Welcome to TextCu.be, a brand new kind of social network that keeps you connected even when you're offline. With TextCu.be and My TextCu.be, it is easy to share information with your friends and people you kow. We understand you may not want everyone to have the information you share on TextCu.be, that is why we give you control of your information. It is ultimately up to you who you choose to add as friends, allow to view your profile, what you post on your profile and your privacy settings for your profile and photos.

TextCu.be follows our business ethic:

You should have control over your personal information.
TextCu.be helps you share information with your friends and people you know. You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, forum posts, profile sections, interests and groups you join. And you control the users with whom you share that information through the privacy settings in your account.

TextCu.be's Privacy Policy

TextCu.be'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 TextCu.be, located at http://TextCu.be/ and its directly associated domains, including http://My.TextCu.be/ (collectively, "TextCu.be" or "Website").

By using or accessing TextCu.be, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

This privacy statement covers the complete TextCu.be site and its directly associated domains. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to keep constantly updated on how we use your personal information. Under no circumstance will we ever share, sell or rent any of your personal information by use of third parties. Personal information that you share publicly, including on your profile, is not under our control but yours.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on TextCu.be is readily available through the profile modification tools. TextCu.be users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to delete their TextCu.be account may do so in the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of TextCu.be or the public.

Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on TextCu.be, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another TextCu.be user) you generally cannot remove such communications as the other user has/will view your communication, can print it, save it or keep a copy.

Children Under Age 13

TextCu.be does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for TextCu.be or My TextCu.be or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on TextCu.be. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We will also terminate accounts of children under the age of 13 as soon as we find out.

Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

The Information We Collect

When you visit TextCu.be you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site (ie. server logs, clicks and pages visited).

When you register with TextCu.be, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

When you enter TextCu.be, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all TextCu.be visitors and helps us improve our website. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use various session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in or keep your information saved as you visit different web pages. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we may use persistent cookies that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to various TextCu.be pages. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature, however many functions on TextCu.be will no longer function.

When you use TextCu.be, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information (ie. backups). This information is only used internally unless otherwise required by law.

You post User Content (as defined in the TextCu.be Terms of Service) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content. Further, third parties such as Yahoo, Alexa and Google may cache your personal profile for a set amount of time. We have no control over these third parties.

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or message inviting him or her to visit the site. TextCu.be stores this information to send this one-time invitation, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Any passwords for third party sites are never stored or cached any where.

By using TextCu.be, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Use of Information Obtained by TextCu.be

When you register with TextCu.be, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on TextCu.be. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by TextCu.be that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by TextCu.be primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it, other TextCu.be users may be able to supplement your profile.

Profile information you submit to TextCu.be will be available to users of TextCu.be who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the TextCu.be network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to you (friend, friend of friend, member of your networks, etc.) that allows such access based on your privacy settings.

TextCu.be may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message, or someone posts on your guestbook, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.

TextCu.be may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you TextCu.be. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on TextCu.be are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "clear gifs" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. TextCu.be does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on TextCu.be.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by TextCu.be and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers or partners.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

TextCu.be is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your networks — while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to friends and networks through TextCu.be. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:

• Unlike most sites on the Web, TextCu.be may limit access to site information or certain sections by third party search engine "crawlers" (e.g. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask). TextCu.be takes action to block access by these engines to personal information beyond your name, profile picture, and limited aggregated data about your profile.
• We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about TextCu.be, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the TextCu.be specified purposes.
• We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the TextCu.be world. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (e.g., messaging is disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.
• We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the TextCu.be service or using the TextCu.be name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
• If the ownership of all or substantially all of the TextCu.be business, or individual business units owned by TextCu.be, were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

When you use TextCu.be, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos or other items , this information may become publicly available.

Links

TextCu.be may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by TextCu.be.

Security

TextCu.be takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services.

Terms of Service, Notices and Revisions

Your use of TextCu.be, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Service and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Web Site

TextCu.be can be contacted at any time by going to Help -> Contact Us.