Privacy Policy
At SmartKitty we are committed to providing independent, insightful information on a variety of topics, and we're committed to protecting your privacy. We want you to be able to take advantage of SmartKitty’s tools and information with complete confidence. Your privacy is important to us and we take our responsibility seriously to protect the data that you provide us in the normal course of interacting with our site. Therefore, we have developed the comprehensive privacy policy below to help you better understand what data we collect and how we use it.
Privacy Policy Short Version
SmartKitty will use cookies, trackers, server logs, and other internet technology in order to measure the effectiveness of our services and advertising campaigns as well as to target meaningful content and advertising to our users. We gather information for statistical purposes. We share this aggregate information with our advertisers and use it to enhance the site by creating content and functionality that best serves the needs and interests of our visitors.
SmartKitty uses third-party Ad Servers to serve and display Advertisements on SmartKitty. SmartKitty does not provide personally identifiable information to Ad Servers. They may use cookies, trackers, or other internet technology to improve the effectiveness and targeting of Advertisements to you within SmartKitty and any other place where that third-party is serving Advertisements. You may configure your web-browser to disable this.
Please be aware that most web browsers automatically accept cookies. If you do not want to receive cookies, please adjust the options in your web browser to alert you when cookies are issued. You will then be able to specify whether or not to accept the cookie. Please consult your browser's manufacturer for additional information. When you disable the use of cookies, some SmartKitty product features may not work properly, preventing you from taking full advantage of SmartKitty's many services and resources.
Details of the Privacy Policy
Accountability:
SmartKitty is responsible for personal information under its control. The SmartKitty web site has reasonable security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, including management procedures and specialized training for those who work directly with our databases. We take measures to protect against the unauthorized access of personal data, including physical security considerations of the stored data. We restrict access to personal data to SmartKitty employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, innovate, and deliver our services.
Personal Information and Other Data We Collect:
SmartKitty uses cookies (a piece of data stored on the user's computer) and other technologies to provide you with a quality experience and to learn how you use our services so that we can continually innovate to improve our services.
SmartKitty servers may record/log information automatically any time you interact with our site or use any of our products & services. This may include information such as your IP address, URL, browser type, domain name(s), access dates & times, operating system, country of origin, language type, page views and user sessions to help diagnose problems and/or deliver our services to you.
You may decline to submit personal information for any of our services, in which case SmartKitty reserves the right to provide you with service.
Uses:
- We may use the personal information you provided to provide the services you requested and for our own research and analysis to operate and improve on the services and products that we deliver, as well as develop new services and products.
- We may share the aggregated non-personal information with 3rd parties outside of SmartKitty.
- When we use 3rd parties to assist us in the processing of your personal information (example: shopping cart service provider), we require that they comply with our Privacy Policies, confidentiality and security measures.
- We may share information with 3rd parties in limited circumstances when complying with legal process, preventing suspected fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services.
- We may use your postal and electronic address to send you items and/or information relevant to your use of our services.
- We may conduct user survey's in order to improve our services.
Links:
This site contains links to other 3rd party sites and these sites are not covered under our privacy policy. We have made attempts to make sure these links are currently active but do not assure any responsibility for the content of these websites. We highly recommend that you review the privacy policies of these websites as well.
SmartKitty may present links in a way that allows us to track whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our services.
Communications:
When you send email or other communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your requests and improve the quality of our services.
Advertising Specific Terms & Conditions:
We use a combination of internal and 3rd party advertising companies to serve our ads on our website and in our emails, based on personal information. To track the effectiveness of the ads and provide a better user experience, these companies use information about your web visits to our website to serve relevant ads. Information collected and used may include IP address, geographical location, their cookie and and historical data previously collected. By viewing or interacting with an ad, you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will assume you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad(s).
Notification of Changes:
From time to time, SmartKitty will occasionally update our Privacy Policy. We will not send out notification when such updates take place. It is the responsibility of the user to periodically review our privacy policy; thus we strongly encourage you to periodically review our privacy policy to be informed of the changes.
Legal Disclaimer:
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our web site or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
Please note that SmartKitty are unsecured sites and as such do not ensure any protection of information.
Contacting this Web Site:
If you have any further questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact by visiting the contact us page on our site.
Last revision: April 23, 2011