Privacy Policy
Effective May 3rd, 2020
This policy explains what information we collect when you use Pinian’s sites, services, products, and content (“Services”). It also has information about how we store, use, and transfer that information.
Information We Collect & How We Use
Pinian doesn’t collect data in order to advertise to you. The limited tracking we employ is to make our product work as well as possible. This includes features like personalizing what content you see so as to expose you to different perspectives. To give you an interesting experience, we collect information from your interactions with our Services.
Some of this is information you actively tell us (such as your email address, which we use to ensure unique accounts or communicate with you). Other information, we collect based on actions you take while using Pinian, such as what pages you view and your use of product features like Respect. This information includes records of those interactions, information about your device (such as device or browser type), and referral information (how you got to a particular page). We use this information to:
- provide, test, improve, promote and personalize the Services
- fight spam and other forms of abuse
- generate aggregate, non-identifying information about how people use the Services
When you create your Pinian account, and authenticate with a third-party service (like Twitter or Google) we may collect, store, and periodically update information associated with that third-party account. We will never publish something through one of your third-party accounts without your express permission.
Information Disclosure
Pinian won’t transfer information about you to third parties for the purpose of providing or facilitating third-party advertising to you. We won’t sell information about you to a third-party. We may transfer your account information with third parties in some circumstances, including: (1) with your consent; (2) to a service provider or partner who meets our data protection standards; (3) with academic or non-profit researchers, with aggregation, anonymization, or pseudonymization; (4) when we have a good faith belief it is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process; (5) when we have a good faith belief that doing so will help prevent imminent harm to someone.
If we are going to share your information in response to legal process, we’ll give you notice so you can challenge it (for example by seeking court intervention), unless we’re prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object to legal requests for information about users of our services that we believe are improper.
Public Data
Search engines may index your Pinian user profile page, public interactions (such as respect), and your positions, such that people may find these pages when searching against your name on services like Google or DuckDuckGo. Users may also share links to your content on social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.
Data Storage
Pinian uses third-party vendors and hosting partners, such as Google, for hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology we need to run Pinian. We maintain two types of logs: server logs and event logs. By using the Services, you authorize Pinian to transfer, store, and use your information in the United States and any other country where we operate.
Tracking & Cookies
We use browser cookies and similar technologies to recognize you, but only when you are signed in to our Services. We use them in various ways, for example to keep you signed in, remember your preferences, evaluate email effectiveness, and personalize content and other services. We only track your signed in interactions within Pinian’s site. Some third-party services that we use to provide the Service, such as Auth0, may place their own cookies in your browser. This Privacy Policy covers use of cookies by Pinian only and not the use of cookies by third parties.
Changes to this Policy
We may periodically update this Policy. We’ll notify you about significant changes to it, and the most current version of the policy will always be here.