We, Towards Digital Group LLC ("TDG LLC", "TDG", or "the/our Apps", "the/our Sites"), value our users ( "Users", "You", or "Your" ), and we are seriously committed to respecting the privacy rights of our Users. This TDG PRIVACY POLICY (the Privacy Policy) is created to help You, as our User, understand what data we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it. It is to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and to the protection of privacy, so that You will gain confidence as You use our Apps, browse our Sites, and use our Services.

By using our Apps, clicking any hyperlinks of our Sites, or using any of our Services, You represent and warrant that You have read and understood, and agreed to the terms of the Privacy Policy. This is important for You to take time to read the Privacy Policy carefully. And remember, You can find controls to manage Your information and protect Your privacy and security in the Settings of Your user account.

If You do not understand, or do not agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. please immediately cease using our Apps and Services, and leave our Sites.

Information We Collect

We collect information in order to provide better services to all of our users – from figuring out some basic stuff like which language You speak, to more complex things like which ads You’ll find most useful, the people who matter most to You online, or which events You might be interested most. The following lists the most common ways in which we may collect information from our operations.

Traffic Data

Traffic data is the data that will be automatically available in our computing systems as we run the Sites to provide our Services. Traffic Data is anonymous information that does not personally identify any users. Traffic data includes:

1. IP addresses;
2. device-specific information ( such as Your hardware models, operating systems, the types of browsers etc.); and
3. information regarding the physical geographic locations of the devices;

Personal Information

As a general matter, You can use our Apps and browse our Sites without submitting any Personal Information to us. However, there are some circumstances in which You may provide us with Your Personal Information in order to use our customized services and continually improve Your experience on the Apps and our Sites. The Personal Information are mainly Your profile information that You provide when You sign up with our Sites, including:

1. “Contact Data” (such as phone number and e-mail address) and
2. “Demographic Data” (such as Your gender, date of birth, and zip code).

In any cases, we will not gather Your Personal Information surreptitiously. You are under no obligation to provide Personal Information, with the caveat that Your refusal to do so may prevent You from using some of our Services.

Cookie Strings

“Cookies” are text strings placed on users' devices when users use apps and browse sties. A Cookie serves as a string of information stored on a user’s device by the site that the user visited, and it will be provided by the user’s browser or App to the site each time the user submits a query to the backend of the site. We and our partners use various technologies to collect and store information when You use our Services, and this may include using cookies or similar technologies to identify browser or device, as an individual. We use cookies for the following purposes:

1. to customize Your experience of using our services to Your interests
2. to ensure that You do not see the same advertisements or informational messages repeatedly, and
3. to store access-control information so that You do not have to re-enter Your password every time when You use our Services.

Advertisement Service

We design our own advertisement service system as well as use third-parties for advertising and analytics for pages that we host. They may place cookies on Your devices, use web beacons, gather IP addresses and log data to collect traffic and activity data in order to deliver relevant metrics, contents, and advertisements.

Information You Make Public

Our services contain features (e.g. posting, logging, instant messages, etc.) that allow You to upload, post, transmit, display, perform or distribute contents. Any information that You choose to disclose by means of such features becomes public information over which our Sites are unable to exercise control. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose Your Personal Information by means of such features, and You agree to assume all responsibility for doing so.

How We Use Collected Information

We have implemented and will always maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction or disclosure of any data in our system, including our system logs, application data, and Your Personal Information.

Information Security

We have been working hard to protect our system and our Users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of information we hold. In particular:

We encrypt all of our services from our Sites using SSL, keeping the communications between our servers and our Users confidentially.

We restrict access to personal information to our employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us. All of them are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

Internal Usage

Generally, all the data and information collected from our computing systems and Services will only be used internally by our system in order to provide, maintain, protect and improve our Services, to develop new ones, and to protect our system and our Users.

Our automated systems analyze Your contents (including, notes, collections, and emails) to provide You personally relevant product features, such as customized news, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection.

We may use the name You provide for Your Profile across all of our Services we offer that require a user Account. We may use Your email address to inform You about our products and services, such as letting You know about upcoming changes or improvements. When You contact us, we keep a record of Your communication to help solve any issues You might be facing.

We will not associate any identifier from cookies or similar technologies with sensitive categories, such as those based on race, religion, sexual orientation or health.

Aggregational Usage

We may share with our trusted partners the traffic data and information gathered using Cookies in the aggregate, such as by providing a statistical report on trends in the usage of our Services or Sites. We will not attempt to link the information gathered using Cookies to any Personal Information.

Third-Party Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when You use our Apps, browse our Sites, and use our Services. These companies may use information (NOT including Your name, address email address or telephone number) about Your visits to our Sites or others' sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to You. If You would like to learn more information about this practice and to know Your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please check the pages at: www.networkadvertising.org.

Exception for Disclosure

We will keep all the data and Information private, and we will not share any Personal Information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of our Sites unless one of the following circumstances applies:

1. We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of our system only when we have Your consent to do so.
2. We discloses Personal Information when required to do so by law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request (such as in response to a subpoena or court order), or when we have a good-faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of our Sites, our Users, third parties or the public at large.
3. If our company or system is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information and give affected users notice before Personal Information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

When This Privacy Policy Applies

Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the Services offered by us, but excludes services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this Privacy Policy.

Our Sites may include links to third-party websites that do not belong to us. We have no control over the privacy practices of these websites. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by any of these third-party websites. Accordingly, third-party websites are under no obligation to comply with this Privacy Policy except with respect to Personal Information provided directly to them by our Sites. Therefore, before visiting or providing Personal Information to a third-party website, You should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of that third-party website, and should take those steps necessary to, in Your discretion, protect Your privacy.

Updates and Changes

We reserve the right to add to, update, change or modify this Privacy Policy when it is necessary. Although we will post notifications in the top page of the website when changes are made, it is Your responsibility to review the Privacy Policy regularly in order to keep yourself updated. If at any time, You find any term in the Privacy Policy unacceptable, You must immediately cease using the Apps, browsing our Sites, and using our Services, and leave our Sites.

Unless specifically stated otherwise, any revised Privacy Policy will apply only to information collected after the effective date of such revised Privacy Policy, and not to information collected under any earlier Privacy Policy.