Privacy policy
BY VISITING THIS WEBSITE AND REQUESTING INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES THERON, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION OR USE ANY OF THE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS OFFERED OR PROVIDED ON ANY OF THE WEBSITES REFERRED TO IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
HOW WE OBTAIN THE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Pangeaforum may obtain, collect, retain, store or otherwise maintain Your Personal Information from the following sources:
Your Pangeaforum Application: In order for You to use any of the services provided by Pangeaforum, including becoming an Pangeaforum publisher (collectively, the "Pangeaforum Services"), you will be required to submit an application to Pangeaforum ("Your Application"). Your Application will require You to provide Personal Information to Pangeaforum. If Your Application is rejected, Pangeaforum may retain Your Personal Information at its discretion.
Your Creation and Maintenance of Your Pangeaforum Account: If Your Application is accepted, You will be required to provide Personal Information to Pangeaforum in order to create and maintain as current an account with Pangeaforum ("Your Account").
Your Responses to Communications form Pangeaforum: From time to time, Pangeaforum, may communicate with You through email, postal mail or other forms of electronic communications regarding the Your Account, the Pangeaforum, the and Website. If You respond to these communications, Your responses may contain Personal Information.
You can decline to provide Your Personal Information to Pangeaforum by not engaging in the activities described above. If You decline to submit Personal Information, Pangeaforum may not be able to or may choose not to provide to You some or all of the Pangeaforum Services.
Pangeaforum also collects non-personally identifiable server-log information relating to users of the Website. This information, may include information such as, but not limited to: (i) Your account activity, including storage usage, number of log-ins, data displayed or selected, including user interface elements, links, etc.; and (ii) Your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of Your request, date and time of access, one or more cookies that may uniquely identify Your browser and referrer Uniform Resource Locator. None of this information enables Pangeaforum to personally identify or contact You.
HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Pangeaforum only uses Personal Information for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. Specifically, Pangeaforum only uses Your Personal Information for:
Evaluating and verifying Your Application and communicating with You regarding Your Application; Doing business with You, including processing payments and communicating with you regarding Your business activities relating to the Pangeaforum Services;
Processing, formatting and displaying customized content on the Website for You;
Communicating with You regarding changes to: Pangeaforum's Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy or any other policies or terms relating to the Pangeaforum Services or Your relationship with Pangeaforum.
Communicating with You, with Your consent, regarding new and additional Pangeaforum Services and changes to the Website.
Ensuring the technical functioning of the Website, including creating and maintaining back-ups or other archival copies of Personal Information and other related data.
Pangeaforum restricts access to Personal Information to those employees, contractors and agents of Pangeaforum who need to access Personal Information for the purposes specified above. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination, if they fail to meet these obligations.
HOW Pangeaforum USES PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as otherwise set forth herein, Pangeaforum does not share Your Personal Information with third parties without Your consent, except when We believe that it is reasonably necessary to do so in order to comply with a subpoena or other judicial order or process, as otherwise required by law or in order to enforce Pangeaforum's Terms of Service. In such circumstances, Your Personal Information may also be disclosed to Pangeaforum's attorneys.
If Pangeaforum desires to use Your Personal Information for any purpose other than those described in this Privacy Policy, Pangeaforum will request Your consent prior to such use and offer You an effective way to opt out of the use of Personal Information for those other purposes. If You opt out or otherwise decline to submit Personal Information in response to such a request, Pangeaforum may not be able to provide to You some or all of the Pangeaforum Services or some or all of the features available on the Website.
THIRD PARTY INFORMATION
Pangeaforum may collect or purchase information from third parties regarding persons who provided such information to those third parties. Information provided by the third party may include, but not limited to, individual names, email and postal addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, genders, and any other information provided by the Third Party. Pangeaforum uses its reasonable best efforts to ensure that (i) the third party possesses the right to transfer the information to Pangeaforum and (ii) Pangeaforum has received the right to communicate with the persons who provided the information.
COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS PLACED BY PANGEAFORUM
When You visit the Website, We send to Your computer one or more "cookies" (i.e., a small file containing a string of characters) that, among other things, uniquely identifies Your browser and allows the Website to "remember" Your computer and Your activities on the Website. Pangeaforum uses cookies to uniquely and anonymously identify its users. No Personal Information is collected or stored in these cookies. These cookies cannot damage a user's files and cannot read information from a user's hard drive. Most web 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. Please note that some of the Website's features may not function properly and You may not be able to use the Pangeaforum Services if Your cookies are disabled.
Pangeaforum uses cookies for tracking user clicks on an ad, and subsequent successful completion and crediting of leads to the correct destination, whether that is an advertiser or publisher account at Pangeaforum. Pangeaforum may also use cookies for statistical analysis purposes.
A web beacon is generally a transparent graphic image (usually a very small pixel) that is placed on a website or in an email which is used to monitor behavior of a user visiting a website or email. When HTML code for a web beacon points to a site to retrieve the image, it can pass along information such as IP address of the computer that retrieved the image, time the page was viewed and length, the type of internet browser that retrieved the image, and any previously set cookie values in regards to the web beacon.
LINKS
This Privacy Policy only pertains to the Website and the Pangeaforum Services. Other websites, such as those to which the Website links to or link to the Website, may have their own privacy policies. We encourage You to read the privacy policies and terms of use of the websites that You visit through links placed on the Website as well as those for websites that provide links to the Website. You should contact these websites directly if You have any questions about their use of Your Personal Information. Pangeaforum is not responsible for any use of Your Personal Information or any other type of Your information when You use such third party sites and services.
INFORMATION SHARING AND ONWARD TRANSFER
Pangeaforum reserves the right to sell, rent or otherwise share some or all of Your Personal Information with other companies or individuals outside of Pangeaforum if:
You have consented to such sale, rental or sharing; and/or Pangeaforum becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of all of its assets. In such circumstances, Pangeaforum will provide notice before Personal Information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
In addition, Pangeaforum reserves the right to share non-personally identifiable information relating to users of the Website or the Pangeaforum services with our partners and advertisers. The information will not be linked to any personal identifiable information. When you sign up for any third party service, information may be shared with the third party and your privacy will be maintained in accordance with the third party privacy policy.
INFORMATION SECURITY
Pangeaforum takes reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of its data, including Personal Information stored or maintained on its servers and other systems. These measures include internal reviews of Pangeaforum's data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to servers and systems where Pangeaforum stores personal data.
DATA INTEGRITY
Pangeaforum processes Personal Information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Pangeaforum also takes reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Information We process is accurate, complete, and current, but We depend on You and our other users to update or correct their Personal Information whenever necessary.
ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as required by the Terms of Service, You may change the settings of Your Pangeaforum account via the "settings" section of such account. You may organize or delete certain information through such settings or, alternately, terminate Your Pangeaforum account. Pangeaforum reserves the right to retain archival copies of information that You delete. Pangeaforum will only use Your deleted information for the purposes of detecting and avoiding fraud and will share such information with third parties only when We believe that it is reasonably necessary to do so in order to comply with a subpoena or other judicial order or process, as otherwise required by law or in order to enforce Pangeaforum's Terms of Service.
When you use the Website, Pangeaforum makes good faith efforts to provide you with access to your Personal Information. Where applicable, Pangeaforum asks individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and Pangeaforum 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 Pangeaforum provides information access and correction, Pangeaforum provides this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.
ENFORCEMENT
Pangeaforum regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or Pangeaforum's treatment of Personal Information by contacting Pangeaforum at the address below. When Pangeaforum receives formal written complaints at this address, its policy is to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. Pangeaforum will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of Personal Information that cannot be resolved between an individual and Pangeaforum.
MINORS Pangeaforum is not interested in accepting and does not knowingly collect information from individuals under the age of 18.
INTERNATIONAL PERSONS
If you are located outside of the United States, You acknowledge and agree that by using the Pangeaforum Services and by accessing the Website, Your Personal Information will be collected, stored, and used by Pangeaforum in the United States. As such, you agree to the collection, transfer, storage and use of Your information in the United States and that the collection, storage, transfer and use of any of Your information will be governed by the laws of the United States.
GENERALLY
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Pangeaforum will post any changes on this page of the Website. Pangeaforum encourages You to check back and review this policy periodically so that You will always know what information We collect, how We use it, and to whom We disclose it.