Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 15, 2008

Taumaco is operated by Taumaco, Inc. (collectively, “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy applies to your use of Taumaco’s website (www.taumaco.com) and our mobile application (the “Sites”). It does not govern or apply to information collected or used by us through other means, nor does it apply to our other websites that display a different privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy describes:

• The information that we receive from you when you interact with us.

• Our practices for processing and protecting the information that we receive.

• Your choices regarding the collection and processing of your personal information.

Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. By visiting our Sites and submitting information to us, you consent to the collection and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of our Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. The amended Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. Your continued use of our Sites following the posting of changes to our Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.

Information We Collect

When you visit our Sites, we collect personal information that you provide to us as well as information we obtain from your use of our Sites.

“Personal Information” is information associated with you or that which can be used to identify or contact you. This includes contact data such as name, address, email address, and credit card information.

“Usage Data” is information about your online activity that, by itself, does not identify you, such as:

• Technical information, including browser type, service provider, IP addresses, operating system, and webpages visited.

• Information about what you have searched for, looked at, and clicked on while using our Sites.

• Traffic data such as time and date of access, software crash reports, and session identification number.

• Anonymous purchase behavior on partner sites (Amazon, among others) should you leave our Sites via an affiliate link.

• Information collected about the location of a mobile device or computer.

How We Collect Information

You may browse our Sites without submitting Personal Information to us. However, to access some features of the Sites, you may need to provide us with Personal Information.

Personal Information is collected when you:

• Register to use our Sites.

• Subscribe to Taumaco.

• Subscribe to one of our newsletters.

• Register to attend a Taumaco event.

• Make a donation.

• Complete a survey or participate in market research.

• Enter a contest or sweepstakes.

• Apply for employment at Taumaco.

Some of this Personal Information is collected by our service providers and then shared with us, such as when you submit an online employment application or make an online donation to Taumaco. We may use third-party services to provide accurate and updated credit card and contact information to fulfill your subscription.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technology

We use cookies (and similar technologies) and analytics tools to collect Usage Data. A cookie is a small file placed on your hard drive when you visit the Sites. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may modify your browser settings to disable or reject cookies. If you set your web browser to decline cookies or delete your cookies, some features of the Sites may not work or may not work as designed.

These technologies track your use of our Sites to enable us to:

• Identify returning users.

• Eliminate the need for registered users and subscribers to re-enter their login details.

• Remember your preferences.

• Determine your registration or subscription rights to specific content.

• Serve relevant advertisements for our products and assess the efficacy of those advertisements.

• Track your use of our Sites to better develop our features and monitor the traffic and performance of our Sites.

We use analytic tools such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics to understand the performance of our Sites and content. These analytic tools use cookies and similar technologies to track:

• The number of visits to and average time spent on either a single page or the entire Sites.

• The number of pages viewed per session, or the sequence of pages visited.

• Behavior on a single page or the entire Sites, including scrolling and clicking on links or buttons.

How We Use Information

We use the information collected when you use the Sites in the following ways:

• To provide our content and services: The information permits us to provide you with the content and services that you request.

• To communicate with you: We use the information to communicate with you about your registration or subscription, employment application, event registrations, and donations.

• To promote our Sites: We may send you announcements about our subscriptions, offers, products, or features.

• To advertise goods or services: We may share your information with our business partners whose products or services we think may interest you.

• To improve our Sites: We use the information we collect to help improve your experience on our Sites and to perform statistical and demographic analyses of users of our Sites.

• To comply with legal requirements: In some cases, we may use or disclose your Personal Information to a third party if we are required to do so by law.

No Sharing of Your Personal Information

We will not disclose or otherwise share your Personal Information with anyone outside Taumaco, except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Third Party Sites and Services

We have third-party agents that perform functions on our behalf, including but not limited to subscription management, hosting, content management, social media integration, and credit card processing. These entities may have access to Personal Information if needed to perform their functions.

Our Sites interact with social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. You should review their privacy policies if you choose to post information from our Sites to these platforms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these social media sites or other sites linked to our Sites.

Access to Your Personal Information and Your Rights

You may review and change your information by logging into your account and editing your account profile. If at any time you no longer want to receive our electronic newsletters and/or other emails, you may opt out of receiving them by following the “unsubscribe” instructions included in each email.

You may request to access, verify, correct, delete, and/or transfer your Personal Information. To do so, simply send us an email at [email protected] or contact us by mail at the address below.

How We Store and Protect Your Information

We retain information as long as it is necessary to perform our services in accordance with legal requirements. After it is no longer necessary to retain information, we dispose of it in a secure manner.

Your Personal Information is stored on our in-house servers and on cloud-based servers hosted by our vendors. We employ industry-standard security measures designed to protect the security of all information submitted. We take reasonable security measures to protect your information, including the use of physical, technical, and administrative controls.

Contests and Sweepstakes

When we run a contest or sweepstakes relating to our Sites, it will be accompanied by a set of rules. The rules will specify how the information gathered from you for entry will be used and disclosed if it is different than as described in this Privacy Policy.

Children Under the Age of Thirteen

The Sites are not intended for children under the age of thirteen. If we discover that a child under the age of thirteen has provided us with Personal Information and we do not have parental consent, we will immediately delete that child’s information from the Sites. If you believe that we have been provided with the personal information of a child under the age of thirteen without parental consent, please notify us immediately at [email protected].

Questions?

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us at [email protected].