Your privacy is important to appbule.com. So we've developed a Privacy Policy that covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our privacy practices and contact us if you have any questions.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Personal information is data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a single person.
You may be asked to provide your personal information anytime you are in contact with appbule.com or appbule.com affiliated company. appbule.com and its affiliates may share this personal information with each other and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy. They may also combine it with other information to provide and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.
Here are some examples of the types of personal information appbule.com may collect and how we may use it.
1. What personally identifiable information does appbule.com collect?
appbule.com's primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. appbule.com is essential to keeping our services free to users.
appbule.com collects personally identifiable information when you provide it to us, such as when you register on our sites, when you use certain products or services and when you visit appbule.com pages. Several of the services that we offer on our sites, such as auctions and message boards, may require registration as a condition of use. Once you register with one of our appbule.com sites you are no longer anonymous to us.
2. What anonymous information does appbule.com collect?
Cookies
Your Internet browser has a feature called "cookies" which store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of our sites. However, cookies tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information. You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit the appbule.com site, although active participation in certain areas of our site may require cookies. In addition, you may elect not to allow cookies to be collected by selecting certain options on your browser.
Web Bugs & Servers
We use electronic images known as Web bugs - sometimes called single-pixel GIFs, transparent GIFs, or clear gifs- that allow us to track general user traffic patterns. appbule.com also automatically receives and records information from our servers and from your browser including your IP address, the time, and information about the page you requested.
We use tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:
Keeping count of return visits to our site or our advertiser' or partners' sites
Accumulate and report anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass), statistical information on Web site and advertisement usage
Determining which features users like best
Saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our sites
3. How does appbule.com use the information?
appbule.com uses the information we gather for four general purposes:
To customise the advertising and content you see, which helps keep our services free to users
To enhance the user experience in our network of sites. We use tracking information to determine how well each page performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. This helps us continue to build a better service for you
To fulfil your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling users to participate in polls, contests, message boards, and auctions
To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you
4. How does appbule.com share the information?
Personally Identifiable Information
appbule.com will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or people when:
We have your consent to share the information
We have engaged companies to work with or on behalf of appbule.com to provide a product or service that you have requested, such as opt-in e-mail announcements
You use co-branded services. When you use a co-branded service within our network of sites you grant us permission to pass your registration information back to that service partner. Their use of your information is subject to their applicable privacy policies
We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or we believe that your actions violate applicable laws, appbule.com's terms of use or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property or safety of appbule.com, our users, or others
Aggregate Information
appbule.com aggregates personally identifiable information and discloses such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.
Business Transfers
We are always seeking to improve our network of Web sites and our business. In accomplishing these objectives, we may buy or sell a company, or one or more of the companies in our corporate family may merge with or be acquired by another company. If we sell a business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue or for other business purposes. In that event, we will seek to give you notice of that change in control and we will seek to get assurances that the purchaser will honour any opt-out requests you might make of us.
5. What are my options?
Users who would rather not provide any of the user data requested by our registration process do not need to register with us. You can still view much of the content and use many of the services offered by our sites without registering.
We provide users with the following options:
Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those of third parties when registering. Users who opt-in may remove themselves from mailing lists at any time through the subscription management pages or by following the instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from us;
Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for a site
6. How can I update my personally identifiable information?
You can correct or change the information collected during registration for any site (see above for a description of the registration process). Users may change this information at any time and as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems or who have questions about how our services work can contact us using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
7. How will I know if the privacy policy is changed?
Any modifications to our privacy practices will be reflected first within this area of our network of Web sites. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our sites that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy statement. If we are going to be using the information collected from users in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will send affected users written notice of the change. We will also post the changes in our privacy statement 30 days prior to a change, where practicable.
8. How does appbule.com manage and ensure security of personal information?
appbule.com strives to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personally identifiable information of our customers. We have take steps to ensure your personal information is safe by using a variety of physical and electronic security measures including restricting physical access to our offices and firewalls and secure databases to keep personal information secure from misuse, loss or unauthorised loss or disclosure.
9. How can you find out what personal information appbule.com holds about you?
You have the right to seek access to the personal information held about you and to advise appbule.com of any inaccuracy. There are some exceptions to this right set out in the Privacy Act. If you make an access request, appbule.com will ask you to verify your identity and specify what information you require.
