Privacy Policy
Version 1.0, March 30, 2009
Loqu8 recognizes and respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Loqu8 Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies. Loqu8 adheres to the US Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at:
- Loqu8
Attn. Legal Notices
2272 Towne Cir
Mountain View, CA 94040
USA
Information we collect and how we use it
We offer a number of services that do not require you to
register for an account or provide any personal information to us,
such as Loqu8 Search. In order to provide our full range of
services, we may collect the following types of information:
• Information you provide – When you sign up for a Loqu8 Account or purchase a Loqu8 service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we also request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Loqu8 services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
• Cookies – When you visit Loqu8, we may send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends, such as how people search. Loqu8 also uses cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web. We may set one or more cookies in your browser when you visit a website, including Loqu8 sites that use our advertising cookies, and view or click on an ad supported by Loqu8’s advertising services.
• Log information – When you access Loqu8 services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
• User communications – When you send email or other communications to Loqu8, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
• Affiliated Loqu8 Services on other sites – We offer some of our services on or through other websites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Loqu8 in order to deliver the service. We process such information under this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites through which our services are offered may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
• Gadgets – Loqu8 may make available third party applications through its services. The information collected by Loqu8 when you enable a gadget or other application is processed under this Privacy Policy. Information collected by the application or gadget provider is governed by their privacy policies.
• Links – Loqu8 may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.
• Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to Loqu8 services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as links, including sites that may also include Loqu8 applications, products or services, or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
Loqu8 only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
• Providing our services, including the display of customized
content and advertising;
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and
improve our services;
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our network;
• Protecting the rights or property of Loqu8 or our users; and
• Developing new services.
You can find more information about how we process personal information by referring to the supplementary privacy notices for particular services.
Loqu8 processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners.
Choices for personal information
When you sign up for a particular service that requires
registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use
this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it
was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary service privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Loqu8 features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Loqu8 may not be able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
Loqu8 only shares personal information with other companies
or individuals outside of Loqu8 in the following limited
circumstances:
• We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing
of any sensitive personal information.
• We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated
companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of
processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these
parties agree to process such information based on our instructions
and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
• We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or
disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a)
satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable
governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service,
including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect,
prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues,
or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of
Loqu8, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If Loqu8 becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form
of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the
confidentiality of any personal information involved in such
transactions and provide notice before personal information is
transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated,
non-personal information such as the number of users who translated
or looked up a particular term. Such information does not identify
you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions
about the management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against
unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or
destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data
collection, storage and processing practices and security measures,
as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized
access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to Loqu8 employees,
contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to
operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are
bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to
discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they
fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
Loqu8 processes personal information only for the purposes for which
it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any
applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data
collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only
collect, store and process the personal information needed to
provide or improve our services or as otherwise permitted under this
Policy. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal
information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we
depend on our users to update or correct their personal information
whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use Loqu8 services, we make good faith efforts to provide
you with access to your personal information and either to correct
this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request
if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for
legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify
themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected
or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to
process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic,
require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of
others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests
concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which
access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide
information access and correction, we perform this service free of
charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.
Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or
delete users’ personal information. We provide the details for these
procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs for these
services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time.
We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without
your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be
minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this
page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more
prominent notice (including, for certain services, email
notification of Privacy Policy changes). Each version of this
Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its
effective date.
