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At tumblesearch.com, we are committed to protecting online user
privacy. This "Privacy Policy" discloses the privacy practices
governing our knowing collection, use, and disclosure of
information. In order to ensure your privacy, information we
collect is used only in the manner and for the purposes
described below.
Anonymous User Information: tumblesearch.com collects some anonymous
information each time you visit tumblesearch.com so we can improve the
overall quality of your online experience. We collect your IP
address, referral data, and browser and platform type. You do
not have to register with tumblesearch.com before we can collect this
anonymous information. We do not collect any unique information
about you (such as your name, e-mail address, etc.) except when
you specifically and knowingly provide such information.
tumblesearch.com does not require you to share information that
identifies you personally, such as your name or email address,
in order for you to use the tumblesearch.com search. tumblesearch.com assigns an
anonymous ID number to your requests and links the following
additional data to that number: the date and time you visited
tumblesearch.com, your search terms, and the links upon which you choose
to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files
to collect and store this anonymous user information. We analyze
this information to examine trends, administer the site, track
user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. tumblesearch.com may present links in a
format that enables us to understand whether they have been
followed. We use this information to understand and improve the
quality of the tumblesearch.com search.
Cookies: We use a feature of Internet web browsers called a
"cookie," which is a small file that is sent to your computer
when you visit a website. This enables us to store user
preferences and track user trends and search patterns. We use
cookies to improve the quality of the tumblesearch.com services and to
better understand how users interact with us. We do not and
cannot use Cookies to retrieve individual personally
identifiable information about you from your computer unless you
knowingly and willingly provided such information. The cookie
technology we use cannot obtain information from your hard drive
or pass on a computer virus. You can reset your browser to
refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, some tumblesearch.com features or services may not function
properly without cookies.
Information security: We take appropriate security measures
to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized
alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. We restrict
access to your personally identifying information to employees
who need to know that information in order to operate, develop
or improve our services.
Aggregated General Information: We may share aggregated
general information about our site with our corporate partners
or others. Examples of this include the number of users who
searched for "music", the daily number of unique
visitors, or how many users clicked on a particular
advertisement. Aggregated data does not contain any personally
identifiable information that could be used to contact or
identify you. Information sharing We may share personally
identifying information to other companies or individuals in any
of the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent.
- We provide such information to trusted businesses or
persons for the sole purpose of processing personally
identifying information on our behalf. When this is done, it
is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to
process such information only on our instructions and in
compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
- When required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief
that such action is necessary to comply with a current
judicial proceeding, a criminal investigation, a court
order, or legal process served on our Web site. We may also
share your personal information if we believe it is
necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action
regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to the physical safety of any
person, violations of tumblesearch.com's terms of use, or as
otherwise required by law.
- If you have an account, we may share the information
submitted under your account among all of our services in
order to provide you with a seamless experience and to
improve the quality of our services. We will not disclose
your account information to other people or non-affiliated
companies, except in the limited circumstances described in
this Policy or with your consent.
- We may store and process personal information collected
on our site in the United States or any other country in which
tumblesearch.com or its agents maintain facilities. By using our
services, you consent to the transfer of your information
among these facilities, including those located outside your
country.
- tumblesearch.com may use third party service providers to serve
ads and emails on our behalf. These companies may use
technologies to measure the effectiveness of ads and emails
and use information about your visits to tumblesearch.com so that we
can provide a better search experience to you. For this
purpose, we may also provide these third parties service
providers anonymous information about your site navigation.
- We may share certain information about you with
carefully selected business partners, including those who
may offer services that complement those provided by us or
which we believe may be of interest to you. We may also
disclose information to third parties who assist us in
providing our services to you. For example, we may engage
third parties to make improvements on our site, to offer new
products and to allow us to customize your experience on the
Site.
Correspondence: If you contact tumblesearch.com, we may keep a record
of that correspondence and we may collect your email address.
Third Party Information Gathering: tumblesearch.com includes content
and ads from third parties that may perform user activity
tracking other than that described herein. These other sites may
place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or
solicit personal information. For more information about each
third party content provider, cookies, and how to "opt-out",
please refer to such third party advertiser's privacy policy
tumblesearch.com contains links to other sites on the Web. Please be
aware that tumblesearch.com is not responsible for the privacy practices
of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when
they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each
and every Web site that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to
information collected by this Web site.
Children's Privacy: tumblesearch.com does not knowingly request or
collect personally identifiable information online or offline
contact information from users under 13 years of age nor do we
knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13
years of age with third parties.
Sale of Assets: In the event that another company acquires
all or substantially all of the assets related to the business
of tumblesearch.com, we reserve the right to include any or all stored
personal information among the assets transferred to the
acquiring company.
Changes to Privacy Policy: We reserve the right to amend or
revise this privacy policy from time to time. We will post these
changes to this page. Use of information that we gather now is
subject to the privacy policy in effect at the time the
information is used.
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