PRIVACY POLICY

Shrock Media wants you to understand what information we collect, and how we use and share it. In this Privacy Policy, we explain how we collect, use, share, retain and transfer information. We also let you know your rights. We’ve also added links to resources where you can learn more about the privacy topics that interest you.

Personal Information We Collect

When you use our Site and Service, websites, apps, services, technologies, APIs, widgets, or any other products or features we offer (“Site” or the “Services”), you voluntarily share certain information (“Personal Information”).

When you submit Content to Shrock Media or register to use our Service, we may collect your name, e-mail address and e-mail preferences, and password for your account, among other things. We may also ask you to provide additional information on an optional basis in connection with setting up your account or your Content. If we offer the ability for you to also register or log in by using your log-in credentials from social networking websites, including Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. When you register in this way, we may collect Personal Information from the social networking websites that you have given us permission to collect or made publicly available. Each social networking site that allows log-in or registration utilizing its processes may collect information from you as well and may be considered a Third Party Site. The information Shrock Media obtains may depend on your privacy settings with the social networking website. When you submit Content to us, or purchase any materials, services, from Shrock Media, we may collect your name, phone number, e-mail address, mailing address, billing address, complete credit card information that enables us to receive your payment (however we do not retain your credit card number unless requested) and federal tax identification number or European Union VAT number as applicable. When you give us feedback, we may collect any information that is contained in your feedback. When you contact us by sending us an e-mail, fax, or letter, we collect your e-mail address, fax number, or mailing address, and any information contained in the e-mail, fax, or letter you send us.

As you use our Site and/or our Service, some Personal Information may also be collected passively, including your Internet protocol address, browser type, access time, mobile phone model, and telecom carrier. We may also store a small text file called a “Cookie” on your computer or phone to store certain information about your use of our Service. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer or phone until you delete them). We may collect and store information locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage and application data caches.

We may collect details of how you used our Service. We may share certain information with Google Analytics, for example. (Google’s privacy policy is available at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy).

Use of Information

We use your Personal Information to provide services to you, to respond to requests that you make, to personalize your experience on and using our Site and Services, to improve any (each and every) Service, and to better tailor the features, performance, and support of each Service. We also use your Personal Information when you submit Content to us to facilitate the purposes and the agreement of the Submission Guidelines.

We may use your Personal Information to send you electronic newsletters or promotional e-mails, unless you have requested not to receive such promotional communications from us. We may also use your Personal Information to send you Shrock Media communications, and you may opt out of these communications if you terminate your account.

We may create Anonymous Information records from Personal Information. We reserve the right to use and disclose Anonymous Information at our discretion. “Anonymous Information” means information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information.

Any feedback you provide will be governed by the relevant Terms.

Disclosure of Personal Information

Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy or the Terms, we do not intentionally trade, rent, or share your Personal Information with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so. If you submit Content to us, we may share your Personal Information with our Licensees.

We may provide your Personal Information to specified third parties for sending you promotional communications, including e-mails, relating to such third parties’ products, unless you have requested us not to receive promotional communications from such third parties.

We may provide your Personal Information to third party service providers who work on behalf of or with us to provide our Service. However, these service providers do not have any independent right to share this information (except pursuant to a legal requirement such as a subpoena or warrant).

If we charge of anything and collect credit card information, we may provide your credit card and related billing and payment information to third party service providers engaged on our behalf, including payment processors and/or credit agencies, for the purposes of checking credit, effecting payment, and servicing your accounts.

We may share some or all of your Personal Information with our Affiliates in which case we will undertake reasonable efforts to contractually require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

Information that we collect from you, including Personal Information, is considered a business asset. Accordingly, if we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, or if we are acquired, e.g., as a result of a transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Information may be disclosed or transferred to the third-party acquirer in connection with the transaction.

Law Enforcement Compliance

We may be required by law, or by law enforcement officers acting under the color of law, to record some or all of your communications on or through our Site and/or Service. We may, and you hereby authorize us to, disclose your Personal Information (including your account information) and your communications with us, if required by law or by law enforcement officers acting under the color of law, or if we believe in our sole discretion that disclosure is necessary to: (1) satisfy or comply with relevant laws, regulation or legal process; (2) respond to lawful requests, or to respond to subpoenas or warrants or court orders served on us including upon receipt of what we believe may be a valid subpoena, whether issued by a Court that has jurisdiction over Shrock Media or not; (3) to protect and defend ours, our Affiliates,’ other users,’ or your, rights, property or safety; and (4) to prevent or stop activity we consider to be illegal or unethical.

Controlling Your Personal Information

We offer you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information. When you receive promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further promotional communications from us and you may have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional e-mail you receive.

Despite your indicated e-mail preferences, we may send you administrative e-mails regarding our Site and/or Service, including, for example, purchase confirmation, account creation confirmation, and notices of material changes to our Terms or Privacy Policy.

You may change your email address and password for the service by editing it in your account page. You may request deletion of your Personal Information by us, but please note that we may be required (by law or otherwise) to keep this information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request, only after we have fulfilled such requirements). When we delete Personal Information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives or backups.

Child Safety and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

Shrock Media’s Site and Service is intended ONLY for adults over the age of 18. Shrock Media does not target its Site or Service to anyone under the age of 18. Shrock Media does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. 

IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE, PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS OUR SITE OR SERVICES AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER. IF SHROCK MEDIA LEARNS THAT PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION OF PERSONS LESS THAN 18 YEARS OF AGE HAS BEEN COLLECTED ON OR THROUGH SHROCK MEDIA, SHROCK MEDIA WILL TAKE THE APPROPRIATE STEPS TO DELETE THIS INFORMATION.

IF YOU ARE THE PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF 18 WHO HAS CREATED AN ACCOUNT OR USED SHROCK MEDIA’S SERVICE, PLEASE CONTACT SHROCK MEDIA AT support@shrockmedia.com TO HAVE THAT ACCOUNT TERMINATED AND INFORMATION DELETED.

Third Party Sites, Third Party Services, and Third Party Materials

Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy Policy do not apply to Third Party Sites, Third Party Services or Third Party Materials that have links or are provided through our Site and/or Service. Third party providers of such Third Party Sites, Third Party Services or Third Party Materials, may collect (via tracking technologies like Cookies or web beacons) and use Anonymous Information regarding your interaction with the Third Party Sites, Third Party services or Third Party Materials that they deliver and with which you interact.

Security

We make reasonable efforts to protect your Personal information, but no company, including us, can fully eliminate security risks connected to handling information on the internet. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect any personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Privacy Policy Updates

This Privacy Policy may be amended at any time in accordance with the section regarding updates in the Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”) and our Content Submission Guidelines.