SocialBlaze Privacy Policy
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, AwayTalk Inc. (“AwayTalk”) 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. AwayTalk’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how AwayTalk’s visitors use its website. From time to time, AwayTalk may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
AwayTalk also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. AwayTalk 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 AwayTalk’s websites choose to interact with AwayTalk in ways that require AwayTalk to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that AwayTalk gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who use our services to provide a username and email address. In each case, AwayTalk collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the service. When you register for SocialBlaze we ask for information such as your name, company name, email address, billing address, credit card information. AwayTalk uses collected information for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, and research. AwayTalk 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.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
AwayTalk 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 AwayTalk’s behalf or to provide services available at AwayTalk’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 AwayTalk’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. AwayTalk 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, AwayTalk discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when AwayTalk believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SocialBlaze, third parties, or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a AwayTalk website and have supplied your email address, AwayTalk 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 AwayTalk and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. 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. AwayTalk 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. AwayTalk uses cookies to help AwayTalk identify and track visitors, their usage of AwayTalk website, and their website access preferences. AwayTalk visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using AwayTalk’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of AwayTalk’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
