Last Updated: November 30, 2011

Aloha! Please take some time to read through our privacy policy. Before you start though, we want you to know that we take you and your privacy seriously. We will never knowingly compromise your private information.

HomegrownHawaii.com is a fun website that lets you invite your friends from Hawaii to sign up and communicate with each other. Like any website that offers a service where you register and provide information about yourself or your opinions, it is wise to pay attention to your personal information. At HomegrownHawaii.com we understand this, and have established this Privacy Policy to explain how information is collected on our website, and how this information is used. Members Must Be 18 years of age or older. HomegrownHawaii.com is intended solely for use by persons 18 years of age or older. All persons under 18 are prohibited from registering on HomegrownHawaii.com.

The safety and privacy of children is extremely important to us. HomegrownHawaii.com is not intended to be used by anyone under the age of 18 years of age. HomegrownHawaii.com is a general audience web site that complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our registration process is designed to restrict children under the age of 18 from becoming members of HomegrownHawaii.com and using our site. If we receive information suggesting that a user who has registered with HomegrownHawaii.com is under the age of 18, we require the user to provide evidence confirming that the user is at least 18 years old. If the user fails to provide such information within 48 hours, we immediately terminate the user's account and nullify all personally identifiable information displaying on the site and collected from such user.

All users begin using HomegrownHawaii.com's services by registering on the HomegrownHawaii.com website. When registering, users provide personally identifiable information, which includes their first and last name, email address, which school they attend, a user-chosen password, and date of birth, and other personal information. During registration, users also complete survey questions that provide information that is helpful for us to understand the demographics and consumer behavior of our users, such as identifying the users' eye color, style, personality type, favorite color, sport, food, activity or TV show, post-graduation plans or graduation year. Users may also provide journal entries to an online journal. To complete the registration process, HomegrownHawaii.com sends a validation email message to each user, with a URL link back to our website. This URL contains an alphanumeric identifier and a user-specific numeric passcode that allows us to confirm the user's identity.

HomegrownHawaii.com logs standard user information and clickstream data for all users, including a user's IP address, operating system, and page views. When users visit particular pages within HomegrownHawaii.com, a UserID may be placed in the URL, allowing customized features for the user. Users should be aware that other websites visited before entering HomegrownHawaii.com might place personally identifiable information within a user's URL during a visit to their website, and HomegrownHawaii.com has no control over such websites. Accordingly, some of this information may be logged by a subsequent website that collects URL information. In addition to the standard log information, HomegrownHawaii.com uses a variety of technologies to create a more personalized experience for its users. Cookies are small data files sent by websites to a user's browser and hard drive that identify the computer to the website. We use cookies to allow enhanced features, such as allowing registered users to bypass typing their passwords before entering the website. We may also use cookies to enable customizable content for users, as they become available. Users have the option, within their Internet browsers, to disable cookies but may lose access to the HomegrownHawaii.com website member pages. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files that are included in HTML-encoded e-mail messages. We use pixel tags to gather information about the e-mails we send to our registered users. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient's computer accesses our server to retrieve the pixel tag file, and allows us to record and store the date and time, the recipient's e-mail address, and other standard logging information. The pixel tag also may read cookies. HomegrownHawaii.com web pages may also contain similar pixel tags that allow us to count users who have visited those pages, to compile aggregated statistics about site usage, and to deliver co-branded services as they become available. HomegrownHawaii.com pixel tags collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the pixel tag resides. HomegrownHawaii.com web pages may also contain pixel tags placed there by third party ad servers, to monitor the effectiveness of their advertising. We do not have access to, nor control over, advertisers' cookies or how they may be used.

All personal information collected by HomegrownHawaii.com in connection with your use of the HomegrownHawaii.com website, including, without limitation, your name, location, email address, pictures, friend connections, messages, comments, login information, ip addresses and other data, will be stored by HomegrownHawaii.com indefinitely in a safe and secure manner.

HomegrownHawaii.com uses personally identifiable user information for the purposes of the HomegrownHawaii.com website, the HomegrownHawaii.com referral and friend list building. Personally identifiable information including members' pictures and names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction on HomegrownHawaii.com. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join HomegrownHawaii.com and to add users to members' friends' networks. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, HomegrownHawaii.com allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, location and schools where users may have attended. We also use email addresses to send useful information to all registered users regarding the HomegrownHawaii.com website.For example, we use email addresses of users, and of those persons provided on their referral lists, to send an invitation to the referred friend and encourage them to sign up on HomegrownHawaii.com. When a user lists an email address on the referral page, an email is automatically sent from that registered user to the referral address, encouraging the referral to sign up on the HomegrownHawaii.com website. If the referred person does not sign up within a few days, we also send a reminder from the registered user to the referral address. All registered users will be able to view other users Stats, Profiles, Journals and friend list pages, which may include personal information and responses to survey questions. From time to time, HomegrownHawaii.com may share the email address and/or other personally identifiable information of any registered user with third parties for marketing purposes. In addition, HomegrownHawaii.com may share a registered user's email address with third parties to target advertising and to improve user experience on HomegrownHawaii.com's pages in general.

HomegrownHawaii.com uses cookie, IP address, clickstream and URL information to improve the content of the HomegrownHawaii.com website, the quality of HomegrownHawaii.com servers, and to provide enhanced features to users, where available. We use cookies to save UserIDs, session validators, and on users' browsers and hard drives, and may use them to provide tailored products or services to those users, as they become available. We also cross-match user information with information collected from cookies and clickstream data in order to test features of the HomegrownHawaii.com website, and to better personalize our various offerings for users. IP Addresses also help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the HomegrownHawaii.com site, and to otherwise provide the HomegrownHawaii.com service to its users. IP addresses may be disclosed to a third party if we believe in good faith that the law or legal process so requires, or to protect the rights or property of HomegrownHawaii.com or others. From time to time we may extend various offers from various partner companies, including news or additional details on products and services. A user's usage history may result in specifically tailored special offer screens or products. We may also produce aggregate reports for advertisers. For example, we may report to advertisers the number of users who clicked on an ad, or the number of users that visited different portions of the HomegrownHawaii.com website. This information will not include personally identifiable information about a user, or a specific user's online usage patterns.

HomegrownHawaii.com allows Members to provide information to a profile and/or journal entries that is accessible to other users. We use this profile information for the purposes of providing our services to you, such as to analyze demographics, to better personalize our various offerings for users, or to enable other users to find your profile. All information, including any personally identifiable information, which is disclosed by users in his or her public profile and journal entries are available for others to see. Please do not post direct contact information in either your profile or your journal, such as your email addresses, URLs, instant messenger IDs, phone numbers, full names, or addresses. We also caution you not to share sensitive information (such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and driver's license numbers) with other users whom you do not know or place such information in your profile.

The Invite Friends feature is an easy way for HomegrownHawaii.com users to invite friends through email. The email address(es) that you supply to use this service will only be used to send invitations to connect with you on HomegrownHawaii.com.

At various times we may offer surveys or contests to users. Surveys may ask for contact, demographic or unique identifying information to increase the value of the results. Contests may require contact information or other demographic or personally identifiable information in order to determine eligibility. HomegrownHawaii.com may use information collected from surveys and contests for the entertainment of users, and to determine, notify and contact winners of various contests. In addition, users' demographic and/or personally identifiable information and responses to survey and contest questions may be used by HomegrownHawaii.com and/or shared with third parties in order to provide specifically tailored special offers or advertisements. HomegrownHawaii.com will not share a user's email address with third parties unless the user specifically opts-in to such sharing during the completion of or registration for a survey or contest.

Please be aware that links to third party websites and third-party ad server advertisements that are found on HomegrownHawaii.com may, or may not, use cookies, pixel tags and web tags. HomegrownHawaii.com may provide links to third party websites, which may, or may not, use cookies, pixel tags and web tags. Ad servers may also use these tools to compile information about where users saw particular advertisements, and to determine which ads were clicked on. We are not responsible for, or have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites and ad servers, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited when linking directly from HomegrownHawaii.com.

HomegrownHawaii.com may disclose personally identifiable user information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process. HomegrownHawaii.com may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Service; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of HomegrownHawaii.com, its users or the general public.

HomegrownHawaii.com uses industry standard security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by the HomegrownHawaii.com website in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. Further, while we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.

As a registered user, you may, at any time, choose to correct or update the information you have submitted to us. This may be done by the following method: As a registered user, you may, at any time, cancel your account.

Users can manage their mailing preferences to specify which type of email to opt out of on their Update Account Info page when they are logged in, simply by un-checking the boxes indicating which type of email they would not like to receive. Canceling one's account will also prevent a user from receiving future communications from HomegrownHawaii.com, and HomegrownHawaii.com will not share the user's information with third parties for marketing purposes.

We at HomegrownHawaii.com.com are opposed to spam. Our No Spam Policy and Terms of Service prohibit all users from engaging in any activity involving spam on our service. Violations of these policies may result in immediate termination of service and legal action against any spammer. HomegrownHawaii.com's Terms of Service expressly prohibit users from uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available junk mail, commercial advertisements, or other form of commercial solicitation on the HomegrownHawaii.com website or through HomegrownHawaii.com's services. Any violation of our policies, by sending unsolicited email advertisements to or through HomegrownHawaii.com.com computer systems, will use or cause to be used HomegrownHawaii.com.com servers, located in California. Accordingly, any unauthorized use of HomegrownHawaii.com.com computer systems is a violation of our policies and certain federal and state laws, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. sect 1030 et seq.), Section 502 of the California Penal Code and Section 17538.45 of the California Business and Professions Code. Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.

In the event of a change in ownership, or a direct merger or acquisition with another entity, we reserve the right to transfer all of HomegrownHawaii.com's user information, including email addresses and postal addresses, to a separate entity. All registered users will be notified of any change in ownership, merger or acquisition of HomegrownHawaii.com's assets by a third party, and may choose to modify any of their registration information at that time.

HomegrownHawaii.com reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Notice of any revision, amendment, or modification will be posted on the website, and a user's continued use of HomegrownHawaii.com will signify agreement to such changes.