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Last modified: December 23 2008
CheckOut.fm (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) recognizes that privacy is important and, accordingly, has established these policies.
This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and Web sites offered by the Company or by any of its related companies.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us, through our Web site.
We offer services that do not require you to make any payment with your account registration or when using the services provided.
When you sign up for a service, whether it does or does not require payment, we ask you for certain personal information, such as your name, e-mail address, user ID, and a password, as well as, in case of a paid account, for payment account information. We maintain such information, in encrypted form, on secure servers. Secure Seal.
When you visit our Company’s site, we send one or more cookies to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to store information for the purpose of improving the quality of our.
When you access the Company’s services, our servers automatically record information that your browser, when visiting a site, sends. Information recorded may include information such as your IP address, browser type, browser language, and cookies that may identify your browser.
When you send e-mail or other communications to the Company, we may retain those communications in order to process and respond to your inquiries and to improve our services.
Some of our services offered have links to other Web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to the Company in order to deliver the service. All such information that we receive is handled, treated, and stored in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Other linked sites may have different privacy practices, and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
The Company may provide links that enable us to keep track of whether our protocols have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our technology and services. For more information about links and redirected URLs, please see our FAQs.
This Privacy Policy applies to the Company’s services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as links from within our various services. Please consult the privacy policies of any linked site. This includes the privacy policy of Google Checkout, which the Company uses to process payments and for which personal information is requested and received by Google Checkout. Please read the privacy policy of Google Checkout and of any site accessed through a link provided by the Company.
The Company processes personal information only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
- Providing our services to you and to other users;
- Auditing, research, and analysis to monitor, maintain, and improve our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
- Developing new services.
When you sign up for any service, we ask you to provide certain personal information. If we are to use this information in a manner different from that set forth herein, we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purpose other than as described in this Privacy Policy, we will offer you the opportunity to opt out of the use of personal information for such other purpose.
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. Some of the Company’s services, however, may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. The Company shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of the Company or its related companies only in the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent.
We have a good faith belief such is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy an applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce the Company’s terms of service, as set forth in the User Agreement, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise deal with issues of fraud, security, or functionality, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of the Company, its users, or the public, as required or permitted by law.
If the Company becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice, to you, of such before the Company transfers your personal information to any entity or prior to the application of a new privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain non-personal information, such as the number of users who use a particular link. Such information shall not personally identify you.
Please contact us for any additional questions about the use or retention of personal data.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of the Company’s practices and security measures.
The Company regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or regarding the Company’s treatment of personal information by contacting us. |
