TagThis Privacy Policy
At TagThis, we respect the privacy of the users of our website and services and are committed to protecting it. We have created this policy to demonstrate our commitment to you and to help you understand it.
User Consent
By submitting Personal Information through our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy and you agree to the TagThis Terms of Service located at http://www.tagthis.com/help/terms.html.
Your Personal Information may be processed by us in the country where it was collected as well as any other country where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
Information You Provide to Us
TagThis does not collect any Personal Information about you (such as your name, email address, age, preferences, etc.) except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information. The Personal Information we gather from you helps us learn about our members and potential members of our community. We collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through our Service. We may also, at times, collect our users' IP addresses and information regarding our users' use of our website and services. We may use such IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers, get the geographic location of our users ,track movement within our website and, if necessary, deny service in accordance with our Terms of Service. When you enter any information, including Personal Information, into any postings, feedback or comments within the TagThis Services, we will collect such information and this information might be available for some, a subgroup of, or even all members of the TagThis Services, depending on how and where this information was posted by you (see Use of Information below).
Personal Information Collected Via Technology
In order to offer and provide optimized and personalized services, we use cookies to store and sometimes track information about our users. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to a user's browser from a web server and is eventually stored on a user's computer hard drive.
TagThis uses your rating information and links you view while on TagThis in order to improve its recommendations to you, and to others. By default, other users can see your ratings. However, you may turn on your privacy filter so other users cannot determine which sites your have rated.
We may also contract with third parties in order to promote the products and/or services of these third parties by placing ads on the Website. We may use information that was posted by members of the TagThis Services to tailor the display of ads to the interest of the members of our community. Clicking on such ads will direct you to the website of the third party and the third party may also use Cookies in connection with these ads. Please be advised that we are not responsible for these other websites or any content on these other websites and that this Privacy Statement does not govern your visit of these other websites.
Personal Information We Receive From Other Sources
We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources like telephone or fax, or from third parties that provide services for us in connection with the TagThis Services. We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you via our Website in order to improve our community and our Services.
Use of Information
In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used by us either to sign you up for our community, respond to requests that you make, to improve our community and Services and to better tailor the features, performance and support of the Services, and to offer you additional information, opportunities, and functionality. We may also use your Personal Information to provide you with electronic newsletters or promotional e-mails, should you request to receive such communications from us.
Information you provide, with the exception of your email address, will also be displayed on your profile page which is viewable by other users of TagThis. Please be aware that if you enter any Personal Information into publicly available sections of the TagThis Services, this information will be displayed to anyone who has access to these sections. These publicly available sections of the TagThis Services include, without limitation, posts and comments of other TagThis Members.
We may create Anonymous Information records from Personal Information by excluding information (such as your name) that make the information personally identifiable to you. We may use this Anonymous Information to analyze usage patterns so that we may enhance our community and Services. We reserve the right to use and disclose Anonymous Information to third parties in our discretion.
If we delete your account at your request, we will delete all Personal Information from the account, but we retain the right to maintain non-personally identifiable information about the account (e.g. date created, date terminated, total stumbles, etc.). Also, if we terminate your account as allowed under the Terms of Service, we may choose to maintain all data collected from your use of the TagThis Services, including Personal Information.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We do not trade, rent, or share your Personal Information with third parties, unless it is available on your profile page, without your express written consent, except as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
If you invite a third party to join TagThis through the TagThis Services email service, we will disclose your email address to the invitee.
We may provide your Personal Information to third party service providers who work on behalf of or with us to provide some of the services and features of the TagThis community and Services and to help us communicate with the members of our community. However, these service providers do not have any independent right to share this information (expect pursuant to a legal requirement such as a subpoena or warrant).
We may share some or all of your Personal Information with our parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control with us ("Affiliates"), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will possess the Personal Information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
However, we may share some aggregate information about our userbase with sponsors and business partners.
We may disclose your Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; or (b) to protect and defend the rights or property of us, Users and Visitors of our Website, or third parties. We may also transfer your specific personal information in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. If the acquiring entity's processing of your information will materially differ from that set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will notify you via posting on our web site.
TagThis reserves the right to modify all or some of this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. If we change our Privacy Policy, we may post a notice on our website so our users are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information only in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected unless we have received explicit authorization from the appropriate user(s) to do otherwise.