The privacy of our visitors to appnations.com is important to us. At appnations.com, we recognise that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit appnations.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties. Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
In this Privacy Policy, Personal Information refers to a specific individuals information, such as, consumer product references, online purchases, email address, full name, birth date, gender and country or location. appnations.com understands the importance of your privacy, therefore, here we will inform you of how the information we collect from and about you is used when you visit our website. This policy also informs you of other sources we may use to collect and share information, and the choices you have about how your information is used and shared. By continuing to use our services you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of the privacy policy and give consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described below. Please note, all content, products and services are intended for general audiences and are not directed to children under the age of 16, nor do we knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information about users under the age of 16. We will discard any sensitive personal information sent to us such as ethnic origin, health, criminal background, political opinions, religion or any other spiritual beliefs on or through our services.
If you register on our site to become a member, either to receive a newsletter or receive updates on competitions, events or promotions, you may be asked for information such as your name, email address, gender, location, phone number and age. If you willingly take part in our polls, surveys, quizzes, sweepstakes or daily horoscopes we may ask for your name, birth date, cell phone number, email address, gender and/or personal interests that may be associated with other personal information that has been obtained from or about you.
Please see our Cookie Policy below for a more detailed description on Cookies and the tracking technologies present on our services. appnations.com and our service providers use standard technologies to automatically collect certain additional information, this information may include IP address or other identifiers, social media information and content, cookies and other tracking technologies, web beacons and other tracking technologies and/or third party tracking.
This identifies the PC, service provider, browser type, authentication identifiers, geolocation data which includes your precise location and/or mobile, desktop or tablet device you are using to interact with our services. This information may be used to make our communications and services more targeted to you and your interests.
When or if you register through our site via a social media service or connect OUR site to a social media platform, the information we may collect (in accordance to that social media platforms policies) includes user ID and/or username, profile picture, email address, friend lists and/or any information made public via the social media platform. When connecting to appnations.com via a particular social media service, you are authorising the collection, storage and usage of the information and content you have permitted the social media platform to share.
It is entirely up to you whether you want to allow us to send you cookies, however, please note that by blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features, content or personalisation available through the site. Cookies are small text files that are stored on a users PC that allow websites such as appnations.com to retain information about users across the pages of our site, including page pop-ups. When a user registers on appnations.com, it creates a unique cookie token that is recorded in our database, this information is accessible to you in your website profile. We also use persistent cookies, which allows us to personalise your return visit to our site and saves you time during certain activities such as browsing for location based content or seeing certain content first based on your preferred category interests. You can also have a look at the “help” menu of your browser to learn how you can change our cookie preferences to ‘ allow all cookies’, ‘reject all cookies’ or ‘ be notified when each cookie is set’.
Web Beacons cannot be turned off when delivered via a regular web page. Web Beacons, also known as clear GIFs, web bugs, page tag, tracking pixel or pixel tag are small electronic images embedded in web content which includes online adverts and emails used to collect information about your page and content activity. Web Beacons in Emails; We may use Web Beacons in emails to unobtrusively collect analytical data such as when an email was opened, how many people bounced right out of the email, how many people unsubscribed, which links were clicked in the email, how many times it was forwarded or allowing us to monitor readership levels in order to aggregate trends to provide our loyal audiences with relevant content and/or promotional offers. You may decline web beacons when delivered via Email by disabling HTML images or refuse HTML emails with your email software.
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums. We also use third party advertisements on appnations.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites). You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
appnations.com sells advertising space on our site pages to advertisers, this results in adverts often containing cookies and other relating ad technologies that is placed by 3rd party partners such as ad agencies, ad network providers, ad servers and possibly research firms, they use the browsing information collected from these cookies to show more advertisements that are more relevant to you and also limit the amount of times you see the same ad. This process is often call Online Behavioural advertising, which is a way of using information about your web browsing activity with cookies to group users into interest groups to show you more adverts based on your interests. ‘Site Name’ may also advertise our own products, and these ads may use cookies in the same way described above.
appnations.com processes your data, in accordance with the contract you have with us, to provide you with content, products and services. This may include your own account management function for you to update or change your contact information, customer support, and preferable content. appnations.com may also use your personal information for:
- Making sure our products and services are transmitting your requests through the most efficient route.
- Monitoring your use of our product and services to be able to continue improving our content, products, services and customer experience.
- Market Research
- Protecting our rights, or the rights of 3rd parties, by analysing activity on our network to block unauthorised or illegitimate content, publication or access to it.
appnations.com may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name. If you purchase appnations.com's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. appnations.com may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age, gender and race. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by appnations.com. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the appnations.com website. appnations.com encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from appnations.com so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. appnations.com is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the appnations.com website.
The appnations.com website may use Cookies to help personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise appnations.com pages, or register with appnations.com site or services, a cookie helps appnations.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same appnations.com website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the appnations.com features that you customised. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the appnations.com services or websites you visit.
We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from appnations.com by contacting us here: Web page: appnations.com/privacy.php
We will only keep your data for as long as you are a customer to the service. Should you choose to terminate or delete you account we will delete your information and retain some personal information for so long as we are obliged to do so under South African law. Such personal information will be maintained under the same security and privacy controls that are in place for other customers of the service.
appnations.com will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. appnations.com encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how appnations.com is protecting your information.
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