Privacy Policy

Spotty Bear Ltd is committed to providing you with a trusted environment on your site. This Privacy Policy discloses how we collect, protect, use and share information gathered about you on our Website. Except as specifically mentioned below, this Privacy Policy only applied to information gathered on your Website, or in our Apps and Games. You will know that you are on our website as each page will have a direct link to this Privacy Policy, and all of our apps and games on an iPad or iPhone will have the URL for this Privacy Policy in the Settings app that can be launched from the home page, without launching any of our apps.

We hope that this Privacy Policy will help reinforce your confidence in our Website and enhance your experience on the Internet.

Information that we collect

In this Privacy Policy, when we use the term “personally identifiable information”, we mean any information that can be used to identify or contact a specific individual, such as a name, address, telephone number of email address. When we refer to “aggregate information” we mean information that does not allow us to identify a specific individual but describes a genearl category of visitors to the Site or particular attributes of such visitors, such as demographic information, usage of the Site and other anonymous information.

Peronally Identifiable Information that we collect

You do not have to be a Spotty Bear member to visit our Site and access some of our content. However as a non-member you may not have full access to all features that Spotty Bear offers.

If you choose to subscribe to our mailing list, we will ask you to provide us with certain personal information, including your name, and email address and age. By entering this infromation you are giving us your consent to recieve the newsletters, and you can unsubscribe either by following the unsubscribe link, or emailing us on unsubsribe@spottybear.com.

Aggregate Information that we collect

We also collect certain aggregate information when you visit out Site such as the browser you are using (i.e. Internet explorer 9, Chrome etc.), the internet address from which you linked to our Site, the operating systme of your comptuer (i.e. Microsoft Windows), etc. In apps and games, we capture similar information such as the type of device that you are using (e.g. iPad 2), the version of iOS that you are running (e.g. iOS 6.2) etc. We use this information to administer and improve your experience on our Site, apps and games, to help diagnose and troubleshoot potential server malfunctions and to gather broad demographic information.

We, Spotty Bear Ltd are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of anyone using our site, apps & games and the confidentiality of any information that you provide us with. The purpose of this statement is to set out how we use any personal information that we may obtain from you.

Our Web pages and our email newsletters contain "web beacons." Web beacons allow us to count users that have visited a web page or opened an email that contains a web beacon and collect other types of aggregate information. Using this information, we are able to measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our Site. This allows us to learn what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which parts of our Site are the most interesting and what kind of offers our Members like to see. Some of the web beacons that are in place on our Site are used only by Spotty Bear, and other web beacons are from our vendors and advertisers who use this data to assist us in analyzing how our Members use the Site. In addition, we have agreements with various affiliate networks that promote Spotty Bear on their affiliate websites. These affiliate advertisers may use web beacons in their advertisements to track users who click through from the affiliate website to the Site.

How we use information

At Spotty Bear, everything we do, including how we handle your personal information, is designed to show how much we value you. Your information assists us in understanding the kinds of benefits and services that may suit your needs and interests. Other than as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not share personally identifiable information collected from you in connection with the Site with any third parties outside unless you authorize us to do so.

Cookies

We collect information directly from you in a number of ways. One way is through our use of 'cookies'. Most websites use cookies in order to make them work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. They help us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our website so we can develop and improve the design, layout, content and function of the site. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by websites that you visit. They save and retrieve pieces of information about your visit to the website – for example, how you entered the site, how you navigated through the site and what information and documentation was of interest to you. This means that when you go back to a website, it can give you tailored options based on the information it has stored about you on your last visit.

Some of our cookies are used to simply collect information about how visitors use our website and these types of cookies collect the information in an anonymous form.

The rules about cookies on websites have recently changed. If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can disable cookies on your computer by changing the settings in the preferences or options menu in your browser. You can set your browser to reject or block cookies or to tell you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. You can also delete any cookies that are already stored on your computer’s hard drive. However, please be aware that if you do delete and block all cookies from our website, parts of the site will not then work. This is because some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of our website to operate. Likewise, you may not be able to use some products and services on other websites without cookies.

To find out more about cookies, including seeing what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

If you do not wish to accept cookies from our website, please leave this site immediately and then delete and block all cookies from this site. Alternatively, you may opt out of receiving information from us by e-mail on unsubscribe@spottybear.com.

Important Disclosures, Practices, and Contact Information

Spotty Bear contains links to other sites. It is possible for you to receive information directly from our partners and other companies if you access them through a link on Spotty Bear or if you go directly to their Websites. Once you are on their sites, any data that you supply to these partners, for example, to obtain information or buy products directly from them is beyond our reach and will be the responsibility of each of the linked-to entities and not Spotty Bear. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Websites or any other sites linked to or referenced on our Site.

We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data that you disclose online and we will not be responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We will inform you if we substantially modify the way we handle your personally identifiable information by posting a notice on the Site, and we will give you the opportunity to opt-out of such differing uses. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site.

Policy in Effect from the 1st of September 2013. Last modified on the 6th of September