Lively by Google

Lively by Google Privacy Notice

July 8, 2008

The Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Google's products and services, including information provided when you use Lively. In addition, the following describes our privacy practices that are specific to Lively.

Personal Information

• Account information and settings. To use Lively, you need a Google Account. Google asks for some personal information when you create a Google Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A Google Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.
• Lively stores, processes, and maintains your "My Contacts" list and other data related to your Google Account in order to provide the service to you.
• When you use Lively, we may automatically record information about your account activity, such as when you use Lively, your number of log-ins, data displayed or clicked on (including UI elements), and other log information (including browser type, IP-address, date and time of access, cookie ID, and referrer URL).

Uses

• We use personal information that you provide internally to deliver the best possible service to you, such as improving the Lively user interface and maintaining a consistent and reliable user experience.
• Your Lively ID and avatar name, but not other personal information, is displayed to other users when you use Lively.

Your Choices

• Visibility to Other Users
  • When you use Lively, other users may be able to see your online presence (including your Lively ID name, your avatar name, and the room that you're currently in), the rooms you've created, the messages you leave in the "Comments" section of rooms and objects, and the content that you've created and made available in the rooms catalog.
  • If a room has 20 or more occupants, then you will only be able to enter the Room as a "viewer." If you are a "viewer," then other users in a room won't be able to see you and you won't be able to chat with them.
  • You can choose to "ignore" other users by clicking on their avatar and selecting the "ignore" option. If you "ignore" another user, you will no longer see the user's avatar or chat messages, but they will continue to see your avatar and your chat messages.
• "My Contacts" List
  • You can choose to add other users to your "My Contacts" list. Users on your "My Contacts" list will be able to see which room you're in (even if you're in "viewer" status), unless you "block" them.
  • If you "ignore" a user who is on your "My Contacts" list, then they will automatically be "blocked" and your online status will not be displayed in their "My Contacts" list.
• Chats
  • Your chats are visible to all occupants of a room, unless you "whisper" to another user, in which case your chat message will only be visible to the user to whom you "whisper."
  • You can see your chats in the chat history for the room you're in. However, chat histories are temporary. When you sign out of a room, the chat history for that room is no longer available to you.
  • Your chats in Lively are not saved for you, but you may copy and paste text chats or otherwise manually record them. Google may temporarily keep a limited number of your chat messages in order to resolve abuse reports, but those messages are not accessible to users.
• For more information please visit the Lively Help Center.

More information

Google adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce's web site.

For more information about our privacy practices, go to the full privacy policy. If you have additional questions, please contact us any time. Or write to us at:

Privacy Matters
c/o Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043 (USA)