Privacy Policy
Last
modified: March 28, 2011
This
Privacy Policy applies to all of the products and services offered by Picture
Monster Software or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies. Sometimes, we may
post product specific privacy notices or Help Center materials to explain our
products in more detail.
If you
have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact
us through our website or write to us at
Privacy Matters
c/o Picture Monster Software
PO Box 352
Roseville, CA 95678
USA
Information we
collect and how we use it
We may
collect the following types of information:
- Information
you provide – When you sign up for a PhotoMetaTagger.com or PictureMonster.com
account, we ask you for personal
information. We may combine the
information you submit under your account with information from other Picture
Monster Software 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.
- Cookies – When you visit PhotoMetaTagger.com or PictureMonster.com,
we may send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We use
cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user
preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user
trends, such as how people search. Picture Monster Software also uses
cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers
serve and manage ads across the web and on Picture Monster Software
services.
- Log
information – When you access Picture Monster Software services via a
browser, application or other client our servers automatically record
certain information. These server logs may include information such as
your web request, your interaction with a service, 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 or your
account.
- User
communications – When you send email or other communications to Picture
Monster Software, we may retain those communications in order to process
your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. When
you send and receive SMS messages to or from one of our services that
provides SMS functionality, we may collect and maintain information
associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless
carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and
the date and time of the transaction. We may use your email address to
communicate with you about our services.
- Affiliated
Picture Monster Software Services on other sites – We offer some of our services on or through
other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may
be sent to Picture Monster Software in order to deliver the service. We
process such information under this Privacy Policy.
- Third
Party Applications – Picture Monster Software may make available third party
applications, such as gadgets or extensions, through its services. The
information collected by Picture Monster Software when you enable a third
party application is processed under this Privacy Policy. Information
collected by the third party application provider is governed by their
privacy policies.
- Other
sites –
This Privacy Policy applies to Picture Monster Software services only. We
do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results, sites
that include Picture Monster Software applications, products or services,
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.
In
addition to the above, we may use the information we collect to:
- Provide, maintain, protect, and improve our services
(including advertising services) and develop new services; and
- Protect the rights or property of Picture Monster Software or
our users.
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.
Picture
Monster Software processes personal information on our servers in the United
States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal
information outside your own country.
Information
sharing
Picture
Monster Software only shares personal information with other companies or
individuals outside of Picture Monster Software in the following limited
circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the
sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- 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. We require that these
parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in
compliance with this Privacy 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 harm to the
rights, property or safety of Picture Monster Software, its users or the
public as required or permitted by law.
If Picture
Monster Software becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale
of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality of any
personal information involved in such transactions and provide notice before
personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy
policy.
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, including appropriate encryption and physical security
measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store
personal data.
We
restrict access to personal information to Picture Monster Software employees,
contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it
on our behalf. 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.
Accessing and
updating personal information
When you
use Picture Monster Software 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.
Because of the way we maintain certain services, after you delete your
information, residual copies may take a period of time before they are deleted
from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems. Please review the
service Help Centers for more information.
Enforcement
Picture
Monster Software adheres to the US Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of Notice,
Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement, and
is registered with the US Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor Program.
Picture
Monster Software regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy.
When we receive formal written complaints, it is Picture Monster Software’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 Picture Monster Software and an
individual.
Changes to this
Privacy Policy
Please
note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce
your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will
post any Privacy 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 Privacy Policy changes).