CapitolHub.com Privacy Policy
Effective as of June 15, 2009.

SUMMARY

We take the privacy of our users very seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn more about how Hudson Street Media LLC and CapitolHub.com (“CapitolHub,” “we,” or “us”) treat personally identifiable information in connection with the CapitolHub software and the CapitolHub websites, including the website located at http://capitolhub.com (collectively the “CapitolHub Service” or simply “Service”). We provide this Privacy Policy because you have a right to know what information we collect, how it is protected and used, and the circumstances under which it may be disclosed. If you have comments, suggestions, questions, or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at privacy@capitolhub.com or in writing at: 349 Broadway - 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013.

Online Privacy Standards.

While there are no official standards governing privacy practices on the internet, we follow the principles supported by the Federal Trade Commission’s Fair Information Practices Principles, currently available at http://www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy3/tos.

What This Policy Covers.

This policy covers the ways in which CapitolHub treats personally identifiable information that we obtain when you visit our website or use our Service. We regard personally identifiable information as information that someone can use to identify or contact you in person, such as real name, telephone number, birth date, email address, or physical mailing address. Information that we use internally to identify you as a member in our system, such as your selected UserName, is not considered personally identifiable information.

What This Policy Does Not Cover.

This policy does not cover the privacy practices of third parties that we do not own or control, such as our partners and advertisers. In addition, we may provide links to other services and on occasion to other sites that may interest you. All of these sites operate independently of CapitolHub and they have their own privacy or security practices. For your best on-line experience, we encourage you to review their policies before submitting any personal information to them.

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

Information You Provide

Registration Information.

During the registration process, we require that you provide an email address. We will send you an email to verify that you are the owner of this address. You will also choose a UserName that we will use to identify you in our system.

Optional Member Profile Information.

You can choose to provide us with additional optional information about yourself, to help us deliver a more personalized experience to you. Providing this additional information is purely optional.

Surveys and Contests.

Your participation in contests or surveys offered by and through the CapitolHub Service is entirely optional. Should you choose to participate in a contest or survey, we may collect personally identifiable information from you as a condition of that participation. If you do not wish to disclose the requested information, please do not participate in the contest or survey for which it is required.

Access To Your Personal Information.

In general, we make it easy for you to view the personally identifiable information we have collected from you in your user account page, where you can add, edit, or delete it as you see fit.

Information We Do Not Collect

Children.

As explained further in our Terms of Use, currently available at http://capitolhub.com/content/terms-use, you must be 18 years of age or older to register to use the CapitolHub Service. Therefore, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information about children. If you believe that we have information from or about anyone under 18 years of age, please notify us by email at privacy@CapitolHub.com or write to our TITLE at the address noted above.

Social Security Number.

We do not require your social security number to use the CapitolHub Service or to access any part of our site. CapitolHub will never ask for your social security number.

Information We Track

Log Files.

Similar to many websites, we gather certain anonymous, non-personal information automatically and store it in web server log files. This information includes internet protocol addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), site entry/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to improve our site, analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movements around the site, and gather aggregate information about our user base as a whole. Aggregate information is data we collect about a group or category of services or members from which individual member identities have been removed, and therefore does not include your personally identifiable information.

Cookies.

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. It can also help us understand how our site visitors click to our site, and what pages they view during their visit. Similar to many websites, we store an encrypted cookie on your computer so we can remember you when you come back to our website without requiring you to log in each time. Cookies also allow us to track and understand the interests of our users to enhance the overall experience on our site. Cookies used by CapitolHub do not include your personally identifiable information

You can set your web browser software to disable cookies. To do so, please refer to the help section of your specific browser for more information on how to manage or disable cookies. If you disable cookies, you may still view our site but some areas of our site will not work properly.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION

In CapitolHub Communications

We use emails and/or prominent notifications on our website as our primary means to inform our members of important Service and promotional announcements.

Service-related Announcements.

We use your email address to deliver important Service-related announcements. Example Service-related announcements include: email verification during registration, requests for password reset, important security or server maintenance updates, software updates, upgrades, and new releases, or policy changes. These Service-related announcements are considered a fundamental part the CapitolHub Service, and members cannot opt-out of these email announcements.

Promotional Announcements.

In order to improve the experience for our users, we will offer you the ability to sign up for optional email communications, such as regular updates from CapitolHub. These communications are enhancements to our service and are entirely optional. We will ask for your consent before sending you promotional communications, and will make it easy for you to unsubscribe from these communications either through the emails themselves or though your member profile page.

Refer A Friend Program.

If you choose to use our referral tool to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We store this information for the purpose of sending this one-time email, and to track the success of our referral program. In the future, we may also chose to use this information to market or promote the CapitolHub Service. Your friend may contact us at privacy@CapitolHub.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

On Our Website

Identification Of Authors By UserName.

We are a collaborative media company, which means we depend on the contributions of our members to improve the quality of the CapitolHub Service. When you make a contribution, you will be identified by your UserName as the contributor. Similarly, when you take other actions on the website, such as posting a comment regarding content submitted by another user, you will be identified as the author of that comment, or other action. In these circumstances, we will only identify you by your UserName. In some cases, you can choose to include other personally identifiable information along with your UserName, such as your first and last name, and employer. However, in using our Service you are not required to provide or publicize any personally identifiable information in connection with your contributions and actions on our website.

Public Profile.

When you register, we will create a public member profile based on your UserName. You have the option to include your personally identifiable information in your public profile, but you are not required to do so. You can easily add, edit, and delete information in your public profile through the member profile page.

Site Statistics.

As noted above, we use information collected from our web log files to calculate and publish anonymous, non-personal, aggregate statistics that we believe our members are interested in viewing. For example, we track and publish the total number of users who have viewed a particular web page. We publish this data in aggregate form only, and do not tie it to any personally identifiable information.

On Other Affiliated Websites

For Internal Reporting and Analysis

As noted above, we use information gathered from log files and cookies to improve our site, analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movements around the site, and to gather aggregate information about our user base as a whole. We do not tie this data to personally identifiable information.

HOW WE SHARE AND DISCLOSE INFORMATION

On Our Website

Public Messages.

Some features of the CapitolHub Service allow you to communicate with other members by posting messages to public areas of the Service. Please be aware that what you write in these public areas can be viewed, collected, or used by anyone who visits our website. We are not responsible for any personally identifiable information that you submit or permit others to submit through public messages.

Co-Branded Sites

With Third-Parties

Sharing, Renting, and Selling Information We Collect.

We will neither rent nor sell your personally identifiable information to anyone. Occasionally we share anonymous, non-personal, aggregate information about our user base with partners or advertisers, and we may publish these aggregate usage statistics on our website for the interest of our members. We do not tie this shared or published data to the personally identifiable information of any person.

Linked Services.

In some cases, we allow you to access or link to other web services through our website. For example, we allow users share content using FaceBook, Digg, and Delicious, among others. We make it easy for you to determine when you are accessing or linking to these other web services through our website. In all of these cases, those sites may choose to collect your personal information as they deem appropriate. As noted above, we are not responsible for or in control of how third parties collect, use, or disclose your information obtained through these linked services. We encourage you to be aware when you are using these third party services and, for your best on-line experience, we encourage you to review their policies before submitting any personal information to them.

As Necessary In Certain Legal Circumstances

Legal Requirements.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.

Acquisition.

If our company is acquired, all of our assets, including user information, may be transferred to the acquiring company. At that time, your user information may become subject to the acquiring company's privacy policy. Before we transfer your user information, we will notify you either by email or by posting a prominent notice on our site, and we will remind you of your ability to add, edit or delete your personally identifiable information from your member profile page in advance of any such transfer.

HOW WE KEEP INFORMATION SECURE

Security of Account Information.

Your account information is password-protected. We will not share your password with anyone. Please do not share your password with anyone, and remember to change your password from time to time, to keep your account information secure.

Network Security.

We have implemented a variety of commercially standard encryption and security technologies and procedures to protect information, including your personal information, stored in our computer systems from unauthorized access. Please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, thus we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Management Procedures.

We also maintain standard physical and electronic procedural safeguards that limit access to your personally identifiable information to our employees (or people working on our behalf and under confidentiality agreements) who, through the course of standard business activities, need to access your personally identifiable information.

YOUR PERSONAL CHOICES

Sharing Information With Other Members.

You are able to control what personal information about you is provided in your public profile, and what information you choose not to provide. You can view, add, edit, and delete information in your public profile through your member profile page.

Receiving Communications.

If you subscribe to any optional promotional communications, you will be able to unsubscribe from these communications through your member profile page or through the emails we send you.

Editing / Deleting Member Account Information.

You can view the personally identifiable information we have collected from you in your member profile page where you can add, edit, or delete it as you see fit.

UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time, we will review and make changes to our privacy policy. When we do so, we will notify you either by email or place a prominent notice on our website. The most recent version of our privacy policy is always available from a link on our homepage, and at http://capitolhub.com/privacy.