Privacy policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to the taagme.com and Auswel Pty LTD and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Auswel Pty LTD include taagme.com and TaagMe. The TaagMe website is a Social Networking, Blog, E-Commerce and Career/Job Board website in which it offers creative people the opportunity to present their talents by joining the community website and establishing a profile with details of themselves as well as galleries to display their talents, images, productions or products (Members can generate an income by selling their products, services, images, productions or talents). In addition to that, members can create work opportunities for other people to participate through the career module. By using the TaagMe website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
TaagMe may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name. If you purchase TaagMe’s products and services, PayPal will collect your billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. PayPal may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. PayPal may charge a processing fee and you are responsible for any related expenses or fees paid to PayPal.
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by TaagMe. 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 quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the TaagMe website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through TaagMe’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
TaagMe encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from TaagMe so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. TaagMe is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the TaagMe website.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
TaagMe collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
TaagMe may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from TaagMe and its affiliates. TaagMe may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
TaagMe does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
TaagMe may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. TaagMe may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to TaagMe, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
TaagMe may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within TaagMe, in order to determine what TaagMe services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within TaagMe to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
TaagMe will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on TaagMe or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of TaagMe; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of TaagMe, or the public.
USE OF COOKIES
The TaagMe website may use “cookies” to help you personalize 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 personalize TaagMe pages, or register with TaagMe site or services, a cookie helps TaagMe 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 TaagMe website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the TaagMe features that you customized.
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 TaagMe services or websites you visit.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
TaagMe secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers.
Access by you to your account is available through a password and/or unique user name selected by you. This password is encrypted. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone, that you change your password often using a combination of letters and numbers, and that you ensure you use a secure web browser. We cannot be held accountable for activities that results from your own neglect to safeguard the secrecy of your password and user name. If you share a computer with anyone, you should always log out of your account after you are finished, in order to prevent access to your information from subsequent users of that computer. Please notify us as soon as possible if your user name or password is compromised.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (b) the security, integrity and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Website cannot be guaranteed and we shall have no liability to you or any third party for loss, misuse, disclosure or alteration of such information; and (c) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party.
In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personally identifiable information in our control may have been compromised, we will notify you as promptly as possible under the circumstances. To the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail and you consent to our use of email as a means of such notification.
PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION
www.taagme.com keeps track of non-personally identifiable information such as the IP address of the User’s computer, time of access, browser type and files downloaded to gather usage statistics for its web site. IP addresses are not associated with other information about a user, but only indicate general visitor navigation patterns. www.taagme.com website has embedded tags that allow some third party entities such as Quantcast, Google Analytics, and/or similar services to collect non-personally identifiable usage statistics.
SUBMISSION AND PROCESSING OF INFORMATION
When you subscribe or sign up to the Website, www.taagme.com may ask you for certain personally identifiable information. This personally identifiable information may include information that can be used to identify or contact you, such as your name and email address. You must agree to the Terms of Service of this website before making any comments or leaving any reviews on any posting.
USER POSTINGS
Except as otherwise expressly described in this Privacy Policy, this policy only addresses the use and disclosure of Personal Information and other information we collect from you. In the course of your use of the Website, including when you create a profile on the Website, you may elect to post or otherwise disclose information about yourself and others, which may include Personal Information or other personally identifiable information. You may also elect to communicate with others or upload content such as photographs. Such postings are governed by our Terms of Service. Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on publicly-viewable web pages, that information will be publicly available and can be collected or used by others. Such postings may also appear on other websites or when searches are executed on the subject of your posting.
Furthermore, although www.taagme.com restricts access to portions of the Website to members of the Service, since the Service is offered through and accessible through a number of other websites in addition to the Website, any information that you post to the Website for access by members of the Website may be searchable and available to users of the Service who access it via different websites from the Website. You may also receive unsolicited messages from other parties as a result of such disclosure. Such activities are beyond the control of Www.taagme.com and this Privacy Policy. You should therefore exercise discretion and extreme caution when disclosing any Personal Information or other information when using the Website or the Service.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
The Website may contain links to other websites. www.taagme.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. It is the User’s responsibility to review the privacy policies at those websites to confirm that they are acceptable prior to use. A link does not constitute an endorsement of the content, viewpoint or accuracy of such websites.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
If you have used the Website before, it is possible that www.taagme.com has data about you already and it is being used to contact you about offers, events, items or related activities. If you are an existing customer, www.taagme.com will continue to keep you informed unless you revoke your consent via the procedures set forth below. If you are a new user, www.taagme.com will give you the choice (for example, once you have subscribed or signed up) whether or not you want to receive emails regarding future offers, events and new services or related activities. www.taagme.com will not bombard you with emails, but Www.taagme.com, with your consent, would like to keep you informed of any developments on the Website.
If you have consented to receive such information, you may always revoke that consent at any time by deleting your account.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Transmission of data and information via the Website is not a secure or encrypted transmission method for sending your Personal Information, unless otherwise indicated on the Website. Accordingly, your attention is drawn to the fact that any information and personal data carried over the Internet is not secure. Personal Information may be intercepted, lost, redirected, corrupted, changed and accessed by other people.
Nevertheless, www.taagme.com is committed to using all reasonable efforts to protect Personal Information collected through the Website against unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Consequently, we limit employees’ access to Personal Information collected through the Website to only those employees who need access to the information in the performance of their official duties.
In addition, we set strict security standards to prevent any unauthorized access to your Personal Information once we have received it and wherever possible we will use adequate security software and working procedures to ensure the security of your personal data. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain accuracy, and ensure proper use of Personal Information, we have employed physical, electronic, and managerial processes to safeguard and secure the Personal Information we collect online. These measures include limiting the number of people who have physical access to www.taagme.com database servers, as well as electronic security systems and password protections which guard against unauthorized access.
Data in our Logs. When you use TaagMe or go to a webpage or use an app that has TaagMe features (like our “Share It” button), our system automatically records that information (“data in our logs”) including information that your internet browser sends whenever you search a website or your mobile application sends when you’re using it going to and from different applications. The data in our logs may also include your IP address, the address of the most recent web pages you’ve visited that had TaagMe features, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, how you used TaagMe, and cookie data.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your Personal Information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries and our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries. We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties if you have consented to such disclosure. In addition, we may disclose or provide access to your Personal Information to third parties without your consent:
if we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your Personal Information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
if www.taagme.com or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case Personal Information held by it about its customers will, in most instances, be one of the transferred assets;
if we ask a third party to carry out data analysis, cleansing and/or market research on our behalf;
for the purpose of validating the identity of the user and/or conducting background checks; or
if we have a good faith belief that we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation (such as in connection with a law enforcement request, judicial proceeding, court order or legal process), or in order to enforce or apply our policy or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Www.taagme.com, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY
It is important to Www.taagme.com that parents and guardians have control over what information is collected from their children online and how such information is or may be used. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”) imposes restrictions on commercial websites, including ours. It is our policy to be compliant with the requirements of COPPA and not to solicit or collect information about or from children age 13 and under.
Beyond the requirements of COPPA, we require that individuals be age 18 or over to register as a member of the Service and thus it is our policy not to solicit or collect information about or from anyone under the age of 18. Users are cautioned, however, that absent a clear indication an online communication has been submitted by a person under age 18, the collection of Personal Information submitted to the Website will be treated as though it was submitted by an adult, and may, unless exempted from access by federal or state law, be subject to public access.
In the event that www.taagme.com receives an online communication clearly indicating that it has been submitted by a person under the age of 18, under no circumstances will any Personal Information be published on the Website, be used for a purpose not intended by its sender or shared with third parties.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND TRANSFERS OF OWNERSHIP
You agree that if we transfer ownership or management of the Website or Www.taagme.com to a third party we may also transfer your Personal Information and any other data or information you have provided to us to such third party, provided such third party agrees to observe this Privacy Policy. Www.taagme.com may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to accurately reflect how we gather and manage User information.
We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on the Website and, where appropriate and practicable, notify you by e-mail. All changes to the Privacy Policy will be effective upon posting to the Website. Please be sure to regularly check our Privacy Policy before using the Website. Continued use of the Website shall indicate your acceptance of any changes to this Privacy Policy.
DISCLAIMER
The information provided in this Privacy Policy should not be construed as giving business, legal or other advice, or warranting as fail proof the integrity and security of information provided through this Website. While all reasonable attempts are made to provide accurate, current and reliable information, Www.taagme.com recognizes the possibility of human and/or mechanical error and the possibility that Users of the Site and other third parties may provide and/or publish information, graphics and images on the Site that are false, misleading, or inaccurate.
Therefore, Www.taagme.com makes no representations as to the accuracy, completeness, currency or suitability of the information provided on this Website, and denies any expressed or implied warranty as to the same. For further disclaimers and limitations of liability of Www.taagme.com regarding your use of the Website and Service, see its Terms of Service.
NON-PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION
We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider’s utilized and other similar information.
WEB BROWSER COOKIES
Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing.
These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.
ADVERTISING
Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non personal identification information about you or others who use your computer.
This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. Since this is an informational blog, humor blog, parody website you have the opportunity to place ads or advertisements with us, please contact our support team for more information.
CHOICE/OPT-OUT
If we ever send you information by email concerning new products, services or information that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with an email address by which you may request no further notices.
COMPLIANCE WITH CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT
www.taagme.com understands Google along with all other web browsers must adhere to any and all laws, of any and all States with the United States and abroad when anyone under the age of 18 years old is involved. Www.taagme.com is law compliant. Www.taagme.com does not hire children to perform any work on this web property or for the company itself. Children are not allowed to peruse, join, read, write or co-join this website.
Children is defined as a person under the age of 18 years age, no matter if they are emancipated or not, or they are the ward of court jurisdictions. Children are not allowed to contract, therefore, may not purchase services and or products from www.taagme.com.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
www.taagme.com has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.
You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and Terms of Service. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
TaagMe will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. TaagMe encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how TaagMe is protecting your information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
TaagMe welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that TaagMe has not adhered to this Statement, please contact TaagMe at our website.
Effective as of 1st December 2014