As used herein, “Site” refers to makeyouhappen.com. The Site takes your privacy seriously. Earning and maintaining your trust is important to us. We want you to understand what information we gather from you, how this information is used and protected, and what choices you have about how your information is used. This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices of makeyouhappen.com website and its affiliates. By using the website, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by the Site.

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, and therefore encourage you to revisit this page periodically or when you notice new features on the website. Your use of the Site after periodic changes means that you accept these changes or updates.

Site is an online service that allows our members to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends. Site members can view each others' profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service, share photos, post journals and comments, and describe their interests. To enrich our members' experience, we request and display some personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. Site members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.

Site collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Site service. Site also collects other profile 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.

User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the Site social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Site, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network Users within a personal network communicate on Site with each other through the Site service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, Site allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where users may have attended or worked. Site users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features under Your Profile.

We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their “Email Preferences” setting.

Please know that any information (including personal and health-related information) you reveal in a Website public forum (such as a message boards, online meetings, posting, chat room/event, or similar electronic public venues) is not protected by this Privacy Policy. Such postings will be seen by Website members and/or guests and third parties not related to the Site. What you write could be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. Also, if you access a third party website from a link on the Website, any information you reveal on that site is not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should consult the privacy policy of each website you visit.

We (both directly and through our affiliate parties) collect personally identifying information when you register for any online services throughout the Site. This personally identifiable information may include your personal information that you have submitted to participate for any online services throughout the Site. We may also collect nonpersonally-identifiable information (such as your IP address or domain, anonymous user usage data, cookies, browser type, clickstream data, or about your use of the Site) both directly and through our affiliates, including through the use of Web beacons, for purposes of site administration and to compile aggregate information about usage of the Site. We may use cookies, a small text file stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes, on our website to determine the number of unique visitors, to personalize your online experience, to identify returning visitors, and to provide you with advertisements and messages of interest to you. We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit Site; provide custom, personalized content and information; monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.  The Site may link the non-personal information we store in cookies to your personal information. This Privacy Policy covers the use and placement of cookies by the Site and does not cover the use or placement of cookies by any third party. Your browser may be set to reject all cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookie(s), you may be restricted to certain free areas of our Website and will be unable to access areas of the website available to paid members. We may also use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our website. This company may use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Site members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. Site stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations Site does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders (up to three (3) per email address). Recipients of invitations from Site may contact Site to request the removal of their information from our database.

Site members may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal Site address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.
You may prevent Site email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by sending a single email with the subject "BLOCK" to privacy@makeyouhappen.com. Please note that the email must come from the account you wish to block

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Our website and online products and services are not designed for or directed to children under the age of 13. We do not collect personally identifiable information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13. We urge all parents or guardians to participate in their children’s exploration of the internet, and to teach their children about protecting their personal information while online.

You will be asked for your credit card information if you subscribe to any online services throughout the Site and its affiliates that are requiring credit card information. Your credit card information, along with the personal identifying information you submit, is transferred to and used by third party financial institutions to verify the credit card numbers and to authorize the process of the transaction. Be sure to review all privacy policies published by our affiliate party service providers and contact them directly if you have questions as they may have privacy terms that differ from the Site’s Privacy Policy.

The Site has implemented appropriate safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and to make proper use of the information that we collect. However, no transmission of data over the internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. Thus, while we strive to protect your personal information, the Site cannot absolutely guarantee the security of any information you provide to us.

Contact us with Privacy-Related Questions

If you have a complaint or problem, you may email us at privacy@makeyouhappen.com and we will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal service department for a response or resolution. We try to answer every email in a timely manner but are not always able to do so. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or feel that we are not abiding by the terms of our posted Privacy Policy, please contact us in any of the following ways:

Send an email to privacy@makeyouhappen.com

Or, send a letter to:

ATTN: Privacy
Make You Happen
PO Box 820505
Vancouver, WA 98682

By using our website, you signify your acceptance of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you should not use our website. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean that you accept those changes.

Effective Date: This policy was last updated on August 16, 2007