Information Collection & Use

Registration

In order to use this Web site, you must first create a user name and password. During registration you are asked to provide contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to allow you a mechanism to recover account information in case you forget your user name or password. No other communications will be transmitted to the email address that you provide other than those that are required for account maintenance.

We also ask you to provide information about your Facebook and Twitter accounts as necessary. We only store account information that is absolutely necessary for the IUPDATESTATUS.COM service to successfully transmit and record your submission on the selected services.

We comply with each of the services policies governing account information. You must register with each service through their corresponding website and agree to be bound to the terms of service and policies that they define.

RED PIXEL STUDIOS, INC. is the sole owner of the information collected on IUPDATESTATUS.COM.

RED PIXEL STUDIOS, INC. collects personally identifiable information from our users during the account creation process.

Tell-A-Friend

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. RED PIXEL STUDIOS, INC. does not store this information.

Uses of Information

IUPDATESTATUS.COM is a service designed to simultaneously update your status on Facebook and Twitter from one convenient location. Account information is transmitted to the selected services from IUPDATESTATUS.COM in much the same way as when you login to each service separately.

The account information for the services cannot be retrieved by you or any other IUPDATESTATUS.COM account holder. If you need to modify the account information for any of your services, you will need to simply submit new account information, that will replace the information that we currently have on file. This protects you from someone retrieving your Facebook or Twitter account information if they gain unauthorized access to your IUPDATESTATUS.COM account.

Your name and email address will only be used for communications related to your IUPDATESTATUS.COM account such as password recovery and service related announcements.

Communications from the Site

Service-related Announcements

We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Customer Service

Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your account configuration. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email.

Profile

We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, to create a “profile” of your preferences. We do not tie your personally identifiable information to information in the profile.

We do not share your profile with other third parties.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)

We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally identifiable information:

We do not share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

We use a third-party tracking service called Google Analytics that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate, including time the visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor to the web page, in order to help us make determinations and adjustments regarding web site performance and functionality.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use session ID cookies. We use session cookies to maintain your authentication status after a successful login. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser.

Our advertising business partner Google uses cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by IUPDATESTATUS.COM [this site] only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. [See the “Third Party Advertisers” section.]

Third Party Advertisers

The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google, our advertising partner. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party Google for the purpose of targeting our advertisements on this site.

Google uses cookies on this site, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that Google collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable.

For more information about our third-party advertiser, or to learn more about the choices available to you regarding this anonymous information, please visit http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by RED PIXEL STUDIOS, INC. Please be aware that we, RED PIXEL STUDIOS, INC., are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at SUPPORT@IUPDATESTATUS.COM or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information on our registration forms, we encrypt that information using Secure Sockets Layer(SSL) technology. You may find out more about encryption and SSL technology by pointing your browser to http://computer.howstuffworks.com/encryption.htm.

We only store your unique identification number and tokens generated by both Facebook and Twitter, and not your password.This information is necessary to retrieve and send information to the services linked to your IUPDATESTATUS account.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at SUPPORT@IUPDATESTATUS.COM.

Business Transitions

In the event RED PIXEL STUDIOS, INC. goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
SUPPORT@IUPDATESTATUS.COM.

IUPDATESTATUS.COM
c/o Red Pixel Studios, Inc.
319 East 2nd Street
Owensboro, Kentucky 42303
United States of America

 

IUPDATESTATUS.COM Privacy Policy! Wednesday, February 25, 2009