CatchMyStory Privacy Policy

PERSONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU:

CatchMyStory.org (“CMS”) does not automatically collect any personally identifiable information. CMS obtains personal information about you ONLY if you elect to give us that information and only for the purposes of allowing you to upload and post content on our websites, and to create or customize your own webpage and/or a book or product (the “Services”). CMS collects personal information when you register to use our Services, use our customer service, purchase products and/or services, and/or when you communicate with us electronically. Following is the personal information that CMS may collect from you on one of our websites:

During Registration:

      • First name, last name and middle initial
      • E-mail Address
      • User ID Name
      • Phone Number
      • Password
      • Address and/or Zip Code

During the Purchase Process for any Products:

      • Credit Card Number and Expiration Date – Credit card information will be collected but it will not be stored by CMS. Credit card information will be captured briefly by CMS for the purpose of bank verification. A transaction number will be stored in the CMS database.
      • Billing Address
      • Shipping Address

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION:

CMS will not sell your personal information to non-affiliated third-parties.

If you provide personal information to CMS, we may use it in the following limited ways:

      • CMS may use your name and email and postal address to send you information advising you of our upcoming events, new products, services, features, and/or information pertaining to CMS websites and other related information.
      • CMS will use your name and email address to notify you of the status of your online purchase of any products and/or services.
      • CMS may use personal information for internal purposes, such as tracking demographic data to make our websites and services more useful to users. CMS may provide its affiliates and business partners with your personal information in order to be able to provide our products and services to you.
      • CMS provides certain trusted third parties that we retain for the provision of technical or other services (for example, credit card processing and book publishing services) with access to personal information. However, third parties retained by CMS to provide such services are obligated to maintain the confidentiality of this information and are not authorized to use this information for any purpose other than providing those services.
      • Clients and/or licensors of CMS provide us with content which allows us to create diverse products and services for our users and which enable our users to personalize and/or customize the Services. In order for you to get the full benefit of our clients’ services, events, activities and information, CMS may share some of your personal information (such as name, email address and ID) with a client or licensor, but only when you log on to a CMS website for such client or request website content obtained from a licensor. CMS will never share your credit card or any other financial information with any of our clients or licensors without your permission. Please note that the CMS Privacy Policy differs from our clients’ privacy policies.
      • CMS will disclose personally identifiable information if required by law to do so.
      • CMS will not sell your personally identifiable information to third parties.

WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT AND STORE NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

In order to make our site more interesting and useful to you, CMS uses standard browser (HTML) technology and cookies to automatically collect information on our site. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer’s hard drive for recordkeeping purposes. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many websites use them to provide useful features for their customers. CMS uses this information for statistical purposes and to help us make our websites more useful to registered users. Cookies do not identify users personally; instead, they identify a user’s computer. However, CMS will combine this information with personally identifiable information to identify a visitor in order to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use or to protect our products and services, our websites, guests or others. You can choose not to accept cookies by adjusting your browser settings but, if your browser is not set up to accept cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of certain features and content on our website and you may not be able to make full use of our Services.

APPLICABILITY OF POLICY

This Privacy Policy applies to CMS websites. In order to provide more comprehensive and useful websites, our websites contain links to other websites that are not under our control. CMS is not responsible for the content of any linked website, the services provided or products purchased from such linked websites, any changes or updates to such linked websites, or the privacy policies of such linked websites. Further, the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by CMS of that website or its terms and policies.

SECURITY

CMS understands that your personal information is sensitive and protecting the confidentiality and integrity of this information is a top priority for us.
Our websites have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. CMS treats personal data as critical assets that must be guarded at all times against loss and unauthorized access. Our server is encrypted to protect credit card and other information submitted via the forms on our websites. Our server is located in a locked, secure environment. All databases containing personal information are securely stored and protected behind a firewall.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Changes to this Privacy Policy may occur from time to time. If they do, we will provide a notice to the email address you have supplied to us or we will alert you of any changes upon your re-entering our website.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

If you have any further questions about our Privacy Policy, the information that we have collected from you online, the practices of our websites, your interaction with our websites or to correct and/or change contact information, please contact [email protected].