Twittie Privacy Policy

Last updated: 16th August 2011

This privacy policy sets out how Twittie uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.

Twittie is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

What we collect

All the information we collect are necessary to provide services delivered to you. We only gather necessary amount of information – your email address. We collect passively the information about your Twitter accunt: username, names of your followers, location, time zone, your tweets. We do not store any passwords to your Twitter accounts. Thanks to OAuth technology we connect your Twitter accounts to Twittie without knowing your passwords.

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  1. To analyse your Twitter social position and suggest to you actions that may profit your Twitter presence and sales.
  2. To suggest following and monitoring of your Twitter account to the other Twitter users
  3. To analyse your data and provide you with wide range of statistics.
  4. We may use the information to draw conclusions that later will be described in Know How section of our service or on our blog.
  5. We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  6. We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. The promotional email will always have opt-out option enabling you to unsubscribe from future correspondence.
  7. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

All payments are done via PayPal system and therefore we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst making transaction through PayPal.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which Twitter accounts did you connect to our service during your previous visit. This allows us to save your time and show your Twittie account without continuously logging in to your Twitter accounts. However, if you sign out of Twittie session, then you will have to log in to your Twitter accounts before you start using Twittie again.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Changes

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy without further notice to you. The “Last updated” date will indicate latest changes made to the Policy. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to this Policy and any of its future changes.

In case of change in ownership of our website your user information may be transferred to the new owner, enabling us to provide our service to you without any disruptions.

Acceptance of the Privacy Policy

Each time you use our website you consent to this entire Privacy Policy.

Contact

In case of any questions regarding the policy please contact us via email contact@twittie.com.