Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

GiftVibe is founded on the principles of helping you become the most amazing gifter you were destined to be. Some of the ways we do this is by helping you discover the gifts desired by the people in your network, provide and solicit social recommendations from your network and, by making it super-easy for you to act on all this knowledge!

We build products and services that we use ourselves, so we’re just as concerned about how our personal information is used and shared, if not more. Below are some highlights and some boring legalese about the information we may gather and how it may be used.

Highlights:

• We’ll never disclose your email address or physical address to any third-parties without your explicit permission.
• We may send you email notifications about upcoming events and dates in your network - based on your profile settings. From time to time, we may send important emails to all our users.
• We gather your profile information and some info on the people in your network who you wish to connect with on GiftVibe.
• We may gather information to make your GiftVibe experience better and more customized and personalized to your liking in order to make it more useful for you.
• We will never post anything on your behalf, to your social networks without your permission. (But we most definitely may @tag you in our posts and send you lots of love!)
• Your use of GiftVibe implies your understanding and acceptance of the policies outlined below and in our Terms of Use.

Information we may receive:

Information You Give Us:

• We receive and may store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way.
• You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features.
• We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future website experience for you, improving our digital properties and other points of contact with you, and communicating with you.

Automatic Information:

• We and/or our authorized entities receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses GiftVibe.com or advertisements and/or other content served by or on behalf of GiftVibe.com on other Web sites.

Mobile:

• When you download or use apps created by GiftVibe or our subsidiaries or partners acting in the interests of GiftVibe, we may receive information about your location and your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device. We may use this information to provide you with location-based services, such as advertising, relevant promotions, important news or information, search results, and other personalized content.

E-mail Communications:

• To help us make emails more useful, relevant and interesting, we may often receive a confirmation when you open, click and/or interact with the content within an e-mail from GiftVibe, if your device supports such capabilities.
• We may also compare our customer list to lists received from other companies and organizations, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary or irrelevant messages to our users.

Information from other Social Networks:

• We may receive information about you and others in your network when you signup or login to our sites and apps using other social networks or services.
• We may gather this information to help improve your GiftVibe experience. For example, we may be able to suggest gifts for your loved ones based on their online activities, likes/dislikes and other trends, we may be able to remind you of important upcoming dates etc. Please note that all information you post to other networks or services are also subject to the privacy policies and terms of use of those respective services.

Information from Other Sources:

• We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our knowledge about you, in order to improve the app experience for you. Sometimes we may get data from our affiliates and/or our advertising partners, business clients, entities we do business or consult with and other third parties that help us (or them) deliver ads, understand online activity, and generally make GiftVibe better.
• We may also receive information about you from people who may know you, such as when they upload your contact information, photos or other details about you.
• We receive data when you leave our site or app to go to another site (for example when you follow a link to purchase a gift for someone)

Browser extension and other browser-based tools:

• These, when installed, may receive and send us information about your browsing activities, trends, preferences and history in order to make it easy for you to interact with and use GiftVibe. For example, when purchasing products from a random website ‘W’, our extension may suggest and/or show other products or gifts that people in your network have added from that same store, in order to help you plan better and make your gifting experience more efficient. The extension may also suggest coupons or discounts that you may be able to apply to your purchase.

How do we use this information.

• To improve your experience and interaction with our app and other points-of-contact and to serve you with a customized, personalized user experience, including but not limited to location-based services and interest-based communications.
• To notify you of upcoming dates, events and celebrations within your network so you can plan better and always be the best gifter!
• To improve your online shopping experience by integrating ways to help you save money.
• We may share aggregate, anonymized versions of this data (after removing Personally-Identifiable Information) with our business partners, clients, associates, affiliates, subsidiaries, parent companies, partnered organizations and agencies, entities we may contract or consult with, in order to help improve GiftVibe and serve you better.
• This aggregated and anonymized version of your data may also be used in marketing materials, promotional campaigns and communications, mass-media communications and campaigns, knowledge sharing, for analyzing market trends, and any other business-related activities.
• For internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, development and service improvement.
• As parts of our efforts to continuously ensure the safety and security of our products, services, integrations and systems.
• In an effort to protect the property or rights of GiftVibe and/or other associated entities.
• To make service suggestions and recommendations to you and other users on GiftVibe

Data:

• You have the right to close your account with GiftVibe. When you request us to delete your account, all personal account details and personally identifiable information is also deleted (complete deletion of your information from all our backup systems may take up to one month). However, we may retain anonymized, aggregate-level information about usage patterns and trends related to user accounts in order to help improve our service.

How do we protect users’ information.

• Being a privacy- and security-oriented company, we value our users’ privacy and will try to do everything we can to prevent any mishandling of our users’ personal information.

Information that may always be public:

• Primary attributes of your profile, such as your name, any profile image(s), gender, city/state etc may be searchable by search engines and/or other users who may or may not be logged in to GiftVibe or be directly connected to you. However, your lists, products you add to those lists, your preferences and purchases will never be made public by default.