My Digital Life Privacy Policy
Effective January 15, 2008
About My Digital Life
My Digital Life is an online service that allows our Members to collect, organize and share digital content about themselves and their lives. The My Digital Life Service is available at mydigitallife.com and mydl.com. From time to time My Digital Life may offer My Digital Life Services on other web sites.
The Content My Digital Life Members can collect, organize and share currently includes blogs, photos, calendar events, music play logs, phone call logs, text messages, email messages, contact list entries, and location. From time to time My Digital Life may expand the types of Content Members can collect, organize and share. My Digital Life provides tools that allow Members to control public access to and sharing of their Content in accordance with this policy. The system defaults all Members' Content to be private; i.e., not shared.
My Digital Life knows that you value your privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@mydigitallife.com.
This policy explains how My Digital Life collects, uses and may in some cases disclose information collected through your use of My Digital Life. This policy is expressly incorporated into our Terms of Use.
User Information Collection and Use by My Digital Life
Personal Information. My Digital Life collects Member-submitted information such as name, email address, and phone number to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the My Digital Life Service. My Digital Life may also collect other data including but not limited to personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other, and to enable My Digital Life to deliver a more personalized service to each Member.
IP Address and Technical Information. My Digital Life logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from Members and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the web site, track usage and improve the web site services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to Members. User IP addresses may be recorded for security and monitoring purposes.
User Profiles. User Profile information including Members' pictures and user chosen My Digital Life usernames are displayed to other Members to facilitate user interaction in the My Digital Life community. A Member's My Digital Life username is used to add the user to other Members' friends lists, and to enable other Members to share their Content with the user. When a Member subscribes to a My Digital Life Channel, their user name may be visible to other Members who also subscribe to that Channel. When a Member shares Content with other Members, the user's My Digital Life username will be visible to the other Members viewing the shared Content. Because other users may see a Member's username, Members may consider creating a username that is not personally identifiable in and of itself.
Email addresses. A Member's email address may be used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join My Digital Life. My Digital Life may also use a Member's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the My Digital Life Service.
Sharing Content with Other Members and the Public
The Content My Digital Life Members can collect, organize and share currently includes blogs, photos, calendar events, music play logs, phone call logs, text messages, email messages, contact list entries, and location information. From time to time My Digital Life may expand the types of Content Members can collect, organize and share. Members control the sharing of their Content. The system defaults all Members' Content to be private; i.e., not shared.
You may choose to share any piece of your Content present in the My Digital Life Service with the Members of one or more of your own Friends Lists and/or the public. You choose to share or stop sharing a piece of your Content by clicking on the "Change Sharing" link associated with the item.
Sharing and Channels. You may choose to share any piece of your own Content present in the My Digital Life Service in a My Digital Life Channel. You choose to share or stop sharing a piece of your Content in a Channel by clicking on the "Change Sharing" link associated with the item.
Please be aware that the visibility of an item shared in a Channel will often be different from that specified by sharing the same item with your own Friends Lists. An item shared in a Channel may be visible to a very large audience or the public. The rules for sharing of a Channel may change after you have posted your Content to the Channel.
You may also specify the sharing of your Content by establishing Rules. Rules can specify that specific Content types and/or Content with specific tags be shared with specific Friends Lists or Channels. Rules can be bounded by Start and Stop times. Once a Rule is established it remains in effect until you cancel it or its Stop time passes. You should be careful in establishing Rules and should periodically review the Rules you have in effect.
In addition to any other purposes set forth in this privacy policy, My Digital Life may process personal information collected through your use of the My Digital Life for the following purposes:
- Providing our products and services to users , including the display of customized Content and advertising and new My Digital Life Services;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve the My Digital Life Services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of the My Digital Life web site and My Digital Life Services; and
- Developing new My Digital Life Services.
Invitations and Other Communications to Non-Members
On occasion My Digital Life may enable its Members to invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. When Members send such invitations, My Digital Life will store the Member's friends' email addresses to facilitate the invitation and registration process. My Digital Life does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. Recipients of invitations from My Digital Life may contact My Digital Life at privacy@mydigitallife.com to request the removal of their information from our database. Such information may be retained for legal purposes and to otherwise assist My Digital Life in observing the recipient's request.
My Digital Life Members may also store email addresses, phone numbers and other contact information of people they know in their personal My Digital Life Contact list.
Use of Cookies
My Digital Life uses cookies to maintain context during visits to the site, enabling a more personalized and enhanced experience for each user. When asked to do so by the user, My Digital Life will also use cookies to remember repeat visitors to our site, enabling automatic login to the site.
You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. You must enable cookies from My Digital Life to have the best experience using the My Digital Life Service.
My Digital Life may allow third party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the My Digital Life Privacy Policy.
Links
My Digital Life web sites may contain links to other sites not controlled by My Digital Life. My Digital Life is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on My Digital Life web sites.
Weblogs (blogs), Text (SMS) Messages and Email Messages
Please be aware that whenever you share blogs, text messages and email messages the Content of these documents will be visible to those you share it with, possibly including the public. You should be careful about the documents you share, particularly documents that contain personal information about yourself or your correspondents. Personally-identifiable information in shared documents may be used by the people the document is shared with to contact you or others. You should be particularly careful about sharing others' identity or personal information.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
My Digital Life Members may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as My Account and My Profile.
Third Party Advertising
My Digital Life or one of our advertising partners may deliver ads appearing on the My Digital Life web sites. Our web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by My Digital Life and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Security
My Digital Life Member accounts are secured by Member-created passwords. My Digital Life takes precautions to ensure that Member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect Member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to Member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel, service administrators and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of Member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of Member information at any time.
If My Digital Life learns of a security systems breach we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. My Digital Life may post a notice on our web site if a security breach occurs. If this happens, you will need a web browser enabling you to view the web site. My Digital Life may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us at privacy@mydigitallife.com.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, My Digital Life cannot ensure that all of your personally identifiable information and communications will remain private and will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Policy. Therefore, although we maintain and make every effort to comply with evolving privacy standards, we do not promise, nor should you expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.
Sharing and Disclosure of Information My Digital Life Collects
My Digital Life will not disclose personally-identifiable information to any third party without the Member's permission unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by My Digital Life, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the My Digital Life Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. My Digital Life reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information because of the sale of My Digital Life or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. Our most current privacy policy will always be posted on all My Digital Life web sites. A user is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use users' personally-identifiable information in a manner materially less restrictive from that stated at the time of collection we will seek to obtain your consent through reasonable means which may include 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@mydigitallife.com.
My Digital Life, Inc.
2108 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025