Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Tataatsu Idealabs we have a few fundamental principles:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
• In our CollabLayer product, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators and SAAS applications, Tataatsu Idealabs 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. Tataatsu’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Tataatsu’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Tataatsu Idealabs may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Tataatsu Idealabs also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users sharing, annotating and commenting around content shared between other collaborators. Tataatsu Idealabs only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Tataatsu Idealabs’s websites choose to interact with Tataatsu Idealabs in ways that require Tataatsu Idealabs to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Tataatsu Idealabs gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for using CollabLayer at collablayer.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Tataatsu Idealabs – by registering for access to CollabLayer, an app for collaborating in context, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Tataatsu Idealabs collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Tataatsu Idealabs. Tataatsu Idealabs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain activities that require registration.

Aggregated Statistics

Tataatsu Idealabs may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Tataatsu Idealabs may monitor its primary online sites like Tataatsu.com and CollabLayer.com site to help identify trends in how these services are being used, perceived and acted upon. Tataatsu Idealabs may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Tataatsu Idealabs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Tataatsu Idealabs 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 Tataatsu Idealabs’ behalf or to provide services available at Tataatsu Idealabs’ websites, and (ii) have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Tataatsu Idealabs’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Tataatsu Idealabs will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Tataatsu Idealabs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Tataatsu Idealabs believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Tataatsu Idealabs, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of Tataatsu Idealabs or CollabLayer and have supplied your email address, Tataatsu Idealabs 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 Tataatsu Idealabs, CollabLayer and other products or services. We primarily use our various online properties, and other social media channels like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, 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. Tataatsu Idealabs takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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. Tataatsu Idealabs uses cookies to help Tataatsu Idealabs identify and track visitors, their usage of Tataatsu Idealabs website and CollabLayer website and application, and their website/application preferences. Tataatsu Idealabs visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Tataatsu Idealabs and CollabLayer websites, with the drawback that certain features of Tataatsu Idealabs and CollabLayer websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Tataatsu Idealabs or CollabLayer, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Tataatsu Idealabs 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 Tataatsu Idealabs may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Tataatsu Idealabs and CollabLayer will not serve any ads on their online properties, hence any cookies served will solely be for the purpose of enabling and improving delivery of information and services by Tataatsu Idealabs and CollabLayer. However, our use of any 3rd party service providers for authentication, payment processing, social media sharing, cloud document stores and other service enablers may serve and use cookies, hence this privacy policy of Tataatsu Idealabs or CollabLayer does not cover use of cookies by any of these other parties.

Your Documents and other Content.

CollabLayer is an app for collaborating in context. Every user can choose online document sources to configure, what documents or images to upload or import, which contact address book to provide access to for Tataatsu Idealabs or CollabLayer, which contacts to invite for collaboration, what comments or annotations to add and other actions pertaining to collaborating with a selected group of people. All data uploaded to CollabLayer and Tataatsu Idealabs will be securely held in our online servers so as to enable collaboration for our users. Each user’s data will be held securely and will not be shared with anyone unless explicitly instructed via our applications. Tataatsu Idealabs and CollabLayer will not rent or sell your documents and other content entered by users to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described earlier, Tataatsu Idealabs discloses documents and other user uploaded content only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Tataatsu Idealabs believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Tataatsu Idealabs, third parties or the public at large.

Privacy Policy Changes

Tataatsu Idealabs may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Tataatsu Idealabs’ sole discretion. Tataatsu Idealabs encourages visitors and users to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a CollabLayer.com account or subscribed to our newsletters via Tataatsu.com or CollabLayer.com, you will receive in app or mail alerts to these changes. Your continued use of Tataatsu Idealabs and CollabLayer.com after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Change log:

March 27, 2013: Adapted from Automattic privacy policy.