UnSpun by Amazon knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting the UnSpun site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
PLEASE NOTE THAT AMAZON WEB SERVICES LLC OWNS AND OPERATES THIS WEB SITE AND IS A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF AMAZON.COM, INC. IF YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT ON AMAZON.COM AND AN AMAZON.COM COOKIE, INFORMATION GATHERED BY UNSPUN, AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY NOTICE, MAY BE CORRELATED WITH ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT AMAZON.COM HAS AND USED BY UNSPUN AND AMAZON.COM TO IMPROVE THE SERVICES WE OFFER.
What Personal Information About Users Does UnSpun Gather?
The information we learn from users helps us personalize and continually improve your experience at the UnSpun site. Here are the types of information we gather.
- Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. Click here to see examples of what we collect. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your questions, improving our site, and communicating with you.
- Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses the UnSpun site. Click here to see examples of the information we receive. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at UnSpun if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
- E-mail Communications: By registering on the UnSpun site, you will receive emails from UnSpun and/or its Affiliates. As an UnSpun site participant, you will receive answers to your questions by e-mail. In addition, it may be necessary for us to communicate with you to provide essential operational updates, status reports, notices in connection with your account and other information relevant to your participation and use of the Web site (collectively .Essential Communications.). You may not opt out of such Essential Communications, and you agree to receipt of Essential Communications via email. If we send newsletters and other non-essential email communications, we will give you the opportunity to unsubscribe to them. To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we may receive a confirmation when you open email from UnSpun if your computer supports such capabilities.
- Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.
What About Cookies?
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as personalization.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of the UnSpun site.s features, and in order to participate, you must leave them turned on.
Does UnSpun Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our users is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We are a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., and we share user information only as described below and with subsidiaries Amazon.com, Inc. controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
Your list requests and rankings you provide will be viewable on our web site by the public, it will be attributed to an alias that you select at time of registration. Similarly, although we will submit your list requests to workers from the Amazon Mechanical Turk community (mturk.amazon.com) for rankings, we will not share any personal information about you with those workers.
- With Your Consent: By using the UnSpun site, you expressly consent to our use of your information as outlined in this Privacy Notice.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include analyzing data and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
- Promotional Offers: We may send offers to selected groups of UnSpun users on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your personal information. If you do not want to receive such offers, we will give you the opportunity to unsubscribe to them.
- Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy additional services or business units. In such transactions, user information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the user consents otherwise). Also, in the event that UnSpun or substantially all of its assets are acquired, user information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
- Protection of UnSpun and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of UnSpun, our users, or others. This includes (1) exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction; and (2) if you are a provider of a service on the UnSpun site, we will release your name and address only to requesters for whom you provide services so that those requestors can comply with tax and other legal obligations they might have. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from users for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
- We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
- It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
What Choices and Access Do I Have?
- As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to take advantage of the UnSpun site.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, you will not be able to use the UnSpun site if you do not use cookies.
- Click here to explore products that offer anonymous browsing. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.
Children
Use of the UnSpun site is intended for individuals 13 years of age and older.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit UnSpun, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Washington. If you have any concern about privacy at UnSpun, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of user information collected in the past without the consent of affected users.
Related Practices and Information
Information You Give Us
You provide most such information when you register, search, post, or communicate with us. For example, you provide information when you search for a question; provide information in our registration form; or submit a question you'd like us to answer. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your e-mail address, questions you'd like answered, and other personal information.
Automatic Information
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; and pages you viewed or searched for.
Privacy Companies
www.anonymizer.com, www.IDzap.com, and www.somebody.net. We cannot vouch for the effectiveness of any of these products. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.