CaptionKit : Privacy Statement

Privacy Policy

About Us

This is the human readable privacy policy for CaptionKit. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.captionkit.com. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the Web at http://www.captionkit.com/privacy.php. Users may go to http://www.captionkit.com/privacy.php for information on how to opt-in or opt-out of use of their information.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:

Neil Smith
50 Raymend Road
Windmill Hill
Bristol, Avon BS3 4QW 
UK

You may contact us by e-mail at privacy@captionkit.com.

You may call us at +44 7866 238322.

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium.

In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context.

This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, they can help you resolve your concern.

Dispute resolution procedure:
We endeavour to ensure your privacy is protected by providing suitable customisation for user information presented on the site.
If you have any questions about privacy of your details, please contact us by email : privacy@captionkit.com
Data retention policy: We retain data about your account for as long as you wish to maintain captioned material through captionkit. If you choose to unsubscribe from your account, it will be deleted and your captioned material taken off the site.
Additionally we undertake to transfer to you the information which we have held, including any caption files as text transcripts. Caption files are returned, except in the event of a dispute over copyright or payment for your account.

Additional Information

This policy is valid for 30 days from the time that it is loaded by a client.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 4 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.

Group "Cookies"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

HTTP cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Cookies are not used by public visitors to this site, other than session cookies (non-stored) to maintain state if you are an account holder. Cookies are used to manage state between pages traversed by registered account holders. This is necessary so that captions are correctly identified to be saved in your user account.

Group "User Information"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

User information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.
One-time tailoring. The user must opt-in to this usage.
Anonymous user analysis.
Anonymous user profiling and decision-making.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:

The general public. The user must opt-in to this data sharing.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

No information is retained for public users visiting the website, other than anonymous hit counting to determine popularity of some items on the site. Users purchasing CaptionKit accounts are may be required provide contact information to allow effective operation of their accounts. You can adjust your user preferences on the site to provide anonymous captioning. However, to comply with international copyright laws, it is necessary for us to retain contact information in the event of a dispute of ownership of the captioned material and its relationship to the source material. This will allow us to contact you to tell you the material was removed from the caption store in the event of any dispute, and to protect you from some liabilites which may potentially arise if you have captioned material in error to which you do not own the copyright.

Group "Business Information"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

Business information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration. The user must opt-in to this usage.
Research and development. The user must opt-in to this usage.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:

The general public. The user is allowed to opt-out of this data sharing.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

In the creation of commercial CaptioKit accounts, it is of benefit to you to customise the details of your business. This allows linkage of the content to default areas of your website, display of selected information in captioned presentations, and targeting of search engine requests to your content. All elements of your business information (profile) are optional apart from a contact email address, which we require to notify you in the event of any difficulties with your account.

Group "Broad Categories"

We collect the following information:

Online contact information
Purchase information

At the user's option, we may also collect the following data:

Physical contact information
Content
Preference data
Unique identifiers

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration. The user must opt-in to this usage.
Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Public site users do not have any personally identifiable information recorded about their visit other than an anonymous access count when you access certain presentations. For the creation of CaptionKit accounts, we need to collect certain information to identify you as a unique site account holder. Financial information to make payment for accounts is not taken or held by us, as we use PayPal as a secure payment provider. Your privacy in this regard is therefore governed by the PayPal privacy policy.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Research and development

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

	CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIi PSAa PSDa OUR 
	PUBi NOR STP IND PHY ONL UNI PUR DEM CNT STA PRE"

The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

Field	Meaning
`CP=`	This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy.
`CAO`	Access is available to contact and other information.
`DSP`	The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism.
`COR`	Violations of this policy will be corrected.
`CURa`	The data is used for completion of the current activity.
`ADMa`	The data is used for site administration.
`DEVa`	The data is used for research and development.
`TAIi`	The data is used for tailoring the site, if the user selects it.
`PSAa`	The data is used for pseudononymous analysis.
`PSDa`	The data is used for pseudononymous decision-making.
`OUR`	The data is given to ourselves and our agents.
`PUBi`	The data is made public, if the user selects it.
`NOR`	The data is not kept beyond the current transaction.
`STP`	The data is kept for the stated purpose only.
`IND`	The data will be kept indefinitely.
`PHY`	Physical contact information is collected.
`ONL`	Online contact information is collected.
`UNI`	Unique identifiers are collected.
`PUR`	Purchase information is collected.
`DEM`	Demographic and socioeconomic data is collected.
`CNT`	Content data is collected.
`STA`	State-management data is collected
`PRE`	Preference information is collected.

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.