Privacy Policy

Effective: September 21, 2020

This Privacy Policy explains how CommonTom (“CommonTom”, “Common Tom”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you. This Privacy Policy applies when you use our websites (the “Service”), contact our customer service team, engage with us on social media, or otherwise interact with us.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our website or providing you with a notification). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay information about our information practices and the choices available to you.

Definitions

  • Service: Service is the https://commontom.com/ website operated by CommonTom
  • Personal Data: Personal Data means the data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
  • Usage Data: Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Cookies: Cookies are small files stored on your deice (computer or mobile device).
  • Data Controller: Data Controller means the natural or legal personal who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
  • Data Processors (or Service Providers): Data Processor (or Service Providers) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
  • Data Subject (or User): Data Subject (or User) is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

Collection of Information

Information you Provide to Us

We collection information you provide directly to us. For example, you share information directly with us if you create an account, fill out a form, submit or post content through our Services, communicate with us via third-party platforms, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of personal information we may collect include your first name and last name, email address display name, username, business information, posts, comments and any other information you choose to provide.

We do not collect payment information through our Services. We rely on third parties to process payments in connection with our Services. Any information you provide to facilitate such a payment is subject to the third-party payment processor’s privacy policy, and we encourage you to review this policy before you provide any information to the payment processor.

Information We Collect Automatically When you Interact with Us

In some instances, we automatically collect certain information, including:

  • Activity Information: We collect information about your activity on our Service, such as your reading history and when you share links, follow users, highlight posts, and like posts.
  • Device and Usage Information: We collect information about how you access our Services, including data about the device and network you use, such as your hardware model, operating system version, mobile network, IP address, unique device identifiers, and browser type. We also collect information about your activity on our Service, such as access time, pages viewed, links clicked, and the page you visited before navigating to our Service.
  • Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We us tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about you. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Service and your experience, see which areas and features of our Service are popular, and count visits. Web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) are electronic images that we use on our Service and in our emails to help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage. We also work with third party analytics providers who use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Service and other websites and applications, including you IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spend on pages or in mobile apps, and links clicked. This information may be used by CommonTom and others to, among other things, analyse and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver content targeted to your interests on our Service, and better understand your online activity. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, see Your Choices below.

Information We Collect From Other Sources

We obtain information from third-party sources. For example, we may collect information about you from social networks and data analytics providers.

Information We Derive

We may drive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may make inferences about your location based on your IP address or infer reading preferences based on your reading history.

Use Of Information

We use the information we collect to provide, maintain and improve our Service, which may include publishing user-generated content, personalising the posts you see and operating a paywall. We will also use the information we collect to:

  • Provide and maintain our Service;
  • Notify you about changes to our Service;
  • Allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so;
  • Respond to your comments and questions and provide customer support;
  • Gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service;
  • Detect, prevent and address technical issues;
  • Monitor and analyse trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Service;
  • Comply with our legal and financial obligations;
  • Provide you with special offers and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those you have already purchased or inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information; and
  • Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

Sharing of Information

We share personal information the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this policy:

  • We share personal information with other users of the Service. For example, if you use our Service to post comments, certain information about you, such as your name, photo, bio, and other account information you may provide, and information about your activities on our Service (e.g. your followers and who you follow, recent posts, likes, highlights, and responses).
  • We share personal information with vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to personal information in order to perform services for us, such as companies that assist with web hosting, storage, and other infrastructure, analytics, payment processing, fraud prevention and security, customer service, communications, and marketing.
  • We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If we are going to disclose your personal information in response to legal process, we will give you notice so you can challenge it (for example by seeking court intervention), unless we are prohibited by law or believe in doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object legal requests for information about users of our Service that we believe are improper.
  • We share personal information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements and policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of CommonTom, our users, the public, or others.
  • We share personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.
  • We may share personal information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
  • We share personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage or business interests.
  • Personal information is shared between and among CommonTom and our current and future parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries and other companies under common control and ownership.
  • We share personal information with your consent or at your direction.
  • We also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside Australia and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Australia and process it there.

You consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

CommonTom will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Service Providers

CommonTom may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysis how our Service is used.

These third-parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.

  • Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is share with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Advertising

We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to support and maintain our service.

  • Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service and other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

Behavioural Remarketing

CommonTom uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to you after you visit our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimise, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

  • Google AdWords: Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Setting page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Google recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on providers visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
  • Facebook: Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc. You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this web page: https://facebook.com/help/164968693837950. To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions on Facebook: https://facebook.com/help/568137493302217. Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating compaines through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada: http://youradshoices.ca., or the European Interactive Ditital Advertising Alliance in Europe: http://youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobil device settings. For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebooks’ Data Policy: https://facebook.com/privacy/explanation

LInks to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not directly operated by us. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third part sites or services.

Children’s POlicy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 years (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18 years. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from Children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at commontom@outlook.com