Company Values
Our business is memories.
We take that responsibility seriously. Being a Web site, we understand that trust is essential to having a positive experience here. That’s why we wrote these company values. In addition to stating publicly what we feel are your entitlements here, we feel these are the basic rights anyone at any site should be entitled to. So feel free to copy and paste for your own use; feel free to forward to a friend. When it comes to using a service that makes your life a little bit better, it’s good knowing the provider of that service is acting in your self-interest as well. You should settle for nothing less elsewhere.
Your rights as a member of dandelife.com:
- You have the right to own your own identity online.
- You have the right to an enjoyable, harassment-free experience on our site.
- You have the right to request that we make our services as easy as possible to receive.
- You have the right to delete your account at any time and erase your profile from our databases immediately.
- You have the right to create content for personal, limited or public use.*
- You have the right to prohibit anyone else from claiming your work as their own.
- You have the right to prohibit anyone else from claiming their own identity as your own.
- You have the right to choose third-party services to help you organize your digital photos, videos, and audio.
- You have the right to choose third-party services to help you manage your digital identity.
- You have the right to look in the mirror. See people as they see you.
- You have the right to prevent, ban, protest and retract commercial use of your media.**
- You have the right to protest offensive content on this site and petition its removal by our administrators.
- You have the right to take your data with you.
- You have the right to stay informed with the ongoing development of features on this site.
- You have the right to be involved in the decision-making process here.
Full disclosure.
In addition to your member rights, we thought you’d also like to know that we as a business that takes your memories (and your willingness to share those memories with others) very seriously. So seriously, that we feel it necessary to commit to a policy of full disclosure. That is, we want you to trust us as a company and the best way we can earn your trust is to have a quality experience and reliable service as well as give you full notice of our intentions for developing it into a profitable and sustainable business. We believe that service should not come at the expense of sustainability while at the same time profits should not come at the expense of the quality.
In the spirit of disclosure we thought you’d like to know that we are asking ourselves some pretty important questions, which may affect your decision to join the site. Those questions are:
- How are our company values and member rights affected by advertising and advertisers?
- How are our company values and member rights affected by trends in identity theft and identity management?
- How do we build a brand of trust? How do we fulfill on that promise?
- How will we work with other services like photo and video-sharing services to guarantee our members’ rights and our company values?
- Who is our audience - soccer moms, digerati, advertisers or everyone in-between?
- How do we enable this conversation in a non-abrasive context?
- What kind of culture do we want to build - exhibitionism or realism? How do we counterbalance exhibitionismnism with dialogue? How do we create an environment where people listen as much as talk?
As a co-founder, CEO and active member of Dandelife.com, I eagerly await your response to this missive. Hopefully, you’ll respond with your dedication to becoming a member and sharing your stories along with mine. But if you choose not to, I would hate for it to be because you thought we did not respect your rights as much as we respect your memories and our business.
Sincerely,
CEO and Co-Founder of Dandelife.com
Footnotes:
* As of the original publishing date of this page, September 29, 2006, this feature is not enabled. It is however a planned feature and will be free for all members.
** If you have given prior consent for the use of your media in a commercial context it may be difficult to retract such consent later. However, we will work with you to help protect your content where possible.
