Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 17 November 2013
We won’t share your information with third parties. Ever. We do collect anonymous user information so we can improve our service. By using the Graboid site, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
We collect personal information that we believe will improve our ability to offer this service to you. Although we can connect this personal information to an individual account, we’ll only ever do so in extreme cases. We do NOT use such information to customize the application, suggest content you might be interested in, or any other form of direct observation of content that is downloaded.
Here are some of the categories of information we may collect:
- Personal Attributes/Interests: We may ask for demographic information (age, gender, geographic location, etc.) that we can use to determine characteristics of our user base as a whole.
- Viewing History: We collect information on content that is downloaded, pages viewed on our website, and links that are clicked on. This is NOT connected to individual accounts.
- Viewing Web Pages: As with most web sites, your computer sends information that gets logged by a web server when you browse our site. This typically includes your computer’s IP address, operating system, browser name/version, the referring web page, requested page, date/time, and sometimes a “cookie” (which can be disabled using your browser preferences) to help the site remember your last visit. The information is included in anonymous statistics to allow us to understand how visitors use our site.
- Viewing Videos: As with browsing web pages, when you watch videos on Graboid, most of the same information is sent to us (including, IP Address, operating system, etc.); instead of page views, your computer sends us information on the specific content accessed.
- Community: If you voluntarily participate in communications with us, including but not limited to blog comments, forum posts, and improvement suggestions, we maintain information, such as your nickname, contact list, and status messages. In addition, these and similar services in the future may require us to maintain your account name and password.
- Email Address and First Name: We ask you for your email address. We use this information to keep you updated, ask you to participate in surveys that help us make Graboid better, respond to or confirm your requests, and notify you of unusual account actions (e.g. password resets). We will assume you are interested in receiving e-mails from us and knowing when there are updates to Graboid or its service, including any updates to its functionality or to the content available (allowing you to “opt-out” if you are not interested). There may be cases in which we use this information to provide you with promotional information related to Graboid or any offer Graboid deems would be of interest to its members.
- For users of our paid services, we may collect your name, address, telephone number, credit card (or other payment service) details. This information will not be shared with third parties except to the extent required to provide you with the services you have requested (e.g. Verisign for credit card processing).
- We have access to your user-specified password, for the purpose of providing customer service.
Security
We take reasonable precautions to keep your personal information secure from unauthorized access, such as encrypted transmission between your computer and our servers and internal corporate policies to limit access to systems that store your personal information. We continue to store your personal information only for so long as it is necessary to provide you our service and periodically destroy old personal information in accordance with our company policies, including when it is no longer essential to our ability to offer you the same high quality service. In most cases, we will keep one archival copy of your information to allow us to comply with laws or respond to legal processes.
Sharing of your Information
We will never sell or rent your email address or any of your personal information! Unless we get your explicit approval in advance, we will only share your personal information as we believe is necessary to:
- Fulfill your requests;
- Enforce our Terms of Service or the Graboid End User License Agreement;
- Protect personal safety;
- Respond to legal processes, such as subpoenas or court orders, or any other legal requirement;
- Where all or a substantial part of the assets of Graboid are sold and as a result there is an associated transfer of all personal information to the new owner of Graboid, in which case we will ensure that the new owner agrees to be bound by this privacy policy;
- Allow us to use another company to email surveys to our users about their experience with Graboid, in which case we will prohibit the company from using your information for any other purpose; or,
- Allow for advertising audits to validate the size and composition of the viewing audience. This requires disclosing records showing which advertisements were viewed by which IP addresses. However, we will never share the viewing history identified with your account in connection with any advertising audit.
Personal information about a user will not be disclosed unless we are required to do so under applicable State and Federal laws, including without limitation, DMCA.
We will also share statistical and demographic information about our users and their use of the Graboid Software with suppliers of advertisements and videos. This would not include anything that could be used to identify you or to discover individual information about you.
Children and Graboid
Graboid is a general audience website, and does not knowingly collect, nor will it ever knowingly retain, personally identifiable information from any visitor Graboid actually knows to be under thirteen years of age without the consent of that child’s parent or legal guardian.
Access to Your Information
You can access and update most of your personal information through the Graboid website. If you wish to review and/or correct any other personal information about you that is in our possession, please contact us.
Withdrawing Consent
If you do not want us to use your personal information, please contact us by email and let us know. Note that some withdrawals of consent will prevent us from providing services to you.
Changes to this Policy
We will place a notice on our website when any significant changes are made to this privacy policy. By visiting Graboid site, or using Graboid software, you consent to the collection and use of information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.