Privacy Policy Yoohcan

Last modified on 9/1/2016

Welcome to the web site www.yoohcan.com, and any other web sites, applications, or services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Yoohcan Service"), which sites, applications or services are operated or produced by Yellow Walnut B.V. registered in The Netherlands (“Owner of Yoohcan"). Yoohcan values the privacy of the users, organizations, subscribers, publishers, members, and others who visit and use the Yoohcan Service (collectively or individually, "You" or "Users") and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information from and about you. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy in your Yoohcan account setup or within the registration process, or by using the Yoohcan Service, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this notice. This Privacy Policy applies to Yoohcan's collection and use of your personal information (i.e., information that identifies a specific person, such as full name, address, phone number, or email address). It also describes generally Yoohcan's practices for handling non-personal information (for example, interests, demographics and services usage).

 

The Information Yoohcan Collects

User-provided Information : You may provide to Yoohcan what is generally called "personal information" or "personal data" (such as your name, email address, postal mailing address, home/mobile telephone number, credit card number and billing information) if you register for a Yoohcan Service, or upload, purchase, view or download certain content or products from the Yoohcan Service, enter contests or sweepstakes, or otherwise use the features and functionality of the Yoohcan Service.

"Cookies" Information : When you access the Yoohcan Service, we may send one or more cookies - small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer. For information about what cookies are, how they work, how Yoohcan uses them and how to remove them, please see our cookie policy at Cookie Policy.

 "Automatically Collected" Information : When you access the Yoohcan Service or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from your system by using cookies and other types of tracking technologies. This "automatically collected" information may include Internet Protocol address (" IP Address "), a unique user ID, device type, device identifiers, browser types and language, referring and exit pages, platform type, version of software installed, system type, the content and pages that you access on the Yoohcan Service, the number of clicks, the amount of time spent on pages, the dates and times that you visit the Yoohcan Service, and other similar information. Depending on the law of your country of residence, your IP address may legally be considered personal information.

Information from Other Sources : We may obtain information, including personal information, from third parties and sources other than the Yoohcan Service, such as advertisers or social media networks for which you have approved our access to information (e.g., information from your Facebook account provided by the Facebook APIs). When you access the Yoohcan Service through social media networks or when you connect a Yoohcan Service to social media networks, you are authorizing Yoohcan to collect, store and use such information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We may also obtain information from third parties such as social entertainment platforms regarding your use of such services, including about your use of the content you choose to broadcast through the Yoohcan Service. 

 

The Way Yoohcan Uses Information

Yoohcan uses the information that you provide or that we collect from or about you: to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on the Yoohcan Service; and to improve your experience with the Yoohcan Service by delivering content which we hope you will find relevant and interesting, including advertising and marketing messages; to allow you to comment on content, and participate in online broadcasts, contests or rewards programs.

 We will use your email address for administrative communications such as notifying you of major Yoohcan Service updates, for customer service purposes, to address copyright infringement or defamation issues, or to contact you regarding any content that you have posted to or downloaded from the Yoohcan Service.

Yoohcanor its parent company Yellow Walnut may periodically send promotional materials or notifications to you related to the Yoohcan Service. If you want to stop receiving promotional materials, you can go to the account settings page within Yoohcan.com once you have logged in to the Yoohcan Service or (for email) follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.Yoohcan uses the information that we collect to understand the usage trends and preferences of our Users, to improve the way the Yoohcan Service works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.

Yoohcan may use "Automatically Collected" information and "Cookies" information to maintain and improve the Yoohcan Service, including to do the following things: (a) automatically update the Yoohcan application on your system; (b) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you access the Yoohcan Service; (c) provide customized third-party advertisements, content and information; (d) monitor the effectiveness of third-party marketing campaigns; (e) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and (f) track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities.

 

When Yoohcan Discloses Information

Yoohcan does not share your personal information with other organizations for their own marketing or promotional uses without your prior express consent. Please be aware, however, that any personal information that you voluntarily choose to display on any publicly available portion of the Yoohcan Service - such as when you publish content, comments or profile information - becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by others.

If you connect to a third party service (such as Facebook or Twitter) through an icon or link on the Yoohcan Service or otherwise link your Yoohcan account with a third party service, we may share the contents of your post and associated information (such as your user name, the fact that your connection originated from the Yoohcan Service, and other relevant usage and diagnostic information) with such third party.  With your one-time consent, we may also send information about the content you watch and your activities on the Yoohcan Service to such third parties. Once such information is shared, the use of your information will be subject to that service's privacy policy and this Privacy Policy will not apply.

Yoohcan may disclose Automatically Collected and other aggregate non-personal information with interested third parties to assist such parties in understanding the usage and demographic patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, or other functionality of Yoohcan.

Yoohcan may make both personal and non-personal information available to subsidiaries and affiliated companies that are under common ownership or control within the Yoohcan family.

 We may disclose both personal and non-personal information to service providers working on our behalf to: provide web site hosting, maintenance, and security services; fulfil orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; and assist Yoohcan in improving the Yoohcan Service and creating new services features. We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Privacy Policy, we authorize them to use the information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them, and we require these parties to use reasonable confidentiality measures.

 Yoohcan may disclose User information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with laws applicable around the world (for example, in the country of your residence); or respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant in the manner legally required by the requesting entity.

 Yoohcan also reserves the right to disclose User information that we believe, in good faith and after making reasonable enquiries, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability to Yoohcan; protect Yoohcan from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims or allegations to protect the security or integrity of the Yoohcan Service; or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Yoohcan, our Users, or others. We will notify you of these disclosures if we reasonably think we can do so legally and without harming the purpose of the disclosure.

Your Choices

You may update, correct, or delete certain of your user information and preferences by visiting the account settings page once you have logged in to the Yoohcan Service. You may also request to update, correct, delete the personal information you have provided to us by contacting us at info@yoohcan.com .

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you account access or making corrections to your information. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Advertisers and Analytics Providers

We may use third-party Web analytics services on our site, such as those of Google Analytics and Mixpanel.  These service providers use a variety of tracking technologies such as cookies to analyze how users use the Yoohcan Service.  The information collected will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Yoohcan Service.  To learn about opting out of Google Analytics, please  click here. To opt out of Mixpanel, please click here. Because these opt outs are cookie-based, please note that if you get a new computer or device, install a new browser, or erase or alter your browser's cookie file, you may need to opt out again.

Yoohcan may allow advertisers, third-party advertising networks and third-party advertising serving companies to serve advertisements directly to you within the Yoohcan Service and other Yoohcan sites, services and software. By serving these advertisements directly to you, these companies can set their own cookies on your computer and trigger their own Web beacons and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, and to collect and track information such as demographic information, inferred interests, aggregated information, and activity to assist them in personalizing the advertising content delivered to you. Yoohcan does not provide your personal information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asks Yoohcan to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, males age 25 to 40) or audience segment (for example, males age 25 to 40 who have participated in certain promotions) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience that they were trying to reach.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the tracking technologies and activities of, those other advertisers, third-party advertising networks, or third-party advertising servers. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these advertisers, third-party advertising networks, or third-party advertising servers.

Our Commitment to Data Security

Yoohcan uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical measures designed to protect the integrity and security of your personal information. However, no security precautions or systems can be completely secure. We cannot therefore ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Yoohcan, and you do so at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy

IF YOU ARE UNDER 14 YEARS OF AGE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE Yoohcan SERVICE AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER.

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Yoohcan does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from persons under 14 years-of-age. If Yoohcan learns that personal information of persons under 14-years-of-age has been collected on or through the Yoohcan Service, Yoohcan will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 14 who has become a Yoohcan Service member, then please contact Yoohcan at info@yoohcan.comto have that child's account terminated and information deleted.

Yoohcan commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. For all inquiries or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy you should first contact Yoohcan by emailing info@yoohcan.com .

In the Event of Merger or Sale

In the event that Yoohcan or some or all assets related to the Yoohcan Service are acquired by or merged with a third-party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from Users as part of that merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

Yoohcan reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time (for example to reflect updates to the Yoohcan Service or to reflect changes in the law). If Yoohcan changes this Privacy Policy, we will provide you notice of these changes, such as by sending an email, posting a notice on the Yoohcan Service, or updating the "Last Updated" date above. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically for those changes. Your continued use of the Yoohcan Service after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes. For any material changes to this Privacy Policy, the amended terms will automatically be effective thirty days after they are initially posted on the Yoohcan Service and we will make reasonable efforts to provide you with choice regarding those changes, if required by law.

Yoohcan Contact Information

Please contact Yoohcan with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, and our third-party disclosure practices or your consent choices at: Kabelweg 57, 1014 BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; by email: info@yoohcan.com . We will respond to your inquiry within 30 days of its receipt.