Usher™ Privacy Policy

The Usher Service collects personally identifiable information from you solely to operate the Service as described in the “How We Use Your User Information” section below. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to advertisers or spammers. We will only share the information we collect from you as described in the section below entitled “How We Share Your User Information.”

We at Strategy Network Incorporated ("we" or the "Company"), a subsidiary of MicroStrategy Incorporated, respect your privacy and value the relationship we have with you. This Privacy Policy is designed to show you what information about you we collect through the Usher Application on the social network operated by Facebook (the “Facebook Application”), the related mobile device software applications (the “Mobile Software”) and the Usher website at usher.com (together with the Facebook Application and the Mobile Software, the "Service"), and how we use and share that information. Your use of Facebook in general and your relationship with Facebook are subject to Facebook’s own Privacy Policy and Facebook’s other terms and policies, which we strongly recommend that you review before you start using the Service. We do not control and are not responsible for Facebook’s processing of your information.

Information We Collect About You

The Service facilitates the creation of events and the management of groups and event memberships and invitations (including member/invitee validation), the creation and viewing of communications among members or invitees, and the creation, tracking and management of ticketing for events. In order to facilitate these processes, the Service may collect personal information and content that was provided by you or other users to Facebook or was associated by Facebook with a particular user ("Facebook Information"). When you use the Service, we may collect any Facebook Information you have made visible to "Everyone" on Facebook as well as the information Facebook designates as your publicly available information. This includes your:

When first using the Service, you will be asked to provide a profile picture unique from your Facebook profile picture allowing other users of the Service to confirm your identity by viewing a clear picture of your face. You will also be asked to grant us access to additional Facebook Information that you are allowed to share under Facebook’s policies. Currently, we ask that you share all information that you are allowed to share under Facebook policies. This information includes:

Even if you have not explicitly allowed us access to any of your Facebook Information, we may collect information about you when your friends on Facebook allow access to and use the Service, subject to your Facebook settings. We may also send you emails and post on your Facebook Wall in connection with your use of the Service. In addition to the Facebook Information, we may collect information we receive from you in connection with your requests for customer support, your user feedback or other communications you direct to us. We may also collect information related to your usage of the Service, such as how often you log into the Service and what functions of the Service you use the most frequently. Any such information will be treated in the same manner as Facebook Information.

Information We Collect When You Access the Service on a Mobile Device

When you use the Mobile Software on your mobile telephone or other mobile device, we collect your unique device identifier, IP address and your location (“Mobile Information” and together with Facebook Information “User Information”).

Mobile Log-In Information

To log into the Mobile Software, you must input your email address and Facebook password. This Facebook login information is collected directly by Facebook as part of the login process and does not pass through our servers.

How We Use Your User Information

The Company will only use your User Information for the following purposes:

We will not sell your personally identifiable User Information to anyone, including advertisers or spammers. You may choose to not receive communications from us about new features or promotions of the Service by opting out of such communications

How We Share Your User Information

We may share your User Information in the following cases:

We will not provide personally identifiable User Information to third parties for their use in marketing their products or services to you, but we do not control and are not responsible for Facebook’s own use of content and information it collects in relation to this Service.

How We Protect Your User Information

We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the User Information that we collect about you against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. While we cannot guarantee that no accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use of your information will occur, we will work hard to prevent any such occurrences.

Transfers of User Information to Other Countries

The Company uses databases located in different jurisdictions. We may transfer User Information we collect about you to our databases outside your country of residence. Even if the laws in the country to which the information is transferred do not require us to provide adequate protection for your data, we will nevertheless seek to ensure that information transferred to such country is adequately protected.

Your Privacy Rights and Choices

You may stop the Service from using your User Information at any time by (i) uninstalling the Facebook Application and setting your Facebook privacy settings to prevent the Service from accessing your Facebook Information through your friends or (ii) deleting your Facebook account. Following your de-installation of the Service or deletion of your Facebook account, certain of your information may still be preserved in a non-personally identifiable form as part of aggregate historical data reports used by the Company.

Subject to applicable law, we provide you with access to the User Information we have retained about you and the ability to review, correct, update, block or delete the information where it is inaccurate. Subject to applicable law, we may limit or deny access to your User Information where providing such access is unreasonably burdensome or expensive under the circumstances. Please submit your request to the address specified in the "How to Contact Us" section below.

Updates to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our information processing practices or for any other purpose. We will post a notice in the Info section of the Service’s profile to notify you of any significant changes to the Privacy Policy and indicate there and at the top of the Privacy Policy when it was most recently updated.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at support@usher.com or telephone at 703-744-6529. You also may write to us at Strategy Network, 1850 Towers Crescent Plaza, Tysons Corner, Virginia 22182, Attn: Office of the General Counsel. Questions or comments submitted through other means, such as Wall posts, may not be received or addressed.