Privacy Policy
Information We Collect
Corto.ar may
collect personal information about you from the following sources, as described
in this Privacy Policy, when you (i) register for the
Site and the Services, through your user account with Corto.ar, including
registering through a third-party social networking service (your “Account”);
(ii) use the Services; or (iii) view or interact with a Corto.ar link (either
our Corto.ar links or one of our branded domains) on a third-party website. We
collect the following types of information from you, some of which might be
considered personal information under applicable law.
When You
Register for a Corto.ar Account
When you create an Account, we may collect personal information from you, such
as your name, phone number, company name, industry, job title, company size,
email address, and sign-in information. If you create an Account using your
login information from a third-party account, such as Google, Facebook, Apple,
or Twitter, we will access and collect the personal information about you that
the third-party account provides (which is based on your privacy settings with
the third-party account), so that you can log into your Account with us. We use
your contact information to send you information about our Services and
communicate with you about your Account, your activities on our Site and
Services and policy changes. You may unsubscribe from receiving certain types
of these messages through your Account settings, although Corto.ar reserves the
right to contact you when we believe it is necessary, such as for administrative
and account management purposes.
Some features
of the Services allow registered users to provide their own content to the
Services, such as written descriptions of URLs, comments, images and video.
Unless you request deletion of your personal information as described in this
Privacy Policy, all content submitted by you to the Services may be retained by
Corto.ar, even after you terminate your Account and may continue to be shared
by third parties, as described in this Privacy Policy.
When You
Create a Corto.ar Link
One feature of the Services is the ability to create shortened uniform resource
locators (URLs) of websites (“Corto.ar Links” or “Bitlinks”).
Users can create Corto.ar Links without registering for an account. When you
create a Corto.ar Link, Corto.ar collects and stores both the original URL and
the shortened URL and, if you are logged in to your Account, we will associate
that information with your Account. Corto.ar also collects and stores your IP
address, your geolocation data (which we derive from your IP address), the time
and date on which you shortened the original URL, and if you share a Corto.ar
Link on a social networking platform, the name of the platform and your
username on that platform.
When You
Interact With a Corto.ar Link
Corto.ar automatically collects personal information about the interaction
(such as clicks or views) with every Corto.ar Link created through the Services
(either our Corto.ar links or one of our branded domains) on a third-party
website. This information includes, but is not limited to: (i)
the IP address and location derived from the IP address; (ii) internet or other
electronic network activity information like the referring websites or
services; (iii) the time and date of each access; (iv) device settings, such as
browser type, operating system, and language; (v) cookies, as described below,
and mobile advertising identifiers and (v)
information about sharing of the Corto.ar Link on Third Party Services
(collectively, “Corto.ar Link Metrics”). As described in this policy, we use Corto.ar
Link Metrics to provide the Services, to understand and analyze how our
Services are used and to identify trends, and to detect, deter and prevent
malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity. Please see the “Information We May
Share” section of this Privacy Policy for a description of how we may share
information we collect when you create, view or interact with Corto.ar Links.
Other
Information We Automatically Collect
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect (i)
your IP address and location derived from the IP address; (ii) internet or
other electronic network activity information, like the referring websites or
services; (iii) the time and date of each access; (iv) device settings, such as
browser type, operating system, and language; and (v) cookie information. This
type of data enables us and third parties authorized by us to figure out how often individuals use parts of the Site so that we can analyze
and improve them.
We may
receive a confirmation when you open an email from us. We use this confirmation to improve our customer service.
Corto.ar may
use third-party APIs and software development kits (“SDKs”) to provide certain
functions in our Services.
Third Party
Services
Some features of the Services allow you to share your content and Corto.ar
Links through your accounts with Third Party Services such as Twitter. If you
choose to connect Corto.ar to such Third Party
Services, we may collect information related to your use of those Third Party
Services, such as authentication tokens that allow us to connect to your Third
Party Service accounts. We will ask you for permission before you authorize our
collection of this information. We will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was
provided to us. We may also collect information about how you are using the
Services to interact with those connected Third Party Services. Note that Third
Party Services may have the ability to restrict the information that is
provided to us based on your privacy settings of that account.
To enable us
to infer the location from the IP addresses of computers or devices that visit
our website or click, view or interact with Corto.ar links as described in this
policy, we receive IP-derived location information from our third-party service
provider. We also receive business contact information of our business customer
contacts and prospects from our third party service
provider.
Cookies and
Other Similar Technologies
Corto.ar and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze
trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and
to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
Cookies are
pieces of text that may be provided to your computer through your web browser
when you access a website. Your browser stores cookies in a manner associated
with each website you visit. We use cookies to enable our servers to recognize
your web browser and tell us how and when you visit our Site and use the
Services through the web.
Corto.ar
cookies also allow Corto.ar to track when you have clicked on a Corto.ar Link.
Each click of a Corto.ar Link is tracked using a unique identifier assigned to you in one or more cookies stored by
your web browser and associated with Corto.ar. We may associate the unique identifier in our
cookies with the other information we automatically collect when you use the
Services, as described above, including your IP address, Corto.ar Links you
click, Corto.ar Links you create, and information with your Account if you have
one.
Most browsers
have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your
browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication
of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new
cookie in a variety of ways. If you disable cookies, you will not be able to use
some features of the Services. We do not currently recognize do-not-track
signals.
Opt-Out
Mechanisms
You may ask Corto.ar not to associate your web browser or IP address with
visits to the Corto.ar.com website or Corto.ar Links that you create or click
by clicking on the appropriate links below. If you would like to opt-out of the
Corto.ar Links, please click on the opt-out choice for Corto.ar Links below.
This will install a cookie on your browser that instructs our servers not to
associate your IP address and browser with Corto.ar Links you create, click, or
view. If you clear your cookies in your browser, you will need to click on the
opt- out choice again after each time you clear your cookies. To be clear,
these cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that
you wish to have opted-out. Cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on mobile
applications. However, on many mobile devices, application users may limit
tracking via their device settings. Please note that if you use these opt-out
mechanisms, we will still automatically collect the IP addresses of computers
or mobile devices that click on or create Corto.ar Links; we just won’t
associate them with your browser or Corto.ar account.
Note
Regarding Children
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we learn
that we have collected personal information of a child under 13 (or older as
required by applicable law), we will take steps to delete such information from
our files as soon as possible.
How We Use Information
We use the
personal information we collect for a variety of administrative and business
purposes to:
Usage Across
Devices
We may use the information we collect to make inferences that a unique
individual has created or interacted with Corto.ar links on different devices
so that we can detect, deter and prevent malicious, fraudulent or unlawful
activity and analyze how users use our Services. For example, if you created a Corto.ar
link on a computer connected to your residential WiFi
network, and you soon thereafter clicked on a Corto.ar link on a mobile device
connected to the same WiFi network, we may infer that
a single individual created and clicked on the Corto.ar links because both
events were associated with the same IP address in the same time period.
Other
Legitimate Interests
We also may use personal information to pursue legitimate interests, such as
direct marketing, research (including marketing research), network and
information security, prevention of fraudulent, malicious and unlawful
activities, or any other purpose disclosed to you at the time you provide
personal information or allowed by law.
Information We Share
The Services
are designed to help you share information with others. In addition, we provide
Services to our Customers that use Corto.ar Link Metrics. As a result, the
following categories of personal information generated through your use of the
Services are shared publicly or with the following categories of third parties
for the business purposes described below.
Corto.ar
Links You Create
Much of your activity on and through the Services is public by default. For
example, when you create a Corto.ar Link, the original URLs you have shortened
and the corresponding Corto.ar Links are publicly available.
Account
Information
Where permitted by law, if you register a Corto.ar
Account with an email address on a domain owned by an organization, (for
example, an employer or educational institution where you have an email
account), we may share your email address and information about your Account,
such as the number of links you have created, with that organization to explore
the organization’s interest in creating or managing an enterprise account or
for related purposes.
Information
We Share With Customers
We may share the personal information we collect as described in this Privacy
Policy with our customers. When you create a Corto.ar Link of one of our
customer’s sites, the customer may be able to view the unshortened
original URL, the date and time the Corto.ar Link was created, the location
where it was created as derived from your IP address, and aggregated
information about clicks and views of the Corto.ar Links, including the number
of times the Corto.ar Link was shared, whether or not it was viewed, comparison
of that Corto.ar Link’s performance to that of all Corto.ar Links pointing to
the same content, whether others are sharing a Corto.ar Link to the same
content, geographic regions where the content is being viewed, and identification of
social networks on which the Corto.ar Links appear. In addition, we may share Corto.ar
Link Metrics with customers to help them detect, deter and prevent malicious,
fraudulent or unlawful activity.
Information
You Elect to Share
When creating a Corto.ar Link, you can share that Corto.ar Link through Third
Party Services. Any information that you elect to distribute through Third
Party Services, such as a social network post you create, may then become
accessible to users of those services. You can also access other Third Party Services through the Services, for example by
clicking on links in the Statistics page for a Corto.ar Link. We recommend that
you review the terms of services and privacy policies of such Third Party Services that you access through the Services
since Corto.ar does not control and is not responsible for the privacy
practices of these Third Party Services.
Information
Shared with Service Providers
We may employ and contract with third parties to perform certain tasks on our
behalf and under our direction (our “Service Providers”). We may need to share
information about you with our Service Providers in order to fulfill certain
business purposes, like providing our product with research and analytics on
user behavior and providing advertising products and services to users,
processing payments, and providing email marketing and support services. Our
agreements with these Service Providers authorize them to use your information
only as necessary to provide services to us. Transfers to subsequent third parties
are covered by our agreements with our service providers.
Information
Disclosed Pursuant to Business Transfers
We may transfer and/or provide information about our users in connection with
an acquisition, sale of company assets, or other situation where user
information would be transferred as one of our business assets. You will be notified via email and/or a
prominent notice on our website.
In such a
case, the acquirer of Corto.ar may continue to use your information as set
forth in this policy or as otherwise allowed by law.
Information
Disclosed for the Protection of Corto.ar and Others
Corto.ar may access, read, preserve, and disclose any information it collects
when it has a good faith belief that doing so is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with a law, regulation, or compulsory legal
request, including process from a governmental law enforcement or national
security agency, (ii) enforce the Privacy Policy or Terms of Service, including
investigation of potential violations hereof, (iii) detect, deter, prevent or
otherwise address malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity, (iv) respond to
user support requests, or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of Corto.ar,
its users and the public. This includes exchanging information with other
companies and organizations for protection from malicious, fraudulent or
unlawful activity.
Information
We Share With Your Consent
We will share information about you when you direct or otherwise instruct us to
do so, such as when you share Corto.ar Links or content with others through the
Services, if you intentionally use or direct us or the Services to interact
with third parties, or if we notify you that the information you provide will
be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information (like
sharing/posting it with a third-party Service).
Information Security
Your Account
information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You can
help prevent unauthorized access to your Account by selecting and protecting
your password appropriately, making use of two-factor authentication, and
limiting access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your Account.
Corto.ar
endeavors to protect the information it collects about its users using
reasonable security processes and controls, however, despite these efforts, no
security measure is perfect or impenetrable and Corto.ar does not guarantee or
warrant that such measures will prevent unauthorized access to the information
about you that is stored by Corto.ar. In the event we experience a breach of
security, we will promptly notify you if your personal information has been
compromised, in accordance with applicable law. If you have any questions about
the security of your personal information, you can contact us at contacto@corto.ar.
Choice and Access
You don’t
need an Account to create Corto.ar Links, and you can use many of the features
of the Services without registering, thereby limiting the type of information
that is collected about you individually. If you have a Corto.ar Account, you
may access, correct, or request deletion of your personal information by
logging into your Account. Once logged in to your account, you will be able to
view a history of the URLs you have shortened and the metrics pages for those
URLs. You can request a complete copy of the personal information we store
about your account by clicking the button to request a report in your Account
Settings.
You can
delete your Account at any time through your Account settings page. If you
delete your Account, you will no longer be able to access or use the Services.
If you have an Account but are unable to access it, you can contact us at contacto@corto.ar. We will respond to your request within a
reasonable timeframe. If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, you have
the right to ask that your personal data be corrected, updated, or erased.
Additionally, you may have the right to access your personal data and receive a
copy of your personal data undergoing processing. You may also have the right
to object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing.
For all other
requests to exercise any of your rights, you may contact us as indicated in the
“Questions” section below. Once we receive your request, we will ask that you
verify your identity such as by authenticating through your account. If you do
not have a Corto.ar account, Corto.ar has no way of identifying you or
verifying that you created or clicked on a Corto.ar link.
You may be
entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to submit a request through an
authorized agent. To designate an authorized agent to exercise your rights and
choices on your behalf, please provide a written attestation, declaration, or
permission that has either been physically signed or provided electronically
per applicable law. In certain circumstances, we may be required by law to
retain your personal information.
Please note that
in the interest of ensuring that existing Corto.ar Links continue to function
for all of our users, the Corto.ar Links that you have created and shared
cannot be deleted or disabled (even if your Account is deleted), and any
shortening and sharing activity that has already occurred on your Account also
cannot be deleted. If you have concerns about any unauthorized use of your
Account, you can delete your account within your Account settings.
Please see
the Cookies section above for additional choices you may have.
California Residents
If you are a
California Resident, you may request, subject to any applicable exceptions,
access to and deletion of your information or more information about how we
collect, use, and disclose personal information. You may submit a verifiable
request to know and exercise any of your other rights as described in the
“Choice and Access” section above. We will not discriminate against you for
exercising your rights and choices.
The
categories of personal information that we have collected in the preceding 12
months and their sources are provided in the “Information We Collect” section
above. Our business purposes for collecting personal information are described
in the “How We Use Information” section above.
Corto.ar does
not sell your personal information to third parties for money or other valuable
consideration. Corto.ar does permit third parties to collect the information
described above through our Service and discloses such information with third
parties for business purposes as described in this Privacy Policy, including
but not limited to providing advertising on our Service and elsewhere based on
users’ online activities over time and across different sites, services, and
devices. The categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal
information are provided in the “Information We Share” section above.
Supervisory Authority
If you are
located in the European Economic Area, you have the right to lodge a complaint
with a supervisory authority if you believe our Processing of your Personal
Information violates applicable law.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Corto.ar may
amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes in the
way we collect or use information, we will notify you by posting an
announcement on the Services or sending you an email, and we will indicate when
those changes will become effective. You are agreeing to be bound by any
changes to the Privacy Policy when you use the Services after those changes
become effective.
Questions?
If you have
any questions or concerns regarding privacy using the Services, please send us
a detailed message to: contacto@corto.ar. We will make every effort to resolve your
concerns.