Touchbase | Privacy Policy


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Author: Joseph Hayes

Creation Date: July 9th, 2018

INTRODUCTION TO THESE POLICIES

This Touchbase Privacy Policy describes how Hioz LLC treats personal information when you use the Touchbase services, including information provided when you use the Touchbase services. Hioz LLC may modify or revise its privacy policies from time to time, and therefore advises you to check this page for information regarding revisions to our Privacy Policy

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

  • Non-Account Activity. You can view content on Hioz LLC, and all content viewed should be assumed as logged, no matter the nature of being logged in or not. You can also contact us about particular content on Touchbase without having an Alias Account (the login system that Touchbase utilizes).
  • Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on Touchbase, such as linking social media accounts or sharing highlights with others, require you to have an Alias Account, and to have Touchbase added to your Alias Account. We ask for some person information when you create an Alias Account, followed by additional information when you add Touchbase to your Alias Account. Examples of these types of information asked for are email addresses, passwords, names, usernames, and phone number, which can be used to protect your account from unauthorized access. An Alias Account with Touchbase added to it allows you to access some of our services that require registration.
  • Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use Touchbase, how you interact with the Touchbase service, what times you log into the service, what times you are most active on the service, what actions you make on the service, the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display on the Touchbase service. If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may also use Web Beacons in HTML-based emails sent to our users to tack which are opened by our users, and at what rate.
  • Uploads to the Services. Any personal information or User Content that you voluntarily disclose online (on your profile, on the other's profile, on your generated links) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

USES:

  • If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Touchbase service, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the Touchbase service, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.
  • Your account name (not to be confused with your email address) is displayed to other users when you upload content or view content through the Touchbase service, which allows other users to find your account through said activities. Any content that you submit to the Touchbase service may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public without fault to us.
  • We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial/marketing messages without your consent. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of any major Touchbase service changes or for customer service purposes).
  • We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Touchbase service ant to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.
  • We use cookies and log file information to:
  • Store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Touchbase services;
  • Provide custom, personalized content and information that is tailored for you;
  • Monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns;
  • Monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and
  • Track your entries, submissions, and status in Touchbase-related content.

INFORMATION THAT IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE:

  • When you add Touchbase to your Alias Account, some information about your account and your account activity will be provided to other users of the service. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, your name, your age (if chosen to be public), the country you reside in, the accounts you have linked, and the information that you have given.
  • Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other users when you engage in certain activities on the service, such as linking accounts through the Touchbase service. Other users can contact you through messages and comments.
  • You may also choose to add personal information that will be visible to other users on your Touchbase page (which is the public page for your account on the service). This may include a profile picture, your name, gender, education, location, occupation, and more.
  • If you choose to add certain features to your Touchbase page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other users and may be aggregated and shared with your confirmed followers or other users. Such shared activity may include which content is your favorite, which content you rated and which content you yourself have uploaded.

YOUR CHOICES:

  • You may decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Touchbase service, in which case you can still view content and explore the Touchbase service, but Hioz LLC may be unable to provideo certain features and functionalities to you, and the privacy notices of those features and functionalities govern the use of your personal information associated with them.
  • You may update or correct your personal profile information at any time by visiting your account profile page
  • You may control the information that is available to other users and your confirmed followers at any time by editing your account and the features that are included on your Touchbase page.
  • You may delete Touchbase from your Alias Account (or delete your Alias Account, for that matter.)

ADVERTISERS:

Touchbase may allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Touchbase service. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Touchbase service. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see. Touchbase's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with Touchbase is maintained and dealt with by Touchbase in accordance with this privacy policy.