Data Privacy
We have created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to data privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to information that you provide or we collect using on this SMAudience site and in the process of providing the Services to our clients.
Information Collected on Usage
We collect usage and traffic information when you visit our Web site, use or interact with SMAudience Services.
Usage Information could include general click stream behavior such as Web pages viewed (including the URL addresses of such pages), navigation from page to page through the site, time spent on each page, and items that you click or select. This also includes digital content that you have viewed or may have shown some interest.
This usage data is used to understand your preference, and tailor a better user experience for ours and our Clients’ sites.
Information Collected Upon Registration
If you desire to have access to certain paid or members only sections of the Site, you may be required to become a registered user, and to submit certain personally identifiable information to SMAudience. This happens in a number of instances, such as when you sign up for paid Services, or if you desire to receive marketing materials and information. Personally identifiable information that we may collect in such instances may include your IP address, email address, password, social media platform id’s needed to operate the SMAudience Service, as well as other information that you decide to provide to us.
Usage and Visit Data
Log files
SMAudience and our technology logs IP addresses for system administration purposes. This information is used to diagnose server problems, monitor traffic patterns, analyze trends, administer the website, and identify the most used areas of the website.
SMAudience logs the activity of Registered Users via the web site. This information will be used to provide a better user experience, including customized contents for you. SMAudience reserves the right to share the aggregate activity logs with third parties; however, no personally identifiable information shall be released.
Cookies
We use cookies to make your interactions with digital media and websites easy and helpful. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser which enable the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser.
These cookies are used to help us to remember or understand your preferences based on site activities. This in turn, enables us to provide you with improved services.
When you visit our website or digital properties of our clients using our services, our servers send a cookie to your device. This is a pixel embedded by our content and in online advertising. Advertising content is served by ad serving platforms and ad exchanges technologies.
We may also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about consumer preferences, product interests, site traffic so that we can offer a better site experience in the future. Our services analyzes the information collected from a website, ours or our Customers’, in order to create segments of customers and to combine these segments into audiences. Our Clients may use this to enhance their understanding of their clients, or to enrich the marketing capabilities.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. However, if you choose to turn off cookies, our site and some of its features may not function properly
Links
In those instances where SMAudience contains links to other websites, SMAudience is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. SMAudience encourages its members to read the privacy policies of all websites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by SMAudience.
Data sharing
Should SMAudience share anonymous data or aggregated profile information with our clients, such information will not be linked to SMAudience information that identifies individual users. We do not control our Customers’ use of the data we shared with them. Their use of the information will be governed by their data privacy policies.
What data we collect
We collect information about the site visits and content consumption data. These include Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, web browser (such as browser type and browser language), and the actions you may have taken on our or our Client’s websites (that uses our technology).
This data is anonymous and non PII data (Personally Identifiable Information).
This data cannot be used to discover individual’s identity such as their name, social security number, date and place of birth, bio-metric records etc
Disclosures for Legal Purposes
SMAudience may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to
a) comply with a legal obligation,
b) protect and defend the rights or property of SMAudience,
c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Services or the public, or
d) protect against legal liability
Policy Updates
This Agreement was last updated on 1st June 2018. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. You are advised to consult this policy regularly for any changes.