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Building Happiness Privacy Policy and Copyright Terms

By accepting membership in Building Happiness you hereby acknowledge all Copyright and Privacy laws pertaining to content effective November 7, 2009.

Building Happiness provides this Privacy Policy to inform users of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information received from users of this website, located at www.BuildingHappiness.net ("Site" ) or collected through our social networking service, including via SMS, WAP and Instant Messaging ("Service" ). This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason; each version will apply to information collected while it was in place. We will notify you of any material changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy on our Site. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.

By using our Site you are consenting to our processing of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy now and as amended by us. "Processing" means using cookies on a computer or using or touching information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining and disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in the United States. If you reside outside the U.S. your personally identifiable information will be transferred to the U.S., and processed and stored there under U.S. privacy standards. By visiting our Site and providing information to us, you consent to such transfer to, and processing in, the US.

 

Information Collection and Use

Our primary goals in collecting personally identifiable information are to provide you with the product and services made available through the Site, including, but not limited, to the Service, to communicate with you, and to manage your registered user account, if you have one.

Information Collected Upon Registration. If you desire to have access to certain restricted sections of the Site, you will be required to become a registered user, and to submit certain personally identifiable information to Building Happiness. This happens in a number of instances, such as when you sign up for the Service, or if you desire to receive marketing materials and information. Personally identifiable information that we may collect in such instances may include your IP address, full user name, password, email address, city, time zone, telephone number, and other information that you decide to provide us with, or that you decide to include in your public profile.

Additional Information Your full user name and your photo, if you decide to upload one, are displayed to people in the Building Happiness network to enable you to connect with people on Building Happiness, as specified in your privacy settings. Once a member, you may provide additional information in the profile section, 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 friends and opportunities in the Building Happiness system. If you activate the mobile phone options per the Terms of Service at www.BuildingHappiness.net/tos, we will collect your cellular phone number account information. You will receive notifications on your cellular phone account in a number of cases, such as when a Building Happiness member adds you as a friend or sends you a message. If you contact us by email 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 our 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.

Log Data When you visit the Site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website ("Log Data" ). This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type or the domain from which you are visiting, the web-pages you visit, the search terms you use, and any advertisements on which you click. For most users accessing the Internet from an Internet service provider the IP address will be different every time you log on. We use Log Data to monitor the use of the Site and of our Service, and for the Site"™s technical administration. We do not associate your IP address with any other personally identifiable information to identify you personally, except in case of violation of the Terms of Service

 

Cookies

Like many websites, we also use "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve the Site and our service. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer"™s hard disk. We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information. Twitter may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with the Site and our Service, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on the Site, and to improve the Site and our services. A session cookie enables certain features of the Site and our service and is deleted from your computer when you disconnect from or leave the Site. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.

 

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Service Providers We 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.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement Building Happiness cooperates with government and law enforcement officials or private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of BuildingHappiness or a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.

Business Transfers Building Happiness may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your personally identifiable information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy. You will have the opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if the new entity's planned processing of your information differs materially from that set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Member Submissions

All submissions by members in the form of Ariticles, Stories, and Photos remain the property and ownship of the member, however Building Happines reserves the rights to retain said Aritcles, Stories, and Photos for exclusive use on the Building Happiness website to maintain the integrity of the website and or for current or future promotion of the website. Building Happiness will not sell or redistribute member material to any third party corporate, Internet or web concern without the expressed written consent by the member.

 

Changing or Deleting Information

If you are a registered user of the Site, you may request changes or updates to the site by email. Please contact our editor at MrThomas@buildinghappiness.net

 

Security

Building Happiness is very concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. We employ administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access.

We will make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored personal data to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Site in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.

 

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, please contact us at info@buildinghappiness.net

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 files.

 

 

 

Copyright Terms

By accepting membership in Building Happiness you hereby acknowledge all copyright laws pertaining to content and iCOPYRIGHT NOTICE 

Copyright ©2009

Ownership of copyright

 The copyright in this website and the material on this website (including without limitation the text, computer code, artwork, photographs, images, music, audio material, video material and audio-visual material on this website) is owned by BuildingHappiness.net heretofore referred to as BH.net

 Copyright license

BH.net grants to you a worldwide non-exclusive royalty-free revocable license to:

1. View this website and the material on this website on a computer or mobile device via a web browser.

2. Copy and store this website location and the material on this website in your web browser cache memory as favorites or bookmark.

3. Print pages from this website for your own [personal and non-commercial] use, exclusively without intent to redistribute any content.

Building Happiness, BH.net does not grant you any other rights in relation to this website or the material on this website.   In other words, all other rights are reserved.

For the avoidance of doubt, you must not adapt, edit, change, transform, publish, republish, distribute, redistribute, broadcast, rebroadcast or show or play in public this website or the material on this website (in any form or media) without BH.net's prior written permission.  

Data mining:  The automated and/or systematic collection of data from this website is prohibited.

Permissions:  You may request permission to use the copyright materials on this website by emailing MsPearl@BuildingHappiness.net  or  MrThomas@BuildingHappiness.net

 Enforcement of copyright

BH.net takes the protection of its copyright very seriously and will pursue any and all legal remedies available under copyright infringement law.

 

If BH.net discovers that you have used its copyright materials in contravention of the license above, BH.net may bring legal proceedings against you seeking monetary damages and an injunction to stop you using those materials.  You could also be ordered to pay legal costs.

 

If you become aware of any use of BH.net's copyright materials that contravenes or may contravene the license above, please report this by email to MsPearl@BuildingHappiness.net  or  MrThomas@BuildingHappiness.net

Infringing material

 If you become aware of any material on the website that you believe infringes your or any other person's copyright, please report this by email to MsPearl@BuildingHappiness.net  or  MrThomas@BuildingHappiness.net

This copyright notice

 This copyright notice and it's modifications by BH.net is based on a precedent created by website-contracts.co.uk and published by freenetlaw.com