Privacy PolicyStumbleUpon, Inc. ("StumbleUpon", "us"
or "we") respects the privacy of
the visitors to the Website, the home page of which is located at http://www.stumbleupon.com. This privacy policy (the
"Privacy Policy") is intended to
inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and
disclosure of any Personal Information and Anonymous Information you submit to
us through our Services and/or the StumbleUpon toolbar (the "Toolbar"). Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms
shall have the meanings assigned to such terms set forth in the Terms of
Service for the StumbleUpon Services (http://www.stumbleupon.com/terms.html) ("Terms of Service") and any StumbleUpon Toolbar License Agreement (http://www.stumbleupon.com/terms.html). "Personal Information" is information about you that is personally
identifiable to you like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number,
as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing. "Anonymous Information" means information that is not associated with or
linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Information does not permit the
identification of individual persons. We collect and use
Personal Information and Anonymous Information as described in this Privacy
Policy. 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 StumbleUpon Terms of
Service located at http://www.stumbleupon.com/terms.html. Your Personal
Information may be processed by us in the country where it was collected as
well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing
of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country. Personal
Information You Provide to Us StumbleUpon 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 and the users of the Toolbar. We collect Personal Information that
you submit to us voluntarily through our Service and/or the Toolbar. The types
of Personal Information we collect are:
The StumbleUpon Profile
that you create when you sign up for our StumbleUpon Services contains Personal
Information such as your name, username, age, and location. All the information
in your StumbleUpon Profile, including Personal Information, that you select to
be publicly displayed will be public information and any StumbleUpon Member
will be able to view it. Your
username and general physical location will always be publicly displayed. Personal
Information Collected Via Technology As
you navigate our Website or use the StumbleUpon Services, certain information
may also be collected passively, including your Internet protocol address,
browser type, operating system, time of day, general physical location, and
browser language. StumbleUpon uses this information only in aggregate to
determine the composition of our userbase, and the load on our servers, so that
we can serve you better.
StumbleUpon will use geographic information regarding your location to
display your general location (e.g., city and state). You may choose to display a different location by editing
this information in your Member Profile.
This information is associated with a user identifier for the purpose of
improving your stumble experience, for example to recommend websites that
correspond to your profile and interests, including the websites of our
advertisers. If
you are using or logged into the StumbleUpon Services, or are 'stumbling' with
the Toolbar (or StumbleVideo), the Toolbar (or StumbleVideo) will transmit to
StumbleUpon's servers information regarding which pages you view when you visit
another member's profile page, click 'stumble', or watch a video through the
StumbleUpon Services. Periodically,
the Toolbar contacts our servers to see if you are running the most current
version of the Toolbar. If necessary, we will automatically provide you with
the latest update to the Toolbar (Internet Explorer version only). An "Internet protocol
address" or "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to your
computer when you use the Internet.
In some cases your IP Address stays the same from browser session to
browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP
Address probably varies from session to session. We track IP Addresses solely in conjunction with session
cookies to analyze our web page flow. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that a website sends
to your computer's hard drive while you are viewing a website. Cookies can identify you as a unique
user of the Website. Upon your
first use of the Toolbar, StumbleUpon sends a Cookie to your computer. We may use both session Cookies (which
expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on
your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and
interactive experience on the Website.
Persistent Cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help
file directions. If you choose to
disable Cookies, some areas of the Website may not work properly. StumbleUpon
uses Cookies to store your preferences. StumbleUpon will not disclose its
Cookies to third parties except as required by a valid legal process such as a
search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You
can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is
being sent. Be aware, however, that the Toolbar may not function properly and
you may not be able to utilize all of the functionality of the Services if you
refuse cookies. We may use
information collected about you to deliver to you websites, advertisements, or
other content we think may be of interest to you. 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 StumbleUpon 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 StumbleUpon
Services. We may add this
information to the information we have already collected from you via our
Website or through the Toolbar 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 the Toolbar, 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 StumbleUpon. Please be aware that if you enter any
Personal Information into publicly available sections of the StumbleUpon
Services, this information will be displayed to anyone who has access to these
sections. These publicly available sections of the StumbleUpon Services
include, without limitation, posts and comments of other StumbleUpon 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 StumbleUpon Services,
including Personal Information. Ratings
and Feedback When
you click on the rating buttons in the Toolbar, you are explicitly sending
information about your preferences for the site currently displayed in your
browser. StumbleUpon uses this information in order to improve its
recommendations to you, and to others. By default, other users can see your
non-adult ratings. However, you may turn on your privacy filter so other users
cannot determine which sites your have rated. If you provide feedback
to us, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we will
not associate such feedback with your Personal Information. We will collect any information contained
in such communication and will treat the Personal Information in such
communication in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 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 StumbleUpon through the StumbleUpon Services email service, we
will disclose your email address to the invitee. Also, if you share a website or video with a friend through
the StumbleUpon Services email service, we will disclose your email address to
the recipient. 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 StumbleUpon
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). Any
information contained on publicly available portions of the StumbleUpon website
(e.g. member profiles or other areas that are not password protected) may be
"crawled" by third party search engines.
As a result, any Personal Information you include on such publicly
available portions of the StumbleUpon website may be accessible through search
engines in search results.
Moreover information on publicly any information you place on publicly
available portions of the website, including Personal Information, is
accessible by any third party and is not subject to this Privacy Policy. 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. For example, we may disclose how frequently the average
StumbleUpon user clicks 'Stumble', or how many users are signed up for a given
interest. 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. Your
California Privacy Rights Our customers who
are California residents may request and obtain from us once a year, free of
charge, certain information about the personal information (if any) we
disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding
calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the
categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses
of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately
preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to
make such a request, please submit your request in writing to privacy AT stumbleupon.com. Your
Choices Regarding Your Personal Information We offer you
choices regarding the collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information.
When you receive newsletters or promotional communications from us, you may
indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications from us and you
will have the opportunity to "opt-out" by following the unsubscribe
instructions provided in the e-mail you receive. Despite your
indicated e-mail preferences, we may send you administrative e-mails regarding
our community and Services or notices of any updates to our Terms of Service
for the StumbleUpon Service, any Toolbar License Agreement, or Privacy Policy. You may change any of
the Personal Information in your StumbleUpon Profile by editing it. Regarding
Children We do not intentionally
gather Personal Information about Visitors or Users who are under the age of
13. Other Sites Our
provision of links or access to other websites or locations is for your
convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other websites or
location or its contents. The sites that StumbleUpon recommends are entirely
out of our control. As such, StumbleUpon takes no responsibility for them, or
their content. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect
data, or solicit personal information.
Links to other websites or locations may also be posted by other
StumbleUpon Members within the StumbleUpon community. We have no control over,
do not review, and cannot be responsible for these outside websites or their
content. Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy Policy do not apply to
these outside websites. Security We use reasonable
measures to maintain the security of your Personal Information. However, no
company, including us, can fully eliminate security risks associated with
Personal Information. Contact Us Should you have any
questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us: http://www.stumbleupon.com/feedback.php Privacy
Policy Updates As part of the Terms of
Service, this Privacy Policy is subject to occasional amendment, in accordance
with the terms of the Terms of Service. This Policy was last
updated on October 8, 2007. StumbleUpon, Inc. | ||
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