Privacy Policy

About Audience Machine

Audience Machine Inc. is a technology-enabled digital audience generation company.

Our firm provides social networking, community engagement practices, search engine optimization, online media planning and buying, application development, dialog monitoring, web analytics, and creative design services that connect the interests of individuals and organizations.

Our goal is to provide organizations interested in, or even intimidated by, digital media marketing with data and guidance designed to help them integrate this exciting strategy into their marketing and media plans.

Community Tools

Audience Machine is skilled at using both proprietary and open source tools that amplify dialogs to drive brand preference and ROI. It’s all about combining the power of community participation and social networking to drive business growth and customer satisfaction.

Current Projects

We’re putting the focus on viral distribution by using social networks and community sites as the central hubs to support awareness about this innovative video-based math tutoring service.

Interest, not acquaintance, drives dialogs. Identifying individuals who are sharing personal stories about what they like and linking those dialogs to support awareness and user registration is just the start for our Twitter integration project with this emerging social network.

Florida Island Vacation Destination + User Generated Content = Really Fun Project. But don’t tell anyone just yet. Creative and site development, localized business directory database, content management system, user generated content and local search optimization. Very exciting. Thanks to Google Maps for the image.

PRIVACY POLICY

Audience Machine, Inc. (“Audience Machine”) owns, runs and licenses technology to and for various websites, including but not limited to Audience Machine.com, (the “Websites”). A link to this privacy policy is included on the homepage of each of the Websites. Audience Machine respects the privacy of its users. This document explains how Audience Machine will use the information that you provide to us via the Websites. Audience Machine may amend this privacy policy from time to time. If Audience Machine does so, the revised privacy policy will be posted on the Websites.

1. Information collected.

You are not required to provide personally identifiable information to visit the Websites; however, in order to take advantage of certain features you may need to provide some personally identifiable information.

User Name and Password. In order to access your third party message accounts, you must enter your applicable user name(s) and password(s) on Audience Machine. To use the basic services of the Websites, Audience Machine does not store your password(s) on our server. If you wish to utilize advanced features of the Websites, such as automatic sign-in, storage of your and password(s) may be necessary.
Aggregate Usage Data. Audience Machine may collect usage data and other information on all users, including data about their usage of the site and its various features, but it is not personally identifiable except as described below under the IP Addresses section.
Social Features. From time to time, Audience Machine introduces features that allow friends to share more information about themselves with other friends, including information about what they are doing on Audience Machine. Audience Machine may store the personally identifiable information that you provide us in order to provide these services, including your friends list. Whenever a social feature involves the disclosure of personally identifiable information about you to other people, Audience Machine will either provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the disclosure or will seek your consent prior to making the disclosure.
File Transfer. When you use the file transfer feature of Audience Machine, the file that you transfer is copied and retained on the servers of our third party service provider for a period of time following the transfer. Neither Audience Machine nor the third party service provider accesses or uses these files for any purpose, but you should be aware that these files are not encrypted.

2. Posting.

Users of the Websites may post messages regarding various topics in the posting areas of the Websites, including but not limited to chats and Audience Machine Rooms. Such messages may be saved on our servers and may be accessible to the public. In addition, chats in a given Audience Machine Room are saved on our servers as a chat log (a “Chat History”) and the Chat History will be accessible to the users of that Audience Machine Room, who may include law officers and other authorities. To the extent that your message and/or any Chat History include personally identifiable information, such information may be saved on our server(s) and may be disclosed to the public in perpetuity.

3. Cookies.

Audience Machine may use cookies on the Websites. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by our servers to identify your computer to our servers. Except as provided in Section 5, below, no personally identifiable information stored in the Audience Machine cookies will be shared with outside companies for any purpose without your permission. You can also disable cookies or otherwise manage them through tools provided with your browser software and with third-party software packages, or not use the features that require cookies.

We and our advertisers may use third-party companies to serve ads when you visit the Websites. These third-party ad-serving companies may also place cookies on your computer. Sometimes these cookies may be used to provide targeted advertising to you. These advertising companies may also use web beacons to help manage and optimize our online advertising.
To the extent that Audience Machine allows advertisers or other third parties to use cookies or web beacons on the Websites, Audience Machine will require that they agree to adopt a substantially similar privacy policy with respect to your information. Some third-party ad serving companies have agreed to allow users to opt-out of receiving targeted advertising. For more information see: .

4. IP Addresses.

Audience Machine compiles logs of IP addresses of visitors to the Websites for administrative and analytical purposes. Audience Machine does not routinely collect any personally identifiable information through its compilation of IP address or the location of computers on the Internet. However, in cases of suspected abuse or service problems, Audience Machine may use an IP address in conjunction with other personally identifiable information to enforce our Terms of Use and/or to protect or troubleshoot the Websites, its users or others who may be affected. Except as provided in Section 5, below, Audience Machine will not share personally identifiable information associated with IP addresses with third parties without your permission. Audience Machine may share data about aggregate IP addresses, but such data does not include personally identifiable information.

5. Sharing of Information.

Audience Machine may share personally identifiable information with third parties in the following cases:

to enable the normal course of functionality of the Websites (for example, your user name(s) and password(s) will be shared with your message services in order to permit you to send or receive massages). Audience Machine engages third party service providers in the normal course to help in the operation of its business. We may share your personally identifiable information with these third party service providers to the extent necessary for them to provide their services, on the condition that the third party maintains the information as confidential and uses the information only to perform the services specified by Audience Machine;
as part of Audience Machine’s social features, as described above;
to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to prevent fraud or imminent harm, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; and/or
in the event that Audience Machine is acquired by or merged with another company, Audience Machine will transfer information about you to that other company.

Audience Machine reserves the right to send you certain communications relating to the Websites and the services offered thereby, such as service announcements and administrative messages, but we plan on doing so sparingly, if ever. In any case, we reserve the right to contact you regarding violation of this privacy policy, the Terms of Use, and any other violation of law or applicable regulations and policies.

6. Notification of Changes.

Any changes to this policy will be posted on the Websites in this location.

7. Links to Other Sites.

The Websites contain links to and media and other content from other sites. In addition, such third-party media and content may also contain external links. Because of the dynamic media capabilities of the Websites, it may not be clear to you which links are embedded in the Websites and which are embedded in third-party media and/or content. Although Audience Machine requires our business partners and advertisers to adopt privacy policies similar to this privacy policy with respect to any information collected on the Websites, Audience Machine cannot and does not guarantee the privacy policies and practices of any third party. Audience Machine does not control, operate or endorse any information, products or services of any third-party websites that may be reached through links from the Websites. The use of any personal information provided to such a third party will be governed by that party’s privacy policy.

8. Acceptance.

This privacy policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms and conditions of Audience Machine’s Terms of Use, available on the Websites. Use of the Websites and the services offered thereby is subject to your compliance with the Terms of Use, which constitutes a legal agreement between you and Audience Machine. Each time you use the Websites and the services offered thereby you signify that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by the Terms of Use, which incorporates the privacy policy, and the applicable posted guidelines. USE OF THE WEBSITES AND THE SERVICES OFFERED THEREBY SIGNIFIES THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF USE AND THE PRIVACY POLICY. If you do not agree with the terms of either of these documents, please do not provide Audience Machine with any information and do not use the Websites and the services offered thereby. Your continued use of the Websites and the services offered thereby in light of changes to this privacy policy, the Terms of Use, or to the relevant principles thereof will signify your acceptance of the changes.

9. Comments and Questions.

If you have any comments or questions you may address them to our customer service department at comments@AudienceMachine.com, or via mail addressed to Customer Service, Audience Machine, Inc., at 549 4th Street, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266