This policy explains how CoSocial.com ("CoSocial", "we", or "us") may collect and use your information.
The CoSocial.com website is meant to be used by people who want to consolidate access to all of their communication activities to a single point of access. In order to use CoSocial.com, you will have to create a user name and registration profile that includes personal information, such as your name, e-mail address and birth date.
After you have created your username and profile, you can choose to provide us with user names and passwords that would allow us to access, retrieve and display information from certain social networking and communication services that you may use, such as Facebook, MySpace, Linked In, Gmail, etc. We will use your access information to acquire and display information from and post information to those services that you allow us to access. It will be up to you to decide which services you want to access through CoSocial.
Information you postCoSocial will also provide a posting board in which you may post information. Your posts may include your personal information, your photographs, your comments and ideas, etc. All such posts are subject to our Terms of Use. These posts will be sent on your behalf to the social networking sites you have elected to update through CoSocial.com. You can choose to make your posts to CoSocial.com public, keep your posts private, or open your posts to just your group of friends on CoSocial.com, but this choice will only apply to the posting board at CoSocial.com. Anything that we post for you to one of your social networking sites will be subject to that site's privacy policy and the data sharing settings you have in place on that site. Please do not post any information that you do not want us or others to see. Note that we do not allow others to see the e-mail that you access through CoSocial.com.
Information provided by your web browserIn addition to the information that you provide when using our site, we may also record information that your web browser routinely shares with websites. This may include your browser type, browser language, Internet Protocol address, software and hardware attributes, the date and time of your visit, the geographical location of the Internet Protocol address, and the pages that you visit. This will generally be anonymous data that we collect on an aggregate basis. We will not try to associate anonymous data with your personally identifiable data.
As is commonly done on websites, we may use cookies and similar technology to keep track of our users. A "cookie" is a small text file containing alphanumeric characters that is stored on your computer and uniquely identifies your browser. We use session cookies that last only during your visit to help keep you logged in as you navigate through our site. We also use persistent cookies that remain on your computer between visits so that when you return to our site we can remember who you are and your preferences.
You can manage these cookies. For example, you can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you disable cookies, however, you will essentially be unable to use our site.
We may make available applications that you can purchase or, in some cases, download for free. These applications may be created by users or companies not associated with CoSocial.com. You may be given the chance to determine the information given to these applications. Any information that you provide to the application will be governed by terms of use and privacy policies of the creator of the application and not by CoSocial.com's privacy policy or terms of use.
We will generally use the information that we collect to provide requested services, monitor and analyze visitor activity on our website, provide aggregate user data and trends to certain parties, and improve the features, functionality and operation of our website.
Your contact informationWhen you provide us with your name and e-mail address, we will only use that information to provide services related to this website. For example, when you first sign up, we will send you an e-mail confirming your registration. If you forget your user name or password, we will send you an e-mail to help you log on. We do not share your name and e-mail address with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
Your friends’ e-mail addressesWe may allow you to send an invitation from CoSocial.com to other people that you think may be interested in our services. If you provide us with someone’s e-mail address, we will only use that e-mail address to send an invitation and will delete the e-mail and email address from our database once the invitation has been sent. Payment for services
For those who purchase premium services or applications through our site, we will require payment through PayPal or some other payment service, and the information you provide to the payment service will be subject to the payment service’s terms of use and privacy policies. We will not retain any information for longer than reasonably necessary to facilitate the transaction through the payment service.
Information shared with our business partnersWe may use business partners to help us operate our website or provide other on-line services. For example, we may hire a company to host our website and store our data. When we use business partners who may have access to our data, it will be on terms that prohibit them from using the data for unrelated purposes or for their own marketing.
Statistical analyses of dataWe will use computer software to analyze the data that is processed through our website to gather statistical information about the data on an anonymous, aggregate basis. We may license, sell or otherwise share this aggregate information with others, but the information will not be individually identifiable. We also reserve the right to license or sell aggregate information about the visitors to our website, but this information also will not be individually identifiable.
Business operations, law enforcement and legal actionsWe may release your information without prior notice when we believe it is appropriate to prevent fraud; to comply with law or to cooperate with law enforcement activity or other governmental request; to respond to subpoenas, court orders or administrative agency requests for information; to enforce our policies; and to protect the rights, property and safety of our business and of others. If we ever sell the company, division or business unit that operates this site, we may also transfer the information we have collected in connection with such sale or merger.
We will use the information we collect to continuously improve our business and our website development. Your comments and suggestions about our website development are always appreciated. Please contact us if you have any comments or suggestions.
This site may contain links to other websites not affiliated with CoSocial.com. Also, you may have come to this website from a website that is not operated by CoSocial. We are not responsible for the operation of these other sites or the information that they collect from their visitors. If you would like to know how another site collects and uses your information, please review its privacy policy.
CoSocial also accumulates and displays information from other sites to which you have provided us access. We are not responsible for the information gathered from those sites. We are also not responsible for the operation of the other sites or the information that they collect from their visitors. If you would like to know how these sites collect and use your information, please review their privacy policy.
The information you provide us isn't set in stone. You can edit or even delete your profile with us at any time by visiting the applicable pages. You may also limit, remove or add access to various sites at any time, or edit your list of friends. However, please note that some personal information, primarily your contact information, may remain in our records to the extent necessary to protect our legal or business interests.
We use commercially reasonable means to protect the integrity of our website and limit access to your personally identifiable information. To the extent that our contractors have access to your information, we require them to also protect the data. However, there is always some risk that someone could find a way to improperly access data. Also, you have a responsibility to protect your user ID and password to prevent others from being able to access the site in your name. We cannot ensure and do not warrant the security and privacy of any information that you transmit to us.
We use the information that we collect about you only for the purposes for which it is collected and consistent with this policy. If you post information on CoSocial.com, we normally keep this information in active data files for two weeks, at which point it will be automatically deleted from our system. Anonymous, aggregate information that we collect or generate will be kept in active data files for up to two years. Information collected in connection with your registration profile will be retained for a longer period as a record of our business activities.
Our business and the laws that regulate us change from time to time, and we reserve the right to change this policy. If we do change this policy, we will post the revised version on this site. If we propose to change our policy in a way that would permit us to make additional uses of information that we had previously collected about you, we will provide you with a meaningful way to opt out of those additional uses.
Our site is intended for people age 13 or older. If you are under the age of 13, you may not register or use our site.
Please contact us and let us know if you have any questions, comments or complaints about our policies or practices.