Effective November 07, 2022
This notice describes the Privacy Policy that applies to all information collected or submitted when you install or use the PaperSpan application or any of the other proprietary software applications or services we provide, and when you visit our website (all of which are referred to collectively herein as the "PaperSpan").
We understand your concerns about privacy. We want you to understand what types of information we collect and what may happen to that information if you install the PaperSpan application, visit the PaperSpan Website or use any of the PaperSpan.
We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy includes the following provisions, and you can jump to each by selecting the links below:
You are not required to create a user account or provide any personal information in order to visit the PaperSpan website. You are required to create a user account, however, to use our application. When you create an account by using a Google account, you will provide information that could be Personal Information, such as your name and email address. When you create an account with PaperSpan, you will provide information that could be Personal Information, such as your name, password and email address. You acknowledge that this information may be personal to you, and by creating an account with PaperSpan and providing Personal Information to us, you allow us, to identify you and therefore may not be anonymous. The account information is required to Associate your activity with your account and the ability to provide our services across your usage sessions and your devices. We may use your contact information to send you information about our services, including without limitation, notifications regarding our services. You may unsubscribe from these messages through a link at the bottom of the email messages sent to you, although we regardless reserve the right to contact you when we believe it is necessary, such as for account recovery purposes.
In addition to the information that you provide to us when you register for a user account, we collect information about the URLs, titles and content of the web pages and other information you save to PaperSpan. The types of information we collect includes your browser type, device type, time zone, language, and other information related to the manner in which you access the PaperSpan. We also collect information about your use of the PaperSpan so that we can provide our services. For example, as a part of providing PaperSpan’s syncing features, we sync information about the items that you save and view within PaperSpan so that your list, folders, scroll position, and other account and usage information may be synced across all of your devices.
We use cookies and analytics tools for the following purposes:
In addition to the methods described above, we may also collect information using cookies or other technologies when you access our website or use PaperSpan. You may decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features, you may be required to enter your password more frequently during a session, and you may be unable to install or use certain PaperSpan application. Cookies and other technologies make our PaperSpan easier to use and help us customize and personalize the services.
We use your personal information to respond to your requests and perform our contract with you. We may do this, for example, by using your contact information to respond to your inquiries, to provide customer support and to supply any products or services you have requested.
We also use non-identifying, aggregated information to analyze the manner in which the PaperSpan service is used, solely to provide you your reading information in an aggregated form a.k.a, your reading statistics. This aggregated data will not be used for any other purpose within our service nor shared with any third party.
Except as set forth below, we do not share any personally identifiable information with any third party.
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
In the event that we or certain of our assets are acquired, user information may be included among the transferred assets.
Although we strive to protect the personal information of our users, we will release personal information if required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary. We follow the law whenever we receive requests about you from a government or related to a lawsuit. We will notify you when we are asked to hand over your personally identifiable information in this way unless we are legally prohibited from doing so. When we receive requests like this, we will only release your personally identifiable information if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary or appropriate under applicable law. Nothing in this policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party's request to disclose your information.
We will keep your information only for as long as we need it to provide you services, manage our business or as required by law or contract.
You can execute your Right To Be Forgotten and delete all your personally identifiable information and all data associated with your account from our servers permanently, by reaching us at the email address [email protected].
Our computers are in several different places around the world. We also use service providers whose computers may also be in various countries. This means that your information might end up on one of those computers in another country, and that country may have a different level of data protection regulation than yours. By giving us information, you consent to this kind of transfer of your information. No matter what country your information is in, we comply with applicable law and will also abide by the commitments we make in this privacy policy.
Your information is protected by utilizing both online and offline security methods, including firewalls, passwords and restricted physical access to the places where your information is stored. Although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain free from security issues. In the event of a security breach involving your personal information, we will make any legally required disclosures to you in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with the legitimate interests of law enforcement, or any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.
Identity theft and the practice currently known as "phishing" are of great concern to PaperSpan. Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is a top priority. We do not and will not, at any time, request your username, password, credit card information or national identification number in an unsolicited e-mail or telephone communication. For more information about phishing, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website.
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on our Website that you can access at paperspan.com or through the options or help menu of the PaperSpan application. All amended terms shall automatically be effective thirty (30) days after they are initially posted on the Website. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy that affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Website notifying users that our Privacy Policy has changed. Our use of your information shall be governed by the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy in effect when you first use our application or thirty (30) after the terms are changed, as explained above.
If you have questions about any of the provisions described above, please contact us at [email protected].
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should contact us at [email protected].