The privacy of our visitors and users to AutomatedNetwork is very important to us

At AutomatedNetwork, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit AutomatedNetwork, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Account Information & Registration

To gain a better understanding of the demographics of our users, to localize our services and to learn how we can improve our services, we ask you for your personal information, including your real name, address, phone number, email address, password, date of birth, payment account number and other profile complement form when individuals register to use the AutomatedNetwork site and services, post a picture on AutomatedNetwork or submit questions, comments or bug reports. We also collect our users' IP addresses and information regarding our users' use of the site and services. We use such IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers, track movement within our site and, if necessary, deny service in accordance with our Terms of Use. We may also collect information related to the referring URL, access times and browser type. Unless required by law, we will not share our users' personal information, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and usage information, except with their consent or in aggregate or anonymous form, with third parties.

You will receive notifications on your email in a number of cases, such as when a AutomatedNetwork API has been upgraded. Our service give you the opportunity to opt-out to stop receiving any of these communications from us. If you contact us by email through the site, we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and may use your email address, and any information that you provide to us in your message, to respond to you.

You are not required to create an account to read an AutomatedNetwork Site, except under rare circumstances.

Log Files

As with most other sites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Safari or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

GPS & Other Location Technologies

As stated above, we can use commonly-used location technologies to show you more relevant content. For example, our mobile apps can identify articles from the AutomatedNetwork sites about points of interest near your location. As a reminder, you can consent to and/or deactivate our access to these location technologies at any time for example through the native OS functionalities on your mobile device, and still use the AutomatedNetwork Sites.

IP Addresses

When you visit any AutomatedNetwork Site, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location. We keep IP addresses confidential, except as provided in this Policy. If you are visiting AutomatedNetwork Sites with your mobile device, we may use your IP address to provide anonymized or aggregated information to service providers regarding the volume of usage in certain areas.

We use this location information to make your experience with the AutomatedNetwork Sites safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with the AutomatedNetwork Sites, and to generally improve our services. For example, we use this information to provide greater security, optimize mobile applications, and learn how to expand and better support AutomatedNetwork communities.

How Long Do We Keep Your Data?

Once we receive Log data from you, we keep it for the shortest possible time that is consistent with the maintenance, understanding, and improvement of the AutomatedNetwork Sites, and our obligations under applicable law. In most instances, Log data is deleted, aggregated or de-identified after the Log expired date. Non-Log data may be retained indefinitely as appropriate.

How Do We Protect Your Personal Information?

We strive to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures (such as access control procedures, network firewalls, and physical security) designed to protect our systems and your Personal Information. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as completely secure data transmission or storage, so we can't guarantee that our security will not be breached (by technical measures or through violation of our policies and procedures). We will never ask for your password by email (but may send you a temporary password via email if you have requested a password reset). If you ever receive an email that requests your password, please let us know, so we can investigate the source of the email.

Links to Third Party Web Sites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from AutomatedNetwork nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful or interesting to the users of the site, or provided by our users to give you more information about themselves. Please remember that when you use a link to go from AutomatedNetwork to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. By your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link on AutomatedNetwork, is subject to that website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

For Legal Reasons

We will access, use, preserve, and/or disclose your Personal Information if we reasonably believe it necessary to satisfy a valid and legally enforceable warrant, subpoena, court order, law or regulation, or other judicial or administrative order. However, if we believe that a particular request for disclosure of a user's information is legally invalid or an abuse of the legal system and the affected user does not intend to oppose the disclosure themselves, we will try our best to fight it.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you may have to a third-party's request (whether it be civil, criminal, or governmental) to disclose your Personal Information. We recommend seeking the advice of legal counsel immediately if such a request is made involving you.

Your rights

For information about how you may request removal of your Personal Information, or other rights you may have with respect to your Personal Information, you may Contact Us. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

Please note also that you may be able to exercise some of these rights without our intervention. For example, if you are a registered user, you can access and update some Personal Information in your Profile. You may also manage what kinds of notifications you receive and how often you receive them by reply to our notification email.

Our Policy Towards Children

The site is not directed to persons under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personally identifiable information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personal identifiable Information, we will delete such information from our files.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Because things naturally change over time and we want to ensure our Privacy Policy accurately reflects our practices and the law, it may be necessary to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time.

We ask that you please review the most up-to-date version of our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the AutomatedNetwork Sites after any effective date of a subsequent version of this Privacy Policy constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy on your part.