Your privacy is important to us!

It is particularly sensitive in a service that enables private and mass communications with others. For this reason, we have established a comprehensive privacy policy that is based on best practiced industry standards and a number of basic principles that we pledge to you:

• We will not share any personally identifiable information with any third party
• We will not send you email or SPAM messages, nor do we enable any 3rd party to do so
• We will not own the content of your messages, posts, or status updates
• We will not use any pop ups, malware, spyware or adware – ever

Spikr Privacy Policy

Spikr, (“Spikr”) provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information we receive when you visit and use the www.spikr.com site (the “Site”) and when you use our widgets, applications and services, whether on the Siteor on partners and third parties (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy applies only to information that you provide to us (including that which we collect on your behalf) when you access, download, purchase or use any information, services, products or content appearing on the Site or offered by Spikr through the Services This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. If you have an account with Spikr, we will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Site. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes whether you have a Spikr account or not.

Information Collection: Personally Identifiable Information:

• In the course of using the Services, we will ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you and administer your account (“Personal Information”). Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, geographical location and access to profile on third party sites.
• When you use the Services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website or online service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include, but is not limited to, your computer’s Internet Protocol address, browser type, the web page you were visiting before you came to the Site and information you search for on a Site. When a user creates a widget, we may record data related to that activity, the deployment of the widget and any other account related data.
• Like many websites, we use “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We use “persistent cookies” to save your username and login password for future logins to the Site. We use “session ID cookies” to enable certain features of the Services, to better understand how you interact with the Services and to monitor web traffic routing on the Site and aggregate usage of the Services. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the website you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of the Services.
• You may avoid accepting cookies from Spikr by simply not using the services or by disabling Spikr cookies on your computer.
• This site renders some of its web services from third party technology providers including and not limited to Facebook, MySpace, AOL, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, Widgetbox, OpenSocial, OpenID, Gigya, FriendFeed and NetVibes. You may avoid accepting cookies from any of these services by simply not using our service or by disabling services by these providers on your computer.
• Information Collected on Behalf of Our Users. When you deploy our Services on a website (including deployment of a widget) and/or provide a widget for a third party to place on their website or social networking site web page, as your agent and on your behalf we may collect certain tracking and usage data generated or provided by End Users (“Usage Data”). This information includes general widget usage patterns. You may also request that we receive or gather personally identifiable information as part of that Usage Data, including but not limited to the email addresses of End Users. Other than as necessary to provide you with the Services, as directed by you or where we have received information independently from the End User (e.g. where an End User registers with us through the Site), Spikr will not review, access, share or disclose Usage Data.
• “End User” means a visitor to or user of a widget or website that was created with or includes the Services. If you are an End User please note that the information you provide to us may be shared with the Spikr user running our Services. We recommend that you see the privacy policies of such Spikr user or the relevant website for information regarding their privacy practices.

Our Policy Toward Children:

Spikr does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us using the contact form on this site. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our files.

How We Use Personal Information:

• Personal Information is used for the following purposes: (i) to provide and improve the Services, features and content, (ii) to administer your use of the Services and Spikr account, (iii) to enable users to enjoy and easily navigate the Site, (iv) to better understand your needs and interests, (v) to fulfill requests you may make, (vi) to personalize your experience, (vii) to provide service announcements, and (viii) to provide you with further information and offers from us or third parties that we believe you may find useful or interesting, including newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information on Spikr related services. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in the communication.
• We use information we obtain by technical means (such as the automatic recording performed by our servers or through the use of cookies) for the above purposes and in order to monitor and analyze use of the Services and for the technical administration of the Site, to increase the functionality and user-friendliness of the Services, to better tailor both to your needs, to generate and derive useful data and information concerning the interests, characteristics and website use behavior of our users, and to verify that visitors and users to and of the Services meet the criteria required to process their requests.

Information Sharing and Disclosure:

In addition to your username, any comments or submissions that you post to the Site or Services will be publicly available. For example, if you are using the social community networking features of our Service hosted by us or a Spikr user running our Services on their website, the information you publish will be viewable by other users. Any information you choose to provide in a comment or a submission should reflect how much you want other users to know about you. We recommend that you guard your anonymity and sensitive information and we encourage Spikr users to think carefully about what information about themselves they disclose in their comments or submissions. End User Information. We may share End User information with the Spikr user for whom we collected such information.

Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying Information:

We may share aggregated information that includes non-identifying information and Log Data with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, and to deliver targeted advertising about other products and services. Any aggregated information shared in these contexts will not contain your Personal Information.

Service Providers:

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate the Services, to provide the Services on our behalf, to perform services related to administration of the Services (including, without limitation maintenance, hosting and database management services, web analytics and administration). These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement:

Spikr cooperates with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of Spikr or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop any activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical, inappropriate or legally actionable.

Business Transfers:

In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy, Spikr will inform registered users of any pending changes to the ownership of their personal account information and enable them to opt out of the service if they do not wish to continue.

Changing or Deleting Your Information:

All registered Spikr users may review, update, correct or delete the Personal Information in their registration profile by logging into their account and changing the “user preferences” associated with their account. If you completely delete all such information, your account may be deactivated. We may retain an archived copy of your records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

Security:

Spikr is concerned with safeguarding your information. We employ a variety of industry-standard measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access.

International Transfer:

Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to Spikr, please be advised that we transfer Personal Information to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Links to Other Sites:

The Services may contain links to other websites. If you choose to visit an advertiser by “clicking on” a banner ad or other type of advertisement, or click on another third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. The fact that we link to a website or present a banner ad or other type of advertisement is not an endorsement, authorization or representation that we are affiliated with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personal information you submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.

Contacting Us:

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by using the contact form on this site