Privacy policy.

Collection of your personal information

Lingo collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Lingo also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

Information about your computer hardware and software is also automatically collected by Lingo. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Lingo for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Lingo website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Lingo public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Lingo does not read any of your private online communications.

Lingo encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Lingo so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Lingo is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Lingo family of websites.

Use of your personal information

Lingo collects and uses your personal information to operate the Lingo website and deliver the services you have requested. Lingo also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Lingo and its affiliates. Lingo may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Lingo does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Lingo may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Lingo may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Lingo, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Lingo does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Lingo keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Lingo, in order to determine what Lingo services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Lingo to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Lingo websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Lingo or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Lingo; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Lingo, or the public.

Use of cookies

The Lingo website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Lingo pages, or register with Lingo site or services, a cookie helps Lingo to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Lingo website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Lingo features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Lingo services or websites you visit.

Security of your personal information

Lingo secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Lingo secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this statement

Lingo will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Lingo encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Lingo is protecting your information.

Contact information

Lingo welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Lingo has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Lingo. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.