Privacy Policy | Banka Studios

Updates

The following Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time and at the sole discretion of Banka Studios. Please visit the site regularly for updates.

Privacy Principles

Your privacy is very important to us. At Banka Studios we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding all information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website owners, Banka Studios collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Banka Studios’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our website visitors use our site. From time to time, Banka Studios may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Banka Studios also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blog. Banka Studios only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to our websites choose to interact with Banka Studios in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive site updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Banka Studios collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Banka Studios. Banka Studios does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain company services or website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Banka Studios may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Banka Studios monitors visitor activity on its site using Google Analytics or may use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Banka Studios may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Banka Studios does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Banka Studios discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Banka Studios’s behalf or to provide services available at Banka Studios’s website's, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Banka Studios’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Banka Studios will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Banka Studios discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Banka Studios believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Banka Studios, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of our website(s) and have supplied your email address, Banka Studios may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Banka Studios and our products or services. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Banka Studios takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Banka Studios uses cookies to help Banka Studios identify and track visitors, their usage of Banka Studios’s website(s), and their website access preferences. Banka Studios visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Banka Studios’s website(s), with the drawback that certain features of Banka Studios’s website(s) may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Banka Studios, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Banka Studios goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Banka Studios may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Any ads appearing on our website(s) may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Banka Studios and does not cover the use of cookies by any potential advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA")

Banka Studios respects the intellectual property rights of others. Per the DMCA, Banka Studios will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement on the Site if submitted to Banka Studios's Copyright Agent as described below. Upon receipt of a notice alleging copyright infringement, Banka Studios will take whatever action it deems appropriate within its sole discretion, including removal of the allegedly infringing materials and termination of access for repeat infringers of copyright protected content.

If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by Banka Studios or by a third party who has uploaded materials to our website, please provide the following information to the designated Copyright Agent listed below:

A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
An address, telephone number, and email address where we can contact you and, if different, an email address where the alleged infringing party, if not Banka Studios, can contact you;
A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner or other intellectual property rights owner, by its agent, or by law;
A statement by you under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf;
Your electronic or physical signature.

Banka Studios may request additional information before removing any allegedly infringing material. In the event Banka Studios removes the allegedly infringing materials, Banka Studios will immediately notify the person responsible for posting such materials that Banka Studios removed or disabled access to the materials. Banka Studios may also provide the responsible person with your email address so that the person may respond to your allegations.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Banka Studios may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Banka Studios’s sole discretion. Banka Studios encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

If you have any questions about this policy you may contact us at:

Banka Studios

Marc Banka 103 Monticello Ave. Durham, NC 27707

marcwbanka@gmail.com