Headup.com ("Site") provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection and use of personal information we receive from users ("Registered Users") who visit the Site and users of third party sites ("Unregistered Users") which use the Headup service ("Services") on other sites ("Partner Sites"). Our Privacy Policy may be updated without notice.
SemantiNet is very concerned with safeguarding your information. Your privacy is very important to us and we employ reasonable measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access.
In the course of using this Site and/or Partner Sites, you may post and share information. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information, this information may become publicly available.
Acceptance of Policy
By accessing and using this Site and/or the Services through Partner Sites, You agree to be bound by this Policy. If You do not agree to any of the provisions set hereunder in this Policy, You have no right to use any of the Services.
This Policy should read together with the Terms of Use and together they constitute the entire agreement between You and SemantiNet.
Information Collection
In the course of using this Site and/or Partner Sites, you may provide us with personally identifiable information. This refers to information about you that can be used to contact or identify you, and information on your use of and activities at our Site that may be connected with you (Personal Information). Personal Information may also include information you supply concerning your preferences and interests expressed in the course of use of our Site and/or Partner Sites.
When you visit the Site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This information may include, but is not limited to, your computer, Internet Protocol address, browser type, the web page you were visiting before you came to our Site and information you search for on our Site.
In addition, by the nature of its functionality, our Services and Site dynamically track your site, and index its content. In addition, we track your interaction with the Services, in order to perform internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior. This non-personal information is collected in aggregate form, without identifying any user individually. Non-personally identifiable information may be analyzed by us for the purpose of improving and expanding the functionality of our Services. In addition, the Services checks regularly for product updates on our servers and download such updates when needed.
Furthermore, The Services may find and use information that was already available to each user. Such information can either be publicly available or it can be available to you given your social relationships. More explicitly, all users can track publically available information, but in order to gain access to private content, users must first authenticate against third party service providers. While we ease the discovery and accessibility effort to third party data, the Services preserves and protects the privacy of all third-party partners.
Like many websites, we also use cookies to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We use persistent cookies to save your registration ID and login password for future logins to the Site; and we use session ID cookies to enable certain features of the Site, to better understand how you interact with the Site and to monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing on the Site.
You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of our services.
In addition, when using our service on Partner Sites we collect your clicks and interaction and engagement with our Service.
Finally, while we don’t store on our system users’ authentication credentials to 3rd party services, we do collect data from such services and store it on our servers for a limited period of time in accordance with each service respective usage and privacy policies.
We use such information to improve the quality of our service to you as well as to other users without sharing any personally identifiable data you provide or that we collect about you with 3rd parties, unless required by law.
How We Use Personal Information
Personal Information is used for the following purposes:
- To provide and improve our Site, services, features and content
- To administer your use of our Site
- To enable users to enjoy and easily navigate the Site and Service
- To better understand your needs and interests
- To fulfill requests you may make
- To personalize your experience
- To provide or offer software updates and product announcements
- To provide you with further information and offers from us or third parties that we believe you may find useful or interesting, including newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information on services and products offered by us or third parties.
If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or update your user preferences information. (See Changing or Deleting Information, below.) We use information we obtain by technical means (such as the automatic recording performed by our servers or through the use of cookies or through the data obtained by a 3rd party service) for the above purposes and in order to monitor and analyze use of the Site and our services and for the Site’s technical administration, to increase our Site and service’s functionality and user-friendliness, to better tailor it to your needs, to generate and derive useful data and information concerning the interests, characteristics and usage behavior of our users, and to verify that visitors to the Site meet the criteria required to process their requests.
In order to offer and provide optimized and personalized services, we also use cookies, and 3rd party services, such as, but not limited to "Facebook Connect" to store and sometimes track information about our users and interest. Information obtained through 3rd party services, such as social relationships, interests and online activities, is obtained to provide personalized information and is stored on our system for caching purposes, in accordance with each respective service terms of usage and privacy.
We may use the Personal Information and other data it obtains from your current and past activities, to resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
We will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others unless you explicitly provided us with permission to do so, such as when you share content with others.
Disclosure of Users’ Registration Data
General Rule. We will not disclose, sell or transfer any of your Personal Information, to any third parties (e.g., advertisers or business partners), except in the following cases:
- We will receive your permission
- We believe in good faith that the law requires such disclosure or transfer
Third Parties. We may at any time add Affiliate partners to our Site, but the sharing of information with them will be limited to only statistical information regarding users in general. We assure you that in the event that we may wish to transfer any such information, we shall notify you before transferring such information, so that you will always have a chance to object to such transfer.
Special Cases. We may disclose Personal Information or other information, in special cases when We have reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating this Policy or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally), our rights or property, other users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. You thus authorize us to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials if we, in our sole and absolute discretion, believe that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate.
Protection of Information
Information collected about you is protected in several ways. Access by you to your personal information is available through a password and unique user ID selected by you. Your password is encrypted. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. In addition, your personal information resides on proprietary secured servers that only selected personnel and contracts have access to via password.
Although, We use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not completely ensure, and you should not expect that your Registration Data or any private communications will always remain completely private.
Disclaimer Regarding Linked Sites
While using the Services, you may be linked from or to third parties sites. SemantiNet is not responsible for information, content, terms of use of privacy policy at these sites. SemantiNet takes a careful notice in choosing its business partners and affiliates and aims to associate only with reliable partners which our committed to users privacy. However, remember that when you use a link to go from the website to another website, SemantiNet's Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. By your browsing and interacting on any other website, including websites which have a link on the website, you are subject to that website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Disclosure Information in the Event of a Merger
We may merge or be acquired by another business entity or may sell all or substantially all of our assets to an acquirer. In the event of such merger, acquisition or sale, we may share some or all or your personally identifiable information with the acquiring company in order to continue serving you. In such event and if applicable, we will provide notice that that such information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Changing or Deleting Your Information
All registered users may review, update or correct the Personal Information provided in their registration or account profile by changing their user preferences in their account. If you choose to opt out entirely, then your account may become deactivated and you will need to re-register should you decide to opt-in again. To delete your account entirely, please email us at admin@semantinet.com. You should also be aware that even if you delete your registration data, there may remain residual information within our databases, access logs, backup logs and other records, which may or may not contain personally identifiable information.
Policy Toward Children
This Site is not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us at admin@semantinet.com. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our files.
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If you have any question about our Privacy Policy, please contact us through the 'Contact Us' page and we'll be glad to answer it.