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YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

The AllUrbanGossip.com business ("AllUrbanGossip.com")
has created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment
to protecting your profile information and informing you
about how we handle it. This privacy policy only applies
to transactions and activities in which you engage ("Transactions"),
and data gathered, on the AllUrbanGossip.com web site (the "Site")
and does not apply to any other web site or offline point
of contact between AllUrbanGossip.com, or any other company, and consumers.
Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may
modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last
revised on April 1, 2004. Each time you visit the Site or
provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting
the practices described in this privacy policy at that time.

Your IP Address

Like most e-commerce websites, each time you
visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address
and the web page from which you came. In order to administer
and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with
our Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and
to gather broad demographic information about you.

Cookies

Like most websites, the Site uses cookies to
keep track of your purchases and other activity on the Site
and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies
to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your
password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial
information so you do not have to re-enter it each time you
visit the Site. Third parties that advertise on the Site
may also place cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable
these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar
on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your
browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access
certain areas or features of the Site.

Information We Collect From You

In order to operate the Site and provide you
with information on products and services that may be of
interest to you, we may collect profile information (i.e.
information that could be used to contact you such as full
name, postal address, phone number and email address), financial
information (e.g. passwords and credit card numbers), demographic
information (e.g. zip code, hometown, gender, purchase history
information and age), public information such as user ratings
and reviews and a user name from you. Please note that nowhere
on the Site do we knowingly collect profile information from
children under the age of 13. The Site also provides you
with the opportunity to save, in a personal account, restaurant
listings, event listings and other information you view on
the Site. A collection of such listings and other information
that is so saved in a personal account is referred to elsewhere
in this privacy policy as "Saved Listings."

Information Other Web Sites Collect From You

On the Site, we place links to other web sites
operated by other parties. Some of these other web sites
contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual
property that we own; others do not. When you click on these
links and visit these other web sites, regardless of whether
or not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other
intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do not
control these other web sites or these other web sites' business
practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to
these other web sites. Consequently, the operators of these
other web sites may collect different kinds of information
about you, and may use and disclose that information in different
ways than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage
you to review their privacy policies and remind you that
we will not be responsible for their actions.

How We Use Personal Information

We use your profile information to help us
efficiently perform Transactions on the Site, to contact
you when necessary in connection with Transactions, and to
send you information, offers and other promotional materials
for AllUrbanGossip.com's or third parties' goods or services. We carefully
select the information we send to you and attempt to send
you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive
offers or special event information. The Site provides you
with the option of declining to receive offers from AllUrbanGossip.com
by "opting-out" of receiving this type
of communication.

To process Transactions on the Site, we may
share your profile information with our agents, representatives,
contractors and service providers so they can provide us
with support services such as authorization of credit card
transactions, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional
fulfillment. We require these entities not to use your information
for any other purpose.

By purchasing or making reservations for products
or services, electing to receive communications (such as
emails or magazine subscriptions), or electing to participate
in contests, sweepstakes, or other programs (such as discount
or rewards programs), offered by third parties on the Site,
you consent to our providing your profile information to
those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal
information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
You will need to contact those third parties to instruct
them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your
personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that
we will have the right to use and disclose all such information
you submit in the same manner in which we use and disclose
all other information you submit.

Your profile information may be passed on to
a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or
assets, or a bankruptcy, of AllUrbanGossip.com. We may also disclose
specific information when we determine that such disclosure
is necessary to comply with applicable law, to cooperate
with law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety
of AllUrbanGossip.com or other visitors to the Site. We also may disclose
your profile information to our subsidiary and parent companies
and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses
with whom we are under common corporate control. However,
all of these parent, subsidiary and affiliated legal entities
and businesses that receive your profile information from
us will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with
respect to their use and disclosure of such profile information.

Any third party with whom we are allowed to
share your profile information is authorized to use your
profile information in accordance with our contractual arrangements
with such third parties and in accordance with their own
privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you
agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their
actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to
be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences
for the use of your profile information by them.

Please read the information below under the
heading "How We Use Public Information, Reviews, Ratings
and User Names" to learn how we may make some of your
profile information accessible to the public via the Site
or via other means.

How We Use Financial Information

We use your financial information to check
your qualifications, to bill you for products and services
and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and
similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By
making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of Transaction
that uses financial information, on the Site, you consent
to our providing your financial information to our service
providers and to such third parties as we determine is necessary
to process your Transactions, as well as to your credit card
issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include
the credit card companies and banking institutions used to
process the Transaction. By purchasing, or making reservations
for, products or services of third parties offered on the
Site, or by participating in programs offered on the Site
that are administered by third parties and that require you
to submit financial information in order to use them, you
also consent to our providing your financial information
to those third parties. Any of these various third parties
are authorized to use your financial information in accordance
with our contractual arrangements with such third parties
and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which
we have no control, and you that we are not responsible or
liable for any of their actions or omissions.

How We Use Demographic Information and Saved Listings

We use demographic information and Saved Listings
to tailor the Site and communications to the interests of
our users. We may share demographic information and Saved
Listings with advertisers and other third parties ("Sponsors")
so that they can tailor their advertisements and communications
to the appropriate audience. If you consent to have us share
your profile information as described above, then the demographic
information and Saved Listings that we provide to Sponsors
may be linked to your profile information so that Sponsors
will be able to know about your demographic information and
will also know what your Saved Listings are. If you do not
consent to have us share your profile information as described
above, then we will only provide your demographic information
and Saved Listings to Sponsors on an anonymous and aggregated
basis.

How We Use Public Information, Reviews, Ratings and User
Names

When you register on the Site, you must enter
a user name. You will also be given the chance to designate
certain of your profile information and other information
as "public" or "private." You
may change these public/private designations in the Edit
My Profile section of the Site. The Site provides you with
the opportunity to give user reviews and ratings for restaurants,
hotels, bars, events and other items. Your user name and
public information may appear next to your user reviews and
ratings as they are posted on the Site. Your user name and
public information may also appear on a User Profile section
of the Site. Please note that if you designate your email
address as "public" information, then other Site
visitors may see your email address and send you emails.
We may also use and disclose your user name, public information
and reviews and ratings in any other manner. To read further
details about how we may use your user name, public information
and reviews, see our "Reviews are owned by Holla!".

Our Security Precautions, Location of Information

The Site has security measures in place to
protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information
under our control. Your information may be transferred to
and maintained on computer networks which may be located
outside of the state, province, country or other governmental
jurisdiction in which you reside, and the countries in which
these computer networks are located may not have privacy
laws as protective as the laws in your country.

How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal
Information and Public/Private Designations

After you submit personal information in connection
with purchasing or reserving products or services, electing
to receive communications or electing to participate in contests,
sweepstakes, or other programs (such as discount or rewards
programs), offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site,
we may use such information to send you marketing emails.
However, if we do so, we will provide a link that you can
click on to opt-out of receiving subsequent marketing emails
generated from the same such information. In many cases we
will also provide opt-in boxes so that you can indicate your
preferences before receiving marketing emails.

Please note that changing or deleting your
information through Edit My Profile, or otherwise opting-out
of receipt of email communications from AllUrbanGossip.com will only
change or delete the data in our My Profile database for
purposes of future Transactions on the Site and for managing
future communications from AllUrbanGossip.com. These changes and deletions
will not change or delete information that we may have already
forwarded to credit card companies or any other third parties,
all as provided above in this privacy policy.

If you have any questions or concerns about
this privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings
with the Site, you can contact us at info@AllUrbanGossip.com.

You can also send us mail to: Privacy Officer, Legal Department,
AllUrbanGossip.com, P.O. Box 17963, Atlanta, GA 30316.