LIFE.com

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Life.com, a website operated by See Your World LLC ("SYW", "we" or "us"). SYW is a joint venture of Time Inc. ("Time") and Getty Images, Inc. ("Getty Images"). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this policy explaining our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by SYW.

The Information We Collect

Through our website and other media, from time to time you may be able to order products, enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. You are able to visit much of this website and enjoy many offerings and promotions without providing any personally identifiable information. Sometimes, however, we do need your personally identifiable information to provide you with the products and services that you request. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages and elsewhere include, but are not limited to: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.

In some cases and through certain promotions, you may submit information about other people. For example, you might submit a person's name and e-mail address to send an electronic greeting card and, if you order a gift online or offline and want it sent directly to the recipient, you might submit the recipient's name and address. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected about other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number.

For certain promotions, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the promotion's activities and offerings.

We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, and the domain name of your Internet service provider.

How We Use the Information

We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us.

We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services to them.

If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a "letter to our editors"), we may publish your name, screen name, and other information you have provided to us.

The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.

We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.

We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.

Agents and contractors of SYW who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for SYW.

We may transfer your personally identifiable information to other SYW offices for internal management and administrative purposes. Your personal data will be transferred to other SYW offices where necessary for the performance or conclusion of our contractual obligations to you or for your benefit. Transfers of personally identifiable information may also be made where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Inadvertent disclosures may result, for example, when third parties misrepresent their identities in asking the site for access to personally identifiable information about themselves for purposes of correcting possible factual errors in the data.

Privacy Options

SYW discloses personally identifiable information to companies, not owned by SYW, who want to market products or services to you, it will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of or limit such uses. If you are a newsletter subscriber and prefer not to receive online marketing information from companies not owned by SYW please click here to unsubscribe from the newsletter.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors

Our site may have offerings, including newsletters, contests or promotions, that will require you to submit personally identifiable information to participate. In many cases, we will notify you at the time that we are requesting personally identifiable information that, if you choose to submit such information, SYW's owners, Getty Images and Time will also be obtaining your information. SYW has no control over Getty Images' and Time's use of this information and Getty Images and Time may have different privacy practices from those disclosed here. For more information about Getty Images' use of this information pursuant to its privacy policy, please click here. For more information about Time's use of this information pursuant to its privacy policy, please click here.

Our site sometimes may offer contests, sweepstakes, or promotions that are sponsored by or co-sponsored with identified third parties. By virtue of their sponsorship, these third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the contest, sweepstakes, or promotion. SYW has no control over the third-party sponsors' use of this information. We will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if third-party sponsors will obtain such information.

Our site contains links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. You should consult the other sites' privacy notices, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

The site may use reputable third parties to present or serve content, offerings or advertisements that you may see at its web pages, to conduct research about the advertisements, to collect data regarding our customers Internet use; and to track the performance of our marketing efforts. This privacy notice does not cover any use of information that such third parties may have collected from you or the methods used by the third-parties to collect that information (e.g., cookies, web beacons and clear gifs).

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) is a cooperative of online marketing and analytics companies committed to building consumer awareness and establishing responsible business and data management practices. Many large advertising networks are members of the NAI. The NAI has developed a tool that allows consumers to opt out of targeted advertising delivered by NAI members' ad networks. To learn more about opting out of targeted advertising or to use the tool, click here.

Some of the third party companies who may set cookies on our site to serve or present the ads that appear on our site and to conduct research about the advertisements, may include:
Brightcove - http://www.brightcove.com/privacy
Casale Media - http://www.casalemedia.com/privacy.html
Clearspring - http://www.casalemedia.com/privacy.html
Collective Media - http://www.collective-media.com/privacy
Context Web - http://www.contextweb.com/ppolicy.html
DrivePM - http://www.drivepm.com/privacy-policies.php
Dynamic Logic - http://www.dynamiclogic.com/na/company/privacypolicy
Eyeblaster - http://www.eyeblaster.com/privacy.asp
Eyewonder - http://www.eyewonder.com/privacy.php
Google Content Network: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Google Analytics - http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/privacy.html
Hitwise - http://www.hitwise.com/other/privacy-policy.php
InsightExpress - http://www.insightexpress.com/main.asp?pageID=143
Interpolls - http://www.interpolls.com/privacy.html
Jupiter Media Metrix - http://www.internet.com/corporate/privacy/privacypolicy.html
Mediaplex - http://www.mediaplex.com/mojo_privacy_statement.shtml
Millward Brown IntelliQuest - http://www.millwardbrown.com/Sites/millwardbrown/Content/Global/TermsAndConditions.aspx
Omniture - http://www.omniture.com/en/privacy
Pointroll - http://www.pointroll.com/privacy-policy.aspx
Quantcast - http://www.quantcast.com/docs/privacy
Quigo - http://www.quigo.com/privacy.htm
Unicast - http://www.unicast.com/privacy-policy.aspx
Vizu - http://answers.vizu.com/privacy-policy.htm

Cookies

To enhance your online experience we use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at our site. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

We use cookies to understand Internet usage and to improve our content, offerings, and advertisements. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g. to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our site. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services. Similarly, as part of an arrangement with our business partners (including, those who present or serve the advertisements that you see on our web pages) we may also access cookies placed by others and allow others to access certain cookies placed by us.

We may also use small pieces of code called "web beacons" or "clear gifs" to collect anonymous and aggregate advertising metrics, such as counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses. These "web beacons" may be used to deliver cookies that conform to our cookie policy.

If you would like to limit the use of such technologies for these purposes, you can change your privacy preferences through your browser. You may set your browser to accept all cookies, block certain cookies, require your consent before a cookie is placed in your browser, or block cookies all together. Blocking all cookies, however, will affect your online experience and may prevent you from enjoying the full features offered at our site. Since the procedure for modifying your privacy preferences is different for each Internet browser, we recommend you review your 'help' or 'Internet options' menu in your browser's tool bar.

Our Commitment to Security

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect.

How You can Access or Correct Information

To inquire about personally identifiable information that this website has collected about you, or how to correct factual errors in such information, please email us at support@life.com.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Special Note for Parents

The site you are visiting is a general audience site.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be changed by SYW. The revised Privacy Policy will be posted to the top of this page so that you are aware of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about the SYW Privacy Policy or its implementation please contact us by email at support@life.com or by mail at the following address:

SYW Customer Service
601 N. 34th Street
Seattle, WA
98103