By using the snockles.com ("Site") web site or any of its group-sites (e.g. snockles.co.uk), you accept the following Privacy Policy. Snockles provides this Privacy Policy to furnish users with information regarding our policies and procedures concerning the collection, usage and disclosure of personally identifiable information received from users of this website, located at www.snockles.com, or collected through our social networking service, including via SMS ("Service" ). This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for various reasons, and each version will apply to the information collected while it was in place. We will inform you about any material changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the revised Privacy Policy on our Site. You are advised to check this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.
By using our Site, you are agreeing to our processing of information provided by you, as mentioned in this Privacy Policy presently and as amended by us. "Processing" refers to using cookies on a computer, or using information in any manner, including, but not limited to the collection, storage, deletion, usage, combination and disclosure of information, all of which activities will take place on our servers located in multiple countries including USA and UK. All your personally identifiable information will be transferred to these servers, and processed and stored there. By visiting our Site and providing your information to us, you agree to such transfer to, and processing in, our servers.
By using this service, you agree to be served with advertisements on the Web, phone or other media. Such advertisements may be derived based on the content and profile information that you enter in Snockles.
When you register with snockles.com (or any of its group-sites), you will be assigned a unique username. This username will be used to create the URL (uniform resource locator) for your homepage in Snockles (e.g. www. snockles.com/username). The said URL will be freely available and searchable on the Web, and all information and content that you make publicly available in Snockles can be viewed by all parties.
If you have any questions, suggestions or comments concerning this Privacy Policy or our use of your personally identifiable information, please contact us at privacy@snockles.com.
Collection and Use of Information
Our main reasons for collecting personally identifiable information are to make available to you the products and services provided through the Site, including, but not limited, to the Service, to correspond with you, and to manage your user account.
Information Collected on Registering
If you wish to have access to some restricted areas of the Site, you will be required to register, and to submit some personally identifiable information to Snockles. This may happen in a number of cases, like when you sign up for the Service, or if you wish to receive marketing material or information. The personally identifiable information that we collect in such cases may include your Internet Protocol address, user name, password, email ID, city, country, telephone number, and other information that you choose to provide us with, or that you choose to include in your public profile.
Other Information
Your user name and your photo, if you choose to upload one, are displayed in the Snockles network to enable you to connect with other people on Snockles, as specified in your privacy settings. Once you become a member, you may provide extra information in the profile section as you deem fit. Providing extra information beyond what is required during registration is optional, but it enables you to identify yourself better and to make new friends and find opportunities in the Snockles system. If you activate the mobile phone option as per the Terms of Service at www.snockles.com/terms, we will collect your mobile phone number. You will receive notifications on your mobile phone in a number of cases, like when a Snockles member adds you as a friend or sends you a message. If you get in touch with us by email through the Site, we may keep a record of your correspondence and contact information, and may use your email ID, and any other information that you provide to us in your mail, to answer you.
Use of the Contact Information provided
Also, we may use the contact information provided by you to market to you, and provide you with information about our products and services, including but not limited to our Service. If you, at any time, decide that you do not wish to receive such information or correspondence from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in the Site.
Policy regarding Log Data
Whenever you visit the Site, our servers automatically record the information that your browser sends when you visit a website ("log data"). This log data may contain information such as your Internet Protocol address, type of web browser, the domain from which you are visiting, the web-pages that you visit, the search terms that you use, and info regarding advertisements on which you click. For most users who are accessing the Internet from an Internet service provider (ISP), the Internet Protocol address will be different every time he/ she logs on. We use the log data to examine the use of our Service and of the Site, and for the Site’s technical administration. We do not relate your Internet Protocol address with any other personally identifiable information to identify you personally, except in the cases of breach of the Terms of Service.
Policy regarding Cookies
We use cookies in order to collect website usage information and to improve our service and the Site. A cookie is a tiny data file, which we transfer to your computer’s hard disk. Cookies are not used by us to collect personally identifiable information. Snockles may use both persistent cookies and session cookies to understand how you interact with our Service and the Site, to monitor cumulative usage by our users and web traffic routing on the Site, and to improve our services and the Site. A session cookie enables some features of our service and the Site and is deleted from your computer when you leave the Site or disconnect from it. A persistent cookie remains in your computer’s hard disk after you close your browser, and your browser may use it on subsequent visits to the Site. The persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s help file directions. Most of the Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You may instruct your browser, by editing the options, to stop accepting cookies, or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites that you visit.
Sharing and Disclosure of Information
Third Parties/ Service Providers
We may engage some trusted third parties to provide services to and perform functions for us, including, but not limited to, customer relationship, hosting and maintenance, database management and storage, and marketing campaigns. We may share your personally identifiable information and publicly available content on the Site with such third parties, but only to the degree necessary in order to provide such services and perform these functions, and only pursuant to binding contractual obligations requiring these third parties to maintain the security and privacy of your information. Such information and content may be used to serve you with advertisements on the Web, phone or other media.
Compliance with the Law
Snockles cooperates with law enforcement and government officials or private parties to comply with and enforce the law. We may, in our sole discretion, disclose any information about you to law enforcement or government officials or private parties as we believe appropriate or necessary to respond to claims, legal processes, to protect the property and rights of Snockles or a third party, the safety of any person or the public, to stop or prevent any unethical, illegal, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.
Transfers related to Business
Snockles may transfer, sell or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your personally identifiable information, in connection with a reorganization, merger, acquisition or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy. You may opt out of any such transfer if the new entity's planned processing of your information differs significantly from that outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Altering or Removing Information
If you are a member of the Site, you may update, correct or delete the information that you provided to us by making the required changes in the profile section or emailing us at privacy@snockles.com.
Snockles Security
Snockles is extremely careful about safeguarding the privacy of your personally identifiable information. We employ physical, electronic and administrative measures which are designed to protect your data from unauthorized access.
We will, in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of the confidentiality, integrity, or security of your unencrypted electronically stored personal information to you via email and/ or conspicuous posting on this Site consistent with (i) any measures essential to determine the extent of the breach and to restore the reasonable integrity of the data system or (ii) the legitimate requirements of law enforcement.
Site Links to Other Websites
Our Site may contain links to other websites. This linking to a website does not imply an authorization, endorsement or representation of our affiliation with that third party. We exercise no control over third party websites. These websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer’s hard disk, solicit personally identifiable information or collect data from you. Other websites follow different rules regarding the disclosure or use of the personally identifiable information that you submit to them. We encourage you to read the privacy statements or policies of the third party websites that you visit.
Snockles Policy concerning Children
The Site is not directed to children under the age of 13. If a parent/ guardian comes to know that his/ her child has provided us with personally identifiable information without their permission, he/ she should contact us immediately at privacy@snockles.com. We do not intentionally collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If we come to know that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal identifiable Information, we will delete such data from our files.
Alteration of Privacy Policy
You recognize that we are constantly developing the functionality and the features of the Service. As a result, we also reserve the right to alter this Privacy Policy at our sole discretion, at any time. You also agree that such modification shall be effective upon posting on the Snockles.com web site, and you shall be bound to any modifications when you use the Service after such modifications are posted. Thus, it is important that you go over the Privacy Policy on the Snockles.com web site on a regular basis to make sure that you are updated concerning any modifications. Your only solution, should you not agree with the modified Privacy Policy, shall be to close your account and discontinue using the Service.