Orbius User Privacy Policy

Last Update: March 21^st, 2008

On Orbius, the term Orb is used to refer to a Community.

This document outlines the types of personal and Orb information that are received, collected and stored when you use Orbius. It describes how such information is used and accessed, and the steps we take to safeguard the information.

We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information within Orbius.

If you do not agree to all these terms and conditions, please do not provide us with any information and do not use Orbius or join any Orb on Orbius.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and part of, the Orbius User Terms of Service, which governs your use of Orbius in general. By visiting and signing up to use Orbius, providing personal information, and/or using the Service, you signify your agreement to all of the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. Any capitalized term not defined in this Privacy Policy has the meaning as described in the Orbius User Terms of Service.

All Users and Orb Owners that create Orbs on the Orbius Platform are required to meet the terms of this Privacy Policy. However, we suggest you to be careful and use caution when providing Personal Data to Communities on Orbius. Unfortunately, there is no means we can be responsible for the actions of other Users or by Owners of Orbs created on Orbius.

By registering on or using Orbius, you agree

1.     to comply with all terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy,

2.     that Orbius and any User may process (i.e., collect, use, etc.) your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Service, and

Minors:  In compliance with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), Orbius does not collect or maintain information on the Orbius Platform from users whom we actually know to be under 13 years of age, and no part of our Service is structured to attract anyone under 13. Those persons under the age of 13 are prohibited from registering on the Orbius.

Collection of User Information

Personally Identifiable User Information

Once you register with Orbius and sign in to the Orbius Platform, you are not anonymous to Orbius.

When registering on Orbius, you provide Personal Data, which includes your email, a User- chosen password, name, gender, birth date, country, city, state and postal code of residence. Your Birth Date will never be displayed on Orbius. It is used only for age confirmation and to display your age decade bracket. You agree to provide your birth date truthfully for the purpose of age confirmation.

To combat online fraud, Orbius may also record your IP address when you submit your information.

In addition, if you choose to purchase premium services on Orbius, you provide necessary information to process your credit card payment, including your billing address. When you use the Orbius Contact List feature, you also provide contact information of other people (“Contact List”) to view.

In an effort to support group-specific as well as location-based communities, Orbius may validate the domain from which your email address originates (e.g., gmail.com or hotmail.com).

You can decline to share such Personal Data with us by not registering on Orbius.

Cookies and Passive Data Collection

Orbius automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Orbius cookie information, and the page you request. Some of these may be available to Orb owners when you interact with their Orbs.

Users should be aware that other websites you visited before using Orbius might place personally identifiable information within a User's URL during a visit to their website, and Orbius has no control over such actions by these websites. Accordingly, some of this information may be logged by a subsequent website that collects URL information.

Content and Use of Orbs on Orbius

When you post Content (or send messages) in any Orb on Orbius that enable direct sharing of information with other Users and visitors, other Users and visitors will have access to any Personal Data in such Content. The Orbius Platform keeps track of Content that you have uploaded to an Orb on Orbius. Such information, displayed with your Orbius Profile and photo, if you uploaded one, is available to Users and visitors to Orbius.  In addition, Orbius enables other Users to invite you to use or join Orbs on Orbius.

Because you may voluntarily disclose any Personal Data on Orbius, you should be careful about the information you choose to disclose. Orbius does not control that disclosure, and is not liable in any way for anyone's use or misuse of the information in the disclosure. Use proper caution and judgment. When you suspect any possible misuse or if an Orb Owner fails to comply with the User Privacy Policy, do not disclose any personal information and report the alleged abuse to Orbius as soon as possible.

Orb owners that ask for your email address or other personal information, even if they are not displayed, will specifically ask you for it as a required field. If you supply such information, the Orb Owner has full control, including ability to export the information.

Copyright Content.

If you post any Copyright Content on Orbius, you attest that you legally have the appropriate rights to post such content. You also acknowledge that such content can be used and controlled by other Users or Orb Owners as above.

Deleting Your Information, Content, Comments and Postings.

You may delete any of the Personal Profile Information you control at any time. You may also delete any information in your member area of any Orb you have joined. You may delete any postings other users make on your Personal Profile or your member profile in an Orb.

However, any other comments or postings you have made in the Orb or in Personal Profile sections of other Users will remain in the system. Such comments and postings are under the control of the Orb Owners and Users. You may send a request to them to have those comments and postings removed  from the areas they control, but they are under no obligations to comply.

Please do not make any comments or postings in areas that you don’t control that you might have any concern as a permanent record.

Also, some of your content may remain in our permanent archive and temporary backup storage system even when they are no longer visible to users on Orbius.

Use of Information

Orbius uses any information voluntarily given by our Users internally to guide our product development, to provide interactive or personalized elements to users or to better provide content based on the interests of our users.

Orbius creates aggregate reports on user demographics, Orb membership, and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our sponsors to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are more pertinent to their interests. This is essential to keeping our service free.

We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

See below for more description of use of your information and content you post in Orbs by Orb Owners.

Disclosure and Sharing of Your Information

Sharing with Orbius Service Providers

Orbius may need to provide your Personal Data to third parties to deliver specific services to you (such as credit card payment processing). These third parties are required not to disclose your Personal Data and not to use your Personal Data other than to provide the services requested by Orbius.

Orb Owners Control Your Information and Content in an Orb

The Orbius Terms of Service require each Orb Creator and assigned Orb Owners to comply with applicable laws (e.g., CAN-SPAM) and Orbius' rules with respect to the Orb Owners’ use of your Personal Data.

As a standard practice, Orbius will not allow any Orb Owner to modify the User Privacy Policy. But under certain circumstances and necessity, an Orb may have its own privacy policy applicable to your Orb. Such policy must be pre-approved by Orbius in advance and in writing but will under no circumstances to have lesser protection of your privacy than this Orbius User Privacy Policy. If you, as a participant of an Orb, agree to the Orb's privacy policy, you agree that any dispute you have with an Orb is between you and that Orb Owners (and not with Orbius).

Orbs with their own Privacy Policy are clearly indicated in the footer of every page.

Note that Orb Owners have full control of all the information you have posted within the Orb they control. They have the ability to export the data you have supplied to them in the Orb Member Profile and use such information as per the privacy policy they agree to adhere by. If you do not want the Orb Owner to be able to use such information, please do not provide it to the Orb or choose not to join the Orb. An Orb Owner may also have information of your usage pattern within their Orbs that you joined.

Orb Owners do not have access to any of your information that you post or information of your usage of Orbius outside of their Sponsored Orbs.

Law Enforcement

Orbius may disclose Personal Data if required by a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order, where required by law, or, at our sole discretion, where we deem necessary to protect the safety of any individual or the general public or to prevent violation of our Terms of Service or the rights of Orbius or any third party.

This includes content that may remain in our permanent archive and temporary backup storage after you have deleted it from Orbius.

Communications from Orbius

Orbius uses information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and notifications about Orbius services, and to enable users to participate, be notified of updates in communities on Orbius.

Orbius never sells or shares emailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners. Orbius may provide services to allow such third parties to send you communications without Orbius disclosing your information to them.

Non-US Users

By using Orbius and Communities operating on the Orbius Platform and providing Orbius with data, you acknowledge and agree that due to the international dimension of Orbius we may use the data collected in the course of our relationship for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy or in our other communications with you, including the transmission of information outside your resident jurisdiction.

In addition, please understand that such data may be stored on servers located in the United States where laws protecting Personal Data may not be as stringent as the laws in your jurisdiction. By providing us with your data in the course of using Orbius and the communities on the Orbius Platform, you consent to the transfer of such data.

Transfer of information

We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of Orbius.com, such as acquisition by, merger with another company or sale of assets. In such an event, Orbius will notify you before information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Change of Ownership

In the event of a change in ownership, or a merger with, acquisition by, or sale of assets to, another entity, we reserve the right to transfer all of Orbius' User information, including email addresses, to a separate entity. Orbius will notify Users (via a posting on this site or email of such a transfer, and Users may choose to modify their registration information or deactivate their account at that time.

Orbius Related Entities

In the future, Orbius may have related entities such as a parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Related Entities”). In the event, Orbius may share some or all of your Personal Data with these Related Entities, we will seek to require our related entities to abide by this Privacy Policy or a policy with similar or more stringent use for your personal data.

Security and Safeguards

We take applicable best practice industry-standard security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include reviews of procedures, data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security that guard against unauthorized access to systems containing the personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to only authorized Orbius employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, manage or improve our systems and services. These persons are bound by confidentiality agreements, informed of our security processes and compliance, and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Orbius Platform runs on servers that are located in the United States. Further, additional servers and content distribution infrastructure may be located outside of the United States to support global growth and scalability.

Passwords and any credit card information are stored encrypted on our servers. The encryption key is accessible only by a