Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Giant Voices, we have a few fundamental principles:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
• In our products/services, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private and permanently deleted.

Giant Voices, Inc. (“Giant Voices“) operates several websites including www.giantvoices.com, www.giantacademy.com. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors
Like most website operators, we collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use our website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

We also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on GiantVoices.com blogs/sites. We only disclose logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that we uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain website visitors choose to interact with Giant Voices in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at GiantVoices.com to provide a username and email address.

Those who engage in transactions with Giant Voices are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, we collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us.

We do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics
We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
We disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available at our websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using our websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

We will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to our employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, we disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Giant Voices, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of a Giant Voices website and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Giant Voices and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Giant Voices uses cookies to help Giant Voices identify and track visitors, their usage of Giant Voices website, and their website access preferences. Giant Voices visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Giant Voices websites, with the drawback that certain features of Giant Voices websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers
If Giant Voices, or substantially all its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Giant Voices goes out of business or enters 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 Giant Voices may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, and we encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes. If you have a GiantVoices.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.