PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR POLICY HAS CHANGED EFFECTIVE AUGUST 11, 2011. DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND, WE ARE NOW PROVIDING USERS WITH THE OPTION TO SIGN INTO PICDISH THROUGH THEIR EMAIL ACCOUNT. WE ALSO HAVE REDUCED THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION THAT WE SEEK TO OBTAIN FROM YOU WHEN YOU LOG INTO PICDISH THROUGH FACEBOOK CONNECT. WE HAVE EDITED OUR PRIVACY POLICY TO REFLECT THESE ENHANCEMENTS TO OUR SERVICE.

Picdish Inc. ("Picdish" or "we") is an application that connects people who love food.

After downloading our application, you'll be able to share delicious moments, showcase your culinary talent, find inspiration in other Picdish users, and discover adventures around the world as they happen. As discussed in more detail below in the section entitled "When and How Does Picdish Share the Information that it Receives," Picdish is an open network. Any information that you post to the Picdish application may be available to other Picdish users as well as to any visitors to our Picdish website.

Picdish values your privacy. Please read this policy (the "Policy") to understand the personal information that we collect from you and how we may use and disclose that information.

Scope of this Policy

This Policy applies to picdish.com (the "Site"), any online or mobile Picdish application ("Application"), and all services offered or made available through the Site or the Application (the "Services") by Picdish.

By visiting the Site, using any of the Services, downloading or logging into our Application, you agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this Policy, which is incorporated by reference into the Picdish Terms of Service, available picdish.com/terms

What Information Do We Collect About You and Why?

The information we collect from you allows you to log into our Site and helps us to provide our Services to you, send you information or content you may be interested in, and connect you with other users. We also use this information to personalize and continually improve our Site and Application. Here are the types of information we gather:

Information We Collect Directly From You When You Sign Into Our Service:

You may sign into our Application directly or through Facebook Connect. During the log-in process and when users first visit the Application, we may collect the following:

• Sign up Process. If you sign up through our Application, we will collect your email address, your desired username, your desired password, and phone number (option). Once you have signed up with us, to log in on subsequent visits, you will simply enter your email address and password.
• Facebook Connect Log-in Information. If you login through Facebook Connect, we will request your email or phone number and your password. Facebook controls the information collected from you during the log in process; Picdish does not control the information that Facebook collects from you. If you enter our Services through Facebook Connect, you will be asked to create a username. You may use your Facebook username or you may create a new username. If you login through Facebook Connect, you will be able to change the photo associated with your username and you are not required to use your Facebook photo.

Other Information that We Collect About You.

You may create an account/user profile through our Service. As part of this account information, we may collect – at your discretion – a brief description about you, a website address, your full name, email address, and a profile picture. In addition, Picdish invites users to share their experiences with food; as such, we will collect any information that you choose to upload to our Service.

Information that We Collect About You From Facebook.

When you sign in through Facebook Connect, Picdish requests your permission to: access your basic information, including, your name, profile picture, gender, list of friends and user ids, email address, and any other information you have set to public on your Facebook account; send email directly to you; post to your wall; and access your data at any time even if you are not using Facebook. Please note, if you allow Picdish to have access to this information, then Picdish will have access to this information even if you have chosen not to make that information public. For information about how Facebook may disclose your information, including any information you make public, please consult the Facebook Privacy Policy. We have no control over how Facebook uses or discloses the personal information you provide to it. We store the information that we receive from Facebook along with other information that we collect from you or receive about you.

Information We Collect Automatically.

We may use cookies, web beacons, and other automated devices to collect information about you when you visit our Site and use our Services. Specifically, we may collect the following information about your use of the Site via these technologies: your browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; your IP address; your interaction with the Application; length of time you are logged in to our Site and our Application; the friends that you invite to use our Services; and website visited before our Site. We also may collect the following information about your use of the Application: iPhone device ID; location and language information; device name and model; operating system type, name, and version; your interaction with the Application; and the length of time that you are logged into our Application. Please see the section "What About Cookies" below for more information about our use of cookies. We may use the information gathered through these methods in anonymous or aggregated form to analyze ways to improve our Site or services. This information is also associated with your username and may be combined with other information, including personally identifiable information that we collect about you.

What About Cookies?

We use cookies or other tracking mechanisms on our Site and to track information, as described above, about your use of both our Site and the Application.. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Site and the Application, while other cookies are used to enable a faster login process or to allow us to track your activities at the Site.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We use the information that we gather about you for the following purposes:

• To provide our Services to you, to communicate with your use of our Services, and for other customer service purposes.
• To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Site or our Services.
• To improve our Site and Services by providing personalized experiences, location customization, personalized help and instructions.
• For research purposes.
• For marketing and advertising purposes; for example, we may use your information to display targeted advertisements to you on our Site or Application; we also may use your email address to email you news and newsletters, special offers, and promotions; we also may use the information that we learn about you to determine where to assist us in advertising our Services on third party websites.
• To better understand how users access and use our Site and Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, for the purposes of improving our Site and Services and responding to user desires and preferences.
• We also may post to your wall, access posts in your news fees, publish check-ins on your behalf, and access your Facebook data when you are not logged into Facebook. We will use and access this information for the purposes described in this section and as discussed below.

When and How Does Picdish Share Information It Receives?

Picdish is an open network. That means that any information that you post to the Application may be available to all other users of the Application. The information that you post to the Application also may be viewable at our website, picdish.com, and, therefore, will be viewable not only to all Picdish users, but also to all visitors to our Site. As part of the Application, you may be able to create a link that will send your friends directly to information that you have posted on the Application, e.g., picdish.com/yourname. Please be advised that this link is not a private link and any person may be able to view the information posted at this link.

We do not sell or rent our users' personally identifiable information. As described below, we may share your information, including personally identifiable information, with other Picdish users; third parties for marketing purposes; as well as to assist us in operating our Site and Providing our Services.

• Facebook Friends. Your username and profile picture will be visible to all other Picdish users, regardless of whether they are your Facebook friends. In addition, when you join Picdish, if you request to post on your Wall under settings, a notification will be visible on your Facebook page telling your friends that you have started using Picdish. The Picdish Application also will be visible on your Facebook page under "applications."
• Picdish Users. Your user name and any information that you post to Picdish, including, without limitation, pictures, comments, and text will be available to all other Picdish users. This information also will be searchable by all Picdish users.
• Affiliates. We may disclose the information we collect from you to our affiliates or subsidiaries; however, if we do so, their use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information will be subject to this Policy.
• Third Parties. We may share your information with third parties to assist us in our marketing efforts.
• Service Providers. We may disclose the information we collect from you to third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform functions on our behalf. These third parties have agreed to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of personally identifiable information and to only use such information for the purposes for which they have been engaged by us.
• Business Transfers: If we are acquired by or merged with another company, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer the information we have collected from to the acquiring company.
• In Response to Legal Process. We also may disclose the information we collect from you in order to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena.
• To Protect Picdish and Others. We also may disclose the information we collect from you where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or violations of our Terms of Use or this Policy.
• Aggregate and Anonymized Information. We may share aggregate or anonymized information about users with third parties for marketing, advertising, research or similar purposes. For example, if we display advertisements on behalf of a third party, we may share aggregate, demographic information with that third party about the users to whom we displayed the advertisements.

User Generated Content

As stated above, the Application is an open network, and any information that you submit to the Application may be viewable by all users of our Application and all visitors to our Site. Users may submit their own content to the Application, including text and pictures. Users also may submit information to our Site, such as responding to blog postings. Picdish is not responsible for the privacy of any information that you choose to submit through this Application, Site, our Services, or through any public forum, such as a blog, or for the accuracy of any information contained in those postings. Any information that you disclose becomes public information. We cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the law, or your personal privacy.

Third-Party Links

At times, the Site or the Application may contain links to other third party websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Policy, but, instead, is governed by the privacy policies of those third party websites, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third party websites.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

We have implemented commercially reasonable precautions, including, where appropriate, password protection, encryption, and SSL to protect our Site and the information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware that despite our best efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security all of the time.

You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your password private. Also, you should never share your log-in information with others. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity. To change your Facebook password, you must go to the Facebook site and follow its procedures for changing your password.

Can I Access and Modify My Personal Information?

You may delete any photographs that you have uploaded to the Application. While your photographs may be removed from the current, user-accessible portions of the Application, they may remain in our systems for a period of time. You also may deauthorize the Picdish application from your Facebook page. Please note that your Picdish user id and profile picture may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Site or Application.

You also may modify any Profile Information that you have submitted directly through our Services. If you would like to access or modify your Facebook profile information, or adjust the types of information we receive from Facebook, you must adjust your Facebook account settings directly through Facebook. We have no control over how Facebook shares your information with us or other third parties. The information you provide to Facebook is subject to the Facebook privacy policy.

What Choices Do I Have?

If we send you any news and newsletters, special offers, promotions or other information we think may interest you, you may tell us to stop sending you such e-mail communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in any such e-mail. Please note that it may take up to 10 days for us to process opt-out and opt-in requests. Further, if you opt-out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you e-mails about your account or any Services you have requested or received from us.

As noted above, to adjust the types of information about you that we receive from Facebook, your must change your Facebook account settings directly through Facebook.

Terms of Use

Your use our Site or Services, as well as any dispute over privacy, is subject to this Policy and our Terms of Use picdish.com/terms, including applicable limitations on damages and the resolution of disputes.

How to Contact Us About Privacy

If you have questions about the privacy aspects of our services or would like to make a complaint, please contact us at legal@picdish.com

Changes to this Policy

We may change this Policy from time to time, so be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to our policy to our Site, at picdish.com/privacy. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on the Site.