TreeRing Terms Of Service
TreeRing allows schools and school administrators ("School"), parents, and students to collaborate within TreeRing’s social community in the creation of personalized yearbooks commemorating individualized school experiences through the TreeRing website (the "Services"). The following terms and conditions ("Terms") govern the access and use of the Services and constitute a binding legal agreement between you, as a user of the Services, and TreeRing. Your access to and use of the Services is conditioned on your compliance with these Terms. By becoming a Member and accessing and/or using Services you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you are a parent of a student, you are agreeing to these Terms on behalf of yourself and your child(ren) who are authorized to use the Services. If you do not agree with these Terms, you may not use the Services. If you are a school administrator or teacher, these Terms apply to your use of the Services, unless your School has agreed to different or supplementary terms in a separate written agreement with TreeRing.
Eligibility and Account Registration
In order to
access certain features of the Services and to post any Content through the Services, you will need to
create an account ("Account") and become a
"Member." If you are a student and under the
age of 13, you must have your parent or legal guardian create an Account for you before you can become a
Member and use the Services.
During the registration process, you will be required to provide certain information and you will
establish a username and a password. You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information
during the registration process. TreeRing reserves the right to suspend or terminate your Account if any
information provided during the registration process or thereafter proves to be inaccurate, not current or
incomplete.
You are responsible for safeguarding your password and Account access. You are responsible for any activities or actions under your Account. You will immediately notify TreeRing of any unauthorized use of your Account. TreeRing is not responsible or liable for any activities and actions under your Account.
Privacy
All personal information that you provide
is subject to our Privacy Policy (See Below), which governs our collection and use of your personal
information. You understand that through your use of the Services you consent to the collection and use
(as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of this information. As part of providing you the Services, we may
need to provide you with certain communications, such as service announcements and administrative
messages. These communications are considered part of the Services and your Account, which you may not be
able to opt-out from receiving.
Access Codes
In order to access the Services, you
must receive an access code from your School. If you are a parent or a student, your access to and use of
the Services will be subject to privileges and restrictions set by your School. If you have problems
accessing a TreeRing account set-up with a third party access code we recommend you check with the School
that provided you with the related access code. TreeRing will have no responsibility to you or any other
third party for your inability to access or use the Services related to such an account and disclaims any
liability related thereto.
The School Obligations
The following terms apply
to school administrators and teachers, regarding the School’s obligations related to the Services. The
School is responsible for ensuring that its and any other user’s use of the Services under TreeRing’s
agreement with the School will not violate any applicable U.S., state, or foreign law or regulation,
including without limitation, applicable privacy laws. The School will be solely responsible (and the
School hereby agrees that TreeRing is not responsible) for compliance with the Family Educational Rights
and Privacy Act and the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), including without limitation, by
limiting access to the Services to those student users from whom the School has received valid consent
forms and complying with all parental requests regarding the collection, use and disclosure of such
parent’s child’s information. The School is responsible for disseminating parental consent forms to
parents of potential student users, for confirming receipt of valid consent forms for each child before
granting a parent and/or that parent’s child an access code for the Services, and for retaining such
consent forms on file. The School must provide parent users with the option to agree to the collection and
use of such parent’s child’s personal information without agreeing to the disclosure of the information to
third parties. If a parent user does not consent or rescinds such consent, the School shall immediately
notify TreeRing to discontinue that child’s access to the Services and ensure that such child’s
information is no longer accessible through the Services. In any case, however, TreeRing may provide any
collected information to third parties who use it to provide support for the internal operations of
TreeRing.
The School decides who has access to what information and Content and who can delete or modify the
information and Content. The School is responsible for providing parent users access to their child’s
profile so the parent user may review, modify, or delete any student user information contained in the
student user’s profile by allowing the parent to edit the child’s profile on the Services. The School (and
not TreeRing) is solely responsible for all consequences of the performance or non-performance of its
obligations in this Section of the Terms; TreeRing hereby disclaims any and all liability for the School’s
failure to perform its obligations under the Terms.
Your Content
Members may post, upload, publish,
submit or transmit text, graphics, images, music, software, audio, video, information or other materials
uploaded, downloaded, or otherwise available through the Services ("Content"), to be made available through the
Services. You may not post Content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, or that violates a
third party’s proprietary and privacy rights or that otherwise violates any applicable law. You may not
post Content that degrades others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, sexual
preference, disability or other classification. TreeRing does not control the Content posted by Members on
the Services. You grant to all other users of the Services a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable
license, without the right to sublicense, to access, view, download and print any Content for such
Member’s personal and non-commercial purposes. You also grant TreeRing and your School (including its
related third party vendors, including but not limited to photographers and yearbook publishers) a
nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use,
reproduce, modify, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, publish, perform, transmit and access
any Content in connection with the Services and TreeRing’s business, including, without limitation,
publishing and redistributing Content in the School yearbooks. TreeRing does not claim any ownership
rights in any of your Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you
may have to use and exploit any of your Content.
You will be responsible for the Content that you make available through the Services. Accordingly, you
either are the owner of the Content that you make available through the Services or you have the right,
license, or permission necessary to grant to TreeRing the rights in such Content; and the Content you
provide (and TreeRing’s or your School’s use of that Content) will not infringe, misappropriate or violate
a third party’s proprietary rights, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.
TreeRing respects copyright law and expects its users to do the same. TreeRing has adopted and implemented
a DMCA Compliance and IP Policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of
registered users or other account holders who repeatedly infringe or are believed to be repeatedly
infringing the rights of copyright holders. Your posting of or linking to any Content is subject to our
DMCA Compliance and IP Policy (See below).
Your School has the right to edit or remove any of your Content at any time for any reason in their sole
discretion. If you dispute the editing or removal of any of your Content, you must contact your School for
resolution of the dispute. TreeRing disclaims all liability for such editing or removal and will not
arbitrate any disputes over removal of your Content with you and your School.
License from TreeRing
Subject to your compliance
with the terms and conditions of these Terms, TreeRing grants you a limited, non-exclusive,
non-transferable license, without the right to sublicense, to access and use the Services and to download
and print any Content provided by TreeRing solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes. You may
not use, copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer,
publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast or otherwise exploit the Services or
Content, except as expressly permitted in these Terms. No licenses or rights are granted to you by
implication or otherwise under any intellectual property rights owned or controlled by TreeRing or its
licensors, except for the licenses and rights expressly granted in these Terms.
Ownership of the Services
The Services are
protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and foreign countries. TreeRing and
its licensors exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Services, including all
associated intellectual property rights. You may not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark,
service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Services. You may not
use, copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer,
publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast or otherwise exploit the Services, except
as expressly permitted in these Terms. Any feedback, comments and suggestions you may provide for
improvements to the Services ("Feedback") will
be the sole and exclusive property of TreeRing and you hereby irrevocably assign to TreeRing all of your
right, title, and interest in and to all Feedback.
General Prohibitions
You agree not to do any of
the following while using the Services:
• Modify, adapt, copy, alter, make derivative works of,
attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any portion of the
Services;
• Violate any applicable law or regulation, including, without limitation, privacy laws,
export laws, and the Child Online Privacy Protection Act;
• Collect or store any personally
identifiable information from the Services from other users of the Services without their express
permission;
• Use, display, mirror, frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose the Services, or
any individual element or materials within the Services, TreeRing’s name, any TreeRing trademark, logo or
other proprietary information, the content of any text or the layout and design of any page or form
contained on a page, without TreeRing’s express written consent;
• Access, tamper with, or use
non-public areas of the Services, TreeRing’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems or any
technological measure implemented by TreeRing or TreeRing’s providers to protect the
Services;
• Attempt to access or search the Services through the use of any engine, software, tool,
agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools or the like) other than
the software and/or search agents provided by TreeRing or other generally available third party web
browsers;
• Interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, the access of any user, host or network,
including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the
Services; or
• Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the foregoing.
TreeRing
will have the right to investigate and prosecute violations of any of the above, to the fullest extent of
the law. TreeRing may involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who
violate these Terms. You acknowledge that TreeRing has no obligation to monitor your access to or use of
the Services, but has the right to do so for the purpose of operating the Services, to ensure your
compliance with these Terms, or to comply with applicable law or the order or requirement of a court,
administrative agency or other governmental body.
Links and Third Party Websites
The Services may
contain links to third party websites, including but not limited to websites of third party advertisers.
You acknowledge and agree that TreeRing is not responsible or liable for: (i) the availability or accuracy
of such websites or resources; or (ii) the content, products, or services on or available from such
websites or resources. Links to such websites or resources do not imply any endorsement by TreeRing of
such websites or resources or the content, products, or services available from such websites or
resources. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of any such
websites or resources. TreeRing cannot ensure that you will be satisfied with the products, services, or
business practices of such third parties.
Termination
If you breach any of these Terms,
TreeRing and/or your School will have the right to suspend or disable your access to the Services, at
their sole discretion and without prior notice to you. If you are the parent or guardian of a student
using the Services, and cease to agree with TreeRing’s Terms and Privacy Policy at some point in the
future, you may terminate your membership by contacting TreeRing and/or the School. Once your membership
terminates for any reason, you will not be permitted to use the Services.
Disclaimers
The Services are provided on an
"AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. Without limiting the foregoing, TREERING EXPLICITLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES
ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.
TreeRing makes no warranty that the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an
uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis. TreeRing makes no warranty regarding the quality of any
products or services purchased or obtained through the Services or any third party site. No advice or
information, whether oral or written, obtained from TreeRing or through the Services, will create any
warranty not expressly made herein. You are solely responsible for all of your communications and
interactions with other users of the Services and with other persons with whom you communicate or interact
as a result of your use of the Services. TreeRing makes no representations or warranties as to the conduct
of users of the Services or their compatibility with any current or future users of the Services.
Indemnity
If you are a parent or student user of
the Services, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold TreeRing and School and their officers, directors,
employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses,
including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in any way connected with your
access to or use of the Services, or your violation of these Terms, including any claims that your Content
infringes or violates any proprietary right of a third party If you are a School, you agree to defend,
indemnify, and hold TreeRing and its officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against
any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal
fees, arising out of or in any way connected with your or your students’ access to or use of the Services,
or your or your students’ violation of these Terms, including any claims that your or your students’
Content infringes or violates any proprietary right of a third party.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES AND CONTENT
REMAINS WITH YOU. TREERING WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA, SERVICE INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER DAMAGE OR SYSTEM FAILURE, OR
FOR ANY DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL OR BODILY INJURY OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH
THESE TERMS OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, OR FROM ANY COMMUNICATIONS, INTERACTIONS
OR MEETINGS WITH OTHER USERS OF THE SERVICES OR OTHER PERSONS WITH WHOM YOU COMMUNICATE OR INTERACT AS A
RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR
ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT TREERING HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE,
EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
Exclusions
Some jurisdictions do not allow the
exclusion of certain warranties or the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or
incidental damages, so the above limitation may not apply to you.
Controlling Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms and
any action related thereto will be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its
conflict of laws provisions. The exclusive jurisdiction and venue of any action with respect to the
subject matter of these Terms will be the federal or state courts located in the Northern District of
California and each of the parties hereto consents to the personal jurisdiction and venue in such
courts.
Waiver and Severability
The failure of TreeRing to
enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not constitute a waiver of future enforcement of that
right or provision. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of these Terms
invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the other
provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.
Entire Agreement
These Terms and the Privacy
Policy constitute the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between TreeRing and you regarding
the Services, and supersede and replace any and all prior oral or written understandings or agreements
between TreeRing and you regarding the Services.
Modification
TreeRing reserves the right, at its
sole discretion, to modify, discontinue or terminate the Services or to modify these Terms, at any time
and without prior notice. If we modify these Terms, we will post the modification on the Services or
provide you with notice of the modification. We will also indicate when such terms are effective at the
top of the page. By continuing to access or use the Services after we have posted a modification or have
provided you with notice of a modification, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the modified
Terms. If the modified Terms are not acceptable to you, your only recourse is to cease using the
Services.
Contacting TreeRing
The Services are owned and
operated by TreeRing, with offices at:
217 S. B St
San Mateo, CA 94401
If you have any
questions about these Terms, please contact TreeRing at support( a t )TreeRing . com
Effective: September 8, 2009
TreeRing Privacy Policy
TreeRing provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information we receive from users, including teachers, administrators, students, parents, and third party vendors to whom the school may grant access to www.treering.com (the "Services"). This Privacy Policy applies only to information that you provide to us through the Services. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our TreeRing Terms of Services (the "Terms")
As used in this policy, the terms "using" and "processing" information include using cookies on a computer, subjecting the information to statistical or other analysis and using or handling information in any way, including, but not limited to collecting, storing, evaluating, modifying, deleting, using, combining, disclosing and transferring information within our organization or among our affiliates within the United States or internationally.
Information Collection and Use
Our primary goals
in collecting information are to provide and improve our Services, features and Content, to administer
your membership and to enable users to enjoy and easily navigate the Services.
Personally Identifiable Information
• When you
register as a Member and when you choose to create your own profile web page we will ask you for
personally identifiable information. This refers to information about you that can be used to contact or
identify you ("Personal Information"). We use your Personal Information mainly to provide the
Services and administer your inquiries. Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, your name,
phone number, email address and home and business postal addresses, the name of school you are affiliated
with, grade, and other personal information. If you are a student under 13 years of age, we (in
conjunction with your School, as further described in the Terms) protect such Personal Information
pursuant to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Users may post Content (as such term is defined
in the TreeRing Terms), which may also contain Personal Information.
• We also collect the other
information that you provide as part of registration and the administration and personalization of your
profile web page (e.g., without limitation, zip code (on its own) and other individual preferences)
("Non-Identifying Information").
• We use your Personal Information (in some cases, in
conjunction with your Non-Identifying Information) mainly to provide the Services, complete your
transactions, and administer your inquiries.
• Certain Non-Identifying Information would be
considered a part of your Personal Information if it were combined with other identifiers (for example,
combining your zip code with your street address) in a way that enables you to be identified. But the same
pieces of information are considered Non-Identifying Information when they are taken alone or combined
only with other non-identifying information (for example, your viewing preferences). We may combine your
Personal Information with Non-Identifying Information and aggregate it with information collected from
other TreeRing Users (defined below) to attempt to provide you with a better experience, to improve the
quality and value of the Services and to analyze and understand how our Services are used. We may also use
the combined information without aggregating it to serve you specifically, for instance to deliver a
product to you according to your preferences or restrictions.
Log Data
When you visit the Services, whether as a
Member or a non-registered user just browsing (any of these, a "TreeRing User"), our servers
automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website ("Log
Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol
("IP") address, browser type or the web page you were visiting before you came to our Services,
pages of our Services that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information you search for on our
Services, access times and dates, and other statistics. We use this information to monitor and analyze use
of the Services and for technical administration of the Services, to increase our Services’ functionality
and user-friendliness, and to better tailor it to our visitors’ needs. For example, some of this
information is collected so that when you visit the Services again, it will recognize you and serve
advertisements and other information appropriate to your interests. We also use this information to verify
that visitors to the Services meet the criteria required to process their requests. We do not treat Log
Data as Personal Information or use it in association with other Personal Information, though we may
aggregate, analyze and evaluate such information for the same purposes as stated above regarding other
Non-Identifying Information.
Child Protection
We require signed parental
consent before a School may give access to the Services to a student user from whom information will be
collected. School is responsible for confirming receipt of valid parental consent forms for each child
before providing an access code, and for providing parent users access to their child’s account and
profile, so that the parent user may review, modify, or delete any Personal Information pertaining to the
student user contained in the account and profile. Please see our Terms for a full description of the
parental consent process.
Parents have the right to refuse further collection, use, and/or disclosure of their child’s Personal Information by notifying School. If a parent user does not consent or rescinds such consent, School shall immediately notify TreeRing to discontinue that child’s access to the Services and ensure that such child’s information is no longer accessible through the Services. In any case, however, TreeRing may provide any collected information to third parties who use it to provide support for the internal operations of TreeRing.
Cookies
Like many websites, we use
"cookies" to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your
computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies for two purposes. First, we may utilize
persistent cookies to save your registration ID and login password for future logins to the Services.
Second, we may utilize session ID cookies to enable certain features of the Services, to better understand
how you interact with the Services and to monitor aggregate usage by TreeRing Users and web traffic
routing on the Services. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted from your computer when
you log off from the Services and Services and then close your browser. Third party advertisers on the
Services may also place or read cookies on your browser. You can instruct your browser, by changing its
options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Services or all
functionality of the Services.
Emailing Via a TreeRing Account
As part of the
Services, Members may communicate with other Members and non-registered users through use of their
accounts. Where Members have selected the option of adding one or more email addresses to an online form,
the message they create in the corresponding template will be sent from TreeRing to those email addresses
on their behalf. These email addresses will be stored in the address book the Member creates and will be
used only for the purpose of sending the email communication to the addressee.
Phishing
Identity theft and the practice currently
known as "phishing" are of great concern to TreeRing. Safeguarding information to help protect
you from identity theft is a top priority. We do not and will not, at any time, request your credit card
information, your account ID, login password, or national identification numbers in a non-secure or
unsolicited e-mail or telephone communication. For more information about phishing, visit the Federal
Trade Commission’s websites.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Members. When
you register through the Services and submit your Personal Information to create a profile web page,
Members will see your real name and the month and year you first registered with TreeRing ("Required
Member Identifiers"). You can choose what other Personal Information you provide as part of your
profile ("Other Member Information") and in some cases you can choose whether to share that
information publicly on the Services by making selections via the "user preferences" section of
your profile web page. Providing Other Member Information is voluntary and should correlate with the
degree of interaction you want to have with other Members. As this is an invitation-only site designed to
service only school community members, be aware that anything shared on the site will be attributable to
you without anonymity.
Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying
Information
We may share aggregated information that does not include Personal Information
and we may otherwise disclose Non-Identifying Information and Log Data with third parties for industry
analysis, demographic profiling and other purposes. Any aggregated information shared in these contexts
will not contain your Personal Information.
Service Providers
We may employ third party
companies and individuals to facilitate our Services, to provide the Services on our behalf, to perform
Services-related services (e.g., without limitation, maintenance services, database management, web
analytics and improvement of the Services’ features) or to assist us in analyzing how our Services are
used. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our
behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. We may also provide Personal
Information to our business partners or other trusted entities for the purpose of providing you with
information on goods or services we believe will be of interest to you. You can, at any time, opt out of
receiving such communications.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement
TreeRing
cooperates with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with
the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private
parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal
process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of TreeRing or a
third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may
consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, any illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity.
Business Transfers
TreeRing may sell, transfer or
otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a
merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy. You will have the
opportunity to opt out of any such transfer if the new entity’s planned processing of your information
differs materially from that set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Changing or Deleting Your Information
All Members
may review, update, correct or delete the Personal Information in their registration profile by contacting
us. If you completely delete all such information, then your account may become deactivated. If you would
like us to delete your record in our system, please contact us at support ( a t ) treering . com with a
request that we delete your Personal Information from our database. We will use commercially reasonable
efforts to honor your request. We may retain an archived copy of your records as required by law or for
legitimate business purposes.
Security
TreeRing is very concerned with
safeguarding your information. We employ administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to
protect your information from unauthorized access.
We will make any legally required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored "personal data" (as defined in applicable state statutes on security breach notification) to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Services in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, insofar as consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.
International Transfer
Your information may be
transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other
governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, TreeRing transfers
Personal Information to the United States and processes it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy
followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Links to Other Services
Our Services may contain
links to other websites. If you choose to visit an advertiser by "clicking on" a banner ad or
other type of advertisement, or click on another third party link, you will be directed to that third
party’s websites. The fact that we may link to a website or present a banner ad or other type of
advertisement is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third
party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. We do not
exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other
files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. Other services follow
different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. We
encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.
Agreement and Changes
By using the Services or
providing parental consent for your child’s use of the Services, you agree to the current Privacy Policy
and Terms, to which this Privacy Policy is incorporated. TreeRing reserves the right, at its sole
discretion, to modify, discontinue or terminate the Services or to modify this Privacy Policy, at any
time. If we modify this Privacy Policy, we will post the modification on the Services or provide you with
notice of the modification. A notice and request for consent will be provided to parents if there are
material changes to policies regarding the collection, use, or disclosure of a child’s Personal
Information. We will also indicate when such terms are effective at the top of the page. By continuing to
access or use the Services after we have posted a modification or have provided you with notice of a
modification, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. If the
modified Privacy Policy is not acceptable to you, your only recourse is to cease using the Services.
Contacting TreeRing
If you have any questions
about this Privacy Policy, please contact TreeRing at support (at) TreeRing . com
217 S. B St
San Mateo, CA 94401
Effective: September 8, 2009