Leafling Media LLC Privacy Policy
(Effective as of December 05, 2007)
Any information you choose to share with us here at Leafling is used for internal business purposes only. Leafling does not sell any information about you. The purpose of this notice is to inform you what information is collected, how it is secured, shared, and how you can access it.
Collected Information
Leafling collects personal information that you provide when you register an account with us.
Leafling automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, and the pages and content you request.
Using IP Address Information
Leafling may occasionally obtain IP addresses from users depending upon how you access our web site. IP addresses, browser and session information may be used for various purposes, including to:
- Diagnose and prevent service or technology problems reported by our users that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
- Estimate the total number of users visiting Leafling from specific geographical regions.
- Help determine which users have access privileges to certain content, services or resources that we offer.
- Monitor and prevent fraud and abuse.
- Deliver more relevant advertisements to you.
Using Cookies
A cookie is a small data file written to a user's hard drive by a web server. These files contain specific information that uniquely identifies users. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set, however, if you configure your browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to use Leafling products or services that require you to "login" and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings on the Leafling site.
Leafling uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:
- Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Leafling's services.
- Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
- Conduct research to improve Leafling's content and services.
Leafling lets other entities that show advertisements on some of our web pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other entities' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, and not this policy. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to Leafling's cookies.
Using, Sharing, and Disclosing Collected Information
Leafling does not share personal information we learn about you from your use of the Service or this web site with others except as described in this policy. We do not share your information with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
When you provide personal information through using the Service you are however sharing your personal information with Leafling, organizations that may hold a majority interest in Leafling, their divisions or subsidiaries and, Leafling and any of its divisions or subsidiaries. The use of your personal information by these organizations is subject to this policy.
We do not share your information with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, Leafling may display targeted advertisements based on personally non-identifiable information (such as browser type and IP address, see the Section entitled "Third Party Advertising" below for more information on how your information is shared with advertisers).
Leafling may use your personal information where it is necessary for us to complete a transaction, to operate or improve Leafling and related products and services, to do something that you have asked us to do, or tell you of products and services that we think may be of interest.
Leafling may use your email address to contact you with required email messages about the Service or in the event you have voluntarily subscribed to receive email from Leafling.
Leafling does or may share personally identifiable information about you under the following circumstances:
- In the course of operating our business it may be necessary or appropriate for us to provide access to your personal information to others such as our service providers, contractors and select vendors so that we can operate the Service and our business. Where practical, we seek to obtain confidentiality agreements that are consistent with this policy and that limit others' use or disclosure of the information you have shared.
- We may share your personal information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims, if in our judgment, disclosure is required or appropriate in such circumstances.
- As we continue to develop our business, we might also sell all or part of our business. In such transactions, personally identifiable information you have shared with us is generally one of the business assets that may be transferred. The transferred personally identifiable information will remain subject to the promises made in this privacy policy or subsequent policies to which you have consented.
If there is ever a change to how Leafling uses or intends to use personal information, we will post that change to this policy and, if the new policy is materially less restrictive than this policy, we will notify you of the changes.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements appearing on Leafling may be delivered to users by Leafling or one of our advertising partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, advertising partners (or "ad networks") may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Leafling and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Leafling does not share any personally identifiable information with advertisers. Leafling may share general demographic information (such as information about members' aggregate interests and occupations) and non-personally identifiable information (such as browser type and IP addresses) with advertisers and partners.
Confidentiality and Security
We will never ask you to submit additional personal information or to verify the status of or information related to your account in any electronic communication email. By using this web site or providing personal information to us you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of this site
Contacting Leafling
If you have a privacy concern regarding Leafling, or this policy, and if you cannot satisfactorily resolve it through the use of this web site, you should then write to us by email to leaf-privacy@leafling.com.