Privacy policy
TheZOI.com is an online service for Greek students, chapters, and councils that allows our members to access individual, chapter, and council information in a secure password protected environment, and in some cases set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through thezoi.com website. The Zoi members can view each other's profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service, share information, post journals and comments, and describe their interests.
We request and display some personal information to other members, which allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of friends. The Zoi members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them. The policy as stated applies to all current features of thezoi.com site, executive club, and communications as well as new features which will be may or may not be added.
Your privacy is important to thezoi.com cares. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy please email us at support@thezoi.com.
Information Collection and Use by thezoi.com
thezoi.com collects user-submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the thezoi.com service. thezoi.com also collects other profile data including but not limited to: chapter, council, school, personal interests, gender, age, and education in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other and to better enable us to tailor our offerings to you.
Thezoi.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.
Member email addresses are used for the purposes of notification of changes in thezoi.com services, building an awareness of The Zoi among members, facilitating secure communication among chapter and council members, thezoi.com campus promotions and for sending notifications related to the service. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, thezoi.com allows users within their own chapters to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools that users may have attended.
We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service or additional product opportunities. Users may choose not to receive these promotional messages by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings" of their profile.
[We may on occasion combine information we receive online with outside records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services that may be of interest to you.]
From time to time, thezoi.com or a partner may sponsor a promotion, sweepstakes, or contest on thezoi.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. We will notify you at the point of collection if such third parties will receive information.
Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
The Zoi members can invite other Greeks to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. thezoi.com stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the contact list of the member sending the invitations, in addition to sending reminders of the invitations.
TheZoi.com members may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal thezoi.com address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.
Use of Cookies
thezoi.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including tailoring advertising and customizing newsletters, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set - each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences - however, you must enable cookies from thezoi.com in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that The Zoi allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not The Zoi Privacy Policy.
Links
TheZoi.com contains links to sites. TheZoi.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on TheZoi.com.
Chat Rooms, Journals and WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to any current or future functions such as Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Correcting/Updating Information
TheZoi.com users may modify the personal information we have collected online that we maintain at any time by either contacting their chapter president or logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.
Email Choice/Opt-out
Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me notification emails' in the user profile 'Account Settings'. Users who do not wish to receive thezoi.com newsletters may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me The Zoi newsletters' in the user profile 'Account Settings'. Notification emails and thezoi.com newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future.
Third Party Advertising
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by TheZoi.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by TheZoi.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. For more information on third-party ad servers generally and to express your choices, visit www.networkadvertising.org
Security
TheZoi.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. TheZoi.com takes precautions to help protect member account information from unauthorized disclosures of information. .
Although we take such security measures to safeguard 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.
Sharing and Disclosure of Information thezoi.com Collects
We may, from time to time, disclose personally identifiable information to companies whose practices are not covered by this privacy statement (e.g., other marketers, directory publishers, retailers, participatory databases, and non-profit organizations) that want to market products or services to you. If we share personally identifiable information, it will provide you with an opportunity to opt out or block such uses either at the point of submission of your personally identifiable information or prior to any such disclosure.
In addition, The Zoi may disclose personal information where we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by thezoi.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the thezoi.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. In addition, we may transfer personally identifiable information about you if we are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make material changes, we will post them on our site so that users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at: support@thezoi.com (11704 Wilshire Blvd Suite D295, Los Angeles CA 90025).
Effective date: August 22, 2008.
The Privacy Policy posted on this site was updated on or about August 22, 2008