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Privacy Policy

PictureDots.com. ("PictureDots") recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use www.picturedots.com or other web sites owned or operated by PictureDots (the "Picturedots Sites") (collectively or individually "Users") value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the PictureDots Sites. PictureDots provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the PictureDots Sites.

This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and is subject to the PictureDots Terms of Service. Your use of the PictureDots Sites and any personal information you provide on the PictureDots Sites remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Service.

Please note that any video, image, or other content posted at the direction of Users onto the PictureDots Sites becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Notice.

The Information PictureDots Collects

The Way PictureDots Uses Information

When PictureDots Discloses Information

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the PictureDots Sites, in which case PictureDots may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. Please note that media files uploaded by Users to the PictureDots Sites cannot be removed and remain subject to our Terms of Service.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Please contact PictureDots with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices using this contact form.

Our Commitment To Data Security

PictureDots uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to PictureDots and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, PictureDots makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

If PictureDots learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. PictureDots may post a notice on the PictureDots Sites if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us using this contact form.

Our Commitment To Childrens' Privacy

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the PictureDots Sites at any time or in any manner, unless under continual consent and supervision of a consenting parent or legal guardian. If PictureDots learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on the PictureDots Sites without verified parental consent, then PictureDots will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

Special Note to International Users

The PictureDots Sites are hosted in the United States and are intended for and directed to Users in the United States. If you are a User accessing the PictureDots Sites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the PictureDots Sites, which are governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Notice, and our Terms of Service, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.

In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy

In the event that PictureDots is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

Changes and updates to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the PictureDots Sites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.

For revisions to this Privacy Notice that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the personal information you have already provided to us, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.

Date Last Modified:
This Privacy Notice was last modified October 12, 2006.

Contact Information:
Please contact PictureDots with any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice using this contact form.





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