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Last Updated: May 17, 2018

People have different privacy concerns. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain to you in a transparent way how we collect data about you, what are these data and how we use these data. In addition, this data is collected and stored securely. Our goal is to be transparent about what information we collect, so that you can make meaningful choices about how it is used.

People have different privacy concerns. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information. In addition, this data is collected and stored securely. Our goal is to be clear about what information we collect, so that you can make meaningful choices about how it is used.

Topic’it offers 3 main services:

• The Topic’it Mobiles Applications which allows you to browse and participate in discussion forums from a mobile application available on various mobile operating systems (Android and iOS).
• The Topic’it Connect which is a Single Sign-On solution which allows you to easily sign up and log in to a discussion forum quickly and securely using your Topic’it Account.
• The Topic’it Website which allows you to manage your profile, your personal information, your preferences as well as the forums you follow and the forums you register on the Topic’it service as the owner of the forum.

ETOXIC (“eToxic”) has published this Privacy Policy to explain how Topic’it collects, uses and shares information from you when you use the Topicit.net Website, the Topic’it Connect and the Topic’it Mobiles Applications on iOS and Android (collectively, “Topic’it”).

Topic’it is an aggregator of third party websites (the “Forums”) available to users of the service. The goal of Topic’it is to make it easier to use online forums.

Who controls your personal information?

Any personal information provided to or gathered by eToxic via Topic’it is controlled by ETOXIC, 100 RUE ALBERT CAQUOT, 06410 BIOT, FRANCE.
Privacy Officer: eToxic
Inquiries can be made at [email protected]

What kinds of information do we collect from you?

The amount and type of information we gather depends upon your use of the Topic’it Website / Topic’it Connect / Topic’it Mobiles Applications and, in some cases, what type of information you choose to disclose. We may collect the following information from you:

Information provided by you to Topic’it

We collect the information that you voluntarily give us. When you sign up for a Topic’it account, or in order for you to use certain features of the Website / Mobile Applications, you will be asked to provide Topic’it certain personal information about yourself, such as your e-mail address, your user name, your forum URLs (optional), your date of birth (optional), your gender and your language.

Information you make public

All information in your Topic’it profile is secure and private. It is not possible for another user to access private data that you have entered during your registration for example. However, when you register on the Forums via Topic'it Connect, you agree that certain information is transmitted to these Forums: email address, profile picture and username.

Warning: Topic’it is an aggregator of third party websites (the “Forums”) that allows you to access and participate in discussion forums. These Forums contain features that allow you to upload photos via Servimg and videos via Youtube, post, transmit, display, perform or distribute content, including personal information about yourself. Any information that you choose to disclose by means of such features becomes public information over which Topic’it is unable to exercise control. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information by means of such features.

Information about your device, your web browser and your Internet connection

When you use Topic’it services, we automatically gather information made available by your operating system (such as Windows, Android or iOS), your web browser (such as Safari or Google Chrome), Internet service provider, and device (such as your computer, mobile phone, or tablet), depending on your settings for each. For example, we may collect your IP address, information about the operating system or the type of device you use, and the location of your device.

Here is the main data collected: your user-agent, your IP address, an anonymous device identifier, your language and your approximate location (Topic’it don’t use GPS tracking).

Log information

We automatically collect and store certain information in server logs: Internet protocol address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.

Local storage

We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage and mobile application data caches.

Information provided by third-parties

If you use Facebook, Twitter or Google services to register or log into Topic’it, we collect your email address, your public information (such as your name or your username and your profile picture). These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share (or not share) certain information with us to create a Topic’it account. You have the choice to share your information with Topic'it when using these services.

If you use Servimg or YouTube to upload photos and videos, we collect certain data to keep the login session active and allow you to easily share your photos and videos in the Topic'it Mobile Applications.

If you use deep links to directly open certain forums or topics in the Topic’it Mobiles Applications, our partner (Branch.io) which provides the deep link solution collects certain data about you. This collected data does not identify you and is intended to redirect you correctly and allow us to have statistics on the number of clicks, to which content...

We receive information about you and your activities on Topic’it from third-party partners. Topic’it may use third-parties for advertising (via MoPub and AdMob) and analytics (via Google Analytics for Mobile Apps, Instabug, Fabric and Branch.io). These third parties may place cookies on your machine, use pixels, gather IP addresses and log data to collect traffic and activity data in order to deliver relevant metrics, content, and targeted advertising.

By using Topic’it, you consent to us sharing anonymized data and a hashed (non-human readable) version of your email with our partners who will drop a Cookie (as explained in Section 3 below) on your browser and match your email with its marketing file to create a link between your browser and our partner's record of you, which may include your personal information (such as IP address, browser or operating system type and version, and demographic or inferred-interest information). This link may be shared by our partner globally for the purpose of identifying you on unaffiliated websites, applications, or online services and improving the relevance of online advertising and content, including emails, based on your browsing habits by third parties that are unaffiliated with Topic’it. You may opt out of your data being used for this purpose at our partners' opt-out centers located at:

• https://www.mopub.com/legal/privacy/ (MoPub)
• https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated (AdMob)
• https://branch.io/policies/#privacy (Branch.io)
• https://instabug.com/privacy (Instabug)

How do we use cookies and mobile device identifiers?

“Cookies” are files that are placed on your computer, your tablet or your phone by websites you visit. The purpose of a cookie is to identify you as a unique user of the Website.

Mobile Device Identifiers, or Mobile Device IDs, are a unique identifier which can be used to identify a mobile device. This identifier does not identify you as a person or know your identity.

Topic’it uses Mobile Device Identifiers, Cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

• For features: Cookies and Mobile Device Identifiers are necessary to many features that you use: to receive push notifications, to highlight the unread messages, to be able to personalize your use...
• For verification: Topic’it uses Cookies to verify your account and, if you choose, make it so you do not have to re-enter your login information each time you visit the Website. Cookies allow management of login sessions.
• For analytics and performance: as explained above in Section 2, we use Cookies, including those placed by third-party vendors, to gather information on the use of our services: number of visits, number of page views, most visited content, the loading time, the countries that use our services the most... The goal for us is to improve the services according to how users use the service.
• For security: we may use cookies, including those placed by third-party vendors, to gather information that helps us maintain the security of our software and systems.
• For advertising: as explained above in Section 2, we use Cookies, including those placed by third-party partners, to deliver ads to you and other users via the Topic’it Mobiles Applications. Cookies may allow us and our partners to ensure you do not see the same advertisements repeatedly, help us identify and block unwanted advertising, and help us provide advertising customized to your interests, including by displaying ads to you for other websites you’ve previously visited. Cookies may also help us and our partners measure how often users click on ads or view ads. Cookies may further help us and our partners identify advertising fraud, for example identifying bots, multiple clicks, or fake clicks on ads.

You have the ability to delete and control Cookies. If you do not wish to have Cookies placed on your device, you can set your browser (such as Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome) to refuse Cookies before accessing the Website, with the understanding that certain features of the Website may not function without the aid of Cookies. You can learn more about how to delete or control Cookies at www.aboutcookies.org.

How do we use your information?

Cookies are data files that often include a unique identifier, and are placed on a user’s device. We may use the information we’ve gathered from you, including through Cookies, for the following purposes:

To register on discussion forums and message boards

Topic’it is an independent service that provides access to third-party forums on Topic’it Mobiles Applications. To be able to communicate securely, each forum must install the Topic’it API.

To improve and secure the Topic’it services

Topic’it uses the information we collect from you and other users to provide, improve and secure the Website / Mobiles Applications and related services. For example, we look at IP addresses to determine if they are on the “ban list” for a given forum, so that we can prevent access to the forum. We collect your IP address to help control email spam and abuse management. As explained above, we use Cookies, including those placed by third-party vendors, to gather information that helps us understand how you and other users engage with the Website and improve its performance, as well as for security.

To provide relevant advertising

As explained above in Section 2, Topic’it uses Cookies, including those placed by third-party partners (AdMob and MoPub), to deliver ads to you and other users via the Topic’it Mobiles Applicationss.

Topic’it is largely funded through third-party advertising, and without such ads, Topic’it would be unable to provide the Topic'it Website, Topic’it Mobiles Applications and Topic’it Connect and related services to its many users with free accounts.

To customize your Topic’it experience

Cookies allow us to personalize your experience as a user and above all, to offer you very useful features.

Here are some examples of great features that use cookies and make it easier for you to use our services:

• Use Topic'it Connect to easily connect to different forums.
• Determine if you are logged in or not to your Topic'it account or forum account.
• Differentiate read and unread topics on a forum.
• View the list of topics you want to read later.
• Save the order of the forums listed in your subscriptions so you can more easily access the forums you visit most.
• Offer you a history of forums visited for easy access again.
• Limit the number of ads displayed (once every 6 hours for the interstitial)…

To communicate with you

The Topic’it Mobiles Applications allow you to receive real-time alerts via push notifications. To receive these push notifications, certain information such as the device token is used.

When you register, you consent to receive periodic email communications regarding Topic’it, including promotional emails for updates, promotions, and other offers. Topic’it uses the email address you provide to send these communications to you.

You can unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link that is conveniently located at the bottom of each email. We also use your contact information to respond to you when you contact us.

Who do we share your information with?

With Topic’it, you can access an online forum since. Using a forum with the Topic’it Mobiles Applications facilitates discussions and thus improves community engagement. We make this possible by sharing your information in the following ways:

Information you choose to share through Topic’it

Topic’it contains features that allow you to register quickly on a forum via the Topic’it Connect, upload photos and videos, post messages, transmit, display, perform or distribute content, including personal information about yourself.

Your ability to edit or delete your content may depend on forum-specific rules and settings designated by moderators or administrators, so you should think carefully about what you post before you do so.

Topic'it is only an interface to access the forums, eToxic does not have access to the data published by you on the forums. Indeed, eToxic does not host or control the information sent by the forums to you and the information sent by you to the forums.

For any request concerning the content that you have posted on a forum via the Topic’it application, you must contact the administrators and moderators of the forum. Same thing if you want to delete an account created on a forum via the Topic’It Mobile Applications and / or the Topic’it Connect.

Information shared with forum users

When you join, access, or post on a forum, information may be shared with other members (such as forum moderators, administrators, or other users), including the content you posted, your IP address, email address and your profile picture. For example, when you visit a forum, your IP address is logged and may be viewable by users that have been provided the ability to view IP addresses by forum administrators or moderators.

Information shared with related companies

We may share the e-mail address collected about you within the eToxic family of websites and companies, which includes Topic’it and Forumotion.com (a free forum hosting service). This situation can happen in a specific case:

1. When creating a new Topic'it Account, you must enter a valid email address.
2. Once validated, we launch a search on all the forums hosted on Forumotion to find out if your e-mail address corresponds to an existing user account.
3. If so, you will automatically find this forum in your Topic'it subscriptions.

In addition, in the event of a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy, eToxic reserves the right to transfer all user information to a successor company. eToxic will provide notice to you by email in such an event.

Information shared with third-party partners

As explained throughout this Privacy Policy, Topic’it works with third-parties to improve and secure the different services, and to provide advertising, which makes it possible for Topic’it to offer free services to its many users.

The following are the types of third-parties Topic’it may share your information with:

• Community websites: online forums and message boards;
• Service providers: YouTube to upload your videos and Servimg to upload your photos;
• Analytics services with Google Analytics for Apps and Branch.io;
• Performance and development services with Firebase, Instabug and Fabric;
• Advertising companies, networks and affiliates with MoPub and AdMob;
• Social companies with Facebook, Twitter and Google;
• Push notification service providers that help deliver relevant notifications to your devices;
• Search engines that specialize in the indexing of public forum content;
• Data analysis service providers that may allow us to identify content in violation of our Terms of Service;
• Service providers that may allow us to update and enhance our services.

Information shared for legal reasons and other purposes

We may share information collected with law enforcement, regulatory authorities, courts with competent jurisdiction, emergency services, or other necessary third parties for legal, protection, security, and safety purposes.

How do we secure your information?

eToxic has implemented and maintains reasonable security procedures and practices to protect against the unauthorized access, use or disclosure of your information. Among other things, we:

• Host our servers with in secure data center facilities;
• Use the services of Cloudflare, OVH and Let's Encrypt to block DDoS attacks, bots, malicious traffic, and secure our login systems with HTTPS/SSL;
• Store passwords in a secure format, not plain text; and
• Maintain a thorough Cyber Security Response Plan.

We restrict access to personal information to eToxic employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

However, please note no transmission of information via the Internet or electronic storage solution can be guaranteed to be completely secure, although we take reasonable precautions to protect against security incidents.

How can you manage information we’ve collected from you?

We do not store information longer than we need it.

You can manage (add, edit, modify and delete) the content and information you share by logging into your account. You can also download information associated with your Topic’it account by contacting us. You can delete your account at any time.

Bear in mind that your posts, and all other information you have shared with third-parties through Topic’it will not be removed from the Forums when you delete your account. When you delete your account, your username remains associated with all posts you have made, but it is no longer linked to your Topic’it profile.

eToxic stores data for as long as is necessary to provide the Topic’it services, so the information associated with your account will be kept until your account is deleted and said information is no longer needed to provide the Topic’it services.

You may opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us, by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the emails you receive from us. You can also manage your email settings by going to your Topic’it profile.

You may opt-out of receiving push notifications from us, by managing your push notifications settings by going to your profile in the Topic’it Mobiles Applications.

How do we protect the privacy of children?

Topic’it does not solicit or knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If Topic’it obtains actual knowledge that it has collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, Topic’it will immediately delete such information from its database. Because Topic’it does not collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, Topic’it has no such information to use or disclose to third-parties. Topic’it has designed this Privacy Policy in order to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Do we respond to Do Not Track (DNT) Signals?

DNT is a feature offered by some browsers which, when enabled, sends a signal to websites to request that your browsing is not tracked. Topic’it services does not currently respond to DNT requests.

What about third-party websites?

This Privacy Policy only applies to the Website, and not any third-party websites that you may visit as a result of clicking on a link or ad within the Website. Third-party websites are under no obligation to comply with this Privacy Policy. Before visiting or providing personal information to a third-party website, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of that third-party website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect your privacy.

How do we notify you of changes to the Privacy Policy?

Each time you use the Website, the then-current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. Although most changes are likely to be minor, eToxic reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy by posting such modification on this page; however, if changes are significant, etoxic may provide a more prominent notice or email you. Unless eToxic obtains your express consent, any revised Privacy Policy will apply only to information collected after the effective date of such revised Privacy Policy, and not to information collected under any earlier version.

How can you contact us?

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected] or you can reach us through the Topic'it Support Forum.

Last updated : 07/10/2016

Please read Topic’it API Terms of Service ("TOS") before using it or accessing it. When agreeing to the present TOS, you recognize that you understand them and have the right to contract in your own name or in the name of the legal entity (natural or legal person with all the dependent entities) for which you give your agreement, in the name defined as “User”.

Topic’it reserves the right to ask, at any moment, the proof of your right to contract or to proceed to any verification necessary. The User agrees that Topic’it can prevent access to their data in the event the User will not be able to answer the verification requests immediately or in the given deadline.

If you do not have power under the law to contract (in your own name or as a third party representative) or do not accept the present terms, do not agree to these terms nor use Topic’it and its related services.

When agreeing to these terms, you also agree that Topic’it may modify the present TOS at any moment. Topic’it must inform about theses changes in the terms of contract by any means, although displaying the changes on its website is enough to consider the User duly warned, the period before the changes application may not be inferior to 15 (fifteen) days.

All TOS changes implies your agreement, if you do not agree to the modification, you must cease your use or access to Topic’it and its related services.

Note that other services offered by Topic’it may require agreement to other TOS, licences, etc….

Preambule

License grant

Agreement of the TOS by the User grants access by Topic’it to a API license. This license is limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable or transferable, and may not be mistaken for other licenses which could be granted otherwise.

License duration

The license is granted for a indefinite period starting the agreement to these terms or the first use (or first access) to the API, until one of the two parties decided to break the agreement or Topic’it suspends the use of this license.

Suspension

We may suspend your access or use of Topic’it API or its services at any moment, for any reason, as well as modify, suspend, interrupt all aspect or your access or use of Topic’it or its services unilaterally, without prior notice and without engaging our responsibility towards you. We may also impose limits on certain services or restrain your access to a part or all of Topic’it API or its services without prior notice and without engaging our responsibility. When offering new versions of Topic’it API (updates) we try to assure backwards compatibility, nonetheless, it may be require of you to use the most recent API version after an update; without upgrading, your license will be suspended.

Termination

Either party may terminate this agreement at any moment. The license delivered to the User may be terminated in the event of bankruptcy, liquidation, insolvency, inability to pay its debts or in case of violation, voluntary or not, of these present terms from the moment it becomes known to Topic’it. Topic’it has the right to terminate this contract at any moment, without prior notice in the event of serious cause or with a 30 (thirty) days' notice for all the other cases, the notice period starting when the decision has been notified by any means (including displayed on the website)

Topic’it does not have to provide support , maintenance or personalized services but may provide them at its sole discretion without it creating new obligations included, but not only, disclaimer of warranties or liability, termination conditions or license suspension conditions.

In case of termination, all rights and licenses granted will cease immediately. Rights, dutes and obligations of the parties that by their nature will continue and survive termination of this Agreement continue.

Use of services

Topic’it API must solely be used to access forums using Topic’it services.

The User acknowledges being responsible of their behavior and must act with due diligence (bonus pater familias), that is in a peaceful and reasonable way, the User also acknowledges that, as sole person responsible of the content they publish, their actions may engage Topic’it as a publisher and must take caution not to harm the service and accept all the consequences deriving from a misuse of the Services. The User is sole responsible of actions carried out with their authentication informations, and thus must be careful to protect them from theft or usurpation.

Restrictions

The user must use the Services solely for appropriate purposes and in compliance with the TOS, the rules stipulated by Topic’it and the laws and local regulations they depend from, the User must not harm the service in any way possible. Without any limitations, the following actions are not permitted on our Services:

• Any action aiming to affect the integrity of Topic’it network or its capacity to exchange with the most important number of users (flood, bots, attempt to introduce any person, software or element non expressly authorized in the computer system).
• Attempt to bypass the protections implemented or exploit software vulnerabilities or material used by the Services.
• Decompile, disassemble, decrypt, modify, create derivative works of the code of our Services.
• Any action aiming to pretend to act in Topic’it name, as well as any action to denigrate Topic’it.
• Use of our trademark, name, logotypes or any element aiming to pretend to act in Topicit name or suggesting that Topic’it approves, supports or promots any other service, product, organization, cause, etc… - without any prio written agreement from Topic’it.
• Use of our Services for non-authorized, illegal activitiy or more genereally in violation with any law, regulation or agreement.
• Remove any security or copyright components which are part of the service or the data exchanged.
• Use of Topic’it API or the Services for any other use that the one for which they have been created and developed by Topic’it, as well as the use of all or any part of our services outside of Topic’it ecosystem is strictly prohibited, especially if it is competitor products or services.
• Make available resources or links to resources prone to copyrights if you do not have the required rights to do so.
• Any action or publication of any illegal or prejudicial content or reprehensible by law (such as: apologia for terrorism, advocacy of hatred, pedophilia, defamation, identity theft, etc…), inadequate or obscene contact (such as: advertising messages, nudity, etc….).
• Extract datas.
• Degrade datas send to the API (as information in headers or necessary to communication between servers).

Intellectual property

Topic’it owns every intellectual property rights on the API including, but not exclusively, on the code itself, the outputs and methods. Agreement to the present terms grants you no right direct or indirect, nor any participation on this intellectual property owned and licensed by Topic’it, including (but not limited to) the website, the API, the application, the plugins and also our trademarks.

When accessing the API, you undertake to respect the laws relative to copyright for all the parties.

We would appreciate that you display a message (if possible, linking to our site) to promote positively our Service, and therefore we make available graphic resources at your disposal, when using them you agree not to divert from the usage they were made for and to use them without making any modification (you can resize them, but not modify them).

Marketing relations

We may appreciate promoting your forum, on our website, if so we would contact you by email, on the address associated to your account, in order to ask your agreement beforehand, without reply in the three following days we will consider your agreement to be tacit. If you are opposed to your forum to be featured by Topic’it (of any other representation, name or logo for instance) or to its conditions, we ask you not to agree to this present terms.

For all communication on Topic’it and more particularly the communication related to press releases or reply to demands from media are subject to a written agreement from Topic’it before any public diffusion.

Disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability

The Services and all information or content provided by Topic’it are provided “as such” and “in state” unless an agreement explicitly concluded between the parties specifies that other conditions may cancelled the ones mentioned above.

Topic’it does not express any form of assertion nor warranty, explicit or implicit, regarding the accuracy or the completeness of content, Services or products.

You expressly agree to use the Services at your own risk.

Topic’it excludes all warranty related to the content and Services and cannot be held responsible for any damages nor any loss resulting in the use of the content or Services. Despite all the care provided, we cannot technically guarantee the absence of malware or any other potentially harmful content on our servers or into the content send from them (including emails), for all consequences which may come out of this risk, we exclude all well all warranty.

Laws and jurisdiction

The present terms are governed by the French law.

Certain local laws or rules may make some or all of the limitations specified above illegal, should you be concerned by a conflict between the laws applicable to you and our terms, we ask you:

• not to agree to the terms if you have not already
• not to access or use our Services or our content if you had already agreed to the terms and that the law changed afterward or that you wish to deprive yourself of a part of your rights and that law authorize you to do so.
• to contact us by means of the contact details specified in our TOS, so we can examine with you the most adequate response to this legal issue.

Given the nature of the conversations and in particular of their dematerialization, the parties agree that the whole of the computer records into Topic’it information system will, in case of litigation, serve as proof.

In case of litigation resulting from this contract or the use of the API, the parties undertake to do all they can to come to an amicable agreement. If despite the good will of the parties it is necessary to take legal action, the Tribunal de Grand Instance of Nice will be the only one competent to acknowledge litigation between the parties, and more particularly, the creation, execution, interpretation, termination or resolution of the present terms and this, including, for conservatory procedures, urgency procedures, summary judgment, guarantee call, summons or plurality of defendants.