FlockPod Privacy Policy

FlockPod.com is a service of Harbinger Knowledge Products Private Limited, ("FlockPod" or "we"). FlockPod respects your individual privacy and is opposed to spyware. This privacy policy documents our standards for the protection of your personal information. The policy is effective as of July 10, 2007, applies to information collected through the site FlockPod.com, and covers the following: what personally identifiable information is collected by FlockPod; how FlockPod uses this information; with whom FlockPod may share this information; what choices are available to you as a user of the site with respect to collection, use and distribution of the information; what types of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control; and how you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

1. Information Collection and Use
FlockPod collects information on the site when we require the submission of certain personally identifiable information. Personal identifiable information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available for you to use certain features of the site. For example, when you register as a member of FlockPod, you must submit an e-mail address and choose a username. Generally, FlockPod does not collect personally identifiable information other than username and e-mail address from its registered users.

2. Use of Your Personal Information
If you become a registered user of FlockPod, we do not keep records or use any information about the various websites you use while using FlockPod. We only store the contents you enter in FlockPod. Moreover, unless we determine that you may have violated the FlockPod Terms of Service, we will not attempt to learn your real name, address, telephone number or other similar kinds of information other than your e-mail address.

3. General Data Protection Principles
FlockPod will not release any personal information to any third parties without your prior consent except for the purposes of validating information or unless we reasonably believe that we are required to do so by operation of law. FlockPod retains the right at all times to contact you in relation to the Applications or any services provided on our website. We will not give or sell your personal information to any third parties for marketing purposes without your consent. If at any time after giving us this information you decide that you no longer wish us to hold or use this information, or in the case that the information becomes out of date, you are free to notify us, and we will endeavor to remove or rectify the information promptly. We do not collect or keep your personal data unless it is necessary nor do we keep your personal data for after you seize to be FlockPod user. We will transfer the information about you if FlockPod is acquired or merged with another company. In this event we will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

4. Use of Aggregate Information
We may store non-personally identifiable information that we collect through log files to create a profile of our user community in the aggregate. Aggregate information can include log files record internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks which we will use to analyze trends, administer the site, track aggregate service and web site usage patterns, and gather broad demographic information for general use. FlockPod is not spyware. Unlike spyware, usage information recorded in our log files is not linked to personally identifiable information. Although we may share our aggregate information with third parties or the public, our use and disclosure of this aggregate information will never intrude on your individual privacy rights. Your individual usage cannot be tracked through aggregate data.

5. Disclosure of Personal Information As Required By Law
We will disclose personal information when required by law, or if we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us, (b) protect and defend our rights, or (c) protect the rights, property, and other interests of our users or others.

6. Security
FlockPod takes commercially reasonable precautions to protect your information. However, given the nature of the Internet and the fact that network security measures are not infallible, we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

7. Correcting, Updating, Deleting and Deactivating Personal Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, you may contact us to correct, update or delete and deactivate our record of your personally identifiable information.

8. Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our stated privacy policy, we will prominently post a notice on the main page and other pages of the FlockPod site to alert you to the update. If we decide to make a change to the way we use your existing personally identifiable information that is materially different from the policy stated at the time of its collection, we will take two steps: (1) we will state in our posted update notice that personally identifiable information is affected, and (2) we will either exclude your personally identifiable information from that new use or before we use your information notify you via e-mail and give you a choice as to whether or not we may use your information in this different manner.

9. DISCLAIMER
FLOCKPOD IT'S DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, SERVANTS AND AGENTS, AFFILIATES OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE PARENT AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES, SHALL NOT BE LIABLE IN RESPECT OF ANY CLAIMS, EMERGENCIES, DEMANDS, CAUSES OF ACTION, DAMAGES, LOSSES, EXPENSES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, REASONABLE LEGAL FEES AND COSTS OF PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE AND/OR DISSEMINATION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION RELATING TO YOU IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT AND YOUR CONSENTS.

10. Amendments
FlockPod reserves the right in its sole discretion to amend this Privacy Statement at any time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the e-mail address specified in your FlockPod account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

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