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This Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by iHaystack.com, its
subsidiaries or affiliated companies. In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy
practices, we will make accessible separate privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information.
iHaystack.com adheres to the US safe harbor
privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement.
Information we collect and how we use it
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information.
In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
Information you provide - When you sign up for a iHaystack.com Account or
other iHaystack.com service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal
information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, such as our advertising
programs, we also request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on
secure servers. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other
iHaystack.com services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to
improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining
such information.
Cookies - When you visit iHaystack.com, we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a
string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality
of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends. Most browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, some iHaystack.com features and services may not function properly if your cookies
are disabled.
Logging - When you use iHaystack.com services, our servers automatically record information
that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your
web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or
more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications - When you send email or other communication to iHaystack.com,
we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve
our services.
Affiliated sites - We offer some of our services in connection with other web sites.
Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to iHaystack.comin order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy.
The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy
policies.
Links - iHaystack.com may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of
whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our technology,
customized content and advertising.
Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by
iHaystack.com. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results
or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files
on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. iHaystack.com only
processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy
notice for specific services.
iHaystack.com processes personal information on our servers in the United States of
America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your
own country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may
process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our
advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal
information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected,
then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or
in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal
information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes
other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, unless we have obtained
your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case
iHaystack.com may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
iHaystack.com only shares personal information with other companies or individuals
outside of iHaystack.com in the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or
persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf.
We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with
this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably
necessary to
(a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request,
(b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof,
(c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or
(d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of iHaystack.com,
its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If iHaystack.com becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its
assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who
searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does
not identify you individually.
Please contact us for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration,
disclosure or destruction of data. These may include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing
practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems
where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to iHaystack.com employees, contractors and agents
who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are
bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal
prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
iHaystack.com processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and
in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection,
storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed
to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is
accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever
necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use iHaystack.com services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to
your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request
if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to
identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests,
and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical
effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance,
requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required.
In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing
so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or
delete users' personal information. We provide the details for these procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs
for these services.
Enforcement
iHaystack.com may regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any
questions or concerns regarding this Policy or iHaystack.com's treatment of personal information by
contacting us. When we receive formal written complaints
it is iHaystack.com's policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns.
We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities,
to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between
iHaystack.com and an individual.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy
without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy
changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including,
for certain services, email notification of Policy changes).
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us.
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