Sign Up Process:

Non-Account Activity:

You can watch videos on LetsVlog.com without having an account (about 3 hours worth of material prior to being required to join).  You may also view photos, profiles and categories.  However, in order to interact with the community ie: post comments, upload your own videos, upload your own photos - you must create a member profile, subject to our Terms of Use policy.

Account-Related Activity:

Certain other activities on LetsVlog—like uploading videos, posting comments, flagging videos, or watching restricted videos—require you to have a LetsVlog Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a LetsVlog Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.

Usage Information:

We may record information about your usage, such as when you use LetsVlog, the channels, groups, and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in Letsvlog (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

Content Uploaded To Site:

Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on videos, in blogs,  in messages and photos, within your playback or profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through LetsVlog.com, we use your your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload videos or send messages through LetsVlog.com and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the LetsVlog.com may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major LetsVlog site changes or for customer service purposes).

We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the LetsVlog.com site and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.

We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit LetsVlog.com; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions  and contests.

Internal Emails

As part of membership, you will get access to send and receive emails via our internal email system.  This system cannot receive emails from outside sources.  It can only be used to send and receive private email notes to other LetsVlog members.  Emails notes sent via our internal system cannot be accessed by the Administration Team - unless another member - recipient - forwards it to the Administration Team for whatever reason.

Internal email notes are archived and eventually purged.  However, they can only be accessed by a special order to the system developer who maintains the database.  The Administration Team cannot and does not routinely access any internal email notes.

Special Account Access

In some instances, such as in the event of trouble shooting technical issues, a member of the Admin Team may request access to your account.  Unless you provide express permission, no member of the Admin Team will access your account.  If you do allow the Admin Team to access your account, your password will be reset.  Nobody has access to your password, except for yourself.

After the troubleshooting has been done, you will be notified by the Admin Team member, that the process is complete and will be given a temporary password - which you can change once you login.  Special account access will be used by the Admin Team to troubleshoot whatever issue is reported and nothing more.  You can choose to deny access to the Admin Team at any time.  However, that may obviously hinder the process of finding a solution to your particular issue.

Information That is Publicly Available:

When you create an account on the site, some information about your account and your account activity will be provided to other Users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, your age (if you choose to make it public), the country and the number of videos you have watched.

Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as you upload videos or send messages through LetsVlog. Other Users can contact you through messages and comments. You may also choose to add personal information that will visible to other Users on your channel page. This may include a profile picture, your name, gender, relationship status, or other details.

If you choose to add certain features to your channel page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other Users and may be aggregated and shared with your confirmed friends or other Users. Such shared activity may include what videos you favorite, what videos you rated and what videos you have uploaded.

Any videos that you submit to LetsVlog.com may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public including, but not limited to, Facebook.  The LetsVlog Community does have an active Facebook Group for marketing purposes.  You may be invited to join at any given point.  However, doing so or refraining from doing so will not affect your membership here on our site itself.

Anonymous Accounts:

In compliance with our Terms of Use, anonymous accounts are not allowed.  After a one month period of joining LetsVlog, if a user has not uploaded a vlog or greeting to the Community, it will become necessary to verify their identity using an alternate method.  This could be done via a simple Skype call to the Administration Team or a private video greeting.  The sole purpose of this policy is, not to invade your privacy, but verify your identity - at the most basic level.  This will deter sock accounts - duplicate accounts normally used to create discourse in the Community.  None of the information or media you provide during the simple verification process will be shared with the Community and will be kept strictly confidential.