The Sites and the Service are operated in and controlled from the United States of America

This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time for any reason. By accessing the Sites or the Service at any time after such modification, you agreeing to such modification. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. This policy was last modified as of March 18, 2009.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Sites please contact us at privacy@dorthy.com or at dorthy.com., Attn: Privacy Policy Issues, 54 Stone Street, 6th Floor, New York, New York 10004.

Principle

Our primary goal in collecting personally identifiable information is to provide you with the products and services made available on the Sites and the Service. We believe that you should have control over your personal information. You choose what interests you choose to share, what information goes into your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, video and interests. You also control the users with whom can see this information and can do so on the Settings page.

User Information

If you create an account and join dorthy.com in order to take advantage of the full range of services offered on the Sites and the Service, we ask for and record some "personal information." "Personal Information" means information you knowingly choose to disclose to us, such as your name, full user name, password, city, time zone, birth date, email address and other information that you decide to provide us with or that you decide in include in your public profile. We may use your email address to send you updates and news about the Sites. You may choose not to receive email of this type and can do so through your Settings page or by following the unsubscribe instructions on the emails.

Billing Information

In the event that you purchase any products or services directly from us (as opposed to through one of our advertisers), we may require certain additional information, including, without limitation, your credit card or debit card billing information. We use this information to bill you for the applicable products or services. By making a purchase of any such products or services, you consent to our providing such information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine to be necessary to support and process your purchase, as well as to your credit card or debit card issuer for their purposes.

Additional Information

Your full user name and your photo, if you decide to upload one, are displayed to people on the Sites to enable you to connect with people on dorthy.com, as specified in your privacy settings. Once a member, you may provide additional information in the public profile section and other public sections of the Sites, including but not limited to your bio, your location, as well as your personal web site, if you have one. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new connections, interests and opportunities through the Sites and the Service.

Customer Service Information

If you contact us through the Site, we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and may use your email address, and any information that you provide to us in your message, to respond to you.

Use of Contact Information

In addition, we may use your contact information to market to you, and provide you with information about, our products and services, including but not limited to the Sites and the Service. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such information or communications from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications.

Contributions

We store and may publicly display your contributions to the Site in order to provide and enhance the services that we offer. When we display your contributions, we may do so together with your user name. "Contributions" refers to any content you submit or post to any of the Sites for public display, such as ratings, comments, photos, and other similar types of information. Please do not include information in your contributions that you expect to be kept private.

Activity

We record information relating to your use of the Site and the Service, such as the searches you undertake, the pages you visit, your browser or phone type, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp information, and other similar types of information. We use this information to operate and administer the Sites and the Service and to provide the highest possible level of service to you. We also use this information in the aggregate to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Sites and the Service.

Use of Information We Collect

We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our services, and to offer you other products, programs, or services we believe may be of interest to you. dorthy.com may aggregate data and disclose such data only in aggregate and in a non-personally identifiable manner to third parties for marketing and promotional purposes (e.g., how many users responded to a particular offer). Aggregated information does not identify any User individually.

We use information about which links have been followed and whether action has been taken on another party's website to improve our offerings and to customize the Sites and the Service. When you visit the Sites or the Service, we may collect technical and navigational information, such as computer browser type, Internet protocol address, pages visited, and average time spent on our Sites. This information may be used, for example, to alert you to software compatibility issues, or it may be analyzed to improve our website design and functionality.

Third Party Advertising Networks

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Sites. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. To allow for the proper delivery of advertisements, we may include a file, called a web beacon, from one or more of these advertising companies within pages served by us on the Sites so that the advertising companies may provide anonymized, aggregated, auditing, research and reporting for advertisers as well as to target advertisements to you while you visit other websites. Because your web browser must request these advertisements and web beacons from the advertising companies' servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.

Collection of Information by Third Parties and Sponsors

The Sites may contain third-party advertisements, content or offers that are complementary to your use of dorthy.com. If you choose to use these separate products or services, disclose information to the providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. You should evaluate their practices before deciding to use their services.

Cookies

To enhance your experience with the Sites and the Service, many of our web pages use "cookies". Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering on our Sites. However, once you choose to furnish any of the Sites with Personal Information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our Sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our Sites (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Sites), and to save your password in password-protected areas. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Sites may not work properly or at all.

Links to Other Websites

Our Site contains links to other websites. The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information from you. Other sites follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personally identifiable information you submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.

Our Policy Towards Children

The Site is not directed to persons under 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personally identifiable information without their consent, he or she should contact us at privacy@dorthy.com. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal identifiable Information, we will delete such information from our file.

Service Providers

We may engage certain trusted 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 personally identifiable information 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.

No Guarantees

While this Privacy Statement expresses dorthy.com's standards for maintenance of private data, dorthy.com is not in a position to guarantee the standards will always be met. There may be factors beyond our control that may result in unintentional disclosure of data. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. But no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement

We may use or disclose your information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. If we believe it is necessary, we may disclose your personal information to third parties in a good- faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (i) take action regarding suspected illegal activities; (ii) enforce or apply our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy; (iii) comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order; or (iv) protect our rights, reputation, or property or that of our users, affiliates, or the public. Please note that we are not required to question or contest the validity of any search warrant, subpoena, or other similar governmental request we may receive.

Business Transfer

In the event that we are acquired by or merged with a third party entity, or a third party entity acquires any of the Sites or the Service, we reserve the right to transfer or assign the information we have collected from you as part of such merger or acquisition.

Data

Should you terminate your account, portions of your data may remain on our production and back-up servers indefinitely. Any "personal information" you submit to the public portions of any of our Sites can be viewed and used by other users and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. dorthy.com is not responsible for your disclosure of any such information.

Special Note to International Users

The Sites and the Service are hosted in the United States and are intended for and directed to users in the United States. If you are accessing the Sites or the Sites or the Service from the European Union, Asia or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Sites or the Service, which is governed by United States law, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you hereby consent to that transfer.