Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to
us. At Spry Hive we have a few
fundamental principles:
* We don’t ask you for personal
information unless we truly need it.
* 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 store personal information on
our servers unless required for the
on-going operation of one of our
services.
* In our software products, we aim to
make it as simple as possible for you to
control what’s visible to the public,
seen by search engines, kept private,
and permanently deleted.
Below is our privacy policy which
incorporates these goals:
Spry Hive Industries LLC. Privacy Policy
Spry Hive Industries LLC. (“Spry Hive”)
operates several websites including
spryhive.com and fizzik.com, distributes
software products such as the Fizzik
browser, and makes available other
products, services, and discussion
forums (collectively, “Spry Hive
Products”). It is Spry Hive’s policy to
respect your privacy regarding any
information we may collect when you use
Spry Hive Products.
How We Collect Personally-Identifying
Information in General
Certain users of Spry Hive Products may
choose to interact with Spry Hive in
ways that require Spry Hive to gather
personally-identifying information. The
amount and type of information that Spry
Hive gathers depends on the nature of
the interaction. For example, we ask
visitors who sign up for an account at
the Fizzik support center to provide a
username and email address. Those who
engage in transactions with Spry Hive –
by purchasing products online using the
Fizzik browser, for example – are asked
to provide additional information,
including as necessary the personal and
financial information required to
process those transactions.
Spry Hive may collect statistics about
the behavior of users of Spry Hive
Products. For instance, Spry Hive may
monitor the most popular search queries
run from the Fizzik browser or the Web
pages or online videos most often
opened, shared, or saved on the local
device. Spry Hive may display this
information publicly or provide it to
others.
In each case, Spry Hive collects such
information only insofar as is necessary
or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of
the user’s interaction with Spry Hive or
Spry Hive Products. Users may refuse to
supply personally-identifying
information, though it may prevent you
from using of some or all of Spry Hive
Products. Spry Hive does not disclose
personally-identifying information other
than as described below.
How We Collect Personally-Identifying
Information: Software Products
The Fizzik browser may include an update
feature that checks our servers on a
daily basis to ensure that you are
running the most stable, secure and
feature-rich version of the Fizzik
browser. In connection with the
auto-update feature, the Fizzik browser
may send non-personally identifying
information about how you are using the
Fizzik browser and which features our
most popular, enabling us to improve our
products. Do not install or use the
software if you do not wish to
participate in this program.
The Fizzik browser allows you to
conveniently access certain online
services. To take advantage of such
services, you may be required to
register for or log into the services on
the web sites of their respective
providers. These services will then
collect information, and inform you
about what information they collect, in
accordance with their own terms of
service. By agreeing to those terms of
services, and by enabling them within
the Fizzik browser, you are allowing us
to pass this information back to these
service providers. The Fizzik browser
does not pass this information to Spry
Hive or our servers. Fizzik shall have no
liability or responsibility for the
privacy practices or other actions of
any third party site or service that may
be enabled within your Fizzik browser.
While most of the integrated services
require that you register and log into
the specific services, not all services
require registration and logging in.
Services are enabled by your explicit
actions in the Fizzik browser, such as
logging in and/or choosing to remember
or activate an account.
How We Collect Personally-Identifying
Information: Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Spry Hive
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. Spry Hive’s purpose in
collecting non-personally identifying
information is to better understand how
Spry Hive’s visitors use its website.
From time to time, Spry Hive may release
non-personally-identifying information
in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a
report on trends in the usage of its
website.
Spry Hive also collects potentially
personally-identifying information like
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Spry
Hive does not use such information to
identify its visitors, however, and does
not disclose such information, other
than under the same circumstances that
it uses and discloses
personally-identifying information, as
described below.
Spry Hive uses cookies to help Spry Hive
identify and track visitors, their usage
of Spry Hive Products access
preferences. 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.
Spry Hive visitors who do not wish to
have cookies placed on their computers
should set their browsers to refuse
cookies before using Spry Hive Products,
with the drawback that certain features
of Spry Hive Products may not function
properly without the aid of cookies.
Use of Certain Personally-Identifying
Information
Spry Hive 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 Spry Hive’s behalf or
to provide services to the users of Spry
Hive Products, 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
Spry Hive Products, you consent to the
transfer of such information to them.
Spry Hive 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, Spry
Hive discloses potentially
personally-identifying and
personally-identifying information only
when required to do so by law, or when
Spry Hive believes in good faith that
disclosure is reasonably necessary to
protect the property or rights of Spry
Hive, third parties or the public at
large.
If you are a registered user of a Spry
Hive Product and have supplied your
email address, Spry Hive 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 Spry Hive and
Spry Hive Products. We primarily use our
various product blogs 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. Spry Hive
takes all measures reasonably necessary
to protect against the unauthorized
access, use, alteration or destruction
of potentially personally-identifying
and personally-identifying information.
In some cases, Spry Hive may choose to
buy or sell assets. In these types of
transactions, customer information is
typically one of the business assets
transferred. Moreover, if Spry Hive’s
business were acquired, customer
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 Spry Hive may continue to
use your personally identifying
information as set forth in this policy.
Except as set forth above, you will be
notified when your personal information
may be shared with third parties or used
for a purpose incompatible with the
purpose(s) for which it was originally
collected, and you will be able to
prevent the sharing of this information
by opting out.
Advertising
Ads appearing in any of Spry Hive
Products 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 Spry Hive and does not cover
the use of cookies by any advertisers.
When you post a message through the
Fizzik browser, information about you,
including user profile information, may
be visible to other users. If you post
personal information online that is
accessible to the public, that
information becomes publicly available
and can be collected and used by others
and redistributed through the internet
and other media channels. You may
receive unsolicited messages from other
parties in return.
Can Children Use Spry Hive Products?
Spry Hive Products are not intended for
children. If you are under 18, you may
use Spry Hive Products only with
involvement of a parent or guardian.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be
minor, Spry Hive may change its Privacy
Policy from time to time, and in Spry
Hive’s sole discretion. Spry Hive
encourages visitors to frequently check
this page for any changes to its Privacy
Policy. Your continued use of this site
after any change in this Privacy Policy
will constitute your acceptance of such
change.
If you have any questions or concerns
regarding Spry Hive’s privacy policy,
please send us a detailed message to
privacy@spryhive.com. We will make every
effort to resolve your concerns.
© Spry Hive Industries. Our privacy
principles and policy are adapted from a
policy originally provided by Automattic
(the makers of WordPress) under the
Creative Commons Sharealike license.
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