Privacy Policy
Privacy comes first and foremost at SimilarTube (a brand owned and operated by VI STUDIO, INC). Your privacy is very important to us. This privacy policy is effective Aug 30th, 2024; it summarizes what information we might collect from a registered user or other visitor, and what we will and will not do with it.
First, we have a few fundamental principles at SimilarTube:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it to provide our services.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t sell personal information. Your name and email address will never be given or sold to a 3rd party.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless it’s required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
WEBSITE VISITORS
Like most website operators, SimilarTube non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. SimilarTube’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SimilarTube’s visitors use its website.
From time to time, SimilarTube may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
GATHERING OF PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Certain visitors to SimilarTube’s websites choose to interact with SimilarTube in ways that require SimilarTube to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SimilarTube gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at SimilarTube to provide a name, email address, and phone number. Those who engage in transactions with SimilarTube are asked to provide additional information, or connect with a social media service, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions.
In each case, SimilarTube collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with SimilarTube. SimilarTube does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
AGGREGATED STATISTICS
SimilarTube may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. SimilarTube also has Fathom Analytics installed on our site as well as other analytic programs that help us gather feedback and make decisions on how to improve our service offerings. However, SimilarTube does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
SimilarTube discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on SimilarTube’s behalf or to provide services available at SimilarTube’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using SimilarTube’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
As an example, if you’re having trouble with choosing a winner (whether that be user error or a bug on our end) and you file a support ticket, an employee of SimilarTube may access your account to help decide how to best remedy the solution. This might include opening up your list of entries and seeing entrant information.
SimilarTube will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, SimilarTube discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when SimilarTube believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SimilarTube, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of an SimilarTube website and have supplied your email address, SimilarTube may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with SimilarTube and our products. We primarily use our blog, Facebook page, and Twitter account to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. SimilarTube takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
GOOGLE OAUTH
SimilarTube use and transfer to any other app of information received from google.com APIs will adhere to google.com API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
COOKIES
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. SimilarTube uses cookies to help SimilarTube identify and track visitors, their usage of SimilarTube website, and their website access preferences. SimilarTube visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SimilarTube’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of SimilarTube’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
EXTERNAL DATA STORAGE SITES
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
NOTICE TO EUROPEAN UNION USERS
SimilarTube’s operations of business are located primarily in the United States and Canada. If you provide information to us, the information will be transferred out of the European Union (EU) to the United States or Canada. By providing personal information to us, you are consenting to its storage and use as described herein.
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM CHILDREN
You must be at least 13 years old to use SimilarTube‘s web site(s) & service(s). SimilarTube does not knowingly collect information from children under 13. See the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act here.
If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal data through the site. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s internet usage and to help enforce our privacy policy by instructing their children never to provide personal data through SimilarTube without their permission.
BUSINESS TRANSFERS
If SimilarTube, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that SimilarTube goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of SimilarTube may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
YOUR PRIVACY RESPONSIBILITIES
To help protect your privacy on SimilarTube, be sure:
Not to share your user ID or password with anyone To log off the SimilarTube web site when you are finished To take customary precautions to guard against ‘malware’