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PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to Lphant. We want you to know that we respect your privacy and that we value your business. This privacy statement covers the LphantTM software, Lphant MediaBar and the LphantTM website (www.lphant.com). In order to ensure your privacy we want you to know the details of what information we collect and what we do with it. INFORMATION COLLECTION
Lphant takes your privacy very seriously. In order to provide you with the highest quality service, we do collect certain information from you in accordance with the following guidelines. Direct Submissions: Cookies and Other Technology: We may as part of the sign-in process for our service or within our shopping module, use what are commonly called "persistent" cookies which stay with you after your session is over and you are offline. We may use these cookies in connection with a sign-in feature that allows you to save your member name and password so that the next time you sign in, these fields will be pre-populated for you. If we make this cookie available, it can only be activated if you select that option during your sign-in. If you select that option you can always deselect it each time you sign-in. We may sometimes use cookies, as well as other tracking technology, such as web beacons, within the promotional emails that we send to our members or advertisements for our service or sites. These technologies help us track, for example, whether an e-mail recipient has completed an event, such as signing up for a trial. The generated information is related to non-personally identifiable customer identification numbers and is only analyzed at aggregate levels. We may send these emails via third-party service providers that act on our behalf. We sometimes utilize third party service providers to help us track the activity and user flows within our service or sites. These third parties may use temporary cookies and/or web beaconing technology to facilitate such tracking. Such tracking would track an individual user's movements but the data would not be tracked in a personally identifiable way. Such data would be stored and analyzed on an aggregated basis for purposes of internal analysis by Lphant to continue to optimize our customer experience. If we engage with any advertising partners and or other third parties, our approved advertising partners and third parties whose products or services are promoted on our site may also use cookies, and we advise you to check their privacy policies for information about their cookies and other privacy practices if you are presented with one of their offers during your association with Lphant. Log Files and IP addresses: SEARCH TECHNOLOGY AND THE LPHANT MEDIA BAR
Lphant and the Lphant.com website also feature the Lphant MediaBar ("LMB") and search services ("Services"), respectively, that are powered by third party search partners ("Search Partners"). Your use of LMB and the Services are subject to the following privacy restrictions required by our Search Partners. Our Search Partners use this information to properly process your search requests. Importantly, all information collected in connection with a search query is recorded on a non-personally identifiable basis and is kept strictly anonymous, except as may be required by law or to protect the rights or safety of others. LMB does not and our Search Partners do not: (a) collect or report back to us (or anyone else) any information about sites you visit on the Internet; (b) collect or "screen-scrape" any search queries or information that you provide to any other web sites; (c) serve pop-ups when you are on other websites; or (d) collect or report back to us (or anyone else) any data regarding your computer keystrokes or other data unrelated to the Services. When you visit this website and use the Service, neither we nor our Search Partners collect any such personal information. Search Query and Other Non-personal Information In addition, all information about search activity is evaluated only on an aggregated basis (excepted in response to a customer service inquiry or legal process), and our Search Partners does not disclose any non-aggregated information to third parties, except as required by a valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order, or to protect someone's safety. When you visit the Web Sites, our Search Partners also capture your source IP address which is a standard practice for most Internet sites. They in no way associate your IP address with any cookies and do not use your IP address in conjunction with any personally identifiable information. Cookies Disclosure to Third Parties If the LMB or Service is ever sold or all or substantially all of the assets relating to BM or the Service are transferred to another entity, our Search Partners may transfer all information provided by or collected from you, including personally identifiable information, in order to ensure continuity of service. Our Search Partners may also transfer all information provided by or collected from you, including personally identifiable information, to another entity in the event our Search Partners or substantially all their assets are sold to another entity. If you wish to withdraw your consent to the communication and data usage as described herein, you should uninstall LMB from your computer and cease using the Web Sites. You may uninstall or remove LMB at any time by following the instructions at the beginning of the Lphant MediaBar section above. Our Search Partners may provide search results or other links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because our Search Partners have no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that they are not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that neither Discordia nor our Search Partners shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with your use of or reliance on any such Content, goods or services available on or through LMB or Web Sites. INFORMATION USE
Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose any information about you outside of Discordia and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent. We may share non-personally identifiable information about our users with our partners and advertisers. In addition, there are times where it may be advantageous for Lphant to make certain personally identifiable information about you available to companies that Lphant has a strategic relationship with or that perform work in conjunction with the user experience. These companies may provide services such as those that fulfill customer service orders, those that extend credit, deliver products and or ancillary services to you, enhance and manage customer data, conduct market research for Lphant. In addition, on occasion we allow you to choose to share your personal information with select Discordia partners so that they can contact you about their products, services or offers. These companies are also required to protect your personal information in accordance with Lphant's policies. Without our ability to integrate and share with these strategic partners it would be difficult for you to purchase and utilize Lphant products and services, receive the appropriate quality and level of customer service and provide us the data needed to best improve our products and services. In addition, by providing your email address, you'll receive our weekly email newsletter and account updates, sent to you by Lphant. You can always opt out from any Lphant communication. Some Lphant services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you register for or use such services, both Discordia and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, hosting websites, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those companies will be permitted to obtain only the personally identifiable information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose. In an endeavor to improve the customer experience we may also purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database, to better target our features, services and offers in which we think you may be interested. To enrich our profiles of existing customers, we may tie this information to personally identifiable information that you have given to us. In addition to the foregoing, we may disclose your personally identifiable information if we believe such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law or legal process served on Discordia; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Discordia (including the enforcement of our agreements); or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Lphant services or members of the public. LINKS
In an attempt to provide increased value to our visitors, we may choose various third party web sites to link from or frame within the Lphant website. We also participate in co-branding, advertising and other relationships to offer e-commerce and other services and features to our users. Information about you may be visible to subsequent websites if you link off of the Lphant website. However, even if the third party is affiliated with us, we have no control over these linked sites, each of which has separate privacy and data collection practices independent of us. Data collected by our co-brand partners, advertisers or third party web sites (even if offered on or through our site) is not received by us. As such, we are not responsible for, or have any control over, the content or the privacy policies of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited when linking from Lphant.com. These linked sites are only for your convenience and you therefore access them at your own risk. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Lphant. CHOICE/OPT-OUT
As a member of Lphant, you can download, search, share and publish just about any digital media file. Users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of the sharing component of the Lphant Software, so that such user's files are not made available to other users, by disabling that component of the Software. Each user is provided with the option to disable the sharing component of the Software by going into the preferences section of our site and "disabling" the appropriate component... Additionally you can modify your registration and preferences information at any time in the My Account section of our service. Also all of Lphant's promotional emails are accompanied with information on how to change your communications preferences and how to "opt-out" of certain communications. For access to our communications preferences page please go to the My Account section of the Service. OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. We operate our website in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We never knowingly collect or maintain information at or on our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is directed at or structured to attract anyone under 13. Visitors younger than 13 years of age may NOT use the Lphant website and software and must LEAVE immediately. LEGAL DISCLAIMER
At times Lphant may be required by law or litigation to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance that disclosure of information is necessary. SECURITY
We take every reasonable precaution to protect information from misuse, loss and unauthorized access. Although we cannot guarantee that users' information will not be subject to unauthorized access, we have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we may collect online. All employees are kept up to date on our security and privacy practices. NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and on our homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify registered users by way of an e-mail or instant messaging or similar method, and/or by posting a notice on our website. QUESTIONS
If you have questions or concerns regarding this please email us at privacy@Lphant.com. You can also contact us by sending us postal mail at Discordia, Ltd. 211 East 43rd St. 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10017, Attn: PRIVACY OFFICER. |
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