This Privacy Policy is effective as of Nov 25, 2007.

Privacy Policy

By using the gigafloat.com web site (the "Site"), a service (the "Service") of GigaFloat ("GigaFloat"), you accept the following privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) in addition to the GigaFloat's Terms of Service, which governs the use of the Service.

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. Each version will apply to information collected while it was in place. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.

By accepting this Privacy Policy, you are consenting to our ways of processing of your information. "Processing" means using cookies on a computer or using or touching information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, using, storing, deleting, combining and disclosing information. All such activities will take place in the United States. If you reside outside the United States your personally identifiable information will be transferred to the U.S., and processed and stored under the U.S. privacy standards. By visiting our Site and providing information to us, you consent to such transfer to, and processing in, the US.

You must be 13 years or older to use this site. If you are at an age between 13 and 18, we suggest you to inform your parents or guardians about your usage of the Site.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@gigafloat.com.

Information Collection

If you would like to use member only portion of the Site, you need to become a registered user, and to submit certain personally identifiable information to GigaFloat. Personally identifiable information that we collect may include your name, username, password, email address, city, time zone, telephone number, IP address, and other information that you decide to provide, or that you decide to put in your profile.

As a member, you may choose to provide additional information in the profile section or other sections, including but not limited to your bio, your location, your personal web site, etc. You may choose to upload your photo. Providing additional information is entirely optional. This enables you to present yourself to the world and connect with new friends and opportunities in the Site. Any information you entered in the Site will be stored so that it can be displayed back to you and your audience.

If contact us by email, we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence. We may use your email address and any information in your message to reply to you.

Use of Information

We may use your contact information to communicate with you, provide you with updates about the Site, maintainence notice, new products and services, including but not limited to our Service. If you no longer wish to receive such information from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications.

In order to provide the Service for free or at low costs, the Site may include relevant advertising and related links based on the IP address, content, and other information related to your use of the Site.

For certain future services, we may also request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from our other services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our Services.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who posted messages, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such aggregated information can not identify you individually.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that a website can transfer to your computer's hard disk through your browser. Like many other websites, we use cookies to collect website usage data and to improve the Site function and our service. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie enables some features of the Site and our Service and is deleted from your computer when you disconnect from or leave the Site. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. It may be used by the browser on your subsequent visits to the Site. You can remove persistent cookies by following your browser's help directions. However, some of the Site's features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

Log Data

Whenever you visit the Site, the Site record information that your browser sends the Site ("Log Data" ). This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, the domain from which you are visiting, the pages you visit, the search terms you use, and the advertisements you clicked. The Log Data allows us to monitor the use of the Site and of our Service, and to operate the Site.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

GigaFloat must cooperate with government and law enforcement officials or private parties in order to comply with the law. In our sole discretion, we may disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if we believe it is necessary or appropriate to respond to any legal processes or claims, to protect the property and rights of GigaFloat or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or an individual, to prevent or stop any illegal or unethical activity, or to comply with the law.

GigaFloat may use trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services, including, but not limited to, hosting and maintenance, customer relationship, database management and storage, marketing, system development, and consulting. We will share your personally identifiable information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only under contracts requiring such third parties to maintain the privacy and security of your data.

In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, GigaFloat may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your personally identifiable information. You may choose to opt out of any such transfer if the new organization's privacy policy is materially different from this Privacy Policy.

If there are third party services that you desire, we will require your consent in order to share your personal identifiable information with the third party.

Other Websites

This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by GigaFloat. The Site may contain links to other websites either placed by us or by the Site's users. The fact that the Site links to a website is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information from you. These other sites may have different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the personally identifiable information you submit to them. It is your responsibility to check these other sites' rules before submit your personal identifiable information to them.