Privacy Statement

Last revised March 15, 2008

We at Animate My Drawing Inc. are dedicated to protecting your privacy and handling any personal information we obtain from you with care and respect. This privacy policy (the "Policy") applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Animate My Drawing Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, the "Services"). This Policy is designated to answer your questions regarding our privacy policy and principles.

Animate My Drawing Inc., is also referred to in this Policy as "we", "our" and "us". While our Services are for purchase by adults, we recognize the need to provide additional protections for children who visit Animate My Drawing Inc. websites. To read about our privacy protections for children under the age of 13, please read under the "Animate My Drawing Inc. Children Privacy Policy."

Animate My Drawing Inc. adheres to the U.S. safe harbor privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement, and is registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce's safe harbor program.

If you have any questions about this Policy, or if you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, please feel free to contact us through our website at privacymatters@animatemydrawing.com or write to us at Privacy Matters, c/o Animate My Drawing Inc. 1835 East Hallandale Beach Blvd. # 208 Hallandale, Fl 33009 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. However, in order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

Information you explicitly provide - We collect information volunteered by you. When you log in for a Animate My Drawing Service, we ask you for user names and passwords anonymous or non-personally identifying the individual. However when you sign up for a Animate My Drawing Account or other Animate My Drawing, Inc. service or promotion that requires registration, we might ask you for personal information (such as your first name, last name, address, telephone number, email address and an account password). For certain Services, we also request credit card or other payment account information, such as billing address, which we will maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Animate My Drawing, Inc. Services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our Services. We may also use a user's email address to send updates or news regarding the Services. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting in their user "Account Setting".

Cookies - When you visit Animate My Drawing, Inc. Websites, we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to store visitor preferences, record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart, alert visitors to new areas that we think might be of interest to them when they return to our site, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads. 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 Animate My Drawing Inc. features and Services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

Log information - When you use Animate My Drawing Inc. services, our servers do not automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website.

User communications - When you send email or other communication to Animate My Drawing Inc. we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve the Services.

Affiliated sites - We may offer some of our Services in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Animate My Drawing Inc. in order to deliver the Service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

Other sites - This Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by Animate My Drawing Inc. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as links from within our various websites or Services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. Animate My Drawing Inc. only processes personal information for the purposes described in the Policy. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

  • Providing our products and services to users, 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; and
  • Developing new services.

Animate My Drawing Inc. 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.

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 Policy, 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 Policy, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our Services, in which case Animate My Drawing, Inc. may not be able to provide those services to you.

Information sharing

Animate My Drawing Inc. only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Animate My Drawing Inc. 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 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 Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Animate My Drawing Inc., its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Animate My Drawing Inc. reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets to that successor in interest. From time to time, we make our customers' e-mail list or the e-mail addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your e-mail address with other companies or organizations, please let us know contacting us through this web site at privacymatters@animatemydrawing.com or by writing to us at Privacy Matters, c/o Animate My Drawing.com 1835 East Hallandale Beach Blvd. # 208 Hallandale, Fl 33009 USA

With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationship with any ad server companies.

Information security

When we transfer and receive certain type of sensitive information such as financial information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site. We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data that we have collected from you at our site. 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 Animate My Drawing Inc. employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve the 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

Animate My Drawing Inc. processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy. 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 the Services. 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 Animate My Drawing Inc. services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to view and edit 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. In order to help prevent your personal information from being viewed by others, 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 require unreasonably disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required. The appropriate method(s) for accessing your personal information will depend on which Services you have used, and you may be able to access that information through means of access described by the service. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we might charge you this service at our sole discretion, depending if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

Enforcement

Animate My Drawing Inc. regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or Animate My Drawing, Inc.'s treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site at privacymatters@animatemydrawing.com or by writing to us at Privacy Matters, c/o Animate My Drawing 1835 East Hallandale Beach Blvd. # 208 Hallandale, Fl 33009 USA

When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is Animate My Drawing Inc.'s policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Animate My Drawing, Inc. and an individual.

Changes to this policy

Please note that this Policy may change from time to time, and we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Policy. We will post any Policy changes on this page and, provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Policy in an archive for your review. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Site periodically. Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us at the above address.


YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of Animate My Drawing Inc., who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to privacymatters@animatemydrawing.com.