Privacy Policy

What Information Do We Collect?
How Do We Collect Information?
How Do we Use Information?
With Whom Do We Share Information?
How Do we Secure Information?
How Do We Communicate With you?
Some Additional Information

The purpose of the Scriball Privacy Policy is to describe how the websites and mobile applications owned or operated by Scriball collect, share, and secure information.

What Information Do We Collect?
In order to become a member of Scriball you must provide us with an email address. In addition, you may choose to provide us with other information. For example, you may choose to upload a photograph, use our chat function, connect to a social networking website, such as Facebook or Twitter, or provide us with contact information for other users. If you initiate such a process, for example by using Facebook Connect, you will be asking Facebook to provide us with information from your Facebook profile. We treat this information the same way that we treat any other information that you may share with us. Be aware that when you use Facebook or other social networking website to share, distribute, comment upon, or endorse any of our content, that content is governed by the respective terms of use of Facebook or other social networking website.

If you purchase a book or other item that contains Scriball content, we may collect the personal information necessary to complete your purchase which may include your address or payment card information.

How Do We Collect Information?
We collect information from you by asking you to provide it to us on-line or via our smartphone application.

We may also collect information from you automatically. For instance, many sites use "cookies," which are small text files that reside on your computer to identify you as a unique user. We may use cookies on our website to allow us to, among other things, measure activity and to personalize your experience. For instance, cookies may enable us to remember your viewing preferences without requiring you to re-type a user name and password. Cookies may also allow us to track your status or progress when requesting products, services, or information. If you choose, you can set your browser to reject cookies or you can manually delete individual or all of the cookies on your computer by following your browser's help file directions. However, if your browser is set to reject cookies or you manually delete cookies, you may have trouble accessing and using some of the pages and features that are currently on our website, or that we may put on our website in the future. We may also collect technical data and related information about your smartphone device, including but not limited to a unique identifier associated with your smartphone device and other technical information about your device, system and application software, and peripherals. As with cookies, this information can also be used to measure activity and personalize your experience.

You can log in to our site using "sign-in services" such as Facebook Connect. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you with the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address.

How Do We Use Information?
Our primary purpose in collecting information about you is to provide you with products, services, information, and advertisements that match your interests and preferences. We may also decide to use information about you to track how you use our site. In addition, we may aggregate information that you provide with the information that other users provide in order to conduct research, analysis, or studies for our own purpose (i.e., not related to providing you with specific services or products).

We may decide to send our users email. If you decide that you do not want to receive commercial emails from us, you can "opt-out" from receiving such emails by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link provided at the bottom of every commercial email. If you opt-out you will still receive emails from us relating to specific products or services that you use. If you decide at a later time that you would like to receive commercial emails from us, you may be able to re-add yourself to our communication list.

With Whom Do We Share Information?
You have the option to complete a user profile that is visible to other Scriball users. Your user profile may include: a profile photo, a game username, your gender, biographical details that you provide, links to your profiles on various social networks, and details about the content you have written.

You may also choose to share your information with others through our application. For example, if you decide to send your content, along with a personal message, and information about you, such as your email address and user name, that information will be shared with people to whom you have sent the book. When you are making the decision to post information on your user profile or share your content with other users or on social media websites such as Facebook, please keep in mind that this information is available to the public and other users. These users may share information about you with other third parties, including their friends on other social networks.

We may share information about you with third parties in certain circumstances including in the following situations.

Behavioral Based Advertising Networks. We may participate in behavioral based advertising networks. This means that a third party may use the technology (e.g., a cookie or Apple Advertising Identifier) to collect information about your use of our website or application so that they can provide advertising about products or services tailored specifically to your interest. If you would like to opt-out of third party behavioral based advertising you can do so by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance and visiting Apple to learn how to turn off your Apple Advertising Identifier.

Sharing Your Information with Subcontractors. From time to time we may share information with subcontractors that provide us with services. These services may include, among other things, helping to provide services that you request, helping to create or maintain our databases, helping to research and analyze the people who request products, services or information from us, shipping your order, and/or helping to process payment card information.

Sharing Your Information with Law Enforcement. We may report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we reasonably believe to be unlawful, or that we reasonably believe may aid a law enforcement investigation into unlawful activity. In addition, we reserve the right to release your information to law enforcement agencies if we determine, in our sole judgment, that either you have violated our policies, or the release of your information may protect the rights, property or safety of Scriball, or another person.

Sharing Your Information as Permitted by Law. We may share your information with others as required by, or permitted by, law. This may include sharing your information with governmental entities, or third parties in response to subpoenas, court orders, other legal process, or as we believe is necessary to exercise our legal rights, to defend against legal claims that have been brought against us, or to defend against possible legal claims that we determine in our sole discretion might be brought against us.

Stories, Blogs, Online Postings, and Testimonials. We may decide to allow people who use our product to share comments, postings, testimonials, or other information. If you choose to submit such information to us, the information that you submit may be available generally to the public. Information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them.

Business Transition. In the event that Scriball, or substantially all of Scriball's assets, are acquired, your information will be transferred to the acquiring company.

How Do We Secure Information?
We take reasonable and appropriate measures to keep your information secure, and to help prevent it from becoming disclosed to individuals who are not described in this policy. While we follow reasonable procedures to try to protect your information, no security system is perfect and we cannot promise, and you should not expect, that your information will remain secure in all circumstances.

How Do We Communicate With you?
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy please contact us at customerservice@scriball.com.

If we need, or are required, to contact you concerning any event that involves your information we may do so by email, telephone, or mail.

Some Additional Information
Other Websites. Our website, our emails, or our application may link to third parties. It is also possible that third parties' websites, emails, or applications may link to us. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by third parties. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before transmitting any personally identifiable information to them.

Our Policies Concerning Children. Scriball does not seek any personally identifiable information from children, and if you are under 13 you should not provide us with any information.

Changes to the Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify or amend this policy at any time by posting the revised privacy policy on our website. Material changes will only affect the information we collect after the effective date of the change to our privacy policy unless we clearly express otherwise.

Effective Date: [December 12, 2012]

Your California privacy rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we disclosed their personal information (if any) for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year and the categories of personal information disclosed to those third parties. If you wish to make such a request or have any questions about Scriball's information sharing practices, you may contact us by sending us an email at customerservice@scriball.com or write to us at Scriball, Inc., 15332 Antioch Street, Suite 340, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272