Privacy Policy

Technology Squared is fully committed to safeguarding your personal information and protecting any information you provide to it. This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") respects and protects the privacy of all visitors to TechnologySquared.com and intends to give you as much information and control as possible.

This Policy is part of Technology Squared’s Terms of Service. By using the Site, you agree to abide and be bound by this Privacy Policy, which may be modified or updated from time to time without notice. It is your responsibility to read the Policy carefully and review any changes that may have been made.

I. Personal Information

We may collect and process both information that you voluntarily communicate to us in order to access our Service (such as your email and password) and data related to your preferences and traffic (such as your IP address or the modules selected). You do not need to open an account and provide us with personally identifiable information to use our Service. Some personal information may be necessary to access some aspects of our Service. We will never collect or process personal data pertaining to, directly or indirectly, your race, your political, philosophical, or religious views, your health, or your sexual orientation.

You may provide information for your Public Profile to introduce yourself to other members of our Site, including the information listed above, or other information, but are under no obligation to do so. The information that you provide for your Public Profile will be publicly displayed without restriction on our Site. By providing such information for public display on TechnologySquared.com you recognize that it may be considered public domain and as such may be viewed, copied, or re-distributed by anybody who visits our Website. This public information includes without limitation your music preferences and any other information you choose to make available such as your own name, others’ names, images, song names and biographical information.

III. Email Communication

Except for administrative emails (like important changes to this privacy policy, for example) all other emails we send are under your control. You may register your wishes at the Account Settings section of TechnologySquared.com. We issue many types of email communication. The following is a non-comprehensive list: (1) we send a registration email when you first become a member (2) we send a regular opt-in newsletter (3) we provide an opt-in subscription to occasional emails for the announcement of new site features, special events, etc (4) we send invitations or “add friend requests” at the request of your friends who are users of our service; we may send one follow up email to such invitations if they do not generate a response the first time (5) we notify you of updates that have happened to your account, or your profile page (6) we may notify you when you receive messages from other members of the service. In order to make it easier for you to invite friends to use our services, we enable an easy ”address book import” from other online services (such as Hotmail, etc) – this address-book import will only function if you provide a username/password for the other online service, and we use this information to import your address book, but we do not save it. Furthermore, any user who receives unwanted invitations from our TechnologySquared.com service is able to block future unsolicited invitations.

IV. Cookies

We use cookies to help you use TechnologySquared.com but do not use cookies to capture personally identifiable information. We use “session” cookies to identify you as a valid user, to ensure that no one else can simultaneously log in and use your profile and to help personalize your TechnologySquared.com experience in conjunction with your profile. We also use persistent cookies that store an encrypted session id code in order to “recognize” you when you come to the site, without the need for you to log in.

Most browsers have cookies turned on as a default, but you can always disable cookies via your browser preferences. If you choose to disable cookies, however, you won't be able enjoy a significant proportion of Technology Squared's functionality. Please remember that cookies cannot read your hard drive or give any information collected to any third party. A cookie can only be read by the organization that sets it.

V. Log Files

Our log files capture the URLs of the pages visited, browser type, screen resolution, and IP addresses for the purpose of analyzing trends, tracking user movement, administering the site, and gathering broad demographic information for aggregate use. None of this information is linked to personally identifiable.

VIII. Sharing

We will share user profile and demographic information with our partners and advertisers, for purposes including, but not limited to, the delivery of targeted advertising. This information will not be linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

IX. Links

This Policy applies solely to information collected by the Site. The Site contains links to other sites. When you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to third-party web sites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, Technology Squared cannot be responsible for the actions of third parties or for their privacy practices. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website with which they interact.

X. Tell-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time email invitation to visit the site, and may send one follow-up invitation to friends that did not respond. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending these emails. The friend may contact us at privacy@technologysquared.com to request the removal of this information from our database.

XI. Security

Technology Squared uses industry-standard technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site to help ensure its security. We use our best efforts to prevent any interference with your personal data such as loss, diversion, intrusion, unauthorized divulgation, alteration, or destruction.

XII. Cancellation of Account

At any time you may request by email/ that your account be cancelled and that all associated personal information be deleted. Please note that in this event all your preferences will be lost.

XIII. Disclaimer

We believe in privacy and therefore will take all reasonable measures to ensure that your personally identifiable information remains private. However, in the event that we are forced to disclose personally identifiable information by law (i.e. by court order), we will make such a disclosure without being in violation of this Policy.

XIV. Business Transitions

If Technology Squared is acquired by another company or sells a portion of its assets to another company, it is likely that user information will be a part of the assets transferred. If as a result of such a business transition information is to be collected, used or disclosed in a manner or for a purpose different from that stated above, Technology Squared will endeavor to notify all users of such changes.

XV. Consent

By disclosing any information to Technology Squared through the website you consent to the collection, storage and use of such information by Technology Squared as set out in this Policy and the Terms of Service. If Technology Squared makes any changes to this Policy these changes will be detailed on this page in order to ensure that you are fully aware of what information is collected, how it is used and under what circumstances it will be disclosed. If you are concerned about how your information is collected, used or disclosed, you should periodically check back at this page. If you have any specific concerns not addressed in the Policy, please contact us privacy@technlogysquared.com.