Privacy Policy - Cloud Nine Apps

Privacy Policy:

Cloud Nine Apps LLC (“Cloud Nine Apps“) operates cloudnineapps.com and may operate other websites. It is Cloud Nine Apps’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Cloud Nine Apps collects 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. Cloud Nine Apps’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Cloud Nine Apps’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Cloud Nine Apps may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Cloud Nine Apps also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on cloudnineapps.com blogs/sites. Cloud Nine Apps only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Cloud Nine Apps’ websites choose to interact with Cloud Nine Apps in ways that require Cloud Nine Apps to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Cloud Nine Apps gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at cloudnineapps.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Cloud Nine Apps are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Cloud Nine Apps collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Cloud Nine Apps. Cloud Nine Apps 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

Cloud Nine Apps may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Cloud Nine Apps may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Cloud Nine Apps does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Cloud Nine Apps 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 to process it on Cloud Nine Apps’ behalf or to provide Services available at Cloud Nine Apps’ 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 Cloud Nine Apps’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Cloud Nine Apps 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, Cloud Nine Apps discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request, or when Cloud Nine Apps believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Cloud Nine Apps, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Cloud Nine Apps website and have supplied your email address, Cloud Nine Apps 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 Cloud Nine Apps and our Products and Services. If you send us a request (for example via email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to use it to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Cloud Nine Apps takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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. Cloud Nine Apps uses cookies to help Cloud Nine Apps identify and track visitors, their usage of Cloud Nine Apps website, and their website access preferences. Cloud Nine Apps visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Cloud Nine Apps’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Cloud Nine Apps’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Mobile Apps

When you use a Cloud Nine Apps mobile app, it may collect the following information.

Device Identifier: This is used primarily for app-related functionality, such as managing and processing the app-specific data.
Analytics: These are primarily used to learn about product usage and improve user experience. The user can enable/disable these via the anonymous usage tracking setting in the app.

Alexa Skill

When you use a Cloud Nine Apps Alexa skill you have to talk to Alexa. This voice input is sent to Amazon and then to the Cloud Nine Apps Alexa Skill where it is used for processing the request. This is necessary for the Cloud Nine Apps skill to respond to your request properly.

Please also see the Alexa Terms of Use and the Privacy Policies by the Amazon Digital Services LLC (with its affiliates, “Amazon”).

Alexa Skill Data Collection

A Cloud Nine Apps skill does not collect personally-identifying information.

To improve Cloud Nine Apps Services analysis of utterances and other analytics is performed. This is done automatically by Amazon in the Amazon Developer Portal.

Business Transfers

If Cloud Nine Apps, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Cloud Nine Apps goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Cloud Nine Apps may continue to use your personal information as outlined in this policy.

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Cloud Nine Apps and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Cloud Nine Apps may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Cloud Nine Apps’ sole discretion. Cloud Nine Apps encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a cloudnineapps.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site and any Services or Products offered by Cloud Nine Apps after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.