AboutOne Privacy Policy
Contents
Introduction
Customer privacy and data security are paramount to AboutOne – furthermore AboutOne will not harvest your data and sell it.
With a potential of millions of AboutOne users accessing the system daily around the world, we want our customers to know of our commitment to safeguard their personal data. Privacy will not only take center stage, but AboutOne exceeds the industry privacy standards and stays at the forefront of privacy on an international level. The AboutOne consumer owns their own data, a user’s profile data is not shared with advertisers, partners, customers or even employees. Your data is always encrypted and nobody can see it except YOU.
AboutOne is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site app.aboutone.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Rick Imber at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint&url=
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns. AboutOne, LLC complies with the EU Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy, you should first contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If contacting us does not resolve your complaint, you may raise your complaint with TRUSTe by Internet at http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint&url=, by mail at WatchDog Complaints, TRUSTe, 55 Second Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, by phone at 415-520-3400 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 415-520-3400 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, or by fax at 415-520-3420. If you are mailing TRUSTe to lodge a complaint, you must include the following information: the name of company, the alleged privacy violation, your contact information, and whether you would like the particulars of your complaint shared with the company. For information about TRUSTe or the operation of TRUSTe's dispute resolution process, see http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint&url= or request this information from TRUSTe at any of the addresses listed above. The TRUSTe dispute resolution process shall be conducted in English.
Privacy Policy
AboutOne's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using AboutOne, located at app.aboutone.com . By using or accessing AboutOne, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Collection of Personal Information from Site Users
To register for the site you must provide your email address to create your account.
Once you have registered we collect other personally identifiable information about you in order to set up your account and serve you. Once you have registered you will be able to add additional information about yourself such as your name, gender and marital status. You will be able to add information to your profile regarding your house such as the year it was built, size, bedrooms, phone number, date purchased, price and the realtor you used. You may provide education information about yourself or your child such as the school attended and the type of education. You also have the option to upload a photo of yourself and your family members. Please note that all content you enter or upload to the site can not be viewed by anyone other than yourself or another user you choose as an administrator of your data (such as a spouse or caregiver)
You are able to provide information about your family members once you have created an account and start adding members to your profile. We collect your family members name, gender, relationship to you and marital status., Adding information about yourself or family members is optional and you may correct, update or delete this information at any time. Please see “Access to and Ability to Correct Personal Data” section below.
If you sign up for our paid service we will collect your name, email address, billing address and credit card information such as credit card number, expiration date and CVV code. We use this information for the sole purpose of billing you for your annual membership. We do not store any of this information, nor automatically re-bill you. Instead, we send you an alert in our system when it’s time to renew your membership.
Your Birth Information
Within the Birth Information section of the site you are able to enter your birth name, date of birth, weight, length, time of birth, blood type, eye color, hair color, where you were born and the doctor that delivered you. You also have the option to upload a baby picture of yourself. We only collect this information for the sole purpose of allowing you to store the information within your profile.
Collecting Third Party Personal Information from Users
You have the opportunity to add contacts within your account. The information you are able to store in this section of the site is their Name, email address, date of birth, wedding anniversary, business contact information, photos and an address. We do not have any access to this information nor do we use this information in any way, the information is collected for the sole purpose of allowing you to store this information.
Like many web sites, we may also automatically receive general information that is contained in our server log files such as your IP address and cookie information. Subject to the foregoing, AboutOne.com may collect or track (1) the home server domain names, type of client computer, files downloaded, search engine used, operating system, and type of Web browser of visitors to the Site, (2) information knowingly provided by the visitor in online forms, registration forms, e-mail, and other online avenues (including, without limitation, demographic and personal profile data), and (3) aggregate and user-specific information regarding which pages Site visitors access. AboutOne.com may place Internet “cookies” on visitors’ hard drives. Internet cookies save data about individual visitors, such as the visitor’s name, password, user-name, screen preferences, and the pages of a site viewed by the visitor. This information is solely collected for use when revisiting our site to ease data entry. No data will be shared. When the visitor revisits the Site, app.AboutOne.com may recognize the visitor by the Internet cookie and customize the visitor’s experience accordingly. Visitors may decline Internet cookies, if any, by using the appropriate feature of their Web client software, if available. When a visitor performs a search within the app.AboutOne.com, app.AboutOne.com without limitation, may record information identifying the visitor or linking the visitor to the search performed such as their IP address. App.AboutOne.com may also record limited demographic information for every search request and use that information to solve technical problems with the services available directly or indirectly in connection with the Site and to calculate overall usage statistics.
Third Party Cookies
The use of cookies by third parties is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these cookies. These third parties use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
Our third party advertising partners and affiliates may employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.
Use of Personal Data Collected
Personal data collected by app.AboutOne.com may be used by app.AboutOne.com for many reasons, for example, to create a profile for you so that you may make use of our services, for editorial and feedback purposes, for marketing and promotional purposes, for a statistical analysis of users’ behavior, for product development, for content improvement, for fulfillment of a requested transaction by a service provider, e.g. recordkeeping, or to customize the content and layout of the Site. Aggregate data on visitors’ home servers may be used for internal purposes, and individually identifying information, such as names, postal and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information which visitors voluntarily provide to app.AboutOne.com, may be added to app.AboutOne.com’s databases and used for future calls and mailings regarding Site updates, new products and services, and upcoming events. app.AboutOne.com also may use Site visitor data to contact the Site visitors regarding account status and changes to the subscriber agreement (if applicable), Privacy Policy, and any other policies or agreements relevant to Site visitors. app.AboutOne.com employees do not have access to your individual data, but can run summarized user reports as a way to better offer you services. app.AboutOne.com employees will never, under any circumstance, have access to any of the data in your app.AboutOne.com Lock Box.
Feedback
We use a third party service provider called Get Satisfaction to host our feedback page. You may submit contact information, such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address, in connection with feedback, concerns, complaints, questions, or technical support. Such information is used only to respond to those inquiries and is governed by this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties
AboutOne, LLC does not share, sell, rent or trade your Individually Identifiable Information with third parties other than as disclose within this privacy policy.
Agents/Service Providers
We use other third parties such as a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services, and email service providers to send out emails on our product updates. When you sign up for our service, we will share your name, email address, billing address and credit card information as necessary for the third party to provide that service.These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes. Identifiable or non-identifiable data also may be disclosed or distributed to another party with which app.AboutOne.com enters or reasonably may enter into a corporate transaction, such as, for example, a merger, consolidation, acquisition, or asset purchase, or to a third party pursuant to a subpoena, court order, or other form of legal process, in response to a request by or on behalf of any local, state, federal, or other government agency, department, or body, whether or not pursuant to a subpoena, court order, or other form of legal process, or if determined by app.AboutOne.com in its sole judgment that such disclosure or distribution is appropriate to protect the life, health, or property of app.AboutOne.com or any other person or entity. app.AboutOne.com will undertake efforts to see that any third party to which app.AboutOne.com shares or otherwise discloses personal data is under an obligation to use the personal data solely for the purposes for which the data was disclosed.
Third Party Websites
This Site may contain links to other World Wide Web sites or advertisements for or placed by third parties. app.AboutOne.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such Web sites, advertisers, or third parties, or for the content of such sites or advertisements. It is possible that these links or advertisements, themselves, may be used by third parties or others to collect personal or other information about Site visitors. It is solely the visitor's obligation to review and understand the privacy practices and policies of these other Web sites and of these advertisers and third parties.
Security Measures and Communicating with app.AboutOne.com
app.AboutOne.com has implemented numerous security features that are designed to prevent the unauthorized release of or access to personal information. app.AboutOne.com maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal laws to guard your nonpublic personal information. app.AboutOne.com is not responsible for the security of information transmitted via the Internet. Instead of communicating with AboutOne.com via e-mail ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or the Internet,visitors can contact app.AboutOne.com by regular mail at 26 Raffaela Drive, Malvern PA 19355 or at 610-653-0544 The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter personal information and sensitive information such as credit card information on our site, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
Opt-Out Right
Except as necessary for AboutOne to provide the services, information, or products requested by a visitor, you may opt out of having your personally identifiable information, which has been voluntarily provided to app.AboutOne.com through online forms, registration forms, e-mail, or another online avenue, prospectively retained by AboutOne, used by AboutOne for secondary purposes (such as and including those in Section “Use of Personal Data” above), by contacting AboutOne via postal mail, e-mail, or telephone at the addresses set out in Section 5 above.
Access to and Ability to Correct Personal Data
Upon a visitor’s request via postal mail, e-mail, or telephone, AboutOne will provide to the visitor a summary of any personally identifiable information retained by app.AboutOne.com regarding the visitor that has been voluntarily provided by the visitor to app.AboutOne.com through online forms, registration forms, surveys, e-mail, or another online avenue. A visitor may modify, correct, change, delete or update his or her personally identifiable information by contacting AboutOne via postal mail, e-mail, or telephone at the addresses or numbers above. You may request deletion of your e-mail address by contacting our Webmaster at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Other data that you have provided to us will continue to remain within our files at our discretion even though your e-mail is deleted. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days.
Information you choose to track in the app.AboutOne.com application such as personal information, Family member’s personal information, education information, photos and more are not tracked in any way by AboutOne. It is for the sole purpose of the user. If you choose to modify, correct, change or delete any of this information, you can easily do so from within the application app.AboutOne.com
Right to Change Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Children
Please be aware that the Site is a general audience web site, not directed to children under the age of 13, and must not be used by children under 13. We do not knowingly collect Indivudually Identifiable Information from anyone under the age of 13.
Last updated: February 19, 2010, AboutOne, LLC; All rights reserved.


