Your privacy is critically important to us. UCPhoto is located in Hartford, CT, phone 510-240-2947.
It is UCPhoto.net’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.ucphoto.net (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “www.ucphoto.net”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
– Website Visitors
Like most website operators, UCPhoto.net 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. UCPhoto.net’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how UCPhoto.net’s visitors use its website. From time to time, UCPhoto.net may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
UCPhoto.net also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on http://www.ucphoto.net blog posts. UCPhoto.net only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
To block attacks from countries known for hacking, scams, and spam, UPhoto.net uses a service and includes IP2Location LITE data available from https://lite.ip2location.com.
– Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to UCPhoto.net’s websites choose to interact with UCPhoto.net in ways that require UCPhoto.net to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that UCPhoto.net gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at http://www.ucphoto.net to provide a username and email address.
– Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
– Advertisements
As of 01-MARCH-2020, there is no intention to include ads on the UCPhoto.net site, but that may change. As such, ad privacy info follows: Ads appearing on our website 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 UCPhoto.net and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
– Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
– Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
UCPhoto.net 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 UCPhoto.net’s behalf or to provide services available at UCPhoto.net’s website, 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 UCPhoto.net’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. UCPhoto.net 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, UCPhoto.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when UCPhoto.net believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of UCPhoto.net, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of http://www.ucphoto.net and have supplied your email address, UCPhoto.net 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 UCPhoto.net and our products. We primarily use our blog 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. UCPhoto.net takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
– Aggregated Statistics
UCPhoto.net may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. UCPhoto.net may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, UCPhoto.net does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
– Cookies
As of 01-MARCH-2020, the only cookie UCPhoto.net uses is a session cookie, and specifically to prevent pop up messages from reappearing on each page. 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. A session cookie is deleted once the visitor closes their browser.
– E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with UCPhoto.net – by purchasing UCPhoto.net’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In almost all cases, the financial information will be collected by Paypal, not UCPhoto.net. UCPhoto.net may collect shipping information. In each case, UCPhoto.net collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with UCPhoto.net. UCPhoto.net does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, UCPhoto.net may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in UCPhoto.net’s sole discretion. UCPhoto.net encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Changes will be noted in a blog post. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.