Privacy Policy
By using Scribl.com (“Scribl.com” or the “Website”) and/or a Scribl.com user, author, contributor, or other account (the “Service”), you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service. Scribl.com is designed and operated by Scribliotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Scribliotech”).
Under no circumstances will we sell, share, or rent your personal information to any third party. Any emails sent by this Company will only be in connection with the provision of agreed services and products.
Data Collected
We collect anonymous data from every visitor of the Website to monitor usage and make improvements. Such anonymous data includes, but is not limited to: browser used, web requests, the data sent in response to such requests, the Internet Protocol address of the browser. To use the Service, you agree to create an account and provide certain information (such as names and email addresses) as requested during the account creation process, which may change at Scribliotech’s exclusive discretion.
We use cookies to store session information for your convenience. Cookies must be enabled to use the Website and the Service. In order to take advantage of certain features of the Service, including use by authors and other content contributors, you may be required to provide us with additional personal information, including a PayPal or other account name so that we may pay you and a picture and a brief biography for inclusion with your content for our customers.
Use of the Data
We only use your personal information to provide you with the Service; including purchasing content created by others, hosting content created by you or others, and paying you for any purchases of your content; and to communicate with you about the Service or the Website.
We take the privacy and confidentiality of the data you may choose to enter or upload to Scribl.com seriously. Your data (in the Service) is specifically not shared between accounts or with the public, except as noted or reasonably obvious, such as inclusion of an author’s bio with the author description, or information you place on any public pages. We employ industry standard techniques to protect against unauthorized access of data that we store, including personal information. All off-site backups of your data are securely encrypted.
We do not share personal information you have provided to us without your consent, unless:
- doing so is appropriate to carry out a request made by you;
- we believe it’s necessary in order to provide the highest quality of service;
- we believe it’s needed to enforce our Terms of Service, or that is legally required;
- we believe it’s needed to detect, prevent or address fraud, security or technical issues;
- otherwise protect our property, legal rights, or that of others.
Please note that if you choose to share data you have provided to or obtained from Scribl.com, we are not responsible for any violation of privacy law for which you may be liable.
Scribl.com is operated from the United States. If you are visiting the Website from outside the U.S., you agree to any processing of any personal information you provide us according to this policy.
Scribl.com may contact you by email. These may include, but are not limited to: emails relating to your purchase or download of content from Scribl.com, emails relating to you posting content to Scribl.com, emails relating to your account status, promotional emails relating to Scribl.com, emails about your use of the Website and Service. If you do not want to receive promotional email from Scribl.com, please opt out of promotional emails through your account or at the bottom of any Scribl.com email. Please note that there is no option to opt-out of non-promotional emails.
Sharing of Data
We don’t share your personal information with third parties except as listed below. Only aggregated, statistical data is periodically transmitted to external services to help us improve Scribl.com and the Service.
We may use third party hosting or emailing services or analytic support services, but in such cases your information will only be used to support Scribl.com and the Service. Scribl.com will take reasonable precautions to ensure that your information is not used by these services for any other purposes and require any such third party services agree not to share your information with anyone else, except as they may similarly need to conduct their respective services.
We employ and contract with people and other entities that perform certain tasks on our behalf and who are under our control (our “Agents”). We may need to share personal information with our Agents in order to provide products or services to you. Unless we tell you differently, our Agents do not have any right to use Personal Information or other information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. You hereby consent to our sharing of Personal Information with our Agents.
In the event that Scribliotech is acquired or merges with another company, or Scribliotech sells the Scribl.com Website or Service to another company, user information may be transferred to such acquiring or merging company. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Scribliotech or its assets may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make any significant changes in the way we collect or use information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Website or sending you an email. You are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy if you use the Service after such changes have been first posted.