Last revision on march 13th 2009
Transparent Spaces takes your privacy very seriously. By using or accessing Transparent Spaces's services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information provided by you.We collect your personal information, such as your name and email address, when you register at Transparent Spaces and the information you've uploaded and chosen to share. This information is used when you set up your Transparent Spaces account and specify what information and online social network profiles you choose to share with your friends and others. We are not responsible for the information you provide on your online social network platforms.
Information which is collected automatically. Transparent Spaces receives and stores information which is transmitted automatically from your computer when you browse the internet and use Transparent Spaces. This information includes information from cookies, your IP address (this is automatically provided by your computer) and browser type.
We may use the information collected automatically, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to gather statistics about the number of people who use Transparent Spaces to improve Transparent Spaces for our users.
We may also share this information with third parties to help us improve Transparent Spaces for our users. We will display the personal information you provide in your Transparent Spaces account according to your preferences. We will use your email address to contact you once in a while and may also use it for security reasons to confirm that you are who you say you are.
Research partners of Transparent Spaces are mentioned on the website. Transparent Spaces may transfer information about your use of Transparent Spaces, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to our research partners. This information may be used for non-commercial research only.
We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors,service agencies and research partners that we may engage to assist us in providing our services to you. Such third party entities will be obligated to use your personally identifiable information solely to provide the services to us or for non-commercial research purposes.
We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or to protect the rights and property of TransparentSpaces.org, its affiliates or the public. We may also co-operate with law enforcement agencies in any official investigation and we may disclose your personally identifiable information to the relevant agency or authority in doing so.
We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of TransparentSpaces, such as acquisition by or merger with another company. If an acquiring company should plan to materially change this privacy policy, we will notify you beforehand.
Your Transparent Spaces account information will only be shared with people with whom you have specifically agreed to share such information. You specify who can view certain personal information, such as email addresses and phone numbers in your Transparent Spaces account. You can view, delete, and modify your Transparent Spaces account and view and delete your Transparent Spaces friends (friends are not supported yet) at any time.
You always have the option to cancel your membership at any time. If you are a member and no longer wish to participate in Transparent Spaces you can sign in to the site and click on the My Account at the top of the page; then select cancel membership and follow the simple instructions.
Transparent Spaces aggregates data from online social networks. We are NOT responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Our website allows you to connect to external social networks, using your information on those networks for your Transparent Spaces account. To ensure that you have the rights to add those profiles (and that no one else can add your profile), we require that you authenticate yourself with each network that you add.
Whenever possible this authentication is accomplished by means of secure methods that allow you to enter your username and password directly on the external network's site. In some cases, however, such methods are not available. In these cases you enter your username and password for the external network on our website, which then sends the information to the external network to validate you. We have never and will never store your password to an external site. It is only used ones to validate you and then discarded.
We are not responsible for actions and events that occur outside of the Transparent Spaces website.
A lot of websites use cookies to provide useful features for their users. Cookies are small files that are written or downloaded to your computers hard drive when you access a site. They allow Transparent Spaces to store and quickly retrieve login information on your computer and provide data that we can use to improve the quality of our service.bIf you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, although you may not be able to take full advantage of Transparent Spaces if you do so. We highly recommend that you enable cookies to ensure your experience with Transparent Spaces is as smooth as possible.
We use cookies to improve the quality of our service. In the course of optimizing services to our users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Use by third partners of their own cookies and any other tracking technologies are subject to their privacy policies. Transparent Spaces uses its reasonable efforts to ensure that its research partners are operating privacy policies that are in accordance with Transparent Spaces's own privacy standards as set out in this privacy policy.
Information provided to non-commercial third parties through such cookies may be personally identifiable and may provide general segment information, e.g. your industry or geographic location, for greater customization of your user experience.
The security of your personal information depends on your protection of your account password. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorized people. Transparent Spaces uses industry standard technology designed to help keep your personal information safe. Please keep in mind that it is impossible for Transparent Spaces to guarantee that impenetrable security measures are in place. For example, we cannot control any illegal and/or unforeseen activity of other users that may allow them to get around the privacy or security settings on the Transparent Spaces website. Consequently, you acknowledge that there are circumstances in which your personal information may be accessed by unauthorised persons.
We limit access to your personal information only to employees who we believe need to come into contact with that information in order to do their jobs in connection with the Transparent Spaces service.
If you become aware of any breach of data security or have any other questions about the security of our website, please contact us.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and the home page so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Additionally, we may send registered users an email notifying you of the change. If any modification is unacceptable to you, you shall stop using the Transparent Spaces service. If you continue to use Transparent Spaces following our posting of a change notice on our website, blog or personal email notification, that means you accept you accept the change.