Privacy Policy
Last Updated: April 25, 2006
At JibJab Media Inc. ("JibJab"), we respect your right to privacy and we understand that members and visitors to JibJab need to control the uses of their personal information. The privacy policy below details the measures taken by JibJab to protect your privacy in connection with your use of JibJab.com. However, JibJab's service is designed to allow users to post photographs and information about themselves for public review and comment. Accordingly, by submitting your photograph and/or any personal information, you thereby waive any privacy expectations you have with respect to our use of your likeness or personal information provided to us. If you do not wish to have your picture or information about yourself viewed by or disclosed to others, do not use our Service.
JibJab also allows our members to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends. JibJab 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. JibJab members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them to our Privacy Statement, linkable from any page on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. Please re-read it often in connection with your use of the JibJab Sites. JibJab cares deeply about online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at support@jibjab.net.
Information Collection and Use
JibJab collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age (except with respect to any information submitted by any individuals thirteen years of age or younger, which information JibJab does not solicit, accept or retain) to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the JibJab service. JibJab also collects other 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 and making content recommendation.
JibJab also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes
User Profile information including members' pictures and usernames are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in JibJab's social networking community. Email addresses are primarily used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join JibJab, 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 JibJab with each other through the JibJab 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, JibJab 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.
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 communication of this type by changing their "Email Preferences" settings in the user "Account Settings".
From time to time, JibJab or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on the JibJab Site(s). Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
Use of Cookies
JibJab uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from JibJab in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that JibJab allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the JibJab Privacy Policy.
Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
JibJab members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. JibJab stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friends list of the member sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations. JibJab also stores names and email addresses provided by members when they forward e-mails (together with any content contained therein) from their friends to their "JokeBox" account solely for the convenience of that member in communicating with his/her friends in the future. JibJab does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations initiated by the member and invitation reminders initiated by JibJab (one (1) per email address). Recipients of invitations from JibJab may contact JibJab to request the removal of their information from our database by clicking on the "Opt-Out" Link at the bottom of our emails. JibJab members may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal JibJab address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.
You may prevent JibJab email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by sending an email request to support@jibjab.net or click here to get to our "Opt-Out" page on the site. Please note that the email must come from the account you wish to block.
Third Party Advertising
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by JibJab or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by JibJab and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Agents
We use a third party company to pack and ship products ordered in the JibJab online store. Our fulfillment company has access to your full name and shipping address to complete this transaction but does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Service Providers
We use Yahoo Small Business Merchant Services to host our Store. When you click on the Store Link on our site, you will be directed to a JibJab area that is hosted by Yahoo Store. Yahoo Store directly handles all JibJab order processing. You will be asked to enter your First Name, Last Name, Credit Card Information, Billing and Shipping Address as necessary for Yahoo Store to complete your transaction. JibJab does not store any of our users Credit Cards information in our database.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose other than providing the above-described contracted services.
Links
JibJab contains links to third-party sites. JibJab is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on the JibJab Site(s).
Public Communication
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information on the JibJab Site(s) that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
JibJab users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as "My Profile" and "Account Settings".
Email Choice/Opt-out
Members may choose to no longer receive updates or notifications by managing their email preferences; in the user profile 'Account Settings'. All notification emails and JibJab newsletters include instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future.
Security
JibJab member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. JibJab takes precautions to ensure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time. For any additional information about the security measures we use on JibJab, please contact us at: support@jibjab.net.
Sharing and Disclosure of Information JibJab Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, JibJab will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by JibJab, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the JibJab Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. JibJab reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of JibJab or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. Your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via e-mail of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information. For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them to our Privacy Statement, linkable from any page on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site home page for 30 days.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at: support@jibjab.net (or via mail: JibJab Media Inc., Attn: Privacy Department, 405 North Roxbury Dr., 8th Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90210).
California Privacy Rights
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of JibJab Media Inc. who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to support@JibJab.com or write us at: JibJab Media Inc., Att: Privacy Dept., PO Box 5356, Santa Monica, CA, 90405
