Privacy Policy

• Overview

  This privacy policy sets out our privacy practices, explains how we handle the information we collect when you visit and use the Bubblin website or the other Bubblin (sub)domains, apps, products, services, applications, and content. When you use Bubblin Services, you are consenting to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage, disclosure, and other uses of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy. Please read it carefully.

  Let’s also state what’s probably obvious, but just in case: we do not control what Bubblin users do. Their behavior, policies and practices are up to them. If you share private information with other users, we can’t control what they’ll do with it.

• Account Information

  When you create an account on Bubblin Services, you authenticate yourself through an email or a third-party service like Facebook. When you do that, you link that account with your Bubblin account. Once the accounts are linked, we may collect and store personally identifying information that you have provided to that third party service, and consented to having shared with a service like us. We store the email address that you provided to create your Bubblin Account.

• Information Obtained from Third Party Services

  When you link your Bubblin account with a third party service account, we will get information about you from that third party service. That information could include, for example, your biographical information or your social connections, if you have provided that information to the third party service and made it available for Bubblin to access. To the extent we obtain such information, we may store and use the information about you that we receive from third party services to improve and personalize Bubblin Services.

  As a general practice, we strongly urge you to make careful judgments about any personal information you disclose to Internet services, including Bubblin and any third party services you link to us.

• Email Communications with Us

  Occasionally, we might need to email you. We might need to send you some administrative info, tell you something important about your account or changes to our services, or update you on new policies. In really tough situations, like at times when they hack online services simply to make the point, we might just need to vent about how unfair life is. Except for that last scenario, which we aggresively try to prevent, these administrative communications are considered part of Bubblin Services and your Bubblin account, which you may not be able to opt-out from receiving.

  Note that we will never email you to ask for your password or other Account information; if you receive such an email, send it to us, so we can take action against the evildoer.

• User Content

  Bubblin is for public, not private, content. By default, whatever you share or publish through Bubblin Services is public, and when you provide us with content it is published so that anyone can view it. Although we do provide tools, like drafting tools, that let you write and edit content prior to publication, you should assume that any content you share on Bubblin is publicly accessible.

  Content published and shared publicly is accessible to everyone, including search engines, and you may lose any privacy rights you might have regarding that content. In addition, information shared publicly may be copied and shared throughout the Internet, including through features native to Bubblin Services, such as social sharing, tweeting etc.

  While you are free to remove published pieces of content from your account, or even delete it entirely, because of the nature of Internet sharing, and technological limitations inherent to Bubblin Services, copies of that content may exist elsewhere and be retained indefinitely, including in our systems.

• Information Collection and Usage:

  • What do we collect?

    We collect information about how people use Bubblin Services, including both account-holders and non-account-holders. This includes general usage information, and may include things such as the number and frequency of visitors, which pages or features of Bubblin Services people have visited, which links on Bubblin Services they have clicked on, and the length of those visits. Some of this information may be associated with the IP Address used to access Bubblin Services, and some may be associated with your Bubblin account, such as the topics you search for and the help pages that you visit.

  • Who collects and gets access to that information?

    We do. We may also use third party applications and services to collect and analyze this information.

  • Why do we collect it?

    This information allows us to figure out how people use Bubblin Services so that we can analyze and improve them. We may also use some of this information in aggregate form, that is, as a statistical measure related to all of our users that won’t identify you personally. We use information about your use of Bubblin Services to improve and enhance your experience on Bubblin Services.

• Information Related to Your Web Browser

  We automatically receive and record information from your web browser when you interact with Bubblin Services. That information might include your browser type and version, what sort of device you are using, your operating system and version, your language preference, the website or service that referred you to Bubblin Services, the date and time of each web request you make, your screen display information, and information from any cookies we have placed on your web browser.

• Information Related to Your Mobile Device

  We may collect and store information related to your mobile device. We may use this information to provide or improve Bubblin Services.

• Information Collected Using Cookies

  • What are cookies?

    Cookies are pieces of text that are sent to and saved by your web browser when you access a website. Your web browser stores cookies associated with each website you visit. You can see your cookies through your browser settings.

  • How do we use cookies?

    We use cookies to enable our servers to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you use Bubblin Services. Our cookies do not, by themselves, contain information that personally identifies you. We use cookies to identify whether you have logged in and that your web browser has accessed aspects of Bubblin Services, and we may associate that information with your Account if you have one. This information, in turn, is sometimes used to personalize your experiences on Bubblin Services when you are logged in.

  • How do you disable cookies?

    Most web browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your web browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. If you disable cookies, you won't be able to log into your Account, and so will not be able to use the vast majority of Bubblin Services.

  • Third party cookies?

    Some third-party services that we use may also place their own cookies on your browser. Note that this Privacy Policy covers our use of cookies only and does not cover the use of cookies by third parties.

• Information Disclosed Pursuant to Business Transfers

  We may buy or sell business assets. In these transactions, user information is typically one of the transferred business assets. Likewise, if we, or substantially all of our assets, get acquired, or if we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of us or our assets may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

• Privacy of Children

  Bubblin service is not intended for children under 15. Children aged 15 or below should not signup on the service directly or submit any personal information without parental (or guardian) consent. By using the Bubblin, you represent that you are at least 15 years old and have consent of your parents (or authorized guardian) to use the service. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 15.

  If Bubblin learns that personally-identifiable information of persons less than 15 years of age has been collected on the Website without parental consent, then Bubblin will take appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 15 has a registered account with the Website without your consent, then you may alert us at admin at bubblin.io and request that Bubblin delete that child's personal information from its systems.

• Changes to This Privacy Policy

  We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we’ll follow the modifications process spelled out in our Terms of Service. The use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the information is used.

• Legal Questions

  Forward your questions about our Privacy Policy over here.

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