Last Updated: December 1, 2009

Your privacy is very important to us. Pickv.com, owned and operated by Pickvee, Inc. (we, us, or Pickv.com), respects the privacy of our users and their information. We created this Privacy Policy to help you in learning about and understanding how we gather, collect, and use the personal information that you provide to us. Your use of the Website (as defined in the Terms of Use Agreement), including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this privacy statement and the applicable Terms of Use Agreement. BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE APPLICABLE TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT.

People Under the Age of 18

Pickv.com is for people 18 years of age or older. We do not, with knowledge, collect, keep, or maintain personal information on the Website from people under the age of 18. The Website, in part and in whole, is not directed toward people under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, then we ask that you please do not access, visit, or use the Website or the Services in any manner or at any time. If it is brought to our attention that personal information for people under 18 years of age is on the Website, then Pickv.com will take the necessary and appropriate steps to delete this information.

Children's privacy

We do not, with knowledge, collect, keep, or maintain personal information on the Website from children under the age of 13. Our Website is for people 18 years of age or older.

The Information We Collect About You

When you register for the Website, we collect user entered and submitted information that can identify you such as email address, photographs, and age. We also collect other non-personal information from any visitor of the Website (regardless of whether such user is a registered Member); this information includes, but is not limited to: favorites, interests, gender, relationship status, activities, username, and location. Pickv.com also may automatically log information including: IP address, browser type, browser language, visit time, referring website adresses, profile information, aggregated user data, and cookie information. This information and data we collect is used to manage and maintain the Website, track usage, improve the Website, and prevent click fraud. User IP addresses are collected and recorded for monitoring and security purposes. We may use standard online technologies, such as tracking pixels or cookies, to track your use of Pickv.com. We may also include tracking pixels and web beacons in advertisements or promotions. The information we may collect from tracking pixels and web beacons enables us to custom tailor the Website, our services, and advertisements; it also allows us to measure the general effectiveness of the content on Pickv.com, our advertising, and other activities. Non-personally-identifiable and aggregated information may be shared with third parties. These third parties might include, but are not limited to, advisors, advertisers, partners, and investors. We may also use this non-personally-identifiable and aggregated information to provide advertisements to our users, and to provide more effective services overall. We may also allow for third-parties, including but not limited to advertising companies, to show advertisements on our Website. Advertising companies and other third-parties may use their own tracking technologies (such as cookies) to gather and collect information about users or Members who view, interact, or engage with their advertisements or promotions. We also reserve the right to share your information, personal or non-personal, with authorized service providers that may perform specific services or processes on our behalf. Such services may include, but are not limited to, customer service, customer support, and marketing, business, sales, or promotional contest assistance offered through our Website or Service. When you actively choose to engage with contests, links to other external sites, surveys, sweepstakes, services, products, or promotions through our Website or Service, we may share your information, personal or non-personal with the businesses that we work with or partner with to run such activities or features. When you actively choose to engage with a business's, partner's, or merchant's contest, survey, sweepstakes, service, product, promotion, or program, you are authorizing us to provide your e-mail address and other information to that entity. Any third parties that we may disclose or share your personal information with may have their own privacy policies which detail how they use, share, and disclose your personal information. In those situations, those policies will govern the use, sharing, and disclosure of your personal information once we have shared it with them as per this Privacy Policy. We suggest that you learn more about their privacy procedures by visiting the websites of those third parties. Those third-party websites (and their servers) may or may not be based in the United States. Pickv.com may also publicly display and use user submitted photographs to the Website in any way including, but not limited to, advertising or promotions of our products and services. We may also use your user provided e-mail address to contact you with regard to promotions, unless you have chosen to opt out of receiving e-mail promotions on the Settings page. We do not have control over who reads the information or content that you have posted to public areas of the Website. We do not have control over what others may do with the information that you have posted to public areas of the Website. Therefore, we encourage you to take caution and discretion with respect to your own personal information.

Our authorized employees only may be permitted to access personal information, but this is only when necessary for permitted business functions and processes.

The Information We Collect About Others

We may also collect information about other people that you entrust to us. This information includes, but is not limited, e-mail address, address, and name. We may store this information to process requests, including but not limited to, invitations to join the Website, referrals and sending gifts to others.

Additional Situations in Which We May Disclose Your Information

We may also disclose your personal information:

• In response to a subpoena, court order, investigative demand, or request for cooperation by law enforcement, legal authorities, or government agencies; to enforce our Terms of Use Agreement or policies; to defend ourselves against legal claims, or exercise our legal rights; to prevent, investigate, or take action against illegal activity, fraud, suspected fraud, or violation of the PickV.com Terms of Use Agreement; to defend our employees, our company, our safety, or our users; in connection with the sale of our business, a merger, acquisition, consolidation, proprietary information sale, asset sale or large corporate transaction; or in the event of our filing for bankruptcy.

Measures We Take to Protect Your Personal Information

We want to help you to feel comfortable and confident using Pickv.com. We take necessary and appropriate measures to keep your security. These methods may include, but are not limited to, physical, electronic, and procedural. In reality, however, no system can be completely secure. Even though we take effort to secure your information, we do not guarantee or promise, that your searches, communications, or personal information will always remain safe and secure. You should avoid sending personal information through methods that might not be safe, like insecure e-mail.

Choice/Opt-Out

You may use the following options for removing your information from our e-mail database if you wish to opt out of receiving promotional e-mails and newsletters.

Send mail to the following postal address letting us know which promotional e-mails you wish to opt-out of:

PickVee, Inc.
235 E. 3rd Ave #205
San Mateo, CA 94401

For any services that allow you to control which e-mails you receive, go to the settings page from your account, and un-check the undesired promotions.

Updating Your Information

We provide users the following options for changing and modifying information previously submitted:

For any services where you have an account, you may change your credit card (if applicable), e-mail address, password and other information from the Settings page; or

You can send mail to the postal address listed below, providing us with your account information and letting us know which information you wish to update.

PickVee, Inc.
235 E. 3rd Ave #205
San Mateo, CA 94401

Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Website, or your dealings with the Website, you can contact:

Website Administrator
PickVee, Inc.
235 E. 3rd Ave #205
San Mateo, CA 94401
support@pickv.com

Closing Your Account

At any time, if you have a Member account with us, you may choose to close your account by visiting the Settings page. If you close your account, you will not be able to sign back in to our Website, or access any of the personal information that you provided. Pickv.com has public areas where you can choose to post information about yourself and post photographs. Such postings on our Website are governed by our Terms of Use. After you close your Member account with us, any postings you made in the public areas of the Website may still appear on other external Websites or in searches related to the subject of your posted content.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will make changes to this Privacy Policy occasionally, and at our discretion. Future changes to this Privacy Policy will reflect changes in our practices and and services. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If there are changes made to the manner in which we gather, collect, or share your personal information, we will make it known by notifying you through email and/or posting a notice of an updated Privacy Policy on the Pickv.com Website. We suggest that you visit our Privacy Policy periodically to make yourself aware of any changes made to it.