Privacy


Haitianlink's Privacy Policy

  • Haitianlink.com is designed to make it easy and fun for you to stay in contact and share your pictures and videos with your friends. You always should also consider your settings whenever you share information. How much information you share while using Haitianlink.com is entirely up to you.
  • Haitianlink.com is a free service supported primarily by advertising. We will not share your information with advertisers without your consent. We allow advertisers to select characteristics of users they want to show their advertisements to and we use the information we have collected to serve those advertisements.


This policy contains eight sections:


1. Introduction

By using or accessing Haitianlink, you agree to our privacy practices outlined here.

No information from children under age 13.
If you are under age 13, please do not attempt to register for Haitianlink or provide any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 13, please contact us through this contact  page.

Parental participation.
We strongly recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices. Materials to help parents talk to their children about safe internet use can be found on this contact page.

Personal information.
When you sign up with Haitianlink.com you provide us with your name, email, gender, and birth date. During the registration process we give you the opportunity to provide additional profile information, such as where you went to school and where you work, and to add a picture of yourself, to help your friends connect with you. In some cases we may ask for additional information for security reasons or to provide specific services to you. Once you register you can visit your profile at any time to add or remove personal information about yourself. You can add basic information about yourself, such as information about your hometown, family, relationships, and your political and religious views. You can also add other information about yourself including your activities, interests, contact information, as well as more information about your education and job history.

Content.
One of the primary reasons people use Haitianlink is to communicate and share content with friends. Examples include when you update your status, upload or take a photo, upload or record a video, share a link, create an event or a group, make a comment, send someone a message. If you do not want us to store metadata associated with content you share on Haitianlink (such as photos), please remove the metadata before uploading the content.

Location Information.
When you share your location with others or add a location to something you post, we treat that like any other content you post (for example, it is subject to your privacy settings). If we offer a service that supports this type of location sharing we will present you with an opt-in choice of whether you want to participate.

Site activity information.
We keep track of the actions you take on Haitianlink, such as adding a friend, becoming a fan of a Haitianlink Page, joining a group or an event, creating a photo album, attending an event. In some cases you are also taking an action when you provide information or content to us. For example, if you share a video, in addition to storing the actual content you uploaded, we might log the fact you shared it.

Cookie Information.
We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer such as usernamne to make Haitianlink easier to use, to make our advertising better, and to protect both you and Haitianlink. For example, we use them to store your login ID (but never your password) to make it easier for you to login whenever you come back to Haitianlink. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into Haitianlink, and to know when you are interacting with Haitianlink Platform applications and websites, our widgets and Share buttons, and our advertisements. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use Haitianlink.

Advertisements.
Sometimes the advertisers who present ads on Haitianlink use technological methods to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. You may opt-out of the placement of cookies by many of these advertisers here. You may also use your browser cookie settings to limit or prevent the placement of cookies by advertising networks.

Links.
When you click on links on Haitianlink you may leave our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, and we encourage you to read their privacy statements.


2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and customized experience. Here are some of the details on how we do that:

To manage the service.
We use the information we collect to provide our services and features to you, to measure and improve those services and features, and to provide you with customer support. We use the information to prevent potentially illegal activities, and to enforce our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. For example, we ask for your date of birth to verify that you are over age 13 and so that we can better limit your access to content and advertisements that are not age appropriate. We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous activity and screen content to prevent abuse such as spam. These efforts may on occasion result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users.

To contact you.
We may contact you with service-related announcements from time to time. You may opt out of all communications except essential updates on your account notifications page. We may include content you see on Haitianlink in the emails we send to you.

To serve personalized advertising to you. We don’t share your information with advertisers without your consent. (An example of consent would be if you asked us to provide your shipping address to an advertiser to receive a free sample.) We allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements and we may use any of the non-personally identifiable attributes we have collected (including information you may have decided not to show to other users, such as your birth year or other sensitive personal information or preferences) to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. For example, we might use your interest in soccer to show you ads for soccer equipment, but we do not tell the soccer equipment company who you are. You can see the criteria advertisers may select by visiting our advertising page. Even though we do not share your information with advertisers without your consent, when you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement there is a possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and note that it meets the criteria they selected.

To make Suggestions.
We use your profile information, the addresses you import through our contact importers, and other relevant information, to help you connect with your friends, including making suggestions to you and other users that you connect with on Haitianlink. If you want to limit your visibility in suggestions we make to other people, you can adjust your search visibility privacy setting, as you will only be visible in our suggestions to the extent you choose to be visible in public search listings. You may also block specific individual users from being suggested to you and you from being suggested to them.

Memorializing Accounts. If we are notified that a user is deceased, we may memorialize the user’s account. In such cases we restrict profile access to confirmed friends. We may close an account if we receive a formal request from the user’s next of kin or other proper legal request to do so.

  • 3. How We Share Information

    Haitianlink is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your networks — while providing you with privacy settings that you can use to restrict other users from accessing your information. We share your information with third parties when we believe the sharing is permitted by you, reasonably necessary to offer our services, or when legally required to do so. For example:

    To help your friends find you.
  • By default, we make certain information you have posted to your profile available in search results on Haitianlink to help your friends find you. However, you can control who has access to this information, as well as who can find you in searches, through your privacy settings. We also partner with email and instant messaging providers to help their users identify which of their contacts are Haitianlink users, so that we can promote Haitianlink to those users.

    To help improve or promote our service.
  • Sometimes we share aggregated information with third parties to help improve or promote our service. But we only do so in such a way that no individual user can be identified or linked to any specific action or information.

    To provide you with services.
  • We may provide information to service providers that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use third parties to help host our website, send out email updates about Haitianlink, remove repetitive information from our user lists, process payments, or provide search results or links (including sponsored links). These service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to limit their use of that information to helping us provide the service.

    To advertise our services.
  • We may ask advertisers outside of Haitianlink to display ads promoting our services. We may ask them to deliver those ads based on the presence of a cookie, but in doing so will not share any other information with the advertiser.

    To respond to legal requests and prevent harm.
  • We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law. This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, apply to users from that jurisdiction, and are consistent with generally accepted international standards. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.

    Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control.
  • If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner so that the service can continue to operate. In such a case, your information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

  • Steps we take to keep your information secure.
    Risks inherent in sharing information. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you share your information. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your information. We cannot ensure that information you share on Haitianlink will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on Haitianlink. You can reduce these risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a strong password, using different passwords for different services, and using up to date antivirus software.

    Report Violations. You should report any security violations to us on this contact page.

  • 5. Other Terms

    Changes. We may change this Privacy Policy pursuant to the procedures outlined in the Haitianlink Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by publication here and on the Haitianlink privacy Page. You can make sure that you receive notice directly by becoming a fan of the Haitianlink Site Privacy Page.