Privacy Policy
At SpyFu, we strive to develop innovative services to better serve
our users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate
our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines
the types of personal information we gather when you use SpyFu's services, as well
as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.
The following principles apply to the personally identifying information
we ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information
that individually identifies you, such as your name, physical address or email address.
You can find more details about the data we collect on particular services by clicking
the links on the side of this page.
Data collection
- SpyFu collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes
available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet
Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query
and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information
to operate, develop and improve our services.
- Some of our services require you to register for an account. SpyFu asks you for
some personal information in order to create an account (typically your name, email
address and a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide
the service.
- When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the
types of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make
an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.
Credit Card Data
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For paid subscriptions, we request
credit card or other payment information.
We use a secure offsite third party whose business it is to store and process credit
card transactions. We deliver the credit card information to the third party
via an encrypted military grade communications channel. Even in the
case of monthly or annual subscriptions, we keep no permanent record of your credit
card information on our servers. When we want to process a credit card transaction
on your card, we do so using a non-identifiable key that contains no reference to
your personal information.
Cookies
- Upon your first visit to SpyFu, a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely
identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters
that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to improve
the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us.
SpyFu does this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends
and patterns of how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept
cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a
cookie is being sent. However, some SpyFu features or services may not function
properly without cookies.
Information sharing
- SpyFu may share information about you with advertisers, business partners, sponsors,
and other third parties. However, we only divulge aggregate information about our
users and will not share personally identifiable information with any third party
without your express consent. For example, we may disclose how frequently the average
SpyFu user visits SpyFu, or which other query words are most often used with the
query word "web scraping." Please be aware, however, that we will release specific personal
information about you if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal
process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order.
Information security
- We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
- We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need
to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We expect
most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant.
Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant,
we will also provide a more prominent notice.
If you have any additional questions, please feel free to
contact us any time.
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