ethTV Privacy Policy

<h1>ethTV Privacy Policy</h1>
<p>Last modified: October 07, 2017</p>

Respect for your privacy is our highest priority. Since we started ethTV, we’ve aspired to build our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind.

ethTV provides messaging & polling to users around the world. Our Privacy Policy helps explain our information (including message) practices. For example, we talk about what information we collect and how this affects you. We also explain the steps we take to protect your privacy.

When we say “ethTV,” “our,” “we,” or “us,” we’re talking about ethTV Inc. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all of our apps, services, features, software, and website (together, “Services”) unless specified otherwise.

Please also read ethTV’s Terms of Service (“Terms”), which describes the terms under which you use our Services.

<h2>Information We Collect</h2>

ethTV receives or collects information when we operate and provide our Services, including when you install, access, or use our Services.

<h2>Information You Provide</h2>

    Your Account Information. You provide your information to your account, such as a profile name, profile picture, and status message.

    Customer Support. You may provide us with information related to your use of our Services, including copies of your messages, and how to contact you so we can provide you customer support. For example, you may send us an email with information relating to our app performance or other issues.

<h2>Automatically Collected Information</h2>

    Usage and Log Information. We collect service-related, diagnostic, and performance information. This includes information about your activity (such as how you use our Services, how you interact with others using our Services, and the like), log files, and diagnostic, crash, website, and performance logs and reports.

    Transactional Information. If you pay for our Services, we may receive information and confirmations, such as payment receipts, including from app stores or other third parties processing your payment.

    Device and Connection Information. We collect device-specific information when you install, access, or use our Services. This includes information such as hardware model, operating system information, browser information, IP address, mobile network information including phone number, and device identifiers. We collect device location information if you use our location features, such as when you choose to share your location with your contacts, view locations nearby or those others have shared with you, and the like, and for diagnostics and troubleshooting purposes such as if you are having trouble with our app’s location features.

    Cookies. We use cookies to operate and provide our Services, including to provide our Services that are web-based, improve your experiences, understand how our Services are being used, and customize our Services. For example, we use cookies to provide ethTV for web and desktop and other web-based services. We may also use cookies to understand which of our FAQs are most popular and to show you relevant content related to our Services. Additionally, we may use cookies to remember your choices, such as your language preferences, and otherwise to customize our Services for you. Learn more about how we use cookies to provide you our Services.

    Status Information. We collect information about your online and status message changes on our Services, such as whether you are online (your “online status”), when you last used our Services (your “last seen status”), and when you last updated your status message.

<h2>Third-Party Information</h2>

    Information Others Provide About You. We receive information other people provide us, which may include information about you. For example, when other users you know use our Services, they may provide your phone number from their mobile address book (just as you may provide theirs), or they may send you a message, send messages to groups to which you belong.

    Third-Party Providers. We work with third-party providers to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. For example, we work with companies to distribute our apps, provide our infrastructure, delivery, and other systems, supply map and places information, process payments, help us understand how people use our Services, and market our Services. These providers may provide us information about you in certain circumstances; for example, app stores may provide us reports to help us diagnose and fix service issues.

    Third-Party Services. We allow you to use our Services in connection with third-party services. If you use our Services with such third-party services, we may receive information about you from them; for example, if you use the ethTV share button on a news service to share a news article with your ethTV contacts, groups, or broadcast lists on our Services, or if you choose to access our Services through a mobile carrier’s or device provider’s promotion of our Services. Please note that when you use third-party services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.

<h2>How We Use Information</h2>

We use all the information we have to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services.

    Our Services. We operate and provide our Services, including providing customer support, and improving, fixing, and customizing our Services. We understand how people use our Services, and analyze and use the information we have to evaluate and improve our Services, research, develop, and test new services and features, and conduct troubleshooting activities. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us. We use cookies to operate, provide, improve, understand, and customize our Services.

    Safety and Security. We verify accounts and activity, and promote safety and security on and off our Services, such as by investigating suspicious activity or violations of our Terms, and to ensure our Services are being used legally.

    Communications About Our Services. We communicate with you about our Services and features and let you know about our terms and policies and other important updates. We may provide you marketing for our Services and those of the Facebook family of companies, of which we are now a part.

    No Third-Party Banner Ads. We do not allow third-party banner ads on ethTV. We have no intention to introduce them, but if we ever do, we will update this policy.

    Commercial Messaging. We will allow you and third parties, like businesses, to communicate with each other using ethTV, such as through order, transaction, and appointment information, delivery and shipping notifications, product and service updates, and marketing. For example, you may receive flight status information for upcoming travel, a receipt for something you purchased, or a notification when a delivery will be made. Messages you may receive containing marketing could include an offer for something that might interest you. We do not want you to have a spammy experience; as with all of your messages, you can manage these communications, and we will honor the choices you make.

<h2>Information You And We Share</h2>

You share your information as you use and communicate through our Services, and we share your information to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services.

    Account Information. Your phone number, profile name and photo, online status and status message, last seen status, and receipts may be available to anyone who uses our Services, although you can configure your Services settings to manage certain information available to other users.

    Your Contacts and Others. Users with whom you communicate may store or reshare your information (including your phone number or messages) with others on and off our Services. You can use your Services settings and the block feature in our Services to manage the users of our Services with whom you communicate and certain information you share.

    Third-Party Providers. We work with third-party providers to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. When we share information with third-party providers, we require them to use your information in accordance with our instructions and terms or with express permission from you.

    Third-Party Services. When you use third-party services that are integrated with our Services, they may receive information about what you share with them. For example, if you use a data backup service integrated with our Services (such as iCloud or Google Drive), they will receive information about what you share with them. If you interact with a third-party service linked through our Services, you may be providing information directly to such third party. Please note that when you use third-party services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.

<h2>Assignment, Change Of Control, And Transfer</h2>

All of our rights and obligations under our Privacy Policy are freely assignable by us to any of our affiliates, in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise, and we may transfer your information to any of our affiliates, successor entities, or new owner.

<h2>Managing Your Information</h2>

If you would like to manage, change, limit, or delete your information, we allow you to do that through the following tools:

    Services Settings. You can change your Services settings to manage certain information available to other users. 

    You can change your profile name, profile picture, and status message at any time.

<h2>Law And Protection</h2>

We may collect, use, preserve, and share your information if we have a good-faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond pursuant to applicable law or regulations, to legal process, or to government requests; (b) enforce our Terms and any other applicable terms and policies, including for investigations of potential violations; (c) detect, investigate, prevent, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our users, ethTV, or others.

<h2>Our Global Operations</h2>

You agree to our information practices, including the collection, use, processing, and sharing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer and processing of your information to the United States and other countries globally where we have or use facilities, service providers, or partners, regardless of where you use our Services. You acknowledge that the laws, regulations, and standards of the country in which your information is stored or processed may be different from those of your own country.

<h2>Updates To Our Policy</h2>

We may amend or update our Privacy Policy. We will provide you notice of amendments to this Privacy Policy, as appropriate, and update the “Last Modified” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our Services confirms your acceptance of our Privacy Policy, as amended. If you do not agree to our Privacy Policy, as amended, you must stop using our Services. Please review our Privacy Policy from time to time.

<h2>Contact Us</h2>

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.

ethTV Inc.
Attn: Arulkumaran Chandrasekaran
Privacy Policy
330 Mandolin Dr
San Jose, California 95051
United States of America

<h2>Intellectual Property Policy: Your Copyrights and Trademarks</h2>

ethTV Inc. ("ethTV," "our," "we," or "us") is committed to helping people and organizations protect their intellectual property rights. Our users agree to our Terms of Service ("Terms") by installing, accessing, or using our apps, services, features, software, or website (together, "Services"). Our Terms do not allow our users to violate someone else's intellectual property rights when using our Services, including their copyrights and trademarks.

As explained in more detail in our Privacy Policy, We do, host our users' account information, including our users' profile picture, profile name, or status message, if they decide to include them as part of their account information.

<h2>Copyright</h2>

To report copyright infringement and request that ethTV remove any infringing content it is hosting (such as a ethTV user's profile picture, profile name, or status message), please email a completed copyright infringement claim to ip@ethtv.com (including all of the information listed below). You can also mail a complete copyright infringement claim to ethTV's copyright agent:

ethTV Inc.
Attn: Arulkumaran Chandrasekaran
ethTV Copyright Agent
330 Mandolin Dr
San Jose, California 95051
United States of America
ip@ethtv.com

Before you report a claim of copyright infringement, you may want to send a message to the relevant ethTV user you believe may be infringing your copyright. You may be able to resolve the issue without contacting ethTV.