Thank you for visiting VoiceCaptionIt’s ("VCI", “us”, “our” or “we”) Internet web site ("Site") located at http://www.voicecaptionit.com. This Privacy Policy details important information regarding the use and disclosure of information we collect about you (“User” or “you”) on our Site. VCI provides this Privacy Policy to help you make an informed decision about starting to use our Site or continuing to use our Site.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the VoiceCaptionIt Terms of Use. Your use of the Site and any personal information you provide on our Site remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Please note that any image, video, audio or other content posted by you or Users in general onto our Site becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy. This is important to understand as Users may leave personally identifiable information in their images, VoiceCaptions or VoiceComments when they upload them to our Site.
Privacy Policy Updates
Due to the Internet's rapidly evolving nature, we may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on our Site so you are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we may send you an email informing you of the changes. Your continued use of this Site and/or continued provision of personally identifiable information to us will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
You can generally visit and browse our Site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in order to provide you with a customized experience, once you register with our Site we will collect personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, phone number(s), user name, and other contact information that you voluntarily transmit to us. You can choose to make your email address private, viewable by only your designated friends or open to the public. Additionally, we may collect personally identifiable information about you that you provide to us as part of your profile, such as: likes/dislikes, your favorite web sites, a text description about you, and a recorded voice introduction about you. As you interact with our Site, you may post personally identifiable information in VoiceCaptions, VoiceComments, and message boards available from our Site (e.g. our self-help knowledge base) and other users will be able to see any information that you post to such forums. You acknowledge that we are not responsible for the privacy of information or content that you elect to make available to others through the Site. We also may collect the foregoing personally identifiable information about you from our third party affiliate or partner companies and from marketing or advertising companies that provide us with such information as a part of their relationship with us. We also may collect information about you and your use of our Site, services and/or software through your use of our Site, services and/or software.
We may use your personally identifiable information to register you to use our services, contact you to deliver certain services or information you have requested, verify your authority to enter our Site, improve the content and general administration of the Site and our services, provide you with notices about other users of our Site, software and/or services that you may wish to contact and for targeted advertising.
Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
VoiceCaptionIt Users can invite their friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. We store the email addresses provided by our users so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the user sending the invitations. We do not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations.
Children's Privacy
VoiceCaptionIt recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests. No personally identifiable information is collected by us from children under the age of 13 and this Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not target our services or this Site to children under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the VoiceCaptionIt Site at any time or in any manner.
Cookies
We may use small text files called cookies to improve overall Site experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can configure your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of our Site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Aggregate Information
The Site may track your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, the total number of visitors to our Site, and External Web Sites (defined below) linked to; we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
When you visit our Site, we may use "clear GIFs" (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which are used to track the online usage patterns anonymously (i.e., in a non-personally-identifiable manner). In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit our Site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; and (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.
Disclosure
We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our services to you. We require these parties to process such information in compliance with our privacy policy, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority. We reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend us against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of VoiceCaptionIt or our Users.
We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any company or organization except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which VoiceCaptionIt participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of our assets to which this Site relates.
Links to Third Party Sites
The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which VoiceCaptionIt does not have control ("External Web Sites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by us of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that we are providing these links to you only as a convenience, and you further agree that we are not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.
Security
We may employ procedural and technological measures, consistent with industry practice. Such measures are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. VoiceCaptionIt may use firewalls, password protection, encryption, secure socket layer, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. It is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do not share your password with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always choose to log out before leaving a site or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us via email at privacy@voicecaptionit.com
This Privacy Policy was last updated: December 2006