Privacy Policy
http://www.bookmarksync.com/common/policy.php
Last updated - November 10th, 2008
This statement discloses the privacy practices for the BookmarkSync Web site. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to BookmarkSync.com by e-mail: admin@BookmarkSync.com
1. Description of Service
BookmarkSync (www.bookmarksync.com) is a service designed for synchronizing "Bookmarks" (also called "Favorites" or just "Links") across browsers on one or several computers connected to the Internet. (Subscriptions are available for enhanced features and functionality of the software)
2. Notification
BookmarkSync will notify you via e-mail or in our news page of any changes to this Privacy Policy.
3. Personal information
There are three types of registration information collected by BookmarkSync:
- Your name (or nickname/alias if desired) -- this is used to identify yourself to other BookmarkSync members, if you choose to publish bookmarks.
If you do not publish any Collections of bookmarks, no other user can see any details about you.
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Your e-mail address -- this is your unique user name or ID. We have a strict anti-SPAM policy. (see item 6 below.)
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Profile information -- this includes your mailing address, phone number, age, and gender. You do not need to specify this information. If you do enter this information, it will be used internally for statistical purposes. We will not pass this information to other parties.
Under no circumstances will Secure Data Systems authorize outside access to your private information, unless Secure Data Systems is legally obligated to do so. Your bookmarks are stored in a secure data center, and hosted on servers dedicated to providing this service and are backed up daily.
4. Bookmarks Your bookmarks are private - If you publish certain sub-sets of your bookmarks as "collections", these bookmarks become available to other BookmarkSync users only if you choose to make them public.
Publicly accessible pages that you and other users have bookmarked are spidered periodically for freshness. These websites will appear in our search results or in the top lists using only their publicly available name and description information extracted from the site's <meta> and <title> and <description> tags. There is no way to trace the bookmark back to you as a user.
The ticker, toplists, and our search feature only looks at sites that meet the following criteria:
- The bookmark must have a URL of the form 'http://...'. So no FTP, TELNET, or MAILTO: links will appear in the ticker or in the search engine.
- The bookmark must not have a question mark '?' in it. Almost all password-based or session-based web sites use the question mark to identify the user.
- The page referenced by the bookmark must be accessible to our site. The software on our web site tries to connect to the page to get its title. If it cannot connect (because it's on an internal network, behind a firewall, or password protected) it won't show up on the ticker or in the search engine.
- The document's title is used on the ticker, not the name used when you bookmarked the site, so there is no way to trace the bookmark back to you.
- The document's <meta> description tag is used to describe the site, there is no connection between you and the url listed in the search engine.
Bookmark 'clustering' relies on the tendency that all of us have to store our bookmarks in folders using an appropriate folder names for organizing websites according to a logical scheme. These common folder names, that numerous other users have also chosen to store the same bookmark in, are upgraded to 'bookmark clusters' and made searchable by the search engine and cluster ticker pages. No personal information is contained in any cluster or link that is traceable to you in any way.
5. Security - All of our servers are owned and operated by Secure Data Systems and operated on our facilities. Only authorized system support personal have access these machines. All data used by BookmarkSync is kept on a dedicated database servers. Please keep in mind however that data transmitted across the Internet is inherently insecure when using the 'http' protocol. BookmarkSync provides an SSL encryption feature for browsing your bookmarks securely while on the website and while synchronizing your bookmarks with our bookmarksync client software. (https://www.BookmarkSync.com/common/login.php)
6. No Spam! - BookmarkSync will never send unsolicited commercial email advertising using the email address provided for your account.
Important Note! Users that create multiple accounts on our servers in an effort to spam the database (Blackhat SEO, etc.) will have their user accounts removed without notice. It is expected that you will use this service to synchronize your personal or corporate bookmark collection with your other computers through our servers. Do not create fictitous, or otherwise fraudulent user accounts, they will be deleted without notification!
Please Note: Relationship or Transactional E-mail
By registering with BookmarkSync.com, you are granting us your "affirmative consent" to send some forms of follow-up email related to your account. Such emails might include, but are not limited to, a password reminder if you request it, a subscription confirmation email, a subscription renewal reminder or a reply to a technical support question initiated by you.
Generally, users will receive only one email from us, a confirmation email, thanking you for subscribing and therefore helping to support our service, or a reminder that your subscription is about to expire. Other than that, BookmarkSync is here to serve you, not annoy you with unwanted email.
BookmarkSync will *not* release your e-mail address to any outside agency, unless we are legally obligated to.
*** Your e-mail address is not for sale. ***
7. Updates - Our site provides you the ability to change and modify information you've previously provided. Visit http://www.BookmarkSync.com/common/profile.php to change your profile. Visit http://www.BookmarkSync.com/common/removeuser.php to remove all your information from this system.
8. No hidden functionality! - BookmarkSync products do exactly what they say they do, and no more. Our bookmark synchronizer will NOT access any other information on your computer. See our 'No Spyware' Policy
BookmarkSync Toolbar - In order to calculate the penetration ratio for websites that you visit and display this information to you, it is necessary for the BookmarkSync toolbar to send the url of the webpage you are visiting to our server. This is exactly the same mechanism that is used by other major toolbars to provide you with real-time feedback about the websites you are visiting (like Pagerank [tm]). A simple script looks up that url in our database and returns the penetration ratio in the form of a small graphic element back to the toolbar. At no time is the url associated with you personally in any way. No information about your browsing activity is stored on our server other than the url which is used to calculate our 'penetration ratio' and to generate our popular sites pages.
9. Cookies - A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. BookmarkSync uses permanent cookies in only two instances, and then only if you are a registered user: we store your email address to track your session, and, if you allow us to, we store your password to make logging in easier. Google also uses cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web. They may set a cookie in your browser when you visit a website and view or click on an ad supported by Google’s advertising services.
10. Logging of information – When you access BookmarkSync, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
11. Notification of changes - If, in the future, we change our privacy policy with respect to the way that we use the Personally Identifiable Information that we collect from you, we may post notification on our blog regarding these changes.. You can always check our privacy statement for any future changes
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