We recognize that your privacy is very important and take it
seriously. This Privacy Policy describes CWC Update ’s policies and procedures
on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the CWC
Update Service, via the CWC Update website, your mobile phone, or
through one of CWC Update ’s applications. We will not use or share your
information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This
Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including
offline) or from other sources. Capitalized terms that are not defined in this
Privacy Policy have the meaning given them in our Terms of Service.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
CWC Update uses
information we collect to analyze how the Service is used, diagnose service or
technical problems, maintain security, personalize content, remember
information to help you efficiently access your account, monitor aggregate
metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns,
and track User Content and users as necessary to comply with the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable laws.
USER-PROVIDED INFORMATION
You provide us information
about yourself, such as your name and e-mail address, if you register for a member
account with the Service. Your name and other information you choose to add to
your profile will be available for public viewing on the Service. You may
provide us with your mobile phone number if you choose to submit questions and
receive answers via text message. We may use your email address to send you
Service-related notices (including any notices required by law, in lieu of
communication by postal mail). You can control receipt of certain
Service-related messages on your Settings page. We may also use your contact
information to send you marketing email messages. If you do not want to receive
such messages, you may opt out by following the instructions in the message. If
you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages,
your email address and our responses.
If you use your Facebook,
Twitter, or other social networking site (“SNS”) account information to sign in
to CWC Update , we will collect and store your SNS user ID.
You also provide us information
in User Content you post to the Service. Your questions, answers, and other
contributions on the Service, and metadata about them (such as when you posted
them), are publicly viewable on the Service, along with your name (unless the
Service permits you to post anonymously). This information may be searched by
search engines and be republished elsewhere on the Web in accordance with our
Terms of Service.
If you choose to use our
invitation service to invite a friend to the Service, we will ask you for that
person’s email address and automatically send an email invitation. You may also
use our contact importer tool to help you upload your friends’ email addresses
so you can find friends who are already on CWC Update or invite friends
to the Service. CWC Update stores this information to send invitations,
to register your friend if your invitation is accepted, to track the success of
our invitation service, and to identify your friends on CWC Update .
INFORMATION COLLECTED
AUTOMATICALLY
When you use the Service, we
use persistent and session cookies and other tracking technologies to: (a)
store your username and password; (b) analyze the usage of the Service; (c)
customize the Service to your preferences; and (d) control the advertising
displayed by the Service. A persistent cookie remains on your computer after
you close your browser so that it can be used by your browser on subsequent
visits to the Service. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web
browser’s directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you
close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to
indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Service may
not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled. You can
find more information about our use of Cookies here.
We may also use other Internet
technologies, log files, clear GIFs, Flash technologies, and other similar
technologies, to deliver or communicate with cookies and track your use of the
Service. We also may include clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users
to determine whether the message has been opened. As we adopt additional
technology, we may also gather additional information through other methods.
We use these automated
technologies to collect and analyze certain types of information we consider to
be non-personal information, including: (a) information related to the devices
you use to access or interact with the Service, such as: IP addresses,
geolocation information, unique device identifiers and other information about
your mobile phone or other mobile device(s), browser types, browser language;
and (b) information related to the ways in which you interact with the Service,
such as: referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, the number of
clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages,
the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time you used the
Service, and other similar information. We may also capture other data, such as
search criteria and results.
We may collect different types
of information about your location, including general information (e.g., IP
address, zip code) and more specific information (e.g., GPS-based functionality
on mobile devices used to access the Service), and may use that information to
customize the Service with location-based information and features. If you
access the Service through a mobile device and you do not want your device to
provide us with location-tracking information, you can disable the GPS or other
location-tracking functions on your device, provided your device allows you to
do this.
CWC Update may allow
third parties to serve advertisements on the Service and use other third
parties to help us collect and analyze information about your use of the
service, generate aggregate site usage statistics and provide content sharing
services to support the Service. These third parties may also use cookies and
similar technologies to collect similar non-personal information about your use
of the Service. CWC Update does not control the third parties’ use of
such technologies and their use is governed by those parties’ privacy policies.
For more information about third-party ad networks that use these technologies,
and to opt-out of their collection of information, see
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
PERSONALLY, IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION
CWC Update may share your
personally identifiable information with third parties for the purpose of
providing the Service to you or with third parties offering combined services
with CWC Update . If we do this, such third parties’ use of your information
will be bound by this Privacy Policy. We may store personal information in
locations outside the direct control of CWC Update (for instance, on
servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).
As we develop our business, we
may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor
information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types
of transactions. We may also transfer or assign such information in the course
of corporate divestitures, mergers, or dissolution.
We may share or disclose your
information with your consent, such as if you choose to sign on to the Service
through a third-party service. We cannot control third parties’ use of your
information.
CWC Update may disclose
your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we
believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or
legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security
or technical issues; or to protect CWC Update ’s rights or property.
NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION
We may aggregate and/or
anonymize information collected through the Service so that the information
does not identify you. We may use aggregated, anonymized, and other
non-personally identifiable information for any purpose, including for research
and marketing purposes, and our use and disclosure of such information is not
subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy.
CWC Update may allow
third-party ad servers or ad networks to serve advertisements on the Service.
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to
your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on CWC Update . They
automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use
other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the
effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising
content. CWC Update does not provide any personally identifiable
information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your
consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asks CWC Update to
show an advertisement to a certain audience and you respond to that
advertisement, the advertiser or ad server may conclude that you fit the
description of the audience they are trying to reach. The CWC Update
Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of,
third-party advertisers. Please consult the respective privacy policies of such
advertisers for more information.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
CWC Update uses
commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to
preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot,
however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to CWC
Update or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be
accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical,
technical, or managerial safeguards.
In the event that personal
information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, CWC
Update will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has
been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in
this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
YOUR CHOICES ABOUT YOUR INFORMATION
You may, of course, decline to
submit personally identifiable information through the Service, in which case
CWC Update may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may
update or correct your account information and email preferences at any time by
logging in to your account.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Protecting the privacy of young
children is especially important. CWC Update does not knowingly collect
or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly
allow such persons to register with the Service. If we become aware that we
have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without
verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
We are not responsible for the
practices employed by websites linked to or from the Service, nor the
information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a
link to go from the Service to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer
in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those
that have a link on our website, is subject to that website’s own rules and
policies.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
If we change our privacy
policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this page to keep you
aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what
circumstances we may disclose it. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective
when they are posted on this page.
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