Our Commitment to You
Welcome to Giter.pl, a social media network.The Giter.pl service is operated by Giter.pl (’Giter.pl‘), and consists of
the Giter.pl Web sites and other features and services offered by Giter.pl and its corporate affiliates in connection with the sites (collectively the ’Giter.pl Service‘).
Giter.pl and its employees take your privacy very seriously. To make it easier for you to read and understand our privacy policy, we’ve written it in plain language and tried to keep
it to a reasonably short length.
The key points of our privacy policy are:
- We give you choices about the personally identifiable information you share with Giter.pl and other Giter.pl users.
- You can end your membership at any time.
- We only disclose information from which you may be personally identifiable to selected third parties in accordance with this privacy policy.
- Giter.pl does not spam.
- By participating in the Giter.pl community, you agree to this privacy policy.
Information Collected On the Giter.pl Service
We collect the following types of information about you when you use the Giter.pl Service:
- Information provided by you. We collect personally identifiable information, such as your name and email address, when you register to become a Giter.pl member. This information is needed to
set up your personal profile. As part of your personal profile, you may choose to submit or incorporate additional information, such as your age, your hobbies and interests, as well as other
content, such as photos, music and videos.
- Information collected automatically. Giter.pl receives and stores information which is transmitted automatically from your computer when you use the Giter.pl Service. This information
includes information from cookies (which are described below), your IP address and browser type. Your IP address is the unique address of your computer which is automatically provided
to other computers when your web browser or email application requests a web page or email from those computers on the Internet. We also collect information about how you use the Giter.pl Service,
including information about the features you use and where you go on the Service.
- Information about you as a Giter.pl member may be supplemented with additional information, including publicly-available information and information from other companies.
Use and Disclosure of Information
We use this information in order to operate the Giter.pl Service and improve your experience:
- We will display your personally identifiable information on your profile according to the preferences you set. We will use your name so that you are recognisable on our database and
so that we can personalize your experience. We will use your email address to contact you from time to time and may also use it for security reasons to confirm that you are who you say you are.
You can control the types and frequencies of certain emails you receive in your email preferences.
- We may use the information collected automatically, such as your IP address, information stored via cookies, and information about how you use the Giter.pl Service to develop statistics and
aggregate information about the number of people who visit the Giter.pl Service and to customise Giter.pl’s content, layout and services. We may share this information with third parties to help us improve
the Giter.pl Service and better serve our users.
- Advertisements that appear on the Giter.pl Service are delivered to you by Giter.pl’s advertising affiliates, partners and service providers. Giter.pl may transfer information about you and your use
of Giter.pl, such as your IP address, information stored via cookies, and other demographic information about you, to our advertising affiliates, partners and other third parties. This information may be used to provide advertising, promotions and other products and services that may be of particular interest to you. It
may also be used to provide you with a tailored choice of content and media products. Please refer to the Cookies section below to find out about the choices that Giter.pl offers in connection
with advertising targeting.
- Giter.pl does not provide
your name or personal contact information to an advertising partner when you interact with or view a targeted advertisement.
- We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist
us in providing our services to you. Such third party entities will be obligated to use your personally identifiable information solely to provide the services to us.
- Personally identifiable information about you as a Giter.pl user, including the contents of your online communications, may be accessed or disclosed in response to legal process (for example,
a court order, search warrant or subpoena); in other circumstances in which Giter.pl believes the Giter.pl service is being used in the commission of a crime; when we have a good faith belief that there
is an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person; or when necessary either to protect the rights or property of Giter.pl and its affiliates, or for us to render the
service you have requested.
- Personally identifiable information collected in connection with your use of the Giter.pl Service may be stored in the United Kingdom, or other countries where Giter.pl or its parent, affiliates,
subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities. By using the Giter.pl Service, you expressly agree to the transfer to the United Kingdom and elsewhere of the personally identifiable
information you provide Giter.pl. By publicly posting information on the Giter.pl Service, you also certify that your posting conforms with all local data protection laws.
- We reserve the right to transfer your personally identifiable information in the event of a transfer of ownership of Giter.pl, such as acquisition by or merger with another company. If
an acquiring company should plan to materially change this privacy policy, we will notify you beforehand.
You control who sees your profile information on Giter.pl
- Your profile information on the Giter.pl Service will only be shared with people you have specifically agreed to share such information with, and to other members of groups
(such as universities) you choose to belong to. You can limit who can view certain personal information, such as email addresses and phone numbers. Please bear in mind that if you
choose to share your personal information (including any comments, videos, photos or any other information) to other people on Giter.pl, you do so at your own risk. Giter.pl recommends
that you don't share your personal contact information.
- You can choose to make your profile visible to non-members of Giter.pl by editing your profile and opting in to accessible profile (Menubar -> Profile -> Privacy).
- For all users (apart from company profiles), the default setting for profiles is private (viewing profile, friends, photos). Files are ALWAYS public and users cannot change this option
Sharing Information with Applications Providers
Giter.pl allows you to share your profile or other Giter.pl information with applications created by third parties.
Reviewing, deleting and changing your Profile
You can review, delete, correct and revise your privacy settings and personal profile,
including who has access to your personal profile in your account at
any time.
Internet awareness
Whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas,
like journals, weblogs, message boards and forums, this information
can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by others to
send you unsolicited communications. Giter.pl recommends that you exercise
discretion in deciding what information you disclose on the Internet.
Changes in Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those
changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we
deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose
it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any
time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to
this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a
notice on our home page.
Additionally, we may send registered users an email notifying
you of the change. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOU
SHALL STOP USING THE Giter.pl SERVICE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE Giter.pl
SERVICE FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR ON OUR WEBSITE OR
BLOG OR RECEIVING OUR EMAIL NOTIFYING YOU OF THE CHANGE WILL
CONSTITUTE YOUR BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
Canceling membership
You always have the option to cancel your membership at any time. If you are a member and no longer wish to participate in Giter.pl you can sign in to the site and click on the "Delete profile" option (Menubar -> Profile -> Privacy) on the right side of the page.
Co-Branding
Giter.pl may be co-branded with our affiliates & partners.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us - Contact Us .
Effective Date and Last Revision Date
This Privacy Policy was first posted on March 1, 2010
This Privacy Policy was last revised on July 8, 2010.