Here at Yappey your privacy is important to us.  Our site comes with a number of privacy settings so that you can control whether the information you enter is private, viewable only to your friends, only to yappey users, or to the internet as a whole.  We won't pass on your information to third parties, we won't sell user details and we won't be claiming any intellectual property rights over your images or blog entries.  Your data is exactly that; your data.

It is Yappey’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Yappey collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Yappey’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Yappey’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Yappey may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Yappey also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Yappey does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Yappey’s websites choose to interact with Yappey in ways that require Yappey to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Yappey gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at yappey.com to provide a username and email address. In each case, Yappey collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Yappey. Yappey does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Yappey may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Yappey may monitor the most popular blogs on the Yappey.com site. Yappey may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Yappey does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Yappey discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Yappey’s behalf or to provide services available at Yappey’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Yappey’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Yappey will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Yappey discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Yappey believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Yappey, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Yappey website and have supplied your email address, Yappey may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Yappey and our products. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Yappey takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Yappey uses cookies to help Yappey identify and track visitors, their usage of Yappey website, and their website access preferences. Yappey visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Yappey’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Yappey’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Yappey and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Yappey may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Yappey’s sole discretion. Yappey encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.