Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy is designed to protect your personal data while at the same time responding to your request for information related to our services. Whether you are a first-time visitor to our site or a client, our goal is to provide a valuable and worthwhile experience. We use physical, managerial, electronic procedures and practices to safeguard the security and integrity of your personal information.

Each time you visit the site or provide us with information, you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this privacy policy at that time. This privacy policy explains our online information practices and policies and applies to all information collected or submitted on the TopSide Media web site.

Personal information is normally accessible only by TopSide Media staff or our web services company’s staff who are designated to forward online inquiries. Any other employee or party, such as a contractor whom we find it necessary to authorize to get access to equipment containing personal information collected on this web site, would also be bound to abide by this policy.

Personal Information We May Collect

While visiting our site you may be asked to provide certain personal information such as Name, Email Address, Telephone Number, Web Site, Comments You Provide.
Web site use information also includes the domain names and/or the corresponding IP addresses of those who visit our site. Telephone usage information may include caller ID results, if your local phone company transmits this information. You can usually disable caller ID transmissions by contacting your local phone service company. In the event that TopSide Media or a telephone service we enlist records a telephone conversation, a voice message will announce to you before the call is connected to you.

We do not collect or maintain information from those actually known to be under the age of thirteen, and no part of our business services or web site is structured to attract anyone under the age of thirteen.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

How Your Information Collected Online Is Used

When you submit a request, inquiry or comment you are authorizing us to forward your information to the appropriate location or person, as necessary. Your personal information is used to reply to business inquiries, provide business related notices and in the keeping of business records. Personal information provided to us will not be used for any purpose other than that for which you submitted it, without your consent. In addition, we will not intentionally sell, lease or otherwise provide your information to any unaffiliated third-party other than described above. From time to time, we may send you an optional survey such as an email request for your feedback about our services. We may also contact you in the future to tell you about new products, new services or changes to our privacy policy.

We may also release personal information to appropriate governmental authorities under the following circumstances: Where release is required by law, such as a subpoena, or regulation or is requested by a government agency conducting an investigation or proceedings or where our records indicate a company may be engaged in fraudulent activity or other deceptive practices that a governmental agency would regulate. Also, your contact information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a merger, acquisition, consolidation, divestiture or a bankruptcy of TopSide Media.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information

Every effort is made to maintain the accuracy of your personal information. Should you discover any errors, you are encouraged to contact us at your earliest convenience. To further protect your privacy and security, it is our practice not to make the information that you provide us available to anyone outside of our organization. Therefore, we do not offer an opportunity to review your information but will gladly remove such information at your request. If you have questions about or need to make changes to information requested on this web site or that we may have on file, please email us from the Contact Us page.

Computer Tracking And Cookies

The TopSide Media site is not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information not entered by visitors. Our site logs do generate certain kinds of non-identifying site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to our sites. This information is used for internal and technical purposes to provide better client service and may also be provided to others in keeping with the policies stated above.

Cookies are a small amount of data that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on the hard drive of your computer. We use non-identifying cookies to provide easier site navigation and to track user responses, such as filling in a contact form, to keywords such as on advertisements on search engines. You can still use our web site if your browser is set to reject cookies. Our cookies do not generate personal data, do not read personal data from your machine and are not tied to anything that could be used to identify you under the type of data collection we would use.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other web sites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice, as well as your choices about not having this information used by these companies, including opting out, please click here: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Links

TopSide Media’s site may have links to other web sites including e-commerce sites and other content from third parties available to you from links located on this web site. These resources are not subject to our privacy policy shown here. These sites are responsible for their own content and privacy policies. We recommend that you carefully review the privacy policy, products and services at each site you visit to determine how their use might affect you or protect your privacy.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information

If you have questions about or need to make changes to information requested on this web site or that we may have on file, please email us from the Contact Us page.