Privacy Policy
AskMe.Startups.com ("AskMe.Startups.com") is a service offered by Startups Network, Inc. By using the AskMe.Startups.com service you agree to be bound by the following Privacy Policy. AskMe.Startups.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice, and your continued use of AskMe.Startups.com constitutes your consent to such changes.
Summary
AskMe.Startups.com respects each individual's right to personal privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how AskMe.Startups.com will collect, use and safeguard any personal information you provide. We will collect and use information only in the ways disclosed in this statement. This policy will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our users' needs, so please refer back to it periodically. You will always find the latest version posted here.
Security
AskMe.Startups.com has implemented processes intended to protect user information and maintain security of data. Each account holder is assigned a unique user name and password, which is required to access their account. It is your responsibility to protect the security of this login information. We have attempted to protect AskMe.Startups.com's servers by locating them in areas with security procedures, use of firewalls and implementing other generally available security technologies. These safeguards help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of data, but no guarantee can be made that you information and data will be secure from intrusions and unauthorized release to 3rd parties.
Account Information
When you create a AskMe.Startups.com account, you provide some personal information, such as your name, username, password, and email address. Some of this information, for example, your name and username, is listed publicly on the AskMe.Startups.com service, including on your profile page and in search results. AskMe.Startups.com will also collect email addresses from those who contact us via email. The account information we collect is not distributed or sold to a 3rd party. It is used primarily to communicate with you about your AskMe.Startups.com account, and where needed as part of certain AskMe.Startups.com features. You may update your account information at any time. AskMe.Startups.com does not collect information from anonymous users of the AskMe.Startups.com service.
Application Data
The AskMe.Startups.com service is primarily designed to help you create a customized box and receive answers and comments. Most of the information you provide to AskMe.Startups.com is information you are asking AskMe.Startups.com to make public. Your questions and comments may be broadly and instantly disseminated. You should be careful about all information that will be made public by AskMe.Startups.com. When you submit information, you are transferring such information into the United States and you hereby consent to such transfer. Such use of the information by AskMe.Startups.com, or other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with AskMe.Startups.com, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the AskMe.Startups.com service.
Disclaimer
However, any information collected by AskMe.Startups.com may be shared if it is necessary to investigate, prevent or prosecute illegal activities, suspected fraud, violations to the Terms and Conditions, or as otherwise required by law or a valid government request (including, but not limited to, search warrants, subpoenas or court orders). AskMe.Startups.com may also share information if it is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, AskMe.Startups.com will notify you before information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. AskMe.Startups.com reserves the right to use and disclose any information collected that is not in personally identifiable form.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small text file containing a unique identifier that our web server sends to a user's browser, and may be stored on a user's hard drive. Cookies are required to use AskMe.Startups.com service. If you have your browser set to reject cookies, your use of the AskMe.Startups.com service is likely to be interrupted. The cookies we use are not permanent.
Third-party Websites
AskMe.Startups.com is not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from the AskMe.Startups.com website, nor the information or content contained therein. When you use a link from the AskMe.Startups.com website/service to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to the AskMe.Startups.com website, is subject to that website's own rules and policies.
Your Replies Are Publicly Viewable Data
Your replies to questions submitted via AskMe.Startups.com will be published to other websites. You are responsible for what gets published. Whatever you enter into the AskMe.Startups.com reply box will be published and could be publicly viewable immediately upon your clicking the submit button.
Changes
AskMe.Startups.com reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If material changes are made to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a prominent notice on the AskMe.Startups.com website home page.
Compliance with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Startups Network, Inc. does not target its offering toward, and does not knowingly collect any personal information from, users under thirteen (13) years of age.
Terms of Use
Your use of the AskMe.Startups.com service is governed by our Terms and Conditions, which contains disclaimers, limitations of liability and a choice of Florida law and jurisdiction.