Privacy

We (TinkrBox) are committed to protecting the privacy of the users and visitors of its products and services. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site, and not to other web sites to which we link or to web sites that you access via the Site. See our User Agreement for definitions of terms.

We may update, modify or change this Privacy Policy at any time and your continued use of the Site means that you have accepted the new Privacy Policy.

Information You Provide That Becomes Public

  • Your Username and Profile Image. When you register, you will be asked to provide us with information, including a Username, password and working email address. You will also have the opportunity to upload a Profile Image that is associated with your Username. You will need your Username and password to post content to the site and use other site features, including, but not limited to, adding comments, sharing content. Much of your activity on the Site may be public and identifiable to you based on your Username and Profile Image. Your Username will be displayed publicly on the Site, for instance, when you create a box or Comment to the Site. Your Username may appear in the Site's public timeline list, which is linked to from the Site's home page. When your Username is displayed on the Site, it is clickable by other visitors and will link to your Personal Page.
  • Your Personal Page and Personal Profile. Your Boxes show up on your Personal Page which visitors will be taken to when they click on your Username. Visitors will be able to, amongst other things, see and search through your Public Boxes. You also may create a Personal Profile, which will be accessible by any visitor to the Site and contains other information about you.
  • Your Discretion. When posting a Box on the Site, remember that any information you disclose becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal, financial or other information.

Other Information You Provide and How We Use It

  • Reports We Generate Using Your Information. We may use your Username, all Boxes you create or save and the information associated with them, within internal reports we generate for the purpose of monitoring the use of the activity on the Site. Personally identifiable data from these reports will not be distributed to third parties or used for any other purposes except as stated herein, although we may use the information in the aggregate to show publicly or to affiliates the usage of the Site.
  • Your Email Address. The email address you provide will not be distributed to third parties and will be used to respond to your customer support inquiries and forgot password requests, notify you about activity on TinkrBox, to enable other users to find you, and update you about changes to the site
  • Disclosures to Third Parties. We may use third party contractors to help us operate our business or administer activities on our behalf and may share your information (both personal and non-personal) with these contractors for those limited purposes. We will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties except as provided in this Privacy Policy or the User Agreement.
  • Transfer or Sale of Your Information. If TinkrBox is sold to or merges with another company, or declares bankruptcy, or if we sell the Site, some or all of the information collected from you (both personal and non-personal) may be transferred to a third party as a result. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information when we determine it is necessary to comply with applicable laws or protect the interests or safety of TinkrBox, its users and visitors.

Information Collected Automatically and How We Use It

  • Your IP Address. Our servers log your IP address automatically when you use the Site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Web. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information. We use IP address information for system administration and the compilation of aggregate information about the usage of the Site and Software.
  • We collect certain information regarding your use of the Site and Software. Such information includes, but is not limited to, the number of Boxes you save both privately and publicly, the tags you associate with such Boxes, the number of searches you do on the Site and the keywords you use with those searches, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the online source of Content you Share, the file type of the Content within a Box, titles of Box you create and the Username of the creator of such Box. We use this information to generate reports that we use internally to understand how TinkrBox is being used and how we can improve upon it. We may use this information to create reports that will be made available on our Site regarding activity that occurs within the public parts of the Site. We may share information we gather with third parties, such as advertisers, business partners and sponsors, but only in the aggregate or in anonymous form. We will not connect your name or other personally identifiable information to the foregoing information should we choose to share it with third parties.
  • Cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make Web-surfing easier for you by saving your passwords, purchases, and preferences while you're on a web site. The use of cookies is an industry standard technology you will find on many web sites. When you use the Site and/or Software we may automatically receive and record information in our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information from Clips, and the page you request. We use the information collected for the purpose of improving our service and for anonymous reporting of Site and Software usage. We do not use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. We may share such information with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties.

Advertising Policy

  • We may serve advertisements on the Site. We do not bundle any third party software and will not serve any types of advertising outside our Site. If you have any questions about our advertising policy, please contact support@tinkrbox.com

Links to Third Party Sites and Data Security

  • Links. The Site and Clips posted on the Site may contain links to other sites, including, among others, those of Boxes' sources, advertisers, third parties and companies whose trademarks may appear on the Service. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the sites to which we link or which you access via the Software and/or Site. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of all such sites.
  • Security. Protecting your information is important to us. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we are committed to protecting your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.

Update Personal Information or Contact Us

  • If you would like to review, update, change or delete information we have collected from you, please send an e-mail to support@tinkrbox.com. Please note that changes may not be effective immediately.
  • We welcome comments and questions on this Privacy Policy. Please send them to support@tinkrbox.com.