Date of last revision: February 02, 2011 .
isumbul.com's privacy policy contains have nine sections:
1. Introduction
2. Information We Receive
3. Sharing information on Paki Friendship (www.isumbul.com)
4. Information You Share With Third Parties
5. How We Use Your Information
6. How We Share Information
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information
8. How We Protect Information
9. Other Terms
Questions: If you have
any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, contact us through Contact
page..
Scope: This privacy
policy covers all of Paki Friendship It does not, however, apply to entities
that Paki Friendship does not own or control, such as applications and websites
using Platform, by accessing Paki Friendship.
No information from children: If
you are under age 13, please do not attempt to register for Paki Friendship or
provide any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have
collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that
information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any
information from a child under age 13, please
contact us.
Information you provide to us:
Information About Yourself: When you sign up for Paki Friendship you provide us
with your name, email, gender, and birth date. During the registration process
we give you the opportunity to connect with your friends. You will also be able
to add a picture of yourself. In some cases we may ask for additional
information for security reasons or to provide specific services to you. Once
you register you can provide other information about yourself by connecting
with, for example, your current city, hometown, networks, activities, interests,
and places.
Content: One of the
primary reasons people use Paki Friendship is to share content with others.
Examples include when you update your status, upload or take a photo, upload or
record a video, share a link, create a group, make a comment, write something on
someone’s Wall, write a note, or send someone a message.
Friend Information: We
offer contact importer tools to help you upload your friends’ addresses so that
you can find your friends on Paki Friendship, and invite your contacts who do
not have Paki Friendship accounts to join. If you give us your password to
retrieve those contacts, we will not store your password after you have uploaded
your contacts’ information.
Information we collect when you interact with Paki
Friendship: Site activity information. We keep track
of some of the actions you take on Paki Friendship, such as adding connections
(including joining a group or adding a friend), creating a photo album,
indicating you “like” a post, attending an event. In some cases you are also
taking an action when you provide information or content to us.
Access Device and Browser Information: When
you access Paki Friendship from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we
may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and
IP address, as well as the pages you visit.
Cookie Information: We
use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on
your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make Paki Friendship easier to
use, to make our/our partners advertising better, and to protect both you and
Paki Friendship. For example, we use them to store your login ID (but never your
password) to make it easier for you to login whenever you come back to Paki
Friendship. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into Paki
Friendship. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser,
but in some cases that may impact your ability to use Paki Friendship.
Name and Profile Picture:
Paki Friendship is designed to make it easy for you to find and connect with
others. For this reason, your name and profile picture do not have privacy
settings. If you are uncomfortable with sharing your profile picture, you
should delete it (or not add one). You can also control who can find you
when searching on Paki Friendship or on public search engines.
Contact Information. Your contact information settings control (available when
customizing your account settings) who can contact you on Paki Friendship, and
who can see your contact information such as your email. Remember that
nobody can view your email address if you don’t share it by yourself.
Posts by Me. You can select a privacy setting for every post you make on
our site. Whether you are uploading a photo or posting a status update,
you can control exactly who can see it at the time you create it.
Gender and Birth Date:
In addition to name and email address, we require you to provide your gender and
birth date during the registration process. We ask for your date of birth
to verify that you are 13 or older, and so that we can better limit your access
to content that are not age appropriate. Because your date of birth and
gender are required, you cannot delete them. You can, however, edit your
profile to hide all (or part) of such fields from other users.
Others:
· Some of the content you share
and the actions you take will show up on your friends’ home pages and other
pages they visit.
· If another user tags you in a
photo or video or at a place, you can remove the tag.
· Even after you remove
information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information
may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent.
· You understand that
information might be reshared or copied by other users.
· Certain types of
communications that you send to other users cannot be removed, such as messages.
· When you post information on
another user’s profile or comment on another user’s post, that information will
be subject to the other user’s privacy settings.
“Everyone” Information: Information
set to “everyone” is publicly available information, just like your name,
profile picture, and connections. Such information may, for example, be
accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Paki
Friendship), be indexed by third party search engines, and be imported,
exported, distributed, and redistributed by us and others without privacy
limitations.
Minors: We reserve
the right to add special protections for minors (such as to provide them with an
age-appropriate experience) and place restrictions on the ability of adults to
share and connect with minors, recognizing this may provide minors a more
limited and protective experience on Paki Friendship.
Exporting Information: You
(and those you make your information available to) may use tools like RSS feeds,
mobile phone address book applications, or copy and paste functions, to capture,
export (and in some cases, import) information from Paki Friendship, including
your information and information about you. For example, if you share your
phone number with your friends, they may use third party applications to sync
that information with the address book on their mobile phone.
Advertisements: Sometimes
the advertisers who present ads on Paki Friendship use technological methods to
measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content.
You may also use your browser cookie settings to limit or prevent the placement
of cookies by advertising networks. Paki Friendship does not share
personally identifiable information with advertisers unless we get your
permission.
Links: When you click on
links on Paki Friendship you may leave our site. We are not responsible for the
privacy practices of other sites, and we encourage you to read their privacy
statements.
We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and
customized experience. Here are some of the details on how we do that:
To manage the service: We
use the information we collect to provide our services and features to you, to
measure and improve those services and features, and to provide you with
customer support. Some efforts may on occasion result in a temporary or
permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users.
To contact you: We may
contact you with service-related announcements from time to time. You may opt
out of all communications except essential updates on your account
notifications.
To serve social ads: We
occasionally pair advertisements we serve with relevant information we have
about you and your friends to make advertisements more interesting and more
tailored to you and your friends. For example, if you connect with your favorite
band’s page, we may display your name and profile photo next to an advertisement
for that page that is displayed to your friends. We only share the personally
identifiable information visible in the social ad with the friend who can see
the ad. You can opt out of having your information used in social ads on it.
To supplement your profile: We
may use information about you that we collect from other Paki Friendship users
to supplement your profile (such as when you are tagged in a photo or mentioned
in a status update). In such cases we generally give you the ability to remove
the content (such as allowing you to remove a photo tag of you).
To make suggestions: We
use your profile information, the addresses you import through our contact
importers, and other relevant information, to help you connect with your
friends, including making suggestions to you and other users that you connect
with on Paki Friendship. For example, if another user imports the same email
address as you do, we may suggest that you connect with each other. If you
want to limit your visibility in suggestions we make to other people, you can
adjust your search visibility. You may also block specific individual users from
being suggested to you and you from being suggested to them.
To help your friends find you: We
allow other users to use contact information they have about you, such as your
email address, to
find you,
including through contact
importers and
search.
Paki Friendship is about sharing information with others — friends and people in
your communities — while providing you with privacy
settings that you can use to restrict other users from accessing some of
your information.
When you invite a friend to join: When
you ask us to invite a friend to join Paki Friendship, we will send your friend
a message on your behalf using your name.
To help your friends find you. By default, we make certain information you have
posted to your profile available in search results on Paki Friendship to help
your friends find you. However, you can control who can see some of this
information, as well as who can find you in searches, through your privacy
settings.
To give search engines access to publicly available
information: We generally limit search engines’
access to our site. We may allow them to access information set to the
“everyone” setting (along with your name and profile picture) and your profile
information that is visible to everyone. You can change the visibility of
some of your profile information using the customize section of your privacy
settings.
To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. We may disclose information
pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and
civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by
law. This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions inside and outside
of Pakistan. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it
is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent
bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating laws. This
may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other
government entities.
Editing your profile: You
may change or remove your profile information at any time by going to your
profile page and clicking “Edit
My Profile.” Information will be updated immediately.
Delete uploaded contacts: If
you use our contact importer to upload addresses, you can later delete the list.
You can delete the email addresses of friends you have invited to join Paki
Friendship on your
invite history.
Deactivating or deleting your account: If
you want to stop using your account you may deactivate it or delete it by
sending a request to our Support Team via Contact page or
Deleting account in
setting. When your account is deactivated, no user will be able to see it,
but it will not be deleted. We save your profile information (connections,
photos, etc.) in case you later decide to reactivate your account. When your
account is deleted, it is permanently deleted from Paki Friendship.
Backup copies: Removed
and deleted information may persist in backup copies for up to 90 days, but will
not be available to others.
We do our best to keep your information secure.
Steps we take to keep your information secure: We
keep your account information on a secured server behind a firewall. When you
enter sensitive information (such as passwords), we encrypt that information
using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also use automated and social
measures to enhance security, such as analyzing account behavior for fraudulent
or otherwise anomalous behavior, may limit use of site features in response to
possible signs of abuse, may remove inappropriate content or links to illegal
content, and may suspend or disable accounts for violations of our Terms of
Services.
Risks inherent in sharing information: Although
we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your information,
please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot
control the actions of other users with whom you share your information. We
cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your information. We
cannot ensure that information you share on Paki Friendship will not become
publicly available. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of any
privacy settings or security measures on Paki Friendship. You can reduce these
risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a strong
password, using different passwords for different services, and using up to date
antivirus software.
Report Violations: You
should report any security violations to us via
Contact page.
Changes: We may change
this Privacy Policy pursuant to the procedures outlined in the Paki Friendship
Terms of Services without any notice. Unless stated otherwise, our current
privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your
account.
Consent to Collection and Processing in the Pakistan, Finland & USA. By using
Paki Friendship, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and
processed in the US based Hosting Servers and Pakistan & Finland based Backup
Servers.
Defined Terms: "Us,"
"we," "our," “Paki Friendship”, "Platform" and "Paki
Friendship" mean the same as
http://www.isumbul.com. “Information” and “content” are used more generally
and interchangeably here unless otherwise limited by the context.