WE2GATHER was developed by principles of providing opportunities to people to discover new information by enabling them to share the best views which they find interesting with one another. WE2GATHER knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy very seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the WE2GATHER website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy covers WE2GATHER's management of personal information that WE2GATHER gathers when you are on the WE2GATHER website and when you use WE2GATHER services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that WE2GATHER does not own or control, or to individuals that WE2GATHER does not employ or manage.

We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website, which is to enable users to discover and share information with one another. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with this objective. We collect the following types of information from our WE2GATHER users:

1. Information You Provide to Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features.

<> Registration: In order for you to use WE2GATHER services, such as submitting new links to the website, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require select personal information (including your full name, city, state and e-mail address).

<> User Profile: To allow you to express yourself beyond just the information collected during registration, we enable you to provide additional information, such as a bio, favorite URLs, and instant messaging IDs. In addition, you may choose to include photos of yourself in your profile. As indicated below, in the section titled "Sharing Your Information", you can control how your information is displayed and used.

WE2GATHER is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the "Sharing Your Information" section below. WE2GATHER may send out e-mails with WE2GATHER-related news, products, offers, surveys or promotions. You may also receive notification e-mails from WE2GATHER, which inform you of actions that have been performed on the site.

Cookies

<> Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. WE2GATHER cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or e-mail address is.

<> The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We recommend that you leave the cookies activated because cookies allow you to use some of WE2GATHER's coolest features.

<> Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.

Sharing Your Information

Because WE2GATHER enables people to discover and share information with one another, information about the people who use WE2GATHER is an integral part of the WE2GATHER experience. Rest assured that we neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below.

<> WE2GATHER Personnel: WE2GATHER personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of WE2GATHER business.

<> Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if WE2GATHER, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.

<> Protection of WE2GATHER and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of WE2GATHER, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

<> User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits, such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other WE2GATHER users in your User Profile. The User Profile is the area on WE2GATHER where we allow you to tell other WE2GATHER users about yourself and your interests.

<> Member Directory: The e-mail address that you submit upon registration will be searchable by other WE2GATHER users who know you by your email address, unless you choose to opt out of this feature. This is primarily so that other users can find you to establish friendship through WE2GATHER.

<> Social sharing of data: WE2GATHER allows other users to browse stories that you have gathered, submitted, saved, or commented on. This information is made available via your User Profile, on the WE2GATHER live page (http://www.we2gather.com/live.php) within the permalink URL of the story on which you performed the action. WE2GATHER may choose to post this data on other site features.

<> Friends' Activity: Much like other online social networks, WE2GATHER allows non-friends to browse your friends' activity (www.we2gather.com/users/usersname/friends).

<> Syndication: WE2GATHER allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the WE2GATHER website.

<> With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.