Waloop Photo Hosting Privacy Policy

What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This privacy policy pertains to the use of the Waloop Photo Hosting web site at http://www.uploads.waloop.com/
• This privacy policy covers how Waloop Photo Hosting treats personal information that Waloop Photo Hosting collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number.
• Children under 13 are not permitted to use the Waloop Photo Hosting service, and so this privacy policy makes no provision for children's use of the site.

Information Collection and How it is used

General Information

• Waloop Photo Hosting collects personal information when you register with Waloop Photo Hosting to use Waloop Photo Hosting services or to post content on Waloop Photo Hosting.
• When you register we ask for your email address and certain optional information such as your name, birth date, birth place, gender, biographical information, ICQ/AIM/Yahoo/MSN user name, and personal interests.
• Waloop Photo Hosting automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie, and the page you request.
• Waloop Photo Hosting uses information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, 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 Waloop Photo Hosting.

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 tailor advertising based on geographic area or other information derived from your IP address. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.
• To estimate the total number of users visiting Waloop Photo Hosting from specific geographical regions.
• To make sure that people are not voting for themselves or friends during contests or promotions.

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 Waloop Photo Hosting products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of the Waloop Photo Hosting service.
• Waloop Photo Hosting uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
  • Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Waloop Photo Hosting's services.
  • Display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on Waloop Photo Hosting.
  • Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
  • Conduct research to improve Waloop Photo Hosting's content and services.
• Waloop Photo Hosting lets other companies (such as Kanoodle) 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 Waloop Photo Hosting's cookies.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• When you post a message, your Waloop Photo Hosting ID or alias 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.
• Waloop Photo Hosting may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the Waloop Photo Hosting Terms of Service.
• Waloop Photo Hosting may share demographic information with business partners, such as "53% of users who regularly user Waloop Photo Hosting are between 18 and 24" 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)
• Waloop Photo Hosting does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested or when we have your permission.
• It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Waloop Photo Hosting's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
• We will transfer information about you if Waloop Photo Hosting is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Waloop Photo Hosting will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the Waloop Photo Hosting web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• Waloop Photo Hosting displays targeted advertisements based on personal information that is exhibited in people's profiles.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Waloop Photo Hosting 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 Waloop Photo Hosting account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions

If you have questions or suggestions you can contact us at:

Waloop Photo Hosting Customer Care - Waloop.com[at]gmail.com