TwixMedia Privacy Policy
The TwixMedia website at www.TwixMedia.com (the "Website") is provided to You by TwixMedia and/or any of its related, affiliated and/or subsidiary companies (individually and collectively, "TwixMedia", "We" or "Us"), and the following Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by TwixMedia in connection with the Website. For convenience, the words "User," "You" and "Your" as used in this Privacy Policy refer to users of the Website.
TwixMedia recognizes that Your privacy and the protection of Your Personal Information is important to you, and therefore, has adopted this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes TwixMedia's privacy practices and how TwixMedia treats the Personal Information that it collects from You when You use the use the Website, including any Personal Information You provide when You conduct business with TwixMedia on or through the Website or use TwixMedia's services that are provided on or through the Website.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Personal Information" is information that (i) You provide to TwixMedia and (ii) personally identifies You. Personal Information includes Your name, email and postal address, billing, banking and payment information, telephone number and other data that can be used to personally identify or contact You.
HOW WE OBTAIN THE PERSONAL INFORMATION
TwixMedia may obtain, collect, retain, store or otherwise maintain Your Personal Information from the following sources:
Your TwixMedia Application: In order for You to use any of the services provided by TwixMedia, including becoming an TwixMedia publisher (collectively, the "TwixMedia Services"), you will be required to submit an application to TwixMedia ("Your Application"). Your Application will require You to provide Personal Information to TwixMedia. If Your Application is rejected, TwixMedia may retain Your Personal Information at its discretion. Your Creation and Maintenance of Your TwixMedia Account: If Your Application is accepted, You will be required to provide Personal Information to TwixMedia in order to create and maintain as current an account with TwixMedia ("Your Account"). Your Responses to Communications form TwixMedia: From time to time, TwixMedia, may communicate with You through email, postal mail or other forms of electronic communications regarding the Your Account, the TwixMedia, the and Website. If You respond to these communications, Your responses may contain Personal Information. You can decline to provide Your Personal Information to TwixMedia by not engaging in the activities described above. If You decline to submit Personal Information, TwixMedia may not be able to or may choose not to provide to You some or all of the TwixMedia Services. TwixMedia also collects non-personally identifiable server-log information relating to users of the Website. This information, may include information such as, but not limited to: (i) Your account activity, including storage usage, number of log-ins, data displayed or selected, including user interface elements, links, etc.; and (ii) Your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of Your request, date and time of access, one or more cookies that may uniquely identify Your browser and referrer Uniform Resource Locator. None of this information enables TwixMedia to personally identify or contact You.
HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Evaluating and verifying Your Application and communicating with You regarding Your Application; Doing business with You, including processing payments and communicating with you regarding Your business activities relating to the TwixMedia Services;
Processing, formatting and displaying customized content on the Website for You;
Communicating with You regarding changes to: TwixMedia's Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy or any other policies or terms relating to the TwixMedia Services or Your relationship with TwixMedia.
Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve the TwixMedia Services and the Website;
Communicating with You, with Your consent, regarding new and additional TwixMedia Services and changes to the Website; and/or
Ensuring the technical functioning of the Website, including creating and maintaining back-ups or other archival copies of Personal Information and other related data.
TwixMedia restricts access to Personal Information to those employees, contractors and agents of TwixMedia who need to access Personal Information for the purposes specified above. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination, if they fail to meet these obligations.
HOW TwixMedia USES PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as otherwise set forth herein, TwixMedia does not share Your Personal Information with third parties without Your consent, except when We believe that it is reasonably necessary to do so in order to comply with a subpoena or other judicial order or process, as otherwise required by law or in order to enforce TwixMedia's Terms of Service. In such circumstances, Your Personal Information may also be disclosed to TwixMedia's attorneys. If TwixMedia desires to use Your Personal Information for any purpose other than those described in this Privacy Policy, TwixMedia will request Your consent prior to such use and offer You an effective way to opt out of the use of Personal Information for those other purposes. If You opt out or otherwise decline to submit Personal Information in response to such a request, TwixMedia may not be able to provide to You some or all of the TwixMedia Services or some or all of the features available on the Website.
THIRD PARTY INFORMATION
TwixMedia may collect or purchase information from third parties regarding persons who provided such information to those third parties. Information provided by the third party may include, but not limited to, individual names, email and postal addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, genders, and any other information provided by the Third Party. TwixMedia uses its reasonable best efforts to ensure that (i) the third party possesses the right to transfer the information to TwixMedia and (ii) TwixMedia has received the right to communicate with the persons who provided the information.COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS PLACED BY TwixMedia
When You visit the Website, We send to Your computer one or more "cookies" (i.e., a small file containing a string of characters) that, among other things, uniquely identifies Your browser and allows the Website to "remember" Your computer and Your activities on the Website. TwixMedia uses cookies to uniquely and anonymously identify its users. No Personal Information is collected or stored in these cookies. These cookies cannot damage a user's files and cannot read information from a user's hard drive. Most web 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. Please note that some of the Website's features may not function properly and You may not be able to use the TwixMedia Services if Your cookies are disabled.
TwixMedia uses cookies for tracking user clicks on an ad, and subsequent successful completion and crediting of leads to the correct destination, whether that is an advertiser or publisher account at TwixMedia. TwixMedia may also use cookies for statistical analysis purposes.
A web beacon is generally a transparent graphic image (usually a very small pixel) that is placed on a website or in an email which is used to monitor behavior of a user visiting a website or email. When HTML code for a web beacon points to a site to retrieve the image, it can pass along information such as IP address of the computer that retrieved the image, time the page was viewed and length, the type of internet browser that retrieved the image, and any previously set cookie values in regards to the web beacon.
LINKS
This Privacy Policy only pertains to the Website and the TwixMedia Services. Other websites, such as those to which the Website links to or link to the Website, may have their own privacy policies. We encourage You to read the privacy policies and terms of use of the websites that You visit through links placed on the Website as well as those for websites that provide links to the Website. You should contact these websites directly if You have any questions about their use of Your Personal Information. TwixMedia is not responsible for any use of Your Personal Information or any other type of Your information when You use such third party sites and services.
INFORMATION SHARING AND ONWARD TRANSFER
TwixMedia reserves the right to sell, rent or otherwise share some or all of Your Personal Information with other companies or individuals outside of TwixMedia if:
You have consented to such sale, rental or sharing; and/or TwixMedia becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of all of its assets. In such circumstances, TwixMedia will provide notice before Personal Information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
In addition, TwixMedia reserves the right to share non-personally identifiable information relating to users of the Website or the TwixMedia services with our partners and advertisers. The information will not be linked to any personal identifiable information. When you sign up for any third party service, information may be shared with the third party and your privacy will be maintained in accordance with the third party privacy policy.
ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as required by the Terms of Service, You may change the settings of Your TwixMedia account via the "settings" section of such account. You may organize or delete certain information through such settings or, alternately, terminate Your TwixMedia account. TwixMedia reserves the right to retain archival copies of information that You delete. TwixMedia will only use Your deleted information for the purposes of detecting and avoiding fraud and will share such information with third parties only when We believe that it is reasonably necessary to do so in order to comply with a subpoena or other judicial order or process, as otherwise required by law or in order to enforce TwixMedia's Terms of Service.
When you use the Website, TwixMedia makes good faith efforts to provide you with access to your Personal Information. Where applicable, TwixMedia asks individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and TwixMedia 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 TwixMedia provides information access and correction, TwixMedia provides this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.
OPTING-OUT
If you supply us with your e-mail address, you may receive periodic e-mails from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not want to receive e-mails from us in the future, you may use the opt-out feature at the bottom of our email communications or let us know by sending us e-mail to: [email protected]. However, we may still contact you concerning administrative or transactional matters.
If you supply us with your postal address, you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by writing to us at the below address, or e-mailing us at [email protected].
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding new products and services, upcoming events, and account verification. If you do not wish to receive such telephone calls, please let us know by writing to us at the below address, or e-mailing us at [email protected]. or by deleting your phone number within your publisher and/or advertiser account.
Deleting and Updating Your Information
If you would like to delete or update the personally identifiable information that we have collected from you, simply email us. We will process your request, where possible and subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, within a reasonable period of time after receipt. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
EU-U.S. PRIVACY SHIELD FRAMEWORK
TwixMedia complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union to the United States. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, TwixMedia commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact TwixMediaa at: [email protected]
TwixMediaa has further committed to cooperate with the panel established by the EU data protection authorities (DPAs) with regard to unresolved Privacy Shield complaints concerning data transferred from the EU.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. TwixMedia will post any changes on this page of the Website. TwixMedia encourages You to check back and review this policy periodically so that You will always know what information We collect, how We use it, and to whom We disclose it.
If You have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please contact us on this email [email protected]