Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Duck Soup Software we have a few fundamental principles:
Duck Soup Software, LLC. (“Duck Soup”) operates DuckSoup.us. It is Duck Soup’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites or apps.
Website Visitors and App Customers
Like most website or app operators, Duck Soup 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. Duck Soup’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Duck Soup’s visitors use its website.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Duck Soup’s websites choose to interact with Duck Soup in ways that require Duck Soup to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Duck Soup gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for the Duck Soup newsletter to provide an email address. Those who engage in transactions with Duck Soup – by purchasing access to DuckSoup.us, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Duck Soup collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the customer’s interaction with Duck Soup or its apps. Duck Soup does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Aggregated Statistics
Duck Soup may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites or use of its apps. Duck Soup does not display this information publicly or provide it to others.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Duck Soup 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 Duck Soup’s behalf or to provide services available at Duck Soup’s websites or its apps, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Duck Soup discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Duck Soup believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Duck Soup, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Duck Soup app and have supplied your email address, Duck Soup 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 Duck Soup and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs 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. Duck Soup takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Google User Data
When you sign in to DuckSoup.us with your Google account, you must allow access by Duck Soup to some of your Google user information on Google servers.
Google user information we collect
How we use your Google user information
Google user information is used on DuckSoup.us to create new user accounts, recognize returning users, manage files and documents on Google Drive used for interacting with Duck Soup products, and manage email subscriptions for users who subscribe to our emails.
Sharing Google user information
Google user information is shared and stored in a database residing on the web hosting provider WebFaction and email service provider MailChimp.
Cookies
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. Duck Soup uses cookies to help Duck Soup identify and track visitors, their usage of Duck Soup website, and their website access preferences. Duck Soup visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Duck Soup’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Duck Soup’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Duck Soup, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Duck Soup goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Duck Soup may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads will not appear on any of our websites and so potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information will not be sold or shared with advertisers. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Duck Soup and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Duck Soup may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Duck Soup’s sole discretion. Duck Soup encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site or apps after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change. We will notify you in the event our privacy policy changes.