Date of last revision: November 17, 2010.
JoinMuslims.com's privacy policy contains nine sections:
1. Introduction
2. Information We Receive
3. Sharing information on JoinMuslims
4. Information You Share With Third Parties
5. How We Use Your Information
6. How We Share Information
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information
8. How We Protect Information
9. Other Terms
Questions: If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy
policy, contact us through Contact Us page.
Scope: This privacy policy covers all of JM. It does not, however,
apply to entities that JM does not own or control, such as applications and
websites using Platform, by accessing JM.
No information from children: If you are under age 13, please do not
attempt to register for JM 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.
Information you provide to us: Information About Yourself: When you sign
up for JM you provide us with your name, email, gender, and birth date. During
the registration process we give you the opportunity to connect with your
friends. You will also be able to add a picture of yourself. In some cases we
may ask for additional information for security reasons or to provide specific
services to you. Once you register you can provide other information about
yourself by connecting with, for example, your current city, hometown, networks,
activities, interests, and places.
Content: One of the primary reasons people use JM is to share content
with others. Examples include when you update your status, upload or take a
photo, upload or record a video, share a link, create a group, make a comment,
write something on someone’s Wall, write a note, or send someone a message.
Friend Information: We offer contact importer tools to help you upload
your friends’ addresses so that you can find your friends on JM, and invite your
contacts who do not have JM accounts to join. If you give us your password to
retrieve those contacts, we will not store your password after you have uploaded
your contacts’ information.
Information we collect when you interact with JM: Site activity
information. We keep track of some of the actions you take on JM, such as adding
connections (including joining a group or adding a friend), creating a photo
album, sending a gift, indicating you “like” a post, attending an event. In some
cases you are also taking an action when you provide information or content to
us.
Access Device and Browser Information: When you access JM from a
computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that
device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages
you visit.
Cookie Information: We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store
for an extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device)
to make JM easier to use, to make our/our partners advertising better, and to
protect both you and JM. 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 JM. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into JM. You can remove
or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may
impact your ability to use JM.
Name and Profile Picture: JM is designed to make it easy for you to find
and connect with others. For this reason, your name and profile picture do not
have privacy settings. If you are uncomfortable with sharing your profile
picture, you should delete it (or not add one). You can also control who can
find you when searching on JM or on public search engines.
Contact Information. Your contact information settings control (available when
customizing your account settings) who can contact you on JM, and who can see
your contact information such as your email. Remember that nobody can view your
email address if you don’t share it by yourself.
Posts by Me. You can select a privacy setting for every post you make on our
site. Whether you are uploading a photo or posting a status update, you can
control exactly who can see it at the time you create it.
Gender and Birth Date: In addition to name and email address, we require
you to provide your gender and birth date during the registration process. We
ask for your date of birth to verify that you are 13 or older, and so that we
can better limit your access to content that are not age appropriate. Because
your date of birth and gender are required, you cannot delete them. You can,
however, edit your profile to hide all (or part) of such fields from other
users.
Others:
· Some of the content you share and the actions you take will show up on
your friends’ home pages and other pages they visit.
· If another user tags you in a photo or video or at a place, you can
remove the tag.
· Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your
account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent.
· You understand that information might be reshared or copied by other
users.
· Certain types of communications that you send to other users cannot be
removed, such as messages.
· When you post information on another user’s profile or comment on
another user’s post, that information will be subject to the other user’s
privacy settings.
“Everyone” Information: Information set to “everyone” is publicly
available information, just like your name, profile picture, and connections.
Such information may, for example, be accessed by everyone on the Internet
(including people not logged into JM), be indexed by third party search engines,
and be imported, exported, distributed, and redistributed by us and others
without privacy limitations.
Minors: We reserve the right to add special protections for minors
(such as to provide them with an age-appropriate experience) and place
restrictions on the ability of adults to share and connect with minors,
recognizing this may provide minors a more limited and protective experience on
JM.
Exporting Information: You (and those you make your information
available to) may use tools like RSS feeds, mobile phone address book
applications, or copy and paste functions, to capture, export (and in some
cases, import) information from JM, including your information and information
about you. For example, if you share your phone number with your friends, they
may use third party applications to sync that information with the address book
on their mobile phone.
Advertisements: Sometimes the advertisers who present ads on JM use
technological methods to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to
personalize advertising content. You may also use your browser cookie settings
to limit or prevent the placement of cookies by advertising networks. JM does
not share personally identifiable information with advertisers unless we get
your permission.
Links: When you click on links on JM 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.
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. Some 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.
To serve social ads: We occasionally pair advertisements we serve with
relevant information we have about you and your friends to make advertisements
more interesting and more tailored to you and your friends. For example, if you
connect with your favorite band’s page, we may display your name and profile
photo next to an advertisement for that page that is displayed to your friends.
We only share the personally identifiable information visible in the social ad
with the friend who can see the ad. You can opt out of having your information
used in social ads on it.
To supplement your profile: We may use information about you that we
collect from other JM users to supplement your profile (such as when you are
tagged in a photo or mentioned in a status update). In such cases we generally
give you the ability to remove the content (such as allowing you to remove a
photo tag of you).
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 JM. For example, if another user imports the same
email address as you do, we may suggest that you connect with each other. If
you want to limit your visibility in suggestions we make to other people, you
can adjust your search visibility. You may also block specific individual users
from being suggested to you and you from being suggested to them.
To help your friends find you: We allow other users to use contact
information they have about you, such as your email address, to find you,
including through contact importers and search.
JM is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your
communities — while providing you with privacy settings that you can use to
restrict other users from accessing some of your information.
When you invite a friend to join: When you ask us to invite a friend
to join JM, we will send your friend a message on your behalf using your name.
To help your friends find you. By default, we make certain information you have
posted to your profile available in search results on JM to help your friends
find you. However, you can control who can see some of this information, as well
as who can find you in searches, through your privacy settings.
To give search engines access to publicly available information: We
generally limit search engines’ access to our site. We may allow them to access
information set to the “everyone” setting (along with your name and profile
picture) and your profile information that is visible to everyone. You can
change the visibility of some of your profile information using the customize
section of your privacy settings.
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 inside and outside
of Pakistan. 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 laws. This
may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other
government entities.
Editing your profile: You may change or remove your profile
information at any time by going to your profile page and clicking “Edit My
Profile.” Information will be updated immediately.
Delete uploaded contacts: If you use our contact importer to upload
addresses, you can later delete the list. You can delete the email addresses of
friends you have invited to join JM on your invite history.
Deactivating or deleting your account: If you want to stop using your
account you may deactivate it or delete it by sending a request to our Support
Team via Contact Us page. When your account is deactivated, no user will be able
to see it, but it will not be deleted. We save your profile information
(connections, photos, etc.) in case you later decide to reactivate your account.
When your account is deleted, it is permanently deleted from JM.
Backup copies: Removed and deleted information may persist in backup
copies for up to 90 days, but will not be available to others.
We do our best to keep your information secure.
Steps we take to keep your information secure: We keep your account
information on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive
information (such as passwords), we encrypt that information using secure socket
layer technology (SSL). We also use automated and social measures to enhance
security, such as analyzing account behavior for fraudulent or otherwise
anomalous behavior, may limit use of site features in response to possible signs
of abuse, may remove inappropriate content or links to illegal content, and may
suspend or disable accounts for violations of our Terms of Services.
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 JM will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for
third party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on JM.
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 via
Contact Us page.
Changes: We may change this Privacy Policy pursuant to the procedures
outlined in the JM Terms of Services without any notice. Unless stated
otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have
about you and your account.
Consent to Collection and Processing in the Pakistan, Finland & USA. By using JM,
you consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the US
based Hosting Servers and Pakistan & Finland based Backup Servers.
Defined Terms: "Us," "we," "our," “JM”, "Platform" and "JoinMuslims" mean
the same as JoinMuslims.com. “Information” and “content” are used more generally
and interchangeably here unless otherwise limited by the context.
