Privacy Policy

 

At [Your Company Name], we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to all products and services offered by us.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or email.

Information we collect and how we use it

We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

Information you provide – When you sign up for a [Your Company Name] Account or other [Your Company Name] service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address, and an account password).

Cookies – When you visit [Your Company Name], we send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends, such as how people search.

Log information – When you access [Your Company Name] services via a browser, application or other client our servers automatically record certain information. These server logs may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your account.

User communications – When you send email or other communications to [Your Company Name], we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Affiliated [Your Company Name] Services on other sites – We offer some of our services on or through other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to [Your Company Name] in order to deliver the service. We process such information under this Privacy Policy.

Links – [Your Company Name] may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.

Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to [Your Company Name] services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results, sites that include [Your Company Name] applications, products or services, or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

 

[Your Company Name] only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

Providing our services, including the display of customized content and advertising.

Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services.

Ensuring the technical functioning of our network.

Protecting the rights or property of [Your Company Name] or our users.

Developing new services.

As described in the specific Privacy Policy for each service.

[Your Company Name] processes personal information on our servers in many countries around the world. We may process your personal information on a server located outside the country where you live.

 

Choices for personal information

 

When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some [Your Company Name] features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case [Your Company Name] may not be able to provide those services to you.

 

Information sharing

 

[Your Company Name] only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of [Your Company Name] in the following limited circumstances:

We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to:

Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.

Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.

Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.

Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of [Your Company Name], our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If [Your Company Name] becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality of any personal information involved in such transactions and provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

 

Information security

 

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to [Your Company Name] employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

 

Data integrity

 

[Your Company Name] processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

 

Accessing and updating personal information

 

When you use [Your Company Name] services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal information.

 

Enforcement

 

[Your Company Name] regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or [Your Company Name] treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at [Your Company Address]. When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is [Your Company Name] policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between [Your Company Name] and an individual.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

 

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or at [Your Company Address] and we will respond within a reasonable time.

Effective Date: [Date]

This Privacy Policy is effective as of [Date]