Your privacy is very important
to us. This Policy describes how we collect and use
information and our efforts to protect your privacy.
Ginipic takes your privacy seriously. Unless you assent, we will not share
personally identifiable information about you, except as
described below.
We, Ginipic, Inc. and its affiliated
entitles ("Ginipic"), have designed software to provide free
content streamed from the web and our content providers
along with advertisements that are most interesting to you.
To do this, we request some information from you and
automatically collect other information about your usage of
our services. While this allows us to offer you the best
service possible, we understand the high importance of
personal privacy and want you to understand how we handle
your personal information. This document outlines the types
of information Ginipic Products (all products and services
provided by Ginipic, [through its website] as of this date)
collect from the user and how we store and use this data.
We start
collecting your information when you register with Ginipic,
in connection with your use of Ginipic Products in order to
improve and personalize your experience with Ginipic
Products. In some cases, this information is also used to
serve relevant and interesting content and advertising
streamed through Ginipic Products. We continue to collect
information when you use Ginipic Products or services, when
you visit Ginipic pages or the pages of certain Ginipic
partners. Ginipic may combine information about you that we
have with information we obtain from business partners or
other companies. The types of information we collect from
our users are described below.
* Registration Information: If and
when you register for the Ginipic Service, we ask for basic
registration information, such as your name, age, sex,
likes/dislikes, a username and password, which you choose,
and an e-mail address for Ginipic support. You may also
enter in certain passwords and user names for third party
sites and services. We use this information to suggest
content, to deliver advertisements, to learn about our
audience, including through non-personally identifiable
statistics (e.g. percentage of male viewers aged 35-44), and
to apply what we�ve learned to improve the service. We will
not store your 3rd party credentials for any longer than
necessary to complete the tasks stated above.
*
Anonymous Data: When you use Ginipic Products, we may
collect technical and navigational information, such as
computer browser type, Internet protocol address, queries,
and frequency and time spent in Ginipic Products and its
components. Such information helps us to improve the
services we provide and the level of their efficiency
Ginipic only use usage data in aggregate form, that
is, as a statistical measure to improve our product, and not
in a manner intended to identify you personally. As part of
this use of information, we may provide aggregate
information to our partners about how our customers,
collectively, use Ginipic Products.
Ginipic
may store information on your behalf to provide personalized
services in Ginipic Products.
In connection
with your use of Ginipic Products, we may install a cookie
on your computer to help customize your experience in our
Products, including our websites. A cookie is a piece of
data from your browser that identifies you as a unique user.
If you do not wish to have cookies set on your computer, you
can configure your browser to refuse cookies. This however
may disable and/or cause a disruption to certain services in
Ginipic Products.
We take
many precautions with the goal of protecting your personal
information against 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 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.
Ginipic
allow you to access certain information about yourself for
the purpose of viewing, and in certain situations, updating
that information via our website. The types of information
that you can access and update will change as our Products
change.
This effective
date of this Privacy Policy is September 1st, 2008.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
We will announce material changes on our company website, at
http://www.ginipic.com/privacy.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding
Ginipic's privacy policy, please send us a detailed message
to support@ginipic.com. We will make every effort to resolve
your concerns.
[1. Personally Identifiable
Information (PII) - refers to any information that
identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate
the person to whom such information pertains. This includes
information that is used in a way that is personally
identifiable, including linking it with identifiable
information from other sources, or from which other
personally identifiable information can easily be derived,
including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number,
fax number, email address, financial profiles, social
security number, and credit card information. To the extent
unique information (which by itself is not Personally
Identifiable Information) such as a personal profile, unique
identifier, biometric information, and IP address is
associated with Personally Identifiable Information, then
such unique information will also be considered Personally
Identifiable Information. Personally Identifiable
Information does not include information that is collected
anonymously (i.e., without identification of the individual
user) or demographic information not connected to an
identified individual. In terms of P3P attributes,
personally identifiable information is 1) physical contact
or location information, 2) online contact or location
information, 3) government issued identifier, or 4)
information about an individual's finances.-]
Updated: January 2009