What you do pub­licly on Sirqul may be viewed all around the world instant­ly.

This Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy describes how and when Sirqul col­lects, uses and shares your infor­ma­tion when you use our Ser­vices. Sirqul receives your infor­ma­tion through our var­i­ous web­sites, SMS, APIs, email noti­fi­ca­tions, appli­ca­tions, but­tons, wid­gets, ads, and com­merce ser­vices (the “Ser­vices” or “Sirqul”) and from our part­ners and oth­er third par­ties. For exam­ple, you send us infor­ma­tion when you use Sirqul from our web­site or access Sirqul from any Sirqul pow­ered appli­ca­tion. When using any of our Ser­vices you con­sent to the col­lec­tion, trans­fer, manip­u­la­tion, stor­age, dis­clo­sure and oth­er uses of your infor­ma­tion as described in this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy. Irre­spec­tive of which coun­try you reside in or sup­ply infor­ma­tion from, you autho­rize Sirqul to use your infor­ma­tion in the Unit­ed States and any oth­er coun­try where Sirqul oper­ates.

If you have any ques­tions or com­ments about this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy, please con­tact us at privacy@sirqul.com.

Information Collection and Use

Sirqul col­lects and uses your infor­ma­tion below to provide our Ser­vices and to mea­sure and improve them over time.

Basic Account Infor­ma­tion: When you cre­ate or recon­fig­ure a Sirqul account, you provide some per­son­al infor­ma­tion, such as your name, user­name, pass­word, and email address. In some cas­es, you may be required to provide your phone num­ber, for exam­ple, to use Sirqul via SMS or to help us pre­vent spam, fraud, or abuse. Your name and user­name are dis­played pub­licly on our Ser­vices, includ­ing on your pro­file page and in search results. Some Ser­vices, such as search and pub­lic user pro­files, do not require reg­is­tra­tion.

Addi­tion­al Infor­ma­tion: You may provide us with pro­file infor­ma­tion to make pub­lic, such as a short biog­ra­phy, your loca­tion, your web­site, or a pic­ture. You may provide infor­ma­tion to cus­tomize your account, such as a nick­name. We may use your con­tact infor­ma­tion to send you infor­ma­tion about our Ser­vices or to mar­ket to you. You may use your account set­tings to unsub­scribe from noti­fi­ca­tions from Sirqul. You may also unsub­scribe by fol­low­ing the instruc­tions con­tained with­in the noti­fi­ca­tion or the instruc­tions on our web­site. We may use your con­tact infor­ma­tion to help oth­ers find your Sirqul account, includ­ing through third-par­ty ser­vices and client appli­ca­tions. Your pri­va­cy set­tings con­trol whether oth­ers can find you by your email address or nick­name. You may choose to upload your address book so that we can help you find Sirqul users you know or help oth­er Sirqul users find you. We may lat­er make sug­ges­tions to you and oth­er users on Sirqul based on import­ed address book con­tacts. You can delete your import­ed address book con­tacts from Sirqul at any time. If you email us, we may keep your mes­sage, email address and con­tact infor­ma­tion to respond to your request. If you con­nect your Sirqul account to your account on anoth­er ser­vice, the oth­er ser­vice may send us your reg­is­tra­tion or pro­file infor­ma­tion on that ser­vice and oth­er infor­ma­tion that you autho­rize. This infor­ma­tion helps us improve the Ser­vices, and is delet­ed from Sirqul with­in a few weeks of your dis­con­nect­ing from Sirqul your account on the oth­er ser­vice. Pro­vid­ing the addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion described in this sec­tion is entire­ly option­al.

Actions, Fol­low­ing, Lists and oth­er Pub­lic Infor­ma­tion: Our Ser­vices are pri­mar­i­ly designed to help you cre­ate, share, and inter­act with the world. Most of the infor­ma­tion you provide us is infor­ma­tion you are ask­ing us to make pub­lic. This includes not only the inter­ac­tions you have with our ser­vice and the meta­data pro­vid­ed when you cre­ate con­tent, but the peo­ple you fol­low, the content/people you mark as favorites, and many oth­er bits of infor­ma­tion that result from your use of the Ser­vices. We may use this infor­ma­tion to cus­tomize the con­tent we show you, includ­ing ads. Our default is almost always to make the infor­ma­tion you provide pub­lic for as long as you do not delete it from Sirqul, but we gen­er­al­ly give you set­tings to make the infor­ma­tion more pri­vate if you want. Our Ser­vices broad­ly and instant­ly dis­sem­i­nate your pub­lic infor­ma­tion to a wide range of users, cus­tomers, and ser­vices. For instance, your pub­lic user pro­file infor­ma­tion and pub­licly post­ed con­tent are imme­di­ate­ly deliv­ered via our APIs to our part­ners and oth­er third par­ties, includ­ing search engi­nes, devel­op­ers, and pub­lish­ers that inte­grate Sirqul con­tent into their ser­vices. When you share infor­ma­tion or con­tent like com­ments, pho­tos, videos, and links via the Ser­vices, you should think care­ful­ly about what you are mak­ing pub­lic.

Loca­tion Infor­ma­tion: You may choose to pub­lish your loca­tion via your Sirqul pro­file set­tings. You may also tell us your loca­tion when you set your com­put­er or mobile device to send us loca­tion infor­ma­tion. We may also use oth­er data from your device to deter­mine loca­tion, for exam­ple, infor­ma­tion about wire­less net­works or cell tow­ers near your mobile device, or your IP address. We may use and store infor­ma­tion about your loca­tion to provide fea­tures of our Ser­vices and to improve and cus­tomize the Ser­vices, for exam­ple, with more rel­e­vant con­tent like local infor­ma­tion, shops, sim­i­lar­ly inter­est­ed users, ads, and sug­ges­tions.

Links: Sirqul may keep track of how you inter­act with links across our Ser­vices, includ­ing our email noti­fi­ca­tions, third-par­ty ser­vices, and client appli­ca­tions, by redi­rect­ing clicks or through oth­er means. We do this to help improve our Ser­vices, to provide more rel­e­vant adver­tis­ing, and to be able to share aggre­gate click sta­tis­tics such as how many times a par­tic­u­lar con­tent source, link, etc. was clicked on, read, or shared.

Cook­ies: Like many web­sites, we use cook­ies and sim­i­lar tech­nolo­gies to col­lect addi­tion­al web­site usage data and to improve our Ser­vices, but we do not require cook­ies for many parts of our Ser­vices such as search­ing and look­ing at pub­lic user pro­files. A cook­ie is a small data file that is trans­ferred to your computer’s hard disk. Sirqul may use both ses­sion cook­ies and per­sis­tent cook­ies to bet­ter under­stand how you inter­act with our Ser­vices, to mon­i­tor aggre­gate usage by our users and web traf­fic rout­ing on our Ser­vices, and to cus­tomize and improve our Ser­vices. Most Inter­net browsers auto­mat­i­cal­ly accept cook­ies. You can instruct your browser, by chang­ing its set­tings, to stop accept­ing cook­ies or to prompt you before accept­ing a cook­ie from the web­sites you vis­it. How­ev­er, some Ser­vices may not func­tion prop­er­ly if you dis­able cook­ies.

Log Data: When you use our Ser­vices, we may receive infor­ma­tion (“Log Data”) such as your IP address, browser type, oper­at­ing sys­tem, the refer­ring web page, pages vis­it­ed, loca­tion, your mobile car­ri­er, device infor­ma­tion (includ­ing device and appli­ca­tion IDs), search terms, and cook­ie infor­ma­tion. We receive Log Data when you inter­act with our Ser­vices, for exam­ple, when you vis­it our web­sites, sign into our Ser­vices, inter­act with our email noti­fi­ca­tions, use your Sirqul account to authen­ti­cate to a third-par­ty web­site or appli­ca­tion, or vis­it a third-par­ty web­site that includes a Sirqul but­ton or wid­get. We may also receive Log Data when you click on, view or inter­act with a link on our Ser­vices to a third-par­ty appli­ca­tion, such as when you choose to install anoth­er appli­ca­tion through Sirqul, App Stores, or via var­i­ous web­site usage. Sirqul uses Log Data to provide, under­stand, and improve our Ser­vices. If not already done ear­lier, for exam­ple, as pro­vid­ed below for Wid­get Data, we will either delete Log Data or remove any com­mon account iden­ti­fiers, such as your user­name, full IP address, or email address, after 18 months.

Wid­get Data: We may tai­lor the Ser­vices for you based on your vis­its to third-par­ty web­sites that inte­grate Sirqul but­tons or wid­gets. When the­se web­sites first load our but­tons or wid­gets for dis­play, we receive Log Data that includes the web page you vis­it­ed and a cook­ie that iden­ti­fies your browser (“Wid­get Data”). After a max­i­mum of 10 days, we start the process of delet­ing, de-iden­ti­fy­ing, or aggre­gat­ing Wid­get Data, which is usu­al­ly instan­ta­neous but in some cas­es may take up to a week. We may use Wid­get Data to tai­lor con­tent for you, such as sug­ges­tions for peo­ple to fol­low on Sirqul and oth­er con­tent you may be inter­est­ed in. Tai­lored con­tent is stored with only browser cook­ies or device IDs and is sep­a­rat­ed from oth­er Wid­get Data such as page-vis­it infor­ma­tion. For Posts, Log Data, and oth­er infor­ma­tion that we receive from inter­ac­tions with Sirqul but­tons or wid­gets, please see the oth­er sec­tions of this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy.

Com­merce Ser­vices: You may provide your pay­ment infor­ma­tion, includ­ing your cred­it or deb­it card num­ber, card expi­ra­tion date, CVV code, and billing address (col­lec­tive­ly, “Pay­ment Infor­ma­tion”), along with your ship­ping address, to com­plete a com­merce trans­ac­tion on Sirqul. You may also provide your cred­it or deb­it card num­ber to reg­is­ter for card-linked ser­vices, such as offers. To facil­i­tate future pur­chas­es on Sirqul, we store your Pay­ment Infor­ma­tion, exclud­ing CVV code, and ship­ping address, which you can remove from your account at any time using your account set­tings. We con­sid­er your Pay­ment Infor­ma­tion and ship­ping address pri­vate and do not make such infor­ma­tion pub­lic. We col­lect and store infor­ma­tion cre­at­ed by your pur­chas­es made on Sirqul (“Trans­ac­tion Data”). If you reg­is­ter your cred­it or deb­it card with Sirqul for card-linked ser­vices, we receive infor­ma­tion about the card trans­ac­tions from a third-par­ty pay­ment ser­vices provider (“Reg­is­tered Card Data”). Trans­ac­tion Data and Reg­is­tered Card Data may include the merchant’s name and the date, time and amount of the trans­ac­tion. Sirqul uses Reg­is­tered Card Data to ver­i­fy eli­gi­bil­i­ty for card-linked ser­vices, and may also use Reg­is­tered Card Data to lim­it the num­ber of offers avail­able to you and keep track of your offers.

Third-Par­ties and Affil­i­ates: Sirqul uses a vari­ety of third-par­ty ser­vices to help provide our Ser­vices to help us under­stand and improve the use of our Ser­vices, such as Google Ana­lyt­ics. The­se third-par­ty ser­vice providers may col­lect infor­ma­tion sent by your browser as part of a web page request, such as cook­ies or your IP address. Third-par­ty ad part­ners may share infor­ma­tion with us, like a browser cook­ie ID, web­site URL vis­it­ed, mobile device ID, or cryp­to­graph­ic hash of a com­mon account iden­ti­fier (such as an email address), to help us mea­sure and tai­lor ads. For exam­ple, this allows us to dis­play ads about things you may have already shown inter­est in. We may also receive infor­ma­tion about you from our cor­po­rate affil­i­ates in order to help provide, under­stand, and improve our Ser­vices and our affil­i­ates’ ser­vices, includ­ing the deliv­ery of ads.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Your Con­sent: We may share or dis­close your infor­ma­tion at your direc­tion, such as when you autho­rize a third-par­ty web client or appli­ca­tion to access your Sirqul account.

Ser­vice Providers: We engage ser­vice providers to per­form func­tions and provide ser­vices to us in the Unit­ed States and abroad. We may share your pri­vate per­son­al infor­ma­tion with such ser­vice providers sub­ject to con­fi­den­tial­i­ty oblig­a­tions con­sis­tent with this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy, and on the con­di­tion that the third par­ties use your pri­vate per­son­al data only on our behalf and pur­suant to our instruc­tions. We share your Pay­ment Infor­ma­tion with pay­ment ser­vices providers to process pay­ments; pre­vent, detect and inves­ti­gate fraud or oth­er pro­hib­it­ed activ­i­ties; facil­i­tate dis­pute res­o­lu­tion such as charge­backs or refunds; and for oth­er pur­pos­es asso­ci­at­ed with the accep­tance of cred­it or deb­it cards. We may share your cred­it or deb­it card num­ber with pay­ment ser­vices providers, or third par­ties autho­rized by them, to mon­i­tor card trans­ac­tions at par­tic­i­pat­ing mer­chants and track redemp­tion activ­i­ty for the pur­pos­es of pro­vid­ing card-linked ser­vices.

Sell­ers of Goods and Ser­vices: If you buy goods or ser­vices on Sirqul, we may provide the sell­er, com­merce provider or mar­ket­place with your name, email address, ship­ping address, Pay­ment Infor­ma­tion and Trans­ac­tion Data to facil­i­tate pay­ment pro­cess­ing, order ful­fill­ment and dis­pute res­o­lu­tion (includ­ing pay­ment and ship­ping dis­putes) and to help pre­vent, detect and inves­ti­gate fraud or oth­er pro­hib­it­ed activ­i­ties. Please refer to the­se third par­ties’ pri­va­cy poli­cies for infor­ma­tion about their pri­va­cy prac­tices.

Law and Harm: Notwith­stand­ing any­thing to the con­trary in this Pol­i­cy, we may pre­serve or dis­close your infor­ma­tion if we believe that it is rea­son­ably nec­es­sary to com­ply with a law, reg­u­la­tion or legal request; to pro­tect the safe­ty of any per­son; to address fraud, secu­ri­ty or tech­ni­cal issues; or to pro­tect Sirqul’s rights or prop­er­ty. How­ev­er, noth­ing in this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy is intend­ed to lim­it any legal defens­es or objec­tions that you may have to a third party’s, includ­ing a government’s, request to dis­close your infor­ma­tion.

Busi­ness Trans­fers and Affil­i­ates: In the event that Sirqul is involved in a bank­rupt­cy, merg­er, acqui­si­tion, reor­ga­ni­za­tion or sale of assets, your infor­ma­tion may be sold or trans­ferred as part of that trans­ac­tion. This Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy will apply to your infor­ma­tion as trans­ferred to the new enti­ty. We may also dis­close infor­ma­tion about you to our cor­po­rate affil­i­ates in order to help provide, under­stand, and improve our Ser­vices and our affil­i­ates’ ser­vices, includ­ing the deliv­ery of ads.

Non-Pri­vate or Non-Per­son­al Infor­ma­tion: We may share or dis­close your non-pri­vate, aggre­gat­ed or oth­er­wise non-per­son­al infor­ma­tion, such as your pub­lic user pro­file infor­ma­tion, pub­lic con­tent, the peo­ple you fol­low or that fol­low you, or the num­ber of users who clicked on a par­tic­u­lar link (even if only one did), or reports to adver­tis­ers about unique users who saw or clicked on their ads after we have removed any pri­vate per­son­al infor­ma­tion (such as your name or con­tact infor­ma­tion).

Modifying Your Personal Information

If you are a reg­is­tered user of our Ser­vices, we provide you with tools and account set­tings to access or mod­i­fy the per­son­al infor­ma­tion you pro­vid­ed to us and asso­ci­at­ed with your account.

You can also per­ma­nent­ly delete your Sirqul account. When your account is deac­ti­vat­ed, it is not view­able on Sirqul.com. For up to 30 days after deac­ti­va­tion it is still pos­si­ble to restore your account if it was acci­den­tal­ly or wrong­ful­ly deac­ti­vat­ed. After 30 days, we begin the process of delet­ing your account from our sys­tems, which can take up to a week.

Our Policy Towards Children

Our Ser­vices are not direct­ed to per­sons under 13. If you become aware that your child has pro­vid­ed us with per­son­al infor­ma­tion with­out your con­sent, please con­tact us at privacy@sirqul.com. We do not know­ing­ly col­lect per­son­al infor­ma­tion from chil­dren under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has pro­vid­ed us with per­son­al infor­ma­tion, we take steps to remove such infor­ma­tion and ter­mi­nate the child’s account.

EU Safe Harbor Framework

Sirqul com­plies with the U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Har­bor Pri­va­cy Prin­ci­ples of notice, choice, onward trans­fer, secu­ri­ty, data integri­ty, access, and enforce­ment. To learn more about the Safe Har­bor pro­gram, please vis­it the U.S. Depart­ment of Com­merce web­site.

Changes to this Policy

We may revise this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy from time to time. The most cur­rent ver­sion of the pol­i­cy will gov­ern our use of your infor­ma­tion and will always be at https://sirqul.com/privacy. If we make a change to this pol­i­cy that, in our sole dis­cre­tion, is mate­ri­al, we will noti­fy you via an @Sirqul update or email to the email address asso­ci­at­ed with your account. By con­tin­u­ing to access or use the Ser­vices after those changes become effec­tive, you agree to be bound by the revised Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy.

Effec­tive: April 8, 2014
Pre­vi­ous Sirqul, Inc Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy
Ques­tions about this Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy? Please, let us know.