-We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features. The personal information you provide is used for such purposes as:
- Registration: In order for you to use TotalPad services, such as submitting new links to the website, you must complete a registration form. As part of this registration form, we require your email address.
- Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. TotalPad automatically receives and records certain "traffic data" on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, TotalPad cookie information, and the page you requested. TotalPad uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends and administer the website.
- TotalPad may also add on any page display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes member profile pages.
- Social sharing of data: TotalPad allows other users to browse stories that you have voted, submitted, blogged, or commented on. This information is made available via your member profile (http://www.TotalPad.com/user/
- Profile information: TotalPad allows other users to browse your full name, location, and instant messaging URL, within your member profile should you provide this optional information.
- Syndication: TotalPad allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the website.
- Friends Data: Much like other social services TotalPad allows non-friends to browse through your friends activities (http://www.TotalPad.com/user/
- API: TotalPad will allow 3rd parties access to all TotalPad data this is already publicly available through TotalPad.com. TotalPad will forever keep private passwords and blog settings.
- Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While TotalPad will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. TotalPad cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is.
- The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We strongly recommend that you leave the cookies activated, however, because cookies enable you to take advantage of some of TotalPad's most attractive features.
- Some of our business partners may use cookies on our website (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
- Business Transfers:
- In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if TotalPad, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
- Protection of TotalPad and Others:
- We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of TotalPad, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- With Your Consent:
- Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your personal information may be shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to prevent the sharing of this information by opting out.
- Your TotalPad account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to work to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.
- Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.
