We at Free Range Content, Inc. are committed to providing web sites and software products that respect the privacy of its visitors and users, respectively. This page summarizes the privacy policy and practices for all Free Range Content web sites, as well as for Free Range Content software products and services (e.g., clp.ly).
Our Privacy Policy is designed to provide the users of our web sites and software applications (the “products and services”) with information that will allow them to make informed choices with respect to their use of the our products and services and their provision of personal information.
This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of personal information gathered by Free Range Content when you are on our website and when you use clp.ly products and services. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Free Range Content does not own or control, or to individuals that Free Range Content does not employ or manage.
Information Collected by Free Range Content
We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our web sites, which is, among other purposes, to enable users to clip, quote, and share information through the Curate.Us products and services. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with this objective. We collect the following types of information from our users:
Information You Provide to Us: 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.
Registration: Before you can utilize certain services that we offer on the site or otherwise, we may ask that you register and provide us with your email address, a password, and your name or other contact information. We request this information for identification purposes, to communicate with you regarding your account, and to facilitate the functioning of certain products and services. We may keep this information indefinitely.
Correspondence: If you correspond with us via email, we may gather in a file specific to you the information that you submit. We may keep this information indefinitely.
URL and IP Address: Like many websites, Free Range Content collects information about users’ utilization and navigation of our site(s) and their use of our products and services. This information helps us to design our site as well as our products and services to better suit our users’ needs. For example, we will track the URL that you visited before you came to our site, the URL to which you next go, and your Internet Protocol (IP) address. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer our site. Your IP address also is used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.
Information Collected With Cookies: Like many websites, Free Range Content uses cookies on certain pages of our site. Cookies make using the Internet easier by, among other things, saving your preferences for you. For example, a cookie lets the site remember that you’ve registered, which speeds up your future activities at our site, allows you to enter your registration information less frequently while visiting our site, and allows you to use more of the features of our products and services. We may also use cookies to deliver content tailored to your interests. Our cookies may enable us to relate your use of our site to personally identifying information that you previously submitted, such as recognizing or recalling your account information when you return to our site. If your browser is set to reject cookies, or if your browser notifies you that you are about to receive a cookie and you reject it, then your use of our site as well as our products and services may not be as efficient or as enjoyable as it would be if the cookie were enabled. The information that we collect with cookies allows us to improve our marketing and promotional efforts; to analyze usage of our site, products, and services; to improve our content and product offerings; and to customize our site’s content, layout, and services. However, we only use information collected with cookies on an aggregated basis without the use of any information that personally identifies you.
By using the Free Range Content website as well as its products and services, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed both within and without the United States of America.
E-mail Communications
Free Range Content is very concerned about your privacy, and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the “Sharing Your Information” section below. We may send out e-mails with Free Range Content-related news, products, offers, surveys, or promotions. You may also receive notification e-mails from us informing you of actions that have been performed on the site, such as alerting you of upcoming updates, service outages, or other information that may be of interest to you or that may facilitate, enhance, or otherwise have an impact on your use of our products and services. You will have the option to opt out of some of these announcements, but in the event that you use our products and services, we reserve the right and may be required to provide certain of these announcements regardless of your choice to opt out of receipt of these announcements.
If you do not want to receive e-mail from us, please visit the Email Preferences section of your User Profile and/or follow the instructions contained in the unwanted e-mail message. However, as noted above, you will continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g., those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g., updates to our policies) from us.
Sharing Your Information
Because Free Range Content enables people to clip, quote, and share Internet content through Curate.Us, information about the web sites and pages that people who use Curate.Us visit is an integral part of the experience of our products and services. We neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone, and we will share your personal information only as described below.
Free Range Content Personnel: Free Range Content personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of Free Range Content business.
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 Free Range Content, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets transferred.
Protection of Free Range Content and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Free Range Content, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Application Programming Interface (API): Free Range Content will allow third parties access to all Free Range Content data that is already publicly available through our website(s) for the purposes of creating compatible applications, libraries, and/or operating systems. Free Range Content will keep private any passwords.
With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is 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 opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.
Keeping Information Secure
Your account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. It is your responsibility 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 business-related job or task are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.
Ways to Control the Use of Your Information
As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose personal information, but you may be unable to use certain features on our websites, such as managing your clips and quotes or viewing statistics related to your activity.
By visiting your User Profile, you can correct, amend, add, or delete personal information on our website. When you update information, however, we may retain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
You may request deletion of your Curate.Us account by e-mailing us at support@freerangecontent.com.
If you do not wish to receive e-mail from us, please visit the Email Preferences section of your User Profile and/or follow the instructions contained in the unwanted e-mail message.
However, please note that you will continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g., those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g., updates to our policies) from us.
As explained earlier, 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. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.
Children Under 18 Years of Age
You must be 13 years and older to register to use the Free Range Content products and services. As a result, Free Range Content does not specifically collect information about children. If we learn that we have collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 13 and 18 ask and receive their parents’ permission before using Free Range Content products and services or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Free Range Content may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our websites so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
Conditions of Use
If you decide to visit Free Range Content websites, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy are subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of California state law.
Effective Date of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of October 12, 2010.