Privacy

topikality is strongly committed to protecting your privacy while interacting with our content, products and services. We want to provide a safe and secure environment for everyone. Our aim is to provide you with a positive experience using the topikality service while allowing you to control your privacy and to give you a means to voice any questions or concerns you may have.

By visiting the topikality website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Collection of information

Information is collected from you primarily to make it easier and more rewarding for you to use our services. Depending on the service you are accessing, you could be asked to provide information such as your name, email address or information about what you like and do not like. It is entirely your choice whether to respond to these questions or not.

topikality collects two types of information. The first type is anonymous information. For instance, we may collect information to tell us that five thousand people visit this Privacy Policy page today, but we do not know their names, where they live or their date of birth – they are ‘anonymous’ to us. This information is collected for research purposes, is used in the aggregate (where possible), and remains anonymous.

topikality also collects personal information that lets us know the specifics of who you are such as your name or email address. With this information, topikality can provide a variety of personalised and enhanced services that are not available to anonymous users.

Sometimes, we may specifically ask for personal information about you when you sign up to use a service. Certain information may be required, such as your name, age, billing address, type of computer, credit card number, in order to provide that service or product to you. This information may also be used to inform you of additional products and services which may interest you. You can choose not to receive such information when you are undertaking product or service registration on our website. When asked to provide personal information it is always your choice whether to accept or decline this request.

How much of your personal information that you choose to disclose to topikality is at your discretion. The only way we know something about you personally is if you provide it to us.

Use of anonymous and personal information

We primarily use personal information and anonymous information for internal purposes, such as enhancing your experience at the Site; performing administration and technical support for the Site; notifying you about our new and existing content, events, products or services; enabling you to enter promotions; and creating aggregated information about demographics and usage patterns.

We will not sell, share or rent Personal Information to third parties, and we will not otherwise disclose Personal Information to third parties, without your permission, except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

From time to time, we might establish a business relationship with other persons or entities whom we believe trustworthy and whom we understand maintain privacy practices that are consistent with ours (“Service Providers”). For example, we may contract with Service Providers to provide certain services including credit card processing, data management, promotional services, Web hosting, Advertising, Web development, etc. We provide our service providers with the information needed for them to perform these services. Each Service Provider must maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information involved in order to protect your information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure and only use the information we provide for the delivery of the agreed service.

We may share Personal Information and Anonymous Information with entities controlling, controlled by, or under common control with topikality. In the event that topikality is merged, sold, or in the event of a transfer of some or all of our assets, we may disclose or transfer Personal Information and Non-Personal Information in connection with such transaction.

In certain instances we may disclose personal information and anonymous information when we believe it is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against persons or entities in order to protect topikality or our users or when we believe that the law or legal process requires such disclosure.

Cookies

We use Cookies, that are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive, through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people.

The majority of browsers enable you to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to completely disable cookies. To take full advantage of the topikality service we strongly suggest that you leave the cookies activated.

Interacting with topikality

There are interactive features on topikality that you can contribute to. We suggest that you use your discretion and exercise caution when providing your personal information.

Note that whenever you post personal information in publicly accessible places this information becomes available to anyone with access to the internet. This information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Therefore, we recommend that you refrain from posting any information that you do not want seen in these public areas. You must not intentionally use the name of another living person.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any personal information. Be responsible whenever you are online.

Complaints about privacy

If you have any complaints relating to online privacy issues on our websites, please notify us in writing. While topikality accepts no liability for any material or links posted to the service, we will investigate all complaints.

Changes to the topikality privacy policy

If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes here. By visiting the topikality website, you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy at the time of your visit.