Linqto, Inc. ("Linqto") takes safeguarding online privacy seriously. Please
read the following to understand Linqto’s privacy practices regarding information
we collect from users of our Site and Application (as defined in the Terms of Use).
From time to time, Linqto may change this privacy policy as described in Section
13 (below).
1. CONSENT.
By submitting Personal Data through our Application, you agree to the terms of this
Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the collection, use and disclosure of
your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2. A NOTE ABOUT CHILDREN.
We do not intentionally gather Personal Data about visitors who are under the age
of 13.
3. A NOTE TO USERS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
Your Personal Data may be processed in the country in which it was collected and
in other countries, including the United States, where laws regarding processing
of Personal Data may be less stringent than the laws in your country.
4. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
(a) Data You Provide. "Personal Data" means data that allows someone to identify
or contact you, including, for example, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail
address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated
with or linked to any of the foregoing data. We collect Personal Data from you when
you create an account as described in Section 5 below (“Account”). We collect information
from you when you use our virtual rooms as described in Section 5 below. When you
order services, we (or our service provider) will collect all information necessary
to complete the transaction, including your name, credit card information, billing
information and shipping information. We retain information on your behalf, such
as files and messages that you store using your Account. If you provide us feedback
or contact us via e-mail, we will collect your name and e-mail address, as well
as any other content included in the e-mail, in order to send you a reply. We may
also collect Personal Data, such as at other points in our Site that state that
Personal Data is being collected.
(b) Data Collected via Technology. To make our Application more useful to
you, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) collect
information from you, including your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol
(IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you
use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, and/or a
date/time stamp for your visit. Linqto may use cookies on its home page to save
users time so they do not have to enter their password each time they visit the
Site or enter a virtual room. Linqto may also use cookies on its download page to
speed up users’ activities in not having to register more than once. Linqto may
also use cookies in other areas on its Site now and in the future. Linqto’s cookies
do not contain Personal Data. “Cookies” give users a unique, random ID by storing
small text files onto a user’s computer hard drive with the user’s browser. Cookies
enable a web site to track a user’s activities on a web site. Users are free to
change their web browsers to prevent the acceptance of cookies. Please note that
if you disable Cookies, parts of our Site may not function as intended.
(c) Google Analytics. We currently use Google Analytics. Google Analytics
collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying
individual visitors. Google Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions.
Website owners can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their
website so they can improve their website and how people find it. Please see the
following links for more information about Google Analytics: www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
5. Specific Information About Virtual Rooms
(a) Who may be present in the virtual room and observe what I say or do?
There are up to three types of participants in or users of the virtual rooms provided
by Linqto: Administrators, observers and invited guests. An Administrator is the
individual setting up the virtual room meeting. Administrators must register for
an Account with Linqto and have available to them such features as the ability to
allow invited guests to ask questions, limit time for questions or comments for
invited guests, and other features. Administrators typically manage the technical
issues related to the conduct of the virtual meeting and functionality of the virtual
room. The presence of an Administrator may or may not be visible or disclosed to
invited guests. Observers may be present with the permission of the Administrator
to observe the virtual meeting but not participate. The presence of an observer
will not be visible to the invited guests. Invited guests are the meeting attendees,
similar to attendees at a conference, or members of the crowd at a concert (with
added features to participate or interact). Administrators, observers and invited
guests may view participant comments through the messaging feature, hear verbal
comments and other audible content through the audio feature and view images through
the video features. Linqto does not have the responsibility to require that other
participants in your room refrain from using, or maintain confidential, items you
discuss, disclose or provide. Therefore, any information you submit or disclose
in a virtual room should not be considered confidential.
(b) Does Linqto monitor and/or record activity and discussions within the virtual
rooms?
(i) Linqto may monitor activity and discussions within the virtual rooms for purposes
of ensuring the operation of the Site, monitoring compliance with its Terms of Use,
and conducting market research for its own use in developing and improving the use
and functionality of the Site and virtual rooms. An Administrator may record the
activity and discussions within the virtual rooms, which recording is automatically
publicly posted on the Administrator’s Facebook page. These recordings are an accommodation
and may be deleted periodically (and Linqto does not warrant or make any representation
whatsoever regarding the quality or success of such recording). If you have need
for a permanent recording, you must use another screen capture type of recording
tool. If Linqto is not the Administrator of a virtual room, Linqto will not separately
publish, disclose, record, or retransmit video, audio, text or other items discussed
or disclosed within such virtual room without the room Administrator’s consent,
except for the Enforcement Exceptions listed below. Please note, that in some instances,
Linqto or its representatives may organize topics, presentations and discussions
within virtual rooms and act as an Administrator, in which case, Linqto (as an Administrator)
may publish disclose, record, or retransmit video, audio, text or other items discussed
or disclosed. As set forth above, Linqto is not responsible for preventing other
participants from publishing, disclosing, recording, or retransmitting such content.
(c) Do I need to provide Personal Data to Linqto to use the Virtual Room?
(i) You may enter a virtual room within the Site as an invited guest of the Administrator
for that room without registering with Linqto. If entering from Facebook, the room
will use your Facebook identity. If entering from Linqto, you will be required to
enter a screen name. When entering a room, you may disclose your name and other
Personal Data which will be visible to other participants in the virtual room.
(ii) You must register an Account with Linqto to be eligible to act as an Administrator.
Setting up an Account as an Administrator provides you with the ability set up,
organize and conduct meetings, conferences and social gatherings in a virtual room
for your invited guests as described on the Site and in accordance with the Terms
of Use and pricing and payment requirements, if any. When registering as an Administrator,
Linqto may request specific Personal Data from you, such as your name, physical
address, e-mail address, and telephone number, and in some cases password information
to protect your Account (or virtual room) from unauthorized access.
6. Why does Linqto collect Personal Data, and how is it used?
(a) Linqto uses your Personal Data create your Account and to operate, maintain
and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the
virtual rooms you use within the Site. We may also use your information to improve
our Application, provide you with service you request, to send you administrative
emails, to respond to your emails, and to notify you of any other changes within
the Application that may affect you. Linqto does not use your email address or other
Personal Data to send commercial or marketing messages to you without your consent.
If you have consented to receive commercial or marketing messages, Linqto may notify
you of product upgrades and updates, new products, special offers, seminars and
conventions presented through Linqto within an indicated area of interest.
(b) Linqto may use Anonymous Data you submit or related to your usage of virtual
rooms for purposes related to Linqto’s business, including, but not limited to,
generating statistical studies, conducting market research, and improving website
and virtual room services, features and functionality. "Anonymous Data" means
data that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Data; Anonymous Data
does not, by itself, permit the identification of individual persons. We may create
Anonymous Data records from Personal Data by excluding information (such as your
name) that make the data personally identifiable to you. We reserve the right to
use Anonymous data for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Data to third parties
in its sole discretion.
7. How do I have my personal information deactivated, changed or updated?
(a) Linqto respects your privacy and realizes that not everyone likes to receive
special offers or information. If you would like your name deactivated from Linqto’s
lists, please use the contact information below to request that Linqto deactivate
you from its lists. Be sure to include your name, postal address, telephone number,
information contained in your Linqto mailer, and/or other necessary information
requested for deactivation. Despite your indicated e-mail preferences, we may send
you service related communication, including notices of any updates to our Terms
of Use or Privacy Policy.
(b) If you believe that Linqto may not have your correct and current personal information,
you may update your information any time by using the contact information below
to inform Linqto of changes in your personal information. You may request deletion
of your Personal Data by us, but please note that we may be required to keep this
information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in
which case we will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled
such requirements). When we delete any information, it will be deleted from the
active database, but may remain in our archives.
(c) Linqto will use reasonable efforts to honor your requests, but we appreciate
your patience in allowing us a reasonable amount of time for processing.
8. Does Linqto share the information that it gathers with third parties?
Linqto does not share Personal Data with third parties without your consent except
as described below:
(a) When you use a virtual room, your Personal Data may be visible to others as
described in Section 5 (above). For example, but without limitation, a recording
of the virtual room may be posted on the Administrators Facebook page as described
above.
(b) We may share your Personal Data with third party service providers to: provide
you with the Application that we offer you through our Site; to conduct quality
assurance testing; to facilitate creation of Accounts; to provide technical support;
and/or to provide other services to the Linqto. These third party service providers
are required not to use your Personal Data other than to provide the services requested
by Linqto.
(c) We may share some or all of your Personal Data with our parent company, any
subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively,
“Affiliates”), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy
Policy. If another company acquires our company, business, or our assets, that company
will possess the Personal Data collected by it and us and will assume the rights
and obligations regarding your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
(d) Regardless of any choices you make regarding your Personal Data, Linqto may
disclose Personal Data as may be necessary to respond to violations of the Linqto
Terms of Use or Privacy Policy, to report suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement
officials, governmental agencies, or other third parties, in connection with any
legal investigation, to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or
warrants served on Linqto, or to protect or defend the rights or property of Linqto
or users of the Application (collectively, the "Enforcement Exceptions").
(e) Linqto may share Anonymous Data with third parties as described in Section 6(b)
above.
9. Social Networking Sites (SNS).
If you associate your Linqto Account with your login credentials from a social networking
site (e.g., Facebook) ("SNS"), we may receive Personal and/or Anonymous Data
about you from such SNS, in accordance with the terms and conditions (e.g., terms
of use and privacy policy) of the SNS ("SNS Terms"). If you elect to share
your information with these SNS, we will share information with them in accordance
with your election. The SNS Terms of these SNS will apply to the information we
disclose to them. For example, your Linqto Account is associated with your Facebook
account. Facebook will provide us your basic information (which may include your
name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, or other information
you share publicly on Facebook) as well as your email address, location, birthday
and publishing stream, each in accordance with Facebook’s terms and conditions.
We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you
via the Application. In addition, you may elect to share certain content from our
Application with Facebook. Once provided to Facebook, Facebook’s terms and conditions
will govern its use of this information.
10. Note About Third Party Websites.
When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave our Site
and go to another site and another entity may collect Personal Data or Anonymous
Data from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible
for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of
this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any
collection of data after you click on links to such outside websites.
11. What is Linqto’s commitment to data security?
Linqto recognizes your concern for security, and will use reasonable efforts to
establish secure connections with you and to limit access to databases containing
Personal Data to authorized personnel only. No method of transmission over the Internet,
or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while Linqto
uses reasonable efforts to protect your Personal Data, Linqto cannot guarantee its
absolute security.
12. What are Linqto’s contact procedures?
If you believe Linqto has not adhered to its privacy statement, if you would like
to be deactivated from Linqto’s lists, or if you would like to update your personal
information, you may notify Linqto by e-mail to support@Linqto.com, or postal mail
at Linqto, Inc., P.O. 1193, Pebble Beach, CA 93953. Linqto will use reasonable efforts
to promptly resolve any issues.
13. How may Linqto Change this Privacy Policy?
This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision, and if we make any material
changes in the way we use your Personal Data, we will notify you by sending you
an e-mail to the last e-mail address you provided to us and/or by prominently posting
notice of the changes on our Site. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective
upon the earlier of thirty (30) calendar days following our dispatch of an e-mail
notice to you or thirty (30) calendar days following our posting of notice of the
changes on our Site. These changes will be effective immediately for new users of
our Application. Please note that at all times you are responsible for updating
your Personal Data to provide us with your most current e-mail address. In the event
that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is not valid, or for any
reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch
of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice
of the changes described in the notice. In any event, changes to this Privacy Policy
may affect our use of Personal Data that you provided us prior to our notification
to you of the changes. If you do not wish to permit changes in our use of your Personal
Data, you must notify us prior to the effective date of the changes that you wish
to deactivate your account with us. Continued use of our Site or Application, following
notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement
to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.