ShareThis Privacy Notice

DATED 2013-03-20 · VERSION 20130602_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20130202_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT

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 We take steps to help protect your personal information. We require password protection, physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you and to protect against accidental or unauthorized alternation of your information. We limit access to personal information about you to employees and agents authorized by us to operate, develop or improve our services. Any agent must agree in writing to keep your information confidential. Please remember that no technological environment is completely secure and we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted or posted on ShareThis or any other Web site over the Internet. From time to time, we conduct internal and external reviews with third party security firms to analyze our compliance with this privacy policy.
 **L. Changes in Privacy Policy**
 From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy and will post a notice of any changes on our Web site. You should visit this page periodically to review any such changes to the privacy policy. In such cases, your continued use of this Web site or our service means that the provision of PII to us after such material changes will be subject to the new terms. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that expand our rights to use your personal information that we have collected, we will notify you to seek your consent through email or a prominent posting on the site.
+**M. Canceling Your Account**
+**M. Email Security Information**
+We do not perform email verifications on our ShareThis widgets. We cannot block users from sending emails from your email address or to your email address. We are not responsible for the information provided or shared by users via the ShareThis widget.
+**N. Canceling Your Account**
 You always have the option to cancel your account with us at any time. Simply sign in to the site and click on the 'My Account' at the top of the page; click on 'Edit Profile' then select 'Deactivate Account' and follow the simple instructions. You may request to have your registration account information removed by submitting a request to privacy@sharethis.com. We will act on your request as promptly as possible.
+**N. Data Retention**
+**O. Data Retention**
 We will retain your Registration Information as long as you have an active account with us. We reserve the right to deem your account as being "inactive" if you have not logged into any ShareThis Service with your user name and password for a period of twelve (12) consecutive months. Once we deem your account inactive, we may delete your Registration Information, including any data that you may have saved on the ShareThis Services, without any liability to you. ShareThis generally deletes all Usage Information, Technical Information, Audience Segment Cookies and all other cookies that have been on our severs for twelve (12) months
+**O. For California Users**
+**P. For California Users**
 Your California Privacy Rights: California privacy law allows California residents to obtain specific disclosures about a business's privacy practices if it shares information with other companies for direct marketing purposes. To make a request to ShareThis under California�s privacy law, please send an e-mail to: privacy@sharethis.com.
+**P. How to Contact Us**
+**Q. How to Contact Us**
 If you have any questions or concerns about ShareThis' Privacy Policy or its implementation, or if you believe there are inaccuracies in your account information you may contact us as follows:
 By mail:
 Privacy
 ShareThis, Inc.
 Miranda Avenue
 Suite 200
 Palo Alto, CA 94304-1227
+Last Updated 31 May 2012
+Last Updated 20 March 2013
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