NewTribeZ.net Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes NewTribeZ.net's (NewTribeZ) policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information. NewTribeZ receives your information through our various sources such as; web sites, SMS, APIs, services and third-parties ("Services"). When using any of our Services you consent to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Irrespective of which country that you reside in or create information from, your information may be used by NewTribeZ in Australia or any other country where NewTribeZ operates.
Security and Confidentiality Overview
We will take steps to maintain the security and confidentiality of your personal information; however, we cannot and do not guarantee the complete security of personal information you provide to us through your use of this Website, and you agree to specifically release us from any liability related in any way to the personal information you provide us. Any personally-identifiable information posted by you on publicly accessible portions of the Website may be read or utilized by any person with access to such portions of the Website. We reserve the right to take any action with respect to information posted on the Website, including, but not limited to, termination of your Membership and rights of use, but we cannot, nor do we, review, edit and/or control the information provided by Users or content providers which is made available through the Website. Any user identification names or passwords we provide to you or you utilize shall be maintained by you as confidential and should not be shared with anyone not authorized to have access to your personal information.
Information Collection and Use
We collect and use your information to provide our Services and improve them over time.
We do not collect personally-identifiable information about you unless you provide us with such information via registration as a member ("Member"), participation in Member services or features, or otherwise. We may require you to provide additional personal information when utilizing Member services or features, such as your phone number, billing, shipping and other credit card processing information. Any credit card payments made by you will be processed by a third-party payment processor. We do not permanently store credit card information either on or outside the Website. We may automatically record your IP address and use it to help diagnose problems with our server, administer and improve our Website, and gather broad demographic information about our Members. We use your information to personalize your experience, analyse usage, respond to inquiries from you, notify you about new features and special promotions, fulfil your orders, provide customer service, and to support your use of the Website and its features (including in connection with Website maintenance, backup and analysis). We may collect and report to third parties (such as content and service providers) information about our Member demographics, we may provide that general information to a content or service provider.
Information Collected Upon Registration: When you create or reconfigure a NewTribeZ account, you provide some personal information, such as your name, username, password, and email address. Some of this information, for example, your name and username, is listed publicly on our Services, including on your profile page and in search results. Some Services, such as search, public user profiles and viewing lists, do not require registration.
Additional Information: You may provide us with additional information to make public, such as a short biography, your location, or a picture. You may customize your account with information such as a cell phone number for the delivery of SMS messages or your address book so that we can help you find NewTribeZ users you know. We may use your contact information to send you information about our Services or to market to you. You may unsubscribe from these messages by following the instructions contained within the messages or the instructions on our web site. If you email us, we may keep your message, email address and contact information to respond to your request. Providing the additional information described in this section is entirely optional.
Posts and other Public Information: Our Services are primarily designed to help you share information with the world. Most of the information you provide to us is information you are asking us to make public. This includes not only the messages you Tweet and the metadata provided with Posts, such as when you Post, but also the lists you create, the people you are friends with, the Posts you mark as favourites and many other bits of information. Our default is almost always to make the information you provide public but we generally give you settings to make the information more private if you want. Your public information is broadly and instantly disseminated. For example, your public Posts are searchable by many search engines. You should be careful about all information that will be made public by NewTribeZ, not just your Posts.
What you say on NewTribeZ may be viewed all around the world instantly.
Location Information: You may choose to note your location in your Posts and in your NewTribeZ profile. If you turn on Tweeting with your location, we may also save exact coordinates to help improve our service. You can control your location information settings in your account settings.
Log Data: Our servers automatically record information ("Log Data") created by your use of the Services. Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, the referring domain, pages visited, and search terms. Other actions, such as interactions with advertisements, may also be included in Log Data.
Cookies: Like many websites, we use "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services, but we do not require cookies for many parts of our Services such as searching and looking at public user profiles or lists. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer's hard disk. NewTribeZ may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our Services, and to improve our Services. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
Third Party Services: This Website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of such websites, and you should familiarize yourself with their privacy policies prior to using any such third party websites.
NewTribeZ uses Google Analytics to help understand use of our Services. Through Google, Analytics collects the information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address. Google also receives this information and their use of it is governed by their Privacy Policy.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not disclose your private information except in the limited circumstances described here.
Your Consent: We may share or disclose your information with your consent, such as when you use a third party web client to access your NewTribeZ account.
Service Providers: We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only pursuant to obligations mirroring the protections of this privacy policy.
Law and Harm: We may disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect NewTribeZ's rights or property.
Business Transfers: In the event that NewTribeZ is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this privacy policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.
Non-Private or Non-Personal Information: We may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information, such as your public Posts or the number of users who clicked on a particular link (even if only one did).
Modifying Your Personal Information
If you are a registered user of our Services, we provide you with tools to access or modify the personal information you provided to us and associated with your account.
Our Policy towards Children
Our Services are not directed to people under the age of 16. Parents or legal guardians may not agree to the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or the disclosure of such child's personally identifiable information on such child's behalf. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at admin@NewTribeZ.net. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.
Changes to this Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and can be viewed at http://www.NewTribeZ.net/policy/. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via an email to the email associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
These Services are owned and operated by Greg C. Gibson ABN 45443865997 on behalf of NewTribeZ.net, PO Box 137, St Helens, Tasmania Australia 7216. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please place "Privacy Policy" in the subject header and document and email your concerns to admin@NewTribeZ.net.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 12 April, 2010.
This Privacy Policy describes NewTribeZ.net's (NewTribeZ) policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information. NewTribeZ receives your information through our various sources such as; web sites, SMS, APIs, services and third-parties ("Services"). When using any of our Services you consent to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Irrespective of which country that you reside in or create information from, your information may be used by NewTribeZ in Australia or any other country where NewTribeZ operates.
Security and Confidentiality Overview
We will take steps to maintain the security and confidentiality of your personal information; however, we cannot and do not guarantee the complete security of personal information you provide to us through your use of this Website, and you agree to specifically release us from any liability related in any way to the personal information you provide us. Any personally-identifiable information posted by you on publicly accessible portions of the Website may be read or utilized by any person with access to such portions of the Website. We reserve the right to take any action with respect to information posted on the Website, including, but not limited to, termination of your Membership and rights of use, but we cannot, nor do we, review, edit and/or control the information provided by Users or content providers which is made available through the Website. Any user identification names or passwords we provide to you or you utilize shall be maintained by you as confidential and should not be shared with anyone not authorized to have access to your personal information.
Information Collection and Use
We collect and use your information to provide our Services and improve them over time.
We do not collect personally-identifiable information about you unless you provide us with such information via registration as a member ("Member"), participation in Member services or features, or otherwise. We may require you to provide additional personal information when utilizing Member services or features, such as your phone number, billing, shipping and other credit card processing information. Any credit card payments made by you will be processed by a third-party payment processor. We do not permanently store credit card information either on or outside the Website. We may automatically record your IP address and use it to help diagnose problems with our server, administer and improve our Website, and gather broad demographic information about our Members. We use your information to personalize your experience, analyse usage, respond to inquiries from you, notify you about new features and special promotions, fulfil your orders, provide customer service, and to support your use of the Website and its features (including in connection with Website maintenance, backup and analysis). We may collect and report to third parties (such as content and service providers) information about our Member demographics, we may provide that general information to a content or service provider.
Information Collected Upon Registration: When you create or reconfigure a NewTribeZ account, you provide some personal information, such as your name, username, password, and email address. Some of this information, for example, your name and username, is listed publicly on our Services, including on your profile page and in search results. Some Services, such as search, public user profiles and viewing lists, do not require registration.
Additional Information: You may provide us with additional information to make public, such as a short biography, your location, or a picture. You may customize your account with information such as a cell phone number for the delivery of SMS messages or your address book so that we can help you find NewTribeZ users you know. We may use your contact information to send you information about our Services or to market to you. You may unsubscribe from these messages by following the instructions contained within the messages or the instructions on our web site. If you email us, we may keep your message, email address and contact information to respond to your request. Providing the additional information described in this section is entirely optional.
Posts and other Public Information: Our Services are primarily designed to help you share information with the world. Most of the information you provide to us is information you are asking us to make public. This includes not only the messages you Tweet and the metadata provided with Posts, such as when you Post, but also the lists you create, the people you are friends with, the Posts you mark as favourites and many other bits of information. Our default is almost always to make the information you provide public but we generally give you settings to make the information more private if you want. Your public information is broadly and instantly disseminated. For example, your public Posts are searchable by many search engines. You should be careful about all information that will be made public by NewTribeZ, not just your Posts.
What you say on NewTribeZ may be viewed all around the world instantly.
Location Information: You may choose to note your location in your Posts and in your NewTribeZ profile. If you turn on Tweeting with your location, we may also save exact coordinates to help improve our service. You can control your location information settings in your account settings.
Log Data: Our servers automatically record information ("Log Data") created by your use of the Services. Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, the referring domain, pages visited, and search terms. Other actions, such as interactions with advertisements, may also be included in Log Data.
Cookies: Like many websites, we use "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services, but we do not require cookies for many parts of our Services such as searching and looking at public user profiles or lists. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer's hard disk. NewTribeZ may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our Services, and to improve our Services. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
Third Party Services: This Website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of such websites, and you should familiarize yourself with their privacy policies prior to using any such third party websites.
NewTribeZ uses Google Analytics to help understand use of our Services. Through Google, Analytics collects the information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address. Google also receives this information and their use of it is governed by their Privacy Policy.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not disclose your private information except in the limited circumstances described here.
Your Consent: We may share or disclose your information with your consent, such as when you use a third party web client to access your NewTribeZ account.
Service Providers: We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only pursuant to obligations mirroring the protections of this privacy policy.
Law and Harm: We may disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect NewTribeZ's rights or property.
Business Transfers: In the event that NewTribeZ is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this privacy policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.
Non-Private or Non-Personal Information: We may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information, such as your public Posts or the number of users who clicked on a particular link (even if only one did).
Modifying Your Personal Information
If you are a registered user of our Services, we provide you with tools to access or modify the personal information you provided to us and associated with your account.
Our Policy towards Children
Our Services are not directed to people under the age of 16. Parents or legal guardians may not agree to the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or the disclosure of such child's personally identifiable information on such child's behalf. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at admin@NewTribeZ.net. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.
Changes to this Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and can be viewed at http://www.NewTribeZ.net/policy/. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via an email to the email associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
These Services are owned and operated by Greg C. Gibson ABN 45443865997 on behalf of NewTribeZ.net, PO Box 137, St Helens, Tasmania Australia 7216. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please place "Privacy Policy" in the subject header and document and email your concerns to admin@NewTribeZ.net.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 12 April, 2010.