Privacy Policy – TheYouStory.com
At TheYouStory.com we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies
to all of the products, services, and websites offered by TheYouStory.com or its
subsidiaries or affiliated companies. If you have any questions about this
Policy, please feel free to contact us at support@theyoustory.com.
Information we collect and how we use it:
We offWe offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an
account or provide any personal information to us. In order to provide our full
range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
- Information you provide:
When you sign up for a theYouStory.com Account or other TheYouStory.com service
or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information
(such as your name, email address and an account password). We may combine the
information you submit under your account with information from other
TheYouStory.com services or third parties in order to provide you with a better
experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we
may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
- TheYouStory.com cookies:
When you visit TheYouStory.com, we may send one or more cookies (a small file
containing a string of characters) to your computer that uniquely identifies
your browser. We may use cookies to improve the quality of our service by
storing user preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, some TheYouStory.com features and services may not function properly if
your cookies are disabled.
- Log information:
When you use TheYouStory.com services, 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.
– User communications:
When you send email or other communication to TheYouStory.com, we may retain
those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your
requests and improve our services.
– Affiliated sites
We may offer some of our services in connection with other web sites. Personal
information that you provide to those sites may be sent to TheYouStory.com in
order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with
this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we
encourage you to read their privacy policies.
– Links:
TheYouStory.com may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of
whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the
quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising. For more
information about links and redirected URLs, please contact us at
support@theyoustory.com.
– Other sites:
This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and
operated by TheYouStory.com. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed
as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites
may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or
solicit personal information from you.
TheYouStory.com only processes personal information for the purposes described
in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In
addition to the above, such purposes include:
– Providing our products and services to users, including the display of
customized content and advertisingsing
– Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our
servicesices
– Ensuring the technical functioning of our network
– Developing new services.
TheYouStory.com processes personal information on our servers in Denmark. In
some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own
country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In
some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to
the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal information When you sign up for a particular service
that requires registration, we may ask you to provide personal information. If
we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was
collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use. If we propose to
use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this
Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective
way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We
will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those
described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, unless we have
obtained your prior consent. You can decline to submit personal information to
any of our services, in which case TheYouStory.com may not be able to provide
those services to you.
Information sharing
TheYouStory.com only shares personal information with other companies or
individuals outside of TheYouStory.com in the following limited circumstances:
– We have your consent.
– We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or
other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal
information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such
information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any
other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
– We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of
such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law,
regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce
applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations
thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical
issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety
of TheYouStory.com, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If TheYouStory.com becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of
sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal
information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. We
may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal
information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for
example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such
information does not identify you individually. Please contact us at the address
below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our
website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address,
email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites
in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices
about not having this information used by these companies, please contact
support@theyoustory.com .
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include
internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and
security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against
unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. We restrict access
to personal information to TheYouStory.com employees, contractors and agents who
need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our
services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be
subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they
fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
TheYouStory.com processes personal information only for the purposes for which
it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable
service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and
processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the
personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take
reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate,
complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their
personal information whenever necessary. Accessing and updating personal
information When you use TheYouStory.com services, we make good faith efforts to
provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this
data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not
otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We
ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be
accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may
decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic,
require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or
would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information
residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any
case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service
free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some
of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users'
personal information.
Enforcement
TheYouStory.com regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel
free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or
TheYouStory.com treatment of personal information by contacting us at
support@theyoustory.com
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not
reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we
expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy
changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more
prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy
changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page
by its effective date, and we will also keep prior version of our Privacy Policy
in an archive for your review. If you have any additional questions or concerns
about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through
support@theyoustory.com .