PixoDog.com Privacy Policy
Effective March 13, 2009.
This privacy policy pertains to the use of the PixoDog.com web site at PixoDog.com. It covers how PixoDog.com treats personal information that it collects. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name or email address.
Information We Collect
- When you register we ask for your email address and certain optional information such as your name.
- PixoDog.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie, and the page you request. This is normal website behavior.
- PixoDog.com uses information for the following general purposes: identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting.
IP Addresses
IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in our user registration databases when you register with PixoDog.com.
IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:
- To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
- To estimate the total number of users visiting PixoDog.com from specific geographical regions.
- To make sure that people are not abusing the voting or submission systems.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.
- You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.
- If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use PixoDog.com products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of the PixoDog.com service.
- PixoDog.com uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
- Access your information when you "sign in".
- Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using PixoDog.com's services.
- Display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on PixoDog.com.
- Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
- Conduct research to improve PixoDog.com's content and services.
- PixoDog.com lets other companies, that show advertisements on some of our pages, set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to PixoDog.com's cookies.
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
- Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- When you post a photo, your PixoDog.com ID or screen name that you are posting under is visible to other users.
- If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. PixoDog.com does not rent or sell your personal information.
- Generally, PixoDog.com does not share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies without your consent, except when compelled by subpoenas, warrants, court orders or legal process.
- It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, including without limitation, fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of PixoDog.com's terms of use, or as otherwise permitted or required by law. We will transfer information about you if PixoDog.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, PixoDog.com will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the PixoDog.com web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. PixoDog.com may share demographic information with business partners, such as "53% of users who regularly use PixoDog.com are between 18 and 34" or the like. No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission (i.e. we will ask you for a quote or testimonial)
Editing and Deleting Account Information. Security
- You can change your PixoDog.com profile information at any time.
- We may send you certain communications relating to the PixoDog.com service, such as service announcements and administrative messages, that are considered part of your PixoDog.com account.
- You can delete your PixoDog.com account at any time. However, please note that your identification and contact information may remain in PixoDog.com's records for some period.
- We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
- Your PixoDog.com profile information is password-protected.
- In certain areas, PixoDog.com uses SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
PixoDog.com may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we will send a notice to the primary email address specified in your PixoDog.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.