Privacy Policy
www.BensonsLife.com
The following Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") discloses the consumer privacy practices of BensonsLife, Inc., a Kansas corporation ("BensonsLife", "us", "we" or "our") for the BensonsLife website located at www.BensonsLife.com (the or this "Website") and all of the content, applications and services offered from time to time by, on or through the Website (collectively the Website and all of its content, applications and services offered from time to time are referred to herein as the "Services"). BensonsLife created this Privacy Policy in order to ensure the confidence of users ("you" or "your") of the Website and Services, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and the protection of your privacy. In addition to complying with this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement, you agree to comply with any and all applicable laws with respect to your use of the Services.
BensonsLife is a place for you to safely and securely share your life with those who you so choose. You may choose to not share your content with anyone, share with your immediate family, your extended family, all of your friends or all registered users of the Website – the choice is yours. BensonsLife has built in features that give you complete control over that choice: your security and your content sharing settings on BensonsLife. Other registered Users of BensonsLife that you choose to grant access to your profile information and User Content (defined below) are part of your "Circle" on BensonsLife.
- Your acceptance of a BensonsLife registered User into your Circle of Friends identifies with whom you would like to share personal profile information and your User Content (as defined below). You can easily remove another registered User from your Circle, which will prevent them from viewing any of your personal profile information or User Content. You can also easily add another registered User to your Circle.
- Your privacy settings control what personal profile information and User Content you want shared with those in your Circle. At any time, you can change your privacy settings to share more or less of your personal profile information and User Content.
- You will be able to invite those Users in your Circle to events, and other Users will be able to invite you if you are part of their Circle. Event information is only shared with those who are invited to the event, and you will communicate with other invitees with your registered and real name (i.e. Jane Smith).
- In addition to sharing select personal profile information and User Content with your Circle and inviting those in your Circle to events, you will have the opportunity to participate in communities with other registered Users. If you choose to participate in any community discussions, then all information and content you post to the community will be available to all other registered BensonsLife Users who belong to that community. Communities can be private (meaning a User can only join if he or she is invited by the leader of that particular community) or public (meaning community participation is open to all registered Users of BensonsLife). Participation in communities is purely voluntary, and you can join or terminate your involvement in a community at any time.
- Only registered BensonsLife users will have the ability to view information and content on the Website, and each party's use of the Services, content and information is governed by this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement.
- You have the ability to terminate your account at any time on the account settings page.
By using the Services, you are deemed to consent to our privacy practices set forth in the Privacy Policy as amended from time to time. If you do not consent to these privacy practices, do not use the Services or upload or access any materials from it. BensonsLife may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time and will inform you and other Users by posting the changed Policy to the Website. The amendments will be effective immediately upon posting the changes to this Website. By using any of the Services after any amendment is posted to the Website, you agree to be bound by the amendments to this Privacy Policy. You should review the Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure that your use is in compliance with the Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY AMENDMENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CEASE USE OF THE WEBSITE AND TERMINATE YOUR USER ACCOUNT.
- Traffic Data Collected. We track and collect the following general and non-personal information when you visit our Website, including your: (i) IP address; (ii) origin of the search that led you to the Website (i.e. how you got to the Website – was it by a www.google.com search, by direct navigation, etc.); (iii) connection speed; and (iv) type of web browser (collectively "Traffic Data").
- Registration Information Collected. In order for you to access any Services that we offer via the Website, we require you to register as a user of the Website (Registered users of the Services are sometimes referred to herein individually as a "User" and collectively as the "Users") and provide us with certain registration information that personally identifies you ("Registration Information"). Registration Information includes your name, email address, screen name and password and password confirmation information.
- Use of Cookies. BensonsLife requires the use of cookies. Cookies are small text files a website can use to recognize a repeat visitor to the website. We use cookies for various reasons. Cookies enable us to provide you with a better experience by allowing us to understand what areas of this Website and Services are of interest to our users. These cookies do not track personally identifiable information about you and are only used by BensonsLife at an aggregate level to track general trends about use of the Website and Services by all registered Users. Cookies from BensonsLife can only be read by BensonsLife and the Website. If you do not want BensonsLife to deploy cookies in your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie in your browser software. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you can still access most of this Website; however, your ability to use some of this Website may be affected such as the "Remember Me" feature included on the User log in page.
Traffic Data is anonymous information that does not personally identify you but is helpful for marketing purposes or for improving your experience on the Website. We use Traffic Data to collect information at an aggregate level about the visiting and use of our Website and to make the use of our Services more enjoyable to our users.
We do not sell your email address or any other Registration Information to third party marketers. We share your Registration Information with third parties only on a limited basis: (1) when reasonably necessary to offer you the Services or to notify you about changes to the Services, this Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement, (2) to send you newsletters or other BensonsLife communications or promotional materials if you have not opted out of receiving such information (You can always choose the "opt-out" option in your account settings under the "Notifications" tab.), (3) when specifically authorized by you or (4) when BensonsLife in good faith believes such disclosure is legally required.
Subject to this Privacy Policy and the Terns and Conditions of Use Agreement, you and other registered Users of the Services are permitted to upload personal profile information (i.e. your birthday, hometown, etc.), photographs, videos, content, text and other information (collectively referred to as the " User Content ") to the Website, and the Website will host, display and share the User Content with those other registered Users that you choose and designate. Only members of your Circle will have access to your personal page(s), and you have the ability to add or remove friends and family from your Circle at any time. In your account and privacy settings, you will have the ability to choose which User Content is shared with your Circle. Any User invited by you and admitted to your Circle will see and communicate with you by your registered and real name (i.e. Jane Smith), and your personal profile information, pictures, comments and any other User Content on your personal page(s). In addition to sharing your personal page(s) with your Circle, you will have the ability to participate with other registered Users of the Services in community discussions to the extent that the other Users belong to the community. As previously summarized, communities can be public or private. When you participate in any of those community discussions, other Users that are part of the community will see and communicate with you by your screen name (i.e. JanetheMom) in public communities and your registered and real name (i.e. Jane Smith) in private communitiecommunities, and they will only see the User Content you upload to any community page(s).
Your User Content will only be shared by bensonslife with those other registered users you INVITE AND ADMIT into your Circle; provided, however, that if you post any user content on a community or community discussion on the website, then that user content will be available to all other bensonslife registered users who have joined that community. YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO ADD OR DELETE USERS FROM YOUR CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AT ANY TIME. In addition, you can change or remove any user content that will be shared with your Circle IN YOUR ACCOUNT and privacy SETTINGS AT ANY TIME. IN ADDITION, YOU CAN REMOVE ANY OF YOUR USER CONTENT OR POSTINGS FROM A GROUP PAGE. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement, BensonsLife may share your User Content to the extent BensonsLife in good faith determines such disclosure is required by applicable law, regulation or an order of a governmental body.
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement, we will keep your Registration Information and User Content private and will not share it with other persons, businesses or entities including third party marketers, unless such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with a law or based upon the good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to comply with a law; (b) protect our rights or property; or (c) enforce this Privacy Policy, the Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement, or any Code of Conduct or other policies or guidelines adopted by BensonsLife and posted on the Website from time to time. BensonsLife is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your Registration Information and User Content. BensonsLife uses commercially reasonable security technologies to help protect your Registration Information and User Content from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. However, the use of such security technologies by BensonsLife is not, and shall not be considered to be, any type of guarantee or warranty by BensonsLife that the Registration Information or User Content will not be accessed or compromised by unauthorized third parties, or that BensonsLife will use all available security technologies to prevent unauthorized access to, use or disclosure of your Registration Information or User Content.
In order to ensure that all of your Registration Information is correct and up-to-date, at any time you may log in to view or modify your Registration Information at www.BensonsLife.com/account/settings. You agree to promptly notify BensonsLife of any changes to your Registration Information.
When you register with this Website, in addition to providing your real name (i.e. Jane Smith) you will create a screen name (i.e. JanetheMom) and password that will allow you to access the Services. Other Users you have admitted to your Circle or other Users that participate with you in a private community (which includes only Users invited by the community leader) will communicate with you by your real name; Registered Users that you have not admitted into your Circle that participate with you in a public community (which includes any registered User that joins the community) will communicate and interact with you in community discussions by your screen name. As a result, do not include any inappropriate or personally identifying information (except for possibly your first name) in your screen name. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your screen name and password. You shall be responsible for all uses of your screen name and password, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your screen name and password. You must promptly notify us if your password is used without your permission. In such an event, you will need to provide us a new password and password confirmation information. You can also change your password at any time at www.BensonsLife.com/account/settings.
If you choose to use our referral service to invite a friend to join BensonsLife, we will ask you for your friend's first name (last name is optional) and email address. We will then send your friend a one-time email invitation to join as a user of the Website. BensonsLife stores your friend's name and email address solely for purposes of sending the invitation and tracking the success of your referral invitations.
The Website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy and practices and terms of sites linked to or from BensonsLife. This Privacy Policy solely relates to information collected by BensonsLife on this Website. We also may have third-party advertisements appear on the Website. These third-party advertisers may use cookies or similar technologies to help present the advertisements to you or to help measure the effectiveness of their advertisements. The use of such technologies is subject to the privacy policies of the third-party advertisers and is not covered by this Privacy Policy. As a result, if you respond to any such third-party advertisers by clicking on the advertisements and/or visiting their websites or the websites of any other third party, be sure you evaluate their privacy policies before providing them any of your personal information.
We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or modify this Privacy Policy, by posting such change, update or modification on the Website. In general, we will try to send out a notification to Users that the Policy has changed. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Website. To review other applicable terms and conditions that apply to this Privacy Policy, including, without limitation, intellectual property rights, disclaimer of warranties, limitation of liability, and the required procedure for resolving disputes, please review the Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement.
BensonsLife takes compliance with children online privacy laws seriously. By using and/or visiting the Website, you are representing and warranting to BensonsLife that you (a) are 18 years of age or older, an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent and (b) that you are fully able and competent to enter into and abide by this Privacy Policy.
Notwithstanding the previous paragraph, you affirm that you are over the age of 13. Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 13 DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE OR SERVICES. BensonsLife does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 and this Website is not directed to children under the age of 13. If you know of someone registered and using the Services who is under the age of 13, please notify us immediately at legal@BensonsLife.com. If BensonsLife is informed that anyone under the age of 13 is using the Services, his or her screen name and password will be cancelled and all of his or her information will be deleted from the Website as soon as practical.
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to privacy@BensonsLife.com.