Privacy Policy

akatoo PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy sets forth akatoo's privacy practices and policies, and describes the information about you that we collect, as well as how that information is used, maintained, and, in some cases, shared.

akatoo will collect information about you when you do any of the following: (i) set up an account profile; (ii) use any of our services; (iii) use this website; or (iv) participate in one of our promotions. By doing any of the foregoing, you assent to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, please do not engage in any of these activities.

As described in greater detail below, we will store and use information about you, including information about who you are and where and when you use our services or browse on our website, to provide our services to you and to continually improve the quality of our services and this website. From time to time we will disclose, and may sell, to unaffiliated third parties certain information that we collect about you, including information that we collect through your use of our services or this website.

INFORMATION COLLECTED ABOUT YOU AND OUR USE OF SUCH INFORMATION

The following describes the types of personal and other information we may collect about you, and how we use and maintain that information:

In order to post questions and answers to the akatoo service, you will need to set up an account profile. We collect information about you when you set up your account, and when you otherwise transmit account-related information to us via our website or by email.

To establish your account, we require that you provide us with your email address, a user name, a password, and your country of residence. During the registration process we also request, and you may choose to provide, your first and last names, gender, date of birth, and city of residence. We store all of this information indefinitely in a database.

We use your email address to contact you with regard to your account, to send you email updates containing other users' comments related to your posted questions and categories of interest, and to respond to any inquiry you submit via our website or by email. We also may use your email address from time to time to send you newsletters and to inform you about our services and other offerings that we think will interest you, unless you inform us that you opt out from receiving such communications.

We use the remainder of your account profile information for identification purposes and to facilitate the functioning of our services.

Related to Your Questions and Answers

As you post questions and answers to the akatoo service over time, we collect information about your behavioral characteristics and other trend-related data. We may keep this information indefinitely.

We maintain a database with this behavioral information to help us to deliver the akatoo service. We may also use such information for targeted advertising and other marketing purposes.

Automatically Collected Information

Our services and websites employ browser cookies and other technologies to collect information about users, such as their IP address, the type of browsers used, web pages viewed, and other information. When you use our services or otherwise browse one of our websites, our systems log the web pages that you visit. All of this aggregate information is analyzed and may be combined with similar aggregate information of other website visitors.

Our third-party advertisers may also employ cookies and similar technologies through our services for the purpose of enabling delivery of advertising to each particular user.

Visitors may set their browser to reject cookies; however, this may affect some functions of our services and websites.

We may share aggregate information with our business partners and other third parties.

Information from Promotions

We collect information you give us when you participate in an akatoo promotion, such as a sweepstakes or contest. Specifically, you will typically be asked to provide your name, email address, and mailing address

We store this information in our database and will use it to communicate with you about the promotion. We may also use this information to promote our services to you in the future, unless you inform us that you opt out from receiving such communications.

Information from Partners

We also collect information that you may provide when you use our services through one of our partners who has incorporated our services into their offerings. (To understand what a partner of ours may do with information about you in the partner's custody, you should check the privacy policy of that partner.)

Information we may collect through these activities includes demographic, contextual and behavioral. We may use this information to promote our services to you in the future, unless you inform us that you opt out from receiving such communications.

Other Information

We may retain any data you provide to us in an email inquiry, for the purpose of tracking the types of questions we receive.

Publicly-Available Information

If you post any information about yourself in public areas of the akatoo service, such as in a question or answer post, that information will be accessible, and may be used, by others. Do not include any personal information in your posts that you do not want to be made available to the public.

WHEN YOUR INFORMATION WILL BE SHARED OR DISCLOSED

We may disclose to unaffiliated third parties without your consent information about you that we collect, including information that we collect through your account registration, through your use of our services, or through one of our promotions (such as your name, email and mailing addresses, or other information). Such third parties may use this information to perform functions on our behalf, or to promote their products and services to you.

We will comply with any subpoenas, court orders or other legal processes for any of the information about you in our possession, and we may use such information to establish or exercise our legal rights, or to defend against legal claims.

Information about you in our possession may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, as well as in the unlikely event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which your personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company. akatoo does not guarantee that any entity receiving such information in connection with one of these transactions will comply with all terms of this policy.

If you use the akatoo service outside of the United States, information that we collect about you will be transferred to servers inside the United States and maintained indefinitely, which may involve the transfer of information out of countries located in the European Economic Area. By allowing akatoo to collect information about you, you consent to such transfer and processing of your data.

California Privacy Rights

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California resident has an established business relationship, certain information with respect to the types of personal information the business shares with third parties for direct marketing purposes by such third party and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year. Under California law, if you are a California resident with an established business relationship with akatoo, you may [choose to opt out of akatoo disclosing personal information about you to third parties for marketing purposes, by contacting akatoo at support@akatoo.com.

OPT OUT

As noted, once you set up an account profile we will send you administrative-related emails, as well as emails to carry out our services, including to provide you with updates on your posted questions and answers and categories of interest. We may not offer you the opportunity to opt out of receiving such communications.

However, we provide you with the opportunity to elect not to receive other types of communications, including emails informing you about our services and other offerings that we think will interest you. If you want to stop receiving these communications, you can opt out in your profile page.

CHILDREN

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from persons under 13 years old, and no part of our services is directed to persons under 13. In fact, you must be at least 13 years of age to set up an account profile. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS akatoo SERVICES AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER. If akatoo learns that personally identifiable information of persons less than 13 years old has been collected without verifiable parental consent, then akatoo will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 13 has obtained a akatoo account, then you may alert akatoo at support@akatoo.com and request that we delete that child's personal information from our systems.

SECURITY

We have technological and operational security policies and procedures to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration, or unintentional destruction. While no security measure can guarantee against compromise, our security measures are periodically reviewed and updated in an effort to provide appropriate security for all the information provided by you.

OTHER WEBSITES

For your convenience, this website contains links to other websites, including some websites administered by akatoo or administered by other companies on behalf of akatoo, as well as to websites unrelated to akatoo. This privacy policy does not apply to these linked websites. Each website should be checked for its own privacy policy.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

akatoo may from time to time update this privacy policy. In the event that akatoo merges with, or is acquired by another company, a change to this privacy policy may result. Whenever a change to this policy is significant, we will place a prominent notice on this website.

GOVERNING LAW

By choosing to visit this website or otherwise provide information to akatoo, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this privacy policy will be governed by the law of the State of California. You also agree to arbitrate such disputes and to abide by any limitation on damages contained in our Website Terms of Use, Terms and Conditions of Service, or other agreement we have with you.

UPDATE INFORMATION / SUGGESTIONS

If you would like to update or correct any information that you have provided to akatoo through your use of akatoo services or this website, or you have suggestions for improving this privacy policy, please send an e-mail to support@akatoo.com, or fill out the form if available at the time you are reading this in the Contact Us link on this website.

EFFECTIVE DATE

This privacy policy is effective as of March 1, 2008.