Privacy Policy
September 29, 2008
Thank you for your visit. At Strutta, we share your concerns about privacy and hope this page will help you understand the privacy and rights you have as a visitor, user and/or content publisher at www.strutta.com (the "Site"). This policy covers how Strutta treats your personal information that we collect or receive. Personal information is personally identifiable information about you such as your name, address, email address, etc., which is not otherwise publicly available. The Privacy Policy is subject to the Strutta Terms of Use. Your use of the Site and any personal information you provide on the Site remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Strutta reserves the right to update this privacy policy at any time. Therefore, we encourage you to read it from time to time.
Information Collection
Registration
You do not have to be a registered user to access Strutta.com or view content on the site but if you would like to upload content, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, ensure any votes or ratings you have cast in the affirmative are recorded, post comments or flag content, you must complete a basic registration form (Profile) and become an authorized user of the site. We do ask for some personal information when you create an account on Strutta, including your email address and password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.
The personal information you submit is used to maintain, operate and provide you personalized features and access to different areas of the site. In addition, it is used to process any comments, correspondence or flagging activities you send to us, deliver promotions, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. We treat all of your personal information as confidential and we do not sell, lease or provide this information to any other company, person or agency unless required by law.
For users under 13 who attempt to register with Strutta, we ask that the child obtain parental permission before accessing the site.
Visiting the Site
During your visit to Strutta.com, our site notes:
- the Internet domain and Internet protocol address from which you access our website
- the type of browser and operating system used to access our site
- the date and time you access our site
- if you were referred to Strutta.com by another website, the name of that website
- the pages you visit on Strutta.com
- and if you link to Strutta.com from another website, the address of that website
We use this information for statistical purposes and to help us provide the best possible experience while visiting the site. To elaborate, we use cookies, and log file information to:
- store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site
- customize the content and information you see
- monitor advertising campaigns, which help us provide this service
- analyze metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, and demographics
- track your contest entries, number of votes per user and prize contest eligibility
Participation in Contests, Sweepstakes or Surveys
To participate in a contest, survey or sweepstakes hosted by Strutta you may be required to input additional information about yourself, which is completely voluntary on your part. Disclosing the information necessary to use these features on our site is your choice. If you choose to participate in a contest, sweepstake or survey and provide personal or non-personal information, such information may be provided by Strutta to a third party who may be collecting such information for the contest, sweepstake or surveys.
Uploading Content
As mentioned, you must be an authorized user of the site to submit content. Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online (comments, forums, profile information or display in your videos, photos, audio or text uploads) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name, (not your email address) will be displayed to others if you submit an entry, send a message via Strutta or post comments on different areas of the Site. Content that you submit to Strutta may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send you marketing messages without your consent. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for administrative purposes such as to notify you of customer service announcements, site changes or additional features. You have the ability to opt-in or opt-out of certain messages and can update your account profile at any time to change your settings.
If you choose to contact Strutta via electronic mail, the information you send to us will be used only for the purposes described in your message. For site and privacy security purposes, Strutta.com employs software programs to monitor network traffic and identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage to the site.
Strutta Employees
All Strutta.com employees are bound by a strict Code of Conduct to protect and to treat any visitor or user's information and data with the utmost confidence, respecting the privacy of the people, who matter most to us.
Third-party Sites
Strutta will not knowingly share, sell, rent or otherwise transfer your information other than accordance with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy. Strutta does not share any information that can be tied to you without your permission. If you give your permission to allow third parties to contact you, personal information such as your contact information and other information collected during your visit to Strutta may be shared with other organizations and marketers (possibly in the form of a list rental). Strutta may also share aggregate data and usage information with our business partners. This aggregate data does not contain any personally identifiable information on any individual user.
If we use a third party to provide specific services such as sending communications to Strutta users, then your contact information may be shared so that these third parties can provide such services. These third parties are only allowed to use this personally identifiable information to provide these services as requested by Strutta.
Strutta's privacy policy does not apply to links to third parties found on our Site. This site contains links to other sites and we cannot control the information, products, services, activities or policies of third party companies accessible through our site. We encourage you to consult the respective privacy policies of third-party sites for more information on their practices.
Your Account
- You can edit your Account information, including privacy settings and email preferences, at any time.
- We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Strutta service such as customer service announcements, administrative messages, site changes, or to notify you of new features or promotions.
- You can delete your Strutta account at any time.
Strutta utilizes both online and offline security methods, such as firewalls, passwords and restricted access to help protect against the loss, misuse and/or unauthorized alteration of the information under our control. You are the only user authorized to access or update your profile, unless you provide your password information to another party.
This Privacy Policy is posted to state our dedication to protecting the privacy of visitors to Strutta.com. If you have questions or concerns about this policy or any issues relating to the privacy of your own personal information with regards to this policy, please contact us.
Privacy Officer
Any questions or complaints about Strutta’s collection, use or disclosure of personal information through the Site should be directed to the Privacy Officer at support@strutta.com.
If you do not consent to having your personal information collected, used and disclosed as set out in this Privacy Policy, or if you require further information to make this decision, or if you wish to withdraw consent, please email the Privacy Officer at support@strutta.com