Privacy Policy

Brief Overview

Here’s a summary of what you can expect to find in our Privacy Policy, which covers all TightKnit-branded products and services:

Making your experience personal.

When you create a TightKnit account to use any one of our applications or sites, the information we collect is for the purpose of offering a more personalized and satisfying user experience.

How we use your data.

The Privacy Policy clearly outlines the types of data we collect from your activity, and how we use that information to enhance your TightKnit experience. We do not share your personally identifiable data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks.

Your privacy protected.

When we publish statistics about growth in user engagement or that otherwise celebrate the popularity of TightKnit, we make sure to analyze the data in a way that protects your privacy. When this information is published, it is only in an aggregated form that does not disclose your personally identifiable information. In addition, we implement industry standard security safeguards designed to protect your data.

It’s your experience.

Our Privacy Policy makes it clear what rights you have when using TightKnit. We also address how data collection technologies help provide functionality and insight to help you fully engage with the TightKnit platform and the family members and friends with whom you have connected.

Privacy Policy

Last modified on October 15, 2018

This TightKnit, Inc. Privacy Policy explains our practices, defines our users’ (“you” or “your”) privacy options, and describes how your information is collected and used by TightKnit, Inc. (“we,” “us,” “our,” or “TightKnit”). This Privacy Policy, along with our Terms of Use, governs your use of the TightKnit website at www.tightknit.com (“Site”) and any web or mobile applications we develop (collectively, our “Platform”).

By using the TightKnit Platform, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

We reserve the right to modify this policy at our discretion and will mark new versions with a corresponding effective date. We recommend you visit the Site to review any changes in our practices. Your continued use of the Platform constitutes your agreement to our then-current Privacy Policy.

Our Platform may contain links to other websites. These websites may have privacy policies different than our Privacy Policy. Any interaction on social media websites is governed by the terms of use and privacy policy of the particular site.

Collection and Use of User Information

At TightKnit, we enable you to capture and share special memories, so they remain alive, always percolating in and around the family. As a result, we collect Personal Information from you through our Platform, or through any other digital or personal communication between you and us. Personal Information is information that can identify you, such as your name, email or street address, or it may be information that could reasonably be linked back to you. We may also collect general information about your technology interfaces or preferences and the websites you visit.

The information we may collect includes, but may not be limited to:

• Your Basic Information, Including Your Name, Email Address, and Billing Information: We use your personal data to authorize your access to our Platform; to send you our newsletter and other company related updates, promotions, and materials; and to process any transactions made through the Platform.
• User Content: We collect content you create and post, upload, or otherwise provide to the Platform, including without limitation, photographs, captions, comments, graphics, video, and other messages (“User Content”). Subject to your account preferences, this information is shared with other users within your family group(s) for the purpose of discovering more about shared family histories.
• Technical Specifications, Cookies, and Other Similar Technologies: For each device you use to connect to our Platform, we may collect information regarding your browser, IP address, and other technical specifications to measure our website traffic and to help provide a more personalized experience to you. We use cookies and similar technologies (for example, web beacons, pixels, tags and device identifiers) to recognize you and/or your device(s). Cookies and similar technologies help to facilitate the best possible user experience as they allow us to recognize you and maintain your user preferences from session to session, help us keep your account safe, and generally improve the functionality of the products and services we offer. They also help us ensure that user information is used in association with the correct user account. Importantly, we do not use cookies or similar technologies to facilitate interest-based ads from third parties.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Site and Platform are not designed for children, and we do not knowingly collect information from any person under the age of 13.

Sharing User Information

We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks for their advertising purposes.

We may share information, in the aggregate, regarding our Users’ online browsing preferences to evaluate our products or allow third parties we work with to better serve our users. We will not share personally identifiable information in these instances, other than as described in this Privacy Policy.

We may provide user information to third-party service providers, vendors or partners we use solely to support our mission, for purposes of, including without limitation, initiating direct marketing programs on our behalf, cloud hosting, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, communication, maintenance or development of our Platform, customer service, new product development, or other contracted promotional opportunities provided to our users. We may share this information with any subsidiaries, licensees, suppliers, distributors, affiliates, assigns, successors, or other related entities and their respective owners. We may also share your personal information in connection with law enforcement requests or in response to investigations, subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims or as otherwise required by law.

Business Transfers

We may also disclose your information to a third party as part of reorganization or a sale of the assets of TightKnit, or its subsidiaries or divisions. Any third party to which TightKnit transfers or sells the Platform or related assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us.

Protection of User Information

We maintain administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for all user information collected in our Platform. However, given the nature of communications and information technology, and that the use of the Internet has inherent risks, although we regularly monitor for possible vulnerabilities and attack, we cannot warrant or guarantee that information provided to us through the Platform or stored in our systems or otherwise will be absolutely free from unauthorized intrusion by others, nor can we warrant or guarantee that such data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

Limitation of Information Collected

By providing information to us or using our Platform, you are consenting to our use of your data as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

While we work hard to use and disclose our users’ personal information only for the purposes identified above, you can choose not to provide personal information or can limit the personal information obtained by us as follows:

• You may have your contact information removed from our marketing lists to inform users of new or relevant products, services, and special offers by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any communication received from us; and
• Although most internet browsers accept cookies and the like by default, you can control these types of technology through your browser settings and similar tools and agree to refuse all cookies altogether. If you refuse to accept cookies and similar technologies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or smartphone, you may be prohibiting us from delivering the full capability of the Platform and preventing the use of certain features and services that require these technologies.

California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code § 1798.83 permits users that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Under Section 1798.83, TightKnit currently does not share any Personal Information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

Do Not Track Signals

At this time, the Site does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

Contact Us

For additional information pertaining to our Privacy Policy, please contact:

TightKnit, Inc.
229 Minnetonka Ave S, #185
Wayzata, MN 55391
[email protected]