Privacy policy
At Pixmac, we understand and respect your concern about the privacy of any information you supply while at our web site. We believe that knowledge is the key to monitoring and protecting how your information is used on the Internet. This statement sets forth our Privacy Policy and describes the practice we follow with respect to all visitors to this web site, which is owned and operated by Pixmac, s.r.o. If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement please do not hesitate in contacting us. Email your questions to user@pixmac.com or send them to our physical address Pixmac, Koněvova 141/2660, 130 83 Praha 3, Czech Republic. Please note that by agreeing to Pixmac’ Privacy Policy and providing your personally identifiable information you consent to: the use of your personal information by Pixmac and its parent, affiliates and subsidiaries for the uses identified in Section titled “Personal Information,” in accordance with this privacy policy; and the transfer of your information to servers located in the Czech Republic.
Children
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use this Web Site unsupervised and we ask that children do not register for an account or submit any personal information to us. By using this Web Site unsupervised, and/or registering for an account, you warrant that you are 18 years of age or older.
Personal Information
Pixmac collects certain personal information from users of this Web Site. To create user accounts, authorized users must provide certain contact and account information such as name, email address, billing address, and phone number in order to access, license and download images. We may also collect your company information such as company name, address and mobile phone number.
Pixmac may use this information for the following purposes: to process your order and any invoices; to maintain or update your Pixmac account; to send you updates about special offers, new services, special promotions, and noteworthy news and events, which you may opt-out from receiving at anytime, please see the “Email” section below; to fulfill the terms of a promotion or contest; to fulfill a service to you, for example, if you choose to submit content to the Web Site, to send you your payments when users purchase photos from you, we may use your personal information to respond to your submission; to contact you in response to forms such as “Contact Us” or Live Chat or emailed requests; to contact you about a material change to this Privacy Policy or Site Usage Agreement, if necessary; to comply with the law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform with the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process served on us. Pixmac may use certain account information such as credit card number and company information of authorized users to conduct credit inquiries.
Lightbox Referral
If you use our referral service for informing a friend about our Web Site, or inviting a friend to view your lightbox, we will ask you for the friend's name and email address. Pixmac will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Web Site. Pixmac does not retain this information.
Affiliate
Once you register with the site you are automatically provided with an affiliate link that put on you website or blog, this will link back to your Pixmac profile. Your Pixmac profile can be viewed by non-registered users.
Users may use the widget as a tool to increase the number of visitors viewing their images or to display previews of Pixmac images on their own websites. Widgets don't reveal any personal data about Pixmac users.
Profile Information
Your profile information (such as company type and language preference) in the registration form is used by Pixmac to create personalized content, services, and advertising on the Web Site. Pixmac may also profile your Web Site activity in order to accurately track your account and provide you with Pixmac products and services that correspond to your interests. You also have the option to upload a photo of yourself as your profile picture. Please note that your photo will be publicly available to users of the site if you wish to use a personal photo of yourself. You may fill out the details section of the profile in order to allow users to know more about you. Please be aware that this information may be displayed to other users of the site. Pixmac may also compile data in aggregate form so that we may better understand the users that are visiting our Web Site. For example, we may produce reports on the most popular search terms by collecting general search term data based on individual searches. Aggregate data is anonymous and does not contain any personal information that identifies a user. Pixmac may provide non-identifying and aggregate usage and volume statistical information from our Web Site users to third parties for their audit, research and analytical purposes.
Automatically Collected Information
As is true of most web sites, when you access and use the Web Site, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the Web Site, to track users' movements around the Web Site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do link this automatically collected data to personally identifiable information. IP addresses are tied to personally identifiable information to segregate customer types for analytical purposes.
Use of Service Providers
We occasionally hire or partner with other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as managing and handling the processing and delivery of mailings (both email and postal mail), providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
On some of our credit processing service provider’s pages, it may look as though you are still on Pixmac.com, the information collected on these pages is collected directly from our third party service providers in order to process your payment information. These service providers then share the information back with Pixmac in order for us to complete the order and ship it out. Our privacy policy does not govern the collection and use of this information.
We use Skype and ICQ to allow you to chat with one of our representatives. Please note that any information you provide during these chat sessions will be logged and may be used to contact you in regards to your inquiry. The only person who has access to your information is the representative to whom you are speaking with.
Change of Address or Contact Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, or delete inaccuracies in your information by making the change through the “My Profile” page within your account, by emailing our Customer Support at user@pixmac.com, or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. Your request will be processed and implemented within thirty (30) days.
Security
Pixmac has a number of operational functions in place to protect the confidentiality of personal information. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access that are located in secured facilities. Pixmac' employees are trained and kept up-to-date on our security procedures. If you have any questions about the security at our Web Site, you can send an email to user@pixmac.com.
Cookies
When you visit the Web Site, Pixmac sends your computer a cookie, which is a small file that resides on your computer's hard drive and contains non-personally identifiable information about the user. Cookies only identify the user's computer. Cookies allow Pixmac to make its Web Site more useful by storing information about your preferences. For example, Pixmac will send your computer a cookie to maintain default settings such as your language preference. You can set your browser's options not to accept cookies, but this may prevent you from accessing all of the features of the Pixmac Web Site. Pixmac uses a third party to assist in managing the licensing of our images. This third party uses clear GIFs, a tiny 1x1 pixel GIF, to digitally watermark our images, in both a visible and invisible manner. When you purchase a licensed image from us, the visible watermark is then removed from the image, however, in certain lower resolution images, an invisible watermark may remain, allowing Pixmac and the third party to track certain usage of such images on the Internet. Some of our advertisers or third party service providers use cookies on our site. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by third parties.
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, Pixmac does not rent, share or sell email lists to third parties for their promotional purposes. Pixmac may send you email to notify you about your recent order; this will be sent to the email address you provide to Pixmac. Pixmac offers its members the choice to not receive emails or updates about special benefits, promotions, newsletters, or offers from Pixmac. If you no longer wish to receive these updates, or you wish to unsubscribe from your Pixmac account please complete the Contact Us form on the Web Site and let us know in the comments section that you would like to be removed from the mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication (e.g. following the unsubscribe instructions within the email) or you may contact us at user@pixmac.com.
Surveys, Promotions, and Contests
Participation in surveys, promotions, or contests on the Web Site is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose personal information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award promotional gifts prizes. Survey information will be used for the purposes of monitoring or improving the use of the Web Site.
AddThis Widget
We use the addthis widget within our blog section to allow our users to share blog posts from our site on social networking sites in which they obtain accounts. Pixmac has no access or control over these third party sites.
Blog
Pixmac offers a blog on the Web Site. If you use the Pixmac' blog, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these discussion threads, blogs or comment boxes.
We use the widget within our blog section to allow our users to share blog posts from our site on social networking sites in which they obtain accounts. Pixmac has no access or control over these third party sites.
Facebook plugins
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social Plugins please seehttp://developers.facebook.com/plugins.
When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge:
The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP-address to Facebook.
For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook’s privacy policy:http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website. Further you can block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the “Facebook Blocker“.
Links
Please be aware that the Web Site may contain links to other sites that are covered by their own privacy policies. Pixmac is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites and we encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site. We recommend that our users read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
Changes of Pixmac' Online Privacy Policy
Pixmac reserves the right to change our online privacy policy and modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we decide to make any material changes to our privacy statement, we will notify you via email or by posting a prominent notice on our Web Site including the home page and other places we deem appropriate, at least thirty (30) days prior to implementing the change so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.
Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or to comply with a legal process served on our Web Site. If you have any questions about Pixmac' Privacy Policy or concerns about personal information you have supplied to Pixmac, please contact Pixmac Customer Service at user@pixmac.com.
Last Updated on 02/08/2010
