Content. One of the primary reasons people use Glass Community is to share content with others. Examples include when you update your status, upload or take a photo, upload or record a video, share a link, create an event or a group, make a comment and so forth.
Transactional Information. We retain the details of transactions or payments you make on Glass Community for the purpose of resolving payment disputes and showing your payment information to you on your profile.
Information we collect when you interact with Glass Community:
Site activity information. We keep track of the actions you take on Glass Community, such as adding a friend, joining a group or an event, creating a photo album, sending messages to other users, indicating you “like” a post, or attending an event.Access Device and Browser Information. When you access Glass Community from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages you visit.
Cookie Information. We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make Glass Community easier to use, and to protect both you and Glass Community. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use Glass Community.
Information we receive from third parties:
Facebook Connect. We do not own or operate Facebook with which you interact with through Facebook Connect. We are not responsible for their policies, standards or website content of Facebook. See www.facebook.com for their terms and conditions.
Information from other users. We may collect information about you from other Glass Community users, such as when a friend tags you in a photo or video, provides friend details, or indicates a relationship with you. We will also collect user submitted reports of violations from other users about you for the purpose of determining disputes and subsequently if an account should be suspended or terminated.
Information You Share With Third Parties
Sharing information on Glass Community. We designed our privacy settings to enable you to control how you share your information on Glass Community. You should review the default privacy settings to make sure they reflect your preferences, including:- You can control the visibility of most of the information you share on Glass Community through the privacy settings you select.
- Certain categories of information such as your name and profile photo are considered publicly available, and therefore do not have privacy settings.
- Some of the content you share and the actions you take will show up on your friends’ home pages and other pages they visit.
- Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users.
- You understand that information might be re-shared or copied by other users.
- Certain types of communications that you send to other users cannot be removed, such as messages.
- When you post information on another user’s profile or comment on another user’s post, that information will be subject to the other user’s privacy settings.
“Public” Privacy Setting. Information set to “public” is publicly available information, may be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Glass Community), is subject to indexing by third party search engines, may be associated with you outside of Glass Community (such as when you visit other sites on the internet), and may be imported and exported by us and others without privacy limitations. The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Glass Community is set to “public” You can review and change the default settings in your privacy settings. If you delete “public” content that you posted on Glass Community, we will remove it from your Glass Community profile, but have no control over its use outside of Glass Community.
Exporting Information. You (and those you make your information available to) may use tools like RSS feeds, mobile phone address books, or copy and paste functions, to capture and export information from Glass Community, including your information and information about you.
Links. When you click on links on Glass Community you may leave our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, and we encourage you to read their privacy statements.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and customized experience. The ways we use your information are:To manage the service. We use the information we collect to provide our services and features to you, to measure and improve those services and features, and to provide you with customer support. We use the information to prevent potentially illegal activities, and to enforce our terms and conditions.
To contact you. We may contact you with service-related announcements from time to time. We may include content you see on Glass Community in the emails we send to you. if you opt-out of newsletter communications, it is your responsibility to check the Official Announcements group to stay informed of privacy and terms and conditions changes.
To improve our advertising. We wish to provide the most relevant advertised products and services to you through Glass Community. As such we may anonymize information related specifically to our partner's advertisements and present statistics to our advertising partners to allow them to provide Glass Community with relevant advertising offers.
To make suggestions. We use your profile information and other relevant information, to help you connect with your friends, including making suggestions to you and other users that you connect with on Glass Community. If you want to limit your visibility in suggestions we make to other people, you can adjust your search visibility privacy setting, as you will only be visible in our suggestions to the extent you choose to be visible in public search listings. You may also block specific individual users from being suggested to you and you from being suggested to them.
How We Share Information
Glass Community is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your networks — while providing you with privacy settings that you can use to restrict other users from accessing your information. We share your information with third parties when we believe the sharing is permitted by you, reasonably necessary to offer our services, or when legally required to do so. For example:When you make a payment. When you enter into transactions with others or make payments on Glass Community, we will only share transaction information with those third parties necessary to complete the transaction and will require those third parties to agree to respect the privacy of your information.
When you invite a friend to join. When you ask us to invite a friend to join Glass Community, we will send your friend a message on your behalf using your name. We may also send up to two reminders to them in your name.
To help your friends find you. By default, we make certain information you have posted to your profile available in search results on Glass Community to help your friends find you. However, you can control who has access to this information, as well as who can find you in searches, through your privacy settings.
To give search engines access to publicly available information. We generally limit search engines’ access to the Community section of our site. We may allow them to access information set to the “public” setting and your public search listing.
To help improve or promote our service. Sometimes we share aggregated information with third parties to help improve or promote our service. But we only do so in such a way that no individual user can be identified or linked to any specific action or information.
To provide you with services. We may provide information to service providers that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use third parties to help host our website, send out email updates about Glass Community, remove repetitive information from our user lists, process payments, or provide search results or links (including sponsored links). These service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to limit their use of that information to helping us provide the service.
To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law. This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of the Australia where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, apply to users from that jurisdiction, and are consistent with generally accepted international standards. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Terms and Conditions. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.
Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control. If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner so that the service can continue to operate. In such a case, your information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
How You Can View, Change, or Remove Information
Viewing and editing your profile. You may change or delete your profile information at any time by going to your profile page and clicking “Edit My Profile.” Information will be updated immediately.Deactivating or deleting your account. If you want to stop using your account you may delete it. When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted. You should only delete your account if you are certain you never want to reactivate it. You may delete your account on your profile page. The process is irreversible and all profile information will be lost.
Limitations on removal. Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users. In addition if you contributed a product review or article, that content will remain and is governed by the Author agreement in our Terms and Conditions.
Backup copies. Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies, but will not be available to others.
How We Protect Information
We do our best to keep your information secure, but we need your help. Ensure you report any suspicious activity and keep a current up to date virus scanner on your computer.
Third party payment. We keep your account information on a secured server behind a firewall. Any online payment information is transmitted via PayPal and governed by their security practices. See www.paypal.com for further information.
Risks inherent in sharing information. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you share your information. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your information. We cannot ensure that information you share on Glass Community will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on Glass Community. You can reduce these risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a strong password, using different passwords for different services, and using up to date antivirus software.
