Privacy Policy
At SiteShuffle we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy
applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by
SiteShuffle Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies
(collectively, SiteShuffle's "services"). In addition, where more
detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post
separate privacy notices to describe how particular services process
personal information.
SiteShuffle adheres to the US safe harbor privacy principles of Notice,
Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and
Enforcement, and is registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce's
safe harbor program.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact
us through our website or write to us at Privacy Matters, c/o
SiteShuffle Inc., 15127 NE 24th Street, #351 Redmond, WA, 98052, USA.
Information We Collect and How We Use It:
We 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 SiteShuffle Account or
other SiteShuffle service or promotion that requires registration, we
ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and
an account password). For certain services, such as our advertising
programs, we also request credit card or other payment account
information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We
may combine the information you submit under your account with
information from other SiteShuffle services or third parties in order to
provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our
services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt
out of combining such information.
SiteShuffle cookies: When you visit SiteShuffle, we send one or more
cookies -- a small file containing a string of characters -- to your
computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to
improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and
tracking user trends, such as how people search. 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 SiteShuffle features and services may not function properly if your
cookies are disabled.
Log information: When you use SiteShuffle services, our servers
automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you
visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your
Web request, 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.
User communications: When you send email or other communication to
SiteShuffle, we may retain those communications in order to process your
inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
Affiliated sites: We offer some of our services in connection with other
Web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be
sent to SiteShuffle in order to deliver the service. We process such
information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may
have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their
privacy policies.
Links: SiteShuffle 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. For more information about links and redirected URLs,
please see our FAQs.
Other sites: This Privacy Policy applies to Web sites and services that
are owned and operated by SiteShuffle. We do not exercise control over
the sites displayed as search results 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.
SiteShuffle 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:
1. Providing our products and services to users, including the display
of customized content and advertising;
2. Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and
improve our services;
3. Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
4. Developing new services.
You can find more information about how we process personal information
by referring to the privacy notices for particular services.
SiteShuffle processes personal information on our servers in the United
States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process
personal information on a server outside your own country. We may
process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases,
we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the
instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.
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.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services,
in which case SiteShuffle may not be able to provide those services to
you.
Information Sharing
SiteShuffle only shares personal information with other companies or
individuals outside of SiteShuffle in the following limited
circumstances:
1. We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of
any sensitive personal information;
2. 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; and
3. We require that these parties agree to process such information based
on our instructions and in compliance with this 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 (a) satisfy any
applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental
request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including
investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or
otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect
against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of SiteShuffle,
its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If SiteShuffle becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of
sale of some or all of its assets, we will 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.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions
about the management or use of personal data.
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 SiteShuffle 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
SiteShuffle 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 SiteShuffle 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. We provide the details for these procedures in the specific
privacy notices or FAQs for these services.
Enforcement
SiteShuffle regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please
feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or
SiteShuffle's treatment of personal information by contacting us through
this Web site or by writing to us at Privacy Matters, c/o SiteShuffle
Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043, USA.
When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is
SiteShuffle's 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 SiteShuffle and an individual.
Changes to This 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
Privacy Matters, c/o SiteShuffle Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,
Mountain View, California, 94043, USA.
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