1. General and Information that we may collect

Thank you for visiting PixSense's ("PixSense") Internet web site ("Site") located at the URL www.pixsense.com. This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented throughout PixSense governing PixSense's use of personally identifiable information provided to PixSense via this Site or in the course of using our services for the management and transmission of your digital photographs (the "Services"). You can generally visit our Site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain sections of this Site, to use the Services, we may require you to provide personally identifiable information. We may ask that you complete and submit an online form with personally identifiable information such as your full name, postal address, phone number, phone model and email address, financial information (credit card number, etc., for orders placed with PixSense) and demographic information (e.g., zip code, postal code, hometown, gender, purchase history information and age).

PixSense is committed to protecting the privacy needs of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children´s online activities and interests. PixSense's products, Services and Site are not intended for children under the age of 13 and PixSense does not target its Services or this Site to children under 13. Children under the age of 13 will not be able to register to use the Services and PixSense does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

You acknowledge that it is not feasible for us to apply restrictions on the use or disclosure of information you post on publicly available areas. We ask that you do not submit any personally identifiable information, such as contact information or financial information, for display in public areas, as other people who use the Services may see it. If you submit such information for display in public areas, PixSense cannot prevent it from being used in a manner that violates the law, your personal privacy or your safety. By submitting such information for display in public areas, you assume the risks and sole liability arising as a result of such information being displayed.

2. Changes to Privacy Policy

Due to the Internet´s rapidly evolving nature, PixSense may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, PixSense will post its updated Privacy Policy on our Site located at www.pixsense.com so you are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use and disclose this information. PixSense encourages you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Your continued use of this Site and/or the Services will be subject to the then-current Privacy Policy.

3. How Your Information is Used and may be Disclosed

We may use the personally identifiable information that you provide to us for the following purposes:

3.1. Order and Payment Processing, Customer Service, Credit Card Issuers and Quality Assurance: We may use your contact information to help us efficiently perform transactions, to deliver or administer the Services and/or goods you have requested (if and when applicable), to perform quality assurance, sales analyses and other business analyses, and to contact you in connection with your activities through the Site or using the Services. We may provide your personally identifiable information to our third party service providers that may assist us (such as your contact information to your credit card issuer or to credit card processors to process a transaction on this Site). We may contact you or our third party service providers may contact you for the purposes described in this paragraph.

3.2. Contacting You for Offers and Promotions: We may send you marketing and promotional materials that we believe may be of interest to you. These marketing and promotional materials may include, but are not limited to: newsletters providing you with additional information on how to use the Services, and promotional offers for goods and services from PixSense or third parties.

3.3. Use of Demographic Information: PixSense may use your demographic information to perform business analyses or to tailor this Site and communications to your interests. We may share anonymous, aggregated demographic information that does not personally identify you with advertisers and other third parties so that they can tailor their advertisements and communications to the appropriate audience. Any time that we share your contact information or financial information; we may also share your demographic information.

4. Other Disclosures

Except as expressly stated in this Privacy Policy, PixSense will not rent or sell your personal information for use by third parties. We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any other company or organization. Additionally, we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which PixSense participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of PixSense's assets to which this Site relates. Such successor entity shall be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. PixSense also may disclose specific contact information to protect the interests or safety of PixSense or other visitors to this Site or users of the Services.

5. Use of Cookies and Other Site Tracking Data

We may use small text files called cookies to improve overall Site experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user´s hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you.

We may track the total number of visitors to our Site, type of browser used, operating system software (e.g. Windows 95 vs. 98 or Macintosh), cookie preferences (whether the user has them turned on or off), and search engine keywords (what key words did a visitor use to get to our Site), the web page from which you came to this Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site and IP addresses and we may analyze these data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users´ movement, create new products, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

The Site may include ad banners for the serving and/or targeting of ads, promotions, and other marketing messages. These ads may be provided, in some cases, by a third party ad service provider. The ad service provider may place or utilize their own unique cookie on your browser, and may use non-personally identifiable information about your visit to our Site, such as the number of times you have viewed the ad. PixSense is not responsible for the collection of these cookies and is not responsible for the actions of the ad service providers. PixSense does not sponsor, endorse or guarantee any products or services advertised by third parties on its Site.

In order to provide more relevant advertising and monitor user bandwidth usage (as governed by the PixSense Terms of Service), PixSense may gather data from the referrer logs that identify where and how frequently user images being hosted by PixSense are being displayed on third party Web sites. Such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information.

6. Links to Third Party Web sites

The Site or the Services may provide links to other Web sites or resources which PixSense does not control ("External Web Sites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by PixSense of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that PixSense is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that PixSense is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.

7. Non-US Users

If you are not a resident of the United States, you understand and agree that PixSense stores and processes your information on computers located in the United States, and by providing any information to PixSense, you consent to the transfer of such information to the United States.

8. Security Precautions

PixSense provides you with the ability to review, correct and delete any of the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us. If you wish to review or correct any information you have provided to us, you may contact us by email at: .

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or information that you have submitted to us you can contact us.

 

 

This Privacy Policy was last updated: December 15, 2005

This Privacy Policy is effective as of: December 15, 2005