Privacy Policy

The founders and employees of comotivate take your privacy very seriously - seriously enough to write our policy as simply as possibly.

The key points of our privacy policy are:

  • We deliberately limit the extent of the private information we ask for
  • Your personal homepage can remain completely off limits to anyone else
  • Your privacy remains under your control
  • You can delete your profile from comotivate
  • We will only disclose information about you to selected third parties as directed by this privacy policy
  • comotivate does not send unsolicited email
  • By joining comotivate, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy.

Information we collect

We collect the following types of information about you when you use comotivate:

  • Information provided by you. We collect personal information, such as your email address, when you register on comotivate.com. This information is used when you set up your personal profile. As part of your personal profile, you may choose to submit additional information such as your interests and other content, such as photos, music and videos.
  • Information collected automatically. comotivate receives and stores information which is transmitted automatically from your computer when you browse the Internet and use comotivate. This information includes information from cookies (which are described below), your IP address and browser type. Your IP address is the unique address of your computer which is automatically provided to other computers when your web browser or email application requests a web page or email from computers on the Internet.

Using your information

  • We will display your personal information on your profile according to the preferences you set. We will use your name so that you are recognisable on our database and so that we can personalise your experience. We will use your email address to contact you from time to time and may also use it for security reasons to confirm that you are who you say you are. You can control the types and frequencies of certain emails you receive in your preferences.
  • We may use the information collected automatically, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to gather statistics about the number of people who visit comotivate and to improve our site.
  • Advertisements that appear on comotivate are delivered to you by our advertising partners. comotivate may transfer information about your use of the site, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to our advertisers and other third parties. This information may be used to provide advertising, promotions and other products and services that may be of particular interest to you. It may also be used to provide you with a tailored choice of content and media products.
  • Our advertising and promotions partners have no access to your name or personal contact information stored by comotivate unless you choose to share it with them. comotivate does not provide your name or personal contact information to an advertising partner when you interact with or view a targeted advertisement.
  • We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or to protect the rights and property of comotivate, its affiliates or the public. We may also co-operate with law enforcement agencies in any official investigation and we may disclose your personally identifiable information to the relevant agency or authority in doing so.
  • We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of comotivate, such as acquisition by or merger with another company. If an acquiring company should plan to materially change this privacy policy, we will notify you beforehand.

Cookies

  • Cookies are a common Internet technology. Many websites use cookies to provide useful features for their users. Cookies are small files that are written or downloaded to your computer’s hard drive when you access a site. They allow comotivate to store and quickly retrieve login information on your computer and provide data that we can use to improve the quality of our service. Most Internet browsers (such as Internet Explorer and Safari) are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, although you may not be able to do everything you’d like to do on comotivate. You can disable cookies by going to Tools on your top menu bar. This will bring up the "Internet Options" dialogue box. On the top of the dialogue box, click on "Privacy". This will bring up the "Settings" box. Scroll up using the slide bar on the left-hand side of the box, until the wording in the box states Block All Cookies. Then click on the "OK" button on the bottom of the menu box. If you follow these instructions, your computer will not accept cookies in future.
  • comotivate may link information stored in cookies such as your year of birth, gender and country with your personally identifiable information and we may use such information to gather statistics about the number of people who visit comotivate and improve our site.
  • Our advertising partners may set and access cookies or use other technologies in order to personalise advertising content. Use by these advertising partners of their own cookies and any other tracking technologies are subject to their privacy policies. comotivate uses reasonable efforts to ensure that its advertising partners are operating privacy policies that are in accordance with comotivate’s own privacy standards as evidenced in this privacy policy.

Beyond our control

This site contains links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by comotivate. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by comotivate.
Be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. Please read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information.

Within your control

  • Your comotivate contributions (text, images and video) will only be shared with people in your team. We recommend that you don’t share any further specific personal contact information.
  • We recommend that you pay close attention to the personal comment you submit as part of your goal registration since this text is available to browse publicly.

Spreading the word

If you choose to use our referral service, we will ask you for your friend’s email address to send them a single email inviting them to visit comotivate. We store and use this information only for the sole purpose of sending this one email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Testimonials

We may ask for your consent to post a testimonial on our site which may contain personally identifiable information such as your name.

Internet awareness

Whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas, like journals, blogs, message boards and forums, this information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by others to send you unsolicited communications. comotivate recommends that you exercise discretion in deciding what information you disclose on the Internet.

  • Children under the age of 13 must not attempt to register with comotivate and/or submit any personal information to us. If it comes to our attention that we have collected personal data from a person under the age of 13, we will delete their profile as quickly as possible.
  • We recommend that children between the ages of 13 and 17 should not send any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet without asking their parents or legal guardians for permission beforehand.

Security and confidentiality

  • The security of your personal information depends on your protection of your account password. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorised people. comotivate uses industry standard technology designed to help keep your personal information safe. Please bear in mind though, that it is impossible for comotivate to guarantee that impenetrable security measures are in place. For example, we cannot control any illegal and/or unforeseen activity of other users that may allow them to compromise the privacy or security settings on the comotivate website. Consequently, you acknowledge that there are circumstances in which your personal information may be accessed by unauthorised persons.
  • We limit access to your personal information only to employees who we believe need to come into contact with that information in order to do their jobs in connection with the comotivate service.
  • If you become aware of any breach of data security or have any other questions about the security of our website, please email listener@comotivate.com .

Private and Managed teams

comotivate reserves the right to review from time to time any content displayed within private and managed teams to ensure it complies with the Terms of Use policy and to report to the relevant authorities any contravention of those terms.

Updates to this policy

We commit to ensuring this privacy policy is kept up to date. If we make any fundamental changes, we will notify you by any means we consider appropriate.
Additionally, we may send registered users an email notifying you of the change. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOU SHALL STOP USING THE comotivate SERVICE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE comotivate SERVICE FOLLOWING OUR COMMUNICATION OF A CHANGE WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.

Cancelling membership

You always have the option to delete your comotivate account. Just click on the ‘delete account’ button in your edit profile section.  

Contact

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us on the Contact Us page or write to us at listener@comotivate.com .

Effective Date and Last Revision Date

This Privacy Policy was first posted on May 15, 2008