This privacy policy applies to the information (the Site) collects about you from
any device you use to access products, services, software, websites, and other goods
and services offered, owned, or operated by (collectively “Services”). Some of these
Services may provide you with additional information and choices about your privacy,
which you should review.
This policy does not apply to information about you collected by third party
websites and offerings linked to or otherwise accessible from the Site. The
information collected or received by third parties is subject to their own privacy
policies.
Collection of Your Information
It is our policy to respect the privacy of the people who use the Services (each a
“User,” collectively the “Users”). Therefore, we will not disclose to any
unauthorized third party a User’s name or contact information. We will also not
monitor, edit or disclose the contents of a User’s information unless required to do
so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on
us;
- Protect and defend our rights or property;
- Act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Users
or the public;
- To prevent or stop any activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk
of being, illegal, unethical, inappropriate or legally actionable; or
- Fix or debug problems with our servers/software/service.
When you register to become a member of the Site and in the course of using the
Site, you may voluntarily submit personally identifiable information that can be
used to contact or identify you and administer your account (”Personal
Information”). Personal information may include, but is not limited to, your name,
phone number and e-mail address. The Site may also collect Personal Information from
you if you choose to opt-in to participate in sweepstakes, surveys, contests or
competitions. When you register with the Site, you create your own profile and
privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, e-mail and photo,
are displayed to people you have specified in your privacy settings. Profile
information you submit to the Site, and make public via your privacy settings, will
also be available to other users via searching our Site, and may be available to
third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and the
content you create and store on the Site. We recommend that you guard your anonymity
and sensitive information and that you not use your real name as your screen or user
name to the extent that allows others to identify you.
As you use the Site, our servers automatically record information that the browser
sends whenever it points to a Site or online service (”Log Data”). Log Data may
include, but is not limited to, your computer’s Internet Protocol address, browser
type, the web page you were visiting before you came to one of the Site and
information you search for on a Site.
Your information may be supplemented with additional information from other
companies such as publicly available information, information about households, and
other information which we may append or match to your information.
The Site may also receive or collect certain technical information when you use our
Services. This may include: your browser or operating system, your manner of
connecting to the Internet (including the type of device you are using) and the name
of your Internet service provider or wireless carrier; your Internet protocol (IP)
address; information about Services that you used prior to registering with the
Site; and data relating to malfunctions or problems occurring when you use the Site
Services. Additionally, we may collect information about other software on your
device for the limited purpose of protecting your security or improving your online
experience.
How Your Information is Used
Personal Information is used for the following purposes: (i) to provide and improve
our services, features and content; (ii) to administer your use of our services and
your account; (iii) to enable users to enjoy and easily navigate the Site; (iv) to
better understand your needs and interests; (v) to fulfill requests you may make;
(vi) to personalize your experience; (vii) to provide service announcements; and
(viii) to provide you with further information and offers from us or third parties
that we believe you may find useful or interesting, including newsletters, marketing
or promotional materials and other information on related services. If you decide at
any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications, please follow the
unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications. Further, you may
easily adjust your privacy and e-mail settings via your account settings at any
time.
Privacy Policy and Consumer Education
Children’s Privacy
We do not direct the Site to persons under 13 years of age, and requires Users to be
13 years or older. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect or maintain on the Site
personally identifying or other information from persons under 13 years of age. If a
parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal
Information without their consent, he or she should contact [email protected], titled Privacy.
If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information,
we will delete such information from our files.
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask a parent or guardian for permission
before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
Consumer Education Related to Social Networking
Creating a safe social networking environment is important to us. While we do not
target or knowingly allow users under 18 to use the Service, interested persons may
visit the following links created by the Federal Trade Commission to learn more
about social networking safety tips:
- http://onguardonline·gοv/socialnetworking·html [link]
- http://onguardonline·gοv/socialnetworking_youth·html [link]
Other Information/Logging and Cookies
Like many websites, we use “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a small
data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes.
We use “persistent cookies” to save your username and login password for future
logins to the Site. We use “session ID cookies” to enable certain features of our
service, to better understand how you interact with the Site and to monitor web
traffic routing on the Site and aggregate usage of the Site. You can instruct your
browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before
accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies,
however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of
the services.
We also use the services of a third-party advertising companies – such as Gοοgle
Adsense – and advertising networks to serve ads to you on our behalf when you visit
the Site. These companies may use “non-identifying information” (which will not
including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits
to this Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you. Snippet from Gοοgle Adsense website :
Google uses the DoubleClick cookie on publisher websites
displaying AdSense for content ads. Subject to any applicable laws, rules and
regulations, you will have the sole and exclusive right to use all data derived from
your use of the DoubleClick cookie for any purpose related to your business,
provided that Gοοgle may use and disclose this data subject to the terms of Google’s advertising privacy policies and any applicable
laws, rules and regulations.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices
about not having this information used by these companies, please visit Network
Advertising Initiative (networkadvertising·org) and read their article regarding Opt Out of Behavioral Advertising.
Information Sharing And Disclosure
Members/Users.
In addition to your username, any comments or submissions that you post to the Site
will be publicly available. You post and share your Personal Information and content
on the Site at your own risk. While we go to great lengths to create a safe and
enjoyable experience on the Site, we cannot control the actions of other users with
whom you may choose to share your content and/or profile information. In addition,
we cannot anticipate other users’ ability to circumvent privacy settings. You
understand that, even after removal of your Personal Information and content from
the Site, copies of your information may remain viewable in cached or archived Web
pages or on the local computers of users who may have downloaded or stored your
information.
Even with all the appropriate precautions we take to protect your information, we
recommend you refrain from sending private information or Personal Information by
e-mail, chat, or other messaging services.
Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying Information.
We may share aggregated information that includes non-identifying information and
Log Data with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, and to
deliver targeted advertising about other products and services.
Service Providers.
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate the our services,
to provide the services on our behalf, to perform services related to administration
of the Site (including, without limitation, maintenance, hosting and database
management services, web analytics and administration). These third parties have
access to your non-identifying personal information or log data (cookies) only to
perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for
any other purpose.
Changing OR Deleting Your Information
All members/authors may review, update, correct or delete the Personal Information
in their registration profile by logging into their account and changing the “user
preferences” associated with their account. If you completely delete all such
information, your account may be deactivated. We may retain an archived copy of your
records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
Our Commitment to Security
The Site concerned with safeguarding your information. We employ a variety of
industry-standard measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized
access.
The Site has established safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse
of your information, but cannot guarantee that your information will never be
disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, as a
result of unauthorized acts by third parties that violate applicable law or the Site
and its affiliated providers’ policies). To protect your privacy and security, we
may use passwords or other technologies to register or authenticate you and enable
you to take advantage of the Services, and before granting access or making
corrections to your information.
International Transfer
Your “non-identifying” personal information may be transferred to – and maintained
on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other
governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those
in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the France and choose to provide
information to us, please be advised that we transfer Personal Information to the
France and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your
submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Links To Other Sites
The Site contains links to other websites. If you choose to visit an advertiser by
“clicking on” a banner ad or other type of advertisement, or click on another third
party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. The fact that we
link to a website or present a banner ad or other type of advertisement is not an
endorsement, authorization or representation that we are affiliated with that third
party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or
practices. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other
websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data
or solicit personal information from you. Other websites and services follow
different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you
submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the
other websites you visit.
Changes to this Privacy Notice and Additional Information
The Site may update this Privacy Notice from time to time, and so you should review
this Policy periodically. If there are significant changes to the Site’s information
practices, you will be provided with appropriate online notice. You may be provided
other privacy-related information in connection with your use of offerings from the
Site as well as for special features and services not described in this Policy that
may be introduced in the future.
Violations and Comments
Please report any violations of the TOS to [email protected], titled : Abuse/Violation; or make
any comments to [email protected]
Last Updated
Thursday, May 24th 2018 – 00:04:23 PM