Your privacy is critically important to us. At Birdzoom.com we have a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
- On Birdzoom.com, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Birdzoom.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Birdzoom, LLC's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Birdzoom.com's visitors use its website. From time to time, Birdzoom, LLC may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Birdzoom, LLC also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Birdzoom, LLC does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Birdzoom.com choose to interact with Birdzoom, LLC in ways that require Birdzoom, LLC to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Birdzoom, LLC gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a user account to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Birdzoom, LLC – by purchasing a user account, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Birdzoom, LLC collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Birdzoom, LLC. Birdzoom, LLC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Birdzoom, LLC may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Birdzoom, LLC may monitor the most popular pages on the Birdzoom.com site. Birdzoom, LLC may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Birdzoom, LLC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Birdzoom, LLC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Birdzoom, LLC's behalf or to provide services available at Birdzoom, LLC's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Birdzoom, LLC's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Birdzoom, LLC will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Birdzoom, LLC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Birdzoom, LLC believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Birdzoom, LLC, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Birdzoom, LLC website and have supplied your email address, Birdzoom, LLC may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what;s going on with Birdzoom, LLC and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Birdzoom, LLC takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Birdzoom.com uses cookies to help Birdzoom, LLC identify and track visitors, their usage of Birdzoom.com website, and their website access preferences. Birdzoom.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Birdzoom, LLC's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Birdzoom, LLC's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Birdzoom, LLC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Birdzoom, LLC's sole discretion. Birdzoom, LLC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a Birdzoom.com account, you should also check your account page for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
