AppGrooves, Corp.
SearchMan Privacy Policy
Last updated: 05/29/12
The SearchMan
service (the “Service”) located at http://SearchMan.com/
and https://SearchMan.com/ (collectively, the “Site”) is operated by AppGrooves, Corp. AppGrooves Corp. is committed to respecting
and protecting your privacy. To that
end, we have prepared this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to describe our
information gathering and dissemination practices and our data protection practices
for the Service; it does not apply to other online or offline AppGrooves sites,
products or services. The terms
“AppGrooves,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to AppGrooves and its affiliates. The
terms “you,” “your,” and “yours” refer to the user utilizing the Service or the
Site. This Privacy Policy is
incorporated into and subject to the SearchMan Terms of Service located at http://SearchMan.com/s/doc/tos.html (the “TOS”), and
capitalized terms used but not defined in this Privacy Policy are defined in
the TOS.
Collection of Information
Here's what we collect from you when you use the
Service:
· User-Provided Information:
When you use or subscribe for the Service, we may ask you to provide certain
information, including information that is considered "personally
identifiable information” (that is, information that would allow us to directly
identify you, such as your name, your company name, and email address). This
information is necessary to provide our Service for your app and improve the
SEO of your app in the App Store. If you
elect to subscribe to the full functionality and features of the Service, you
will be prompted to provide financial information, including credit card and
other billing information, which will be passed directly to a secure third
party credit card payment processing service to process and charge your monthly
subscription fee. The credit card
payment processor will not share your financial information with us and we will
not store any such information on our servers. We will not ask for more information than is
necessary to operate the Service.
· "Automatically
Collected" Information: When you
use the Site or Service we may automatically record certain information about
your use from your web browser such as your IP address. This information is
used for our internal research purposes, to accommodate the Site to our users’
preferences and needs.
· "Cookies"
Information: One form of
"automatically collected" information we record is information stored
by "cookies." When you use the Service, we may send one or more
cookies to your computer. We use both "session" and
"persistent" cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track various
types of information. A session cookie is one that disappears after you close
your browser. While a persistent cookie remains after you close your browser
(and may be used by your browser when you later return to the Service),
persistent cookies generally can be removed. You can review the appropriate
"Help" file in your Web browser or your mobile device to learn the
proper way to modify your cookie settings. We will use the information
collected to improve user experience on the Site by customizing features to our
users’ preferences.
Information Use
AppGrooves may use your information for several
general purposes:
· to provide you with Service
information,
· to enable your use of the
Service,
· to support the Service
offered on the Site,
· to contact you for feedback
about the Service,
· to conduct research about
AppGrooves or our Service,
· to notify you of technical
updates or changes in policy, or
· to contact you for marketing
and promotional purposes (unless you have opted out of receiving these types of
communications),
· to import other data from
other services (if you have elected to have our dashboard display the available
analytics information for your app from the App Store).
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We will not sell or rent your personally
identifiable information to third parties except as described in this Privacy
Policy. We may disclose your personally identifiable information to other
companies or people under any of the following circumstances:
· when we have your consent to
share the information.
· if sharing the information is
reasonably necessary to provide the Service (if your information is shared with
our third party service providers, we will only provide the information
reasonably needed to deliver the service, and ask that such companies do not
use your information for any other purpose).
· to keep you up to date on the
latest product announcements, software updates, special offers, or other
information we think you would like to hear about either from us or from our
business partners (unless you have opted out of receiving these types of
communications).
· if we believe in good faith
that we are required to do so by law, in connection with litigation, to prevent
a crime, or to protect personal safety, the public, or the Site.
· in connection with a sale or
merger with another entity or if AppGrooves should ever file for bankruptcy or
have its assets sold to another entity.
AppGrooves may also share non-personally
identifiable information with third parties.
This type of information includes login credentials of other services,
keywords of your apps and competitor apps of your apps, which we will use and
disclose for the same reasons set forth above and for the following additional
purposes: to import data from other
services and to provide better analysis and suggestions for your App Store SEO.
Choice
You may also decline to share certain information with
AppGrooves, in which case AppGrooves may not be able to provide to you some of
the features and functionality found on the Service. You may update, correct, or delete your
profile information and preferences at any time by editing your profile on the
Site. Please note that while your
changes are reflected promptly in active user databases, we may retain all
information you submit for a variety of purposes, including backups and
archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, and analytics. You may also modify the cookie settings on
your Web browser or mobile device to limit the information you share with us
through certain automated collection devices. You are
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your account information at all
times.
Access
You may correct, amend, or delete your personally
identifiable information by editing your profile on the Site or emailing us at appseo@appgrooves.com.
If you have any questions or require more information from us regarding the
information we collect, maintain, use and/or disclose you may contact us at the
address below or send a request to appseo@appgrooves.com.
Security
We make efforts to protect personally identifiable
information in our possession from loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration,
unauthorized access, and destruction. AppGrooves takes reasonable precautions
to safeguard the confidentiality of personally identifiable information, including
using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software in certain cases, which encrypts
certain of the information you input. While we strive to protect your
personally identifiable information, we cannot ensure the security of the
information you transmit to us in all cases and certain unauthorized third
parties may gain access to and misuse your information despite our security
efforts.
The servers in which we store information are
primarily located in the United States, but in times of emergency or for other
business reasons, from time to time such information may be sent by us or our
service providers to servers outside of the United States.
Third Party Sites
The Site may contain links to other sites or
software that can be down loaded. AppGrooves is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites and software. We encourage our users to be aware
when leaving the Site to read the privacy statements of each site that collects
personally identifiable information and the privacy policies that apply to such
third party software.
Your Consent to this Privacy Policy
By using this Site or the Service, you agree to
this Privacy Policy, including our collection, use, storage and transfer of
information as described in this Privacy Policy. We may occasionally update or
modify this Privacy Policy, at our sole discretion. The date of the most recent
update of this document will always be displayed at the beginning of this page.
If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on the Site located
at http://SearchMan.com/. If we decide to use personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was
collected, we will notify users via email (if an email address has been
provided) or display a notice on the Site.
We encourage you to periodically review this
Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personally
identifiable information we collect. Your continued use of this Site or the
Service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
Contacting AppGrooves
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns
about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
AppGrooves, Corp.
444 Castro St, Suite 1200
Mountain View, CA 94041